Sentences with phrase «in extraordinary»

For all of their amazing innovation, the explosion of edTech startups has also resulted in extraordinary fragmentation; a symptom of an unstable marketplace of soon - to - be-acquired apps with varied user authentications, redundant features, locked - down content, and worrisome privacy policies around student (and instructor) data.

If you work with children in any capacity, you'll find it rewarding to lead them to the online resources that will empower them in these extraordinary ways.

We live in an extraordinary interconnected, interdependent world, and do people understand that?

They should have the chance to visit, experience and participate in extraordinary work, and be able to explore, understand and review the experiences they've had.

I have spoken often about how Union City schools provided for me a stream of high expectations during a time of transition from adolescent to young man, from a single, national, ethnic, and language identity to one far more complex and inclusive of those who now enlarged my experience in extraordinary and new ways.

In an extraordinary closing speech, Majority Leader Gordon Fox (who would go on to become Speaker) applauded the mayors» political courage:

Regarding race and the equal protection clause, Scalia's combination of text and tradition culminates in a simple rule: no governmental use of racial classifications except in extraordinary circumstances.

This is so despite the fact that it is foreseeable that participation in these games, even when carefully organised and supervised, can lead to serious injury and, in extraordinary cases, even death.

«Unlocking Leadership Potential: Overcoming Immunities to Change» (with Lisa Lahey) in Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development., (2010)

Still, the most impressive performance comes from Craig, in his extraordinary deviation from the debonair James Bond.

He has played opposite: Steve Carell in Dinner for Schmucks, Zach Galifianakis in The Campaign, Harrison Ford in Extraordinary Measures, Tom Hanks in Mike Nichols» Charlie Wilson's War, Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman in Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Jack Black in Michel Gondry's Be Kind, Rewind, Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty and Clint Eastwood in Bloodwork.

Aaron Paul possesses an innate everyman quality that lends itself well to Zack Whedon's Come and Find Me, which is essentially a 21st - century update of the Hitchcockian framework of an ordinary individual caught up in extraordinary circumstances.

Dignam's screenplay doesn't illuminate anything else about these people, despite the movie's big, closing speech being on the subject of seeing refugees as ordinary people, who happen to find themselves in extraordinary circumstances.

Alex Moreland chats with writer Cavan Scott about Pacific Rim: Aftermath, his interest in ordinary people in extraordinary worlds, and more... So, how did you first come to be involved with the Pacific Rim: Aftermath comics?

Moreover, it refers to Warren Beatty at this point in an extraordinary career that began in the New American Cinema and that wave of Method actors filling in the spaces left behind by the Golden Age.

Following the story of an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances The BFG begins at night.

Remedy has put in an extraordinary level of care and effort as seen in their past franchises Alan Wake and Max Payne, and the masterful way they weave all of these elements together to benefit their mystery - driven, well - written time - bending script is what makes Quantum Break so fun to play and experience — even if the third - person shooter sequences are the most average part of the game.

They don't have the luxury of losing the moment and have to put themselves out there in extraordinary ways to keep their position in the race.

The film stars Elisabeth Olsen in an extraordinary, nuanced performance as Martha, who, after escaping from a sinister cult, attempts to re-assimilate herself into contemporary society by staying with her estranged older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and her fiancé Ted (Hugh Dancy) at their lake house in New England, but Martha begins to worry that members of the abusive sect she managed to run away from are plotting to bring her back to their corrupt commune.

A: I love putting characters in extraordinary situations and seeing how they survive, whether it's pinning Jason Bourne down or pitting Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie against each other [in «Mr. and Mrs. Smith»].

This Star Wars spin - off takes the franchise in an uncharted, darker direction, and it does it in an extraordinary manner.

Which is perhaps why their «Godzilla» — an initially character - rich movie about relatable ordinary humans in extraordinary circumstances — is ultimately so frustrating as the picture inadvertently turns its back on those core principles.

But over time, she softens, she starts to develop her humanity — most notably in an extraordinary scene where she picks up a deformed man — and Johansson's subtly expressive features beautifully put this across as she finds new curiosity, new fears, and new despair in the human world.

This is just one example of many in his extraordinary career, which led to him becoming a full - fledged production designer.

Winner of 2015 IFTA Best Actress category, Deirdre O'Kane takes the lead in the extraordinary and inspirational true story of one woman's dream that changed a million lives.

