Sentences with phrase «human drama as»

Director Steven Soderbergh's big - budget thriller about the global spread of a mysterious illness stumbles by focusing too much on public policy and science and to little on the human drama as civilians and government officials race to stop the deadly outbreak.

If they could only make the human drama as exciting as the simian drama, then they'd have a perfect film on their hands...

One program, «Inside Einstein's Mind,» succeeded not only because it dealt in a convincing way with the complexities of theoretical physics, but also because it revealed a very human drama as Einstein raced to complete his general theory of relativity in 1915, even as the world seemed to be falling apart during World War I as was his marriage.

John Milton (1608 - 1674) had been a secretary to Cromwell but escaped the scaffold at the Restoration and completed Paradise Lost, presenting the human drama as conceived by Christians.

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«Diffuse the drama by being a decent human being,» says Sharron Jones who, as marketing director at Oakville, Ont.

This is the drama of human history, the story of Caritapolis, as the Catholic people see it.

What ultimately turned the tide in a direction which could accommodate theological thinking to the evolutionary view was a resurgence of personal idealism which purported to see the entire process of evolution, animal as well as human, in the context of a cosmic drama presupposing a Creator God.

Where Sartre seeks to recoup humanism through a methodology that allows him to debunk any competing ideology, Solzhenitsyn seeks to recover human integrity by attending to the particulars of history as part of a larger, if hidden, spiritual drama that must be lived to be understood.

It is a drama that unfolds in several contexts at once: within the historical context of a «great cloud of witnesses», that is, in relationship to all of those who speak (and have spoken) as «Christian preachers»; within the context of the speaker's own human existence in relation to other statements of faith collected as «Christian theology» within the time and space set aside for the performance of Christian liturgy.

In this history, he claimed, we learn to see historical conceptions of God as symbolic representations of the human drama of cultural development.

The Bible is viewed not only as an historical or canonical document, but as a description of the individual soul's journey of spiritual development and commentary on what happens when different states of consciousness interact with one another in the collective drama of human existence.

For the first time on the stage of world history, we humans can envisage the possibility — some would say, the probability — of a self - inflicted, abrupt, and apocalyptic nuclear end of the drama as we have lived it till now.

The human drama has been marked by pell - mell successions of roles, which could be designated as winners versus losers, victors versus victims, masters versus slaves, empires versus colonies, superpowers versus underdeveloped countries.

Knowing the usual professional hazard of becoming hardened to the very human dramas that first moved him to the ministry, he will beware lest he add to it the conscious hardening that serves as defense against pain and loss.

And because the underlying commitment is philosophical, the flimsiest facts are counted as evidence - as when the president of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an article arguing that evolution is confirmed by differences in the size of finch beaks, as though the sprawling evolutionary drama from biochemicals to the human brain could rest on instances of trivial, limited variation.

As such, it has all the power of a human drama, where the weakness and vulnerability of Christ do not compromise his divinity, but serve rather to accentuate the staggering generosity of his self - sacrifice.

God withdraws and blends in, setting the stage for a free and historical encounter of humans with God as a single «Thou» in the drama of history.

At one time the website Front Porch Republic stood as a shining light, celebrating an open and public discussion of the limits of government, the intrinsic necessity of conceiving of «place» in the human drama, and the acknowledgement of «liberty» as a requirement....

There has, instead, been a tendency to see nature as none other than the stage on which the drama of human life is performed.

I interpret the idea of theo - drama as, in one sense, a theological commentary on Ingold's concept of life as movement, a human becoming through deliberate placing of the human person in the movement of the play as a way of bringing forth not simply that which is unique to human beings, but structuring human life as part of a wider bringing forth (p. 51).

As with the Callaghan era, Graham says it was the human drama prompted by the 2010 result that attracted him to write Coalition.

If the project moves forward (the script is still being written), the drama will center on a scientist and her former mentor as they battle for control over the human genome, the culmination of which could mean life or death for the entire human race.

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars in this original, history - based drama series as the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

What «Fifty Shades Freed» sees as drama, rational human beings will see as the fundamentally problematic relationship between a smart, independent, career - driven woman and her needy, unreasonable, possessive yet affluent and hunky husband.

As always, the quality of those films varied widely, taking in films that were among the year's best (including drama 45 Years, 2015's # 2 overall film) and among the year's worst The Human Centipede III, which scored lower than all but one film last year).

