Sentences with phrase «revelatory lead»

In a revelatory lead performance, Caplan stars as a bookstore manager and artist too hopelessly attached to her freedom to see moving in with adoring musician boyfriend Geoffrey Arend (the husband of Christina Hendricks) as anything but a compromise.

Michael B. Jordan's revelatory lead performance deserves to be in the Oscar conversation.

This one is tense, heartfelt, wise and weighty, driven by a revelatory lead performance and crafted by a director deeply invested in doing justice to his subject.

And in a cast full of further surprises (strong turns from Emma Watson and Nina Dobrev, a revelatory leading role for the heretofore - unregarded, by us at least, Logan Lerman), perhaps the best came from Ezra Miller.

Not exact matches

But if they seek to make the membranes surrounding the deposit of faith completely impermeable to the influx of alternative insights and modes of expression, this will inevitably lead to a serious inhibition of the transmission of the revelatory content of the faith.

«19 He rejects as untenable the explanation that a concept of «the Holy» leads to community.20 Accepting the revelatory nature of the church, he briefly sketches the New Testament view of the church.

It is no accident that the leading exponents of process theism have shied away from revelatory or kerygmatic theology.

We can test the revelatory resourcefulness of the symbolism in which our consciousness dwells by asking whether it opens us up to the otherness of foreign ideas and traditions, and thus leads toward deeper and wider integrations of meaning, or instead keeps us locked in the narrow fortress of obsession with our own dogmatic certitudes.

Its inconceivable and «impossible» nature has led believers to see it therefore as a revelatory «interruption» of the fabric of normality.

What we can assume, however, is that our indwelling of the clues that comprise our revelatory tradition can lead us to break out into a much more adventurous encounter with other traditions than we have allowed in the past.

The stakes are raised, lives are on the line, and there's one revelatory moment that leads to the best fight scene so far in the entire Marvel cinematic universe.

Release: Friday, June 19, 2015 [Theater] Written by: Rick Famuyiwa Directed by: Rick Famuyiwa Rick Famuyiwa's Sundance darling isn't particularly revelatory filmmaking, but it's much more intelligent than its dopey title suggests, rejecting racial stereotypes and erasing cultural gaps as confidently as it embraces its young leading trio as a righteous symbol of individualism.

If The Clearing has any cachet, it's in the cleverly fragmented storyline and the performances of its three leads — Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, and Willem Dafoe — but even those are hardly revelatory.

Perhaps just as dolorous is how the picture can never quite live up to the transformative performances of its leads, Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay, who deliver astonishing and revelatory turns.

This leads to a revelatory light - tunnel voyage and evidence of some filmmaking chops and intelligence packaged in something that otherwise feels sophomoric and risible for its own sake.

Materials quality is downright revelatory compared to previous Corvettes, although little things like the flimsy - feeling engine starter button allow Porsche to retain the lead in interior craftsmanship.

In first person, Heivoll tells us about growing up in Finsland, going off to school in Oslo, dropping out when he realized he did not want to be a lawyer, his relationship with his father, and the revelatory moment in Mantua, Italy, when he realized that he needed to write this book about the fires - all of which ultimately boils down to the struggle that led him to accept what an elementary school teach told him: «You are a writer.»

But those same works are also revelatory, leading viewers to experience transcendent, contemplative states of consciousness.