Sentences with phrase «of obscure characters»

That's fine — I respect the old - school opinions (heck, I grew up playing this game), and likewise I'm delighted there are so many fans of the obscure characters and plotlines that make up the Sonic mythology.

The problem here is that you are EXCUSING them for making low production of obscure characters.

They had no problem overstocking Mario figures and Pikachu and now they are fully aware of the demand for all of the obscure characters.

Not exact matches

From a memorial to Larry Martin, written by a friend and colleague: «Martin spent much of his career insisting that the characters in common between dromaeosaurs and birds were the result of convergences that obscured the true evolutionary history.

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern world.

«In Heidegger's major work,» Mason writes, «the elucidation of the character of the present is obscured somewhat by the emphasis given the primacy of the future» (p. 99).

Strauss is obscure, but Trump's cartoonish Machiavellianism is comparable to that of another character who started life as a cartoon.

The defect in this confidence in individual conversion is that it obscures the dual and social character of human selves and the individual and social character of their virtues and vices.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Though some within the Church have taken seriously the kenotic character of the mystery it stands for, by and large the sense of God's self - emptying love has been obscured in its preaching, practice, and theology, as well as in its internal and external politics.

Most philosophies, however, render thought about this subject very difficult and obscure, and this situation has been reflected in the highly paradoxical character of the church's historic affirmations.

An appropriate myth is, for instance, one that is recognizable or learnable, not so obscure that its elements compound a church's uncertainty about the unusual topic of their character.

Whitehead even considered consciousness as the «last and greatest» of the «elements by which the selective character of the individual obscures the external totality from which it originates and which it embodies» (PR 15/22).

It is truer to the obscure and trying character of reality and the limitations of human beings than are the ideologies.

The obscure melodrama of the game revolved around a legendary character named Jacqueline.

Leah is also the name of a more obscure character from the Bible, and although not a very popular one in biblical stories, the name has sure risen in popularity today in the form of a baby girl name.

But the craziness shouldn't obscure the greatness of the city or the reasons that so many younger people, in particular, are being drawn to it, which include the character and quirkiness of its architecture and residents, the proximity to natural beauty, and the possibilities of all that potential.

«The question of the character and origin of the local gods of Egypt is still obscure; but a paper by Prof. Flinders Petrie does much to clear it up.

Characters major and minor in the story of nuclear science come alive in Mahaffey's lively, accessible retelling of some of the field's more obscure (and sometimes ignominious) moments.

It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these it is like wandering in vain in an obscure labyrinth.

Together with Christian Theobalt, leader of the research group «Graphics, Vision & Video» at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, they could solve another problem: with their method, they can display people in full even if they had been partly obscured by other characters in a movie scene.

Although the origins of the Harlequin are obscure there are several theories for how the character came to be.

There's a few tiny technical hitches, some detective work that feels a little too obscure, and a lead character voiced in an inconsistent manner, yet the strength of the game's world - building, and execution of its memorable literal head trips, softens the blow considerably.

Along with obscure characters like Ant - Man and Doctor Strange jumping ahead of her.

The cover story, «Grade B — But Choice,» is devoted to an obscure 1934 musical called «Young and Beautiful,» featuring «budding starlets, grade - A character actors, grade - B musical numbers, a pair of vaudevillians, a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, bogus appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and a script by Dore Schary» [later famous as a producer of films such as «Crossfire,» «Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,» «They Live By Night» and «The Red Badge of Courage»].

The young mutants of X-Men: First Class explain why the movie focuses on more obscure characters.

The character is somewhat obscure, and unknown by general fans of the X-Men movies.

Maybe it's just harder to make this kind of film with a volunteer army: The path Swofford takes to the desert is delivered in a progression of winking flashbacks that collectively amount to that hill of beans, obscuring his character and making a cipher of his suffering.

On the contrary, the most recognizable face in «Dunkirk» is almost completely obscured by an oxygen mask, and even the film's loudest champions would be hard - pressed to identify any of Nolan's characters by name.

