Sentences with phrase «more emotional performance»

Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone are both excellent in their roles, especially the latter, who delivers his finest work in years with a subtler, more emotional performance than we're used to seeing from the actor.

Not exact matches

Studies have shown that more than 65 % of all competencies deemed essential for high performance in the workplace are related to emotional intelligence.

TalentSmart has tested more than a million people and found that the upper echelons of top performance are filled with people who are high in emotional intelligence (90 % of top performers, to be exact).

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

More ambitious Hollywood films that want to use computer - animated figures for real - life scenes could also benefit — whether they need a virtual stunt double or a realistic emotional performance to match the gravitas of films such as «Schindler's List.»

Studies also show that athletes can overtrain through the same mechanisms, which can result in physical, biochemical and or mental - emotional injuries that can ultimately impair performance, often more than the gains obtained in the training techniques that improved it.

Natalie Portman has hinted at being a versatile actress, willing to go deep to access the emotional soil for a part, but never has she committed this fully and completely, giving herself over as actors sometimes do — Robert DeNiro is Raging Bull, Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Names Desire, Charlize Theron in Monster, Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose, Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (Tootsie, Rain Man, etc.) These are those rare occasions when the actor is eclipsed by the character, the performance that then reaches something more than likable, believable; it becomes moving art.

Willem Dafoe's kind - hearted performance in The Florida Project joins more menacing turns from Barry Keoghan (The Killing of a Sacred Deer), Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards...), Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water), and an emotional turn from Patrick Stewart (Logan) in the Best Supporting Actor category.

The final piece of the puzzle is arguably Aaron Eckhart's finest screen performance in many years; quite apart from the attention - courting bald spot and weight gain, his depiction of trainer Kevin Rooney (also the man who trained Mike Tyson) is a consummately believable and sympathetic one, enjoying salty and bromantic chemistry with Teller that adds frequent laughs to the movie's more emotional moments.

Though the narrative requires much more from the viewer than one would like, I can applaud the artistic and emotional value beset by the writer / director along with outstanding performances from newcomer Hunter McCracken, Brad Pitt, and Jessica Chastain.

The subtle and constrained performances of Hemsworth and Wei further the sense of dehumanization, making their relationship all the more compelling as they declare their physical and emotional connection despite the intellectual objections.

Her performance as Linda Lovelace is a solid blend of vulnerability, strength and deep emotional pain, though I think she might be capable of even more.

We've got much more piss your pants one liners and forth wall breaking tomfoolery from Wade, it's sweet sensitive and extremely emotional in parts (not since the finale of T2 have I sobbed so much), the OTT action and gore makes a hatchet fight in a Butcher shop look clean in comparison with moments to make hardcore Gore - Geeks give a huge hooray, the cringe worthy «oh no he didn't» moments are rife, there's a touching subplot about what it really means to be Family and also we are treated to an array of colorful supporting characters including an excellent turn from Josh Brolin as futuristic super soldier «Cable», a wonderful performance from upcoming young talented star Julian Dennison (hunt for the wilder people), the obligatory Hugh Jackman cameo and a mega hard Super Villain who makes his previous onscreen incarnation seem like Vinny Jones in a giant penis suit... Oh wait!

Guadagnino directs all of them in performances that seem so utterly real, making it even more emotional to watch them fall for each other.

While the film has the same funhouse feel as «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,» it carries far more emotional heft — thanks in large part to Wasikowska's soulful performance.

Prince's performance feels so natural that it almost doesn't feel like acting — at least, until the emotional stakes get more precarious, and then it becomes clear that Prince is a precocious young talent who knows exactly what she's doing.

As the more experienced of the two, it is no surprise that Sutherland offers a more nuanced performance, and after a series of films (The Hunger Games, The Eagle, The Mechanic, Horrible Bosses) where he was taking minor parts that didn't stretch his considerable range to an enormous degree, it is refreshing to see him given a leading role that has genuine substance and emotional depth attached to it.

Ruth Negga shines in a breakout performance, but it's Joel Edgerton who is the standout, in a more revealing emotional role than anything he's tackled previously.

H also proves a credible low - key foil for the more lively performances of Williams» bully Roosevelt, Luke Wilson as the overly emotional mini-cowboy at war with coolly snide mini-Roman Steve Coogan, and Ricky Gervais as the supercilious museum director with an inability to finish sentences or lighten up with the museum's dwindling visitors.

The conversations and issues coming from the script penned by Mohan, Jeffrey Brown and Egan Reich are all too familiar for anyone who's had a significant other, and the natural and authentic performances by this young cast make it that much more accessible and emotional.

The performances from Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman evolve as every episode grows, the actors getting some more emotional and character driven moments to work with.

