Sentences with phrase «political drama in their lives»

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Elijah was coming off of a busy day, in which he had a life and death experience, prolonged physical activity, and was caught in the middle of political drama with a bounty on his head from an angry King.

Certainly the prophet shows that God is present in everyday life, in political dramas.

Whether it's the drama that's created when the various characters in our family get together, the tension that stems from political discussions, or the unnecessary comments and questions about our personal life, chances are most of us have had difficult family situations over the holidays at one point or another.

The real - life scandal involving the public exposure of Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA agent by vindictive White House officials determined to punish her husband Joe Wilson for his political views is recounted in this drama starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sam Shepard.

After a stellar career in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and, in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.

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

Inspired by the true - life events confronting Abraham Lincoln and his monumental moral and political challenge to amend the United States Constitution to permanently abolish slavery, and based in part on the book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama that has been hailed as one of the best film of political challenge to amend the United States Constitution to permanently abolish slavery, and based in part on the book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama that has been hailed as one of the best film of Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama that has been hailed as one of the best film of the year.

Despite the controversy - baiting incest topic, Sitaru concentrates on the family drama mounting over an intergenerational divide stemming from lives experienced in different political epochs, a fairly common subject of contemporary Romanian cinema.

This handsome drama works hard to tell an old story in new ways, rendering Churchill's early prime ministerial career as a minefield of political peril, and considering the women in his life, particularly his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) and secretary (Lily James).

Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.

This earnest but heavy - handed political drama from venerable director Rob Reiner chronicles a worthwhile and relevant true - life account of investigative reporting in the face of post-Sept.

«Anonymous» takes the often debated real - life conspiracy theory surrounding the authenticity of the literary treasures composed by William Shakespeare, and produces a 130 minute political drama in which the famed author acted as a catalyst that sparked controversy to the throne in England.

Rooted in the author's own experience, the teen's intense narrative is set against real - life political events (reports from the New York Times are documented in an appendix), while the family drama and revelations continue right up to the end.

In Meacham's telling, Bush indeed lacked an ideological vision, was as overmatched in domestic policy as he was masterful on the global stage, benefited from his family's influence, and remains overshadowed «by the myth of his predecessor and the drama of his sons» political lives.&raquIn Meacham's telling, Bush indeed lacked an ideological vision, was as overmatched in domestic policy as he was masterful on the global stage, benefited from his family's influence, and remains overshadowed «by the myth of his predecessor and the drama of his sons» political lives.&raquin domestic policy as he was masterful on the global stage, benefited from his family's influence, and remains overshadowed «by the myth of his predecessor and the drama of his sons» political lives.»

-- Sunday Times (UK) «This terrific first novel (shortlisted for the Baileys women's prize for fiction) deals with the daily stresses of living with the political upheavals of the time but the real drama is happening in Yejide's womb.

Imitation of Life considers the context of racial politics over the last fifteen years in the US and Europe, focusing on artists whose work uses (melo) drama as a form of social, political and institutional critique.