Sentences with phrase «living dead characters»

Scary scenes include graveyards with living dead characters, monsters and other frightening images.

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The reader, therefore, is alerted to what the characters in the drama do not know; that is, what is really going on here is not only a family crisis in Bethany but the crisis of the world, not only the raising of a dead man but the giving of life to the world.

Or was it only an event in the lives of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim of following in his footsteps?

It us usually living versus dead or character qualities of living.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Sheol being a place where ALL dead went, regardless of moral character in this life?

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.

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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

Hudd first came to serious critical attention with his portrayal of Guildenstern in a 1925 modern - dress production of Hamlet, and he later became a theatrical star in the play Too Good To Be True, in the role of Private Meek, a character modeled after T.E. Lawrence; as surviving photos from the production reveal, in costume he was a near dead - ringer for the real - life Lawrence.

Like he did in the Thompson adaptation Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp plays the main character — in this case, a young writer who winds up drinking a lot and pondering his life at a dead - end newspaper in Puerto Rico.

It's not brain dead comedy created solely for slapstick humor but has a self - depreciating way of portraying the life of its central characters and their actions.

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.

It's unclear how Stiller keeps a straight face, because it's a dead - on critique of the way he plays the stumbling character — and so many of his tentative, beleaguered heroes, guys who forge through life in a defensive crouch, anticipating insult.

Not to beat a dead horse, but it is again unfortunate because so many of the characters are wonderfully brought to life.

Perez's most spellbinding moment takes place in the middle of a crowded shopping mall, when her character, Carla, spots a mother holding a baby about the same age as her dead son and hovers over the child like a ghost, apparently unseen despite being inches away; the look on Perez's face communicates both intense longing and boundless wonder, as if she's simultaneously working through the reality of death and suddenly comprehending the miracle of life.

A few years back, when «Night of the Living Dead» - redolent zombie movies started popping up like, well, zombies, there was a joke among movie mavens who were past masters of the genre, to the effect of «Haven't the characters in these zombie movies ever seen any... zombie movies?

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.

And while some information has been revealed regarding the gameplay, not much is actually known about Death Stranding's story (aside from the main character traveling between worlds of the living and the dead), which Mark Cerny has said will take at least 4 - 5 hours of playtime before things start to make sense.

Charlie's brother (a character with no correlative in real life) Donald (Cage again, in the finest twin performance since Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers) is cocksure and woman-wise to Charlie's twitchy self - loathing in a way that reminds of the swinger / nebbish iteration of the Jekyll / Hyde interplay.

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.

0:00 - 2:35 — Introduction 2:35 - 16:00 — «ParaNorman» review, including Bayer's account of visiting the set 16:00 - 28:30 — «The Expendables 2 ″ review 28:30 - 36:10 — «The Odd Life of Timothy Green» review 36:10 - 47:35 — «Sparkle» review 47:35 - 55:05 — QOTW (what dead performer do you wish had made one more movie) 55:05 - 1:04:20 — Character Casserole (Indiana Jones, Tom Baker, Frank the American Gangster) 1:04:20 - 1:10:00 -LSB-...]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Ordered straight to series (premiere episode airs on CBS) STUDIO: CBS Television Studios / Secret Hideout / Living Dead Guy Productions / Roddenberry Entertainment TEAM: Alex Kurtzman (ep), Bryan Fuller (ep), Heather Kadin (ep), Gretchen J. Berg (ep), Aaron Harberts (ep), Akiva Goldsman (ep), Rod Roddenberry (ep), Trevor Roth (ep) LOGLINE: New take on the Star Trek franchise with a new ship, new characters and new missions.

Gen is supposed to be a powerhouse character and one that Kiwi actor Cliff Curtis, familiar to Western moviegoers from such films as Live Free or Die Hard and Sunshine (and TV viewers from AMC's «Fear the Walking Dead»), should be more than capable of bringing to life with zeal.

This one shares a few characters of the living and dead varieties.

Bringing the dead back to life is always a bad idea for attractive young scientists; the characters in The Lazarus Effect would have been better off if they'd just downloaded a nice digital copy of Flatliners.

The characters are wooden and somewhat odd, and ironically the dead look more lifelike than the living.

Indeed, the fleshed - out secondary characters have better material than do Sookie and her vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer), who labor under the burden of replaying for the umpteenth time the forbidden love between the living and the dead, the light and the dark.

As interesting as he inevitably is, there's something forlorn about British character actor Toby Jones, a sense that he's carrying on through the hopelessness of whatever dead - end life he's portraying this time.

«Meet Davy Jones: Anatomy of a Legend» (12:25) explores how the villain of Dead Man's Chest came to life, from Bill Nighy's performance in gray pajamas to the character's final computer - generated look.

