Sentences with phrase «into high drama»

It's all working inexorably toward the moment when Snowden finally chooses to reveal to the world the full extent of the NSA's massive overreach, and Stone does his best to turn what is essentially a data dump into high drama.

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In a bit of high - stakes drama that had health reporters glued to soundless C - SPAN 2 streaming of lawmakers standing around talking well into early Friday morning, three Republican Senators — including Arizona's John McCain — put the final stake through the latest iteration of Obamacare repeal.

We saw something similar as the corrections of the English translations of the Mass were adopted over a year ago, when bringing the American Church into prayerful unity with the rest of the Catholic world (where «and with your spirit» had never been dropped) was an occasion for high drama and sad, heavy sighs among American Catholics in habitual tension with Rome.

In a week of new records and high drama Michael Phelps went deep into his own head to push his body into uncharted waters

The 1970s was when Formula 1 really moved into a higher gear in terms of the speeds, technology and drama.

Experience comes into play not just in terms of what happens on the court, but in being familiar with the other gyms in the league, with how to handle a two - hour bus ride, with the best way to keep up on homework, with how to set the inevitable high school drama aside when it's time to play.

He is due back in Bolivia in the next few days, seemingly willing to step into all the high drama at high altitude.

In the 78th minute, after Marciano had made saves from Celtic substitute Dembele and Sinclair, there was more drama when Shaw, on for Bartley, turned and fired high past Gordon from 12 yards after Stevenson's cut - back had been deflected into his path.

Bill Hammond: «Despite the high drama and heavy lawyering that went into it, the Cuomo - de Blasio pact on capital funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority solves nothing that really mattered.»

Flirting, wooing, getting into bed — the basic vocab of romance is strangely suited to political drama in which passions run high and the stakes are even higher.

Stewart - Cousins, looking to become the Senate's first black female majority leader, defended Gianaris and said she will not be bullied into making a change no other leader is being asked to as part of «some high school drama.»

Despite the high drama and heavy lawyering that went into it, the Cuomo - de Blasio pact on capital funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority solves nothing that really mattered.

But with billions of dollars at stake, elite university combatants, and high - profile scientists fighting over inventorship, the CRISPR battle has turned into a drama - filled epic, and this hearing was the first time lawyers for the University of California (UC) public faced down their opponents representing the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I did not have high expectations when I first watched Manhattan Love Story and I usually don't get into shows that are more comedies than dramas, but I am really liking this one.

The full length A-line skirt flows into a beautiful, elegant train, while the high front slit adds a sense of modern drama to the otherwise traditional skirt.

Not into drama or high school games, just looking for some extra fun is all.

When a beautiful TV producer swaps lives with a gorgeous high - class escort for a news story, they both take a wild trip into an alternate lifestyle as high stakes drama and steamy sex hit the 11 o'clock news.

This disappointing half - hour drama series is based on Stephanie Danler's novel about a young woman whose new job pulls her in into the chaotic and debauched world of high - end dining in New York City.

A neophyte «hacker» becomes the target of the FBI after he unknowingly taps into a high - tech embezzling scheme which could cause a horrific environmental disaster in this suspenseful drama.

The film reaches a point of high drama, for sure, but when Edith Piaf's voice rises over the final minutes, the gothic climax curls into a wicked grin.

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

Quinn Shephard's Blame is an admirable debut feature, utilizing the framework of The Crucible to delve into themes of adolescent angst, social politics, and high school drama.

With «Drive», director Nicolas Winding Refn mixes high art, bloody violence and pulpy crime drama into a high - octane thriller punctuated by some excellent performances.

Suddenly, the minimalist love / character drama transforms into a high octane action film, replete with gruesome murder and intense action.

THE OFFICE star ELLIE KEMPER loves tuning into MAD MEN - because the TV show's leading man JON HAMM was her high school drama teacher.After college,...

What starts out as a high flying comedy soon turns into unexpected drama about alcoholism.

A strong sense of style, an observant screenplay, and the sort of performances that elevate standard fare into the realm of memorable buoy the picture over many of its rough patches and redundancies, but Lin needs to squeeze out his narrative with greater urgency and balance: long periods of high school drama and exposition separated by badly justified epiphanies undermine the picture's coherence and flow.

