Sentences with phrase «emotional beats of»

I get that I'm comparing apples and oranges here, but the emotional beats of Uncharted always fell flat for me.

Their shared history, evoked in the pictures on the walls, the scratches in the furniture, and the gestures and looks that divvy up the emotional beats of the story, is what creates that bond.

The emotional beats of Gracie's acting out and her father's inability to embrace and capitalize on the present are believable and surprisingly nuanced.

Not fearless enough to nose the camera in the dramatic mire, like a soldier to the cause in a personal guerrilla war, Diego Luna «s film beckons a paint - by - numbers summary of the man's greatest achievements, the spark notes of a six - plus year period that glosses all with thin coats, rarely taking the opportunity to remain in the moment and settle in with the hard - won emotional beats of the characters.

The visual pyrotechnics are nicely balanced with a focus on the emotional beats of the story and the film works largely because its three young principals have finally learnt how to act.

Not exact matches

I've beaten this one to death over the years and can't say enough about the importance of sleep to increasing your emotional intelligence and managing your stress levels.

So if you drew a horizontal line and call that fair value like Ben Graham said, and then you draw a wavy line around that horizontal line and call that stock prices, the market is pitching us opportunities all the time between stocks that are way below fair value and way above fair value, the reason investors don't beat the market has nothing to do with the market is not throwing us pitches in that it's not still emotional, they are behavioral problem, there's agency problems, there is a lot of other issues going on but it's not because we're not getting really great pictures all the time.

Although it might be true that stocks almost always beat bonds over long periods of time, striking the right asset allocation balance may allow investors to better manage the emotional response associated with heightened equity market volatility that often leads to poor investment outcomes.

Spurred on by the bitter memory of the 1995 loss, and inspired by the emotional halftime dedication of the Sun Devil Stadium field to former coach Frank Kush, Arizona State (3 - 0) not only beat the Huskers but also shut them out 19 - 0.

Players for No. 5 LSU drew on the emotional strength they developed in dealing with the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita to recover from a poor first half and beat the fourth - ranked Crimson Tide.

Everyone expected an emotional letdown to follow, but the Flyers won their 12th straight game that Saturday in Hartford, beating the Whalers 5 - 2, and on the flight home Keenan, so proud of his young team that his eyes misted over when talking about it, helped the stewardesses serve meals.

Because no one ever, ever, ever, would call physical or emotional abuse transformative, liberating or healing; people don't go to safe houses to realize just how «healing» the fact that their partner beat the crap out of them is.

Through the months of listening to my every flaw, I would gaze out the window of our therapist's third floor office and wonder if it was high enough for me to run and jump to my death, just to escape the emotional beating that Husband # 2 was unleashing on me.

How To Stop Beating Yourself Up In Your Parenting * Why Mamas Have A Hard Time Giving Up Guilt * The Shadow Side Of Conscious Parenting * How Feeling Like A «Good» Mom Can Lead To Acting Like A «Bad» Mom * Why Controlling Behavior Is a Bad Idea * How Emotional Baggage From Childhood Keeps Moms From Staying Present With Their Child Leslie Potter is the founder of Pure Joy Parenting, a joy based parenting model based on her experience raising her daughter as a single mom as well as working with familieOf Conscious Parenting * How Feeling Like A «Good» Mom Can Lead To Acting Like A «Bad» Mom * Why Controlling Behavior Is a Bad Idea * How Emotional Baggage From Childhood Keeps Moms From Staying Present With Their Child Leslie Potter is the founder of Pure Joy Parenting, a joy based parenting model based on her experience raising her daughter as a single mom as well as working with familieof Pure Joy Parenting, a joy based parenting model based on her experience raising her daughter as a single mom as well as working with families.

Social - Emotional Skills In music class, my Bunch works together with their peers to lift and lower a gigantic parachute, takes turns jumping on the trampoline to experience the feeling of a steady beat, and practices rhythm and tempo while seated with their entire class around a giant drum.

I shared my emotional unraveling and how I ended up beating the Red - Eyed Monster of Breastfeeding here, including my detailed home treatments and a «flattering» photo demonstrating dangle feeding here.

In the last year alone, different AIs have beaten top players in both the ancient game of Go and professional poker, the latter relying on bluffing, tells and accurate emotional readings of the opponent.

Often, abusers have psychologically beaten their victims down to the point at which they feel completely dependent or are in a state of financial and emotional enslavement.

Your heart rate, the number of times your heart beats in a minute, is greatly affected by many factors, including diet, activity level, mental or emotional state and current medications.

In order to understand the importance of learning how to beat depression and improve your thought processes — you need to know that chronic negative emotional states and poor brain function can lead to more serious neurodegenerative diseases.

Angela is the co-author of The PCOS Nutrition Center Cookbook: 100 Easy and Delicious Whole Food Recipes To Beat PCOS and the bestselling, The PCOS Workbook: Your Guide to Complete Physical and Emotional Health.

I'll say more NO to: doing things which I don't want to but usually say yes to so I wouldn't disappoint others, feeling down or beat myself up over every little thing which didn't go right or as planned, being a perfectionist every single moment of every single day, going places or meeting people just because of FOMO, eating foods that physically don't make me feel good, no matter how big the cravings might be, buying new stuff unless I really, really need them or can't stop thinking about them, emotional vampires who suck the life out of me and never bring anything good or positive along with them...

