Sentences with phrase «impenetrable characters»

The spectacle is fiercely compelling — the human equivalent of an irresistible object meeting an immovable force — but both the immovable force and irresistible object are also impenetrable characters.

Not exact matches

However, modern science has shown us that the table is not finally understood as a single entity but rather as a society of entities exceedingly different in character from the smooth, hard, passive, still, impenetrable surface we seem to experience.

«Many scholars,» Brown insists through the voice of one of his characters, «claim that the early Church literally stole Jesus from His original followers, hijacking His human message, shrouding it in an impenetrable cloak of divinity, and using it to expand their own power.»

Because it was physically isolated for so long, due to impenetrable jungles and forests on its southern border, and also because it's just so far from other parts of Mexico, the area has remained Mayan in character since that time.

«Me, Myself & Irene» is a labored and sour comedy that rouses itself to create real humor, and then settles back glumly into an impenetrable plot and characters who keep repeating the same schtick, hoping maybe this time it will work.

The sometimes impenetrable Yorkshire accents in the English drama «God's Own Country» are still less thick than its central character, Johnny Saxby.

A Most Wanted Man, like such other le Carré adaptations as The Tailor of Panama and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, has been hard - wired with an impenetrable narrative that holds the viewer at arms length from start to finish, with the convoluted, confusing atmosphere compounded by a total absence of interesting or sympathetic characters.

It could easily have descended into impenetrable coldness, but the women characters keep the film moving.

The book is one huge monologue — Lena's emotional state would have been impenetrable if there weren't other characters around to show her the extremes of how she can react to Area X.

The impenetrable complexity of Ichikawa's demure heroines is a huge part of their appeal as characters.

Instead of the innocent girl of Winter's Bone, or the determined «hunter» in Hunger Games, we see a darker, far more passionate character — a vulnerable edgy, sarcastic and insecure spirit, whose external shell seems impenetrable, but harbors fine cracks.

Wes Anderson's films are always lauded (or decried) for their impenetrable, intricate doll - house nature, in which ornate settings and whimsical characters are given to us with a deadpan sense of comic timing.

The characters are vivid without being eccentric, Peter Boyle is as forthright as he is impenetrable as a bartender with his fingers in plenty of schemes and Mitchum is at his best as a tired professional still hustling because it's all he knows.

The plot's no great shakes, but Stevens turns in a captivating performance as the intriguingly impenetrable title character, and the film's pacing and dark sense of humor are just so damn great.

I enjoyed this Crawford, confident, beautiful, not hard and impenetrable as her characters in her later career.

Eliza Dushku is just incredibly hot regardless, and she essays an interesting character in Jessie: a mostly impenetrable young woman whom seems strong and designed specifically to be a horror movie heroine, yet her friends» devotion to her and the reason they're all out in the woods sets up an cool dichotomy.

Newcomers may find aspects outdated and impenetrable, but those who can work past these will find a unique and enjoyable story full of memorable, loveable characters that is well worth the time to experience.

««but for gods» sakes don't make it an impenetrable tangle of micromanagement just to put some equipment on my freaking characters.»

Change the storylines around, change the gameplay around, but for gods» sakes don't make it an impenetrable tangle of micromanagement just to put some equipment on my freaking characters.

Also, players need to build their own impenetrable forts by placing their own characters as well as traps such as snake statues which breathes deadly fire to the invaders.

Death's character creation is also quite good, hiding him behind an impenetrable bone mask, making him a foreboding force inspiring fear in anyone who dares face him.

The story, set in the two warring states of sci - fi city Coccoon and the wildlands of Gran Pulse, follows a mostly irritating group of characters who are cursed by gods known as the Fal» cie into fulfilling their destiny — which I think, feeling my way through the impenetrable terminology, is saving the world.