Sentences with phrase «noble hero»

And so it is with Greece and the European Union, a saga lacking in noble heroes, but replete with negative emotions, short - sightedness and simplistic analysis.

The scenario pops up all the time in science fiction, with noble heroes battling their villainous vat - grown doubles.

Like other Team Ninja games, Nioh is fairly over-the-top in terms of storytelling, featuring impossibly noble heroes, fantastically evil villains and a whole lot of fairly straightforward good - versus - evil rhetoric.

To be sure, the powerful sweep of these words at first suggests the grand images of conquest that belong to the mythology of the noble hero.

But he was not the noble hero or the tall, handsome film idol.

While Boseman does what he can with the ever - noble hero, Jordan is so relaxed and so unstiff that, if you're anything like me, you'll wind up rooting for the baddie when the two of them battle it out.

As they sweat and bleed the characters all end up filthy and caked in a cocktail of dirt and bodily fluids and nobody is allowed the opportunity to play the noble hero.

After playing an earnest lawyer in «The Conspirator,» the noble hero Charles Xavier in «X-Men: First Class» and the squeaky voice protagonist of «Arthur Christmas,» James McAvoy is getting some dirt under his fingernails.

Donkey Kong has never been mistaken for a noble hero.

Originally created by Jack Kirby, Lee was skeptical of bringing a surfboard - riding hero to the pages of Fantastic Four, but eventually came around to the idea and helped Kirby develop the character as a noble hero who sacrifices his own humanity to defend him homeworld from Galactus.

Off to rescue Buttercup are the noble hero Teddy (Forest Whitaker) and the loudmouth braggot Sir Handsome (Cary Elwes).

Cary Elwes plays a dashing, noble hero, a role he seems suited for and one not terribly unlike his most memorable live action performance as the well - intentioned Westley of The Princess Bride.

He wrote this film with two other credited screenwriters, Gabriel Dowrick and Steven Elder, and while the dialogue isn't exactly Mametian — or Schwarzeneggerian, for that matter — he makes himself a noble hero and keeps the emoting mostly within his limited range.

When talking about his work on Drakengard 3 — via a sock puppet — he spoke about how uneasy he felt about the disconnect between games that involve mass - murder but frame the player as a noble hero: «I mean, you're a serial killer if you killed a hundred people.