Sentences with phrase «of modern action»

«System Shock is one of those iconic franchises in the history of games that still gets my blood going and Mr. Spector is one of the founding fathers of the modern action RPG» said Bo Andersson - Klint, Starbreeze CEO.

The story of the game seems to be focusing on a side of the modern action hero we don't normally get to see.

The legacy: The frenzied click - click - click combat, driving obsession with new loot, and endless replayability of the modern action RPG can all be traced back to Diablo.

It's got all the bells and whistles we've come to expect out of a modern action game; plenty of fancy effects, stunning set pieces and vistas, fantastic animations, and for the most part, high quality textures.

Abandoning the lumbering tank movements of other giant robot games, the robots of Zone of the Enders moved with a pole - dancing, acrobatic style that would become the hallmark of modern action games like Devil May Cry or Dynasty Warriors.

System Shock is one of those iconic franchises in the history of games that still gets my blood going and Mr. Spector is one of the founding fathers of the modern action RPG.

«System Shock is one of those iconic franchises in the history of games that still gets my blood going and Mr. [Warren] Spector is one of the founding fathers of the modern action RPG.

The mightiest of modern action - RPGs, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was originally released in 2011 and ever since has never quite left gaming's social consciousness.

Even if the reader has never heard of this series before, they can quickly gather that it falls squarely into the realm of the modern action thriller.

Author David Morrell, who has been called «the father of the modern action novel,» may be best known as the creator of Rambo, the scarred American soldier who first appeared in Morrell's debut, First Blood.

That The Italian Job»03 is lacklustre is no surprise: a lack of heart is the malady of modern action cinema in general and unnecessary remakes in particular.

From there, the action gets graphically violent quite quickly, an admittedly common trait of the modern action - comedy that nevertheless adds a needlessly mean - spirited touch to this particular film's already uncouth comedic sensibility.

After kicking all my teeth out at the 2012 TIFF with The Raid, director Gareth Evans returned to Indonesia for the hotly anticipated The Raid 2, which features a 100 + day shoot that allegedly embarrasses stomps on the faces of modern action filmmakers.

What's more, it's refreshing to hear the young filmmaker talk honestly and passionately about such a traditionally maligned industry, while also finding a moment to namedrop Downey's Putney Swope and ruminate on the state of modern action films.

Simon West, seasoned director of modern action movie CON AIR, THE EXPENDABLES 2 and THE GENERAL»S DAUGHTER, will switch genres for a new remake...

Such sequences have become the keystone of modern action films, a set - piece as familiar as the three - act structure.

Alfred Hitchcock's intense chase film is the beginning of the modern action movie, a precursor to the James Bond series and a high - point of Hollywood craft.

He has taken an enchanting and unique work of literature and retold it in the terms of the modern action picture.

I know, not something I saw coming, but the wonders of modern action cinematography come to the fore here, as a virtual camera roams the ice alongside «Margot Robbie».

Not exact matches

Just like many Americans, celebrities woke up Monday morning to news of our country's deadliest mass shooting in modern US history and expressed their pain, condolences, and shock at the horrific actions.

With technologies to measure phone, email and other sales activities, modern sales managers can obtain and use this sales intelligence to improve forecasting and establish quantifiable standards of actions they know are likely to bread success.

Roberts and his family took dramatic personal action to combat the ill effects of his life as a modern knowledge worker.

«In the 50 years since the advent of modern day class action lawsuits, plaintiffs» lawyers have made millions of dollars in fees from these suits while consumers often receive little benefit,» the chamber said in a statement.

Not only does a bias for action actually end up producing something, but building anything at all is infinitely superior to going through instructional materials or participating in the deluge of information that is the modern interwebs.

The Cosmo is swanky, modern, right in the middle of the action (though sometimes I prefer the other side of the Las Vegas Strip because it's calmer), and has one of the best buffets in town.

Not many ex-Communists in fact posed this question, because to do so would be to undermine the presupposition that binds Marxism with all modern forms of moral calculation; «the utilitarian attention to consequences rather than to actions themselves is liable to lead to a continuous evaluation of the present only as it leads on to some future.»

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

In many modern interpretations, werewolves are shapeshifters, able to transform into a wolf at will and control their own actions; before, they were enslaved to an uncontrollable curse, having to suffer the fear of becoming a monster every month.

Although there are parts of the encyclical that are difficult to understand from our modern American perspective (and I say that with the greatest affection), I believe the encyclical speaks as a voice crying in the wilderness, holding out the truth to those who have the power to incarnate it in the world through their policies and actions.

