Sentences with phrase «learning something about the character»

I enjoyed its quieter moments when we got a chance to learn something about its characters, and — at the start — its flashy visuals and soundtrack drew me in.

Not exact matches

It's when the Kentucky character in Re-Membering is at his spiritually lowest, wandering around the streets of San Fransisco at dawn, that he muses about how it would be great to live there (away from his wife and roots) and learn Japanese and all about Zen Buddhism, something Gary Snyder really did, after he had already written a book all about Northwest Native American mythology.

Theoretically, the movie is about her learning to make better choices; the character actually gets to accomplish something by the end, although we no way of understanding how she found the wherewithal to pull that off.

The characters are 3 dimensional, the plot subtle and surprising, and at the end of it I felt I had learned something about a culture unknown to me.

After all I was set in space with all new character we have to learn about, as well as how they meet and then have them do something heroic.

This is the start of exactly the kind of film you would expect from Sundance as each of these characters have something to teach and learn from the other, especially about life and the pursuit of happiness.

Once NASA chief Teddy Sanders (played by Jeff Daniels), a character you'll hate if you're always the last person to learn about something important, marketing chief Annie (an interesting casting choice in Kristen Wiig) and Ares missions director Vincent (Chiwetel Ejiofor) find - out that Mark is alive, they decide they must (as the poster reads) «Bring Him Home».

Occasionally we learn something decent about the flick, but most of the time the show just reiterates plot and character facts that are already known to anyone who saw the movie.

This is something we will soon learn about her, that she has a questioning character.

As the twins learn more and more about their home, their past, and their mother's character, they begin to suspect that their father, presumed dead, may be something less than deceased.

It's exceedingly clear to me that Johnson has an immense love for these characters and this mythology, and he inserts his beliefs about the franchise into the text of his film: it's important to be inspired by and learn from the past, but it's also imperative to move on and build something new.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

In our preK - 3 character building, the character lessons serve as something tangible for our young students to connect with and hold on to as they learn all about the pillars of character.

Hearing that they like it, that the characters resonate authentically, and that they've learned something — whether about autism, birds, or something else — is like having my cake, icing and ice cream, too.

Unlike most collectibles which feel like something of a chore to hunt down, Nuggets of Truth feel like they're worth your time and effort as it's pretty fascinating to learn a little about some of the characters and events you've encountered along the way.

And if it wasn't hammered home enough, within the first few minutes of playing we learn that the characters are about to celebrate the 25th anniversary of something important.

I could say something snarky like» Yer all pansies, I used to toggle binary programs into an Altair MITS on the front panel and read the output from the blinky lights»... or mention the time I learned «APL» out of curiosity (and wrote a program about 40 characters long that did about 5 pages worth of work — but they don't call it a «write only» language for nothing, the next day I couldn't read it... Yeah, that APL, the one that needs a custom keyboard with hieroglyphics on it... Ah, the days... I'm SO glad they are gone

They help K uncover a new clue, or learn something interesting about another character.