While all of the other movies were trying to cram tons of high - energy action sequences and cool one - liners into just 30 seconds, the first trailer for Matthew Vaughn's X-Men prequel takes its time establishing a tone and a time period, putting drama and characters above flashy visual effects.

Set over an eventful but not extraordinary senior year of high school in Sacramento («the Midwest of California,» as one character calls it), Lady Bird follows Lady Bird through rites of passage: getting into and then out of the drama club; tiptoeing into first romance; agonizing about college; growing apart from her best friend (Beanie Feldstein); fighting with her mother; and trying to hide her family's limited income.

The debut episode, which exploded into Premiere Week with a 6.0 / 18 rating among Adults 18 - 49, outperformed «The Blacklist» and «Scorpion» and delivered FOX's highest - rated fall drama debut in 14 years.

Heathcote recurs as Nicole Dormer in Amazon's popular original drama series The Man In The High Castle, which is going into its third season.

This week, the Cooler gang reviews two high profile social drama entries into the 2017 Emmy race: American Crime Season 3 and Shots Fired.

«While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, VIRUNGA stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.

Between his recent foray into the realm of action in (the underrated) Nerve and his upcoming performance as Greg Sestero in his brother's upcoming Tommy Wiseau - focused film, The Disaster Artist, he may simply have a hard time turning off his knack for high drama and going back to comedy.

Adams will next go into production on HBO?s high - profile drama series Sharp Objects, based on Gillian Flynn?s New York Times best - selling book in which she will star and executive produce.

In high school we got a pretty hot drama teacher, so then I was very into drama.

That approach eventually filtered into television, with high - school dramas like Winnie Holzman's My So - Called Life becoming the standard - bearer for emotionally mature teen storytelling.

Kevin Costner sees the potential in a group of young high school athletes and transforms them into a championship cross-country team in the inspiring sports drama, «McFarland, USA,» directed by Niki Caro based on the 1987 true story.

Kevin Costner sees the potential in a group of young high school athletes and transforms them into a championship cross-country team in the inspiring sports drama, «McFarland, USA,» directed by Niki Caro based on the 1987 t...

Another criticism comes from Jackson's apparent attempt to turn The Hobbit - essentially a light children's tale — into the operatic high drama of Rings.

While it has an activist purpose in common with many social issue documentaries of its ilk, «Virunga» stands out by constantly folding its unsettling content into an intimate drama that doesn't take the high risk scenario for granted.

On the menu with Guardians 2: The Dinner (a drama / mystery starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, and Rebecca Hall); Risk (documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange); My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (a strange animated comedy for adults); Citizen Jane: Battle Cry for the City (a documentary about urban activist Jane Jacobs); Buster's Mal Heart (some sort of drama / thriller); and Angkor Awakens (a documentary about how the past informs present - day Cambodia).

Since The Last Detail, Ponicsan has written a dozen more novels, one of which he adapted into a screenplay (Cinderella Liberty); meanwhile, his screenwriting credits branch out from military dramas into coming - of - age stories (Vision Quest), high - school dramas (School Ties, co-written by Dick Wolf), and political thrillers (Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts).

Requiem sets its stall firmly in supernatural territory; there's little comedy, and the script falls into exposition too easily to compete with high - end drama.

«Recovery Road» (ABC Family): Teenage drinking has serious consequences on ABC Family's latest drama, which features a high school student who is forced into rehab or risk expulsion.

Stakes are too high and at every conceivable turn, mutating something that could have been an intense relationship drama with considerable dramatic potency into an affected disarray of flailing tonal shifts.

The British filmmaker, whose credits also include «Shame» and «Hunger,» is developing an untitled drama for HBO that centers on the experience of a young African American man, whose past may not be what it seems, and his initiation into New York high society, the network confirmed to Show Tracker.

On the film side, the Golden Globes kicked this year's awards season into higher gear by anointing Three Billboards as best picture drama, while also awarding its stars Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell with honors.

Kids have always divided into cliques and subjected the nonconforming to verbal and physical abuse; only recently, it seemed, had the social drama of high school resulted in mass casualties.

Guest blogger Raleigh Werberger, a high school history and humanities teacher, shares a lesson plan for incorporating classical Greek drama into a PBL unit and folding kinesthetic learning into a study of history and language.