Sentences with phrase «grandiose stories»

One of the most decorated JRPG franchises, the Tales of... series consistently offers players grandiose stories and worlds with characters of equal caliber to explore them.

If you've ever met someone whose grandiose stories didn't always add up, you may think you know Alice (Rachel Weisz), a plus - one at an adult birthday celebration who charms the other party guests... until she doesn't.

While this is indeed a Marvel film that is the last necessary building block for the MCU this otherwise almost completely stands out on its own telling an epic grandiose story of corruption, greed power, vengeance and above all loyalty.

Before I delve into combat specifics, however, I'll touch upon the grandiose story of Xenoblade Chronicles.

Not exact matches

You wouldn't think it would be hard to list your accomplishments but often times we tend to belittle our own achievements, thinking that they are not as grandiose as we would like or as exciting as other stories we have heard.

«The stories you have heard about grandiose narcissism on social media are probably true,» said the study's senior author, Keith Campbell, a professor of psychology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

The grandiose architecture, gilded ornamentation and fancy clothes play well against the burning emotions and betrayals at the heart of the story.

The grandiose architecture, gilded ornamen tation and fancy clothes play well — especially in a grand ball scene — against the burning emotions and betrayals at the heart of the story.

If I'd gone to war at the age of eighteen and come home without firing a shot, I suspect I'd have written something as vapid, grandiose, and self - conscious as Anthony Swofford's memoir Jarhead, the story of a ground war that never really materialized (and wouldn't until the son of that era's president decided to bring to climax what daddy'd coaxed to erection).

It is way too much style over story, giving a simple tale a grandiose spin.

John Williams provides the score, which gives the film a grandiose tone that conflicts with the story.

Playing a little more like an entry in the Bourne series than the Bond series, not only with its «rogue agent who can't trust his organization» story, but also its hyperkinetic way of editing the sometimes brutal action sequences, Quantum of Solace falls a bit from star Daniel Craig's debut due to the fact that impressively choreographed hand - to - hand combat fails to impress when the action and stunts are this grandiose.

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 stories in previous instalments were suitably cheesy but Ninja Gaiden 3 ramps up the ridiculousness to almost uncomfortable levels of camp, especially the grandiose speeches from the main villain.

Gibson's choice to give Wallace a grandiose mystique makes the story difficult to take as anything but a tall tale, especially as he applies the war paint and storms in and out of castles on horseback.

We don't need to be lectured to about how despicable slavery is through grandiose diatribes delivered by lofty actors; we can see it merely through the story of just one man who experienced something no one should ever have to experience.

Oprah Winfrey as Gloria: Quickly canceling any inclination that this would be some of grandiose big screen comeback for the cultural icon, Winfrey plays a part that does little for the story, despite the amount of time spent on it.

The only thing Breath of the Wild was missing was a grandiose and epic story, something that it would have greatly benefited from, but would have been challenging to implement when the game can mostly be played in a sequence of events of your choosing.

The stories in previous instalments were suitably cheesy but Ninja Gaiden 3 ramps up the ridiculousness to almost uncomfortable levels of camp, especially the grandiose speeches from the main villain.

Console games have become more cinematic and grandiose, and audiences expect flashier visuals, larger stories and faster gameplay.

Everything from the level - up system to the way the game handles shops is off - beat and charming, while the ensemble cast and interlocking story feel suitably grandiose.

It's usually nothing too grandiose or divergent from the main game, but each story feels more unique and memorable thanks to these shifts in gameplay.

Fast - forward to the postwar period, and the story is the same: Think of the grandiose universality of Mark Rothko's Abstract Expressionism or Richard Serra's and Carl Andre's materialistic minimalisms.

With haunting juxtapositions of objects at once fragile and grandiose, the Jamaica - born artist comments on liberty, democracy, and his own story as an immigrant Read More

The grandiose three - story executive residence has various obstructions on the roof, making it difficult to place large arrays there in our solar design.

In the vast majority of cases, people back away from their grandiose claims as they can't carry the story to interview, and of course, once they realise that the story they have while not «superhuman» status, is a good, solid and real representation of who they are and what they did, then we're cooking — and its true!