Sentences with phrase «engaging as a mystery»

This is a sharp little film, smart and funny and bitter and yes, even genuinely engaging as a mystery.

Not exact matches

Of course, we are engaging a Mystery in the deepest sense when we seek a direct encounter with God and existentialism has its serious limitations as do all human attempts at understanding; but I am drawn to Kierkegaard's insight into prayer:

Throughout, Weinandy imaginatively engages the Christian tradition in a way that respects the truths of faith as a «mystery» to be explored rather than as «problems» to be solved, thus giving to his entire work the character of intelligently believing humility.

Yet politics is as pervasive and determinative of human life as love, death and the other mysteries that engage the theological imagination.

And while this adaptation - written by Akiva Goldsman - contains many of the same beats and plot twists as Brown's book, the film never quite becomes anything more than a sporadically engaging but mostly dull murder mystery.

In many ways Abzu looks and feels like a successor to Journey, but while there's mystery and beauty in its underwater world, it's rarely quite as engaging.

In the «30s, there was a series of screwball comedies — cleverly disguised as mysteries — that revolved around a rich, happily married couple, Nick and Nora Charles [William Powell and Myrna Loy] who drank too much; engaged in something called witty repartee, and solved mysteries.

The story becomes a little more engaging in the second act as two interrelated mysteries take shape, but the story careens wildly off the rails in the third act.

It patiently reveals details yet remains engaging as layer after layer of the mystery is revealed and sometimes covered back up by the momentarily inexplicable.

If, on the other hand, you enjoy a Tarantino - scripted conversation or two or five — particularly in a period piece where the characters can't make references to movies or TV shows — «The Hateful Eight» may well engage you as a darkly funny locked - door mystery that's in no hurry to show its hand.

The reliable ratings came courtesy of Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy «s mystery - centric series, but that success is also what caused some delay in the coming of the second season since the new scripts had to be airtight and just as engaging as the Season 1 storylines.

Not too far from its end, the film starts to run out of steam, as its mystery becomes less engaging, its dialogue less funny, and its interest moves from creative storytelling to imaginative visual gymnastics.

Sadly, «Strangerland» can't even commit to its mystery enough to engage as a procedural or whodunit, leaving a void in its center that Farrant's lack of character development doesn't fill.

Sadly, the side mysteries that Tim and Pikachu are tasked with solving along the way aren't as engaging as the game's core conundrums.

Inspired by the adventures of Doyle's brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, and based on Eve Titus» engaging book Basil of Baker Street, The Great Mouse Detective is a smartly sketched blend of comedy, action, adolescent drama and mystery which marks the directing debut of now legendary filmmakers Ron Clements and John Musker, important creative forces behind such Disney animated blockbusters as The Princess and the Frog, as well as the aforementioned The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.

If watching Shimell (incredible in his first onscreen role) and Binoche (as ravishing as ever) verbally and intellectually spar while framed by sun - drenched vistas isn't interesting enough for you, the mystery of how they actually know each other will keep you plenty engaged.

Directed by Arthur Hiller from an ingenious script by Andrew Bergman, The In - Laws may at first seem like a generic meet - the - parents comedy, as Arkin's mild - mannered dentist suspiciously eyes Falk's volatile mystery man, whose son is engaged to his daughter.

Forensics is usually equated with dead bodies and violent television shows, but Court TV has devised mysteries that are often less gruesome but just as engaging for students.

Cozy mystery readers do want to meet your engaging heroine as she ventures into a new town or career, but remember the old advice to show - don't - tell.

A widely admired writer on religion celebrates agnosticism as the most vibrant, engaging - and ultimately the most honest - stance toward the mysteries of existence.

My material is a mixed pouch of psychological suspense and mystery I hope to emerge soon as I have written 27 engaging stories.

The game comprises of multiple cases, each of which tells its own interesting short story that has enough mystery and intrigue to keep you engaged as you find clues and interrogate suspects until the truth is uncovered.

Players will be able to explore the quaint, yet rather outlandish world of Village Monsters to their heart's content as they engage in activities such as: fishing and bug - catching, home design, solving intriguing mysteries, and just chatting to the whimsical monster residents.

Inspired by the cheerful classics of 3D platforming, Poi is an engaging adventure that follows two aspiring Master Explorers as they search the far reaches of the world for an old explorer's lost medallions and unravel the mysteries of the Milky Way Globe.

An intricate story engages players as they solve an interdimensional mystery with a diverse cast of characters

Engage in open world adventure as you go sightseeing and explore the town of Greenvale while you solve the mysteries within it.

But, of course, they're not actually benevolent at all; they're actually engaged in some nefarious, mystery - shrouded scheme known as the Avatar Project.

His work actively engages the viewer in an ongoing search for resolution as one attempts to reconcile the ongoing tension present among all aspects of his compositions: the colors, the ambiguous roles of the mallets, the concave / convex push and pull of the space; he very purposefully uses texture to give materiality to a surface, thereby adding more layers to the mystery, not illuminating it.

Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?