Sentences with phrase «other dramatic turn»

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Sometimes the first act of commitment is more dramatic than any others which follow, and the believer looks back to it in gratitude as a turning point in his life.

After some dramatic results in Europe, it was our turn in europa league & we also had a 3 goal lead from the first leg like all the other dramatic fixtures.

In the aftermath of this astounding result, OurKingdom held a debate to ask: What is the meaning of this dramatic turn for Scotland, for Britain as a country, for the United Kingdom as a state, and for the other nations, especially England?

In turn, the MIT allows dramatic nonmagnetic control of the coercivity, which changes by several hundred percent within a narrow 10 K temperature range, unlike any other known magnetic material.

«One of the early bits of video that I saw showed one octopus approaching another in a fairly dramatic way — dark and standing very tall, and the other one crouched down, turned pale and then fled,» Scheel told Live Science.

Lister - Jones is also generous enough an auteur to allow for memorable moments from others, whether it's hilarious bits from the likes of Retta (as Anna and Ben's unlucky marriage counselor), Brooklyn Decker, and Jamie Chung; the escalating weirdness of Armisen (who was, of course, a seasoned indie - band drummer before he turned to acting and comedy); or a knockout dramatic scene between Pally and the great comedian Susie Essman as Ben's mother, who provides some invaluable advice.

On the other hand, by contracting its scope to the final four months of the Civil War (and, as it turned out, Lincoln's own life), the dramatic impetus of this against - the - clock structure gets lost in a miasma of dry, detailed, school syllabus - friendly historical re-enactments of men standing around in rooms talking and arguing.

Other dramatic actress nominees were Emily Blunt as Britain's monarch in her early reign in «The Young Victoria,» Helen Mirren as the imperious wife of Leo Tolstoy in «The Last Station,» Carey Mulligan as a 1960s British teen in an affair with an older man in «An Education» and Gabourey Sidibe as an illiterate, abused teen turning her life around in «Precious.»

This is McKay's first dramatic turn after directing broad comedies like Anchorman, and The Other Guys, and he handles the change well, infusing the film with much needed levity when needed.

These characters are spliced into one another through their central emotional problems, and how they are fixed (or prolonged) to the other characters in Anderson's pictures, but it all culminates with Adam Sandler's terrific dramatic turn as Barry Egan in «Punch Drunk Love.»

Both the comedic and dramatic elements are woefully uncalibrated and unbalanced, canceling each other out at every turn.

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

The F12tdf connects directly to its driver's craving for speed and is sympathetic to those basic instincts; it turns, goes, and (given sufficient tire temperature and considerable pedal efforts) stops like mad, playing to the driver's wild side with plucky repartee, responding with such absurdly dramatic dynamics that it could not be anything remotely other than a beautiful, batshit - insane Italian sports car.

The automatic transmission's own Sport mode isn't quite as dramatic as that affecting the car's other systems, as it didn't downshift aggressively, leaving me low on power for turn exits.

Ongoing assessments of penguins and other life along the peninsula have not turned up any clear link between population changes and tourism so far, and the main source of change appears — so far — to be the dramatic warming of the regional climate, Ron Naveen told me in a recent e-mail.