Sentences with phrase «lesser characters more»

Other than the story's weak points, there's also the problem that, while Le Chiffre has a creepy gimmick in the form of tear ducts that bleed, Bond's arch-nemesis finds himself at the mercy of other, lesser characters more than once.

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While answering a question about other names that were considered for the series — one being «Nonprophit,» when the script focused more on the main character's job at a non-profit and less on her friendship with Molly — she mentioned it was a challenge selling network executives on the name Insecure.
The research tells me less about what Walmart is doing right and more about the character and mindset of affluent Canadian shoppers versus American counterparts.
In fact, I find Guy's book amazing because it talks less about value investing rules and more on a value investor's character development.
A future HR professional will look less like Toby Flenderson's drab character from the TV show The Office, and more like a beloved life coach.
In fact, that this election became less about conflicting ideas for achieving the same goal (the common good of Americans) and more about making sure everyone knows your opponents» deep character flaws is axiomatic.
And back then, wasn't it the fans wrapped up in «theories» who were ultimately disappointed when they found out that Lost wasn't really concerned with answering the thousands of questions it had raised — that it was less a heady show about theology and science and more an emotional show about its characters and the human experience?
If the books» other characters are more or less realistically drawn (Thomas More being an exception), Mantel's Cromwell is perfect, a childhood dream of astonishing competence and trenchant pomore or less realistically drawn (Thomas More being an exception), Mantel's Cromwell is perfect, a childhood dream of astonishing competence and trenchant poMore being an exception), Mantel's Cromwell is perfect, a childhood dream of astonishing competence and trenchant power.
If you knew how many of the «debaters» in this forum were paid shills sitting in boiler room type operations all day basically getting into character and arguing the agenda their boss gave them you would spend less time debating them and more time talking about their little known but thriving industry.
Consciously or subconsciously, you decide to either become more or less like some of the characters in the story, based on what they did and how the story turned out.
The books, more or less, have the character of a primer that emphasizes essentials in bold outline with a minimum of detail.
Into this more universal setting MacLeish puts less obtrusive and more human characters than those he had initially created.
Interestingly, the character of Marianne is much less attractive on the pages of the script than the Marianne we both saw and heard on the screen: much more selfish, demanding, even cruel.
Their enduring presence in the life of the community is expressed figuratively or in abstract masses of a more or less anthropomorphic character.
In general, the Christian feeling for the solidarity of believers and the expressions of this in prayer and devotion can stimulate relational theology to maximize the social - organic character of its reflection, and thus present death as less of an atomistic event and more as an occasion in a society of events that share a real union through internal relations.
From our human, everyday perspective, which no doubt is our concrete perspective (all others being more or less stretched or «abstract»), the richly diversified realm of life appears permanent, with abiding character.
The immediate present is the experiential entertainment of these realized characters, plus entertainment of the potential forms of immediate concrescence and the more or less proximate future.
Their former emotional or feeling characters are more or less conformally repeated in the immediate occasion, modified only by the relevant, novel potentials of character aimed at by the subject (PR 162/246).
The more I learn about the character of God, the less inclined I am to believe that the statement is true.
Even Sheldon on the funny TV show THE BIG BANG THEORY is an exaggeration, just as the other more pathetic and less self - sufficient characters are fairly realistic.
In estimating the religious character of individuals, nations, or races, the first question is, not how they feel, but what they think and believe — not whether their religion is one which manifests itself in emotions, more or less vehement and enthusiastic, but what are the conceptions of God and divine things by which these emotions are called forth.
Pastors voting for Clinton are more likely to cite personal character (28 %) and immigration (7 %) and less likely to cite abortion (less than 1 %).
American pastors voting for Trump are more likely to cite Supreme Court nominees (36 %) and abortion (17 %) and less likely to say personal character matters most (10 %).
Therefore, to engage in correlational analysis of presuppositions is nothing more, but also nothing less, than to make explicit the understanding of the character of the ontic correlate presupposed in speaking of experience in the first place.
Face to face with an unjust sovereign, we may find that there is more — or less — to our character than we suspected.
So, of old, as the Hebrews elevated their idea of the character and omnipotence of God, they found the apparent inequities of life not less but more bewildering.
