Sentences with phrase «feature characters who»

Called Reading Without Walls, the one - month challenge suggests readers seek out great works that feature characters who aren't demographically like them, cover topics they don't ordinarily gravitate towards, and even test out a book format that doesn't ordinarily appeal to them.

NA books are appropriate for older teens and adults, and they typically feature characters who are transitioning from teendom to adulthood.

Both franchises feature characters who live on the edge and balance their action with humor.

While Katniss and Peeta are missing, the posters feature those characters who will be playing a big role in the upcoming films.

Ethnically diverse superheroes have long been a part of Marvel's catalogs, but this fall will see the «All - New, All - Different» initiative prominently feature characters who deviate from the default «straight white guy» premise.

The tag line, in one concise sentence, has a sort of narrative arc, featuring a character who transforms from being a non-Starbucks drinker to a new, enlightened coffee connoisseur.

is a whole different rumba from the original, set in Japan and featuring characters who, cultural rigidity suggests, bow to ATMs as well as to one another.

They can engage in complex stories featuring characters who exist apart from their abilities, and they can do it in a way that is as imaginative as, well, a comic book can be.

It was a show about teenagers, for one thing, and it featured characters who openly questioned the status quo.

It's way more juvenile, featuring characters who lose their pants... and other characters who laugh at the pants-less ones.

The film is so straightforward and features a character who's so relatable that it and he might have the power to change a few hearts and minds.

Apparently, Summit picked up feature - film rights to the book in March 2009 with the aim of launching an action - thriller franchise featuring a character who is part Indiana Jones and part Sherlock Holmes.

Still, the movie, for those who do not need to draw clear lines between villainy and heroism, is a fascinating meld of shocking violence and familial tenderness, a black comedy featuring characters who flip from kindness to cruelty in the span of 20 seconds.

In place of Begin Again's insufferably starry - eyed music - industry idealism (where the big innovation that gets record producer Mark Ruffalo jazzed up is selling an album for a pittance and spending nothing on promotion), Sing Street features characters who don't really know what they're doing, to results both hilarious — check out their music video costuming — and poignant, as with Jack Reynor's older - brother subplot.

British novelist Sadie Jones has earned literary acclaim with her two previous novels, both historical tales featuring characters who are a bit out of step with the rest of the world.

Ichigenme... The First Class is Civil Law features a character who lovingly prepares meals for his lover, and often wonders if his cooking is the only reason his beloved stays with him.

Author Jonathan Franzen (whose book Freedom features a character who feels so strongly about the issue that he disposes of a neighbor's «bird - killing» cat), has praised the book.

Translated as «real living», this saying comes from a popular Mexican film from the 1950s which featured a character who, despite messing most things up, always managed to maintain his positive outlook.

It's also a gritty shooter that features characters who are a little rough around the edges.

Featuring a character who could collect numerous different abilities, like teleportation, shrinking, and a boomerang gun, the game featured more than 40 different routes to the end, with stages that you could go back and visit at any time.

Perhaps it's a learned response, from growing up in an era where even the best game stories featured characters who could shrug off a nuclear explosion in «game mode» with a healing potion, but who could then be fatally wounded by a single sword swipe in «story mode», but I've always been able to compartmentalize what happens in a game's story from what happens in the gameplay when necessary.

First appearing the classic Donkey Kong Country, Diddy Kong really came into his own in the Nintendo 64 racer Diddy Kong Racing, which featured characters who went on to star in the Banjo - Kazooie franchise and the Conker series.

You'll be able to compete in themed paths that harken back to the following Street Fighter games — the original Street Fighter, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha, Street Fighter III, Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter V. Each Arcade Mode ladder features the characters who were a big part of a certain game or someone who's taking the place of a missing member from that game.

Not exact matches

He's the decadently cynical, and ultimately apostate character featured in the third part of The Lord of the Rings, who in his effort to gain a comprehensive defend - civilization view of the Situation, overwhelmed his spirit with all the doom - portending evidence.

Popular television shows, like HBO's Six Feet Under and Showtime's Dead Like Me, feature deceased characters who continue to make cameo appearances, remaining quite active even after their deaths.

Set in post-war England, it features a curate just outside of Cambridge, a detective inspector, a murder, unattainable love, the gap between who we are and who we wish we could be, the long shadow of the war, and a delightful cast of characters who have become surprisingly dear to me.

Neil Blomkamp's debut features humans interacting with aliens who are not treated with any of the reverence Spielberg characters provide celestial beings.

