Sentences with phrase «life characters around»

As far as the inspiration for my characters, I don't know if I'm unusually observant of the real - life characters around me or if they are just unusually colorful, quirky, interesting, and real, and therefore hard to miss.

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As the book's main character, a young Circle employee named Mae, sinks deeper into company life, she becomes less and less attuned to the real people around her.

The augmented reality game from Japan's Nintendo (ntdoy), where players walk around real - life neighborhoods to hunt down virtual cartoon characters on their smartphone screens, has more than 65 million users in the United States just seven days after launch.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

She complained that the movie covers only the last years of Jesus» life and that «his crucifixion and his resurrection are given no particular dramatic treatment» Besides, said Walker, there is woefully little development of the characters around Jesus.

Base every action in your life around a fictional folktale character.

For me, taking responsibility for my own life, and my own actions, and developing my own character around the values that I believe in, has given me a pretty rich life with lots of good people in it.

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.

What we know of ourselves is not, as usually put, a mysterious substratum with an enormous and very doubtfully remembered life history, decorated with transient qualities but getting its character from some simple attribute which it always carries around with it.

«Gary Smalley was a man of character with a tender heart to help people — and his books have changed marriages, relationships and lives all around the world,» Alex Field, vice president and publisher at WaterBrook Multnomah, told the trade publication.

After the Colts won, Pagano delivered a touching speech that transcended the game of football, revealing the valiant character of a man fighting for his life and the motivation of the team rallied around him.

I hope I live long enough to see the day that Wenger's decides to go but I will be an Arsenal fan as long as I live but being a fan to me does not mean you close your eyes to a terrible owner and to the fact that the club has lost its identity and is now ran by a tyrant who doesn't allow character in the people and players around him.

They've had enough of Papa and his paddler friends around in their lives to think they fully get the role of the «boater / surfer», uh... character.

Yet some researchers call childhood fantasy play — which revolves around invented characters and settings with no or little relationship to kids» daily lives — highly overrated.

Second Life, the creation of Linden Lab in San Francisco, provides its active - user base of one million with a real - time experience on their personal computer, in which they use digital characters called avatars to wander around castles, deserted islands and other fantastic 3 - D environments.

This poignant, intimate, and hilarious memoir explores Rhimes's life before her Year of Yes — from her book - loving childhood with imaginary friends to her adult profession creating television characters who reflected the world she saw around her — and after it, too.

looking at life itself, you will observe we have so many choice of character to make, like me, despite i like sex, i do not faff around, most of my time, when i was married, i spend with my wife, she used to be everything and my travel mate... on my first time, i will like to be in a cool and serene plac...

Steve Carell and Keira Knightley do a fine job bringing life into this lifeless film but its supporting characters are overly cartoonish and smug that it's just hard to stay involved when everything around you is falling apart.

With the rattling of passing trains, rain falling on the car and the hum of city life going on around you, this dvd is a perfect example of how enveloping the viewer in the ambience of the world the character inhabit can take you out of your lounge room and into the world of the film.

From the top down, this is a show that has such patience and empathy for its characters, even the most minute of roles, that it makes you want to get to know the people around you in real life better, open yourself up to their stories, discover their secrets within.

The film is a gentle comedy with romantic issues hehe and is based around the owning of a dog and the main characters ensuing lives with the dog.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

While the Walking Dead is a bunch of characters (who nobody cares whether they live or die) sitting around talking about their feelings and who should be in charge for 8 episodes (with an occasional zombie forced in, for no apparent reason), Z Nation actually shows a full world view (with more than Walking Dead ’s

In many regards, The Catch certainly achieves its goals, but when the lives of every person on - screen revolve around one character and viewers are left wondering how a private investigation firm can afford a huge futuristic office with an enormous staff, it takes away from some of the fantasy.

It is a style of filming that was no mistake (nor easy) as Zemeckis purposefully had the characters move around as the camera panned 360 degrees; giving an ultimate sense of reality and bringing the characters to life.