But while centering a film on the bad guys may sound like a cool idea, it's massively hampered by the fact that the Suicide Squad team is mostly comprised of D - list characters (like Killer Frost and Captain Boomerang) so obscure that they're every bit as expendable as Waller claims them to be.

With an enjoyable take on the Musou formula and boasting a fantastic cast of both mainstream and obscure Koei Tecmo characters, Warriors All - Stars is sure to delight a variety of fans and perhaps recruit a few new ones in the process.

He's always aware of spatial relationships between characters and their environment, and his camerawork always enhances this rather than obscuring it.

There's a set of four new True Detective season 2 character posters, but they almost do more to obscure the quartet of new leads than they do to reveal them.

There's about a dozen characters, many of whom draw heavily from obscure fighting game memes and jargon.

The original SH1 - 4 all had this feature, where the camera angles constantly changed angles, giving the player beatiful vistas / panoramas of the ingame contents but still where always controllable to some extend, sometimes being claustrophobic / uneasy to control or / and placed in obscure angles in order to disturb the players nerves, and also I think it gave the character focus more presentation.

WHAT: A series of sketches starring DC Comics» stable of superheroes and villains — from flagship characters like Superman and Batman, to obscure D - listers like B'dg and Mister Banjo.

Picking an extremely obscure title allowed the company to set up a unique world and introduce a group of genuinely fun characters.

At the time it was just perplexing, but now in retrospect it feels like some of these jarring jumps around in time were deliberately there to obscure the more egregious moments of illogical and out - of - character behavior.

For those who may not be up to date on their relatively obscure Marvel characters, here's a bit of her character history and how she ties into the Phoenix Saga.

In fact, its difficult to decipher whether it is her presence that obscures the importance of its supporting characters, or whether that problem lies solely within the script itself.

But right now, he's telling me about an obscure old porn movie he found in the projection booth of Robert Redford's Sundance Institute («I'm not saying this was Redford's porno collection... maybe it was») and explaining how it provided inspiration for the Rollergirl character from his 1997 breakthrough hit, Boogie Nights.

Inspired in part by classic DC series like Challengers of The Unknown and Forgotten Heroes, Legends is being touted as an avenue to both grow the successful «Arrowverse» TV property for The CW and to test the potential of DC Comics» substantial catalog of more obscure characters (the way Marvel Studios did with Guardians of The Galaxy).

A spectacular moment when Stone's character looks out to see Phoenix's character standing on a dock at the edge of a lake essentially encapsulates the entire movie, as the light shimmering off the water backlights him into an obscuring darkness even as he stands fully in the sun, an unknowable specter.

The headiness of Ghost in the Shell exists beyond its more pseudo-philosophical dialogue about the differences between fantasy and reality that often spews from characters» mouths, with a notable exception being Kuze (Michael Pitt), a cyber-terrorist whose computer - generated speech patterns are played with wild - eyed hilarity by Pitt's obscure line readings.

Some poets are heavily immersed in a universe of obscure knowledge, writing poems about historical characters or works of art, almost with a smug chal

The serious ecological implications of this fine novel do not obscure the pleasures of getting to know the main character and her family — and watching her come of age as a woman fulfilling her own possibilities.

In keeping with his penchant for obscure subjects (his first bestseller, Neutral Buoyancy: Adventures in a Liquid World, captures his scuba - diving adventures), Ecott presents a cast of interesting characters including farmers, brokers and ice cream makers he tracked down in Mexico, Tahiti, Madagascar, England and America.

«Characters, famous and relatively obscure, flit in and out of the narrative, creating frequently humorous situations.

There will be the typical characters like Batman and Superman but Wednesday Comics, the title of the weekly, will also bring all of DC's obscure characters into the limelight.

It's actually a masterfully crafted retelling of Romeo & Juliet, complete with barely obscured name changes for all of the major characters and a heart - breaking scene in which «R» bites and infects a guard in Julie's compound after gaining her trust and her love, reminiscent of Romeo's slaughter of Tybalt only minutes after exiting the church where he married Juliet.