Sentences with phrase «powerful characters against»

Not exact matches

«Jonathan Tasini has already shown a willingness to stand against powerful interests who have chosen already to undermine the American dream, lessen the character of our young people by denying them a complete ability to comprehend their own political power.

Powerful Alliance characters arrived, and the tide of battle turned against us.

Experimenting exclusively on beautiful, busty women, Osler hopes to create a race of super-persons, infusing his subjects with a powerful element known only as Character X. Fred and Sammy race against time to save Jerrie from becoming another of Osler's hideously mutated victims.

Rather than a cohesive narrative, Avengers: Infinity War resembles the penultimate sequence of every Marvel Studios production that has come before, an exhausting series of ultimately futile action scenes that endlessly proclaim the goodness and importance of the supposedly heroic characters as they engage in battle against an all - powerful foe.

Survival is the implicit goal of characters in horror films, but a certain subset of these films are able to turn the act of survival into an existential quest, a powerful statement of defiance against the vagaries of the unknown.

A powerful epic - scale Western with a rich story full of nuances, following a complex character of dubious motivations in a search that stretches for many years - an anguishing journey set against the imposing vastness of the Monument Valley desert with stunning panoramic shots.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Some may find it hard as the game tries to balance out both characters in duel mode, which means that your buffed up hero will not be that powerful against the supposedly lowly enemy officer.

Filmmaker Joe Johnston, working from Adam Mason and Simon Boyes» screenplay, delivers an opening half hour that is, to put it mildly, less - than - engrossing, as the movie is initially concerned with the central character's work - related exploits and his company's efforts to mount a case against a powerful mafia family.

Kingsley's roundhouse climactic speech reveals evil as a beast not easily classified and explained, but it's not until the epilogue that Polanski unleashes his film's final, and most powerful, punch — a supple crane shot inside a concert hall that both evokes the inextricable web of deceit, violence, and shame that binds Death and the Maiden's three crippled characters, and stands as a superlative evocation of how man's crimes against his fellow man are frequently hidden beneath a façade of everyday decorum.

Personal Injuries is Turow's most reverberant, most moving novel — a powerful drama of individuals struggling against all odds to escape their characters.

Turow's most reverberant, most moving novel - a powerful drama of individuals struggling against all odds to escape their characters.

She is quite powerful against characters like Bowser.»

For randomly encountered enemies, an auto - battle feature often takes care of baddies efficiently, while more challenging fights against bosses and FOEs, enemies found throughout dungeons that are often more powerful than you, require you to use your character's skills more efficiently.

Playing as a nameless character, you find yourself quickly squaring off against an impossible amount of powerful enemies as you navigate the brief tutorial.

Battle Colosseum in One Piece: Unlimited World Red is comprised of a few sub-modes — Battle Royale (which is a free - for - all in where two to four characters can duke it out), Duel competition (where players battle one - on - one, kind of like a VS mode), Boss Rush (a survival mode that pits players against bosses one after the other), and Chaos Battle (allows players to take on multiple, less powerful enemies).

You round everybody's favorite characters, usually from different universes or franchises, and you toss them into one single stage where they can battle against each other to see who's better or team up to fight a more powerful entity.

Key Features: - Choose from four unique characters - Craft powerful weapons and brew strange potions to aid you in your quest - Level up your hero to unlock new skills and devastating combat abilities - Survive 26 procedurally generated dungeon levels the face - off against the fearsome Guardian of the Dungeon - Get creative with Brut @l's Dungeon Creator, an intuitive editing tool that lets you build, play, share and even die in your very own dungeon.

-- Choose from four unique characters — Craft powerful weapons and brew strange potions to aid you in your quest — Level up your hero to unlock new skills and devastating combat abilities — Survive 26 procedurally generated dungeon levels the face - off against the fearsome Guardian of the Dungeon — Share the adventure with a friend in two player local co-op — Get creative with Dungeon Creator, an intuitive editing tool that lets you build, play, share and even die in your very own dungeon

Some characters will have powerful ailment abilities that are more effective against certain enemy types.

FEATURES TRUE SIDE - SCROLLING SONIC ACTION - Run and spin at Sonic speeds with mobile friendly controls - Retro designs, hidden rings, classic enemies and bosses - Master the Color Powers and run stronger with a Buddy - By SONIC TEAM, SEGA's Sonic experts PLAY AS SONIC AND HIS FRIENDS - Unlock Tails and Knuckles as player characters - Master their Speed, Aerial, and Power attributes - Evolve your character's powers with collected rings - Look for new Sonic characters and Buddies in future releases COMPETE IN ALL - NEW RANKING BATTLES - Four categories: Rival League, Friend, World, and Historical - Set records against your friends and the world - Earn powerful items and Buddies in league play - Compete with up to 50 players in Rival League - Claim the supreme honor in the S League

The game sees the characters of the series compete against each other with some incredibly powerful looking moves!

FEATURESTRUE SIDE - SCROLLING SONIC ACTION - Run and spin at Sonic speeds with mobile friendly controls - Retro designs, hidden rings, classic enemies and bosses - Master the Color Powers and run stronger with a Buddy - By SONIC TEAM, SEGA's Sonic expertsPLAY AS SONIC AND HIS FRIENDS - Unlock Tails and Knuckles as player characters - Master their Speed, Aerial, and Power attributes - Evolve your character's powers with collected rings - Look for new Sonic characters and Buddies in future releasesCOMPETE IN ALL - NEW RANKING BATTLES - Four categories: Rival League, Friend, World, and Historical - Set records against your friends and the world — Earn powerful items and Buddies in league play - Compete with up to 50 players in Rival League - Claim the supreme honor in the S League