I often ask my wife if what i did or said was evil and i more often then not get «yes» so as i said before, i believe its a matter of perspective of those involved and the society it takes place in — but now in the modern day where your actions are on youtube in a seconds notice — the world is the final judge... and that does» t bode well for the U.S.

Crane Brinton reminds us that among the stock of ideas developed in the modern world is «the idea that ideas are powerless to influence human actions.»

Within modern American Christianity the dominant way to understand the cultural impact of Christianity has been largely in terms of social action on a range of issues.

When however to the legacy of criticisms ancient and near - modern there is added the firm acceptance of evolutionary philosophies of materialism or idealism contradictory in trend to Christian teaching, then every new difficulty, every fresh confusion of unabsorbed knowledge, every apparent retreat of conscious mind before reflex conditioned action, is taken as a new refutation of traditional Christian belief.

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

That has waited for the outrageous development of modern party Protestantism, split into evangelistic and social action Christians.

If you hold that no human death came before sinfulness, then it depends on what you call human (there is a gradation of forms leading up to the modern human skeleton in the fossil record, as well as the overwhelming genetic evidence that we arose through an evolutionary process) and what you consider sin (i.e. when did we become accountable to God for our actions?).

Although fully familiar with the enormous power of modern science, medicine and technology, he held high Christian love as the answer to human needs in the broadest sense: «If you have Christian love,» he declared to a stunned audience, «you have motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.»

due to racism, bigotry and ignorance, most modern historical books in the west do not or have not mentioned such historical facts bc for white men who compiled history books, any credit to any area east of Greece would have been too shameful, but again, when you read about ancient Persian culture and see it in action and look at their tablets and beliefs and artifacts and books, it's quite clear that the Persian Zoroastrian role is all over this....

In his modern city hall office we listened as Khalaf alternately boasted of the future West Bank state and deplored Israeli actions that appear to go counter to that future.

Or perhaps modern shepherd kneeling beside sheep with leg caught, Chevrolet in background, first - aid kit spread behind him, and binoculars temporarily laid beside first - aid kit, While there may be humorous elements about this image, it is an important reminder that the means of shepherding may change, and hopefully may improve, but that the tender and solicitous concern and the relevance of the shepherd's actions to the needs of the sheep remain constant.

In accord with the «Athens» type, Wood insists that what makes theological schooling excellent schooling is that it shapes sound theological judgment; through this paideia we acquire a habitus, albeit a habitus for action that is self - critical in the modern sense of «critique» — a sense that ancient Athens knew nothing of.

Blaikie, R. J., «Being, Process, and Action in Modern Philosophy and Theology,» Scottish Journal of Theology 25 (May, 1972), 129.

The failures and vast human costs of modern «salvation myths» are now well known, as is the capacity of democratic capitalism to raise up the poor, protect human rights, and allow for unprecedented freedom of thought and action.

Then, of course, there is also the distinction between an action done with the purpose of killing someone, like a lethal injection, and a decision to let nature take its course without using the extraordinary means of modern medicine that are available to forestall the inevitable.

Vestigial features, study of ebryonic development, biogeography, DNA sequencing, examining pseudogenes, study of endogenous retroviruses, labratory direct examination of natural selection in action in E-Coli bacteria, lactose intolerance in humans, the peppered moth's colour change in reaction to industrial pollution, radiotrophic fungi at Chernobyl all add to the modern evolutionary synthesis.

To sum up: Modern young people need to be taught manners: not the code of the emancipated ego, nor the pattern of conformity to the will of the majority, but the action - language of democracy, with due respect for worthy traditions from the past and determined criticism of unworthy ones.

Based on McCann's research concerning what the churches are doing in the field of mental illness and mental health, the authors of Action for Mental Health wrote this indictment of our lethargy and unconcern: «The prevalence of religion in modern American society, as measured by church membership... does not seem to have had any measurable positive or negative effect on mental health....

Since under modern conditions the actions of all people in key positions of power and influence are thus likely to be known almost immediately by nearly everyone, these people can not make decisions without reference to the reaction of the public.

The struggle against this tendency to make the keeping of rules independent of the surrender to the divine will runs through the whole history of Israelite - Jewish faith — from the prophet's protest against sacrifice without intention and the Pharisees» protest against the «tinged - ones» whose inwardness is a pretence up till its peculiarly modern form in Hasidism, in which every action gains validity only by a specific devotion of the whole man turning immediately to God.

Like you said, many of these leaders were progressive for their time, but not all of their culture, teachings and actions will apply to modern life.