Sentences with phrase «of central characters»

A scene I found particularly troubling was when Hannah Stern, one of the central characters, oversees a meeting in her office during which her client, the husband, informs his spouse for the first time that he is seeking a divorce.

The enlarged costumes of the central characters of the Coltello performance, Frankie P. Toronto (Frank Gehry), Georgia Sandbag (Coosje van Bruggen), and Dr. Coltello (Claes Oldenburg), made in 1986, will be on view at the gallery, as will original props in the form of the letters «C - O - L - T - E-L-L-O» that served as Dr. Coltello's baggage.

Set on and around a building site, a cycle of urban demolition and construction provides a backdrop for the physical and emotional regeneration of the central characters.

In terms of my process as a composer, the opening theme «Pursuing My True Self» to a certain extent helped to inform my understanding of the psychologies of the central characters.

Certainly, Detective Sergeant Bunny McGarry, who is one of my central characters, would probably last about five minutes in the real Irish police force.

In fact, the action is so well - paced and believable that the reader learns much from the reactions of the central characters without explicitly being told.

The author chose to include several narrators (sixteen, to be exact), yet she leaves out some of the central characters.

Sometimes when you come back to a read you may forget some of the central characters or even the main plot.

This is a fabulous new addition that taps into crowd sourcing and gives you a massive list of central characters to any given book and how often they are referenced.

I hope very much that a film, or TV adaptation, will eventually be forthcoming, but the casting of the central characters will be crucial.

With a smaller cast of central characters than American Gods, Gaiman is in his element with Anansi Boys.

It is a very different story to anything I have read before, as the things that make Bertie unique are very different to the attributes of the central characters in books that fill my shelves, and those in our school library.

Both also deal with specific cultures, but while My Big Fat Greek Wedding focused entirely on the Greek origins of the central characters to the point of absurdity, Bend It Like Beckham lets its character be Indian without blinking an eye.

The first thirty to forty minutes of the film are delightful, with Rowling and returning franchise director David Yeats doing a terrific job crafting the world of the central characters.

Those uneven effects are the film's biggest weak spot, and it's unfortunate that they just happen to be at the heart of one of its central characters.

the endless chattering and philosophizing of the central characters just became boring and tedious.

It contemplates the role of its central characters in a world where their heroic deeds may have destructive or anti-heroic consequences.

What warmth there is — and it is considerable — radiates from its three lead performers and a script (adapted from Naomi Alderman's 2006 novel) that treats each of the central characters as neither hero nor villain.

The film's first act is devoted almost entirely to dialogue - heavy sequences in which the Nazis test out their rockets and the Allies attempt to track them down, and it's not until the trio of central characters embark on their risky mission that things finally start to get interesting.

THE SALESMAN Asghar Farhadi continues his amazing ability to tell a story that slowly unravels the consequences of its central characters» actions — in this case, the desire for revenge.

His last two big American thrillers, Prisoners and Sicario, were striking for their cinematic ingenuity and the depth with which they probed the psyches of their central characters in what could otherwise have been humdrum exercises in formula.

But with Vision almost sure to die, we can expect her to be one of the central characters as she does her best to save him.

Intended as the first in a trilogy, I can't wait to see more of the central characters.

You walk away with each of the central characters resting firmly on your mind.

Once the true task is revealed and at hand, the movie stays fairly close to Lewis» moralizing center, as each of the central characters finds him and herself tempted by the whims of human nature, mainly greed.

Captured on film, however, the ups and downs of its central characters are mostly downs - and whatever hilarity ensued onstage didn't make it to the screen.

This doesn't exhaust the film's cast of central characters — which also includes Min - min's excitable and superstitious brother, his equally vulgar wife, and Lili's mother — but it suggests the sort of displacements most of Yang's characters experience.

By taking a sensitive, honest approach to this true story, breakthrough filmmaker Lewin both avoids sentimentality and keeps the focus on the inner lives of the central characters.

The quintet of central characters is bound together by familial and professional relationships that sometimes overlap.

Lost in Translation Finishing Lost in Translation is like awakening from dream, and then we realize just how in tune with the feeling of jetlag of its central characters the film is.

«A mystery thriller on the surface, Alan Pakula's Klute (1972), edited by Carl Lerner, combines two new styles of editing to become a study of its central characters: Jane Fonda's call girl and Donald Sutherland's policeman.

In fact, when the climax, of sorts, finally does come, it's not even driven by one of the central characters.

Gritty, harsh and extremely well - acted, this Australian crime drama really gets into the skin of its central characters.

Like each of its central characters, Park Chan - wook's nimble erotic thriller has an agenda.

Now that there is one, he's free to get down to the business of exploring the bruised psyches of his central characters.

It's not brain dead comedy created solely for slapstick humor but has a self - depreciating way of portraying the life of its central characters and their actions.

We've forgotten the excesses and the detours, and remembered the purity of the central characters and the Voight and Hoffman performances.

Little White Lies had a marathon running time that was justified, I think, by a well - meant effort to give room to a large group of central characters.

[Kerrigan] accepts the challenge of central characters who do not let us know what they're thinking.

Their relationship conveys the conflicted identity of the central characters and the possibility of future harmony between the nations.

The authentic feeling for the First Amendment and constitutional rights is expressed in a film that, first of all, also offers a highly idealized portrait of its central characters.

Game Night is a visually memorable comedy, standing out by masterfully blending the absurdity of its comedy and the realistic problems of its central characters.

One of the central characters is introduced from the waist down and to say that the film climaxes in violent, sexual oddity would be like saying «The Avengers» features a few superheroes.

The stretched - out action set piece that takes up a majority of the middle section is a work of fine filmmaking craft and design, and it is seen mostly through the eyes of the central characters.

It's worth noting that The Hangover: Part II gets off to an unexpectedly entertaining start, as the movie is, at the outset, concerned with the easygoing exploits of the central characters - with the affable atmosphere heightened by the palpable chemistry between the three protagonists.

The film shows a great amount of reverence for the respective faiths of the central characters.

But one of its central characters is based on crusading U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (left), who made a name for himself with his relentless pursuit of public - corruption cases, taking down some of New York's top elected officials in the process.

Geoffrey Canada is one of the central characters in the documentary «Waiting for «Superman,»» which opens today in selected theaters.

Many of the central characters of fantasy are country people, like those in Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion tales and other Welsh fantasies, The wizard Ged of Le Gum's Earthsea Trilogy is the son of a bronzesmith on a rustic island and is referred to as «goatherd.»

Coates came out of the second season's recent shock finale pretty well, and viewers saw him praying with some of the central characters, ensuring that the subject of faith isn't lost in a show that is partly an exploration of grief.