Sentences with phrase «machinations play»

If any legal machinations play out, he'll have to deal with them.

These playful fantasy realms are upon closer inspection macabre theaters of politics and war: watercolor paint bloodies the canvas, and sinister global machinations play out in abstracted landscapes populated by faceless figures and dominated by oil refineries and labyrinthine pipelines.

With this film too, the south isn't just a context or a handy backdrop on which the machinations play out — it is the movie.

Not exact matches

A slew of political machinations will now play key roles in determining Albany's future course, including the allegiance of a single rogue Democrat from Brooklyn (Sen. Simcha Felder), special elections to fill Senate vacancies on April 24, and the November general election.

One small molecule that helps regulate gene expression plays a big role in keeping us safe from the machinations of cancer.

Alma played Empress Maria Theresa in Marie Antoinette (1938), who supervised the arranged marriage of Marie and the dullwitted Louis XVI; while in His Girl Friday (1940) she was Ralph Bellamy's domineering mother, who underwent the indignity of being first kidnapped and then arrested thanks to the machinations of newspaper editor Cary Grant.

The plot involves the further machinations of main baddie Jeanine (not a terribly scary villain's name, is it), played with icy smoothness by Kate Winslet.

There's a conversation, a serious one, to be had about fracking, about the machinations of energy corporations, about capitalism — but it's rich that these wealthy white guys think the best way to go about inspiring debate is by presenting straw men at play in the heart of hicksploitation U.S.A..

«We don't play it for plot machinations or tropes.

If you've been watching Westworld for the past six weeks, you've surely become familiar with the trailers for The Young Pope, Paolo Sorrentino «s upcoming limited series about the first American Pope (played by Jude Law) and the eccentric machinations he brings to the Vatican.

Through various story - lines and complex machinations, the Vision turned the tables and became an Avengers member himself, and married (or whatever it is androids do) Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen will play her).

In The Post, we see the story behind the story — the machinations of decision - making, loyalties to old friends, journalistic responsibility, tradition and risk - taking, and how they play in deciding whether to pick up where The Times» was forced to leave off, and pursue the story.

The Big Short Film Review by Kam Williams Adaptation of Michael Lewis Best Seller Chronicles Financial Collapse of 2008 Michael Lewis» The Big Short was an eye - opening best seller chronicling the machinations on the part of a quartet of Wall Street contrarians (played by Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Brad Pitt) who accurately forecast the global financial crisis of 2008.

For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical angles.

These machinations will also further polarize the politics around ESEA reauthorization — with the administration choosing to play to its base rather than focus on governing.

The script tells the story of a shy schoolgirl who is desperate to perform in the school play, but who has to battle against a prejudiced, old - fashioned headteacher, her own nerves and the machinations of some jealous friends.

The Jim Crow South, the Great Migration, the civil rights movement of the»60s in America and the Ashanti nation's geopolitical machinations with the British (see Beyond the Book) all play out here, but the characters are always central to the narrative.

It needs more than «you don't need it open at all times whilst playing» to stand a long - term chance against Valve's machinations.

Rich in history and atmosphere, Ham was largely the vision of Elizabeth Murray, the Duchess of Lauderdale (later the Countess of Dysart), who played an important role in the machinations of the English Civil War and later the restoration of the monarchy.