Sentences with phrase «of dramatic conflict»

Your samples should demonstrate an understanding of dramatic conflict and skill with dialogue.

Your samples should demonstrate an understanding of dramatic conflict and skill with dialogue.

With multiplexes full of flat cardboard characters who represent the black and white extremes of dramatic conflict, it's a refreshing change to see a cast of characters of varying shades of gray.

What's missing here is any sense whatsoever of dramatic conflict.

Whereas the earlier sections suffered from an absence of dramatic conflict — Philippe is immune to doubt, averse to introspection and impossible to argue with — the Manhattan chapters hum with practical, tactical excitement.

But Megamind quickly becomes as bored as the audience is with the lack of dramatic conflict.

Not exact matches

After a long stretch characterized by ultra-low interest rates, slow growth, minimal inflation, cheap oil, and little policy progress due to a conflicted Congress, we are now doing a dramatic 180 degree turn to a lower tax, less regulation, pro-growth environment, with higher rates and higher inflation — a normalization of sorts.

This dramatic conflict of empowerment hope in the face of disenfranchising reality is being played again, it seems, by telecomputed MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons [= fantasies] / Dimensions) and MUSES (Multi-User Simulated Environments.)

As the Cold War was rooted in a conflict of ideologies and visions, so it was a drama unfolding in narrative form, and nobody could equal John Paul as a master of the dramatic arts.

These decisions harbinger a dramatic intensifying of the conflict between the Catholic Church and governing civil authorities.»

The Liberal Democrats are looking for a new leader following the dramatic resignation of Mr Farron over the conflict between his faith and political career.

Almost every woman is a mixture of two genetically different types of cell, and sometimes these cells can come into conflict with dramatic effect.

Bateman remains an engaging comic presence but his latter forays into dramatic material, such as his awards - worthy douchebaggery in The Gift and his morally conflicted antihero of Ozark, tease at more beneath the overplayed mugging.

Well, as sure as sunshine, if Jesse Hibbs succeeds at nothing else, it's sustaining a certain entertainment value through directorial pacing that is tighter than structural pacing, highlighted by some tensely well - staged action sequences that also mark heights in dramatic resonance, which is lacking, but there at times in which it's most needed to establish some sense of conflict and human weight.

Its narrow timeframe and juddering shootout finale notwithstanding, in fact, «' 71» calls no film to mind so much as Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama «The Pianist» in its dramatic defamiliarization of urban space, and its tight focus on a single character's sensory experience of his surroundings amid broader conflict.

With an almost total lack of dramatic (or even comedic) conflict, it feels like it's spinning its narrative wheels for most of its entirely unjustified two - hour - plus running time.

Dramatic Need helps vulnerable children in Africa build hope and self - belief in the face of conflict, trauma, and hardship, using the creative arts as a nonthreatening way of addressing development issues and trauma in children.

There are hiccups in its ambition, but it's hard not to get swept up in all the technologies, characters, and politics crammed into the movie's compelling dramatic conflict, which casts the charismatic Michael B. Jordan — the star of Creed and Coogler's debut, Fruitvale Station — as the most complex villain in the post-Dark Knight cycle of superhero blockbusters.

Weiner sometimes treats the illness with some modicum of seriousness, which brings forth some interesting moments, but for the most part, it feels like a conflict that never rises to the level of dramatic importance necessary to draw us into his plight.

That is what you expect because you've seen too many of those historical films with frank and cloying melodrama, artificial conflict, and steep dramatic license.

Perhaps this genteel approach may make the movie accessible to a wider audience, but the script often straitjackets the dramatic conflict of the story, which concerns a married Danish artist who undergoes gender - reassignment surgery in 1920s Europe.

Based on the fact that nearly half the footage from the most recent trailer does not appear in the cut of the film we saw and directly conflicts with the dramatic action present otherwise, it wouldn't surprise me if the theatrical cut winds up being dramatically different.

In Age of Ultron, the dramatic tension arises less from the CGI battle scenes than from conflict among the Avengers, the differences in personality and worldviews that bring a spark of life to the project.

Even in «The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,» Conrad mostly succeeded in exploring the comedic and dramatic possibilities in that conflict, but he doesn't even come close with «Unfinished Business.»

The dramatic conflict is real because as Samantha begins thinking and feeling for herself, and grows closer to Theodore, he begins making the same judgments and pedantic criticisms of her that affected his previous relationship.

All three are at their most movie star charismatic here, with their formidable dramatic chops lending real gravitas and palpable emotional stakes as they continue their struggles and conflicts with each other and within in order to act for the greater benefit of their kind.

