Sentences with phrase «grandiose set»

Your quest to discover the source and scale of the infestation is near - perfectly paced, with just the right number of grandiose set - pieces and character - driven moments of rest bite alike.

The visual effects are impressively crafted by director Doug Liman to make every trial and encounter seem horrifically real, from the first attack to later, more grandiose set - pieces.

There is also the grandiose set - piece where Heath Ledger serenades Julia Stiles in front of the whole school.

Yet when placed against such a grandiose set - piece, how could anyone be expected to mount a proper attack?

Even the art style for the most part chases the ever - elusive photoreality, with Rajinikanth - as - Rana closely (as possible) resembling his modern day flesh - and - blood appearance, and the grandiose settings aping what the likes of Cecil B. DeMille achieved practically in the Hollywood historical epics of yesteryear.

Not exact matches

It's not grandiose, but there is a fundamental assumption of being part of a much larger world and a much larger set of aspirations.

I do not believe that what I have been saying is anything like the erection of some grandiose scheme in which super-terrestrial realities are being set up and the whole apparatus of a quasi-Hegelian metaphysic is proposed.

When public worship moved from the house church to the large basilicas to accommodate the growing numbers of Christians, worship settings became much more grandiose and formal.

At the center of the tree - filled atrium, an opulent chandelier dangles over a grandiose fountain, as luxurious a setting for a bacon club sandwich as there ever was.

Both singers have a flair for the dramatic — Perry with her frivolous costumes and crazy visual effects and Kravitz with his grandiose»70s - rock - style anthems — so we should be set for a really fun show on Sunday night.

My male colleagues have no problem making these types of grandiose public declarations, competing against each other in office diet pools, and setting actual deadlines.

I was excited to see the sets — this take on Die Walküre (The Valkyrie in English) has grandiose art - deco styling.

Everything about IIFA is grandiose because of the power packed performances, celebrity appearance, award ceremony and most important, it is always set in some exotic foreign location.

People make grandiose resolutions instead of setting smaller, manageable goals, and every year when friends invite me out, I always fantasize about staying in and sipping on bubbly.

Performances are more mature, the soundtrack (by Nicholas Hooper) less grandiose, and Yates executes some thrilling set - pieces.

Although the problems appear to have had an impact on the final product, especially in the uneven tone of the comparatively smaller - scale finale and the unsatisfying epilogue, it's a bit of a pleasant surprise that the movie manages to hold together even through some turbulent patches to be worthwhile viewing for anyone not expecting much more than a grandiose, set - piece dominated horror - thriller.

From there, the next ninety minutes play out as one enormous set piece inside Hogwarts, combining the fight for the school, search for the remaining Horcruxes and Harry's date with destiny into a grandiose visual spectacle.

Eisner starts poking around for grandiose gore zone set - pieces (including an inane clash inside a working car wash), expelling more energy on cheap jump scares and hackneyed visual touches than sustaining the unsettling devastation.

Set in the post-WWII South, Netflix's powerful period drama is based on Hillary Jordan's play and charts the story of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape — the McAllan family, with wife Laura (Carey Mulligan) underprepared and overly hopeful for Henry's (Jason Clarke) grandiose farming dreams, and the Jackson family, led by Hap (Rob Morgan) and Florence Jackson (Mary J. Blige), whose families have worked the land for generations.

The track can be grandiose when desired and there are a few impressive set pieces.

Despite the grandiose claims, differences are limited to mild revisions of suspension settings.

Our grand lobby, Al Bahou, with its 88 grandiose Moroccan lanterns dramatically descending from a 40 m high ceiling, set the ambiance, while the world class entertainment set the scene for a pretty spectacular evening.

This is another area in which Odyssey seemingly sets a new highpoint for the series, expanding on the orchestrated wonderment of Galaxy and making it into something even more grandiose, while still sounding distinctly Mario.

That's the main, repeating issue with Final Fantasy 15; it never lives up to the grandiose expectations it sets for itself.

Fizzco has created an unstoppable hype machine surrounding their new product, with the massive media blitz set to culminate in a grandiose launch party at Fizzco's headquarters in Sunset City.

Though A Link to the Past's overworld was influenced by European settings, it was nonetheless alien to everybody — geographically diverse, split into two parallel worlds, and dominated by dark dungeons, mystical caves, and a grandiose castle.

While evoking theatrical sets or grandiose historical paintings, the Bat Opera pictures — grouped here in series of nine or six — invite an intimate viewing experience.

recognized for her large scale plastic, sculptural work, the grandiose space of the deichtorhallen hamburg set the perfect stage for fritsch's life - size representations of humans, animals and symbolic objects.

If your institutions has set up a grandiose «multi-disciplinary center for global warming research» what happens if there is much less of a global warming problem than originally thought?

This could be anything from the grandiose — e.g., chair of the board of directors of a European green energy fund, winning co-counsel in a Supreme Court case — to the seemingly mundane — e.g., leading the firm's record - setting United Way pledge drive, serving as treasurer of a neighbourhood co-operative pre-school.