Sentences with phrase «of dramatic stakes»

Although in terms of dramatic stakes, the battle for supremacy is a bit too gentle at times.

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«It's totally something that is now becoming pretty core to the assessment even though the probability of anything really dramatic happening probably is still quite low, because both sides know how much is at stake,» he said.

The firing is the latest dramatic twist in a high - stakes court battle between Uber and Google's Waymo that is expected to shape the future of both companies» self - driving car programs and the industry at large.

Because of the dramatic increase in sports franchise values, Powell Jobs is almost certainly paying a higher price for shares in Monumental than investors who have held stakes dating back from four years to 18.

No one, I think, doubts that Yogi's most oracular formula, it ain't over till it's over, is a perfectly condensed statement of what for us are the game's highest spiritual and dramatic stakes.

The 40 - year - old, who left Bellamy's in January, made a dramatic re-entry into the corporate world this week when she was announced managing director of an ASX minnow whose only asset is a 48 per cent stake in the gourmet food business, Maggie Beer Products, the business built up by celebrity cook Maggie Beer.

Uneven cognitive, emotional, and physical growth, a newly keen awareness of others» perceptions, and seemingly higher stakes all combine in dramatic fashion.

(Paterson said immediately afterward that he was «disappointed, stunned and frankly chagrined» at the legislature's actions, and responded as best he could, with what amounts to a dramatic gesture: thousands of line - item vetoes of the legislature's budget that, relative to the overall amounts at stake, don't add up to much at all.)

Meet Pro Hockey Player Nic Kerdiles When Canada scored two dramatic goals in the last few minutes of a high - stakes game against Sweden in the World Junior Hockey Championship final, a sea of

2018-04-08 10:28 «Flip or Flop» Star Christina — That Hockey Player Was Nothin» Serious When Canada scored two dramatic goals in the last few minutes of a high - stakes game against Sweden in the World Junior Hockey Championship final, a sea of

But maybe best of all, Trust offers a plot with significant dramatic stakes, even if the end is already a foregone conclusion.

told a story of everyday cruelty and grace between three characters, broader sociopolitical concerns serving as the backdrop and elevating the dramatic stakes.

With The Immigrant, director James Gray told a story of everyday cruelty and grace between three characters, broader sociopolitical concerns serving as the backdrop and elevating the dramatic stakes.

Tonal shifts cause a few sequences to wobble; using the possibility of rape to up dramatic stakes during the home invasion scene is misguided and disgusting.

The lack of happening sometimes feels anti-dramatic rather than lived in, the stakes discounted because they're not about action in the wider world as if the struggles of teenage pregnancy in a judgmental and unforgiving society didn't offer enough dramatic fodder.

But while there isn't much to distinguish Born To Be Blue's dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self - destructive, self - centered artists (or «movies about jazz musicians,» as they're more commonly known), the film is given a spark of life by the inspired casting of Ethan Hawke.

But there's also a softness to the dramatic arc of the film, which doesn't so much march forward as waft along, with rather low stakes and all - too - easy resolutions.

The action sequences are exhilarating and inventive, the dramatic stakes are high and the huge cast of characters are expertly handled.

Even as the Warner Brothers logo is displayed on - screen, the movie is already kicking into high - stakes craziness by blaring ridiculously over-the-top dramatic shootout music reminiscent of any one of your favorite classic brain - dead 90s action films.

A curiously joyless movie that tries to channel the giddy amorality of Dr. Strangelove but forgets to add jokes or dramatic stakes, War Dogs is a major whiff from Hangover trilogy director Todd Phillips, who won't be graduating to serious material like Anchorman's Adam McKay did with The Big Short.

A brisk, witty read in its first half, Kirn's novel sags in the home stretch because the dramatic stakes appear to be so low, particularly with its protagonist sustaining no constant relationship in the course of the narrative.

A uniquely disturbing tale from the director of STAKE LAND, Jim Mickle brings a tense, heartbreaking and dramatic horror to life in this beautifully...

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.

Deathly Hallows earns its PG - 13 rating with a swell of actual dramatic stakes, as characters are killed off unexpectedly to sustain the surprise and the triangle of pubescent wizardly valor engages in furious wand shoot - outs with assassins, including a spectacular gunfight inside a London café where Harry first learns there are no safe havens in which he can hide.

For all the levels on which Cobra Kai is derivative and tonally inconsistent, it absolutely delivers a more complicated set of characters and dramatic stakes than Karate Kid.

E-TEAM (Directors: Katy Chevigny, Ross Kauffman)-- E-TEAM is driven by the high - stakes investigative work of four intrepid human rights workers, offering a rare look at their lives at home and their dramatic work in the field.

Stakes are too high and at every conceivable turn, mutating something that could have been an intense relationship drama with considerable dramatic potency into an affected disarray of flailing tonal shifts.

From the opening blast of laser fire to its climactic fireball, the film keeps raising the dramatic stakes, giving the impression of action even when the characters are just sitting on their backsides chatting about exhaust ports.

During his tenure as the Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services at the Chula Vista Elementary School District in California, he oversaw the district's dramatic improvement in academic performance and high - stakes test scores through the implementation of a student - centered instructional framework and a cloud - based differentiated instruction solution.

Once an advocate of high stakes testing and school accountability for student performance, Ravitch's current positions are a dramatic turnabout.

With so much at stake, we can not afford to ignore the evidence that this race for accountability will require a dramatic investment of time and resources if it is going to be successful.

In those few words, Eisler says, Follett hints at a dramatic backstory of desperation and high stakes.

Rape and sexual assault are also frequently used as a sort of narrative currency to try and raise the emotional stakes and heighten the dramatic tension for gamers.

Epic stakes always make for dramatic quests, but any hero worth their weight in loot and XP knows that no adventure is ever complete without a memorable cast of quirky characters.

«This episode carried last week's intense dramatic stakes with a welcome degree of emotional gravitas.»

Her paintings are high stakes and aesthetically dramatic pieces of fragmented narratives depicted in loose and masterly brushstrokes.