Sentences with phrase «living the characters pretty»

When I'm deep in a novel (as now) I find it very hard to switch off and then back on again, I'm living the characters pretty well 24/7.

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We named her after Woman Wisdom partly because She's a pretty kickass biblical character, and partly because our lives were such a mess at the time of Sophia's birth.

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.

This beautiful edition also features an illustrated history and timeline of Jane Austin's life as well as an illustrated principal characters section within the book and a pretty pink cloth cover, gold foil detail and coloured edges on the outside.

The film bustles along through a series of reveals — a storytelling technique that can lose an audience's sympathy or suspension of disbelief pretty fast, but which works flawlessly here because the filmmakers and the performers know exactly who their characters are and what kind of world they live in.

There are some characters missing from the final battle, which in the book was pretty much a review of every living person left in the series, but seeing old standbys like schoolmates Seamus and Dean Jordan are a welcome connection to the series» history.

Will Gluck's Peter Rabbit opens as one might expect for an animated / live - action film based on the misadventures of Beatrix Potter's beloved fictional animal character: with a flock of birds gliding through the sky and singing a pretty little tune worthy of Julie Andrews.

The two work well together, and after they change lives, they pretty much do character impressions of each other.

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 an interesting wish and she is pretty much prodded into the search by the dying writer, but the character admits she really could live without the knowledge.

Lawrence is as good as she's been in all previous films with none of the annoying «cool girl» quirks that mark her out in real life now; you believe her and you root for her and you feel for her which let's face it, is pretty important for a lead character.

February's Black Panther is more than just the first MCU film to be headlined by a Black character (though that is a pretty big deal)- it's a chance to see a classic Marvel property with connections to the deepest parts of the publisher's lore brought to life in stunning detail.

After all, there's only so much stupid one can take, and when a show has more short - lived love triangles in a single season than interesting characters, that's a pretty good indicator that it's lost its bite.

The title of the film foreshadows some pretty clear implications about the type of character she plays, and the film hinges on Pugh's ability to sell the addicting freedom that comes from being on her own when her husband leaves her at home, and the belief that she can, will and must do whatever is necessary to keep the life to which she has grown accustomed.

Unfortunately, this looks like pretty standard sword - and - sorcery fare, with Bridges basically playing a variation of the Rooster Cogburn character from «True Grit» and «R.I.P.D.» Fans of the genre will probably get a kick out of it, but it's unlikely that «Seventh Son» will have much life beyond that.

If you know anything about the real - life coach, then you pretty much know about the fictional character.

It can seem frustrating at first as your character is pretty useless with only running and dashing in your arsenal but as you progress you can unlock more abilities to make your life easier and this is where the core of the game kicks in.

The series introduced some pretty important characters in the X-Men universe today, including Legion and Deadpool, both of whom have their own live - action adaptations out right now.

That sounds like a mess of platitudes, and it is, but as I mentioned this is a very straightforward story with pretty stock characters that are brought to life by the actors chosen to embody them.

In the film's final act, as everything starts falling apart for the characters, the optimistic air of these carefree colours reveals itself to be little more than an illusion, these pretty buildings standing in total indifference to the fate of those who live amongst them.

There are some funny moments, mostly from Ron White's over-the-top Phil, who is jettisoned from the series pretty early (though his spirit lives on), but the show doesn't seem confident enough in its core characters to let us get to know them better.

Aside from changing the gender of the Ancient One (which was a damned if you do, damned if you don't character) and Mordo's race, it's pretty much the comic book origin complete with the psychedelic Steve Ditko visuals realized in live action.

«Ben's character and I have this uneasy relationship because Bobby has been on this pretty fast - track of success, moving 100,000 - 200,000 bonuses, and I've been squeaking along with my life.

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.

The movie follows pretty much the same story, but as manga has more time to explore the characters you'll get extra background details about their lives and also a few more chapters into their story together.

But since my series character is pretty much a smarter, braver me, when my contracts were fulfilled, I welcomed the chance to live in somebody else's head for a while.

The fact that the main characters of «All the Pretty Horses» are only about 13 to 17 years of age and out working on their own at horse ranches and traveling on their own, leads one to recall that many times young men and women in those years lead early working lives and it all ended early too.

YourAn Inspector Calls essay should focus on and analyze characters like the inspector and Sheila who is described as, ``... a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited» At the beginning of the play we see her as a flighty and gullible person who loves to enjoy life.

The character voices in the story mode really bring the scenes in the story to life pretty well and make it interesting to sit back and watch no matter how short the story is.