In an extraordinary year in which he started off as Stalin and then became Timon, he is now quintessence of camp with his corn - yellow quiff and a body that coils around itself like a corkscrew.

You kept following this trail, and it was this massive journey of people dying and wanting to live, and just wanting to live in extraordinary, inhospitable places, and then understanding what it is to want to live.

We all had our things to learn — trapeze, high - wire, tango, singing, all in a fantasy light and world — looking for love in a Vegas setting, and finding, even in an extraordinary frame, how simple and basic all our needs are.

From the start to the finish, the 71st Cannes was dominated by protest and petition for gender equality, culminating in the extraordinary sight at the festival's closing ceremony Saturday of Italian filmmaker and Harvey Weinstein accuser Asia Argento vowing justice for sexual predators in the film industry.

Chuck Norris was in extraordinary pain.

Interviews with his adoring pupils are insightful and heartening, but nothing compares to the magic of Seymour recalling pivotal moments in his extraordinary life journey.

Wiley Wiggins plays the freshman kid who makes it to the big time party, and Matthew McConaughey appears in an extraordinary role as an older boy who still hangs out with high school kids in an effort to stave off his own mortality.

She is excellent again, as she always has been in her extraordinary and unsung career.

There are no weak links in this extraordinary ensemble.

Following the plight of adolescent Chanda (Khomotso Manyaka, in an extraordinary first performance) as she remains a pillar of strength whilst surrounded by her sickly mother (Lerato Mvelase, Umkhungo) and step - father (Aubrey Poolo), scorned best friend (Keaobaka Makanyane) and judgemental neighbour (Lerato Mvelase, Hotel Rwanda), the film tells a tale of the strength of one determined teen that has an impact upon the outlook of an entire community.

In an extraordinary performance, John Hawkes takes us inside the mind of a disabled man attempting to lose his virginity.

In the extraordinary and thrilling true story, the 31 - year - old American Horror Story actor plays one of four friends living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history.

She literally throws her daughter out of the house, but Paula finds her way back in, then — in an extraordinary bit of physical farce — has to clamp her leg round the bannister to avoid being kicked out again.

John McClane has always been an ordinary guy stuck in extraordinary circumstances, yet in this movie, he's almost to the level of a superhero, sensing a keen understanding of his environment and being able to do physically improbable things — even when seriously injured.

They work and play in no extraordinary way, but they are relatively content while still hoping for more.

Bilbo Baggins is thrust out of his comfort zone, and must come up with the goods in extraordinary circumstances.

Soon, Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) will lead a band of slaves against their captors, in the middle of a lightning storm, in the extraordinary first 10 minutes of Steven Spielberg's new film, Amistad.

Director Clint Eastwood, who managed to do something similar with relative success in 2016's «Sully,» tries again to mine compelling drama from the heroism of ordinary Americans in extraordinary (and fleeting) circumstances with his latest drama, «The 15:17 to Paris.»

The performances here are effective because the actors are playing ordinary people trapped in an extraordinary scenario (The film is based on a true story).

Throw in the extraordinary decency and generosity of the directorial presence (one is tempted to invoke Renoir) and we have quite a bit more than that.

His art found its apex in an extraordinary 1993, during which the director released two masterpieces: the highest - grossing Hollywood roller coaster up to that point (Jurassic Park) and a morally complex Oscar - winning triumph (Schindler's List).

Though this execution could verge toward the excessively operatic, as in the heavy - handed De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940), these managerial efforts largely paid off, with a variety of fine performances across the generic and national spectrum: a spirited Lien Deyers in the tongue - in - cheek The Company's in Love; Magda Schneider, who also starred in Ophuls» Love Story (Une histoire d'amour, 1933), as the tragically morose Christine in Liebelei, her final despair registered in an extraordinary extended close - up; and acting luminaries James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan, searing in Caught's three - way confrontations.

Jarecki intertwines the experiences of ordinary people living in extraordinary times, including a young army recruit named William Solomon; Wilton Sekzer, an ex-cop from New York City, who lost his son on September 11; and Karen Kwiatkowski, an ex-pentagon official who chose to leave her career after twenty years because «I thought I was seeing a hijack of our defence policy.»

It's not the first time you'll watch an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, but it's always a solid basis for a script.

And Benno Furmann, excellent in the mountaineering drama «North Face,» is superb as the courageous Mundek Margulies — who, in an extraordinary act, actually breaks into a concentration camp, just to make sure someone's relative is still alive.