Sentences with phrase «provided by characters»

Most actors would struggle to differentiate themselves from the background noise provided by characters and stories in so many similar films, novels and tv shows.

The Toy Box mode of Disney Infinity is a surprisingly robust, wide - open world, and while it lacks the narrative - based experience provided by the character - specific playsets, it makes up for it with seemingly endless creative possibilities.

Not exact matches

The comeback: Hayes reached a new level of fame by providing the voice for the character Chef on Comedy Central's hit show «South Park.»

Further, some comments have been created by fictionalized characters as a way for the company to provide examples of possible < but not guaranteed < results.

This week Strachan provided yet another illustration of legalistic gender roles by critiquing an episode of Sesame Street in which the character «Baby Bear» is told he should not be embarrassed for playing with a baby doll.

Whitehead maintains that, in addition to the «real potentiality» of the given world, there is a «general potentiality» provided by the multiplicity of eternal objects as envisioned in the primordial nature of God's character (PR 65 / 102).

The particular character or definiteness of these experiential bonds is finally determined by what novel creature the occasion «desires» to become (its «subjective aim»), given the real opportunities provided by that world (PR 88 / 135).

«While the discussion board itself was a bad idea, my decision to attack critics who were posting there (I did so by posting under the character «William Wallace II») was an even worse idea,» Driscoll said in his letter Friday, provided to CT. «I was wrong to respond to people the way I did, using the language I used, and I am sorry for it and remain embarrassed by it.»

For then the character of each event is set within a context, often a narrow one, provided by its predecessor events, a context of real possibility.

By conforming so perfectly to the desire of plain people — people who, at any rate, are willing to live out the authentic character of their inevitable waiting — Christ provides the small mark of God's presence.

And conversely, of all the criminal human beings, the false, cowardly, sensual, or cruel persons who actually live, there is perhaps not one whose criminal impulse may not be at some moment overpowered by the presence of some other emotion to which his character is also potentially liable, provided that other emotion be only made intense enough.

They are: rationalization, which tends toward sterile intellectualization and robs life of its character and vitality; estheticism, which cuts off true communication by maintaining an esthetic distance in order to dominate, rather than to support, others; capitalism, which tends to deper - sonalize people by providing for their hedonistic needs in order to support production and consumption regardless of its human utility; and nationalism, which tends to make national things sacred and in doing so to create idols out of them.31.

Single Cask Single Malt is a particularly premium class of Single Malt in which each bottle comes from an individual ageing cask, showing all its own distinct character, instead of being created by blending together the contents of various casks to provide uniformity of colour and taste.

Kirsteen Campbell, master blender for The Famous Grouse explains: «Within two years we see significant colour and character development, with a sherry cask having a greater impact than a Bourbon barrel, as sherry casks provide a higher level of flavour compounds to be extracted by the maturing grain whisky.

Now in our 17th season, Upward Basketball at Oak Park continues to promote character and self - esteem in every child by providing a substitution system that promotes equal playing time for each player and an evaluation process to help provide equal teams and equal opportunity for improvement.

«Positive Coaching Alliance is a national non-profit developing «Better Athletes, Better People» by working to provide all youth and high school athletes a positive, character - building youth sports experience.»

Instead, advocates for adoption by unmarried women believe that an individual's character, strength, and potential parenting capacity are better considered in providing a child with an adoptive home.

You can help make the transition a bit easier by providing a blanket out of one of the many adorable, character prints on fleece fabric.

By studying campers» experiences and camp's impact on the lives of young people, ACA provides parents with the knowledge to make good decisions, to thoughtfully guide their children, and to offer opportunities for powerful lessons in community, character building, skill development, and healthy living.

Character availability varies by date and by resort, and the times available for booking are provided on a first - come, first serve basis.

Supporters of amateur boxing state that the sport is beneficial to participants by providing exercise, self - discipline, self - confidence, character development, structure, work ethic, and friendships.

Supporters of amateur boxing state that the sport is beneficial to participants by providing exercise, self - discipline, self - confidence, character development, structure, work ethic, and friendships.14 For some disadvantaged youth, boxing is a preferential alternative to gang - related activity, providing supervision, structure, and goals.14 The overall risk of injury in amateur boxing seems to be lower than15 in some other collision sports such as football, ice hockey, wrestling, and soccer.4, 16 However, unlike these other collision sports, boxing encourages and rewards direct blows to the head and face.

The dogma that has been more or less parroted by the entire cast of characters vying for the Republican nomination is that government's function is minimal and finite: to provide security of property.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is today publishing the names, locations and religious characters of all Free School applications from the «ninth wave», after the Department for Education (DfE) provided the information in response to a Freedom of Information request submitted by the BHA earlier this year.