An exhilarating mix of dark comedy, white - knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides into Mexico, where mild - mannered businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself at the mercy of his back - stabbing business colleagues (Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron), local drug lords and a morally conflicted black - ops mercenary (Sharlto Copley).

While Russell largely fails to make dramatic connections and bring us into the inner world of his characters» conflicted desires, he succeeds mightily in making a film of often breathtaking beauty that balances the conventions of the British costume drama with his experimental proclivities.

Meanwhile, Lawrence's version of Mystique has benefited from a dramatic expansion of the role — what was an easily identified villain in the original trilogy has become a layered, conflicted character with a real journey.

What may shock is that Mughal - E-Azam sports a dramatic story as well, weaving conflicts between father and son, love and duty into a gripping tale of thwarted romance.

The scenes detailing Hiccup's growing relationship with his lost mother and some darker late - in - the - game moments are welcome, but besides hitting dramatic beats almost as according to a pre-set stopwatch, any growing sense of conflict or tone is habitually punctured thanks to self - conscious bids at keeping the kiddies invested.

Often dressed in an anachronistic cassock and with a rather astonishing sweep of leonine hair, Gleeson cuts an imposing and authoritative figure, like something from a rough - edged spaghetti western dropped on the dramatic west coast of Ireland.The role provides a fantastic showcase for the actor, as he captures the inner conflict and outward placidity of the character.

With dark, conflicted chords that bring to mind such shimmeringly dramatic Jerry Goldsmith happiness, Desplat's horns are is always sure to bring it low, or bring in the dark suspense of Feds on the hunt.

What they find is a series of conflicts that escalate into a dramatic crescendo that involve social issues that are just as relevant today as they were back in 1845.

In a history of humankind, the twentieth century will be marked as a century of violence: the two world wars and hundreds of local and regional conflicts occurred in it, with dramatic change in a profile of those who suffer in wars, which shifted from military to prevalent civilian victims (in some statistics, it is more than 80 % of civilians), beside to enormous level of individual violence happen daily all over the world.

It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier.»

Puppies from puppy mills usually don't have stories quite this dramatic and conflicting, however, they do usually suffer the countless myriad of diseases, conditions, and defects that come along with the background, both behavioral and medical.

Now it takes the form of these juggernaut hits like Halo and Gears of War that tout themselves to be these dramatic space operas with huge open conflicts and «realistic» human characters.

Cesare Lucchini's second exhibition at rosenfeld porcini pursues his exploration of certain dramatic events, which have and continue to afflict contemporary society such as the oil slick disaster in Mexico (2010), the boat tragedies off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, and African conflicts — more specifically the use of child soldiers.

This conflict is not overly dramatic, but is certainly apparent within the surface of each work, which is often edited or masked, or otherwise left bare and unfinished.

This American author relied on great fields of color to evoke dramatic symbolic conflicts between man and nature, a confrontation designed to take place on a monumental scale of Still's large canvases.

Coinciding with the gallery's fifth anniversary, Shonibare's powerful work explores themes of conflict, empire and migration in the centenary year of The Battle of the Somme, poignantly shown at Turner Contemporary against the dramatic backdrop of the North Sea.

The artist used Spain's tragic social and political conflict as a starting point for the creation of what has become his hallmark, a dramatic series of images relying consistently on the contrast of ovals and rectangles and black and white.

Kjartansson's playful work is full of unique moments where a conflict of the dramatic and the banal culminates in a memorable way.

Kimathi Donkor's meticulously crafted compositions draw on antique traditions of portraiture and history painting to represent dramatic modern themes — with subjects ranging from urban conflict in London to the adventures of Ghana's anti-colonial heroine, Yaa Asantewaa.

When the Dutch newspaper NRC broke the story of Ruf's conflicts of interest in dramatic style on 6 October 2017, followed by investigative reporting on Ruf's art advising activities and her company Currentmatters in 12 October 2017, Ruf immediately stepped down.

Eschewing dramatic changes in her approach to painting as much as dramatic conflict within any particular work, Martin depends for her surprises on the degree to which the effects of her paintings can vary within severe limits.

Hansen argues the dramatic sea level rise could put the earth's coastal cities in grave peril while a sudden influx of population from those cities will bring discord and conflict to the rest of the world.

Cochran considers the two dramatic changes that CP brings to law practice: a change in the mental attitude of lawyers and clients toward the conflict and a change in lawyers» counseling techniques.

These build through the storyline until the final culmination of events that brings that dramatic conflict or issue to a tipping point.