Sentences with phrase «obscure characters in»

I'm not one of those people who thinks Nintendo needs to showcase obscure characters in Smash Bros. for the heck of it, but I do think it would be fun if we saw this newest Super Smash Bros. pull a few characters out of left field, even when it pertains to prominent franchises.

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From a memorial to Larry Martin, written by a friend and colleague: «Martin spent much of his career insisting that the characters in common between dromaeosaurs and birds were the result of convergences that obscured the true evolutionary history.

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«In Heidegger's major work,» Mason writes, «the elucidation of the character of the present is obscured somewhat by the emphasis given the primacy of the future» (p. 99).

The defect in this confidence in individual conversion is that it obscures the dual and social character of human selves and the individual and social character of their virtues and vices.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Though some within the Church have taken seriously the kenotic character of the mystery it stands for, by and large the sense of God's self - emptying love has been obscured in its preaching, practice, and theology, as well as in its internal and external politics.

Most philosophies, however, render thought about this subject very difficult and obscure, and this situation has been reflected in the highly paradoxical character of the church's historic affirmations.

Leah is also the name of a more obscure character from the Bible, and although not a very popular one in biblical stories, the name has sure risen in popularity today in the form of a baby girl name.

But the craziness shouldn't obscure the greatness of the city or the reasons that so many younger people, in particular, are being drawn to it, which include the character and quirkiness of its architecture and residents, the proximity to natural beauty, and the possibilities of all that potential.

Characters major and minor in the story of nuclear science come alive in Mahaffey's lively, accessible retelling of some of the field's more obscure (and sometimes ignominious) moments.

It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these it is like wandering in vain in an obscure labyrinth.

Together with Christian Theobalt, leader of the research group «Graphics, Vision & Video» at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, they could solve another problem: with their method, they can display people in full even if they had been partly obscured by other characters in a movie scene.

Roles in such high - profile features as The Faculty and Dracula 2000 served to balance parts in more obscure films, including Wild Horses and Dirt Merchant (in which he played the eponymous character).

There's a few tiny technical hitches, some detective work that feels a little too obscure, and a lead character voiced in an inconsistent manner, yet the strength of the game's world - building, and execution of its memorable literal head trips, softens the blow considerably.

It was critically embraced, commercially successful ($ 333 million in box - office receipts) and a high - water mark for an obscure superhero character in from an obscure comic book horror series.

Maybe it's just harder to make this kind of film with a volunteer army: The path Swofford takes to the desert is delivered in a progression of winking flashbacks that collectively amount to that hill of beans, obscuring his character and making a cipher of his suffering.

On the contrary, the most recognizable face in «Dunkirk» is almost completely obscured by an oxygen mask, and even the film's loudest champions would be hard - pressed to identify any of Nolan's characters by name.

With an enjoyable take on the Musou formula and boasting a fantastic cast of both mainstream and obscure Koei Tecmo characters, Warriors All - Stars is sure to delight a variety of fans and perhaps recruit a few new ones in the process.

He also explains why more obscure characters like Havok have a place in this new movie:

Those are all the characters, Easter eggs, references, and obscure jokes that we spotted in the latest Deadpool 2 trailer!

Thankfully TT Games has upped its side quest game this time around, and helping obscure characters complete ridiculous tasks in order to add them to my collection is a lot more entertaining this time around.

The characters are obscure even to most comic book fans (not unlike «Blade,» which kickstarted the Marvel movie renaissance back in 1998).

The original SH1 - 4 all had this feature, where the camera angles constantly changed angles, giving the player beatiful vistas / panoramas of the ingame contents but still where always controllable to some extend, sometimes being claustrophobic / uneasy to control or / and placed in obscure angles in order to disturb the players nerves, and also I think it gave the character focus more presentation.

Firstly, some characters can be seen in several images, but their faces are always obscured save for a single screenshot.

In the comics, Jimmy Woo has had a pretty important history, even if he's a lot more obscure than most comic book characters.

At the time it was just perplexing, but now in retrospect it feels like some of these jarring jumps around in time were deliberately there to obscure the more egregious moments of illogical and out - of - character behavior.

In fact, its difficult to decipher whether it is her presence that obscures the importance of its supporting characters, or whether that problem lies solely within the script itself.

But right now, he's telling me about an obscure old porn movie he found in the projection booth of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute («I'm not saying this was Redford's porno collection... maybe it was») and explaining how it provided inspiration for the Rollergirl character from his 1997 breakthrough hit, Boogie Nights.