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselAs an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas well as portraying Wiseau himselas portraying Wiseau himself.

By focusing on the internal machinations of Catesby and his Protestant antagonists, Gunpowder locates a human drama at the heart of an event codified in history books as a conflict between monoliths.

By contrast, the very fine character actor Catherine Keener is excellent as his no - nonsense partner: she's every inch the believable special agent, controlled, efficient, dedicated, human but highly disciplined (as was, come to think of it, Clint Eastwood in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»).

That sound alone makes Landline skew more toward comedy than drama, but it's also as heart - stoppingly human and sympathetic as any tearjerker.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

With a clever tip of the ten - gallon hat to Sergio Leone's highly influential spaghetti westerns, The American strolls across the screen conveying its drama with an emphasis on the human face as one assassin steps out of the shadows to bathe in some momentary sunshine.

• «War for the Planet of the Apes,» directed by Matt Reeves, which expands the science - fiction franchise to an emotionally resonant war drama, as the reclusive ape leader Caesar (Andy Serkis) faces off against an enigmatic human colonel (Woody Harrelson).

The fact that he can combine so much politically - driven storytelling into this human drama without ever coming across as preachy is just brilliant.

In Chloé Zhao's resoundingly human film The Rider, the narrative is framed as both documentary and drama focused on 20 - year - old rising rodeo star Brady Blackburn (played by Brady Jandreau) as he undergoes a crisis of identity.

From creator J. H. Wyman (Fringe) and J.J. Abrams» Bad Robot Productions, Almost Human is a cop drama set in the not - so - distant future, where police officers are partnered with human - like androids known as syntheHuman is a cop drama set in the not - so - distant future, where police officers are partnered with human - like androids known as synthehuman - like androids known as synthetics.

As our protagonist battles with issues like suicide, mental illness and abuse, there is a certain endearing depth here, which takes this story from teen drama to human drama.

«Dead Poets Society» (1989) showed what Robin Williams could do with a human - interest drama, while Weir was able to add punch (earning a nomination as screenwriter) to mismatched lovers Gerard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell in «Green Card.»

Inspired by the true - life events confronting Abraham Lincoln and his monumental moral and political challenge to amend the United States Constitution to permanently abolish slavery, and based in part on the book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama that has been hailed as one of the best film of the year.

«GIRL ON THE BRIDGE»: A circus knife thrower (Daniel Auteuil) discovers a young woman (Vanessa Paradise) about to leap to her death in the Seine and hires her as the human target in his act in this romantic drama.

Most importantly, Sam Mendes in the director's chair brings a love and understanding of the Bond template, and the skills to deliver both top notch action sequences as well as realistic human drama.

A wannabe - Sturm und Drang relationship drama between characters barely recognisable as human, The Room became a cult phenomenon for obvious reasons, because there's no possible doubt in the matter: it's obliviously terrible in ways just about anyone could see, save for its notorious creator, who poured $ 6 million of his own mysteriously - gotten savings into the project.

It plays more for humor, as well as for the human drama, but it never manages to step out of the shadow of its predecessor to distinguish itself as anything other than a retread.

As you can see, this handheld adventure boasts an active - time battle system, «engaging human drama,» and a cool upgrade system (Alchemy is a big part of the game, it seems), and there even appears to be some strategy.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) is one of Loach's rare forays into historical drama: along with Jimmy's Hall (2014), it's a human portrait of Irish radical politics, with a starring role for Cillian «briefly not being a psycho» Murphy as yet another classic Loachian character, the loyal, principled (and doomed) Irish Republican Damien O'Donovan.

Based on Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, Elegy is a smart, character - driven drama that avoids the traps that other films of this nature (such as the last Philip Roth adaptation, The Human Stain) frequently fall into.

For as conventional and safe as Eastwood plays the human drama, however, the movie's gripping reenactment of the crash is a wonderfully staged piece of filmmaking that makes it all worth it.

Though not as refined or focused as Star Wars and its kin, the film aspires to a similar kind of tone, aiming to be a human drama that happens to be set in outer space where things are different.

Many may wish to give the film a spot in their collections too, whether if it's as one of the 1980s» biggest blockbusters, as one of the Walt Disney Company's earliest and most successful Touchstone films, or more likely, as an amusing human drama which provides a unique and compelling take on a cinematically well - tread period of history.