Sentences with phrase «flawed character whose»

In Queen Elinor we find a sympathetic, admirable, and flawed character whose love for her daughter is unyielding, though the two often fail to communicate.

The Dry felt like real life - flawed characters whose lives either end or go on, but skillfully managing to present a bit of hope for the future at its conclusion.

Not exact matches

The Meno, Plato's only dialogue on the subject of education, features a title character whose failures to learn are more frequently the results of flaws in his character than they are the results of lapses in his logic.

In its decision last week, the tribunal said: «Dr McBride's character mirrors the classic tragic character — the person of eminence in public life whose good deeds and interest in human welfare command respect and admiration, but who is brought down by a fatal flaw in character.»

Its so awesome with the protagonist being an antihero, whose very profession and character are flawed in the eyes of society.

With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags - to - riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream.

However, until that happens, I'm content to watch this multi-talented actor / performer in whatever screen roles he chooses — Wolverine, an Australian drover, a deceitful partner — or, as in Real Steel, a struggling boxing promoter whose many character flaws include a willingness to sell his 11 - year - old son.

Roger's long dark night of the soul reveals a character whose deep flaws prove that those who can't, teach, making him compulsively watchable and excruciatingly entertaining.

Fletcher is the vulgar, drill - seargent, hard - ass you love to hate, whose character shades do little to cover up deeply flawed principles, and yet, once you think the film acknowledges them it turns around and drops them like a bad habit.

Waller - Bridge's Fleabag is a fierce, flawed, more than occasionally crude, and deeply sad character whose story will stay with you long after.

It is populated with characters who seem sympathetic in their motives but unsympathetic in their actions, who seem unworthy of sympathy in any way, or whose qualities and motives are only revealed in their final moments, but McDonagh has limitless compassion for them — not in spite of their flaws but because of them.

The low - key tone and casual pacing create an atmosphere akin to a fly - on - the - wall doc, while a nuanced moral conflict builds through the plight of the title character: an affable but flawed widower whose liberal values clash with his community as he struggles to gain custody of his child.

Ryan Gosling continues to prove why he's one of this generation's finest actors with perhaps his most grown - up role to date, while veterans like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and Marisa Tomei also get in on the fun playing characters whose only real flaw is that they're not in the movie enough.

This is a different kind of fantasy with a flawed hero whose character develops through the story.

«THE ROYAL WE is an epic love story between two flawed but ultimately redeemed characters whose «happily ever after» is every bit as hard - won as any real - life couple.»

Montford's hero is Steve McIntyre, portrayed as a tireless, selfless, unimpeachable seeker of truth whose only character flaw is that he's just too polite.