Sentences with phrase «in on a single character»

That makes it different from both Gloria and A Fantastic Woman, in which Lelio relentlessly hones in on a single character and her emotional truth.

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These rocks are similar in age and character to the Central Rand Group of the Witwatersrand Basin, Republic of South Africa, the single largest gold region on Earth.

Instead of following a single character or group of characters through all three books, the first two feature Professor Elwin Ransom on his adventures to two different planets in our solar system.

It was originally a term of Roman and Civil law to express the character of a contract which in a single matter involved several obligations on the part of the debtors, with corresponding rights to the creditors....

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

The comedian, who famously portrayed the enigmatic pop star in a 2004 episode of The Chappelle Show appears, in character, on the cover art for the single.

He accused the media of «fake diversity,» claiming that if they put a black person on screen or have a single gay character in a drama then producers regard that as sufficient to satisfy diversity requirements.

It seems as though a relatable character on the show will be sad and single for two episodes, then downloads an app, swipes a few times, and by the next episode, she's in a relationship and madly in love.

This feature lets users give feedback on singles they've either interacted with on the app, or met for a date, in order to give users more insight into the person's true character.

More than just a dating site, we find compatible successful singles from France looking for a online Paris Eustace Geller is a fictional character on the television series Gilmore Girls and its spin - off A Year in the Life, played by Liza Weil.

Most singles are swiping — looking at people's profile pictures to determine, in about a nanosecond, whether they would like to message them, meet them It's so notoriously difficult to get into the League, the Harvard of dating apps, that fictional characters complain about it on television.

Portrayal title character in the true crime rabbit hole and we live happily ever after with a senior single on older.

If your preference is single - player or co-op, Dog Days» lack of personality (both in the characters and on the battlefield) results in one of the blandest shooters out there.

After the bug fixes with a patch this sequel exceeds the original in every aspect.Better graphics, gamplay and story along with 2 completely different playable protaganists give Dishonered 2 more replay value then almost every triple A title this year.And this time around I did nt feel pushed to play the game in any specific way.I felt that playing stealthily was alot more rewarding then the first entry but i never felt that i was playing wrong or was being punished when i played a full on assault playthrough.Also there are several ending for every playstyle for both characters which really drive you toward a second, third or even forth playthrough and in all the chaos or silence of each level, even on my forth run, I reimagined every situation and experienced different outcomes every single time.Dishonored 2 also contains some of the best level design I have ever seen with the likes of the amazing and masterfully thought out Clockwork Mansion level being among my all time favorites.Dishonored 2 truly is a masterpiece in almost every ascpect!!!

Its narrow timeframe and juddering shootout finale notwithstanding, in fact, «' 71» calls no film to mind so much as Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama «The Pianist» in its dramatic defamiliarization of urban space, and its tight focus on a single character's sensory experience of his surroundings amid broader conflict.

It's only fallen out of favour recently because of a glitch: if you lose your portal into wherever you were in the infinitely deep dungeon (the Shadow Vault), you have to start it all over again, it seems (at which point you might as well make a new character...) Single player only; roll on Torchlight 2 (which will have more than 3 classes, and co-op!)

All that being said, it's on this list for completeness» sake, as DICE has said that there will be a segment in the single - player campaign involving a playable female character.

Divekick is a clever proof of concept for a fighting game reduction, and while that concept never quite turns into a fighting game great, it remains a precise and fast - paced alternative in a genre where it can often take hours just to get a grip on a single character.

Based on Reza's play God of Carnage, this claustrophobic film features only four characters in a single New York apartment.

There's hardly a single wasted frame in this tightly - paced siege film, turning the screw on its characters (and the audience itself) with some nail - biting tension that doesn't let up.

We've seen it unfold on screen in many varieties, whether it's characters in the field of sport, music, film or many others, but they all share that single, universal center of someone who is desperate to reach a level of skill so prominent that their name is remembered as one of the best there ever was.

There are scenes driven on quiet, subtle changes in a single character's expression or the way one characters ends a discussion before it begins, and they have more resonance silent than had they contained dialogue.

These are the only films among his 17 features and TV dramas in which Leigh focuses the narrative on a single character.

In this fictionalization, Bening is single, which is a variation on the married but secretly gay life his father (and Plummer's character) led.

Dar's downfall — and perhaps Homeland's — is in the way «Sock Puppets» sacrifices character development for the sake of scoring a few more points in that game, insisting on the accuracy of a single viewpoint instead of the ambiguity of differently motivated agents.

Other cast members include two government officials — who seem to be spiritual kin to the title characters in Men in Black — looking for Jesse and a level - headed single mom who helps Jesse out at the church and wears the most realistic khakis I've ever seen on television.

His mother is Susan (Naomi Watts, far too good here as a character who's little more than a pawn in the plot), who's single and raising Henry and a younger son Peter (Jacob Tremblay) on her own.

You guys have an unusual and curious YouTube background where aside from the skits on Good Neighbor, you started doing character work, in single or multiple takes.

In a strange move, every single on screen role has been recast so audiences will have to adjust to all new faces for the various characters.

