Sentences with phrase «of young characters»

Time travel gave us a platform to discover the journeys of the young characters.

Once again, I'm naming a novel I chose to reread, during my own work on my new novel, because it captures so beautifully the voices of young characters — hopeful and innocent, in a world filled with corruption and trouble.

The material here more closely resembles his efforts on «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World» than «Project X,» at least in the sense that he's lending a sensitive or sympathetic edge to all of the characters» shenanigans, and it proves that he's got a voice as a writer that articulates honestly the point of view of young characters in a pop - culture - saturated society.

Violent content will be the greatest concern for families, and they can expect the depiction of a young character who is seen dead and one who attempts suicide using a ball of yarn around the neck.

Not exact matches

Michael Barbaro of the New York Times, for instance, had this to say about Trump's social marketing via Twitter: «Mr. Trump has mastered Twitter in a way no candidate for president ever has, unleashing and redefining its power as a tool of political promotion, distraction, score - settling and attack — and turning a 140 - character task that other candidates farm out to young staff members into a centerpiece of his campaign.»

In addition to The Last Jedi and the as - yet - untitled Episode IX in the Star Wars saga, the franchise will also yield another spinoff film slated for 2018, featuring a younger version of the franchise's Han Solo character.

One of the show's characters, a somewhat more mature sports agent named Phil, got into an illuminating chat with a couple of the younger guys:

In The Man Who Walked Around the World, Glaswegian character actor Robert Carlyle strides down a rugged mountain path, telling the story of young John Walker's rise from farm boy to shopkeeper to whisky magnate in a single, uninterrupted and utterly captivating 6 1/2 minute take.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

«When the girls were young, Keith would drive them to cheerleading and to their Brownies meetings,» she says, creating a fantastic visual of Captain Teague, his character in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, delivering Girl Scout cookies.

Or a young adult with little experience with children and life, and little personal investment in the character and development of the kids?

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

My wife believes him and trusts him and she is a better judge of character than I. [When she met Mark Driscoll in 1997 she said he was a «future cult - leader» and she was never happy about me hanging out with the Young Leaders Group.]

This coming - of - age book set in Alabama is a must - read for every human, I think — we witness justice, inequality, strength, character, community, and tragedy through the eyes of a young girl.

They have tapped into that childlike adventure and wonder and along with fun characters take young people on a journey to discover the story of redemption through Jesus.

Join nine wild animal characters as they guide young readers through the story of God's Word one step at a time.

Here's a list of films for young girls — movies that show strong female characters with the kind of energy, intelligence, wit, and initiative our daughters hope to develop themselves.

I love that Young portrays God in this way, particularly for Mackenzie, a character who struggles with bad memories of his earthly father.

Something about the young Lakita character reminded me so much of a little girl I met named Bharathi, who is pictured above on the left.

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

Comedian Tripp Crosby got into his character of «Pastor Mark» — basically a take on the stereotypical young, cool evangelical pastor — to «interview» Rob Bell.

But instead, one of the main characters pains over having to be a young adult novelist over a «serious» writer.

We then have a major section on Ayesha, who is later impersonated by one of the prostitutes, the whores of «The Curtain,» and from that impersonation the reader is given full details of Ayesha's strong - willed character, and the scandal involving her and an apparently innocent young man, Safwan, who rescues her on a desert trail only for idle tongues to wag about their alleged secret conduct.

We might add that the meaning of liberation and the character of the struggle were yet and again different for young Huey Newton (co-founder of the Black Panther Party) as be lay hand - cuffed and under armed guard even while in surgery as the result of being shot by two policemen in 1967.

It is interesting to note, in passing, that Santayana described in 1920 as a permanent feature of the American character what some observers today mistakenly believe is only characteristic of the current younger generation.

Most of us can recognize and even identify with the characters — the younger son who strikes out on his own and makes costly mistakes, the responsible elder son who always does what is expected of...

In the little - seen Gamer, a young man shares responsibility for the actions of his video - game alter - ego» an avatar (played by Gerard Butler) who is employed to act out the youth's viral simulacrum in real - world situations where hedonistic consumers take on the identities and vices of video - game characters.

