Sentences with phrase «much about any of the characters»

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How do you go about creating characters and stories that people relate to and feel so much a part of?

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

When you're watching «The Incredibles,» it always feels like there's so much more to discover about the story and the history of the characters, which isn't always the case in Pixar movies.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.

But still: It's hard to diss a movie that displays so much of what's undeniably good about Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence — two attractive and fascinating characters.

She articulates a practical way of living out what I learned in much of my faith - changing - books, about the nature and character of God, and how we translate that nature and character to our tinies.

It is not necessary to say much about culture in the sense of «polish» or good manners, except that this is an important asset to Christian character and a dangerous substitute for it.

Indeed, his commitment to religious liberty was at least as much a function of his worry about domineering religious sects imposing themselves on the public square as of any concern about a loss of society's fundamental moral character.

Something about the young Lakita character reminded me so much of a little girl I met named Bharathi, who is pictured above on the left.

It is indeed difficult to expatiate on the character of one's mentor, especially when so much of what we would speak about pertains to private exchanges and painstaking individual guidance.

Much of the energy that goes into reflection about the Christian tradition in general, and Christology in particular, is generated by awareness of its oppressive character.

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

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Indeed, I have that fear about much of my work, as some seem to think that «an ethics of character» may be a new alternative to an ethics of principle or a situation ethics.

By that he meant that, had the founding happened before about 1770 or after 1805, the controlling texts of our constitutional order would have been much more explicitly Christian in character.

Russ — I don't think you'll find people arguing too much about the few character names we have, but more about other pieces of information that should be available to corroborate the supernatural aspects of the stories.

This assumption is common among highly intelligent people, like Weinberg, who haven't thought much about the history and character of Christianity except as a sociological or psychological phenomenon.

We never learn much about her history, save for a few significant bombshells down the road, yet she feels a good deal more dimensional than about 95 % of characters in film history.

I can't add much to this flood of advice except to submit, with humility, that in my view we don't have much choice about our fundamental emotional attitude; it is a matter of personal character (body chemistry and the close culture of family and schooling), but this need not affect our choice of creed and code if we have independence of mind.

About 60 per cent are members of churches, but though only God knows how many of these are real Christians, it seems certain that Christian character in any thoroughgoing sense is a much greater rarity.

Those who are wise in their own minds (whether they are «educated» or not makes no difference) often depend upon their own wisdom; whereas those who are know they have much to learn (that is, they are «babes») are willing to accept what Jesus reveals to them about the character and nature of God.

Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.

Evangelical pastors are much more concerned about the personal character of Trump and Clinton, as well as their Supreme Court picks, than the people in their pews.

I find it very hard to believe that the 94 year - old Billy Graham has much of a clue about Romney's record or character.

Although abridged and occasionally hiccupy ¯ a character rattles away in Russian for twenty or thirty seconds while four words in English sit on the screen ¯ the supertitles mean you lose only about as much of the Shakespearean text as you would in any normally abridged production.

Those are not beliefs — not in the biblical sense of the term «belief» — or if they are a form of belief they are disconnected from any relevance to you and I. None of these «so called» beliefs affect much of what you do with your life — knowing about a virgin birth won't give you the tools to be a better parent — these «beliefs» do not function like that — they are more suppositions about the character of God.

My earliest memories of Tosca Cafe involve clouds of cigarette smoke, too much Fernet, and the kind of characters Tom Waits writes songs about.

How terribly sad... we have fallen so far that we find ourselves in the ridiculous position of propping up the oft - injured and rarely inspirational Jack Wiltshire... what's next, extending Walcott, Welbeck and Ramsey... can't you see that these players have nothing to do with winning and all to do with providing recognizable names to the plastic fans who frequent our overgrown library of a stadium... it's high time we rid this club of one of the worlds most incompetent and unsuccessful owners (look it up) and our fragile and spineless manager (much like our club) who can't bring in the best talent because he knows he can't live up to expectations that come with players of that ilk... think about it, he couldn't even handle Sanchez, who was largely a periphery character in Barcelona

I guess now that I think about it, some of the side character dialogue is, but you don't have to talk to them much.

