Sentences with phrase «nuanced characters»

The Banner Saga impresses with its nuanced characters overall and with several really cool women in particular.

This atmospheric sci - fi mystery from the makers of Gone Home is wonderfully written, with a cast of rich, nuanced characters telling a compelling story through interactive AR recordings.

Both Chloe and Rachel are brilliantly complex, nuanced characters that feel within the realms of what Dontnod Entertainment created with the original series.

While both Not a Hero and End of Zoe are competently built, they replace the genuine horror and more nuanced characters of the main game with schlocky action and dumb wish fulfillment.

Sometimes that's what you need, not complex stories or nuanced characters or a bunch of tosh about the tricky morality of simply living from day - to - day.

With modern technology and massive budgets, it's still an impressive feat when a game can create memorable narratives, nuanced characters, and layered storytelling.

«Howard delivers an exciting standalone romantic thriller, featuring nuanced characters in extraordinary circumstances who still feel relatable and warm.»

Throughout her blockbuster career, # 1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult has seamlessly blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose, brilliantly creating stories that «not only provoke the mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us» (The Boston Globe).

Linda Castillo creates deep, honest, nuanced characters with complicated lives: The insights into Amish life and the alienation felt by former members of the community made this book more than just a mystery, but an escape into a lifestyle that is so different from my Southern California environment (Grace W).

Fantastical worlds are great places to find nuanced characters, well - developed settings and complex prose.

The writing is smart, with nuanced characters and a premium on clever wordplay over cheap laughs and deprecating humor.

Anwandter's creative storytelling, nuanced characters, and social consciousness proves that he's a bright talent rising in Ibero - American cinema.

In their exploration of fear, oftentimes via nuanced characters, these movies offer fresh perspectives on well - trod territory consistently worthy of our terror — adolescence, motherhood, marriage.

There's much to love about this adventure: it's brimming with nuanced characters, riveting drama, sharp wit, and a host of well - crafted action set - pieces.

«I'm determined to deliver a film that builds on the qualities of the first film and draws on the best aspects of the games whilst giving the audience more nuanced characters, a compelling story and introducing some terrifying new monsters (as well as bringing back a few favourites) and, most important of all... just scaring the s ** t out of everyone.»

Gone Are The Days fills the screen with some talented actors who deliver wonderfully nuanced characters.

Mike Mills has shed light on a unique time in history with a fine use of drama and comedy to explore these nuanced characters and an innovative narrative use of historical montage.

Logically sound plots and A + B roadmaps aren't appropriate vehicles for where he's going; he instead commissions the immaterial: elaborate yet nuanced characters, set designs that pack every inch with purpose, and an uncanny knack for harnessing the best from his actors (like the bottomless well that was Philip Seymour Hoffman's versatility).

Robards plays one of Peckinpah's most nuanced characters and de Havilland is a quiet force of moral backbone.

I'm sure Marvel is smart enough to have realized that their current formula needs the occasional tweak, which is why Phase Three is widening their creative horizons with more nuanced characters like Black Panther and Doctor Strange.

«The film has a completely authentic voice and the kinds of nuanced characters who are distinctive and truly memorable.

I find that Captain Miller and, to some degree, Corporal Upham register most strongly as clearly defined and nuanced characters.

But, in the new golden age of TV, many shows have opted for nuanced characters over caricatures and stereotypes.

But, in the new golden age of TV, many shows have opted for nuanced characters...

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

DeLeón Tequila is produced using alembic - style pot distillation and is twice distilled allowing the tequila to retain its smoothness and nuanced character.

But that nuanced character would have had to make a comeback if Rudy were going to stand a realistic chance of winning in left - of - center New York.

So, OF COURSE fans can't wait to see what new nuances his character will bring to Avengers: INFINITY WAR.

Ryan Gosling is undoubtedly best in show with a perfectly nuanced character arc.

THE LEDGE is a nuanced character study of love and conviction that will force you to ask how far you'd be willing to go for what you believe in.

Formerly the subject of villainy and the butt of cheap jokes on celluloid, a transwoman is now given a nuanced character study in the form of A Fantastic Woman.

Del is a more nuanced character than some of his more famous recent roles, and he pulls it off.

A subtle, nuanced character study.

No mere jigsaw movie, David Fincher's thriller is also a nuanced character study, a satire of corporate culture, and a film about filmmaking.

Captain Phillips as a whole is storytelling in its purest form: it works as a no - fat thriller, yet it achieves nuanced character dimension and thematic complexity.

I couldn't decide if this was an actor issue, a writing issue, or a directing issue (possibly a combination of all three), but Jeremy is the least nuanced character in the film, and I think some of the storytelling suffers because of it.

In her first novel Eleanor Kuhns demonstrates nuanced character development and complex plot lines that engage the reader to the very last page of this novel.

A nuanced character, he is not.

Based on the inhospitable frontier world of Mars, against the backdrop of a bacterial outbreak, Deadstone offers a compelling blend of frantic combat and tower defense, backed by a highly nuanced character development system and strategic elements of resource management.

The voice acting, nuanced character roster and many fun ways to approach combat makes this a game I'd gladly see become Sony's next big flagship franchise.

Ellie was a nuanced character in The Last of Us before, Left Behind just solidifies her place as one of the industry's finest.

Given the sheer amount of resources that were dumped into Second Son — the nuanced character animations, environmental design and other assets — an immediate sequel to the story of Delsin Rowe remains a hot favorite.

Not exact matches

In the end, understanding the world is about understanding people, and fiction gives you the best, most nuanced, most varied human stories and character portrayals.

Twitter has gone to 280 character tweets, but you would need more than that to capture the nuance of which surplus you're talking about.

As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, «Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter,» the graphics, storytelling and interactivity of gaming have all made tremendous leaps forward in recent years, allowing players to intermingle with nuanced, fleshed - out digital characters in near - photo - realistic environments.

The fact that you say the characters in the bible are more nuanced than characters in the odyssee is, well, it makes me wonder if you've every actually read the bible.

@Chuckles «The fact that you say the characters in the bible are more nuanced than characters in the odyssee...» = > well, if you scroll up, it wasnt me saying that, i was quoting another.

Community has some of the richest, most complex characters of any sitcom on television right now, and Shirley (portrayed with marvelous nuance by Yvette Nicole Brown — she should be getting far more recognition) is one of its best.

To this day, although I know that the scriptures are peopled with characters of texture and nuance, I think Bible people and see pastel paper figures pressed...

If we analyze the liberal character of the American project in this deeper way, we find that there is room to accommodate many of the nuances and to circumvent many of the controversies about the American founding.