Sentences with phrase «of scene setting»

It is a bubble of a book that offers little in terms of scene setting or a sense of community.

Nothing more than a series of scenes set in darkened rooms in which grownups argue with and lie to each other.

Even more needless is the brief inclusion of a scene set in a sexually oriented club where topless women dance while men fondle their breasts.

Francis Lawrence's Red Sparrow is at its most deliciously ludicrous across a series of scenes set inside the Sparrow School, where young men and women like Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) are trained to seduce Mother Russia's enemies.

We caught them between takes of a scene set in that humble lifeboat, which was getting slammed by water in a giant tank in a nondescript warehouse.

In the original Star Wars, there were plenty of scenes set in darkened areas but the visuals there were more exciting than the ones here.

There have also been reports of a scene set during World War II, a time frame not seen since Captain America: The First Avenger, as well as rumors that Hayley Atwell will return.

He speaks to the audience in a series of scenes set late in his life, as he looks back to the past to the point where the central action... the series of murders... takes place.

Here it's worth noting that for many years the artist worked as a studio assistant to Red Grooms, a painter known for extracting great humor (and pathos) from warped spatial perspectives, mostly of scenes set in New York.

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Hospitality entrepreneurs Marc Rose and Med Abrous — owners of cocktail lounge The Spare Room at Los Angeles» Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel — believe in setting the scene.

In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

One set of presentations will be a series of case studies of 10 cities with thriving tech scenes, such as Jerusalem and Nairobi.

If the night had a specific theme, it was that women in business don't just need mentors and coaches, they need sponsors to be their advocates behind the scenes and champions in their workplace that set an example of their company's attitudes toward the empowerment of women.

When I stopped by the Horseshoe, he was buying drinks for everyone who showed up — friend, acquaintance or media — urging people to try out a bike or enjoy a complimentary taco and then settling in the back of the club when the music started: a couple of little - known local indie bands played, and Broken Social Scene member Brendan Canning — dressed as if he'd just arrived from Wimbledon's centre court — did a DJ set.

Producers say new episodes will feature Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa - Laa and Po as characters, but the series will undergo an update with new CGI effects and scenes shot on replica models of the sets.

From the Inside Out - «Making Avengers: Age of Ultron»: A 20 - minute video going back 18 months showing what it was like on set of the film in Italy and Seoul, Sourth Korea; a look at the Avengers Tower; some of the behind - the - scenes early visual effects of Ultron; early concept work for Quicksilver, the Hulk, and Vision; and more.

«It's obviously still very early days, but there's tremendous amount of work going on behind the scenes, setting the stage and we're making progress putting in place a new team and structure as well as cascading that structure and accountability down the whole organization,» chief executive Guy Laurence said in a conference call with analysts Thursday.

«The determination of the PSD - led government to charge ahead with the contentious criminal justice reform in disregard of widespread public discontent and political opposition sets a scene for tumultuous period ahead, highlighting a risk of further deteriorating operating environment,» Andrius Tursa, advisor on central and eastern European issues at Teneo Intelligence said in a note last week.

One of them is John Carey, who was a Missouri State University student when Mozilla plucked him out of the Midwest and set him up with a free apartment nearby, along with the assignment to make a video of the behind - the - scenes work to prepare the next major version of Firefox.

Set back from the hustle and bustle of Hay Street, behind a gated entrance and laneway that would look at home in Melbourne, The Stables Bar is the latest addition to the CBD bar scene.

However, the rest of the Getty scenes in the movie are clearly of Plummer, which Scott could pull off as they are mostly scenes shot in one exterior location or interiors, which could all have been filmed on studio sets.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

To set the scene: Demonstrators at the University of Missouri were celebrating their victory in helping to force president Timothy Wolfe out of office.

Amid this chaotic scene, Reynolds had the wherewithal to both begin broadcasting on Facebook and setting the scene for viewers from her point of view.

Having tried to dissuade Trump behind the scenes, hoping that he would vacillate on this issue as he had on DACA and guns, the usually supine Republican leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan finally spoke up after five days of public silence, expressing concern on the part of their followers that the tariffs would set off a trade war and wipe out the economic gains on which they were pinning their November election prospects.

Pay - by - Twitter is the first of many features set to be released by the wallet which aims to make bitcoin a desired payment method for people who otherwise would not be involved with the cryptocurrency scene.