In this bold and unique story about a single character stranded on an island, a top - notch Hanks holds the picture on his shoulders with a bravura perf.

Pick from a selection of characters equipped with super-powered arms, and use simple motion or button controls to dish out highly strategic beatdowns in select stages of the single - player campaign or even in one - on - one matches.

The same DVD sold on its own, the third disc includes a single extra in the character featurette «The Journey of Bruce Wayne.»

Other new features within the game include a wireless multi-player mode, in which up to four players can play simultaneously on each Nintendo DS connected together locally, though this can not be done on the Wii U Virtual Console version except for the single - player training; minigames to play with each character; and new additions to the story mode such as new courses, missions, and bosses.

Still, if it skimps on character depth and somewhat dawdles during its first two acts, in which a pair of taut centerpieces helps prop up dramatic filler (including a subplot involving Olivia Wilde's single mom), The Next Three Days refuses to puff up its action with message - movie sermonizing.

With light RPG elements, distinct AI programming and a focus on characters, Rockstar is consciously trying to highlight the elements of the game that support its narrative side to lay all worries of single player being neglected in favor of multiplayer to rest.

As for the plot, all the back in 2012, Anderson said it would be centred on a single hunter character in a parallel world filled with deadly monsters.

Matthew Fox is the ostensible star as Jack, the doctor who steps up as group leader in the first episode, but it quickly settles in as a dense ensemble show with characters who have vivid backstories: tough, raven - haired beauty Kate, whose fair looks hide a rough outlaw past (Evangeline Lilly), con man Sawyer (Josh Holloway) who hides his bitterness under a country - boy voice and a suspicious smile, Iraqi communications specialist and Gulf war veteran (he fought on the other side) Sayid (Naveen Andrews), steely survivalist John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who has a mystic, one might say miraculous, connection to the island, pregnant single mother - to - be Claire (Emilie de Ravin) running from a fortune - teller's prophecy, washed - up rock star and heroine addict Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), Korean couple Jin and Sun Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim and Yoon - jin Kim) with mob connections and no English skills (or do they?)

Annie surpasses the clichés from which her character is assembled — a master of self - sabotage, a single woman looking for Mr. Right, a ball of social ineptitude — and, thanks in large part to Wiig (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Annie Mumolo, who makes a brief appearance as a shaky harbinger of doom on an airplane), achieves a level of aching humanity, which helps make the results of her good intentions gone horribly awry even more comical.

What is refreshing and rewarding, as it was on A Single Man, is that Ford backs up the style with substance in the form of complex and compelling story and characters, which in this case are adapted from Austin Wright's 1993 novel Tony and Susan.

When they opt to zero in on the actions of a single character, as they often do, the grand spectacle is dropped for a fairly routine focus on run - of - the - mill heroics that predictably exist to manifest the conclusion of a painfully telegraphed arc that not even John Powell's triumphant score can lend gravitas to.

Herman: The number of times a character, theoretically knowing the stakes — i.e. the indiscriminate evaporation of all life in the known universe — makes the apocalypse that much likelier on account of... a single life that may well be extinguished anyway.

Great art it's not — but it's frisky, in charge of itself, and about as keenly felt a vision of this S&M power game we could realistically have expected to see... The film's single biggest asset is Johnson, who has worked hard with Marcel and Taylor - Johnson to perform a three - woman salvage job on the character of Anastasia.

It's perhaps a commentary on the lengths to which a teenager will go to feel some sense of normalcy in high school, but the screenplay's depiction of those concerns feels far too hokey for it to have any impact (Her dad, played by Ryan Phillippe, embarrasses her in his self - employed garbage - hoarding, and the there's not a single interaction among the teenage characters that comes across as legitimate).

Anne Hathaway's character Haru is quite a bit like her role in The Princess Diaries, from her clumsy tendencies and single mother to the private school where she doesn't fit in, where there's even a rooftop on which the students play.

Here's a fun fact not mentioned in this video: I have been playing ME3 multiplayer off and on for two and a half years, and I have yet to unlock a single Asari character.

There's a pair of back - to - back twists that alter our perspective on one of the characters, making one side of the argument look dishonest (The lie is only about a single specific; the validity of the complaint is still present) before confirming that the other is even worse (In putting forward evidence against their cause, they're not too intelligent, either, but fortunately for them, no one notices).

Had I swept in for a single day of Señorita Mielke's unit on Gabriel García Márquez's novella, Crónica de una muerte anunciada, I'd never have known how lessons on vocabulary, character analysis, and cultural context were all building toward the students» mock trial of the Vicario brothers.

Audi's focused instead on making the RS5 a dual - character car — something that can play the grand touring role of a laid - back, stylish and fast cruiser capable of crushing the European continent in a single long - haul blow, but overlaying that with switchable powertrain and chassis settings that can be configured as stiff and sharp as the driver dares.

Sometimes, it's easy to forget how significantly a single car can vary in character and competency depending on the trim level and options chosen.

Many of his characters are also emotionally constrained in their outlook on the world — each story is the narrator's own vision of the world around him or her, telling what he or she sees as through the eye of a single - lens camera.