So while it is definitely surprising to learn that he has taken on a more grim role in his new film, «The Foreigner,» what's not surprising is how much emotional weight he brings to it, delivering a powerful performance.

Fisher too has an expanded role, and the more she does and says as General Leia, the more emotional the movie gets, resulting in a worthy farewell performance.

It's been 18 months and two more viewings since I was first wowed by Andrea Arnold's sink - estate drama, and Fassbender's is the performance that reveals more at each turn: as the kindly boyfriend of the teen protagonist's neglectful mother, his delicate negotiation of the queasy divide between parental and sexual impulse gives the film its messy emotional heft, but he's responsible for some unexpected stabs of joy too.

Creative programmes can offer a counter balance to testing and while their impact on academic performance is more difficult to measure their value in terms of cognitive development and emotional literacy is tangible.

It the idea of taking short performance piece and gradually «Brechtifying» it by adding more elements designed to distance the audience from the emotional content of the scene.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

On one hand, this could reflect authentic variation in performance across academic and social - emotional domains — and therefore the value of a more holistic indicator.

Thanks to help from community partners and volunteers, a lot of meaningful, authentic, and challenging learning opportunities occur during and outside of the regular school day (including tutoring sessions, after - school and summer programs, social - emotional learning, business internships, musical performances, and more).

A 2011 meta - study looked at 213 SEL programs and found that the children who participated in the programs were more likely to exhibit improved emotional and social skills, which in turn correlated with higher academic performance.

February 2015: CWC Schools Co-Founder and CEO Kriste Dragon, as part of the Aspen Action Forum, pledges to develop social and emotional learning skills to improve academic performance in more than 10,000 students over the next 15 years.

Such an approach, however, could require an unsavory amount of testing time.46 To date, few performance assessments for social and emotional learning have been piloted at scale, and policymakers need more research to determine whether emerging tasks will be valid and reliable measures.47

This all means we can offer impressive performance and have also created a car that's more emotional in the way it looks and drives.

The Asterion LPI 910 - 4 is a true Lamborghini: emotional, with a stunning design, powerful, yet conceived more for comfortable luxury daily cruising than for ultimate track performance.»

In making its Canadian debut at the CIAS, the midsize luxury sedan features more emotional styling with sports sedan proportions, wrapped around two new powertrains to provide even greater athletic performance, along with an array of signature Acura technologies.

Even more clearly than before, the Ibiza Cupra Concept shows the SEAT DNA in its most concentrated form — vigorous performance, the latest technology and comprehensive equipment clad in an emotional design.

The BMW M Performance exhaust system Active Sound, for example, bestows also diesel vehicles with an even more powerful and emotional sporting sound.

The TLX Prototype will feature more emotional styling and two all - new engine choices that will yield an even more athletic level of performance.

The eighth - generation sedan has gone through a total evolution, from a proven, dependable and safe car to one that also possesses a more exciting and emotional character, thanks to its newfound sporty performance and style.

The new Mercedes - AMG C 63 consumes around 32 percent less fuel than its direct predecessor with the 6.3 - litre V8 naturally aspirated engine — while delivering even more performance and the emotional sound that is a signature of the AMG V8.

It's certainly clean, but I want a meaner and more emotional look to my performance coupes.

The production Civic Si Coupe will serve as the performance leader for a completely redesigned 2006 model Civic lineup that will feature more emotional styling, added performance and the latest generation of «intelligent» i - VTEC engine technology.

Developed at the Acura Design Studio in Los Angeles, California, and inspired by the Acura Precision Concept, the all - new RDX presents a more emotional, athletic and aggressive form to match its premium performance - luxury SUV image.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

That gives you more time to live your life and less cause for emotional involvement (which is much more likely to hurt your performance than to help it.)

Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Forex Trading Course outlines a practical way to integrate fundamental and technical analysis to identify high probability patterns and trades; and reveals how to develop a trading plan and appropriate strategies for different size trading accounts; how to control emotions and use emotional intelligence to improve trading performance; and much more.

More importantly, because many actively managed funds fail to beat index funds, when individual investors put their money in active funds they often get the double whammy of poor performance from both the fund and their own emotional investor behavior.

More than 21 percent of college students say anxiety has affected their academic performance, and 13.5 percent say the same about depression.5 A 2010 study from the University of Iowa identified emotional / mental health as the top reason for withdrawal from college.

A spoken word artist delivers an emotional performance reminding us about all the incredible shelter pets that are waiting for loving homes and a professional photographer takes a groups of kids into a shelter to show how taking great pictures can help get more pets adopted.

Featuring hand - painted artwork, meticulously animated character performance, a fully orchestrated score and dozens more features, Ori and the Blind Forest explores a deeply emotional story about love and sacrifice, and the hope that exists in us all.