Sentences with phrase «of lead hero»

From the moment Robert Downey Jr. was announced as Iron Man, Marvel Studios has always been daring and innovative in the casting of its lead heroes.

Not only do several villains not live up to expectations, but they're also typically evil carbon copies of the leading hero — with Marvel casting well opposite of their leads.

Not exact matches

At the beginning of Jim Koch's new book about his adventures building the Boston Beer Company, our hero bails on a Harvard MBA to spend three years leading grueling, off - the - grid excursions for the famous outdoor education program.

We had overtimes, dramatic endings, blown leads, unforeseen heroes, the end of epic championship droughts, and some of the biggest comebacks in sports history featuring athletes who will go down as some of the greatest ever.

While the Boer War proved disastrous for the British in many regards, most Britons lionized the hero of the Transvaal and in 1914 looked to him to lead them back to their former heights of imperial magnificence.

Europe also saw over $ 1B in funding, led by the Rocket Internet - backed trio of Delivery Hero (raised a cumulative $ 673M across 2 rounds), Foodpanda ($ 210M across 2 rounds), and HelloFresh ($ 211M across 2 rounds).

I originally came on board as a Happiness Hero in late 2015 and currently lead our Customer Success team in delivering happiness to all of our Buffer for Business customers.

His decisions to honour God in both sport and mission, as well as his athletic prowess, have made him a hero among many Christians, and led to a film being made about him - Chariots of Fire - in 1986.

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) shot Communist heroes, including Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a Marshal of the Soviet Union and commander in chief of the Red Army (1925 — 1928) and Béla Kun, a Hungarian revolutionary who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, as well as the majority of Lenin's Politburo.

Our nation, no doubt, has some place in God's overall plan, but let's not assume that the we Americans will be the heroes of the story — or that Perry or any other man can claim to be able lead us to prosperity through the force of his religious convictions.

For example, we have the rapacious conduct of the sons of God toward the daughters of man (6:2), which (like the rape of Helen) heralds the chaotic battles of the heroes, leading God to flood the earth and start again with Noah.

With a narrow lead this time around, Brendan Rodgers's side may need to channel the strength of that second - half performance nearly a decade ago, but where are the heroes of Istanbul now?

By overcoming multiple deficits with multiple home runs from multiple heroes, the Astros grabbed a 3 - 2 lead in the best - of - seven series.

After the game, CBS Sports caught up with the night's hero, Ben Richardson, who led all scorers with 23 points, and stablemate Clayton Custer, who was this year's Missouri Valley Player of the Year.

There's the Westbrook who is the hero of Oklahoma City; the one who signed an extension and chose to lead the team when all reason said that he should leave.

The 20 - year - old made the type of late run into the box which made Frank Lampard a Stamford Bridge hero to convert Cesar Azpilicueta's cross and give the Blues a 26th - minute lead against Aston Villa.

Really, it couldn't have been any other way: Of course the unlikeliest World Series champs in recent memory would be led by a kid who grew up a 45 - minute drive from Busch Stadium, quit baseball for a year after graduating from high school because he was burned out, and, after the Padres drafted him in the ninth round in 2006, was traded to his hometown team the next year for a childhood hero, Jim Edmonds.

Porto led and looked odds - on to put the two - times winners out of the competition with 10 minutes remaining but Josh Grant's equaliser four minutes from time took the semi-final contest to penalties and Jamie Cumming, our goalkeeper, proved the hero in the shootout as he saved three spot - kicks to send us into Monday's final against Barcelona.

The tested 3 -4-2-1 formation saw the Spurs attack being led by the famed troika of Alli and Eriksen with hat - trick hero Kane upfront, supported closely by the midfield pairing of Dembele & Wanyama and dangerously flanked by Rose and Walker.

The hero of the show, Optimus Prime, leader of the good Transformers who call themselves the Autobots, engenders some ideal father figure traits — integrity, patience, dignity, intelligence and even valuable positive discipline traits kindness and firmness when it came to the Autobots he led.

They are all simple in themselves, but can lead to hours of pretending to be super heroes and saving the world or helping a parent with real life tasks.

It also happens to be the birthday of one of my food heroes, Janet Poppendieck, whose seminal book Free For All: Fixing School Food in America led directly to my starting this blog back in 2010.

During the First World War, some of the leading Progressive writers began to use the word liberalism as a substitute for progressivism, which had become tarnished by its association with their fallen hero, Theodore Roosevelt, who had run and lost on a Progressive third party ticket.

Like his hero Arsene Wenger, manager of his beloved Arsenal, the UK's leading left - winger faced calls to quit in 2016 - 17 after poor team performances.

In fact, Senator Gillibrand is the lead sponsor of Senate legislation to help our September 11th heroes.»

