Sentences with phrase «other than the drama»

The first two acts of The Maze Runner play out exactly as you'd expect them to, with all of the various details and requisite dynamics sketched in through the thin characterizations of the group's leader Alby (Aml Ameen, who along with Sangster are the only actors who manage to escape this unscathed), the rote and relentlessly irritating (for no reason other than drama) group villain Gally (Will Poulter, whose acclaim and popularity continues to baffle me as he turns in another dreadful performance), the trite cliche of the young innocent Chuck (Blake Cooper) and so on.

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While the Bronfman family dramas have been wellcovered in other books and in the Canadian press — this magazine is among the book's sources — Goodman understands the music business better than any of the family's other chroniclers.

During the mid-season finale of the CW teen drama, Archie and Betty discover that the masked man is none other than the high school custodian, Mr. Svenson.

In this drama about a self - loathing detective, we'll get to see Rainn Wilson in a role other than Dwight Schrute.

You have a point Wes — there's no reason this article is in the «belief blog» other than to insight drama.

Whether or not the story of the giving of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai amid thunder and lightning and great pictorial drama is to be taken literally, there is little question that the Hebrews entered Canaan with a clearer sense both of their covenant relation to their deity and of their moral and social obligations to each other than they had possessed prior to Moses» leadership.

As God prehends the universe at the instant the piano teeters, he sees the various possible ways this little drama could be played out, sees all the ramifications of the possible scenarios, and realizes that some ways the action might unfold are better than others, that is, some outcomes would produce a future which when he, God, prehended it would make his experience more rich, more harmonious, more beautiful than his experience would be were alternative outcomes to produce quite different futures.

MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

I had rather discern a cry of human need voiced in a novel, or discover the grace of God profanely proclaimed in a drama on the stage or on the street, than retell what some other has discerned there.

In this book, Dalgleish moves closer to involvement with the murder drama than at any other point in his career.

More than any other Shakespearean tragic hero, he commands respect and radiates authority as the drama begins, and also embodies the values of aristocratic chivalry.

There has, instead, been a tendency to see nature as none other than the stage on which the drama of human life is performed.

Other than dealing with the occasional kid - drama, it was pretty damn great.

I figured I was safe since political dramas aren't typically my thing, and I couldn't possibly see Bradley Whitford (aka Josh Lyman) as anyone other than the bad guy in Billy Madison.

That is the difference between a person that is mentally strong and one that is weak, and here you will get a deeper insight into some of the most notable signs that may indicate you are UNGRATEFUL MOANERS are mentally weak, you Tend To Complain More Than Other People, Mentally Weak People Do Not Want To Step Out Of Their Comfort Zone, Mentally Weak People Do Not Take Different People's Ideas into Account, Quickly angry, You Tend To Be Overly Dramatic (drama queens).

Chelsea continue to offer the drama of the year, what next for the club who have no culture or history other than what money can buy.

For parents are constantly comparing themselves to other parents when it comes to how their children are doing, and there is no developmental phase during which this process is more highly - charged than during senior year and the attendant drama of the college applications and admissions process.

Dramas from elections past - like the way Michael Foot was nearly sacked as Leader half way through the 1983 campaign, like Kinnock and Hattersley endlessly contradicting each other over Labour's tax plans in 1987, like Kinnock «s «take to the hills» defence policy against a potential Soviet invasion, like the tax bombshell, like Maggie Thatcher's «I want the doctor I want, on the day I want» rant in 1987, like John Major unleashing the soap box in 1992, like Neil Hamilton and Martin Bell slugging it out on Knutsford Heath in 1997, like the Prescott punch of 2001 - seem more vivid than the more measured and choreographed procession of 2010.

This event, more than any other, is the time for drama and theatrics in fashion.

Give your friends and family something to talk about this holiday season, other than the typical family drama.

I have kids, so I am too busy for drama or a relationship other than friends right now.

I'm not about drama or games so if you're looking for someone to play a game with on here you might want to pass my profile up cuz I'm not the one I've already been through it and know it other than that I'm just me

Want to be happy and focus on the good things of life, please no drama other than what normal life might bring.

Although some of them might be older than the others, they are still really good dramas Best Korean Dramas 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 dramas Best Korean Dramas 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 Dramas 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017

Robert Duvall's inclusion for the less - than - stellar drama The Judge is, while not unexpected, the only choice that doesn't match up with awards given out by other groups this year.

It's a very moving indie drama that, as the directorial debut of screenwriter Oren Moverman, could be the start of a very great career for him as something other than a writer.You should definitely give this film a watch.

In other words, he's much better at effects - laden set - pieces than character drama, and this film is crying out for more of the latter.

Following high - profile roles in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and Criminal (both 2004) the young star stepped before the camera for none other than Steven Spielberg for the 2004 drama The Terminal, which was inspired by the true - life tale of Iranian refugee Merhan Karimi Nasseri.

In 2002, the hit procedural prime - time crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was launching a spin - off, CSI: Miami, and in the starring role of Lieutenant Horatio Caine was none other than David Caruso.

Other than that, think of this as the Walking Dead «Lite» where you don't need to skip 12 mins of unnecessary drama and long scenes of people scowling or frowning every episode.

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

Other than that it wasn't really a funny comedy nor a true drama and failed at both really.

More than any other word, that tidily sums up Teller, who pinballs between beloved indies and big - budget fare like Fantastic Four and, this year alone, both a comedy opposite Jonah Hill (War Dogs) and an upcoming drama about PTSD (Thank You for Your Service).

The Way Way Back does generate a fair amount of laughs throughout the film, but misses on the emotional level because of the underplayed drama between mother and son — a shame because Collette's character had real potential to be more than just a naïve mother who is content with looking the other way for everything in life.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

The core bond between these two is just a secondary layer of drama, but it's the reason why Boone's movie works as well as it does because it echoes the core drama, which is none other than young love.

The film shifts between thriller and drama, and it might have been better if it had gone for one or the other, rather than straddling both with only a modicum of success.

For up close and personal drama it is pretty good comedy (better than Berry's Oscar acceptance speech) and there are other unconvincing moments like these.

And like those previous movies mentioned this really is more of a dramady then a striahgt comedy or drama, but alot lighter than the other movies.

Well, I'm an attorney, and I've always found this show not only more credible but more enjoyable than any of the other nighttime legal dramas.

In other words: This is a standard - issue earnest Amerindie drama, where the people do as needed to serve the plot and the point, even if that means they behave far more idiotically and short - sightedly than they're meant to be.

Indie - film fans are probably more familiar with Reed Morano than they realize: She's the cinematographer behind the camera on the heartbreaking Melissa Leo drama Frozen River, the Ginsberg / Kerouac meet - cute film Kill Your Darlings, and the Kristen Wiig / Bill Hader angst - off The Skeleton Twins, among many other projects.

The USA drama might not have as much buzz as other shows, but throughout the summer it did have consistently stronger viewership than Mr. Robot.

Still, if Vaughn REALLY wanted to avoid such comparisons, he could always have brought out something other than a crime - drama about a bunch of inter-twined Londoners who deal drugs, carry «shooters», and jam each others» heads in sunbed lids.

The other new worth watching trailer is for Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur, yet another drama about violent human beings, but this one seems to have a bit more emotion to it than the Vincent Cassel one.

It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.

A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a violent inmate sent to the same lock - up as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie making the movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.

The film is a change of pace for Olivier, his first time directing someone other than Shakespeare and in a genre other than classical drama.