Sentences with phrase «life characters over»

Having developed the violent - universe and its larger - than - life characters over the course of 8 years (it started life in 2006 as a completely different project) 23 issues, 2 movie adaptations and a separate spin - off volume, Millar -LSB-...]

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«Several unromantic dinners with my girlfriend were spent with her in character, telling me stories about her life as a Nebraska farmer... which I then recalled for her over dessert.»

«Hamilton» might be about statesmen that lived and died over 200 years ago, but the musical is so accessible that it's easy to relate to its characters and ideas.

In Jon Acuff's Do Over: Make Today the First Day of Your New Career, Acuff seeks to help his readers develop four important areas of their lives: relationships, skills, character and hustle.

«With tons of character and charm, it has been an increasingly popular place to live, experiencing a population boom of over 821 % in 25 years.

The new movie will star a new character, named «Detective Pikachu,» and though no plot details have been announced, we're guessing it will have something to do with the heroic efforts to keep «Pokemon Go» servers from repeatedly crashing, momentarily destroying lives all over the planet.

Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father God's love, character and nature, the death of Jesus and Salvation.

Despite complaints over hard - to - define bias, many shows and movies have made Christianity a part of on - screen characters» lives, portraying the faith as an important element of a bigger story — instead of just a punchline.

Over the last fifteen years or so I have seen (and been moved by) many of the aspirational / inspirational billboards sponsored by The Foundation for a Better Life, an organization that promotes common - ground character virtues while trying at the same time to avoid being a partisan in our contemporary....

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

And when we give our imaginations over to the stories of imaginary characters, especially ones who are seemingly unlike anyone we would ever dream of meeting in real life, we engage in a similar process.

It remains a choice and defines your character when this life is over (which it will be).

A collection of essays published over the past 20 years in which Borgmann makes explicit connections between his critique of the technological character of contemporary life and Christianity.

It also explains why so many mistakenly think God is impressed with our level of certainty over our beliefs, when in fact the only thing that means anything to God is how faithful his people are in trusting his character and in living in relationship with him, regardless of whatever level of certainty they have, or don't have.

On top of that, living life like a video game character also meant absurd levels of stress, always deals to be made, shoulders to look over, sleep to be missed.

We do not have street wisdom and about building the Emirates, as much as it makes financial sense and glitters so well, I think most of us will take an Highbury laden with trophies and full of life and character over a lifeless and bland Emirates where fans are not even allowed to passionately support their team.

But, as University of Chicago professor James Heckman discovered in 2001, going over Perry Pre-School Project (Ypsilanti, Mich.) student success rates, certain character traits and social behaviours were a much better predictor of improved life outcomes.

The 6 - 0 vote comes as a blow to an organized group of residents who live near the practice field and oppose the lights, citing concerns over property values, noise, traffic and loss of the neighborhood's quaint character.

Mom Over Miami by Annie Jones is a lighthearted read that follows the life of a character who is a mom to a baby and a foster son.

Your self - discipline and character will make a difference in you life in many ways, and will spill over to your kids.

Real life can be stranger than fiction, as moms obsessed over their children are not solely characters devised for television and films.

While Jasmine character is all glamourous and over the top, i bet the wardrobe in Midnight in Paris would translate well and better in real life than BJ.

Whether it's the drama that's created when the various characters in our family get together, the tension that stems from political discussions, or the unnecessary comments and questions about our personal life, chances are most of us have had difficult family situations over the holidays at one point or another.

His sage distillation of those decades — «After you've been to all the fistfucking clubs all over the world, you end up in a walled garden with kittens and babies, because they're the fundamental values of life that everyone identifies with,» — rings true - ish as the counsel of the kind, trustworthy uncle character he imagines himself to be in polite company.

Victory over lifes trials and tribulations is what marks my character.

Over and over again, characters make selfish decisions and give in to temptation only see their lives unravel and leave them unsatisfied and alOver and over again, characters make selfish decisions and give in to temptation only see their lives unravel and leave them unsatisfied and alover again, characters make selfish decisions and give in to temptation only see their lives unravel and leave them unsatisfied and alone.

