Sentences with phrase «performance pieces like»

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Amos Wilder adds a piece to our understanding of what these performances might have been like: When we picture to ourselves the early Christian narrators we should make full allowance for animated and expressive narration... oral speech also was less inhibited than today... when we think of the early church meetings and testimonies and narrations we are probably well guided if we think of the way in which Vachael Lindsay read or of the appropriate readings of James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones (56).

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The stockpile of resources on this team is like a big piece of performance art.

But despite the strong efforts that Alexis Sanchez has put in up front and the performances from the likes of Giroud, Welbeck and Perez, I still think a major talent up front would be the missing piece to the jigsaw, especially when it comes to our chances of winning the league again!

«I have listened to the Attorney General's call to action and read his piece in today's Huffington Post — and like most New Yorkers, have great respect for his performance these last four years, as well as his vision for how to move our state in the right direction as Governor.»

I have learned, for example, how to teach myself a new piece of music: sitting down for hours, starting to play slowly, and then adding different elements like speed, dynamics, and phrasing to build up to a final performance.

Cool tech pants, tech coats, hats, a bunch of really like high performance type of gear, it's the same stuff that I wear when I go to races and I will put a link in the show notes to the official new Ben Greenfield Fitness store where every piece of clothing is actually emblazoned with the same fire and water Ironman tattoo that appears on my back.

For athletes, bodyweight training in my opinion is the most essential piece to the puzzle when it comes to training for performance.This is the base of all of your strengths.Just like a great house is built upon a solid base, one's athletic abilities and performance levels are all rooted back to how well they can control their bodies.

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It may seem like an odd combo, but I will take this as a performance piece when it could've so easily — with a few more inches — been a red carpet look.

And forgo the bulky gym bag by leaving out your jeans and simply packing a fresh tank, dry shampoo, deodorant, and sandals — much like with avoiding excuse # 1, you can transition from gym to gastropub in no time if you invest in a few versatile, performance wear pieces that are appropriate for both working out and life after the gym.

It doesn't try to show some drastic change, but it does attempt to convince others that change can indeed happen, it also never puts blame on one person, because obviously with marriage it is a joint effort, there will be trials and on other occasions it simply won't work, but time and commitment can change that, rarely can a simple film like this address so much in such limited issues, but sharp, often improvisational dialogue and strong performances create a very real and insightful piece that underplays everything for maximum effect, which works.

We're off from the first suspenseful minute as Petit and his accomplices sneak into the towers (prepare to choke up at the digital re-creation), set up shop and pull off the most lyrical and illicit piece of performance art in, like, ever.

Award - winning writers like Lynn Nottage and Jack Thorne turned their stories into powerful performance pieces delivered by that impressive roster of actors and directed by Danny Boyle.

The film, much like Willis» performance, never flatlines, but it never delivers the thrills you expect from this type of genre piece.

Movies like Leon: The Professional and even Jason Bourne echo throughout the film's exhausting proceedings, but whereas those films had a certain edge in their approach, not to mention solid action set pieces and, most important of all, expressive performances, The Hunter's Prayer serves to be a shoddily - executed version in comparison.

Even the few redeeming aspects like Armie Hammer «s endearing performance and director Gore Verbinski «s skill at putting together set pieces can't stop the film from feeling like being dragged through the desert rather than a rousing ride through canyons and vistas.

Felicity Jones, who picks up the Best Female Newcomer award for LIKE CRAZY, is similarly absent; however, Tom Hiddleston is awarded the Best Male Newcomer award for his performance in THOR, and naturally he's chuffed to pieces about it.

Yeah Alex, this film looks like one of those pandering for an Oscar pieces that basically just begs for a golden statue by delivering an original story filled amazing performances by unheard of actors.

The performances are all over the place here, some of them stilted and stuffy as if in a Victorian stage piece (Unax Ugalde's Jonathan Harker looks like a dazed clown trying to remember marks), others sloppily hamming it up (Darios's daughter Asia is one of the guilty parties on that score).

It's testament to Kazan's connection to the piece (it offers commentary of a sort on his contentious relationship with his father), the idea that (again, like Edward Scissorhands — how odd), following a sterling success and with the ability to write his own ticket, this artist chooses to tackle imposing material, only sometimes succeeding yet creating something that coheres due to a remarkably vulnerable central performance from its unexpected star.

The sensation of being caught in an endless loop is reinforced by the main musical theme, by Kitano regular Joe Hisaishi, a piece of treacle featuring piano and orchestra that's repeated so many times it drills its way into your skull, like one of the elevator - music themes of a comedy by Jacques Tati (or, perhaps closer to the mark, Ryuichi Sakamoto's main theme for Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which featured Kitano's first film performance).

Even a departure like his underrated 2000 period piece Esther Kahn seemed perversely idiosyncratic and confrontational, what with its deliberately blank lead performance by Summer Phoenix and its plain, unburnished images of Victorian England.

Thankfully, a creative story, top notch performances from supporting cast members like Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels, Paul Dano and especially Noah Segan and Pierce Gagnon as young Cid and a finely crafted world made Looper a fine piece of original sci - fi.

