Sentences with phrase «serves as the heroine»
What may bring even jaded viewers back to «Christy» is Tyne Daly's striking characterization of Alice Henderson, the kind but formidable Quaker who serves as the heroine's mentor.
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Sure the heroine should have been changed out and the climactic sequence was way too nutty to be believed, but Jake Gyllenhaal is a wonderful hero and Kingsley as the villain serves as the perfect snake in the grass.
It feels like a start, maybe, but would have been so much better served as a story told from a perspective other than that of male outsiders like Lucas and Moore, who turn their heroines into unconvincing femme - bros.
But they also serve as metaphor: Naranjo uses his heroine as a symbolic stand - in for Mexico's citizens, blameless bystanders caught in the cross fire of a billion - dollar range war.
The film serves up a substantially fictionalized version of events, as only a couple of the characters here were real - life heroines, namely, Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928) and Emily Wilding Davison (1872 - 1913), portrayed by Meryl Streep and Natalie Press, respectively.
Your lovely daughter served as the inspiration for the heroine, Callie, in Gemini.
The designers at IndieBox have once again delivered on the cover art, giving us a hauntingly lovely image of a one - armed, one - eyed Penelope as she serves up some serious anime heroine angst.
The dressing - table installation is a shrine for worship and desire, a place to refashion the self with wigs and potions, a site to honor a pantheon of heroines: Nina Simone, whose record serves as a clock - face high on the wall; Betye Saar, whose assemblages using racist relics underlie Gaignard's black princess figurines; and the lineage of female artists who have made the dressing table a studio for the sculpting of fictitious personas — Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman Leeson and Sherman.
Although there few things I agree with Sen. Warren about and this is a typically self serving political polemic with her cast as the heroine of the people's, I do agree that programs in question merit funding, which I'm certain they'll receive in due course if they haven't by now.