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.

The show is about Anna and her dog, and there are live characters as well as voice overs for the dogs.

Do these little characters who function as a part of nature have control over their lives, or are they subject to the wrath of God?

Mendelsohn proves once again he's a chameleon and capable of almost any performance (compare his sad sack Gerry here to his work in «Killing Them Softly» and «Animal Kingdom» to see the gamut of his talents) and brings Gerry to life in such a way, it's tough to watch his character flounder again and again over the course of the story.

Worst of all is Sandler's and director Dennis Dugan's conviction that endlessly referring to its title character's «package» is in and of itself a laff riot: the character Biggus Diccus in Monty Python's Life of Brian notwithstanding, the only time a huge penis in the movies is funny is in certain triple - X rated movies from the days of yore when John Holmes used to almost trip over his own.

Eisenberg is also fantastic playing the insecure, virgin character he and Michael Cera have made a living off of for a little over a decade now.

The one dimensional over the top supporting characters go good on a live stage where

These characters, like Rumplestiltskin, Captain Hook and the Evil Queen, live a marginal existence, spending their lives drinking in a loser bar, and they jump at the chance to help Charming take over the kingdom.

The temptation to soften Grandma, to sentimentalize her character or sweeten her encounters with people she has cast aside over a long life, must have been almost irresistible.

Voiced by Chiara Mastroianni in French — Satrapi herself lives in Paris now — she's the most fully drawn female character in movies this year, only black and white and flat all over.

Charley is a lonely kid living in Portland, Oregon, his isolation emphasized by his pastime of distance running and by Magnus Nordenhof Jonck's camera work, which favours starkly beautiful western landscapes over character close - ups.

There's an amazing lack of focus, uneven characters and writing, the direction is essentially a lazy copy of the direction in Breaking Bad (another show that just so happens to be about cocaine), and I'm really upset over the fact that I wasted two hours (I watched three episodes) of my life trying to enjoy this piece of **** I'll be honest, this is a really generous rating, and it probably doesn't even deserve it.

Atkinson himself attributes his character's popularity to the fact that the socially awkward, middle - aged Bean's mundane adventures, largely due to his clumsy inability to cope with even the smallest of life's foibles, mirror the feelings and experiences of people the world over.

With an unhurried pace and a focus on character over action or plot, this film takes us into the mind and life of a hardened assassin and follows the story to its natural conclusion.

Originally created in the 1930s by short - lived author Robert Howard, the character of Conan the Barbarian has seen a number of incarnations over the years, including an upcoming filmed re-adaptation of Howard's original stories.

Without wishing to spoil, after the mill the characters have been put through, everything's wrapped up in a couple of neatly mirrored scenes that suggest that all those endemic, intractable, literal life - or - death problems are now resolved because someone chose to do the «right» thing, and shazam, the story is over.

The plot is a bit more of a fantasy romance with some action in it, but Jessica Chastain and Chris Hemsworth give their characters some life so that you do want to see them succeed by the time the movie is over.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

MAGNOLIA Director Paul Thomas Ander son («Boogie Nights») shuffles the stories of nine major characters like a deck of cards over three solid hours until it all comes together to show just how comic, terrifying and unpredictable life can be.

Despite controversy over character Kane's inspiration and similarities of real - life William Randolph Hearst, and a poor showing at the box office, the film was nominated for nine Academy Awards.

I want greasy broker shennanigans with extravagant uses for an over abundance of money... so I can live out my fantasies vicariously through fictional movie 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.

Garson and Pidgeon reprised their roles in the 1950 sequel, «The Miniver Story,» and Maureen O'Hara and Leo Genn took over the characters in the short - lived, 1960 CBS TV series.

An artful, mesmerising ode to the ultimate character actor's outlook on the industry and life in general,... Partly Fiction never teeters over into hagiographic adulation yet manages to convey the very uniqueness that has made Stanton the enigmatic force he is today.