Sentences with phrase «into fits of panic»

Asghar Farhadi begins The Salesman by thrusting both his characters and his audience into a fit of panic when the residents of a Tehran apartment building discover that their home is on the verge of collapse.

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If the disaster seems less than total to you, it is because you have failed to keep pace with the media, who have suddenly descended into one of their periodic fits of panic at the state of the economy — described in just the last 24 hours as «failing,» «dire,» «gloomy,» and «worsening,» not to mention teetering «on the edge of another downfall.»

Stewart, as we've seen in other films like Into the Wild and Panic Room, is a fine young actress, and Pattinson does fit the part of a handsome, troubled and tortured vampire suitor (even though it seems they start to run out of pale pancake makeup toward the end of the movie).

Zooming fuel prices created a climate of fear earlier in the summer, and panicked buyers all but abandoned their SUVs and pickups idling at the side of the road and ran into dealerships to get themselves a Prius, a Civic, a Corolla, a Fit, or whatever fuel sipper they could get their hands on.

Fitting it into that form factor, on a console much less powerful than what we're used to, has been the task of Panic Button Games.