Sentences with phrase «of establishing characters»

Less effective are the story's more obvious beats of establishing these characters.

Filmmaker Cory Finley, working from his own screenplay, delivers an opening stretch that admittedly holds a fair amount of promise, as the writer / director does an effective job of establishing the characters and the palatial estate at which the bulk of the narrative transpires - with the stylish visuals certainly perpetuating the movie's watchable feel.

New scenes do a better job of establishing the characters — not only of Dreyfuss, but also of Francois Truffaut, as the French scientist.

The film does a good job of establishing characters efficiently, which is important when juggling a cast of this size.

Let's hope he doesn't screw up portraying the younger version of an established character like a certain actor might have, cough * Hayden Christensen * cough.

We've already become accustomed to the characters we already know, and screenwriters Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber (working off the characters from the comic book series by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner) offer nothing new for these characters to do (Only Sarah's obsession with taking part in the action — and inevitably kissing men instead of hurting or killing them — is close to a distinct trait from any of the established characters).

The 2018 film should definitely be a totally different beast than the previous works of the filmmakers, given that they are working with dozens and dozens of established characters, but there's little reason to doubt that they'll come up with something wildly impressive.

Its excellent cast consists of a range of established character actors from both sides of the pond, including Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Lucy Davis, David Thewlis and Danny Huston.

From its profound deconstruction of the familiar, redefinition of established characters, and completely revamped combat system, God of War is a blissful experience that constantly evolves and is exquisitely surprising.

Being that the game is set in its own separate universe, changes have been made in the story to some of the established characters.

Similarly, in order to complete Half - Life or Metroid prime you must undergo certain experiences because you are replaying the events of an established character.

But at least he's not just a poor man's version of an established character like Tiny and Chunky!

Link is a well - armed detective in this mysterious adventure, gaining greater insight into the lives of established characters and meeting fresh faces as well.

Not exact matches

Although most success is ultimately rewarded with a larger paycheck or promotion, the small patterns you create on a daily basis become part of your character and not only increase your overall happiness but showcase skill and establish confidence.

To say the director butchered Tim Burton's established vision of Gotham City with his campy, slapstick characters is an understatement.

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

Marvel has a pretty well - established history of remixing and streamlining the best and most iconic of the many looks each of its characters have sported over the years for their big - screen adaptations (in a funny bit of symmetry, the movie designs usually end up influencing how a character will look in the comics afterward).

Especially when there is an established level of trust and expectation in a role - model character for children and then seemingly that all significantly changes in a single performance.

The character of God is establishing order, moral codes (they fail to keep) and restraining evil according to their fictional writings.

Instead of the glossy, wisecracking polished tone they established in their Avengers movies, the shows offer gritty, dark looks at flawed characters that are barely super or heroes.

It feels as though the person wearing your pants is performing actions consistent with your established character, yet there is plenty of research suggesting otherwise.

Insofar as such structures and institutions are of legal character they may, of course) be regarded as merely human and thus mutable, not necessary laws, because they did not always exist but have been — or have still to be — established.

Clearly, then, the ontological principle is meant to establish the kinds of particular causes — or, equivalently, of particular reasons or conditions — that can be given as explanatory of how and why a particular actual entity came to have the determinate characters it has.

Let me, then, suggest the following criteria in establishing the character of justice.

Finally, the ontological principle establishes the sorts of particular reasons, or of particular causes, that can be given as explanatory of how and why a particular unit - product of the creative advance came to have the determinate characters that it has.

A domesticated and tailored leftover from the wild and woolly frontier evangelistic campaigns, Mr. Graham is a key figure in relating the established character of this ecumenical religion to the sectarian radicalism of our evangelical religion.

The character of the actual entity as an objective datum available for other actual entities establishes it as a distinct member of a plurality.

In the great Western civilizations, this manifests itself partly by their individual spheres isolating themselves and each of them establishing its own basis and order, and partly by the principle itself losing its absolute character and validity, so that the holy norm degenerates into a human convention, or by the attachment to the absolute being reduced, avowedly or unavowedly, to a mere symbolic - ritual requirement, which may be adequately satisfied in the cultic sphere.

But there is nothing in the scientific picture of the cosmos that forbids our envisaging the story of the universe, in its modern scientifically established character, as simultaneously a story shaped by the same promise that becomes explicit in historical revelation.

It was a long struggle, and at many a time uncertain of outcome except for the stubborn and independent character of the people concerned, before finally constitutional rights were fully established.

But he is not made known as Son of God in reality until he is established in power, until it becomes clear that such a character of trust and loyalty is indeed in complete harmony with the nature of things.

We can get out of the conflict a spiritual discipline that will greatly strengthen our faith and establish our spiritual character.

And so, if their posthumous renown gives to their name a special glory, it is not because of their posthumous life, which spiritists and theosophists have not been able to establish with certainty, but to their apotropaion character.

He refers to its apocalyptic character, which means that it is a cosmic statement — it speaks of the beginning of the end of the world, it validates Jesus» life and preaching, and it establishes Jesus as a reliable revelation of God.

After Iron Fist was rightly criticized for racial insensitivities, using the character's well - established comic book friendship with one of Marvel's most prominent black superheroes to directly confront systemic racism is a bold, smart move.

Genuine actors operate within a framework established by the imitative nature of film ¯ hence a good person can portray a bad one, or act out bad actions, without it being a reflection of his or her character.

With the exception of Koheleth, who is late and therefore drawing on an already established usage, all these sources are strongly priestly in character (the Amos instance comes in a formal hymnic doxology which may or may not be the prophet's own work).

To establish a metaphysics which will allow him to do this, Leclerc first seeks to demolish the Neoplatonic notion that all relations are set up by the mind, with its unfortunate consequence that the minima or monads are not related to each other in a way that would allow for the formation of organic wholes which are not mere heaps, but have some character as wholes (PN 146 - 47).

It is revealing to recall that Israel's spring festival, as it came to established form, was of a dual character.

And from my Canadian perspective (in a country with the grand total of 35 million people, living in one of the world's largest land - masses) is respond compassionately — again paying attention to quotas and targets established by the powers that be, including absurd comedian characters like Trump.

The late Pope did more than any pope of the last century to defend and reassert beyond any doubt the stable and objective character of Catholic teaching - more even than Pius X with his great encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, since modernist incursions had become very much more powerfully established during the pontificate of the unhappy Pope Paul than they had been in the early years of the century.

Amos was preeminently the prophet of justice, the moral quality upon which Judaism at its moral best has placed its chief emphasis, and he established this as the major character of Yahweh in his dealings with men.

«114 James emphasized that from the earnest minister, people «do not look for the flowers of rhetoric, but for the fruit of the tree of life» which establishes «his character as a useful preacher.

He has established a recognisable house style which allows the quality of the fruit to shine through the depth of character that comes with ageing on lees.

As Banrock Station's Chief Winemaker for more than 10 years, Paul has harnessed the knowledge and skills he developed during stints in California and Tuscany to establish our unique signature style of easy drinking wines that retain true fruit character on the palate.

I feel they won this round, especially since the biggest established tag team on Raw relies on character pops instead of actual ring work.

Just so we're straight on this, though... If you routinely drink yourself into a stupor and show up for work half - drunk, you've got more integrity and character than if you do whatever you can to play as well as you can, within the established norms of your contemporary colleagues?

However, I'm awarding a point each for the latter two deaths, because (a) they're established characters and (b) we got to see bloody proof of their deaths.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

He now argues that, in establishing sovereign power, we do not have to give up our freedom, and he makes this point by way of arguing that everyone has misunderstood the true character of personal liberty.