Sentences with phrase «meaningful characters in»

Infamous games haven't been known for their killer storylines but Sucker Punch did a great job through their dialogue and cut - scenes in making meaningful characters in Second Son, even if the conclusion is easy to predict.

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Participants could track Barbara for as long as they wanted, until they had «seen enough» to determine a meaningful change in her moral character.

Though the concept of a persona, a fictional character used to understand a particular audience segment, has existed for years, this study sought to uncover why organizations fail to create, update, maintain or apply persona intelligence in meaningful ways, rendering them ineffective.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

In this situation how could we give meaningful content to the idea that God extends subjective aims to the various actors in the little drama we have constructed, that is, provides subjective aims which have the potential, at least, to affect the outcome of events, and have, therefore, the potential to affect the character of God's future experiencIn this situation how could we give meaningful content to the idea that God extends subjective aims to the various actors in the little drama we have constructed, that is, provides subjective aims which have the potential, at least, to affect the outcome of events, and have, therefore, the potential to affect the character of God's future experiencin the little drama we have constructed, that is, provides subjective aims which have the potential, at least, to affect the outcome of events, and have, therefore, the potential to affect the character of God's future experience?

With Wenger at the club next year there will be no hope IMO for a meaningful change in character and results of our squad and games.

Although it is hard to have a meaningful dialogue in 140 characters, people all day and every day promote their businesses and share links.

Grit, curiosity and character, he contends, are as critical as academic «smarts» in explaining why children succeed in achieving «a happy, meaningful and productive life.»

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Engaging in meaningful activities with your child (red) is a wonderful way to get to know them better, build their self - esteem and character, share values, strengthen emotional intelligence and create special memories.

Mr. Bharara continues his work, pursuing investigations in a Capitol where the remaining cast of characters are incapable of meaningful ethics reform.

To measure character skills researchers used five personality traits — openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — which are widely accepted as a meaningful construct for describing differences in character skills by psychologists.

But what screenwriter and Potter mainstay Steve Kloves does with the script in Part 2, tying those characters all together and giving them meaningful parts, is nothing less than masterful.

We get to see cheesy, poorly produced scenes of lame flirting between Troy and Riker inbetween plays of the Holodeck program, one of the main Enterprise characters dies in a really forced, badly - directed and pointless way (the character deserved a much more meaningful and dramatic death than that at least).

The brief moments of ultraviolence are cartoonish in a similarly sub-Tarantino way, all B - movie sound and fury that only partially makes up in virtuosity what it lacks in meaningful plot development or character revelation.

As a single entry in the MCU, Avengers: Infinity War is as good as anything Marvel Studios has released in the last decade, but what makes it truly special is how it elevates everything that came before and makes every character and narrative development even more meaningful.

Every character feels meaningful as does the world they are in.

The plot is unintelligible and the repartee amongst a great cast lacks any impact or charm because it's not rooted in any meaningful story or character development.

In effect, that lack of explicitness damns The Second Mother, as character relations are hinted at and even primed for confrontation, but without payoff or meaningful conclusion.

Gerwig's character is extremely similar to the one she played in Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal peoplin Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal peoplIn Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal people.

You're not going to get much in the way of meaningful development here, but the opposing Separatist forces have a bit of character to them.

You will be able to take control of a wide variety of characters throughout the game's narrative rich story, although these characters don't compare to the number of character in past Warriors games, they are all integrated into the game's story which makes their addition to the game meaningful and not simply canon fodder.

The film is anything but rushed and that is in its favor; a string of fast - paced set pieces weighs down any movie and Miyazaki has the good sense to balance the adventure with quiet but meaningful character moments.

For one, the character creation process is sorely lacking in meaningful customization options.

, these quirks are hung on the character in lieu of real development; like Steve Carell's obsession with Proust, or Paul Dano's desire to be a pilot, they don't reveal anything meaningful to us about these people, it's just lazy writing.

