Sentences with phrase «more established characters»

But the story does have one issue: It sometimes jumps away from Versio to focus on other, more established characters, taking players away from a new story they haven't seen before.

Not exact matches

It is perhaps more than coincidence that this expanding judicial role and the religious character accompanying it occurred during the same decades that the «republican religion» established theological hegemony in America.

It is the way life makes way for more life.9 Death establishes a common fate for every living thing, and thus gives a decisive character to our dependence upon God and our unity with all His creatures.

The late Pope did more than any pope of the last century to defend and reassert beyond any doubt the stable and objective character of Catholic teaching - more even than Pius X with his great encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, since modernist incursions had become very much more powerfully established during the pontificate of the unhappy Pope Paul than they had been in the early years of the century.

As Banrock Station's Chief Winemaker for more than 10 years, Paul has harnessed the knowledge and skills he developed during stints in California and Tuscany to establish our unique signature style of easy drinking wines that retain true fruit character on the palate.

Just so we're straight on this, though... If you routinely drink yourself into a stupor and show up for work half - drunk, you've got more integrity and character than if you do whatever you can to play as well as you can, within the established norms of your contemporary colleagues?

What is more important is character training and establishing good habits and regular routines in the home, which will be a good foundation for later learning.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

Similarly, the late in the game subplot that revolves around Joe agreeing to escort the sergeant - turned criminal Charles Willis (Ben Foster) ultimately distracts from the story and character threads that were already established, more than it enhances them.

Director Ron Howard delivers an admittedly appealing opening stretch that effectively establishes Willow's fantastical world and raft of quirky characters, with, in terms of the latter, the movie certainly benefiting from Davis and Kilmer's thoroughly charming and affable work as the disparate protagonists (and it doesn't hurt, either, that the chemistry between the two couldn't be more solid).

Clementine herself has established in A New Frontier that she is more than worthy of being one of gaming's most beloved female characters, displaying a growth and complexity that few female characters in the past have been allowed to have.

The film opens with the obligatory but mercifully brief happy family scenes where Pitt's character, Gerry Lane, is established as a stay - at - home Philadelphia dad who doesn't seem to do anything more strenuous than make pancakes for breakfast.

But this disassociation from established Star Wars scene - setters - rousing theme music, any recognisable characters, the unmistakeable sounds of a lightsaber or Vader's heavy breathing - makes Star Wars 1313 a much more intriguing prospect.

The Family Stone sorts out its characters admirably, depends on typecasting to help establish its characters more quickly, and finds a winding path between happy and sad secrets.

Coming off of her starring role in Begin Again, Knightley's established a side to her career that doesn't need to involve the Pirates franchise or Jane Austen novels but instead sees her playing far more normal characters.

This was the movie that established Voight's career, and proved that Hoffman, after the triumph of «The Graduate,» had many more notes inside of him — and was destined to become one of the great character actors of his time.

Given where the various characters find themselves emotionally, financially etc., ending the film ninety seconds earlier could have lent the film a more uncertain and pessimistic vibe which would have been in keeping with the increasingly cynical tone the film had been steadily establishing.

There's a brief moment in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 that establishes the way director David Yates, who is now responsible for half of the movies in this series including the best (the fifth) and the least (the sixth) installments, handles the histories of these characters in visual terms that more than makes up for the apparent lack of consideration screenwriter Steve Kloves has for them.

And while it initially seems like John Debney's generic musical score is going to be the only source of mood establishment, something funny happens: setup established, the characters begin to move about like butterflies emerging from cocoons, displaying tenfold more emotional nuance than one might rightfully, albeit cynically, expect from such a film.

Still, even though it does deliver the TNT - strapped goods with a wallop, this thick - headed concoction fails to generate true excitement because it never establishes its central characters as anything more than mere playthings meant to push forward the high - concept premise.

The film attempts, with some success, to establish the expandable vehicles as characters: the original is called Spirit; the younger, more advanced rover is Opportunity.

Perhaps if The Bad Batch were less concerned about constantly establishing its mood and atmosphere through sound and visuals and more (or equally) focused on engaging audiences with its characters and plot, it would have been a much more entertaining film.

Jordan uses his established talent for portraying men of intelligence struggling with more rage - filled instincts, which were conquered in «Creed» and caused his character's rise and fall in «Black Panther.»

