Sentences with phrase «even as the adaptation»

Narrated by Alfre Woodard, John Henry is the longest short on the entire Blu - ray, clocking in at just under 11 minutes, but it's exceedingly colorful and snappily paced, even as the adaptation of this well - known folktale reaches its tragic conclusion.

Not exact matches

«I found that the military instilled phenomenal skills of adaptation, ability to continue under pressure, and even use that pressure to perform better and use it as a strength,» Hall said.

A veteran is committed to seeing a plan through until the end, motivated and determined to find victory even as potential loss lurks all around, through adaptation, change, and improvisation.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

So, if you want to define «adaptation» as «changes that we don't agree with», then you may be correct, but even your pro-pericope site admits, «It is not in the earliest manuscripts (with one exception); in those manuscripts where we do find it, it is not found in one place.»

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

Some of my best evenings of friends and food have involved one of your dishes (or an adaptation there of) as the meals focal point.

Even though this sandwich is pretty scrumptious - galumptious as is, I could see these adaptations:

We finally have a solid striker (even if he will take some adaptation time I think he'll be true class) in Lacazette, we have solid center backs (once they are all healthy) much better than in recent seasons, Giroud is our killer weapon off the bench rather than the key we are relying on as the main source of goals, Coquelin and Elneny are now midfield fall - back options rather than Flamini (no offense Mathieu, I appreciated your efforts, just making the obvious comparison), two high quality keepers, etc..

First, as hypothesized by James McKenna, night wakings may help prevent SIDS [10], they are necessary for cue - feeding given the size of an infant's stomach [11], and may even be an evolutionary adaptation to ensure someone is close by and caring for the infant, ensuring his or her survival.

Hedonic adaptation helps to explain why even changes in major life circumstances — such as income, marriage, physical health and where we live — do so little to boost our overall happiness.

With an increase in farming adaptation technologies, Eckard said he's confident the country will even go as far as to increase the amount of food it exports in the future.

However, considerable increase in flood risk is predicted in Europe even under the most optimistic scenario of 1.5 °C warming as compared to pre-industrial levels, urging national governments to prepare effective adaptation plans to compensate for the foreseen increasing risks.

Researchers have long known that babies adapt to their world even before they're born — and that those adaptations affect their physiology and metabolism as adults, including their risk for chronic disease.

However, increases in muscle fascicle length are also likely dependent on the mechanical load incurred by the prime mover, as knee flexion (hamstring only) exercise seems to lead to greater adaptations in the hamstrings than hip extension (hamstring, gluteus maximus, and adductor magnus) exercise, even when muscle length at peak contraction is shorter (Bourne et al. 2016).

For muscle growth as long as the number of exercises, sets, reps and intensity is correct adaptation will result in increased muscle size and strength even with bodyweight exercises

To go even further, our fast twitch fibers can be classified as either Type IIX or Type IIB.11 Fast twitch fibers show a greater capacity for hypertrophy than slow twitch fibers, therefore it may be wise to incorporate faster repetition training to maximize this capacity.4 Maximal speed is regarded as a short lasting adaptation, therefore if we wish to keep our bar speed up, we must train with fast bar speed frequently.8 This will have a nice carry over effect to the amount of weight we are able to lift, the amount of work we are able to perform in a condensed amount of time, and ultimately will increase the efficiency of our training.

Most of us don't often think of Catholic priests as authorities on dating and relationships (in fact the popular belief is exactly the opposite), but the You may still find the love of your life even after 60 years, the dating rules tend to change and you must be able to make the necessary adaptations to win the

You may still find the love of your life even after 60 years, the dating rules tend to change and you must be able to make the necessary adaptations to win the The toaster that has lasted as long as the marriage... SIXTY years and still going strong.

You may still find the love of your life even after 60 years, the dating rules tend to change and you must be able to make the necessary adaptations to win the Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

The metafiction in «Stranger than Fiction» might not be as clever as «Adaptation» (or even Neil LaBute's underappreciated «Nurse Betty»), but this imitative screenplay of a superior film is better than, say, «EdTV», which was a byproduct of «The Truman Show».