During the last months, we have worked on many different things, including: — animation, improving the moves of the fox and slightly changing its shape so it feels more like a living creature — game context, expanding the universe, its characters and their motivations — game structure, starting implementing some levels and creating more gameplay elements — narration, figuring out how we want to tell our story in harmony with the gameplay Of course there's still a lot to be done, but we are not going backward so it's pretty encouraging!

Well, at one point the main characters in the game are seen playing an arcade version of Justice Monsters Five, so it's pretty cute of Square Enix to create a real - life version of that.

In these messages, you find that each person has a pretty emotional story, and it truly brings the characters to life.

The life - path character generation, in 4 - year career hitches, was pretty much transplanted wholesale from Traveler, which took the concept so far that bad things could happen, leaving your character with a limp, or with one eye, or even, in 1st edition, dead.

The list of prominent bicyclists in film history includes misfit teens (Napoleon Dynamite), eccentric Einstein - like scientists (the license-less Jeff Goldblum character in Independence Day, in which the bike is, admittedly, shown as a pretty decent way to escape Manhattan), vaguely countercultural types (Mark Wahlberg's character in I Heart Huckabees, or Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men) perpetual man - children (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure), and people who otherwise refuse to grow up or are out of touch with real life and the working world.

I may be dreaming in technicolour, but I'm pretty certain we're not living in a nightmare... this is more like one of those vivid dreams with lots of interesting characters and exciting scenarios.

A bag of wind (1878) · A blatherskite (1890) · A cowardly slanderer and a bully (1907) · A dim - witted saboteur (1956) · A parliamentary babe and suckling (1890) · A parliamentary pugilist and political bully (1875) · A servile follower of the government (1878) · A trickster (1919) · Above the truth (1962) · Abusing his position in the House (1877) · Ass (1970) · Attempted to misrepresent (1961) · Attempting to distort the facts as he had in the past (1956) · B and B gang (1964) · Bullshit (1973) · Canadian Mussolini (1964) · Cheap political way (1960) · Coming into the world by accident (1886) · Crook (1971) · Deceive (1977) · Deceived (1960) · Deliberate distortion (1968) · Deliberate falsehood (1961) · Deliberate malignity (1962) · Deliberately deceived (1960) · Deliberately distorted (1972) · Deliberately misleading (1977) · Deliberately misled (1959) · Deliberately misstated the truth (1960) · Deliberately trying to pervert (1960) · Demagogue (1963) · Devoid of honour (1960) · Dictatorial attitude (1961) · Disgracing the House (1896) · Dishonest (1959) · Dishonest answers (1968) · Dishonest insinuations (1960) · Dishonest performance (1960) · Does not have a spine (1971) · Evil genius (1962) · Fabricated a statement (1961) · Fabrication (1959) · False (1961) · False representations (1975) · False statement (1961) · Falsehood (1976) · Falsify (1964) · Fraud (1960) · Fraudulent character (1962) · Grovelling in the dirt in order to get an office (1900) · Has not got the guts (1959) · Honourable only by courtesy (1880) · Hypocrites (1961) · Hypocritical (1961) · Hysterical (1943) · Idiot (1962) · Ignoramus (1961) · Illegal (1977) · Illegal (actions)(1976) · Insolent and impertinent (1890) · Insolent and irresponsible reply (1962) · Inspired by forty - rod whiskey (1881) · Intentional deceit (1961) · Irresponsible Members (1969) · Irresponsible reply (1962) · Joker in this House (1960) · Kangaroo court (1960) · Lacking in intelligence (1934) · Lie (1959) · Lies (1976) · Living politically by deceit (1899) · Members have aligned themselves with the murderers in Quebec (1970) · Mislead (1958) · Misleading the public (1960) · Misrepresenting his constituency (1909) · Nazi (1962) · Nefarious (1960) · Not telling the complete truth (1964) · Not telling the truth (1960) · Obstruct the operation of government (1957) · Obstructionist (1961) · Offensive (1964) · Pompous Ass (1967) · Reneged promises (1962) · Scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen (1876) · Scurrilous (1961) · Seeking cheap notoriety (1919) · Shameful conduct (1960) · Sick animal (1966) · Silly reason (1961) · Sitting for his constituency by the grace of the leader of the Government (1884) · Slanderous accusations (1960) · Small and cheap (1960) · Stealing (1960) · Stooping to pretty low motives (1956) · Talking twaddle (1898) · The political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917) · Theft (1960) · To hell with Parliament attitude (1961) · Trained seal (1961) · Treason (1957) · Trickery (1959) · Underhanded (1961) · Untrue statement (1961) · Violated his oath (1967) · Wilfully misled (1970)