Sentences with phrase «on central characters»

Whereas the sculptures are based on central characters from his recent films and include papier - mâché heads and multi-faced masks composed from printed steel, the drawings and dioramas depict these new players standing besides figures from the artist's earlier repertoire, as if posing for a group portrait of his ever - expanding roster of protagonists past and present.

Shot mostly in interiors, Ford gives the film a deep - focus luster — the few outdoor scenes are just as lovely — and tones down the action while focusing on the central characters.

Stylistically, The Invisible War is conventional and plainspoken, from its opening clips of vintage recruitment ads for women to its closing updates on the central characters.

Whereas Mackintosh is centred on traditional craft and commercial product and presented in Paris, Kostadinov's own line allows him to indulge in narrative - led collections that focus on a central character.

Final Verdict: The Edge of Seventeen lives and dies on its central character, who is thankfully written and performed incredibly well.

Like Veronica Roth's overlong novel, Divergent boasts (or suffers from) a heavy emphasis on the central character's ongoing efforts at blending into her new faction - with the movie's entire midsection devoted to the various exercises and games that Tris and other newcomers are forced to undergo.

Maybe they are more helpful if you have danced along with the song a few times and so already know every single move, but for me, it's all about focus on the central character.

Since 1993, she has continuously developed a body of work based on a central character named «Volitia» (as in volition).

Much, although not all, of the material for this exhibition was drawn from the Judge Dredd comics — a dystopian future - vision that focuses on a central character who dispenses an authoritarian, immediate and violent form of justice.

Not exact matches

The comeback: Hayes reached a new level of fame by providing the voice for the character Chef on Comedy Central's hit show «South Park.»

These rocks are similar in age and character to the Central Rand Group of the Witwatersrand Basin, Republic of South Africa, the single largest gold region on Earth.

Why would we do anything to further undermine one of the few pre-modern institutions that still survives on life support, and that is central to forming men and women of good character?

Haze Motes, the central character in Wise Blood, sets out to be a preacher of anti-religion and yet in spite of himself, Motes seems to be moving on a circuitous journey toward redemption.

Telly, a central character, prides himself on his ability to seduce virgins.

In Allen's play Death, a central character is cajoled into joining a search party for a killer on the loose but never sees any organized method employed and is never sure of his role in the search.

On this account, science deserves a central place among the disciplines of liberal education, provided it is taught with due regard for its essentially constructive character.

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of theOn the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of theon the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

Many of the central characters of fantasy are country people, like those in Evangeline Walton's Mabinogion tales and other Welsh fantasies, The wizard Ged of Le Gum's Earthsea Trilogy is the son of a bronzesmith on a rustic island and is referred to as «goatherd.»

On the central cross a character, «holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners,» (Hebrews 7:26) was crucified, and such suffering was obviously not retribution.

Jesus Christ is regularly depicted as a supporting character on one of Comedy Central's staple programs, «South Park,» but now he might star in his own animated series.

The major difference in the books, perhaps, is the perspectives on game - playing which their central characters adopt.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

So too, whereas the legal model was focused on belief and therefore didn't involve our character transformation as a central consideration, the covenant model is all about character, for its anchored in faith, and as I've said, covenantal faith is about our willingness to trust another and to live in a trustworthy way in relation to another.

Also likely buoyed by the 1990s television series ER, which had a central character named Carter, the name of the 39th president Jimmy Carter has broken into the top 50 on the boys» chart over the past decade.

Here in Britain, however, Tough's central tenet appears less radical; our Public School system is founded on the importance of character, so much so that rounded individuals are fast becoming a key national export, as foreign students flock here and schools open satellite campuses overseas.

In January 2002, Footballers Wives - with a central character named Chardonnay - started on British television.

So will the British series have a central character based on Tony Blair or David Cameron?

«It was the character of David Cameron — his stubbornness, his anger and his rush towards war — which was the central cause of his defeat on Thursday night.»

