Sentences with phrase «from slavish»

By learning to live within ecological limits and restricting our economic activity to what can be reasonably achieved within the Earth's carrying capacity, proponents argue that we might actually find ourselves freed from the slavish devotion to the economic treadmill.

Is Marvel Studios joining other superhero studios Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and Sony in breaking away from slavish devotion to comic book canon in terms of onscreen diversity?

I wanted the change that you represented - the return to socialist principles and grassroots values, a turning away from slavish adoration and idolisation of free markets - but it's time that we faced facts.

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I often wonder whether Tony Blair listened from No 10 as the Mirror delivered another broadside over Iraq and asked what he had done to deserve such a slavish champion of his party.

Borrowing a few tricks from Martin Scorsese, the film isn't a slavish imitation but an engrossing and grounded drama.

How else to explain his slavish recreation of spectacular visual sequences from said comics whilst completely misunderstanding (or simply missing) the substantive underpinnings to those sequences?

Director Donald Rice, working from a script co-written with Mary Henely Magill, adapts Julia Strachey's 1932 novel of the same name with a slavish devotion to the literal that borders on suffocation.

Like Ross's own old - meets - new appropriation, the 1981 meta - musical Pennies From Heaven, in which Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken danced and lip - synched to Depression era - standards, Brewer's Footloose is an attempt to get at the heart of contemporary culture via slavish re-creation of an earlier time.

Directing from a solidly plotted script by Brian Helgeland, who isn't slavish to the original film (the film credits John Godey's novel but not the 1976 screenplay adaptation), he delivers a focused and refreshingly straightforward thriller that forgoes the usual high tech confusion and contrived high - concept twists so often laid in to surprise audiences.

But slavish conformance to most conventions of the late - 1990s PG - 13 action farce keeps it from scaling the kind of heights that Lawrence's confident and wholly unpretentious comic presence occasionally suggests.

All things said, the text of «Beowulf» would prove nearly impossible to craft into a commercial motion picture if it were to adhere to complete slavish adaptation, as those great early epic stories, born from oral tradition, weren't exactly rife with depth of characters or motivations.

I have to go from one movie to the next and be true to what's happened, but not be slavish to it... The model I'm always trying to build from, my guiding star, is The Godfather Part II where a ton has happened in - between... but you don't need any information: it's there in the film.

Many adaptation of classic novels pay slavish attention to historical / period detail, particularly in terms of dress, and have a cool colour palette — possibly taking their tone from grey / white mansions in large green parks in England, where it never stops raining — but this film is different.

It is better to profit from finding market errors than a slavish devotion to what worked last month or last year.

Despite being on 3DS, Capcom's slavish dedication to maintaining the legacy controls from the PSP mean that tasks that

Despite being on 3DS, Capcom's slavish dedication to maintaining the legacy controls from the PSP mean that tasks that should be effortless with a touch screen — using your inventory, for example — are instead still controlled by holding down a trigger and using the face buttons.

You can also tell it's a sim from the game's slavish dedication to stats - 78 cars, 22 locations and 100 tracks fill the Grid: Autosport disc - more than twice the number of circuits featured in Grid 2, but still a long way short of Gran Turismo 6's 1100 + vehicles.

Fortunately, Marsden Hartley and Arthur G. Dove were not slavish imitators like Weber; they learned from the Modern Master and then moved on.