Sentences with phrase «emotional stakes for»

It's really sad that they think the only way the guys buying this are going to buy that there's some sort of emotional stakes for Batman is if they're sleeping together.

Whitney Drake • 2 hours ago It's really sad that they think the only way the guys buying this are going to buy that there's some sort of emotional stakes for Batman is if they're sleeping together.

Impressive visuals and great production design are unfortunately overshadowed by a convoluted plot that struggles to depict its story - a narrative that starts strong but deteriorates as it attempts to balance too many emotional stakes for its own good while including one (or two) too many scenes that unintentionally call attention to itself.

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Once you get past the plugs for the training classes, however, these books — read together — will help you analyze the buyer's economic and emotional stakes and capitalize on that knowledge.

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.

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These high - stakes games can be an emotional roller coaster for some people as they ride the highs and lows with their favorite team.

Critic Consensus: I Do... Until I Don't misses opportunities for fresh observations, settling instead for a middle of the road romantic comedy lacking memorable characters or real emotional stakes.

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 Master means to unsettle — not through the startling violence of Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood, or the emotional crescendos of Magnolia, but through a central relationship that's played for the highest stakes.

The increasing, unsettling pandemonium seems to be for its own sake, for shock value only, with little at stake, and little emotional resonance.

She's a wonderful comedienne (always has been), awkward and emotional, and the stakes for her character are life - and - death.

The combination of physical circumstances — bad teeth, lack of vitamin D, devastating abuse — and high - stakes emotional intensity makes for a screen performance we'll be talking about for a long time.

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.

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.

Helpfully, the script does this for him: Depopulated New York City streets and the near - abstract grasslands of fictional Wakanda are perfect settings for battles with zero collateral damage — and zero human emotional stakes.

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.

Everything here — from the haphazard time - travel conceit to the broad plotting to characters whose emotional centers are entirely reliant on our nostalgia for them — is so imprecise that the stakes are virtually nonexistent.

She's not just a fine sparring partner for Cruise, but maybe the heart of the picture, lending its terrific spy games some emotional stakes.

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.»

For instance, Wade's bad relationship with his aunt weakens the emotional stakes, and little is done to develop his character.

This updated version appears to not only revamp his armor but it also replaces his cop partner with an increased role for his wife (played by Abbie Cornish) perhaps to raise the emotional stakes when the mechanical crime - fighter regains a conscious and rebels against the puppet - masters of OmniCorp (Michael Keaton being the ruthless face of).

For the star and his frequent director Peter Berg, their latest true - life tale had very different emotional stakes.

That rawness ratchets the emotional stakes even higher as the movie tap dances its way out of downtown L.A. and into the realm of the surreal, a fantasy where the lovers float away from their cares, Fred and Ginger style, at least for a few hours, before tumbling back down to the earth.

The score's rousing climax is the big game, a competition for civilization itself that's heard with real, emotional stakes and suspenseful excitement that could befit any live - action sports comedy.

They also tell us how much is at stake when our children lack the necessary social and emotional foundation for a healthy start in life.

What we should want for our children is for them to develop an emotional stake and a sense of attachment to civil society because they sense that society is invested in them.

Some of our activities included «2 - minute designs,» where we randomly assigned participants a form (comic strip, t - shirt, video) and a theme (high stakes testing, ubiquitous mobile devices, social - emotional learning) and required them to build a prototype of an artistic representation for the future of learning in 2 (well, really 5) minutes.

Crucial Conversations is a two - day course taught by VitalSmarts that teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high - stakes, emotional, or risky topics — at all levels of your organization.

What's really at stake for people on all sides are emotional questions such as «whose schools are these?»

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

No longer is the school day just about preparing for high stakes testing — social and emotional learning has moved to the forefront of the education landscape and educators have an increased awareness that when kids feel safe, have healthy connections with others and can understand and manage emotions, the stage is set, not only for an improvement in academics, but also for changes that impact lifelong success.

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.

Only worth your time if you're mainly looking for an online shooter, as the single player campaign is short and lacking any serious punch in the action and dramatics stakes, aside from the emotional opening.

In a more emotional story than we've seen him in before, more seems at stake this time around for our protagonist, as old family ties are unearthed, and current ones are a threat.

Rape and sexual assault are also frequently used as a sort of narrative currency to try and raise the emotional stakes and heighten the dramatic tension for gamers.

It's not useful for lawyers to obsess over obscure points of law, especially in labour arbitrations or other situations where the emotional stakes are high, he says.

No, they shouldn't be used for high - stakes assessment (you can find lots of articles at The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources about why that's a bad idea).

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).

This level referred to what appeared to be «at stake» for couples in distress and included the following variables: independence & freedom, affiliation & belonging, power & control, respect & equality, safety & commitment / stability, safety & trust, emotional distance, and cycles of interaction.

It's also true that nobody believes social and emotional learning measurement should be employed for over-the-top, high stakes and punitive assessment systems that we saw academic achievement testing used for in the extremes of the No Child Left Behind era.