Sentences with phrase «for dramatic tension»

Being in charge of a well - publicized $ 150 million project in his first time out, Abrams delivers the goods with a wallop, showing a strong eye for dramatic tension and gritty action that is fresh and fluid.

The movie is so consistently pitched at the same note, indeed, that the structure robs it of possibilities for dramatic tension.

Any potential for dramatic tension and imaginative gunplay is squandered by repetitive enemy encounters, tedious action, and rudimentary objectives.

Perry has been prone to pretension in his earlier films like Listen Up Philip and Queen of Earth, and he hasn't shown much instinct for dramatic tension.

This is questionable theology, but it is genius as a literary move and a perfect solution to the problem that God's omnipotence poses for dramatic tension in a supernatural novel.

Not exact matches

March 9 (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first U.S. - North Korea summit, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was prepared to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the first U.S. - North Korea summit, marking a potentially dramatic breakthrough in nuclear tensions with Pyongyang.

We keep a low profile because for us nothing fails to get caught up in the dramatic tension between divine and human righteousness.

The Friday - night draw for qualifying positions had fortuitously established a built - in dramatic tension.

Yates has given himself so many stories to tell here that his only plausible excuse for Niagara Motel's total lack of dramatic tension or laughs is a script that fails to include a solitary good line.

Anyone looking for a deeper meaning to the story, or some dramatic tension between Harding and Kerrigan (Caitlin Carver), may leave disappointed.

With a predictable plot on a well - worn theme, and with little dialogue of note, it's very hard for Villeneuve to sustain any dramatic tension.

John Logan, screenwriter for Gladiator, provides some good moments of dramatic tension, even if Shinzon looks and acts a bit too much like Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus to think he wasn't borrowing ideas from himself.

It certainly doesn't help that Dolly's betrothed, Owen (James Norton), is a complete nonentity, both as sketched and rendered; ergo, there's no sense of proper balance or dramatic tension in Dolly's affinity for these two men.

Because he's really just a secondary character in a story with inherent dramatic and historical tensions that don't have much do with him, Enders makes for an awkward protagonist.

Unfortunately, the script drags considerably for the first hour, failing to wring any real dramatic tension from their decision to keep the money and unfairly tipping the balance in their favour by having them be in need of expensive IVF treatment, as well as facing eviction.

The turnaround of the attitudes of the class seems too pat and expedient for believability, and many of the events of the film strike me as heavily embellished for the purposes of dramatic tension.

For those of us who fail to see the dramatic tension of a 1,000 - year - old alien in the form of a young woman talking out loud to the internal monologue of that young woman trapped in the recesses of the consciousness of her presently occupied - by - an - alien body, this movie is an oddity.

Passengers has been sold as a love story, but for the sake of dramatic tension films like it are often guilty of normalizing abuse

The film manages to almost wordlessly lay the groundwork for a strong, tender family dynamic, which is essential because when time flashes forward to over a year later, and the mom is now pregnant, no matter how tempting it is to fault the parents for their carelessness, our protective feelings take over — as does great dramatic tension: survival was already tricky, but how can they possibly stand a chance with a screeching newborn in the mix?

Where Happiness shocked in measured spurts of excruciating, gripping dialogue, Wartime is wasteful; squandering genuine dramatic tension with profanity for the sake of shock value.

For one, it takes almost the entire movie to introduce a lone demitasse of dramatic tension (i.e., the set - up described in the above paragraph), and then, it more or less spits it out on the floor.

In short, the game's premise is unsuitable for mining dramatic tension.

The bulk of the dramatic tension doesn't come until later: Initially, the focus is on the couple as they relate to their children and to the big - hearted folks who have invited them into their home for relaxation and conversation.

Director François Girard (The Red Violin) tells the story without regard for little things like pacing, character development and dramatic tension.

WAVEMAKER AWARD (GRAND PRIZE) Sable Mire (USA 2015), directed by Bogui Adjorlolo and Isaac Pauls JURY STATEMENT: For its ambitious portrait of familial relationships infused with dramatic tension, stylish cinematography, strong acting performances, and a provocative ending.

With Bello committed to a serviceable, if constrictive, interpretation of the severely depressed Nancy as a woman barely reachable through a fog of pain and mental exhaustion, all dramatic tension rests on the potential for humanity in Louis.

No tension sticks for long enough to make a discernible dramatic impression; queasily, even the subplot concerning an abuse victim in Poppy's class merely serves as a pretext to hook her up with a cute social worker.

Milly's draft stood out for the depth of the character she had created and the dramatic tension throughout the piece.

When the charter school cap was lifted in North Carolina in 2011, it set the stage for dramatic growth in the state's charter sector — and growth in tension between charters and traditional schools.

I'm not going to give you a lot of advice about writing dialog, or creating dramatic tension, or any of a dozen aspects of fiction writing that have already been covered in books written by more respected authors than I. For that matter, I'm also not going to give you a lot of rah - rah motivational advice about sticking with it and overcoming your doubts.

Although it isn't a perfect novel, I would recommend it for Fallada's talent in showing us that sometimes the most frightening part of a war isn't dramatic at all — it's the psychological game, that tension arising from waiting for something to happen, and wondering if it ever will, that slowly begins to wear the spirit down.

This book will have immediate appeal to readers searching for superb historical fiction filled with tension, unforgettable characters, and a dramatic setting.

Tone I hope most authors are familiar with tone from their writing: for highly dramatic scenes, we make sure our language matches the scene — we don't use «poopyface» as an insult in an intense scene in a novel for adults (unless we really want to mess with the tension for comedic effect).

So I'm up for talkin» words, writing, narrative arc, dramatic tension, character, fiction, and the writer's life.

As such, composing for film or television will often involve more dramatic ups and downs in the music to closely match the scene whereas in video games, the composer is usually composing music layers (ambient exploration music, combat music, tension music etc.) that will transition between one another,» he noted, adding, «Trailer music is unique in that the music needs to make a very immediate and direct impact on the audience in a short amount of time.

Rape and sexual assault are also frequently used as a sort of narrative currency to try and raise the emotional stakes and heighten the dramatic tension for gamers.

They establish a tension between Drake the adventurer and Drake the regular guy and they exploit it for dramatic effect.

In their dramatic scale and graphic simplicity, they mark a point of departure for the artist, but might also be said to reveal both an unseen structure and a complex set of tensions that quietly anchor Wadden's ongoing practice as a whole.

He also suggests it'd be valuable for me to do a story more broadly examining the tension over interpreting dramatic shortish - term events in a realm still beset by a paucity of data, and in some cases, even hypotheses.