Sentences with phrase «low life characters»

Shot in lurid black and white, the film feels Lynchian in spirit focusing on the low life characters that populate Mexico's capital.

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Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

Do the Zombies see such intertwining of love's highs and low - downs as the tragically monstrous character of humanity's sexuality — a perennial trait, albeit one only recently reactivated on a wide scale after a long and unnatural cultural hibernation — that we simply have to learn to live with?

Romesh Dutt, translator of the Epics in Everyman's Library says of them: «The Hindu scarcely lives, man or woman, high or low, educated or ignorant, whose earliest recollections do not cling to the story and the character of the great Epics.

Yet if all this meant that Luther had only a low view of human worth and character, one must also listen for his simul: at the same time, he cried — now in happy dread before the Holy — when God looks at the trusting one God sees not the «bad» or «useful» life but the new person.

It's when the Kentucky character in Re-Membering is at his spiritually lowest, wandering around the streets of San Fransisco at dawn, that he muses about how it would be great to live there (away from his wife and roots) and learn Japanese and all about Zen Buddhism, something Gary Snyder really did, after he had already written a book all about Northwest Native American mythology.

I'm an italian gentleman... romantic and serious.At first place in my life there's a word: respect.I'm still alone because i don't like italian women for a lot of reasons.I hate low culture and superficial and fake character.

Carried by an appropriately low - key Adam Driver and Jarmusch's casual genius for capturing offhand remarks, Paterson is his most absorbing character study since «Broken Flowers» — and far more grounded in real life.

For all the affairs, the jealousy, the self - involvement and the obliviousness of some characters, these are lives in lower case and for all her compassion, Jaoui doesn't give us much reason to want to know them.

The latest character posters for Mission Impossible 5 features the British actor known for playing icky villains or low - lives in small UK productions (remember his Drexl - type drug dealer in Harry Brown or his assassin in A Lonely Place To Die?)

As Richard, Edgerton's ideally cast to play a low key character less invested in grand statements than maintaining his private life.

A common film formula found in 1980's slapstick comedies is the riches - to - rags storyline in which a wealthy character is subjected to living like a member of a lower class.

This low - key character study from filmmaker Joshua Marston is built around a woman who prefers to make up her life as she goes along — one new, invented identity at a time.

So much so that as Bale and Rodriguez make the rounds, it comes as an actual surprise that they don't run into the same low - and middle - life characters that Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke encountered.

Still, considering that these characters have largely been out of circulation this century — they last appeared in Cartoon Network's 2001 movie The Flintstones: On the Rocks and are probably better associated with the critical and commercial failure of 2000's unnecessary theatrical live - action sequel Viva Rock Vegas — the faithfulness of the characterizations and the comedy exceeds your low expectations.

Consummate supporting actor Hawkes, whose recent filmography has plenty of titles that sound nearly interchangeable with this one (Life Of Crime, The Driftless Area, Low Down) leads an appropriately character - actor - heavy ensemble that includes Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster, Clifton Collins Jr., and Daniel Sunjata, among others.

This time Woody Allen has no problem identifying his principal characters as Jewish, including one Member of the Tribe who is an outright gangster (Corey Stoll as Ben Dorfman), and two folks who are lower - middle - class products of 1930's Jews living in a humble Brooklyn residence (Jeannie Berlin as Rose and Ken Stott as Marty).

Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their Spanish writer - director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives: the solidarity but also the standoff between parent and child; the series of low - ceiling jobs; the alienation from what few social services still exist; the yearning but also the wariness awakened by new romantic prospects; and the suddenness with which poor choices, ambient prejudice, or adolescent disaffection lead to intractable enmeshments in the penal apparatus.

DeWitt's work here also fits the autumnal mood of the film, its low tenors slowing down to a crawl at times as things get ugly between the characters, only to jump back to life as things pick up and seem hopeful, even happy (only insomuch as Philip would be capable of such a genuine feeling, of course).

If only the low - aiming script by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, X-Men 3), rumored to have undergone several rewrites at the hands of others, saw their characters as living, breathing human beings instead of mere comedic devices in the singular big joke the film is built on, and perhaps we would have seen even more fireworks in the romance department.

Alternately terse and elegiac, Shotgun Stories works best when it observes the lives of its main characters, three lower - class brothers from southeast Arkansas.

While the film is still clearly another low budget affair, the special effects look to be well done, and new Pinhead actor Paul T. Taylor seems to be doing his best to live up to Doug Bradley's legendary portrayal of the character.

Wrote Eric Kohn at Sundance, «Intimately shot and almost exclusively focused on the two characters» daily lives, «The End of Love» maintains an effectively bittersweet atmosphere that works its quiet spell throughout, although it aims too low to leave a particularly strong impression.»

This low - key character study — which chronicles his life prior to founding the alt - rock band The Smiths — tends to indulge in the sorts of clichés that its subject spent his career assailing.

He also uses this swooping camera to suggest the everyman nature of these low - life characters.

Just in the way he can instantaneously shift his tone of voice from gruff whispers to charming low - speak on the CB radio to his female dispatcher (voiced by real - life wife Kyra Sedgwick), Bacon inhabits the Sheriff as a duplicitous character that fits right at home in a serpentine thriller such as this.

