Sentences with phrase «ground than real life»

Not exact matches

A grounding in the real - life story makes this film much less sentimental than it looks.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

Although too intense for little children and too juvenile for older teens, The Neverending Story's message of using literature to explore real life issues coupled with a discussion about the balance between a growing imagination and keeping one's feet an the ground, could make this movie more than just the ultimate in escape fiction for «tweens.

We got a lot of different responses, but really, the value was in grounding the guy and making him like real people we had met and seen in real life, rather than just an imagined version of what it might be.

The discussion of kids - and - parents and real - life connections keeps «The Long Haul» grounded in something more than pure escapism.

Grounded in advice from effective classrooms nationwide, enhanced with more than 40 video clips, Reading Reconsidered takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real - life educators and instructional champions.

You've probably heard people say nothing prepares you for the sight of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, especially in real life on race day, with more than 250,000 spectators on the ground.

Injustice 2 now includes a microtransaction system for anyone who may be interested in paying real life money to collect character specific items quicker than grinding for them.

Thrusting, sliding and ledge - grabbing open up a slew of new ways to escape enemy gunfire, and landing a Ground Pound or Spartan Charge on a real - life opponent is infinitely more satisfying than doing so on the AI.

Since the real radiative surface of the Earth is up in the atmosphere at altitude, then the natural adiabatic gradient caused by gravity guarantees that the ground surface, where humans live, will be warmer in temperature than the radiative surface at altitude, where the surface for photons is.

I have real life experience where a thin veil of high cirrus, which I am fairly certain are colder than the ground, led to an almost immediate and quite welcome warming of the ground temp, during radiation cooling events here in Florida.

Thrusting, sliding and ledge - grabbing open up a slew of new ways to escape enemy gunfire, and landing a Ground Pound or Spartan Charge on a real - life opponent is infinitely more satisfying than doing so on the AI.

Maybe it's because you regularly deal with people during emotional times in their life, or maybe it's because your work keeps you «on the ground» rather than behind a desk, but I find that real estate practitioners generally don't shy away from dealing with human hardship.