It should be noted that even in a Schrader adaptation that Allie Fox isn't as much of an SOB as he is in the book form.

As you well know, even though WB's project was announced first, Disney's adaptation won the race to the big screen, and now Warner Bros. seems to be rethinking how to approach Serkis» film.

Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist (C --RRB-: A fascinating story, but as reimagined by screenwriter by screenwriter Nick Hornsby and director Jean - Marc Vallée («Dallas Buyers Club»), «Wild» starring Reese Witherspoon is a well - intentioned, but misguided and occasionally even garish adaptation of spiritual redemption that never connects or finds itself.

Even as Fifty Shades of Grey was being released to theaters this past February, we knew that director Sam Taylor - Johnson wasn't likely to be back to direct the adaptation of the sequel novel, Fifty Shades Darker.

Before he was able to direct the adaptation, Gans hounded Konami for five years before he was given the film rights, even going so far as to send them an audition tape to explain his love for the series.

Yet even at two - and - a-half hours, the first installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling's conclusion to the saga of an orphaned wizard destined to battle a Hitler - like menace, sacrifices some particulars of the author's story but emerges as the most faithful adaptation in the series.

Relatively artless when compared to several other King adaptations around the time (Brian De Palma's Carrie, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone) or even with Carpenter's previous picture (1982's career - best The Thing), the film still delivers the goods as entertainment, thanks to committed performances from the cast and some nifty effects work.

Even just earlier this summer, Plaza portrayed the Plaza - est version of a nun in The Little Hours — an extremely loose adaptation of The Decameron — as the foul - mouthed, sexually deviant Fernanda, who has a witchy secret and is out for blood.

Still, as someone who enjoyed the big screen adaptation of Wanted, but enjoyed the comic even more, I think I have a pretty good idea of what we're in for.

It's not as poignant or as rich as the comic book treatment, so those expecting a faithful adaptation will be disappointed, but it does benefit by being an isolated story that is easy for even the most casual of Superman fans to follow (indeed, it doesn't really fall under any current Superman project continuity).

Having hit new heights recently with his excellent score for Terminator 3 and then the even better, career - best Hellboy, Marco Beltrami was brought in as a last - minute replacement for Trevor Jones on Alex Proyas's big - budget adaptation of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot starring Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan and James Cromwell (who presumably must have somehow cloned himself, given how many movies and tv shows he seems to appear in these days).

In an age of constant sequels, remakes, reboots, and adaptations, it's a small wonder when even blatant genre pastiches such as Pacific Rim are touted by the movie - going public as «original.»

Back in the spring, James Franco hit Cannes with «As I Lay Dying,» an experimental drama and adaptation of William Faulkner's book that utilized all kinds of split - screen to surprisingly decent effect, even if the movie as a whole didn't amount to much more than a curiositAs I Lay Dying,» an experimental drama and adaptation of William Faulkner's book that utilized all kinds of split - screen to surprisingly decent effect, even if the movie as a whole didn't amount to much more than a curiositas a whole didn't amount to much more than a curiosity.

Even though the adaptation of the Kathryn Stockett best - seller had detractors like Professor Melissa Harris - Perry questioning the historical accuracy of its depiction of Mississippi maids in the Sixties, there's no denying that Viola Davis delivered an Oscar - worthy performance as the movie's lead character, Aibileen Clark.

Even though DIVERGENT is still shooting, the hype for this latest YA adaptation is so huge its being billed as the new HUNGER GAMES...

His Mr. Parcher reminds a good deal of the evil doctors in William Burroughs's Naked Lunch; between this character and James Horner's score (a rip - off of Howard Shore's work with David Cronenberg), A Beautiful Mind invites undeserved comparisons to Cronenberg's The Fly and his adaptation of Naked Lunch: reclusive genius finds love even as he disintegrates into the madness of his ambition.

As part of Warner Bros.» presentation at CinemaCon this past week, It director Andy Muschietti sent a videotaped message to those in attendance, promising that the second chapter to the hit Stephen King adaptation will be «darker and even scarier» than last year's first movie, and that fans may want to «bring your adult diapers».