As wildfires rage in California's wine country, the scene is set for a recurrence of Oakland's devastating 1991 blaze.

Fondly referred to as the Shopify of China, Baozun handles the behind - the - scenes work for retailers to set up shop for e-commerce sales.

To reconsider the merits of supporting China's WTO membership, we must set the scene.

In Difficulties of Anglicans, a set of lectures written just after his conversion and addressed to the Anglo - Catholic community he had left behind, Newman describes the scene outside a Catholic church during a fiesta:

From a Christian standpoint, the entirety of the Old Testament is the story of God setting the scene for the Messiah to come on stage.

One scene is set with a full moon hanging low over a grove of pine trees that's almost cut and pasted out of E.T. Where Stranger Things wanted to remind viewers of their childhoods (or of the media their parents and older siblings loved) Guardians 2 seems to want to compare itself to every piece of 1980s pop culture, and come out on top.

And Roy Peachey's brilliant description of the emergence of the novel from the British tradition of Christian «protest», and of the related de-Catholicisation of the English school curriculum, sets the scene for the Church to reclaim this tradition in the name of true humanism.

Both contributed to the general feeling of The Search that pervades Forever Changes, culminating in one of the most honestly philosophical of rock songs, «You Set the Scene.»

While it's a pretty irreverent take on nativity scene decorations, whether the creators of the «Hipster Nativity Set» were intending to or not, the concept offers interesting commentary about the intersections of modern millennial culture with the ancient holiday.

The quiet serenity of this very young Mary and the contrast between the ordinary setting and the extraordinary visitor creates a moving and tender scene.

As he mentions in this post, I was able to help him set up some of the «behind the scenes» elements of the blog, including tips and advice on plugins, some minor coding tweaks, and a few design elements.

Well, not as we might want or expect, but the almost unbelievable set of circumstances and human actions all point to a director behind the scenes.

This set of interesting people includes more gays and blacks than the typical crowd, reflecting the origins of the disco music and scene, but as Stillman emphasizes, it also includes a wider spectrum of ages than you associate with rock.

Scorsese wrote a 40 - page treatment that detailed plans to re-enact scenes from the Gospels, including the stations of the Cross, and set them in modern - day New York City.

There are lessons on personal growth here, but it's still a goofy studio comedy, albeit one with wacky, convoluted set pieces (some of them mirror actual games — one of the best scenes in the movie is a mansion - wide bout of «hot - potato» with a Faberge egg).

Symbols and images of this kind cluster thickly in the scenes of the «Christmas story» which in Matthew and Luke is the prelude to their account of the public career of Jesus: visits of angels, prophetic dreams, the marvelous star in the east, the miraculous birth greeted with songs from the heavenly choir, all the appealing incidents so familiar in the appropriate setting of Christmas carol and nativity play.

In neither case does the eulogy take on the character of an elegy: for both men, neoconservatism departs the scene not because it has failed but because it has, in large part at least, succeeded in what it set out to accomplish.

So we have set the scene for asking whether the historical Jesus has something to contribute to our consideration of whether progressive churches will live or die:

Returning to the scene at First Church, Newton, we might note that the homily on suffering and hope is based on the lectionary and set in the flow of a classical liturgy with attendant paraments and garb, all departures from the informalities of First Church's free - church tradition.

The artistic nature of the scene is clear: the setting of the questions to build up to a climax; the representative role of Peter; the post-Easter confession; the sudden appearance of the crowd when the time comes for general instruction, as so often in Mark; the reflection of the situation of a Church facing the possibility of persecution; and the way in which the whole pencope moves to its climax in the last two verses.

Consider setting up your manger scene progressively, one set of figures at a time.

His first lecture set the scene, discussing the background to the relationship of faith and science, a history of co-operation and also of conflict, especially with reference to evolution.

One notes the weird night scene, the underground setting, the fact that only the witch is reported to have seen Samuel, the complete credulity of Saul, Samuel's rising out of Sheol in bodily form, clothed in a robe and physically recognizable, and, implied in the whole story, the popular prevalence of such necromancy in making use of the still - existent dead.

Wasp you are right in away It did all come from the point of a spear, stuck into a man on a cross to ensure his death, this scenario set up a scene where within 3 days many folks were talking about this same dude raising from the dead healed of all wounds.