Sentences with phrase «focuses on the character at»

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While answering a question about other names that were considered for the series — one being «Nonprophit,» when the script focused more on the main character's job at a non-profit and less on her friendship with Molly — she mentioned it was a challenge selling network executives on the name Insecure.

But Lewis Ward, video game analyst at IDC, says it doesn't matter which popular character Nintendo focuses on.

The fourth season is the one that split critics because it was 15, 30 - minute episodes that each focused on one character and all took place at the same time.

The music and Scripture should focus our attention on the character and holiness of God and be a reminder of the reason we worship Him at all.

But I also wonder if horror is good at telling stories about women because horror, almost by definition, focuses on the vulnerability of its characters.

At the same time, modern attempts to construct a view of Jesus that omits any emphasis on the death, focusing instead on a message or practice Jesus taught without reference to his own fate — which are implausible as history and often lack distinctive Christian character.

This is the opening of The Lunch Line Fight: Looking at Different Perspectives, by Tosca Killoran and Jeff Hoffart, part of a series of 10 paperback books with a focus on citizenship, mindfulness, empathy, character and social - emotional skills, presented in story book format.

This is exactly the kind of image that Arsenal need to develop, and it is belief and character alone which can carry them through the tough times and focus on the goal at hand.

If you haven't got the opportunity to leave your toddler at home and they are prone to tantrums and wriggling out of the trolley, then you have an opportunity to focus on training your child's character.

There are performance character strengths and moral character strengths, and when you look at existing character education programmes in the US, a lot of them focus on the moral: honesty, integrity sharing, inclusiveness.»

While it does spend much of its time looking at the «character» traits that help children succeed, it is broader focused than just character development, with many portions dwelling on evaluation of a variety of educa

The sheer numbers of foreign personnel and agencies operating at the subnational level — all responding to a higher - level focus on «burn rates» — further fueled the disparate character of aid distribution.

«Hearing their stories, looking at the work they've done to promote character education and identify the values they want to embed in their schools and seeing how positive they are about this area of their school life has confirmed to me that focusing on character sits alongside gaining knowledge.

Here, the focus is on reconstructing what might have happened at a vacated home, with notes left behind by the characters as clues.

Where the most successful of the F13s hang their hat, creating a team of characters that are interesting and at least partially fleshed out, The New Blood instead focuses on developing a few smaller threads.

At the turn of the year however, Tinder's foray into advertising characters from Fox's The Mindy Project coincided with the show focussing an episode on the app.

Every one of the games I've worked on at Supergiant, including the game we just announced, focuses on characters whose sense of home has been disrupted due to circumstances beyond their control.

Hostiles, as indicated earlier, ultimately focuses too much on creating and maintaining its dour mood and tone, at the expense of its character / thematic development and sense of pacing.

Despite the lessening of madcap energy, Shrek the Third is still quite funny in parts, with some fresh throwaway gags to produce chuckles now and then from characters you'd think they probably should have jettisoned long ago, but are secretly glad they've kept around (the Gingerbread Man, Pinocchio, etc.) The fact that they are keeping in nearly all of the characters introduced in the series thus far is a bit of a double - edged sword, as they do provide a certain respite from the main characters that are already cycling through the same jokes all over again, but on the other hand, it's getting to the point that the high overhead of injecting scenes for all of these characters takes away from the focus of the story at large.

Yet, «Kung Fu Panda 2» is at its finest when focusing on the internal churn of the characters, watching Po and even Tigress (who's warming up to her rotund partner) come to terms with their fractured past, helping them achieve the special yin - yang balance of inner peace needed to defeat Shen.

At a dinner held at the house Paul and his daughter Jenny (Ellen Page) share, we are introduced to all the characters that the film focuses on, each with different but strong personalities and each involved within the shift of energy and balance that occurAt a dinner held at the house Paul and his daughter Jenny (Ellen Page) share, we are introduced to all the characters that the film focuses on, each with different but strong personalities and each involved within the shift of energy and balance that occurat the house Paul and his daughter Jenny (Ellen Page) share, we are introduced to all the characters that the film focuses on, each with different but strong personalities and each involved within the shift of energy and balance that occurs.

At one point we were going to get two versions of the movie from filmmaker Ned Benson, with one called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and focusing on James McAvoy «s character, and the other called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers and focusing on the character played by Jessica Chastain.

Co-written by director David Gordon Green (Joe), whose work frequently explores the pitfalls of male culture (and there's nary a woman in sight here, unless she's at a party), the script is best when it stays focused on the relationship between Brad and Brett, sometimes not bothering to fully flesh out the supporting characters.

Clearly, the fault isn't in the stars but in a storyline that focuses on Greg at the expense of two equally interesting characters who often feel more like moons circling Greg's planet than fully defined people in their own right.

The movie's shambling, episodic structure ensures that certain sequences fare much better than others, and it's ultimately clear that Nebraska is at its best when focused on the father / son dynamic between Dern and Forte's respective characters - with the heartfelt authenticity of such moments generally compensating for the movie's various deficiencies.

There are some protagonists from earlier entries — as well as all - new faces, such as lead characters Rowan and Lianna — but this is clearly a package aimed at modern followers of the franchise, and thanks to the focus on switching between units during battle, you'll get more of a chance to familiarise yourself with each one than you perhaps did in Hyrule Warriors.

