Sentences with phrase «emotional stakes only»

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.

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

It's apocalyptic entertainment with easy heroes (recycling, turning the lights off, telling your friend to do so) and villains (climate change deniers, FOX News), but with only talk of the emotional stakes.

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.

«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?

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.

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.

There is a half - baked uprising against WCKD that is only tangentially related to the main characters and serves little purpose other than to paint an explosive background to what's meant to be the true emotional stakes of the movie: Thomas saving his friends.

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.

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).

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.

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.