Sentences with phrase «larger than life»

Character Writing Prompts about Big Shots - Some of the most enjoyable characters to write are those who are larger than life: the big shots.

I often make her larger than life, and she usually has a bit of a caustic tongue.

And readers want to think of authors as being grand and larger than life.

Fate plays a particularly rough game of cat and mouse with David, whose mouse's tale is notable for electric prose, ruminations about life, death and fate, and characters who are larger than life, larger than fate.

Andre the Giant, famous for his wrestling career, has always been considered larger than life, but his story fascinates well beyond the mat.

Add characters who are simultaneously larger than life, yet completely believable, and we have a winning combination.

Another good website for exploring the larger than life is the Roadside America website which includes Anniston, Alabama's World's Largest Chair, an office chair made of 10 tons of steel.

The royal characters of the Tudor era are both larger than life and real.

Muhammad Ali was larger than life, and Jonathan Eig has written the sweeping, spirited biography he deserves.

Both larger than life, got tempers on them, always had to be right.

O'Farrell's characters are interesting and complex; they are larger than life and so very real.

Outside, the typical Rolls Royce ambience abounds with a larger than life front grille and enormous front clip, the shape of this legendary car gives it away well before the nameplate.

The Dodge grille and wide stance makes this crossover feel larger than life, without sacrificing affordability.

The iQ Collection is aimed at providing drivers with a more upscale driving experience and the larger than life sunroof provides the perfect window into which you can admire the vehicle's upgraded interior appointments and fine touches like white pearl detailing on the center console, instrument binnacle and door panels while the seats are wrapped in supple leather finished with clean white piping.

Not at all surprising, the four door Maybach Coupe rendering is the result of grafting the back of the Mercedes - Benz IAA Concept from 2015 on the elongated (larger than life) 5,7 meters body of the Vision Mercedes - Maybach 6.

Our broken roads and larger than life speed breakers post challenges that can turn even short commutes into endurance challenges for these exotics.

Truck - enthusiast consumer magazine Truck Trend proclaimed the 2014 SEMA Show «larger than life» in the headline of its Show coverage.

When I got my first good look at the 2014 Highlander, the third generation of Toyota's large crossover, it looked larger than life.

A centaur, a minotaur, and a lion, all rendered in frozen water, are larger than life and staged in front of a twenty - eight - foot - tall castle wall.

This principal, in essence, can become a cult - of - personality; a larger than life figure who exemplifies a rare gift.

Even now, 151 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln looms larger than life, a man who, according to former British prime minister David Lloyd George, «was such a giant figure that he loses his nationality in death.»

The Dame is traditionally played by a man and requires an over the top dress, make up and a larger than life character.

At this point in his career he still lacks that larger than life quality that this film needed.

Other Stuff We Watched Larger Than Life The Shadow Who's Harry Crumb?

Leonardo DiCaprio has played several real - life larger than life players onscreen, but his best portrayal was recapturing his own youth, at 28 playing 18 - year - old Frank Abagnale, who conned his way through several schemes, including commercial airline pilot, doctor and lawyer.

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Some of these depictions are larger than life.

All these years later, this affectionate tribute to old Hollywood and innocent matinee westerns is just as funny, thanks to a knowing script (by Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels and Randy Newman), engaging performances (by Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short) and Landis» savvy direction, which is larger than life in all the ways that those original westerns were.

Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, and Stanley Tucci are all fantastic character actors who start to peel off the layers of these larger than life characters to make them more than simple cartoonish figures of the Capitol.

Yet, Unforgiven itself is mythical and Eastwood is larger than life, perhaps even the same size as John Wayne once was.

She's our audience surrogate, surveying the narrative's kink with her typical wild - eyed disbelief; he's a larger than life bohemian stereotype whose charm lets Schwartzman wear his crown as the king of amicable jerks more snugly than he has in his last half dozen roles.

Soon, all three are larger than life and ready to destroy a city — and Davis has to figure out how to save the day AND his best friend.

He's become one of history's «great men,» a figure who looms larger than life and whose many flaws are often shuffled to the background to preserve a more inspiring image.

Hillcoat controls the quieter, reserved scenes well richly framing the characters to simultaneously give them a larger than life presence while making them regular people caught in a crazy situation.

Do they make them larger than life?

Where most are larger than life skinheads torn right out of over-wrought stereotypes - a pair of brothers drink, fight and spit at one another - it's the alarmingly charming Gerry Conway (played brilliantly without menace by Sam Trammell) who stands out.

And Josh Gad as LeFou, enamoured sidekick to the village's resident studmuffin, Gaston (Luke Evans), is infectiously larger than life.

He's larger than life and when he's on screen you can't help but be glued to his every move.

The characters and gags are larger than life, making the events of the movie feel cinematic and exciting.

No one is given a larger than life character.

With Hollywood «s recent penchant for turning mediocre television shows into less than mediocre movies, Charlie's Angels is now larger than life on the big screen — or maybe I was just sitting too close.

There's something about Stonestreet's choices that just didn't seem to fit the larger than life Duke.

Instead of making this a standard history film where we learn about Churchill womb to tomb, Director Joe Wright does not linger on the past, or the characters that surround the man, but more on the rooms and time that this larger than life character worked in.

Everything in this latest zombie slaughter simulator is larger than life, and its own previous entries.

The roles are already larger than life.

Harding's story — a lifetime of struggle that led to the sensational moment in 1994 when her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, hired a man to break rival Nancy Kerrigan's leg ahead of the Winter Olympics — has always seemed larger than life, which might explain why Robbie thought it was a made - up story when she first encountered it.

From their first youthful introduction, to their ambiguous ending in Before Sunset, to their tumultuous disarray of emotions in Before Midnight, these characters, their essence and the basic fabric of their beings, attract me, entrance me even, because they play out like real people on a larger than life scale.

Larger than life, out on a psychological limb, The Walworth Farce needs no gimmicks to win a production place.

Also, Beatty seems to be exploring how a figure as strange, larger than life and impulsive as Hughes affects everyone in his orbit.

Imbuing a character who very easily in other hands could have been insufferable (ahem Joss Whedon) with a sense of vulnerability despite his larger than life persona.