For the first and third acts, World War Z focuses on that dynamic and lets the shock felt by both the characters and audience at seeing civilization crumble before their very eyes work on a psychological level.

Following the well - received screening of Cloak & Dagger's pilot episode at SXSW last month, FreeForm has released a new promo for the upcoming Marvel series which focuses on the titular duo's powers; check it out here... «Marvel's Cloak & Dagger» is a coming - of - age series based on the beloved Marvel characters.

Jolie applies a bit too much focus on moments of suffering in the second half as well, making Unbroken feel repetitive and long at times; a few more conversations between characters in place of some of the beatings might have been a wiser choice.

Love, from producer Judd Apatow puts the focus on character in its premiere, setting the stage for a thoughtful look at relationships.

The series is at its worst when it decides to focus on loud explosions and CGI battles over characters and story.

By never focusing in on one main character, the ensemble comes together creating a tapestry of unique stories that hints at the real - life enormity of this battle.

In order to make Silent Hill 2 work we need to be focusing on making the characters real by having high - quality textures, and at the same time we must improve the gameplay so people will feel, even though its really horrific, we must make them want to play the game over and over.

WHY: The fourth season of «The Walking Dead» may be plagued by many of the same problems as previous years, but while its tendency to let plotlines drag on for too long causes the show to grind to a halt at times, the renewed focus on keeping the story moving even when its characters aren't plays a huge part in its success.

From awkward interactions to fractured relationships, Lynn Shelton is a master at capturing modern day human comedies, frequently focusing on characters in a state of arrested development.

While the actual teaser focused on Deadpool giving his best Bob Ross impersonation, complete with happy clouds and trees, we did get a brief collage of footage from the actual movie, snippets and all - too - brief looks at various characters and scenes of the film.

As Jack plows ahead recklessly in a frantic search, the episode begins another flashback focus on the character, depicting, as the title implies, Jack's very uneasy personal and professional relationship with his father, who is the chief neurological surgeon in the hospital Jack works at.

The film is also well - remembered for its brilliant Duke Ellington jazz score (also unusual at the time) and the focus on Stewart as a character rather than simply focusing on the plot.

Visit Carvahall and you'll find featurettes about the Inheritance Trilogy to which the novel Eragon belongs, The Storyteller's Scroll (focusing on turning the novel into a screenplay), Realizing Alagaësia (a look at storyboards, locations, scouting and character design), The Destined Roles (casting the actors), From Carvahall to Farthen Dur (behind - the - scenes footage during film production), Hatching The Dragon (the CGI process of creating the dragons), Just The Beginning (a peak at what's next in the series) and the Random House Digital Novel where you can enjoy the first two chapters of Eldest, the second novel from the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini.

People usually bemoan the lack of a strong human element in big blockbusters like this, but while «Godzilla» aims to remedy that by placing the focus more on them than the giant monsters doing battle, the characters are so bland and thinly written (with the exception of Bryan Cranston's scientist, who has a smaller role than is hinted at in the trailers) that it only makes things worse.

After seeing it at Sundance, A.A. Dowd wrote that «the material is perfectly suited to the filmmaker's interests and strengths, its compact mini-narratives allowing her to focus almost exclusively on tiny details of character and environment.»

It sometimes feels like the more we focus on character and relatability, the more we expose how much gameplay can be at odds with that.

Yesterday at the Winter Solider junket, I asked them the status of the pilot, what the show would focus on, its timeline, whether Atwell is still interested in playing the character, and more.

Given that the score of Breakfast at Tiffany's — especially the signature «Moon River» tune — is as iconic as Hepburn's character of Holly Golightly, it's rather surprising that only in the new DVD release is there a documentary featurette focusing solely on composer Henry Mancini and his indelible and enduring contribution to this film and the movie music world in general.

The story focuses on the character Bud, played by Stoll, who when at the top of his game in boxing, had it all: both the physical commodities that come with fame as well as the admiration.

At the recent press day, Core, Ramirez, Bracey, wingsuit stunt pilot Jeb Corliss, professional free climber Chris Sharma, Alcon producers Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, and 2nd unit director Philip Boston talked about how they went about creating the ultimate sports movie, how the actors viewed their characters and built the bro - mance, the challenges of coordinating a production that shot around the world in 11 countries and on 4 continents, why all the 2nd unit work was shot prior to the first unit work, why vision and authenticity were paramount, why the imagination, energy and focus required to shoot a film in camera is much greater than when visual effects are used everywhere, and why it took courage to make this film.

By making the characters fully aware of Owens» ability, and foreshadowing his inevitable triumph at the Olympic Games, the film can focus on celebrating the icon.

Wrote Eric Kohn at Sundance, «Intimately shot and almost exclusively focused on the two characters» daily lives, «The End of Love» maintains an effectively bittersweet atmosphere that works its quiet spell throughout, although it aims too low to leave a particularly strong impression.»

Similar to John Hillcoat's The Road, Devil sports several unnamed characters which are just defined by their profession — this means that the film absolutely had to focus on character details so we could differentiate them (you'd be surprised at how much a name helps in identifying a character).

But even with the help of the creative, distinct costumes and make - up created for the characters throughout the film, the natural relationship between the two protagonists couldn't fully repair the at - times underdeveloped screenplay that focused heavily on the visuals and not enough on the story.