Sentences with phrase «life characters involved»

I've used the real names of many of the true - life characters involved.

Not exact matches

However, even apart from the tenuousness of this tradition as exposed by Whitehead's careful examination of it (only parts of which we have presented in the previous chapters), there are serious logical fallacies involved in its denial of the genuinely emergent character of life and mind.

And while a lot of that will involve her hustle, talent and rare ability to play characters with atypical mental and emotional lives, it's also going to involve an even brighter spotlight.

There is, to use a phrase of C. H. Dodd, a «fundamental wrongness» in human life, in which every living man is inescapably involved; a «reprobate character,» a tendency toward evil, which no man can successfully resist.

If we discount the unfairness and ill fortune of external circumstance which doubtless are involved in this lame finish of many good beginnings, we still have left a large amount of inability to see life through which must be due to lack of character.

He chose the dialogue form, I believe, because it was the vehicle best designed to dramatize the movement of inquiry as an act of life, involving characters in conversation, not intellects in isolation.

So too, whereas the legal model was focused on belief and therefore didn't involve our character transformation as a central consideration, the covenant model is all about character, for its anchored in faith, and as I've said, covenantal faith is about our willingness to trust another and to live in a trustworthy way in relation to another.

The kind of courage involved in living above the average is indispensable to great character.

These manuals follow a common pattern, taking up individual cases and indicating how they are to be resolved, and the directions they offer are remarkably similar in character.53 The greater number of cases discussed deal with moral perplexities — questions involving family life, economic activity, military service, political issues, the relationship of master and servant, the right use of recreation — but spiritual perplexities — involving «the great case which the Jews put to Peter and the jailer to Paul and Silas «54 undoubtedly received equal attention in actual pastoral work.

However the real process of character formation involves not merely an absorption of precepts, but also the general orientation of the soul in which the ethical life is integrated with «the good life» in its broadest sense, so that morality becomes a matter of aspiration as well as exhortation.

And because a man is always tempted to live down to the average of his social group, a searching test of character is involved in one's relationship with this dead level of public opinion and practice.

Being there for your child daily takes a lot of efforts and dedication, you should try to get involved in your child's life and encourage him to develop his interests as well as a straightforward character.

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.

Still, the story is fascinating and the characters are definitely brought to life before us — and the sheer force of the talent involved is prodigious.

Instead of a conventional boxing / comeback story, the movie is a character study of Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and the turbulent family life involving his mother Alice (Melissa Leo) and nine sisters, all of whom seem certifiably insane.

Enter the directing duo of John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, who take the premise up a notch with real - life kidnappings, real - life gangsters, and real - life dangers which all fall on the heads of the suburban characters involved.

The guys behind Banshee has done right again by involving more action - packed punches, more characters making into play, and a gripping plot sequence that makes Banshee the most wonderful town to live!

Focusing on both of them seemed to shortchange any chance of really getting me involved in these character's lives.

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.

As the film's shooting schedule wears on, Fairbanks becomes romantically involved with her leading man, Jake Fields (Jeremy Sisto), but Fields and his friends on the production staff begin to question her stability when she starts wearing her costumes at all times, living on the sets, and tries to live as the character of Guinness.

Po is his coolest character and his most emotionally connected, which I think has something to do with his inability to ditch the crazy - eyes when he's involved in live - action comedy.

Not only were several of the movie's major characters involved in the assassination plot (it was a multi-pronged affair and involved other attempts on lives of the cabinet), Lincoln drove through throngs of people, enraptured in celebratory glee, following the passing of the Amendment.

Kelly eventually leads these characters toward the inevitable, and the frankness with which he handles scenes involving end - of - life decisions, fear in the face of death, and the desire to find meaning in any of this mess is admirable.

When Quentin Tarantino writes or directs a film, one can rest assured in the knowledge that it will involve hard - hearted characters living in a dangerous world most likely fueled by drugs, hard - core violence, crime syndicates, and good music.

Koler's immersive, go - for - it performance, Burshtein's effective, often affecting reliance on intimate framing and vivid reaction shots, the enjoyable, well - drawn supporting characters, plus a lived - in depiction of religion and culture, add up to make «The Wedding Plan» an unusually involving, you - are - there experience.

Several more core elements involving the history of this franchise are unveiled, characters and performances come to life, and the narrative of the entire series begins to connect.

If you want to break the film into thirds, the scenes with Jude Law at the diner which bookend the film are adequate, the middle portion involving the stalking husband are dreadful, and the film comes to life a bit during the second half during the Natalie Portman scenes, mostly because her character is far more interesting than any of the others up to that point.

Surprisingly dull and unfunny for the talent involved, «Life After Beth» is a dead - on - arrival comedy that's just as much in need of some brains as its title character.