The campaign is spaced across five missions where you fight our old friends the Hive, meet characters previously teased in obscure lore files, and which moves the overall Destiny story along... if only by an inch.

Inspired in part by classic DC series like Challengers of The Unknown and Forgotten Heroes, Legends is being touted as an avenue to both grow the successful «Arrowverse» TV property for The CW and to test the potential of DC Comics» substantial catalog of more obscure characters (the way Marvel Studios did with Guardians of The Galaxy).

A spectacular moment when Stone's character looks out to see Phoenix's character standing on a dock at the edge of a lake essentially encapsulates the entire movie, as the light shimmering off the water backlights him into an obscuring darkness even as he stands fully in the sun, an unknowable specter.

The headiness of Ghost in the Shell exists beyond its more pseudo-philosophical dialogue about the differences between fantasy and reality that often spews from characters» mouths, with a notable exception being Kuze (Michael Pitt), a cyber-terrorist whose computer - generated speech patterns are played with wild - eyed hilarity by Pitt's obscure line readings.

Some poets are heavily immersed in a universe of obscure knowledge, writing poems about historical characters or works of art, almost with a smug chal

For such a small and obscure island country, the Solomon Islands played an unpredictably large role in World War II (as the character Jim experiences in The Bird Skinner).

In keeping with his penchant for obscure subjects (his first bestseller, Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World, captures his scuba - diving adventures), Ecott presents a cast of interesting characters including farmers, brokers and ice cream makers he tracked down in Mexico, Tahiti, Madagascar, England and AmericIn keeping with his penchant for obscure subjects (his first bestseller, Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World, captures his scuba - diving adventures), Ecott presents a cast of interesting characters including farmers, brokers and ice cream makers he tracked down in Mexico, Tahiti, Madagascar, England and Americin a Liquid World, captures his scuba - diving adventures), Ecott presents a cast of interesting characters including farmers, brokers and ice cream makers he tracked down in Mexico, Tahiti, Madagascar, England and Americin Mexico, Tahiti, Madagascar, England and America.

«Characters, famous and relatively obscure, flit in and out of the narrative, creating frequently humorous situations.

It's actually a masterfully crafted retelling of Romeo & Juliet, complete with barely obscured name changes for all of the major characters and a heart - breaking scene in which «R» bites and infects a guard in Julie's compound after gaining her trust and her love, reminiscent of Romeo's slaughter of Tybalt only minutes after exiting the church where he married Juliet.

Today, a new 500 - word entry about Celestina, who is sometimes known as the «singing sorceress,» provides never - before - known facts about this obscure character whom readers never «meet» in the Harry Potter series although she is mentioned several times and is Molly Weasley's favourite singer.

The 500 - word entry about Celestina, who is sometimes known as the «singing sorceress,» provides never - before - known facts about this obscure character whom readers never «meet» in the Harry Potter series although she is mentioned several times and is Molly Weasley's favourite singer.

True film buffs will want to hunt down the more obscure movie scenes too, like the medical supply store that doubled as Naomi Watts» newspaper office from The Ring Two, and the house where Ally Sheedy's character meets robot Number Five in Short Circuit.

Marth, Lucina, Robin and Ike - Used for Codename Steam which led to people buying them like crazy plus the fact that they are still obscure to the general public means that they won't be in production as much as characters that are actually known.

So in that weird way of video game characters, Chibi - Robo is one of those video game characters everyone in my family can identify, despite how obscure he is!

Only just now did we get Marth restocks, and it was STILL low quantity, and other obscure characters were also in limited batches.

Not even just Nintendo, ALL of us pretty much assumed that obscure characters would have a low production in the first shipment.

The demand is real, but the whole reason it even exists is because they underestimated interest in those obscure characters.

The environment design is pretty good as it accurately reflects a spaceship in disarray with confined corridors leading from one larger room to another providing some scares due to the lack of clearance space to run away from enemies, while smoke from vents can obscure enemies that are just up ahead of your character which combines perfectly with the enemy tracker to induce a horror tone.

I really hope they will do a slasher game since those characters are my personal favorite additions to the recent MK games and I'd love to see obscure characters like Chucky that might not work in an MK game.

Here's a more obscure, hidden easter egg: in Sunshine, you have to race a masked character called Il Piantissimo.

Richard Raynis chose Paperboy and the others seemed obvious choices as they had games, I threw in more obscure characters because I liked them.