Near the beginning of The Jeweler's Shop, by Karol Wotjyla (the future John Paul II), one of the characters, a young woman, recalls a hiking trip she took with friends.

The younger writers are so self - conscious, so steeped in a certain kind of liberal education, that their characters can't condone even their own sexual impulses; they are, in short, too cool for sex.

For an unmarried woman could easily be led into a disastrous marriage based on her poor reading of a young man's character ¯ which itself would mean a ruined life for her, although rarely for him.

And the loveliest of characters is the bold and disarmingly beautiful Betka, for whom our young protagonist falls.

«What young people really need is not more talk about the mechanics of sex and contraception, but encouragement to develop the character qualities of stability, faithfulness and commitment - the qualities they will need to build a strong and lasting marriage based on something that runs deeper than feelings and physical attraction.»

(ENTIRE BOOK) The fictional character of Ted Brown represents a young man who comes from a religious background, who is seriously trying to work out an intelligent philosophy of life, is sensitive to spiritual values, and who seeks a vocation where he can make the most of his best for the sake of others.

Alice Hoffman's novel Turtle Moon has a character named Lucy, a young divorced mother distressed over the behavior of her teen - age son.

The rampant evil we see in the world today: ~ the corruption of human character so prevalent even in the young, ~ the disregard of everything that is pure, virtuous and godly, being replaced with apathy and indifference toward anything that stands for righteousness, ~ the boastfulness and pride in man's own achievements... ~ the inability to recognize the beauty and virtue in things that generations of the past naturally understood.

Incidentally, the quality of mind and character of this journal's senior editor, Reinhold Niebuhr, that makes the deepest imprint on younger followers is the contempt he shares with John Milton for «a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.»

This contemporaneous or nearly contemporaneous view of the tragic king explains the phenomenon of his emotional instability in its own terms: the positive character of the younger Saul («the Spirit of Yahweh...» i m: 6) is not now merely neutralized, it is negativized!

I am glad and sympathized to see the relatives of jailed prisoners but I am not happy to see our Muslims old and young men or women with the signs of «V» for victory which is not our Muslim character and to my mind we Muslims have to create or already exist in Muslim society what we are not realizing to replace the «V «sign as RED CROSS into CRESCENT MOON for Muslims character.

The stories in Rock Springs touch on the shocks that a young man receives when he's 16; on characters who, like those in The Ultimate Good Luck, hang out at dog tracks, or who have had scrapes with the law, steal cars and push dope; and on the fleeting presence of strange men and women whom we recognize, without being told, as home - wreckers.

Some conjecture that the two young men were the same new recruit of Jesus, but Mark's storyline seems to preclude that the two figures are the same character.

As in the two prior books, Aegypt (1987) and Love and Sleep (1994), Daemonomania is held together, rather loosely, through the character of Pierce Moffet, a young historian....

This young man has character that many of our leaders lack.

The survey suggests that a substantial number of young people believe in God, yet morally stand on their own or see little connection between faith and character.

Many first - rate qualities of character helped to make possible such an achievement, but at the heart of all of them was this primary virtue: that young man decisively and efficiently took charge of himself.

O.K. Foods is very active in First Tee, which «provides young people of all backgrounds an opportunity to develop life - enhancing values such as confidence, perseverance and judgment through golf and character education,» the organization says.

«It's an energetic young brigade full of characters, and I'm already impressed by their passion and hard work.

«I think it's out of your character and I don't feel like the young kid anymore even though I'm only 21.

Our goal is to develop young men of character who graduate and make a positive impact on society.

So the fact that he confirmed his interest in the young English defender Tyrone Mings, as reported by The Mirror, is fairly out of character for the Prof.. The 21 - year old is currently playing in the Championship for Ipswich Town and his usual role is as a left back, but at 6ft 3in and with his power and pace, it is thought that he could easily make the switch to central defence, which is coincidentally the weakest part of the Arsenal squad right now.

Aside from Steph's health, and him being one of my favorite players, getting tested by a full strength Warrior's team would be best for developing more character on a young Blazer team, which they will need in the playoffs.