By hiding much of the detail involved in programming character behaviour beneath intuitive modules, Storybricks could provide a new kind of playing experience, he says.

This joint character, provided for by the distribution of legislative competence between the federation and the Länder, is the first drastic restriction for an effective reform.

NIH provides many different kinds of intramural and extramural support, each specified by a three - character «activity code.»

The NIH provides many different kinds of intramural and extramural support, each specified by a three - character «activity code.»

University education may impact character skills development by providing students with exposure to new peer groups and extracurricular activities including sport, politics, and art.

(The character's voice is provided by Antonio Banderas.)

Researchers at the Interactive Geometry Lab at ETH Zurich have developed a whole new way of creating movement in virtual software characters by providing developers with the ability to create 3D model «joysticks» outside the computer that directly create shape and movement inputs.

In this spot the art and the lamp provide color and character for this sliver of wall, but both pack a big punch at the same time to make this spot by the front door inviting to guests.

A character (almost Always Female) provides a distraction by flirting with and / or showing some skin to

A commentary featuring producer Jeremy Thomas and Ben Kingsley is your usual run - of - the - mill back - patting session, though the pair does intermittently provide deeper insight into the making of the film, and it's admittedly fascinating to hear the soft - spoken and eloquent Kingsley articulate the process by which he gave life to Don Logan while he observes the sheer cruelty of the character on screen.

The less - than - engrossing atmosphere is compounded by a heavy emphasis on Alice's fashion - centric comings and goings, with Curval's odd refusal to provide down - to - earth elements consistently preventing the viewer from connecting to Girardot's character on an emotional level.

By providing fully rendered 3D models for all characters, monsters, backgrounds, and items, RPG Maker 2 lets the players create intricate, detailed

In a similar fashion, the Canadian side characters played by Will Sasso, Tyler Labine, and Hayes MacArthur provide some genuine laughs from their hyperactive and at times incomprehensible cartoon Mounties.

That said, it remains a colourful and entertaining film, boosted by the humour provided by Robin Williams's character (which has been imitated in virtually every Disney animation since, with ever - decreasing levels of success).

Unlike the novel, it is this character — played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman — who leads us through procedures, his heavy - breathing spymaster who rattles the ice around his whiskey tumbler as obsessively as he investigates the refugee providing A MOST WANTED MAN with its calibre.

Everything about this film oozes class; the 60's setting is beautifully captured with it's attention to detail and strikingly rich photography by Eduard Grau; the slow motion scenes with overbearing sound effects; the subtle changes of colour saturation providing an excellent technique in developing the mood and feeling of Firth's character and a fitting soundtrack to accompany the lush imagery.

Castle provides all the ingredients of a Ghibli hit: a compelling story marked by complex mystery, imaginative fantasy, enchanting visuals, rich characters, a touch of humor, and plenty of excitement.

That line should provide the necessary caution for you to be braced for just about anything to be said by any character in this latest from director Nicholas Hytner.

Although it's not consistently creepy, the screenplay by Jane Goldman (Kick - Ass), adapted from Peter Ackroyd's novel, throws some true - life characters into the fictional mix, which combines with Nighy's performance to provide just enough intrigue.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Stellan Skarsgard, as an intimidating but seemingly earnest Russian crime boss who desperately wants to get his family out of Russia, practically steals the whole film, and top - notch support work is provided by the likes of Naomie Harris as McGregor's loyal wife and reluctant partner - in - espionage, Damian Lewis as a (seemingly) trustworthy British operative, and Jeremy Northam as a shady character who may be playing both sides of the fence.

While most of the other men in his unit veer dangerously close to genre stereotype, Miller provides a richly - textured character, an everyman (it is Hanks, after all) on the verge of a nervous breakdown who perseveres anyway, simply because wars aren't won by men who don't follow orders, no matter how ill - conceived those orders might be.

The language of reality television is aptly utilized by the characters as they fake (presumably, so far) a tragic love story in order to bolster public sentiment, thus offering them «sponsorships» in the form of beneficial gifts during the Games (medicine, food, etc.) as an exchange for providing the viewers with some good TV.

Much of the tongue - in - cheek laughs are provided by this duo, as well as Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster character.

Bolstered by a determination not to let anyone off lightly, the movie puts its characters into harm's way at several different turns, and it doesn't always provide them with a free pass.

The director's idea was to possibly enlist Joaquin Phoenix to provide voice - over in character as the role played by his late brother.