Sentences with phrase «emotional payoff for»

It's as demanding a platformer as has ever been made and the emotional payoff for fighting through a difficult series of enemies and jumps is pretty huge.

But your post got me to thinking — the emotional payoff for owning our home is much greater!

Ironically, if Gillespie and former Six Feet Under screenwriter Nancy Oliver had stuck to the movie's darker implications — say by generating some genuine conflict between Lars's delusional certainty and a sex - doll - freaked community, or by letting Lars get his groove on with Bianca — Lars and the Real Girl might have actually had a richer emotional payoff for having taken some real risks.

Not exact matches

If you're a sucker for underdog stories and love rooting for a ragtag bunch that takes the nation by surprise, you'll find that «The Mighty Macs» delivers the same emotional payoff as «Hoosiers.»

For a film that requires nearly five hours of viewing investment, it feels terribly stingy on the emotional payoff.

Mostly, «The Sweet Hereafter» felt more like a season premiere where there's a lot of setup for what's to come, but it wasn't a satisfying conclusion and there was no real emotional payoff to a season - long mystery regarding blood feuds and parent / child tensions.

here, but then if I did that, there'd be no room for an actual review), in which the firelight silhouettes Jade's body through her nightgown, making this scene more about the physical payoffs than the emotional sensitivities.

Are you sick of anticipating a film that's promising great emotional payoff and just the right about of tears for the holiday...

Reichardt's cinema — with her precise eye for quietness and the signs of everyday sorrow — is not for every viewer, and her penchant for mapping the ordinary at its most melancholic will be anathema to moviegoers who prefer a gratifying, conclusive emotional payoff.

But if you're a sucker for underdog stories and love rooting for a ragtag bunch that takes the nation by surprise, you'll find that «The Mighty Macs» delivers the same emotional payoff as «Hoosiers.»

The result is a sensitive and character - driven examination of life on the fringes, providing small yet rewarding narrative surprises instead of settling for cheap emotional payoffs.

Dallas Buyers Club certainly sounds like an Academy favorite; a true American story about a controversial person, but the narrative of the film never quite reaches the emotional payoff it aims for.

Very early on in the process of doing last year's crossover, Greg Berlanti said there's probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the next crossover especially epic is if you can't increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that's a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.

Ragnarok is the kind of movie that just wants to be a good time and to leave you smiling (which it will), but Waititi has a knack for weaving in emotional payoffs amidst the fun.

But «The Good Dinosaur» is also a score that functions on far more levels, giving an ethereal sense of wonder for a world where the big lizards never died, as well as a mystical bond between its orphaned heroes — giving their bonded heart an emotional payoff that's as tear inducing as any Pixar music before it.

On the other hand: Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the movie that promises not just a lot of bang for your buck, but the most emotional payoff of any tentpole pic hitting theaters this summer.

The commonly accepted — but narrow — definition of student «success» that centers on academic achievement dismisses research documenting life - long payoffs of a «whole child - centered» approach to teaching and learning that accounts for children's cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and ethical development.

For me, it's the «emotional payoff.»

Just as the emotional experiences readers are looking for depends on the genre, the payoffs and rewards do, too.

Paying the mortgage down isn't an unreasonable thing for you to do for now, since it's a guaranteed rate of return that also provides some degree of emotional payoff.

But I'd say the higher priority should be getting money into a tax - advantaged retirement account (a 401 (k) / 403 (b) / IRA), because the tax - advantaged growth of those accounts makes their long - term return far greater than whatever you're paying on your mortgage, and they provide more benefit (tax - advantaged growth) the earlier you invest in them, so doing that now instead of paying off the house quicker is probably going to be better for you financially, even if it doesn't provide the emotional payoff.

These efforts come with a big payoff, as strong social emotional skills can help children in a wide variety of social and academic settings for years to come.