We do not have street wisdom and about building the Emirates, as much as it makes financial sense and glitters so well, I think most of us will take an Highbury laden with trophies and full of life and character over a lifeless and bland Emirates where fans are not even allowed to passionately support their team.

thats ridiculous... first of all i am happy if somebody enjoys their work that much, and fans just shouldn't care about the private behaviors of players as long it doesn't directly influence their time on the pitch or things that are just plain wrong and show a bad character like terry / giggs (women) for example, criticise those things..

She was one of the best teachers of character I met — yet not only did she not talk much about character, she wasn't even a teacher.

And considering that the point of the post was about her character (saying that it was an act of narcissism), the objection that she shouldn't cast aspersions on her character is, yes, pretty much saying she shouldn't criticize.

In Zionism, prior to the founding of the state Israel, there was much discussion about what character the new jewish state should have.

Ask him about his childhood and you won't hear about hours spent watching The Cosby Show or Cheers, but rather about hours spent in forests and an ocean full of characters that to him were much more interesting.

But at moments of much greater traffic — when messages are sent up to 200 times as frequently — the highest concentration of tweets is only around 25 characters in length, and declines sharply to a low at about the 130 - character mark.

The main characters have become so much a part of popular culture that many women use them as reference points to describe their own patterns and feelings about sex.

Writing to a Russian lady, you should write not only about material things you can offer, but what is much more important, the good qualities of your character and personality that will make you sound attractive as a potential match.

Pyre is about a larger cast of characters during a much longer period in their lives.

I am a huge fan of the original Prince of Persia trilogy, and when I heard about this game I was a little worried that they would change to much of what made the original games great, and I was right, the gameplay has been completely destroyed, platforming is awkward do to too may actions being mapped to the same buttons, combat is tedious and unenjoyable, it's EXTREMELY repetitive, having to search around for light seeds just to advance the plot is stupid, and do to the fact that you can't really die the whole game just feels like trial and error, and the new Prince character is completely unlikeable, while they messed up most of the game it's got some good things going for it, the voice acting is solid, the graphics are beautiful, and the ending does have interested in seeing where the story goes from here, but I'm not sure if I want to pick up the next game they come out with, this was a huge disappointment and isn't worthy to bear the Prince of Persia name.

director Xavier Beauvois uses the investigation of one crime... to string together a character piece that is as much about the character of a Parisian homicide squad within a police department as it is a study of some of the individuals who comprise it.

Macdonald, playing an outsider with wisdom, is by far the most sympathetic character; the movie has plenty to say about the parenting traditions of the wealthy, not much of it favorable.

In its best moments, where only small gestures tell us so much about the characters, that's touching and heart - warming, but of course little spectacular and sometimes a little slow.

The problem I have with so much writing about screenwriting is that it is often only about structure (Syd Field's plot points; the Hero's Journey, etc) without a lot of understanding of the nuances of character, tone, et al involved.

This modest film falls into the category of «character study», which generally means there there isn't a real plot or story follow, so much as a brief peek into a life of someone for a while, perhaps in the hope of learning a thing or two about a different mode of life, or as a reflection of our own.

One of the most disappointing things about this game besides the combat, which is very important in a game that ask for so much of your time, is your character.

While the choreography is generally fairly minimal (at least for this sort of mega-production), first time film director Phyllida Lloyd (who helmed the original stage version) has woven together a tightly edited and exceedingly well shot film that capitalizes on the music wonderfully while never worrying too much about such nettlesome items as character or motivation, providing enough other movement that one ultimately doesn't miss huge dance numbers a la Robbins or Fosse that much in the long run.

That said, my problem with the movie (which is much more superficial than most of these arguments) is that I just DID NOT CARE about any of the characters.