But one of its central characters is based on crusading U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (left), who made a name for himself with his relentless pursuit of public - corruption cases, taking down some of New York's top elected officials in the process.

During the main screening, the sense of spectacle is enhanced by actors miming along to their characters on a central stage.

WARRENSBURG With a memorial scholarship fundraiser approaching for beloved Warrensburg Central School teacher and coach Mary ann Bump, her former students and fellow teachers talked about her character and the positive impact she had on their lives

WARRENSBURG With a memorial scholarship fundraiser approaching for beloved Warrensburg Central School teacher and coach Mary ann Bump, her former students and fellow teachers talked about her character and the positive impact she had on their lives more

While iodate is huge and surrounded by negative oxygen atoms, its central iodine atom takes on a positive character, or becomes a cation.

With its focus on Central African youth in peril, interludes of dreamy stylization and non-native directorial perspective, «White Shadow» will routinely be compared to Kim Nguyen's recent, Oscar - nominated child - soldier study «War Witch» — which also, as it happens, featured a significant albino character.

The central conceit of the project, which gives it some intellectual heft and occasionally also makes it very funny, is the apparent dissonance between the characters and their worlds on the one hand and the extracts about art either voiced as dialogue or heard in voiceover, also by Blanchett (about five sources are used per school or type of art).

Youth In Revolt is the sort of film that perhaps asks too much of the viewer, there is different things going on around the central character of Nick Twisp, played by Michael Cera, who we finally see a glimpse of a different sort of

The central characters» dogged refusal to cede their places on a team that keeps trying to reject them is a moving display of heroism.

In fact, sparing us the gratuitous party scenes is not just good sense but an intrinsic element of the narrative since, thanks to a self - administered mickey that turns out to be roofies rather than E, the central characters have no more idea of what went on the night before than we do.

Closing a deal to purchase Central Park's Tavern on the Green from Angela Lansbury's character, Mrs. Van Gundy, vies for the attention he gives to the penguins he promises to let Billy keep as a birthday present.

It begins for our two central characters, Megamind and Metro Man (Brad Pitt) as it did for the legendary Clark Kent — dying planet, popped in a pod as a baby, landing on Earth, adopted by kind strangers.

The episodic bent of the film's first half - much of the narrative seems to follow the central characters as they fight one fire after another - does test the viewer's patience to a fairly demonstrable degree, and it's clear that Backdraft, by and large, works best when focused on the rivalry and relationship between the central figures (and how it ultimately affects their respective work).

What I like most is that the audience possess the exact same amount of information as the central character does from beginning to end, which gives the film an uneasy spontaneous energy that keeps you transfixed on the action.

Jeannette, the central voice and consciousness in the book, is an oddly blurred character on screen.

Based on a novel by Friedrich Duerrenmatt,» The Pledge» is a psychological murder mystery in which the central character is at once investigator, possible suspect, and angst ridden carrier of the world's woes, and damned if Penn doesn't draw you inside this labyrinth of existential murk.

There's a lot to chew on here, and if Burden is ultimately buried by its muddled central character, it's as much a testament to the filmmaker's refusal to sugarcoat this story as it is a criticism of the final product.

They need to get rid of her and focus on the cute relationship between the two central characters.

Masatoshi Nagase is mesmerizing in the central role, a model of restraint even when confronted with the quirks of the characters he meets on his journey.

Writer / director Alex Garland delivers a striking and impressively captivating opening stretch that instantly captures the viewer's attention and interest, with the movie's compelling atmosphere heightened by Portman's stirring work as the conflicted, grieving central character (and it's clear, too, that Portman's costars fare just as well, though Leigh's bizarrely ambivalent take on her character is questionable at best).

Surely, then, there must be a reason that the story veers away from that subject on a seeming whim and mostly ignores the characters who turn out to be central to the movie's final lesson.

The new central narrative focuses on all the new characters and very little on the original cast.