Sentences with phrase «high emotional stakes»

Like most recent Romanian films, If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle is intensely bleak and with high emotional stakes.

RECKLESS PASSED ON STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Chris Black (w, ep), Martin Campbell (d, ep) LOGLINE: Thriller centers on a resourceful problem solver who, when his wife is unjustly imprisoned during a political uprising overseas, resorts to entering a world of political intrigue, dangerous alliances and high emotional stakes in order to get her out.

There's some inherent drama to buying a house: big sums of money, high emotional stakes, tense negotiations, simply tragic interior decor.

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If you want to improve your ability to handle high - stakes interactions with more grace and control, building emotional resilience is the answer.

She specializes in training organizations on the «why» behind language that works, and brings with her a passion for uncovering the right thing to say when the emotional stakes are high.

«When you are in the midst of a high - stakes situation, it can be very emotional and flustering, so it will be very difficult to come up with strategies in the moment» explains Kang.

High - stakes issues tend actually to get more portentous, over time, as we sink greater and greater emotional and intellectual investments into....

Uneven cognitive, emotional, and physical growth, a newly keen awareness of others» perceptions, and seemingly higher stakes all combine in dramatic fashion.

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These high - stakes games can be an emotional roller coaster for some people as they ride the highs and lows with their favorite team.

Watching Maeve scheme and sacrifice to figure out what is going on in her home has been addicting to watch, cementing Newton's place as the emotional hinge to this high - stakes show.

Anderson deals with the resemblances head - on — the routine involving the kidnapped tycoon's wife is like a hyper - alert variant on the Lebowski method — but, as in that initial languid, multifaceted exchange between Doc and Shasta, Inherent Vice's emotional stakes are far higher and the snark quotient lower.

The Master means to unsettle — not through the startling violence of Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood, or the emotional crescendos of Magnolia, but through a central relationship that's played for the highest stakes.

Rather than dealing with the emotional gravity of the devastating loss that serves as its catalyst, it bends over backwards to create nonexistent tension around the apparently high stakes world of high school volleyball.

The combination of physical circumstances — bad teeth, lack of vitamin D, devastating abuse — and high - stakes emotional intensity makes for a screen performance we'll be talking about for a long time.

That said, not everyone will remain dead, but factoring how high - stakes Infinity War was and the emotional impact of all these deaths, it makes sense that not everyone will get to come back.

The «Deadpool 2» team wanted to ramp up the film's emotional stakes as high as possible right off the bat.

But love isn't all easy in the Sundance indie film First Girl I Loved, where the placement of a high school same - sex romance in the swivelling unpredictability of adolescence makes this coming - of - age tale an emotional spin that attempts to increase its stakes at every turn.

And to spite any snarking worry that director Sam Mendes would treat this movie simply like one of his dramas, Skyfall is still an action film that continues to roar as it ventures inward, its high stakes provided by an emotional story of Shakespearean proportions.

There's no emotional depth, and by the end, the stakes aren't high enough to care about are two title characters.

Our own Guy Lodge called it «an effortfully solemn amalgamation of personal crises and social concerns» that «paints from too limited an emotional palette for its high - stakes story of parental duty, in the face of hovering mortality, to hit home the way it should.»

That rawness ratchets the emotional stakes even higher as the movie tap dances its way out of downtown L.A. and into the realm of the surreal, a fantasy where the lovers float away from their cares, Fred and Ginger style, at least for a few hours, before tumbling back down to the earth.

But when the financial and emotional stakes associated with standardized tests are disproportionately high, this laudable goal gets distorted.

Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, teachers and administrators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a range of skills — including critical thinking and social - emotional skills — they wanted students to master by the time they left school.

Teams are on high stakes PBL expeditions, which take them on social and emotional roller coaster rides throughout the long season.

It says nothing about how self - report measures of social - emotional skills would perform in a high - stakes setting — or even with the very modest weight that will be attached to them this year within CORE.

Some of our activities included «2 - minute designs,» where we randomly assigned participants a form (comic strip, t - shirt, video) and a theme (high stakes testing, ubiquitous mobile devices, social - emotional learning) and required them to build a prototype of an artistic representation for the future of learning in 2 (well, really 5) minutes.

Crucial Conversations is a two - day course taught by VitalSmarts that teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high - stakes, emotional, or risky topics — at all levels of your organization.

There's been such a focus on high stakes testing that there hasn't been enough attention to the social emotional learning and the safe supportive environment that students need in order to thrive.

March 3, 2016 • Schools are moving to high - stakes testing of social and emotional skills.

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

No longer is the school day just about preparing for high stakes testing — social and emotional learning has moved to the forefront of the education landscape and educators have an increased awareness that when kids feel safe, have healthy connections with others and can understand and manage emotions, the stage is set, not only for an improvement in academics, but also for changes that impact lifelong success.

The Impact of Accountability Measures on Children and Young People, by Prof Merryn Hutchings of London Metropolitan University, says pupils» emotional health and wellbeing is suffering because of «high - stakes testing».

A heartfelt story of second chances set in the high stakes world of MMA fighting, Dirty Boxing by Tara Wyatt and Harper St. George is a satisfying blend of emotional drama and sizzling love scenes.

A contemporary thriller with characters whose emotional journey is just as page - turningly gratifying as the most high - stakes manhunt.

Given the dollar cost and emotional investment, the stakes are high.

The second half of the story ramps up the drama considerably, offering one of the more emotional and high stakes narratives in the series.

In addition, when the stakes are high in terms of monetary amounts or emotional issues, experienced mediators like Frank and Steve can invest the necessary time to provide perspective about a matter and break through barriers when judges can not.

It's not useful for lawyers to obsess over obscure points of law, especially in labour arbitrations or other situations where the emotional stakes are high, he says.

However, when the stakes are especially high, you can take it up a level and truly move your stakeholders with movies that start with an emotional arc.

No, they shouldn't be used for high - stakes assessment (you can find lots of articles at The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources about why that's a bad idea).

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).

Even when people do understand the high stakes of those early choices, thinking clearly and making intelligent choices at that time can be very challenging, because divorce is an emotional wild ride like no other.

It's also true that nobody believes social and emotional learning measurement should be employed for over-the-top, high stakes and punitive assessment systems that we saw academic achievement testing used for in the extremes of the No Child Left Behind era.

The emotional and financial stakes are too high and can be heightened when kids are involved.