I hope you will find time to visit the road in honour of the man who led the NNDP, the first political party in Nigeria, our great hero, Sir Herbert Macaulay and behold the statue in his honour, standing proudly where he once stood to campaign.

The hero of Normandy somehow forgot how to lead until Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus forced the president to literally call out the troops.

The governor who led others to lay wreaths in honour of the country's war heroes said, «It is pertinent to remember gallant solders that have put down their lives to sustain the unity of our dear country.

Kalu, a businessman and political party promoter, was welcomed into the ruling party not like some sort of hero, with National Chairman John Odigie - Oyegun leading the honours at the APC headquarters in the federal capital.

For men less noble than Bohr, it is easy to see how these literary visions of struggle and destiny, heroes and Vikings, led down darker paths.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.

Comprised of radiation biology experts, nuclear physicists, industrial designers, engineers and backed by world - leading scientists including 3 Nobel Laureates, StemRad provides cutting edge technology to protect our heroes on Earth and beyond.

via www.buzzfeed.com - This time around, our favorite dystopian hero Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) will lead his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet.

The Pride of DC: The Art of LGBTQ Inclusion — On December 8, history was made with the debut of Freedom Fighters: The Ray, a new animated series on CW Seed, the digital channel of The CW Network, that features the first gay Super Hero to lead a show.

The staff were beyond helpful, and we were quickly led through to a wide booth, where the Hero was quick to remark on the fact that we had dramatically reduced the average age of the room on entry!

It's an amusing portrait of frustration that inadvertently epitomizes The Hero, a film that generously gives Elliott one of the few lead roles of his lengthy career, but mostly asks him to embody clichés, without providing any sense of how he might improve upon them.

The title is GUITAR HERO, not BAND HERO (though they did, in their defense, release a crappier spin - off of the series called BAND HERO), so adding drums and a microphone in with the lead guitar and the bass guitar demolishes the title.

Despite the unpromising pulp origins of the film's hero and the acting resume of its lead actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, director John Milius grounded his pre-Sumerian fantasy in a level of reality sorely lacking in most other fantasy films (even Barbarian's inauspicious sequel Conan the Destroyer).

After years in the wilderness, RTS is pretty cool again right now, and something as cheerfully straightforward as this is just what's needed to stop the big braininess of «Company of Heroes» and «Supreme Commander» leading to another plunge into an inaccessibility that turns more casual players off the whole genre.

It's clearly just the beginning to a larger story, but «Catching Fire» steadily builds excitement with the harrowing plights of its heroes and introduces several new characters that admirably fill out the cast to complement the leads, and also distract from the sappier moments.

Knaggs» character, a mute seaman, narrates the film's key sections with an internal voice - over monologue that is more hissed than spoken, leading the audience down all manner of strange psychological paths around the script's action; Knaggs» seaman ultimately rescues the hero from near - certain death.

Synopsis: Starring an extraordinary NZ cast; Cliff Curtis (Whale Rider and Boy), James Rolleston (Boy) and Kirk Torrance (Outrageous Fortune) The Dark Horse is an inspiring true story based on the life of a charismatic, brilliant but little - known New Zealand Hero and Chess champion - Genesis Potini (Gen)... An emotionally - charged, inspiring drama about a man who searches for the courage to lead, despite his own adversities - finding purpose and hope in passing on his gift to children in his community.

John is soon a media hero, the focus of intense news coverage, even as police chief Gus Monroe (Ray Liotta) and hostage negotiator Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) try to resolve the situation before it leads to bloodshed.

What we have left in Godard Mon Amour, after the laughs dry up, is a thin sketch of a filmmaker who inspired a hero worship in his young bride that dissolved in squabbling, as had Godard's first marriage to another of his leading ladies, actress Anna Karina.

All of the lead actors were exactly what was needed: Chris Pine, soft on the eyes, action hero, an average Joe in for more than he bargained for, but a soldier first and foremost; Keira Knightley, the pretty innocent who tags along, and then is

Black Panther may not be the first superhero film to place a black lead front and centre — Wesley Snipes made two great Blade movies plus another one, and the»90s delivered a handful of now - forgotten fare with black men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audience.

Like so many movie heroes before him, though, Emmett's life is turned upside down when he meets Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), a woman leading a resistance force against world leader President Business (Will Ferrell) and on the hunt for the Piece of Resistance.

New «Factions» are visited, with Octavia Spencer's Joanna controlling her temper in leading the tolerant sweethearts of «Amity,» who briefly shelter our heroes.

«Heroes and Villains: Meet the Players» (20:10) discusses each leading cast member and past performances that made the filmmakers think of them for the roles.

With the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, fans can re-visit historic moments from the series, including the introduction of two of gaming's most famous heroes — Ryu and Ken in the original Street Fighter, and explore the timeline of events that helped create one of the world's leading fighting game series.