To strengthen the counter-cultural character of our churches in this respect is to make acceptance less and less conditional, to enable members to share themselves and their problems more and more honestly, and to encourage them to think more freely.
In line with concerns already seen, Wieman noted Whitehead's acknowledgement of the mutually exclusive character of many great values and concluded that «Therefore the chief problem of progress is to organize the world in such a way as to make less mutually exclusive and more mutually inclusive the best that men can experience and the best that can ever occur» (JR1O: 138).
The ordinary believer is also familiar with several of the names of the twenty - five prophets mentioned in the Qur» an, not only because almost all of these names are used as proper names, but also because there are more or less complete descriptions of the lives of the prophets written in Malay, in Arabic script, and now also available in Indonesian in Latin characters, and in Javanese in Javanese script.
• the fortitude of not going with the crowd; 7 • the fortitude of knowing that caring for the world is a nobler task than that of mastering it; • the fortitude of knowing that a successful woman is not the same as a successful man; • the fortitude of realising that money is less important than character; that you are worth more than your salary is worth; • the fortitude of preparing yourself for a worthwhile commitment and sticking by it (self - worth is empty without self - commitment); • the fortitude of being proud to aim at being a woman of character, and to resist the pathetic envy we are all capable of towards a man or woman with more power but with a weak character.
And being united by affinities of character, they move with less impediment and more vigor than any other bodies can move, and constitute, no doubt, that form of the sacramental host by which Jesus Christ intends to give freedom to the world.49
Similarly in the church order of Hesse (first introduced in 1531 and revised in 1537,1539, and 1566), the highest ecclesiastical authority lay in the hands of the prince, but it was less bureaucratic and more representative in character.
The result is a dried chile that keeps a bit more of it's original jalapeño character and less of a smoke bomb.
Unlike the rest of UK potato crop that is more or less sustained and stored yearlong, Jersey Royal potatoes are a seasonal gem with a lot of character under paper - thin skin.
«Friedrich is a character more or less imagined.
Your kids will enjoy AquaBall's great taste and fun characters, and you can be confident they are drinking more water and less sugar.
Set primarily in hardscrabble Canadian and New England towns, the stories are less about the particulars of the game and more about the moods that envelope the characters.
While I don't know if he will die first, I am guessing that he will die in Episode VIII as the trilogy begins to focus more on the main characters and less on the First Order.
It's a structure built around us and the arduous, intensely personal process of escaping it is dependent less on strength of character and more on circumstances that are created by straight society.
I'd say forcing ox to see out his contract although not ideal I'd much less risky than with sanchez as the ox has is more passive and has a good character, well to date he has.
If Mr wenger built a team who never lost it tells me he can build a team remember a team consists of 11 different characters with different back grounds beliefs and aspirations and problems with another 11 to back them up I remember years ago the press used to talk about arsenal and not having English players on the field never the less I know off our own fatalities as such we were somehow always coming up little short by injuries to such Edwardo vanpercie and even gas diaby ramsy rosiscky carzola and many more and others that did nt seem to gel well I am not blind and I know we are not doing well but to suggest that Mr wenger docent have a clue is totally preposterous and disrespectful
In less forgiving environments, where more astute plans are required and more character needed, Arsenal wilt.
The author of «How Children Succeed,» Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have less to do with cognitive skills and more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self - control.
While there is less of a wait and more opportunities to meet the characters on the cruise than in the parks, you still do actually have to wait a bit — which is nice because when it's your turn you don't feel like you are being rushed through.
What causes some kids to achieve while others do not is less a question of intelligence and more a question of character.
Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, economics, and psychology, Tough shows that the qualities that matter most have less to do with IQ and more to do with character: skills like grit, curiosity, conscientiousness, and optimism.
The dogma that has been more or less parroted by the entire cast of characters vying for the Republican nomination is that government's function is minimal and finite: to provide security of property.
The debate focused less on the comptroller's duties, and more on character bashing (though their barbs still weren't as nasty or personal as the Post's average «Love Gov» cover).
Because many schools without a religious character more or less meet our ideal in their ethos and values.
After the tech hub is erected, one theory goes, more residential and commercial development — such as luxury and market - rate apartment buildings, chain stores, and hotels — would change the community character, make the surrounding areas less affordable to small businesses and unrecognizable to long - time residents.
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