Sentences with phrase «life and death stakes»

It's enough in this sleek, stripped - down culture of dares and challenges played out in a world of life and death stakes.

Like David O. Russell's previous films, American Hustle defies genre, hinging on raw emotion, and life and death stakes.

Not exact matches

Not only does it mean a better user experience — it can make the difference between life and death when it comes to trading on NASDAQ, or even a high stakes game of League of Legends.

Ah yes, the stakes are career life and career death.

This even though the stakes are eternal life and death.

The Swallows and Amazons books follow the basic trajectory established by Roger in the first book: that move from the purely imaginative, with its made - up stakes, to the real, with life and death in the balance.

This is a movie about persecution where the stakes are pure life and death, and the call to love has genuine cost.

Reading the Bible so as to hear it and respond to it can be a struggle in which the stakes are as high as life and death because the issue is man's relation to God.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

What is at stake in these urgent admonitions to be aware of one's own death, and what do we miss by living in an ethos of denial?

You know that I am descended from the most Christian emperors of the German nation, from the Catholic kings of Spain, the Archdukes of Austria and the dukes of Burgundy... After death they left us by natural right and heritage these holy Catholic observances, to live according to them and to die according to their example... I am determined to support everything that these predecessors and I myself have kept... It is certain that a single friar errs in his opinion which is against all of Christendom and according to which all of Christianity will be and will always have been in error both in the past thousand years and even more in the present... I am absolutely determined to stake on this cause my kingdoms and seignories, my friends, my body and blood, my life and soul.

Death and life and heaven and hell are at stake here.

Faith presupposes the decision to stake one's life — and one's death — on a message, a truth, a hope.

«In light of the deaths of two races horses at Maryland's Pimlico Race Course this weekend, I am writing to ask that you immediately suspend all horse racing in New York state indefinitely, including the upcoming Belmont Stakes, until you and racing advocates can actually protect the lives of horses,» NYCLASS executive director Allie Taylor said in a letter being sent to New York Racing Association president Chris Kay.

As one might expect, a career in the drug discovery arena, with its high corporate financial stakes and life - and - death implications for patients, typically requires its practitioners to make extra investments in their own preparation and training.

The consequences of such litigation have also grown due to the high stakes involved, often financial, but as the two right - to - die cases decided last year by the Supreme Court [Washington v. Glucksberg, 117 S. Ct. 2258 (1997); Vacco v. Quill, 117 S. Ct. 2293 (1997)-RSB- demonstrate, life and death as well.

Critic Consensus: Battle Royale is a controversial and violent parable of adolescence, heightening teenage melodrama with life - or - death stakes.

Despite the life - or - death stakes, this is a funky feel - good movie studded with physical comedy from a surprisingly cute creature, and genuinely exhilarating car chase scenes that employ the eponymous monster trucks with whimsy and verve.

It puts the two in dialogue, with real ideological stakes to their life - and - death conflict.

That's a lovely hope for anyone, but for Chiron it has life - and - death stakes.

She's a wonderful comedienne (always has been), awkward and emotional, and the stakes for her character are life - and - death.

And now somehow the stakes are even higher than before — and the stakes were life - and - death befoAnd now somehow the stakes are even higher than before — and the stakes were life - and - death befoand the stakes were life - and - death befoand - death before!

But in this deadly game of cat and mouse, the stakes are raised with each gruesome slaying as the pair races to catch a madman before he brings every one of Poe's shocking stories to chilling life... and death.

Truffaut doesn't push any of the trendy buttons in his chronicle of a connoisseur des femmes: Charles Denner approaches each stage of each conquest as though it were a matter of life and death, and by the time the title of the movie, and Denner's memoir - in - progress, has been fulfilled, we see that those are the stakes precisely.

Quan terrorizes the terrorists, stakes them out at Hennessy's farmhouse / fortress, and generally makes life miserable for everyone until he finds the people responsible for his daughter's death.

Once «Only the Brave» takes a turn that makes its characters more vivid, it becomes clear that that the genuine life - and - death stakes of a firefighter's life will intrude upon the story; what starts out as old - fashioned and rah - rah becomes, by the final scenes, genuinely devastating and intensely poignant.

Working with a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), Emmerich's other proclivities are evident, including a life or death scenario that threatens the fabric of society, a quest to prove worth against the odds, the reuniting of a fractured family, and the triumph of American values when the stakes are heightened.

Sure, the movie feels a little bit like «The Hangover: The College Years» (it was even written by the same two guys), but despite boasting a similar wild streak, it also features some real heart and life - and - death stakes sandwiched between all the crazy hijinks.

And some of the filmmaking here — the way he juggles the tone from life - and - death - stakes to the Hollywood fun - and - games and back, the breathlessly tense editing of the final act — is pretty much world claAnd some of the filmmaking here — the way he juggles the tone from life - and - death - stakes to the Hollywood fun - and - games and back, the breathlessly tense editing of the final act — is pretty much world claand - death - stakes to the Hollywood fun - and - games and back, the breathlessly tense editing of the final act — is pretty much world claand - games and back, the breathlessly tense editing of the final act — is pretty much world claand back, the breathlessly tense editing of the final act — is pretty much world class.

The big finale in Civil War, however, involves only a couple of characters — again, the movie goes refreshingly small — and the life - and - death stakes are grave, because the film has done such a good job of stressing these (mostly) ordinary people instead of their suits.

At that point the heart - pounding opening is ruined because the stakes of life and death become muted.

She transforms into whomever she needs to be to get the job done, especially when it's down to the wire and the stakes are life and death.

The really great action movies are all about urgency — that life - and - death situation where the stakes couldn't be any higher and the main character doesn't have any other choice but to forge ahead.

As Americans continue to debate about a compulsively tweeting president, strict immigration policies and efforts to manipulate an often easily distracted media, «City of Ghosts» provides a grim reminder of what journalism should look like, and why its stakes are literally life and death.

The stakes are high, and one text can change a life, as we have seen in the stories of Rebecca Ann Sedwick, the 12 - year - old Florida girl who jumped to her death, and the recent Rolling Stone article, «Sexting, Shame, and Suicide,» documenting the tragic death of teenager Audrie Pott.

It literally makes the stakes life and death.»

In that earlier post, I explored how we can make readers care about stakes, even if they're not life - and - death.

Of course most parents will never be faced with the life - or - death stakes the Barbers confront in Defending Jacob, but I think all parents will see traces of their own hopes and anxieties in Laurie and Andy Barber.

But when it is, I often wonder, what would my character be if my family was at stake, if it was literally a life and death situation?

Because the stakes are so often life - and - death and the real - life drama is inescapable, the big moments frequently feel bigger, the day - to - day inconveniences of life swept aside when a deployment comes knocking on the door or the mission requires even more sacrifice.

This is especially egregious in any Highlander or paranormal romances, where the stakes are often life - and - death.

Instead, she finds herself in a crisis where her professional ethics are tested and the stakes are life or death.

Whether a literal life or death struggle or a school crush story, the emotional stakes and the emotional intensity are commensurate with the raging hormonal intensity of the genre's intended audience.

Yet the life and death at stake is not a matter of illustration — it's there in the harsh, tactile battleground of the paintwork.

Now those crafty marketers are back, staking out that intermediate space between death and life (as we presently know it): the world that requires a 1 year emergency food kit for a family of four.

Then there was universal life that could have a guaranteed level premium and death benefit for life, but could also stake its» future on assumptions.

The stakes will also be higher because you want to ensure that if you die, your spouse and family will have adequate financial support, whether from your retirement savings, a life insurance death benefit, or a combination of the two.