Far from empty - headed, though, Stardust is a deeply meaningful series of sweet - nothings, wholly apolitical even in a macho supporting character revealed as a cross-dresser and hair stylist; and by its end, it wins not in spite of being so exuberant in its indulgence of flamboyant clichés, but because it is.

Maybe if there were flashbacks or a better build up in the exposition to who these characters are it would make the ending all the more meaningful.

But like many other sequels that have come before it, A Bad Moms Christmas makes the classic mistake of thinking the addition of several new characters and subplots is the same thing as building off of the first film's story in any meaningful way.

It is tough to generate feelings of sympathy for most of the characters in Please Give and while the film isn't oblivious to this, it doesn't compensate for it in any meaningful way.

This one is dominated by the Tramell character so completely, the balance is out of sorts, with the advantage decidedly lopsided in her favor in every meaningful way.

Instead of all this needless dialog, why not develop the characters in more meaningful relationships.

James Rhodes / War Machine (Don Cheadle) has a smaller, but meaningful role to play in the proceedings here by comparison, while Clint Barton / Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Scott Lang / Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) are the established MCU players who get the least onscreen development - but Civil War makes up for that by giving these characters some of the best action scenes in the movie.

It's often difficult to find real, meaningful character development in comedic films.

There's no interest given to the characters and their relationship to one another as its consequences never impact the film in a meaningful way.

Making the most meaningful impression of the supporting characters, however, is Hal Holbrook, who clocks in for only a portion of the screenplay but demands at least a tear or two in his role as a kindly grandfather type which earned him a rightful Oscar nomination.

Berger's camera is rarely still, and Nicholls» script is layered with clever and sometimes very meaningful dialogue, all of which is reflective of its titular character's nature: Patrick is restless in body, mind, and soul.

It injects some quicktime action into the script by having powerful characters briefly bash on generic Kree mooks, but there's not much in the way of meaningful stakes, so it falls flat.

Stronger in theory than in execution, Garrity's Borealis boasts a dense script and meaningful direction which is somewhat undermined by flawed character motivation, contrived plot developments, and a slogging comedy - crime arc.

But this contrast feels even more meaningful and cruel in The Florida Project because, as misguided as these characters are, it is hard not to feel like the beauty of their environment played a part in their complacency — the bright and optimistic colours a total deception, conning them into a false sense of security.

Led by Paul Rudd, just about all of the meaningful characters are interesting in their own right.

Every scene is an exercise in drawn - out affectation, with the characters» silent stares at each other, gazes off into nothing, and pauses between dialogue exchanges — all set to meaningful piano twinkles and drum beats — so distended as to intimate parody, an impression exacerbated by William twice telling enforcer Vincent (Martin Donovan) that his comments sound like something from a movie.

The vastness and the wide angle lenses in certain moments, I think, intended to show the main character's sense of isolation within his community, so we tried at times to use framing devices and use camera movements to amplify that sentiment to have a very meaningful impact.

The stellar supporting cast includes Nancy Reilly, Margo Martindale and Thomas Haden Church none of whom get sufficient material to develop their characters in any meaningful way.

So many horror movies focus on young female characters, and so few of them connect to those characters in a meaningful way.

Your character's grandfather has left you his farm in Stardew Valley, so you abandon your life of corporate - cubicle misery in search of something more meaningful.

The Institute's attempted severity is constantly undermined by its inability to convincingly up the stakes through meaningful articulations of place or purpose — and it doesn't help that characters speak in faux - period syntax throughout.

Perhaps this is because Hess, along with his wife and frequent collaborator Jerusha Hess (director of 2013's Austenland) simply gravitate towards funny sounding scenarios, quirky in concept but failing to develop meaningful characters or emotional gravitas when fleshing them out.

Many had reservations on this sequel even happening at all, such is the love for the first one, but T2 is still a meaningful journey and takes the lives of it's characters in a satisfying direction.

I don't think it's possible to make an action flick with as many characters as TDK has in it and engage in any meaningful character development.

By expressing interest in a favorite character, students learn to engage with print in meaningful ways.