Not only because it's used as a blanket description for anything involving kids but because it implies that through the course of the 90 - minute narrative, our lead character has literally learned all of his life lessons.

The story is a vague, world is ending and we need to save it mess, and it does have that old time standard of characters involved in massive, life altering events who seem oblivious to the scope, instead focused on the mundane and adolescent interactions that most characters have.

A staunch believer in the power of storytelling, Howard this time surprisingly foregoes establishing memorable characters — don't expect any Niki Lauda «s or John Nash «s here — in order to make room for a familiar but powerful framing device involving Brendan Gleeson's aged Tom Nickerson, the last living survivor of that crew.

His harrowing journey is told through the international cast of characters who have been involved in Sudan's life, from when he was snatched as a calf from his mother's side in war - torn Central Africa, to his captivity as a prized exhibit in a cold, concrete zoo behind the Iron Curtain while poaching devastated his kind to extinction back home.

Supernatural events are depicted, such as a ritual with the god of death that involves bloodletting (briefly shown), an attempted human sacrifice, corpses being raised from the dead, and characters having the life sucked from their bodies.

Part of what makes «Life» such an involving thriller is that the International Space Station is occupied by characters who don't ring false; their shorthand and relationships are believable from the start.

The film involves Murphy's character who basically smooth talks his way through life and becomes linked to a magical tree.

Woody Allen's newest film, Wonder Wheel, set in the 1950s, involves four characters whose unhappy lives become entwined in Coney Island — New York's iconic amusement park.

Recent Blu - ray and DVD releases include: «Riverdale: The Complete First Season,» which promises David Lynch and delivers «Peyton Place» in its depiction of the shadows and scandals of small - town life with characters taken from Archie Comics; Ronin (1998) directed by a once occasionally great director, John Frankenheimer, involves mercenaries working for unseen paymasters trying to steal a case with unknown contents; Aretha Franklin: Divas Live, on this 2001 VH1 broadcast, released as a DVD / CD set, Franklin opens her concert with «I Can't Turn You Loose» backed by a horn - powered rhythm band that echoes the excitement of past triumphs; and Heal the Living finds people with no apparent relation to one another drawn together by an accident.

None of these women are given any inner life outside of their function as catalysts for actions taken by the two main male characters; even when Avigal finally takes control of her own agency in a climactic scene involving a makeshift Hasidic court, it's only as the result of a male's tender touch.

Everest doesn't invest much in character, which also means it doesn't aggrandize any of the players involved, except perhaps Hall, who found a way to make a living off his passion and quickly lost the ability to control the variables.

Though the title character's efforts to save her struggling ramen shop are captivating, our favorite moments come from a subplot involving the imaginative sex life of a yakuza gangster and his female companion.

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.

The screenplay, written by the lead characters» real - life counterparts, Peter Gaulk and director Fred Wolf, is a compendium of jokes that don't work and Farrelly Brothers style gags that sicken instead of amuse (the extended bit involving a turkey and Peter's peter is particularly disgusting).

Where Divergent felt gimmicky and a bit shallow, this chapter pushes the characters much deeper, giving the actors a chance to bring them more engagingly to life, which makes the odd set - up more involving as well.

It's hard to imagine what writer / director Frank E. Flowers had he mind when he concocted this astoundingly dull story involving the hijinks of several characters living in the Cayman Islands.

As often is the case with projects involving «Saturday Night Live» performers, this does seem like a one - joke premise when you first hear of it, and to some extent it is the stuff of skit comedy stretched to feature length, but writers Jeff and Craig Cox, with rewrite assistance from John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky, manage to find enough angles in these eccentric characters and funny premise to not lose steam throughout.

From the above description, Soul Food may sound like a drag, but director George Tillman Jr.'s script is as warm and funny as it is dramatic and emotionally involving, with fully - fleshed characters brought to life by the strong ensemble acting; to single any single actor out is to discount the equally commendable efforts by everyone else.

Since we already are intimately familiar with Episode IV, we already know the fates of nearly every character involved, we know certain characters will not die, and others will not live.

In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Danny Kay's character unwittingly becomes involved in the search for a ledger detailing hidden Nazi gold.

Language: English Genre: Fantasy / Musical MPAA rating: PG Director: Rob Marshall Actors: Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine Plot: Adapted from the Steven Sondheim musical, a baker and his wife, looking to life a curse, visit the woods and the witch who lives there: she spins a tale involving many beloved fairy tale characters, including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel.

It includes some additional character development - notably Grace's (Sigourney Weaver) back - story and a brief opening sequence on Earth - but most of it involves expanded and enhanced scenes of life on Pandora.