ITV's Coronation Street is to feature Daniel Brocklebank as «Rev Billy», who joins character Emily Bishop's church; St Mary's in the fictional town of Weatherfield.

And as he, in order to make known the beloved figure, tries to transmit the features of the master's character to others, so also the other disciples do it, in fact all who surround the master.

Granit Xhaka was only involved in two of those comebacks as he did not feature in the Carabao cup win over Norwich City, but he was one of the Arsenal stars who spoke after the Swansea game about the character of the Gunners, Sky Sports reports.

Katie Gaughan has created a character called Cheryl Mole who features on her range of pop culture inspired jewellery

The book is written in a question - and - answer format and features a central character, Angus the Answer Dog, who addresses basic queries about starting school, including what a teacher does and what you can find in a preschool classroom.

Some of our choices when they were about four to six years old were the magical «Faraway Tree» series by Enid Blyton; the AA Milne books about Winnie - the - Pooh and other characters; the «Sophie» series by Dick King - Smith about a small but determined girl who wants to be a farmer; The American «Ramona» series by Beverly Cleary, featuring another small but determined girl.

Based on the award - winning educational apps and videos, Ask the StoryBots features characters Beep, Bing, Boop, Bang, and Bo who go on adventures to answer some common questions asked by kids.

The idea of featuring the justice secretary in novels and plays came from Australian author Kathy Lette, who inserted a character called Chris Grayling into her book Courting Trouble, about a mother - daughter feminist law firm.

This beautifully - illustrated book ($ 13; amazon.com) features a character named Emma who learns what's causing her itch, dealing with the frustration from the need to scratch, and what it means to see a dermatologist.

I'm referring to those who have enough features or traits of a problematic personality type that most who interact with them find them disagreeable — that is, more than just you (not that you're not a good judge of character).

For those of you who don't know, Valent Chamber is a pretty cool site that features fan fiction and original fiction with black women as the main characters and more often than not in interracial relationships.

It is agood idea to have good friends, who can have different or similar features of character, habits, hobbis and other mainly positive kinds of individualities, such abilities enable a woman the possibility for good relationship...

Funny, Ignition (the publisher who will live in infamy with me from now on) didn't indicate on their website — amongst this shocker — all of the following absentee features that make KoF... well, KoF: No final boss, no character intros / outros, only one win pose, only 6 stages (2 are effectively palette - swapped), no special effects when finishing a foe with a super, no arcing story, no teams... no nothing... With some 5 teams of 3 characters each still represented, and a few stragglers, it honestly feels like this game was published incomplete, like the deadline was a sword of Damocles, threatening doom.

Writer - director Ryan Fleck's Sundance - minted Half Nelson is a glancingly remarkable, two - handed character study that slips up a bit in its overly impressionistic trafficking but still features a solid performance from Ryan Gosling (above), who continues to be the best kept under - 25 secret in Hollywood.

In addition, the DVD includes numerous featurettes: «The Last Ride: The Story of The Missing» (with emphasis on its differences from most Westerns, that is, «It's not about cattle or land» and features strong women characters); «New Frontiers: Making The Missing» (featuring earnest declarations of mutual respect among the cast and crew); «The Modern Western Score» (with Horner); «Casting The Missing» (in which Eric Schweig, who plays the villain Chiden, observes, «This guy is like a hate junkie.

A film review on Friday about the animated feature «Megamind» misidentified the character who tries to impress Roxanne by repeatedly dropping her from high in the air then swooping down to rescue her.

For someone who plays video games just to play and doesn't care about story lines and character development, this is a great feature.

Estes» debut feature's strength lies in its crackling intensity, ultra-sharp character insights and an affinity for teenage protagonists who look and sound like real teens.

Why can't it feature women as lead characters for a change, or actors who are not impossibly pretty

Any screenwriter's dilemma would be all in the balance; how to make sure all these heroes, some who have never interacted with others, many with unresolved issues with other characters, are adequately featured, while pushing forward this new story of this seemingly invincible foe, whose own storyline is widespread and massive.

For viewers who've been following these characters since 1990, this episode features moments that are both satisfying and deeply sad.

Phineas and Ferb: Quest for Cool Stuff features many of the fan - favorite characters from the hit show, including Perry the Platypus — aka secret Agent P, Candace, Isabella, Buford, Baljeet, and the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz, who is determined to unleash his latest creation, the «get - rid - of - cool - stuff - inator» on the Tri-State Area.

(His latest, which also happens to be opening this month — «Golden Exits» — also features a central character who's an archivist sorting through the letters, photographs and documents of his late father - in - law's life.)