Sentences with phrase «like character flaws»

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Nothing like a former drug addict that continues to bring down the GOP with ignorant attacks and statements among many other character flaws.

When psychiatric illness grips its victims in behavior that isolates them and frightens those around them, we compound the misery by treating it like a failure of nerve or a character flaw.

Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

Jon Negroni: Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

I'm very fortunate that my parents taught me that intolerance is a character flaw instead of telling me not to trust black people or something stupid like that.

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

I'm sure the Giants are conducting a thorough background check to make sure he does not have the same character flaws that short circuited Manziel's career or Ryan Leaf's etc... If he checks out, I really like his QB skills and competitiveness.

maybe it's just me but i like flawed characters that even though as a viewer you might say you wouldnt do that sitting all warm and comfy in your house watching the show with a nice drink in your hand; you may be bottlenecked into reacting just like these characters developed.

You could feel like your child has a character flaw.

The woman is either chastised for being so bold as to breastfeed in front of other people (like Sofia in Modern Family) or the woman's choice to breastfeed is being used as a severe character flaw (like Lysa Tully in Game of Thrones) or it's just some really funny, hilarious thing because boobs.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

But wait — could we have some glaring character flaw — what we like to think of as a quirk — that could be keeping us single?

He is flawed and sometimes even unlikable, much like most of the other characters.

Whenever it glimpses into the private lives of men like O'Neill, The Looming Tower accentuates these individuals» character flaws, but it leaves us only with a sense of conflicted anticipation, waiting for O'Neill and his cohorts to return to work so that we can witness their critical failures.

Its ambition is admirable: It wants to be an adult thriller like its director's justly famous «Three Days of the Condor,» with political and psychological reverberations, on real - world topics, with a reasonable cause - effect dynamic at play, clear motives, action plausible and not overdone, free of computer effects, full of recognizable, compellingly flawed characters, yet taut and gripping to an astonishing end.

Both Violet and her sister Suzie (Alison Brie) are funny, flawed, believable characters, even if the subplot of Suzie's shotgun marriage to Tom's best friend Alex (Chris Pratt) feels like an underwritten foil for the main couple's story.

Just like the original, it has its good share of flaws; but also just like the original, there are moments and characters so human that you can't help but connect with them on a deeply personal level.

Premises like the one in Kings And Queen usually lead flawed characters to call on inner reserves of strength, but Devos and Amalric only reveal deeper shortcomings, which makes them more touching and human.

I like her films (The Taste of Others and Look at Me) and their screenplays for the way they embrace and acknowledge the vulnerabilities, the weaknesses, the flaws of their characters without trying to apologize for them, simply recognizing that they are part of the package.

Like his Breaking Bad days, he channels both extremes of his psyche while playing another well - intentioned, but fundamentally flawed character.

Director Brad Bird, best known for helming animated projects at Pixar like Ratatouille and The Incredibles knows how to make fantastical situations more interesting by allowing his characters to derive humor from their flaws.

These characters don't seem like types chosen from a screenwriting manual but like people we might know, with quirks and feelings and flaws and hearts.

It's a film that has a huge chunk of a flaw but its one that you can ultimately shrug off thanks to an ending that reminds you why you liked these characters to begin with.

Fletcher is the vulgar, drill - seargent, hard - ass you love to hate, whose character shades do little to cover up deeply flawed principles, and yet, once you think the film acknowledges them it turns around and drops them like a bad habit.

This small - town drama's flaws are outweighed by its strengths, not least the switches of plot, tone and its assortment of characters — played by the likes of Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage and, most of all, Frances McDormand.

In order to make a movie like this work, both characters have to have flaws, but the filmmakers are so clearly determined to make a victim out of Aniston that we eventually agree and can not wait for her to get rid of Gary once and for all, even though it's not what she really wants.

In our review of Infinity War, NME wrote: «There are flaws — a lot happens very quickly and some of the supposed main characters feel like cameos.

Like «Dawson's Creek», the central characters in Sleeping With Other People seem way too self - aware to be realistic, but it's always nice to see some flawed yet likable people onscreen.

It's certainly not the perfect option for that, having been subject to all sorts of criticism from its treatment of race relations to its arguable redemption arc for arguably its most despicable character to its stereotypical look at small town America (a movie made by an Irish director about the flaws of America seems like it could get an extra boost from a voting body like the HFPA).

Like the most human and discussable movies, this one presents characters with numerous flaws and facets, so that when events transpire, you are able to notice and appreciate different angles.

It's brutal and violent, and asks us to sympathise with characters so flawed that they make Bruce Wayne look like a well - adjusted millionaire who simply likes fancy dress.

Like Baumbach's other characters, he's well - shaded — hardly a monster, but difficult to root for, his flaws reflected in the tumult around him, from his frequently tipsy fourth wife Maureen (a delightful Emma Thompson) to the expired orange juice in his fridge.

Day - Lewis appears to be drawn to extremely flawed characters, and he makes Reynolds Woodcock very hard to like as the relationship between he and Alma progresses.

The character is so flawed that he is never boring; you can't keep your eyes off of him because he's so much like a real person.

While a character like Halley is deeply immature, her fight at the centre of this crisis and her desire to provide a decent living space for her daughter is why we're never detached from this flawed character, but share deep empathy with her struggles.

«I like portraying flawed characters that are insecure because I relate to that and I know a lot of people like that.

Ryan Gosling continues to prove why he's one of this generation's finest actors with perhaps his most grown - up role to date, while veterans like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and Marisa Tomei also get in on the fun playing characters whose only real flaw is that they're not in the movie enough.

It's nice to see a character in a film like this given the complexity to be not merely good or evil but flawed and in the end capable of righting bad decisions.

As easy as it may be to analyze a thriller like Panic Room to death, the film offers more than enough insight into its characters and situation to keep whatever flaws may exist as afterthoughts, and ones that are easily dismissed when placed within the context of other details.

Megan is presented as a flawed, imperfect character, just like Rex, and we root for both.

All the elements are in play for a crackling good, Macbeth - like tale about ambitious but fatally flawed characters, but the erratic screenplay by Christopher Kyle lacks confidence as it swings from glossy romance to creepy thriller, leaving us feeling detached along the way.

And just like the main character Renee, played by Amy Schumer (Trainwreck), the movie itself is entertaining — yet flawed.

Walter's work, with its flawed, likable characters, elements of satire and somewhat cynical take on modern life, can be compared to contemporaries like Sam Lipsyte and Gary Shtyengart.

- Library Journal «Certain bits of information occasionally feel deliberately withheld for dramatic effect (though they are eventually revealed), and Eva's superstar status at the end of the story feels like a little bit of a stretch, but Eva herself is a compelling, deliciously flawed character.»

As a culture, we seem to like our female characters flawed, but only in superficial ways, only in ways that make them more relatable — an extra few pounds around the middle, a little clumsy on her feet.

Like Lionel Shriver and Zoe Heller, Waldman has a gift for creating flawed, and therefore human, characters.

I think I particularly like the fact that all the white characters (and I am a white female) are all deeply flawed and all fail Cora.

I know there's a long way to go, but it feels like a step toward allowing female characters the same kinds of flaws male characters in YA have been allowed to have, and I'm totally here for it.

The Dry felt like real life - flawed characters whose lives either end or go on, but skillfully managing to present a bit of hope for the future at its conclusion.

I try to make that same connection in writing by relating who my characters are with everything that came before the story even started to create characters who are three - dimensional and flawed, like real people.