The amazing journey of Ridgewood Middle School, a school of 500 seventh and eighth graders from low socio - economic families on the outskirts of St. Louis presents a real life example that showcases the transformative power of effective character education.

- Library Journal» [This] vast book has a Dickensian sweep of characters, high - and low - life intermingling... Ghosh conjures up a thrilling sense of place.»

She captured a tone of quirky, low - key irony that was perfect for the character of Constance, as a real - life no - nonsense woman of fortitude.

Speaking of Tekken 7: Fated Retribution Rage Arts, Harada stated that these special moves deal damage depending upon the remaining life of the opposing character — more damage when the HP is low and less damage when the HP is more.

There are two incredibly difficult to defeat enemy bosses to overcome in the form of Dr. Hans Volter who wears an Exo suit to provide him with superhuman strength and movement with a pair of assault rifles and gas grenades as his main attacks, although despite all of that he will still feel the need to suck the life out of any nearby character when his health is running low, while the Patriarch has a powerful minigun and missile launcher in place of his left arm and healing syringes to recover health when retreating.

When low - life characters do show up, they're pushed to the periphery.

The following details come from Gematsu... - 3D Mode characters move vividly in a three - dimensional world - in 2D Mode, the game is depicted in nostalgic pixel graphics - at the start of your adventure, 3D Mode is depicted on the upper screen, and 2D Mode is depicted on the lower screen - when the two modes are displayed at the same time, conversations and such are displayed on the upper screen when using the slide pad - on the lower screen when using the d - pad - As you progress, you will choose which one of the two modes to you want to continue playing with - can visit the church to switch between modes - in 3D mode, monsters will attack if they notice the protagonist running by - with 2D mode, you will encounter monsters randomly while walking - will be able to see the «Memories of Your Journey» at certain places - with 3DS version, you can look back on important scenes in the story that you have already seen in your favorite visual mode - allows you to also see how that scene played out in the style you are not playing in - a village where a special tribe among the Incarnations of Time known as the «Yocchi» live - here you can make use of the system's StreetPass features - also discover a dungeon that only the Yocchi can enter called the «Labyrinth Beyond Time» - send in the Yocchi you gathered through StreetPass to explore - exploring the Labyrinth Beyond Time may open the door to surprises - Yocchi have an important mission, and want the protagonist to help them carry it out - in order to help the Yocchi, it seems that it is necessary to find «Adventure Log Passwords» in the Labyrinth Beyond Time

Sometimes players are just running to the right to get from Point A to Point B, searching high and low for all the Teensies, other times you are running frantically up a tower to avoid getting drowned in sand or away from disturbing, hairy monsters whose only mission in life is to devour you (all the characters in Legends die in one hit unless you collect a heart, and explode in a «I ate too much cake» hilarious fashion).

Resident Evil Revelations was the title known for taking the Resident Evil franchise back to its horror roots where the emphasis was less on action but being low on ammo and in fear of your character's life as you venture into the unknown.

The character design is excellent as it brings a vast array of fairytale characters to life such as the Big Bad Wolf, Snow White, the Woodsman, Beauty and the Beast, Mr. Toad, Colin from the Three Little Pigs, Ichabod Crane, Bufkin, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, the Magic Mirror, the Little Mermaid and many more besides as well as non-Fables referred to in short as mundies for mundane as they go about their own business, but if suspicion were to be raised for a large group of mundies, then the glamours would fail which is why the Fabletown community need to maintain a low profile, while every character has their own status from Fabletown Sheriff to Fallen Hero and even Slum Lord, amongst just a few of the titles given.

During a battle a series of gauges appear in the lower right corner of the screen to depict the order of attack for the next eight turns of combat as well as current health («Life Energy», or LE) for each character, both friend and enemy.

I loved the way those character looked when they were animated because they had these giant sweeping body motions but their faces stayed rigidly still and the low polygon count made them look like an impressionist painting come to life!

The morbidity and provocative nature of her work has often elicited comparisons with Francis Bacon and Damien Hirst — her androgynous occupation of this masculine low - life domain gives her work much of its critical character.

The morbidity and provocative nature of her work has often elicited comparisons with Francis Bacon and Damien Hirst; her androgynous occupation of this masculine low - life domain gives her work much of its critical character.

Other far - flung locations in this Talent in Texas show reflect art - making's increasingly migratory character, such as rural Maine — see Keliy Anderson - Staley's fascinating Off the Grid series depicting the homes of families living without plumbing or electricity — and Venezuela, where Miguel Amat shot his hauntingly ambiguous large - format photographs of dams used not just to generate electricity to «contain» the leisure activities of low - and middle - income local tourists who lack international travel options.

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)

Hand over your account name, password and about $ 300, and get on with your real life for a while: in a marathon of round - the - clock monster - bashing, a team of power levelers will raise your character from the lowest level to the highest, accomplishing in four weeks or less what at a normal rate of play would take at least four months.

The low - ceilinged living room retains its original character, yet it has an attractive modernity.