The game could also have used some good one liners for the characters to make to break up the monotony and bring the dead back to life.

Paul Thomas Anderson's unrestrained affection for his characters and his sense of visual play in every scene of «Boogie Nights» made opera out of a fictional porn star's dead - end life.

Yet unlike so many scripts where the good girl brings the wild boy home to a disapproving father, the living characters in Warm Bodies have a profound and positive change on the walking dead instead of the other way around.

Most of the characters in Dead Rising 2 have an «out of sight, out of mind» attitude towards the living dead, and don't give much thought to the disease until it's (figuratively or literally) biting them in the Dead Rising 2 have an «out of sight, out of mind» attitude towards the living dead, and don't give much thought to the disease until it's (figuratively or literally) biting them in the dead, and don't give much thought to the disease until it's (figuratively or literally) biting them in the ass.

With spotty acting, superficial developments, and rules that seem to be made up as the film moves along, Dead Silence is strictly only of interest to audiences who are all about scary images set to ominous music, caring far less about a good storyline to follow or characters who do or say things that might be plausible to anyone who experiences them in real life.

WHY: «Life After Beth» is a terrible movie, a dead - on - arrival zombie comedy that's just as much in need of some brains as its title character.

On one hand, the game comes with the option of having dead characters return to life at the end of a chapter — as well as a new mode that returns them to life at the end of the turn.

It seems safe to assume that next year's Avengers 4 will see the return of many dead Marvel characters as Earth's Mightiest Heroes somehow reverse their shattering defeat at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, which concluded with the Mad Titan wiping out half of all life in the universe.

The plan has something to do with a machine that will open the eye of hell, which gives the person who opens it knowledge of the living and dead, heaven and hell, and as a character in the movie says, «If knowledge is power...» Well, you know the rest.

While his character is still slowly developing in the series, it's pretty evident that Bran Stark is going to be a pretty big part of the final battle between the living and the (un) dead.

Comedy was the theme in the 1970 Dodge Challenger TV spots, which featured a character that's a dead - on precursor to Jackie Gleason's Sheriff Buford T. Justice, and more directly, the J.W. Pepper character in the 1973 James Bond movie Live and Let Die.

The bundle books include compelling urban fantasy reads with some of the strangest detectives you've ever met, including Dan Shamble Zombie P.I. in my own Unnatural Acts, as well as ghosts, elves, vampires, sorceresses, modern - day dragon slayers, immortal Shakespearean characters, and more in Dean Wesley Smith's The Deep Sunset, R.R. Virdi's Grave Beginnings, Patrick Hester's Into the Fire, Susan Sizemore's Living Dead Girl, J.A. Pitt's Night Terrors, L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero Lost, Alex Berg's Red Hot Steele and Cold Hard Steele.

When so many fiction writers crowd their stories and novels with hundreds of characters and thousands of extraneous details, it's calming to settle into Lynch's rich, tightly focused narratives... The old and the new, the living and the dead: this collection of short stories is a trove of carefully observed lives.

And the other non - Injustice / Walking Dead title is the first volume of Bill Willingham's Fables, in which the familiar characters of fairy tales and children's literature take on new lives and adventures that are anything but childish.

A superb and record - breaking cast of 166 voices, representing characters living and dead, transports listeners to 1862 and the cemetery where Lincoln mourns his dead son in this dazzling realization of Saunders» novel.

As Gob's obsessions deepen, we are taken from the battlefields at Chickamauga Creek to the society balls of New York, from innocent childhoods in Homer, Ohio, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; and as the machine grows, so does the amazing cast of real and imagined characters: Walt Whitman, ministering lovingly to the Civil War wounded; Mrs. Woodhull and her sister Tennessee, doing business on Wall Street and riding churning tides of scandal; Gob's friend Will Fie, a war veteran who builds a house from glass images of suffering and death; Maci Trufant, Victoria Woodhull's protege and Gob's great love; and even unnatural Pickie Beecher, a child who seems to float sinisterly between the living and the dead.

Firstly, most, if not all, of the real life characters that Puzo hinted at are now dead, which means that whereas Puzo could only hint at similarities between Johnny Fontane and Frank Sinatra, Winegardner can name names.

This improbable duo concocts an ingenious plan to get the town talking about the day Mahony's mother disappeared and are aided and abetted by a cast of eccentric characters, both living and dead.

In a warmhearted novel of sweeping scope, Russo animates the dead - end world of Empire Falls, Maine, and shows an unerring sense of the rhythms of small - town life, balancing his irreverent, mocking humor with unending empathy for his characters and their foibles.

Like those characters in the Sixth Sense and Jacob's Ladder who haven't noticed that they're dead yet, most of us live in a short - term bubble, blind to what is increasingly obvious and alarming to scientists.