Sentences with phrase «leading hero who»

With impeccable costuming, starry eyed romantic leads and a wholesome and earnest leading hero who would sooner jump onto a grenade, diminutive stature of not, to save his fellow soldiers than allow it to detonate.

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We had overtimes, dramatic endings, blown leads, unforeseen heroes, the end of epic championship droughts, and some of the biggest comebacks in sports history featuring athletes who will go down as some of the greatest ever.

REST is now 32 years old, and is still led by its co-founder Tekloine, who is considered a hero in these parts; a man for the people.

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) shot Communist heroes, including Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a Marshal of the Soviet Union and commander in chief of the Red Army (1925 — 1928) and Béla Kun, a Hungarian revolutionary who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, as well as the majority of Lenin's Politburo.

After the game, CBS Sports caught up with the night's hero, Ben Richardson, who led all scorers with 23 points, and stablemate Clayton Custer, who was this year's Missouri Valley Player of the Year.

There's the Westbrook who is the hero of Oklahoma City; the one who signed an extension and chose to lead the team when all reason said that he should leave.

The movement away from heroes and into the hinterlands is led by an FCA vice-president, Julian Dyke, who is the single most impressive individual in Sportianity.

Really, it couldn't have been any other way: Of course the unlikeliest World Series champs in recent memory would be led by a kid who grew up a 45 - minute drive from Busch Stadium, quit baseball for a year after graduating from high school because he was burned out, and, after the Padres drafted him in the ninth round in 2006, was traded to his hometown team the next year for a childhood hero, Jim Edmonds.

United stepped up the pressure five minutes before half - time and it paid off as Memphis collected a great pass in the 41st minute from Blind, who had moved to the left back position, and the former PSV hero danced into the penalty area then placed a low left - footed shot past the keeper to give the visitors a deserved lead.

Well, you may know that leading up to Father's Day we're honoring some everyday heroes, and I have to tell you about one named James Maina, who might just have a rougher commute than me.

The hero of the show, Optimus Prime, leader of the good Transformers who call themselves the Autobots, engenders some ideal father figure traits — integrity, patience, dignity, intelligence and even valuable positive discipline traits kindness and firmness when it came to the Autobots he led.

During the First World War, some of the leading Progressive writers began to use the word liberalism as a substitute for progressivism, which had become tarnished by its association with their fallen hero, Theodore Roosevelt, who had run and lost on a Progressive third party ticket.

In response, Trump hit back at a man widely seen as an American hero who was beaten while leading the Alabama civil rights march known as «Bloody Sunday».

Alice Cancel, the leading candidate to replace former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who lost his seat due to a corruption scandal, called him a «hero» for lavishing pork on his Lower East Side district.

I hope you will find time to visit the road in honour of the man who led the NNDP, the first political party in Nigeria, our great hero, Sir Herbert Macaulay and behold the statue in his honour, standing proudly where he once stood to campaign.

The governor who led others to lay wreaths in honour of the country's war heroes said, «It is pertinent to remember gallant solders that have put down their lives to sustain the unity of our dear country.

The romantic lead isn't Mark Watney (Matt Damon), the intrepid astronaut hero who gets stranded on Mars after a NASA mission goes awry.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.

Few popular, mainstream actors have had as erratic a career as John Cusack, who has gone from darkly sardonic teen icon to romantic comedy leading man to action hero to whatever Martian Child was.

Synopsis: Starring an extraordinary NZ cast; Cliff Curtis (Whale Rider and Boy), James Rolleston (Boy) and Kirk Torrance (Outrageous Fortune) The Dark Horse is an inspiring true story based on the life of a charismatic, brilliant but little - known New Zealand Hero and Chess champion - Genesis Potini (Gen)... An emotionally - charged, inspiring drama about a man who searches for the courage to lead, despite his own adversities - finding purpose and hope in passing on his gift to children in his community.

What we have left in Godard Mon Amour, after the laughs dry up, is a thin sketch of a filmmaker who inspired a hero worship in his young bride that dissolved in squabbling, as had Godard's first marriage to another of his leading ladies, actress Anna Karina.

When the opportunity presents itself, our hero reveals that he's really a federal agent, assigned to clean up the local criminal element, led by stagecoach robber Warner Richmond (who delivers the film's best performance).

All of the lead actors were exactly what was needed: Chris Pine, soft on the eyes, action hero, an average Joe in for more than he bargained for, but a soldier first and foremost; Keira Knightley, the pretty innocent who tags along, and then is

New «Factions» are visited, with Octavia Spencer's Joanna controlling her temper in leading the tolerant sweethearts of «Amity,» who briefly shelter our heroes.

Rickman leads the way as a reluctant hero who saves the day for his son.

Both Darkest Hour and Dunkirk celebrate the modern world's most beloved hero, Winston Churchill, who led the resistance against Hitler after he brought Europe to its knees.