Writer Jason Fuchs and director Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna) have created a Peter Pan «origin» story that lacks any touch of whimsy or enchantment from the original books or the numerous film adaptations: the 1953 Disney animated classic, the 1991 Steven Spielberg / Robin Williams / Dustin Hoffman vehicle, the underrated 2003 live action version from director P.J. Hogan, or even last year's Live TV broadcast featuring Allison Williams as Peter.

Sadly, even though it's clearly yet another ploy for more money, August is filled with some sincere efforts such as Ryan Murphy's much - anticipated adaptation of Eat Pray Love, even if it will be overshadowed by the indie / geek-fest that is Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World.

Sophomore helmer Jon S. Baird's needfully messy adaptation of «Trainspotting» author Irvine Welsh's 1998 bestseller stays true to the novel's spirit of riotous despair, even as it cuts down on the tapeworm monologues.

Deservedly winner of the Best Director gong at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Nicholas Winding Refn makes Los Angeles look as beautiful as it's ever been without using any tourist traps, and the adaptation from the James Sallis novel by Hossein Amini (who also adapted the dark Jude and The Wings of a Dove) is beautifully done, even if some of the music (largely an effective ambient / electro score) is a little on - the - nose.

The icing on the cake was this year's Last Airbender, an adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon cartoon — an adaptation so ill - received that in one online review, even the cartoon's hardcore fans, many dressed up as the characters, registered their seething hatred.

If Evans and Larson were to engage in a superhero team - up, it wouldn't even be the first time the pair joined in the same ensemble of a comic book adaptation, as Evans explained to a panel at Wizard World Philadelphia, according to ComicBook.com.

New Line Cinema's sequel to the surprise 2013 horror hit «The Conjuring» is set to dominate the weekend, even as it faces off against Universal's big - budgeted video game adaptation «Warcraft, which is expected to tank at the domestic box office.

3:45 am (14th)-- TCM — Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut's first foray in English - language film was this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, following fireman (that is, book - burner) Montag as he comes into contact with a group of fugitives intent on preserving the knowledge in books even as the government tries to destroy them, and he begins to wonder if perhaps they are right.

Yes, just as people emerge from the cinemas from the first screenings of The Hobbit, which started in December, they have been greeted by the news that Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien's novel is set to last even longer when it's released on Extended Edition DVD and Blu - ray this year.

As if a sober and respectful adaptation of an earnest and leisurely nineteenth - century novel could still compete for eyes and ears in a twenty - first - century entertainment environment engineered to entice instead the sex - crazed, the violence junkies, and the attention - deficit - disordered — as if even the oil companies hadn't bailed on public television's Masterpiece Theatre because nobody seems to care anymore about character as destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugAs if a sober and respectful adaptation of an earnest and leisurely nineteenth - century novel could still compete for eyes and ears in a twenty - first - century entertainment environment engineered to entice instead the sex - crazed, the violence junkies, and the attention - deficit - disordered — as if even the oil companies hadn't bailed on public television's Masterpiece Theatre because nobody seems to care anymore about character as destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugas if even the oil companies hadn't bailed on public television's Masterpiece Theatre because nobody seems to care anymore about character as destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugas destiny versus the British class system — here without apology are three more hours of Thomas Hardy moping about old Wessex, looking in vain for a laugh.

As Marvel's first successful comic - book - to - film adaptation, the original «Blade» instantly became an underground hit with the sleek, yet comical Wesley Snipes headlining as the title character, and even «Blade 2» was more than a mere duplicate thanks to its thorough vampire history, but «Blade: Trinity» is nothing more than a blended carbon copy with a bloodthirsty desire to maximize the death counAs Marvel's first successful comic - book - to - film adaptation, the original «Blade» instantly became an underground hit with the sleek, yet comical Wesley Snipes headlining as the title character, and even «Blade 2» was more than a mere duplicate thanks to its thorough vampire history, but «Blade: Trinity» is nothing more than a blended carbon copy with a bloodthirsty desire to maximize the death counas the title character, and even «Blade 2» was more than a mere duplicate thanks to its thorough vampire history, but «Blade: Trinity» is nothing more than a blended carbon copy with a bloodthirsty desire to maximize the death count.