Unlike those other two James films, which focus as much or more on James's killer, this film is more of a straight biopic, as, after a opening sequence establishing a robbery gone wrong and James's mother lying sick in bed, various characters relate the major events of James's life in 15 minute episodes.

Neither is used to tease a specific upcoming venture, but at the same time it's clear the studio intends to bring this character back, with some more established heroes chipping in.

With all the character building already established in «The Unexpected Journey» and the omission of the drawn out and, frankly, tedious songs, Jackson finds his feet on more solid ground here.

Still, Eastwood's attempts to establish these characters a decade earlier as schoolboys are even more vacuous.

I wish Peele had been more careful in the way he introduces and establishes a tone for these characters.

Every character has their own storyline that often connects with the other characters, creating this feeling of a much more established world.

McDonagh deftly establishes a host of secondary characters who are more than just plot - advancers: the manager of the rundown office that rents out the billboards (Caleb Landry Jones), a regular at the town bar with a longtime crush on Mildred (Peter Dinklage), or the thuggish Officer Dixon's even meaner mother (Sandy Martin).

What's important is the atmosphere writer / director Jonathan Glazer (adapting a novel by Michel Faber) establishes to complement the central character — troubling for reasons of which we're gradually made more aware, detachedly curious, and increasingly enclosing as the extent of the bigger picture we're let in on becomes clearer.

After an intro that establishes every character flawlessly, Gary gathers up his reluctant and now much more mature schoolmates for one last go at the trail through Newton Haven, finishing at The World's End pub.

Thus established, Black wrote several more big - concept slam - bang thrillers — including The Last Boy Scout and The Long Kiss Goodnight, notable for their darkly comic tone and likable, if outrageous, characters, before stepping away from Hollywood for a few years.

Unfortunately for us, studios rarely see anything besides dollar signs, so until they realize that they can't try to set up an entire universe in one movie which took Marvel a decade to accomplish, they will continue to fall short on some great stories and characters that are so much more deserving than what we have gotten, and Marvel will continue to add great content to an already impressively established world.

Less effective are the story's more obvious beats of establishing these characters.

That the film gets too wrapped up in the consequences of time - travel and fortunate coincidences to maintain the momentum it generates in its first half is a shame, as the effort spent establishing character and setting deserves more than to be squandered in this way.

It provides more characters (Giancarlo Esposito and Rosa Salazar, as the leader of the resistance and his pseudo-daughter, play the most notable newcomers), but they're even more poorly defined than the established characters, who become anonymous here, too.

Before it gets into the more complex character work though, Celeste is careful to establish its credentials as a platformer.

Here's something of a feat, then: Suicide Squad spends more than half of its running time establishing these characters, only to turn them into personality - deprived pawns when they actually have to do something.

It's a tweak that blends well with the established material / character and beyond that, LeFou does have a more notable arc than in the animated version, where he was simply Gaston's toady.

Returning to the more straightforward presentation of the last section, «Early Tests» (5:27) presents animation done near the beginning of the film's production to establish lighting and the look and movement of the characters.

Mark Millar's Old Man Logan, for one, is an example of a more violent comic book storyline - one utilizing a character that had been established in an all - ages series.

It's because of this brotherhood and the personal connections established between so many of these characters that Only the Brave stands out as a movie more interested in storytelling than simply in special effects.

They've established processes, procedures, policies and programs that leave CEP poised to expand throughout our nation and beyond to help many more students become citizens of good character.

«With more than 100 schools and 13 networks now engaged in the programme, involving schools of every character and context, Aspire is now well on its way to becoming established as a national school improvement movement, reflecting the power of research and evidence to guide in - school practice, building collaboration and trust between schools, and investing in the development of the current and prospective leaders that are so critical to the future health of our education system.»

In terms of dynamics, performance, luxury, and feature availability, the CTS is a strong competitor to more established upper - line models in the premium - midsize segment, with a bold design character that stands apart from its European rivals.

Here, J.V. Jones takes advantage of the already established setting to focus more on character and story development.

Three years later, he's adding a third book to the trilogy, one that more straightforwardly returns to the timeline and characters established in The Shadow of the Wind.

As the characters grow from teenagers to confused college - age kids to more established adults, Eons & Empires serves as a touchstone for each.

«And some of the authors are becoming a bit more established,» said Bohme, with readers citing recurring characters, and series, as reasons for their self - published purchases, rather than just the sector's cheap prices.