Sentences with phrase «life character adopting»

This (literally) larger than life character adopting a crazy throwback technique.

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Like Weber, Berger adopts an interpretive approach to social life, emphasizing the meaningful character of human activity.

It would be unreasonable to adopt or recommend a way of life unless one believes that the universe is of such a character that this way of life is appropriate.

Seljuq institutions were essentially military in character, not only because of the kind of life the Turks had lived in their original steppe environment, but also because the Turks adopted a role in the Islamic Society which necessitated such an organization.

After completing a consultation, Tudor Grange Academy, a secondary Academy without a religious character in Solihull, has decided to adopt an admissions policy that priorities pupils who attend a religiously selective Church of England primary school — potentially excluding others who live closer to the Academy.

AA targets more than problem drinking; members are supposed to correct all defects of character and adopt a new way of life.

Funnyman Will Ferrell lends his voice to the title character a blue - skinned green - eyed alien whose mammoth hairless cranium has over the course of his career as a supervillain given life to an endless array of exotic inventions and elaborate schemes all in the service of his lifelong dream of conquering his adopted hometown of Metro City.

Since the controversy erupted, director Laura Brownson and team exclusively filmed with Rachel, her sons and her adopted sister Esther, capturing the intimate, vérité life story of a damaged character who lands squarely in the cross-hairs of race and identity politics in America — and exploring how that character still provokes negative reactions from millions who see her as the ultimate example of white privilege.

One look at Alan Hale Jr. and no one could ever assume he was adopted; Hale Jr. so closely resembled his father, veteran character actor Alan Hale Sr., that at times it appeared that the older fellow had returned to the land of the living.

The filmmakers know that over the life of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, their different characters vibrate at different frequencies, so the films built around them have adopted different tones.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

These are wounded characters, uneasy with the past (Chief eventually tells the story of how he was once adopted by a family and ruined the opportunity for a comfortable life out of instinctual fear) and uncertain of their future.

Whilst the characters on screen navigate the class dynamics of colonial life; choosing to adopt certain characteristics of their European colonisers in order to advance professionally and socially; the film itself reflects a growing trend in mainstream cinema of dealing with African themes using traditional Western narrative structures.

In this manner, Waking Life adopts the form of Slacker, in which each character appears on screen for a few minutes, delivers their diatribe, and leaves the film forever.

Their characters seem to adopt a dim view of the world, where everything is disposable, where self - image can be warped with just under 140 characters on Twitter, but Tragedy Girls never accepts a passive stance, instead its sarcasm and lampoonery is reflective, and god knows the world we live in today needs a look in the mirror — even if it's of the funhouse variety.

From a costume point of view, and therefore a character point of view, The Grand Budapest Hotel (directed by Wes Anderson) is all about uniforms; those worn by men and women in official capacities and those adopted as a life uniform by those trapped in the past.

Digital citizenship is the term the world of K12 education has adopted to describe the many ethical and character education issues associated with living a digital lifestyle.

The lives of the various characters, like the daughter adopted out of Romania who saw her parents shot by soldiers before her as they tried to flee the Nazis or the young survivor of a raid on a Jewish home who was only saved when the housekeeper took him in and raised him as a Christian, are so interwoven with the struggle to remain true to their Hasidic beliefs while living in a world that is trying to move forward following the Holocaust.

hi im interested on ur work but i do nt have much budget my name is luther john and i created our very own first princess fairy tale called the last moondancer Princess Luna the lead female protagonist is based on the character of ancient Babaylans before the spaniards discovered the philippines She was adopted by the oldest moondancer in puerto princesa After a cursed volcanic eruption in mt mayon and was trained all her life to become a moondancer but all her life she only dreams of finding this magical pearl which believed to be the tear from the Gods that grants ur wishes Moondancers can heal any kind of sickness when they dance and their powers wer gift from the Goddess of the Moon Mayari

Gain insight into the character traits of a Buffett manager and how can they be integrated into the everyday lives of all those who choose to adopt these traits.

Despite his character's disdain for Sonny, the Frenchie, in real life Robert Downey Jr. fell in love with his farting co-star and tried to adopt her.

Adopting the point of view of minor characters, his videos deal with the great themes of life and transform small stories into universal tales.

To escape the grinding tedium of daily life, 10 fictional characters adopt strategies which are portrayed in pictures filled with references to the kind of art banned by the regime.

One criticism that particularly interested me had to do with the intersection of fiction writing and judging, making the point, among others, that authors who write fiction know the lives of their characters intimately and in great detail because they plan them, and it is wrong — presumptuous — for a judge to give the impression by adopting a fiction genre style that he knows a litigant as thoroughly.

Please join the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York and SUNY New Paltz for a real life discussion with our panel of characters including birth parents, adoptive parents, adoption professionals and, adopted persons.