When the beat of the music matches the beat of your heart, you can easily lose yourself in someone's embrace and make an emotional connection without having to say a word.

So far as it goes, this sort of emotional beat is serviceable enough.

One of the earliest emotional beats in Infinity War involves Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts trying to persuade Tony Stark (a.k.a. Iron Man, played by Robert Downey Jr.) to take off the mantle of Iron Man and join her in wedded bliss.

The emotional punch of the original is inextricably rooted in the movie's appreciation of off - the - beaten - track America, and all that homegrown vintage car culture signifies.

Black Panther's third act is less impressive by comparison, as the movie's action gets bogged down in CGI overload and its plot beats lack the emotional resonance of earlier moments, either because they are rushed or a bit too conventional (re: predictable).

The emotional beats are right on cue - although this can be called into question slightly in the closing minutes of the movie - and the action scenes are visceral, real and are actually incredibly scary for a PG - 13 movie.

The resulting temporal choppiness from not being clear from the start not only continuously takes us out of the story to try to catch up with it when we're finally given enough information for it to make sense, but it also reveals just how manipulative the device is in order to try to load up all of the emotional beats for whatever version of a climax the story can muster up.

As the second half unfolds, the absence of an emotional core becomes ever more glaring, hopping from one action beat to the next without ever asking us to care — or, at times, understand — what's going on.

The other reason certain emotional beats don't work is due to a lack of character development.

If viewers don't feel connected to a character because of a lack of development, it's difficult to have a response to emotional beats in their story arc.

This is bleak, harsh material, and seeing specifically Jackson, Tamblyn, and Russell (channeling a pitch - perfect John Wayne) draw out and nail the emotional beats required of them transported the audience to that appropriate mood.

Lack of bias is fine, but when the brothers reserve judgment on the emotional abuses, beatings and financial exploitation of hookers (almost exclusively called «bitches»), their film looks irresponsible and too easily impressed by the men it portrays.

While Avengers: Infinity War attempts to balance so many characters and give them compelling narratives, very few of the emotional beats stick their landing.

This expanded version of the promo, which had audiences applauding at CinemaCon a couple of weeks ago, ramps up the emotional beats while also allowing for a few more shots of the big guy doing his destructive thing.

The Program (2015): A by - the - book story about Lance Armstrong's doping scandal that suffers from the problem that plagues many biopics: namely, it operates with the understanding that we already know the real story (or most of it), so it doesn't work that hard to make the characters seem real or to make the emotional beats land with any sense.

Bernard Herrmann, a longtime collaborator with Alfred Hitchcock, composed fabulous music that reflects the emotional heart of the entire story — the sultry jazz reluctantly giving way to a doomed, militaristic beat, reminiscent of the brilliant score from Stanley Kubrick's «The Killing» 1956.

This is a show of modest character beats and human moments sprinkled with plenty of humor and the occasional emotional peak.

Tense strategy sessions and attention - grabbing guerilla stunts are a window onto organizational tactics, but the movie's ruinous emotional highlight was the reverie of one Gay Pride marcher, his mind slipping into distraction and the lonely strains of Bronski Beat's «Smalltown Boy.»

With magnificent turns by Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons (the latter especially, who should be considered for Best Supporting Actor once we fast - forward seven months from now), and a well maintained adrenaline rush by focused directing and excellent editing, the only reason Whiplash isn't in the Top 10 is because of it's noticeably poor depiction of women and predictable emotional beats.

In reality, Chen's heartbreaking pastoral tragedy (which is now nearly impossible to find in a format that preserves its original beauty), uses its crisp emotional beats to boldly advance the feminist stirrings of China's 5th Generation filmmakers.

The fast paced nature of the story means that a lot of the emotional beats and character development that are seen in the anime lose their impact here, but it also makes it easier to experience the game if you are playing it as a fan, just to witness some of the epic boss fights.

And giving Murphy and Stiller one last emotional beat together — whether it was a warm buddy - buddy moment or an uneasy truce — would also have allowed Ratner to explore some of the race and class issues his movie only begins to touch on.

In that sense, A Simple Plan is as traditional a morality play as a thriller can get, but Raimi has never been a director unwilling to splash about in the shallows; instead, the inevitability of the plot is his point — even the simplest of decisions carry whole worlds of consequence — and Raimi injects each emotional beat with unspeakable tragedy.

The novel itself is rather slim, so it can't have been the hardest thing for screenwriter David Magee to adapt, but I'm happy to report that all of the most important emotional beats from the novel are included here.

While none of these emotional beats are necessarily groundbreaking — you'd see them in any relationship movie — they are deeply felt, and the arc over which they unfold in the movie is feels effortlessly orchestral in its composition.

Shailene Woodley has proved herself a fine actress in her work outside this series (White Bird in a Blizzard, currently in cinemas, makes far better use of her talents), but she struggles to convince here; whether over-playing her emotional meltdown or silently beat - counting the pat - a-cake-inspired fisticuffs.

Nichols is in full control of the emotional beats, the raising of the stakes, and the deepening investment by the audience.

The cinematography is gorgeous as always, and the performances are pretty good across the board (particularly newcomer Ni Ni and Christian Bale as the Westerner caught in the middle of the conflict), but the real star is the story itself, which earns its emotional beats without feeling like it's pandering to the audience.