At least the pieces placed before us seemed like perhaps we could once again happily journey into this world: performances are fine and the direction by the returning Scott Moore and Jon Lucas is solid, but CHRISTMAS fails utterly to connect the tissue behind the comedy into a cohesive narrative that doesn't feel like bad dramedy.

This looks like a painfully awkward, somewhat amusing, kitschy indie romantic comedy film that looks like a fun performance piece for the cast.

An interesting companion piece to «Mud,» the film tells the story of two best friends (future megastar Nick Robinson, «Super 8» actor Gabriel Basso) who, fed up with their overbearing parents (including Nick Offerman, in his best non «Parks and Rec» performance to date), and with the help of show - stealing oddball Biaggio (Moises Arias), build a house in the woods where they can act like grown - ups.

Cornish directs like he's been doing it every day of his life, weaning a brace of menacing, then charming performances out of his young leads, moving through from memorable set piece to memorable set piece like lightning, and producing something thrilling, funny, scary and even a little moving.

The Square could easily feel like a piece of performance art itself, particularly because its story is so aimless, bouncing in different directions in pursuit of the themes that most intrigue Östlund.

That aside, the overall artistry, subject material, and raw cinematography makes for what feels like an organic experience and a nicely shaped ensemble piece, let's not forget Octavia Spencer's performance, stout.

While this is not a performance - driven piece, having an A-list cast like this one makes a huge difference overall.

With a sure thing in Keaton, and bolstered by another perfect performance by Jack Nicholson (Anger Management, About Schmidt), in a script deliberately written with both of them in mind, Something's Got ta Give is an impressive personality driven piece that is easy to like, mostly because we like the stars enough to forgive the heavy contrivances that necessitate the traditional romantic comedy mold.

He mildly impresses with a low key performance, but I have to give him at least some respect for trying to make a worthwhile movie right out of the box and not some puffy glamour piece like most pop stars that make the crossover usually do.

David Gordon Green, after directing more mainstream, sillier things like Pineapple Express, The Sitter and Your Highness, switches gears by creating a story dependent on actual, fine - tuned performances and not upon ridiculous set pieces and poop / fart jokes.

• The Cut «I'm rooting for the Lannisters» fun piece on Game of Thrones (which I still read about on occasion even though I haven't watched since season 2) • / Film Guillermo del Toro's official tequila looks like it's from one of his movies • Vulture every Charlize Theron performance ranked.

While the cinematography is handsome (cradled by forests and dramatically framed by the Dolomites, this town never looks anything less than magnificent) and the performances fine, the mystery itself is quite conventional and the film plays like pieces of the plot were left on the cutting room floor.

Just like the film, the stifled sincerity and compassion beneath the surface of his performance is both surprising and a crucial piece to the satire.

The performances aren't bad, and I liked the working - class bickering of the early scenes, which feels of a piece with similar exchanges in Alien (even if the post-sync'd dialogue is painfully apparent).

... I'm Still Here turns out to be a Borat - like piece of performance art, in which case Phoenix has just given the performance of his career!

Like the Weinstein - backed movie itself, which will cruise its way into the Best Picture lineup in a manner similar to that of Les Misérables (another ensemble piece that's easy to endorse but hard to adore), Streep will fill a predestined slot, earning kudos for a performance that's fine, but not stellar when measured against her better work.

Had its trippy - dippy, anachronistic cross-cutting and madly - inappropriate scoring appeared in 1968 (the year of Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, If..., 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the film to which it perhaps owes its greatest allegiance, Once Upon a Time in the West), Performance would've found traction and good company as a foundational film for the American New Wave instead of as a picture that, for all its foment and formal revolution, seemed hysterical against a maturing, more sedate (d) mainstream avant - garde parade of stuff like El Topo, Zabriskie Point, MASH, and Five Easy Pieces.

The truly unforgettable bits — a bungled statue removal like something out of a movie Buster Keaton wasn't austere enough to make, a performance - art piece at a gala dinner that culminates in a rage - fueled beatdown — soften Östlund's sniper shots at the absurdity of 2017 with sour laughter.

It is a performance of a piece with Stewart's previous work in films like Panic Room and Adventureland, but it has yet to get stale as long as she has good material to back her up.

But in the ensuing months, as NYSED worked to write the regulations that spelled out how the law would be implemented, it pushed the student performance piece of the law in directions that NYSUT didn't like.

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This resource can be used as a companion piece to the performance script, «As You Like It (2016)».

Two core pieces of work have been to develop College - and Career - Ready Determination policies to allow students» direct entry into entry - level college courses without need for remediation, and Policy - Level Performance Level Descriptors, which describe what student performance looks like at various levels of proficiency in English language arts / literacy and mPerformance Level Descriptors, which describe what student performance looks like at various levels of proficiency in English language arts / literacy and mperformance looks like at various levels of proficiency in English language arts / literacy and mathematics.

Performance management software that supports coaching ties qualitative feedback to a common piece of evidence like a lesson plan, sample student work, or video of teaching.

Now, when issues like test - based teacher evaluations arise, Duncan is quick to stress that they're just «one piece of a puzzle,» and that «multiple measures» should be used to review teacher performance.

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