The film begins with an old - timer cowboy (Sam Elliott) who narrates the film, establishing the setting (LA during the gulf war) before leading us to the hero, Jeff Lebowski (Bridges), better known as «the Dude.»

Fire Emblem Warriors features heroes from Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon, Awakening and Fates, along with a few original characters who lead the game's plot.

So low that the sole white leading character in the movie, the CIA operative Everett Ross (Martin Freeman), gets to be a hero who helps save Wakanda.

They're led by a Hero character who can be leveled up in various ways and be swapped out for other Heroes who each have their own unique abilities.

Chris Hemsworth is fantastic as the lead hero (it takes a special kind of man to pull off a cape and metal breastplates), even washing his topless body for the ladies with irresistable charisma, but it's Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgard who give Thor's universe its character.

Welsh actor Luke Evans stars as Vlad III Tepes, a prince of the ancient central European kingdom of Wallachia who becomes a hero when he leads the fight against the Ottoman Turks.

He's our romantic lead, our hero boy who's from New York and moves to this small town where his aunt lives.She's a funny colorful personality and we meet at one point during the film.

The heroes within all of those films were a group of ghost hunting demonologists led by psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye, «Ouija») and accompanied by tech specialists Specs (Whannell, «The Bye Bye Man») and Tucker (Angus Sampson, «Mad Max: Fury Road») who managed to bring the right spirits back and send the evil spirits away from the Lambert family on more than one occasion.

I like the idea that hero Ben (Tony Todd, filling in for Jones) is given to fits of rage and irrationality, leading, in this iteration, to his death — and I like, too, the complexity allowed stock human bogey Cooper (Tom Towles), who is after all only defending his daughter at the end.

Patel is excellent in the lead role of the slightly bemused hero who can't quite believe he knows the answers but somehow does.

The rival gang of villains mirrors the heroes in appearance, as one of the good guys helpful points out, and is led by the shady Shaw (Luke Evans), who wants to steal a computer chip worth billions from the government and / or quasi-governmental entity.

It's appropriate that the two would clash in Avengers: Infinity War as Thanos first debuted as an Iron Man enemy, way back in Jim Starlin and Mike Friedrich's Iron Man # 55 and as the hero who kicked off the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, it's only fitting that Iron Man lead the charge against Thanos.

Simultaneously, he uses his actors either imagistically or metatextually: the three leads embody their respective roles — hero, girlfriend, sidekick — almost deliberately as archetypes, while Fishburne trades on the gravitas of his past performances to offer a clear - eyed, authoritative counterpart who, perhaps not unlike Morpheus in «The Matrix,» challenges their naive ideas about the world around them.

Cruise is STILL a solid lead actor when it comes to playing action heroes and he has fun here playing against time as someone who's originally a bloody coward.

It's been way too long since there's been a «Jurassic Park» movie, and the franchise seems to be in extremely capable hands led by star Chris Pratt, who's proving to be our new favorite action hero.

«SuperMansion» Scheduled to Premiere Fall 2015 Original Stop - Motion Animated Comedy Series, 13 episodes Emmy - Award winner Bryan Cranston («Breaking Bad») voices the character of Titanium Rex, who leads a «seen - better - days» group of super heroes, «The League of Freedom,» in their increasingly difficult struggle to remain relevant in today's world.

A substitute teacher emerges as the unlikely hero who must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives against them.

As stated before, it doesn't appear that Scott is as interested in the social commentary, as he depicts both sides as heroes, although the villains of the film, the Templars, are the ones with the most religious zealotry, leading them to believe that the path to Heaven is opened by those who kill the infidels.

Leading up to the anticipated release, the hype machine is in full swing with seven new character posters featuring Martin Freeman as our title hero along with Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage, the return of Orlando Bloom, and the introduction of Luke Evans, Lee Pace (who appeared briefly in the first film) and Evangeline Lily.

Casting the real - life heroes in the three lead roles in The 15:17 to Paris is no doubt an inspired move by Eastwood, who clearly saw something special in Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler than any name actor who auditioned for any of the three roles.

Starring Taraji P. Henson (who is terrific in the lead role), the most disappointing part of it is that the film didn't do well enough to get Henson a follow - up, as I really like her as an action hero.

As one of the popular leading roles in this massive production of Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Stephen Strange, the Master of the Mystic Arts who is a sworn guardian of Time Stone has to protect this crucial piece of the universe while teaming up with the Earth's mightiest super heroes and battle against the cunning warlord to save the world from the most dangerous threat ever.

The production features endearing performances by leads Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton who generate a quiet, yet convincing screen chemistry portraying Mildred and Richard as modest working - class heroes.

Perhaps that's because the hero is an unscrupulous valet (Robert Sheehan) who plans to rob a Maserati owner (David Tennant), except that after he breaks into the home, he discovers that a woman (Kerry Condon) is being held hostage, leading to a cat - and - mouse showdown.