Sentences with phrase «rather than dramas»

Shortly into the movie I realized why most people watch divorce comedies rather than dramas.

This season, when it comes to M.A.C makeup trends, it's all about creating a radiant reality rather than drama or high glamour.

I love to laugh, prefer humor rather than drama and hate disloyalty.

Jordan Peele's horror sensation is again the subject of debate after it was reported that Universal Pictures submitted the film for Golden Globe Awards consideration as a comedy, rather than a drama.

rather than a drama for awards purposes.

Because La La Land is a musical, Stone is placed in this category rather than drama.

When news broke that Get Out, Jordan Peele's runaway hit horror movie, would be in the «best motion picture» Golden Globes category for musicals and comedies, rather than drama, the backlash was swift — due in no small part to the movie being an important expression of racial issues.

This is a film about the passion and complexities ticking away in the background of the tournament, rather than the drama on the court itself.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, what if watching South Korean dramas encourages people to leave North Korea rather than stay and try to change the government?

The Netflix political drama House of Cards earned an Emmy nomination for best drama series Thursday, marking the first time a program that aired online rather than over traditional television received a nomination.

Rather than concentrating on the immediate prologue to the crisis and its day - to - day dramas, they go back 30 years to Salomon Bros.» Lewis Ranieri, BlackRock founder Larry Fink, Fannie Mae exec David Maxwell and the invention of mortgage - backed securities.

The Netflix political drama earned an Emmy nomination, marking the first time a program that aired online rather than on traditional television has received one.

Drama queen conclusion, including what appear to be rather over-the-top estimates by JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank: More than 13,000 banking jobs are on their way out of London because of Brexit!

Why would one go to movies and drama, rather than a textbook?

This blind hope reduces Christians to pawns in a politically partisan drama, rather than signposts for the hope found in the upside - down Kingdom of God.

Rather than releasing a woman from her bondage to sin, Luther's courtroom drama recapitulates the very dynamics of her oppression — the «shattering she knows all too well.»

Those rest on his uncritical use of sources, his false assumptions about both European and Near Eastern societies, and his enthusiasms for staged drama rather than accurate analysis.

This will enable one to see that the Paraiyars are actors in their own ongoing social drama rather than mere spectators.

Rather than conceiving of modernization as moving happily toward greater prosperity and enlightenment for all, world - system theorists depict it as moving in fits and spurts, as a kind of Hobbesian drama.

If science and technology are ever to be liberated from tutelage to the dominative powers of history, if the drama is to be «interrupted» redemptively rather than destructively, then Christian theology, which has itself been enticed time and again to legitimate dominative power, can contribute to that future by mediating more dialectically to the present the subversive memories of God's identification with the struggles of victims everywhere in the mystery and message of Christ Jesus.

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.

But the gospel story itself was communicated to most of the faithful through pictures, carvings, stained glass, drama, music and spoken words rather than through books.

We can sum up the error by saying that the new approach to «reading» prestige drama is forensic rather than aesthetic.

What is most unlikely to change is the underlying structure of these cultural interactions: the ideologies and agendas of the churches all originate outside them; the churches play a basically passive role in the cultural drama, as receptors and disseminators rather than as initiators; they «read the signs of the times.»

But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.

Meaning he set out with a photographer's instincts rather than a golf photographer's instincts, and therefore Iooss had a clear vision of the drama behind the game's curtain.

For the most outstanding actor in a drama series, Jon Hamm's status as the clear cut favorite can likely be attributed to more to Mad Men's seven season run rather than his performance specifically in the final season.

Rather than staying in marriages «until death», renewable marriages would allow partners to tweak their marital contract accordingly, or agree that it's beyond tweaking and end it without the shock or drama of a contentious divorce or lingering doubts about what went wrong.

He saw himself as a protestor, an activist rather than a politician, and I feel that the drama helps place anyone in that situation.

It would be easy to compare the film to the gangster - full works of Tarantino, but where Tarantino is skilful at getting inside the characters of his lowlifes and making you care, Drew's motley crew of social misfits remain just movie - video ciphers, rather than the anti-heroes of an insightful social drama.

He is finally guaranteed press coverage of what he wants to do in power, rather than internal dramas.

«Rather than being innocuous and gentler alternatives to typical horror or drama films, children's animated films are, in fact, hotbeds of murder and mayhem» say the study leaders Dr Ian Colman and Dr James Kirkbride.

by Bailey White Drama: Lab lit lite: A plant pathologist learns how science should be used to understand nature rather than to conquer and master it.

«Although realism is an integral element to the success of a television drama set in a contemporary workplace, be it a hospital or police department, the requirements for dramatic effect demand a focus on the exceptional rather than the mundane,» the study authors wrote.

The front is very simple and rather conservative but the bright colors and the back provides some more drama to spice it up; the back is almost like a train, slightly longer than the front hem.

And if someone is invited that you don't like or get along with (um, been there) know you got ta suck it up rather than creating drama.

I don't like drama an would rather agree to disagree than argue.

Lucy Feb 11 2018 11:00 am I've thought while watching every drama & movie Yoon So - Hee & Park Shi - yeon have been in that these two would be perfectly cast I'm so tired from waiting for Yoon Eun Hye to pick her next project I'd rather she take the first one to come along rather than continue

This film plays out like more of a drama / horror rather than a straight up horror flick and I really admired that change of pace.

A movie about the real - life 1971 Stanford prison experiment could have been sadistic and unwatchable, director Kyle Patrick Alvarez's clinical approach focuses on realism and psychological drama rather than on thrills.

The lesson shapes the drama, rather than arising from it.

Here's a cop drama with some brutal smarts, rather than dumb brutality and smart - alecky one - liners.

He enrolled in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University and began molding his abilities around a love of the craft, rather than a paycheck.

The film is limiting potential enough by conceptually simply studying on Oscar Wilde's sexual revelations and their subsequent consequences, rather than the whole of his brilliant life and tragic downfall, but when it comes to the execution, not enough studying is done in this often inspired, and just as often undercooked character drama which at least finds superficiality in its resonance.

Boyle set out to make this particular film rather than a gritty social panorama along the lines of Brazilian favela drama City of God.

A couple of scenes (Ana doffing her top outside at a resort and some risky public car sex) indicate that the plucky heroine might have a thing for exhibitionism but, rather than explore that avenue, the movie falls back on trysts in the red room and stale drama like (SPOILER!)

Far from Heaven is indeed a great movie because it has such high aspirations - a movie from 2002 that dares to style itself after a 50's drama and to do so via (gasp) a subtle script rather than relying on special effects and things blowing up etc..

For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris at the end of «Taxi Driver») rather than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.

Rather than try to take on Matt Damon in space, Focus surveyed the release calendar and wisely moved «London» to Jan. 22, 2016, where it will go up against a faith - based movie starring Tom Felton, STX's low - budget thriller «The Boy» and the Kevin Costner - Ryan Reynolds crime drama «Criminal.»

It's intellectual sensationalism with a purpose, rather than the torture porn of failed one - note dramas like Stalker.