Sentences with phrase «emotional stake in her»

«But I had such an emotional stake in the home that I actually ran a buyer off one day during a negotiation.

People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.»

SO What was the biggest thing you ever had to give up, in terms of having an emotional stake in a painting?

Patreon is an investment in the same way a Game Informer subscription gives you an emotional stake in GameStop.

Don't expect Apple, which has little financial stake and no emotional stake in the book market, to do what companies like Amazon, Barnes and Noble and, yes, Kobo did — pioneer a new markets for books, almost from scratch.

The research tells us that children learn best when they have an emotional stake in the learning and when they are active participants.

Furthermore, co-directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (whose The Last of Robin Hood was also released in 2014), probably have a huge emotional stake in a movie like this, given that Mr. Glatzer suffers from ALS.

It doesn't mean that every person must align themselves with a film that they have a personal or emotional stake in, but having a favorite and seeing it succeed is a great feeling.

If possible, the movie suffers even more from its belief that we might have some emotional stake in the process of seeing the adventures of these characters come to an end.

But it weaves together a compelling series of flashbacks that have real emotional stakes in the present.

RECKLESS PASSED ON STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Chris Black (w, ep), Martin Campbell (d, ep) LOGLINE: Thriller centers on a resourceful problem solver who, when his wife is unjustly imprisoned during a political uprising overseas, resorts to entering a world of political intrigue, dangerous alliances and high emotional stakes in order to get her out.

It's a film about empathy, forgiveness and parental bonds, and another sublime low - key drama from a director who never fails to raise the emotional stakes in a subtle and sensitive manner.

Save mechanisms are key to the emotional stakes in a game.»

Not exact matches

For many, this complicated web of emotional stakes only exists on Facebook, because Facebook is the only social platform on the web where who we are now, in adulthood, converges with the past life we had as a teen or a college student.

She specializes in training organizations on the «why» behind language that works, and brings with her a passion for uncovering the right thing to say when the emotional stakes are high.

«When you are in the midst of a high - stakes situation, it can be very emotional and flustering, so it will be very difficult to come up with strategies in the moment» explains Kang.

Uneven cognitive, emotional, and physical growth, a newly keen awareness of others» perceptions, and seemingly higher stakes all combine in dramatic fashion.

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It revolutionized werewolf effects (though American Werewolf in London was a tad more revolutionary), while offering up a fun and scary story with some genuine emotional stakes.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

You won't be able to turn away from this gripping, emotional thriller in which nothing short of the fate of our nation is at stake.

He may be sicker than Hank Moody or Larry David, but he's also a far richer figure, and in his own strange way, just as universal, thanks to the transcendent performance of Michael C. Hall, who deepens every sick joke and raises the stakes on every emotional twist.

It finds drama in philosophical difference and emotional damage transformed into human conflict, and ends with revelations that will redefines the stakes of the show's upcoming fourth and (sadly) final season.

What I thought was quite true about the emotional stakes of these people within their marriages, even again if it's over the top in its structure, it resonated for me personally within my own relationships.

The politics of Catching Fire play against stakes that are more personal and emotional than in The Hunger Games.

Watching Maeve scheme and sacrifice to figure out what is going on in her home has been addicting to watch, cementing Newton's place as the emotional hinge to this high - stakes show.

Anderson deals with the resemblances head - on — the routine involving the kidnapped tycoon's wife is like a hyper - alert variant on the Lebowski method — but, as in that initial languid, multifaceted exchange between Doc and Shasta, Inherent Vice's emotional stakes are far higher and the snark quotient lower.

With apologies to Alfonso Cuarón's film, which I enjoyed, the buzzier effort may be an enveloping visual tour - de-force, but the one (wo) man - against - the - universe endurance saga in space lacks in character development and genuinely convincing emotional stakes.

In 2009's Moon, director Duncan Jones found clever ways to refresh sci - fi tropes and instill emotional stakes into a distancing story of isolation.

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

Stone really is a formidable talent, winning us over not only in the comedy stakes but also making us care for Olive in the film's more emotional moments.

Just don't expect anything in the way of emotional stakes or thematic resonance.

«Not only were there stakes, as far as the real world and what it means to do something that different in a community or a society that's not easily accepted — but could I also create real emotional stakes?

The emotional and political issues at stake here turn on the adjective in the title.

Another by - the - numbers comic book adaptation that tries (and fails) to convince the audience that the indestructible characters are actually in danger, the film rarely — if ever — provides any emotional stakes.

All three are at their most movie star charismatic here, with their formidable dramatic chops lending real gravitas and palpable emotional stakes as they continue their struggles and conflicts with each other and within in order to act for the greater benefit of their kind.

Almost everything in the movie is in service of answering these questions and, unfortunately, it comes at the expense of character building, emotional stakes, or a compelling story.

But in this sequel, star Ryan Reynolds (co-writing with the first movie's scribes, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) and director David Leitch («Atomic Blonde») raise the emotional stakes — and the level of potential wink - wink satire — by deploying one of the nastiest tropes in the comics canon.

Instead, Deadpool 2 wraps its story around the bones of a romance, grounding the movie's irreverence in real emotional stakes.

Their film features perhaps the first action scene we've ever seen where we cared more about what was happening in a character's relationship than how many kills he was about to rack up — and then, once it was done, felt simultaneously exhilarated by the visceral power of what was happening immediately, and the emotional stakes of what that set piece took him (and us) away from.

Determined to finally beat him in the political stakes, she has her team spy on the other candidate's campaign and exploits the struggles of the people to give her client an emotional advantage.

«Unless you have real stakes, you're sort of limited in terms of the emotional impact a story can have on you,» Anthony Russo said.

If film as intellectual history sounds arduous, a single scene of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy arguing out ideas while playing pool will convince you otherwise: Margarethe von Trotta's gripping dramatization succeeds not only in bringing complex ideas to life without dumbing them down, but in teasing out their emotional stakes.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

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.

But love isn't all easy in the Sundance indie film First Girl I Loved, where the placement of a high school same - sex romance in the swivelling unpredictability of adolescence makes this coming - of - age tale an emotional spin that attempts to increase its stakes at every turn.

«Unless you have real stakes, you're sort of limited in terms of the emotional impact a story can have on you.

For most superhero movies, the love story is usually nothing more than a subplot or something to add emotional stakes, but in Wonder Woman, it's key to the growth of both characters.

Our own Guy Lodge called it «an effortfully solemn amalgamation of personal crises and social concerns» that «paints from too limited an emotional palette for its high - stakes story of parental duty, in the face of hovering mortality, to hit home the way it should.»

In the same year, 300 beat X-Men and Superman at their own game, proving that if you can't get emotional stakes right, you at least needed amazing looking action.