Sentences with phrase «of flawed characters»

But thanks to an intricate and nuanced screenplay adapted by William Peter Blatty from his own novel, the film boasts any number of flawed characters struggling to find faith and to do what's right in this situation.

Prickly, acerbic, and not without its rough edges, it's an enjoyably dark humored film wisely settling for small moments of emotional realism rather than exaggerated dramatic flair or tragicomic satire of its flawed characters.

It's an unusually high number of flawed characters who come together in a story that features some familiar coming - of - age moments, yet still manages to keep our interest.

Full of flawed characters in complicated situations, you'll be infuriated by their actions, but want to see what they do next.

Sheridan set out to make a «buddy road film which was also a heist thriller, with elements of the inevitable showdown of a western with some of the real consequences of the flawed characters of a real drama,» he said.

I'm a longtime fan of writer / director Martin McDonagh because his movies often feel «written» in the best possible way, with a wonderful mixture of flawed characters, heartbreaking loss, and laugh out loud comedy.

They help us understand ourselves as humans, Gatsby is a great example of a flawed character he is corrupt, ambitious, he craves power and acceptance.

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But the beauty of the book is precisely how human the characters are, how sincerely the love is felt — regardless of familial flaws.

In Moneyball (a film based on the Oakland A's game - changing season), Jonah Hill's character describes players getting «overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws — age, appearance, personality.»

And yet, with breathtaking cluelessness, TIME framed the millennials» desperate search for stable work as a privileged character flaw — look at the kids too flaky to handle «choosing from a huge array of career options.»

«We are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback and the iterative process - reworking, reworking, and reworking again, until a flawed story finds its throughline or a hollow character finds its soul»

«Lisac's backdrop may be the political scene, but his story is in the heart of his main characters, their flaws and aspirations.

In fact, that this election became less about conflicting ideas for achieving the same goal (the common good of Americans) and more about making sure everyone knows your opponents» deep character flaws is axiomatic.

you have remember that it was a women that led us to sin and most of them have this same flawed character and the nuns know this as this is in Torah.

It would be good to get a substantive response to my points, but alas, all I ever seem to get from the flock is a rendition of my apparent character flaws.

Yes, in the case of character flaws, it's much easier for a Christian to claim that god made them that way to serve a particular purpose in the body of Christ or that god will forgive their sins.

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.

Most of the characters, and certainly the dramatic ones, carry a tragic flaw.

For the second time in the last year and a half, a prominent evangelical leader has taken a highly publicized leave of absence while confessing to the sin of pride and character flaws.

This may be a character flaw in someone who writes autobiographies purporting to be true accounts, although even on that score more charitable interpretations are possible (politics of any sort didn't seem to be very important in the life and thinking of Eliade).

One of the many character flaws I happen to suffer from is that I always tend to believe I'm right and even when I have facts laid out before me proving I'm wrong, I still continue to believe I'm right.

In Charlotte Simmons, one finds all the features that have made Wolfe one of the greatest contemporary North American novelists: a plot that drives at breakneck speed through a major culture - shaping institution, an array of flawed yet yearning characters tested to the limits of their endurance, and startlingly authentic dialogue.

In the midst of all of his characters» flaws, doubts and struggles living in a fallen world, Scorsese is looking for truth.

When psychiatric illness grips its victims in behavior that isolates them and frightens those around them, we compound the misery by treating it like a failure of nerve or a character flaw.

This idea of religion in some ways having to be able to solve everything, including character flaws, sounds so promising but often fails to deliver.

God is limited not by flaws of character or power but by God's self - emptying relation to creation.

Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

Nash promises to demonstrate that character education is a «deeply and seriously flawed» project, «unnecessarily apocalyptic... inherently authoritarian in its convictions... excessively nostalgic and premodern in its understanding of virtue, too closely aligned with a reactionary... politics, anti-intellectual in its curricular initiatives, hyperbolic in its moral claims, dangerously antidemocratic,» and more.

Jon Negroni: Yeah, vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity strikes me as uninteresting, but raunchy comedies are compelling when they treat their flawed characters like human beings we can observe and understand.

The general religiousness of that nation, so different in cultural character from that in North America, has contributed both to a measure of forgiveness and mutual trust within a highly plural body politic, These attitudes to be sure are both flawed and fragile, but they have made a difference.

Greene's character flaws and Cold War fantasies led to the extinction of a great gift.

In the Bellow universe nothing is really tragic — that is, if tragedy means that someone of great estate has had a dramatic fall because of some flaw in his character.

What is deeply troubling about tragedy is that it involves more than our individual will to action, or our intellects; it involves character flaws so grave that they permeate the actions of complete families and whole communities.

Still, by starting with the frankly stated premise that the problem is the flawed human character in a mysterious universe, Miller was able to highlight the universal aspects of even so eccentric an experience as that of the Puritans.

The Meno, Plato's only dialogue on the subject of education, features a title character whose failures to learn are more frequently the results of flaws in his character than they are the results of lapses in his logic.

The answer is not for us to change our views on character, it's to help a flawed candidate become a President of character.

... Many people expected evangelicals would forget about the issues and vote only on the character flaws of the two candidates, if they voted at all.

I'm very fortunate that my parents taught me that intolerance is a character flaw instead of telling me not to trust black people or something stupid like that.

After years of wondering what kind of character deficiency or unknown flaw would cause the Lord to keep a husband from me, I realized it doesn't really work that way.

However, the latest wave of this trend, including but not limited to, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Jack the Giant Slayer have each demonstrated, in their own way, a fundamental flaw with this premise; they lazily force these classic characters to «grow up» by ratcheting up the angst and violence instead of revisiting the more complex layers that exist within the original stories themselves.

Clearly, in the context of our cultural moment and the song itself, recklessness is being used as virtue rather than character flaw.

In order to make a fearless, moral inventory of our lives we will self - examine ourselves, allow the Holy Spirit to examine us, and other faithful followers of Christ to examine us — to expose any fault, sin, immorality, or character flaw we maybe blind to.

We think that a pattern of avoiding the full train fare demonstrates serious character flaws, but maybe we're overreacting because we live in a moral vacuum.

But the primary reason that the text is not monolithic, one - dimensional or seamless is not because of such flaws but because the key character is elusive.

There is a long list of defensive failures who have not been good enough but have hung around picking up offensibly high wages.Also considering the club were existing on a near starvation diet Mr.Wenger managed to broker for himself one the highest salaries in world football.His stubbornness is beyond belief and is a serious flaw in his character.

As one of the few characters in popular culture who embody the problem with no name, Betty's flaws illustrated in the remix

It's easy to scrutinize Betty Draper's character flaws as neatly fitting into the stereotype of The Bitch, The Bad Mommy and / or The Frustrated Housewife but Betty's role is subtler.

The woman is either chastised for being so bold as to breastfeed in front of other people (like Sofia in Modern Family) or the woman's choice to breastfeed is being used as a severe character flaw (like Lysa Tully in Game of Thrones) or it's just some really funny, hilarious thing because boobs.

From Carol breastfeeding on Friends to Lysa Arryn breastfeeding her school - age son on Game of Thrones, it seems the only depictions of breastfeeding we see on television are either played as a way to make men uncomfortable or to demonstrate the nursing mother's character flaws.

He notably did not endorse the man who defeated him in the GOP primary, Carl Paladino, and also took his erstwhile Democratic target, Andrew Cuomo, to task, calling both candidates «flawed individuals, flawed in terms of public character, flawed in terms of ideas and principles that will restore growth and pride to our great state.»