The metaphysical aspects here are used in the service of the characters, not the other way around — this is, first and foremost, a human study, a love story, an existential treatise on the inevitability of death and the preciousness of life.

All of these comedy duos and trios built characters around their real life personas, so it's sort of strange seeing other actors step into these roles.

With a strong Guy Pearce performance, and supporting characters that are surprisingly rounded given what little screen time they have, it's a good drama that hits upon themes of accepting one's mortality, living without fear of the inevitable, and treating those around you as if your existence on this plane were about to expire at any time.

The two styles never quite mesh, though, and the movie starts to feel Frankensteinish; it's partly a female buddy movie, it's partly a romantic comedy, it's partly a Superbad - style R - rated comedy, and partly a tender character study of a woman whose life is falling apart around her.

Real life married couple Gordon and Abel own both of their characters and the situational comedy that ensues around them.

The film operates in two time periods: around Christmas in the present day and in 2002, when a shocking tragedy changes the lives of several of our principal characters.

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.

This low - key character study from filmmaker Joshua Marston is built around a woman who prefers to make up her life as she goes along — one new, invented identity at a time.

Either Elizabeth Banks» bizarrely overdressed flack and Stanley Tucci's unctuous TV host are being played more subtly, or real life is catching up to the absurdity of their characters, but they're much more interesting to watch this time around.

LIVE FROM MINNEAPOLIS it is a lengthy, boozy, robust episode of the Cinecast, where bartenders, paramedics, rowdy billiard players, and the odd waitress all make for background character and salty language is tossed around in public spaces.

I like to enjoy the characters in a comedy but in this movie the two parents are just always fighting, the two kids are just wretched little creatures, and all the people around them just always give bad advice and make their lives even more difficult.

Having grown up, and lived most of my life in the Rocky Mountain West, often around ranch families, I appreciate the grittiness of these characters, and their dialog.

The film follows a drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) as he comes into the orbit of the magnetic title character Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Dodd's wife (Amy Adams), who have organzied a coterie of followers around Dodd's philosophical approach to life.

It's not hard to understand the appeal in centering your film around a character whose lives are upended with this particular disability.

The game hops back and forth between three characters — Tyler, Jess and Mac — but they're all rendered in engine this time around, as opposed to having the live action elements of the last Need for Speed game.

Van Osten brought Disney characters to life in a variety of media, all around the world, for three decades.

In his films purpose is not just found as characters learn to accept their respective gifts, but by accepting that they are to be used to improve the lives of those around them.

Most of the scripts chosen for live reads are oriented very much around character and dialogue; the event is just a bunch of people sitting on stage, after all.

Perhaps Wilkinson is an author working on a book about the «Child with Apple» painting (seemingly the MacGuffin of the movie that ties all the characters together) and perhaps during the 1960s he was interviewing the now older Zero Moustafa as he's really the only living person to have been around during its theft.

Feeling very Star Trek: TOS-esque on a very CGI Ego the Living Planet, the second act is almost - all spoken exposition — the characters mostly walk around sets on Ego and have a lot of conversations.

By now, the critical reception for director Todd Haynes» «Carol» has built a fortress of prestige around the film itself, much as the title character played by Cate Blanchett goes through her life protected by just the right clothes and makeup, a...

By now, the critical reception for director Todd Haynes» «Carol» has built a fortress of prestige around the film itself, much as the title character played by Cate Blanchett goes through her life protected by just the right clothes and makeup, a lacquered, tightly put - together look ever - so - slightly subverting the image of the quintessential wife and mother of her time and station.

The toys - to - life genre is a relatively new segment of the video game market revolving around the gimmick of physical toys can be ported through various means into video games, becoming playable characters in virtual adventures.

Despite the specific nature of the character Stiller plays, «Brad's Status» finds a universality in the uncomfortable truths it explores: the human tendency to take stock, especially around middle age, and to compare our lives against both our friends» achievements and our youthful visions of our future selves.

A healthy dose of humor, plenty of buddy moments and a new baby all do their part to take the edge off these characters who are living in exotic locations around the globe while enjoying the fruits of their last million dollar heist.