Sentences with phrase «meaningful characters with»

Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard — these are actresses that typically get relatively small film roles, and deserve to have a shot at more meaningful characters with actual significance.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Therefor, if crying can be regarded as a meaningful «target behaviour» for intervention with depressed mothers, research needs to address how to identify it (cry), what aspect of its character is meaningful (to the mother and clinician), who should be the target of the intervention (mother and / or infant) and whether the crying infant or the mother's processing of the signal matters (i.e., mother vs. infant).

«It's really meaningful to see her there, singing with Elmo, Big Bird and all the other characters.

The show quickly captured the hearts of viewers around the world with its beautiful scenery, fast - paced wit, meaningful characters, and shocking plotlines.

This lets us assess your character traits at a meaningful level, which helps match you with someone who gets you.

Looking for sharing meaningful intellectual conversation with assertive women who are liberally open to freedom, and expressing their true values, character, and sensuality.

Once their characters truly begin spending time with each other, Carell and Knightley convincingly play Dodge and Penny as realizing the most important relationships aren't the longest ones; the most meaningful are those with people with who you truly connect with now.

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.

While SoulCalibur V doesn't quite excel with some of the greatest fighting sequels out there, it's a huge step forward from IV, complete with online multiplayer that's meaningful again, a worthwhile character roster (Ezio rocks it, we're telling you) and a presentation that's as good as the series has ever seen.

Pacing is a problem for most pilots — so many characters to introduce, meaningful stakes to establish — but Quantico, from «Gossip Girl» producer Joshua Safran, does this effortlessly, with at least one deadly effective twist you won't see coming.

Although Viola Davis offers a fantastic performance here, this disgusting melodrama is much more concerned about making you cry than saying anything meaningful, while most of the characters are one - dimensional and several unnecessary details are constantly added to the story with the sole purpose of cheap sentimentality.

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 people.

As the gang meet up with female characters, their lives as strippers actually help them make honest relationships, rather than the last film, which argued that it was harder to form a meaningful bond with anyone, when your day job was taking your clothes off for money.

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.

, 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.

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.

His self - hatred will make it tough for viewers to connect to the character on any meaningful level, but with YWNRH, it's probably a good idea to keep a safe distance.

It's an old school fright flick with rich characters and meaningful emotions.

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.

Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri's ensemble is probably the best of the year — Frances McDormand holds nothing back as the fiery Mildred Hayes, Woody Harrelson is simply sublime throughout and Sam Rockwell does some serious heavy lifting playing with deep shades of moral gray area — but the way that the story shapes up — taking meaningful detours, all of which provide new avenues to explore the colorful collection of characters — is so wholly satisfying and so consistently sassily written (McDormand relishes every hateful lick dripping from Mildred) that I just couldn't get enough of it.

The overall premise is silly and its hard to suspend disbelieve when characters are having meaningful discourse with a puppet.

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.

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.

Big props to Aussie writer and director Ben Lewin, whose script gives every single character, no matter how small, a meaningful contribution to the film and backs it up with restrained but beautiful 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.

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

National Schools of Character exemplify CEP's Eleven Principles, among them defining ««character» comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and behavior»; implementing «a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed»; providing «students with opportunities for moral action»; and using «a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character developmenCharacter exemplify CEP's Eleven Principles, among them defining ««character» comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and behavior»; implementing «a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed»; providing «students with opportunities for moral action»; and using «a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character developmencharacter» comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and behavior»; implementing «a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed»; providing «students with opportunities for moral action»; and using «a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character developmencharacter, and helps them to succeed»; providing «students with opportunities for moral action»; and using «a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character developmencharacter development.»

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

eLearning characters must resonate with your corporate learners, who should be able to relate to the eLearning character's personality or plight in order to form a meaningful connection.

Now, as the director of performance character at Athlos Academies, he's combined these two experiences into the meaningful work of helping teachers implement social and emotional learning opportunities with their students.

We do this through exposure to real life, culturally relevant experiences; explicit character development, with a focus on student accountability; meaningful partnerships with parents, guardians, and the community.

As a coach, she worked hard to maximize resources, elevate her teams» performance, build athletes of character, and form meaningful connections with parents and the community.

It is important to find reading material with settings, characters, problems, and topics that are familiar or meaningful to students.

Larry Brooks: «Make sure your story comes from a place of passion, that it deals with something important to you, that you have something meaningful to say about it through your characters, and that isn't remotely a storytelling - by - the - numbers proposition that allows you to meet a critique group deadline.

Kathleen explores character sexuality, tragedy and compassion in a novel entitled The Centauress, which articulates a meaningful connection between two women in Croatia — one of whom has lost her family to a devastating terrorist attack while the other struggles to find peace with her sexual identity.

For some authors, having fans write new plots with their established characters is a flattering look at the ways their readers engage with the characters, and symbolizes that the authors» works were so meaningful to the fans that they weren't ready to let go of the fun.

Every enemy killed and mission or challenge completed awards you with XP, and when enough is earned you'll be given the change to spend some of your earned points on Perks to bolster your character, but like the abilities themselves these perks are an uninspiring lot, and there effects on your virtual avatar are often barely noticeable and fail to change the combat in any meaningful way.

Characters, theme, meaningful gameplay connected with meaningful storylines, clever self - aware writers working closely with game designers, internal consistency, vision.

Character advancement is molasses slow, with meaningful rewards for leveling up few and far between.

It's just a shame that you never really get a chance to interact with any of the supporting characters in a meaningful way.

From a story perspective, it means developing meaningful friendships with the various boss characters you come across.

Over its 60 hour playtime I got to forge meaningful friendships with an eccentric cast of characters, discover the secrets of Tokyo, and even managed to find some nice restaurants to dine at.

Back in the olden days, role playing games used to focus on character interactions that didn't boil down to an exchange of bullets to the face, choices that impacted in - game communities in more meaningful ways than you dropping by to unload the loot like a one - man coat drive, comprehensive character development, team building, stories with actual endings, and all the things that had something to do with playing a meaningful role (get it?)

And who knows, perhaps when Double Fine releases the second act of Broken Age next year, Tim Schafer and his colleagues will have figured out how to integrate the challenges required for a player to complete a game with the meaningful choices that every truly convincing character must make to finish their story.

«Harvest Moon: Light of Hope will set itself apart from other Harvest Moon titles with its depth, including a robust story and clear - cut goals, we set out to create a SNES - style nostalgic game with deep and meaningful characters and events.»

The revamped narrative experience offers total freedom for players to choose and complete quests at their own pace, with each adventure telling an intense and emotional story full of colorful characters and meaningful objectives.

This MMO is in a very early conceptual phase, but promises to bring features such as individual planets, meaningful decision - making that permanently affects characters and the ability to create outposts and form crews along with other players, all of this in a massive game universe with no boundaries and fully persistent.