Sentences with phrase «sheer force of will as»

Pursued by a dogged Internal Affairs investigator (Michelle Monaghan) and a sadistic drug kingpin (Scoot McNairy), Vincent must rely on his street smarts and sheer force of will as he tries to rescue his child over the course of a single night.

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Yeah... other than the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — both of which passed primarily because of LBJ's sheer force of will — Johnson was racist as fuck.

This is a performance that can't be pinned down as good or bad — it's more a manifestation of sheer force of will.

It's by no means a flawless show, and there's no certainty that even a trio as strong as this one can float the series by sheer force of will, but if the last 10 minutes are any indication, Up All Night may just find itself the most elusive trophy of all: an audience.

He manages to get his own sensibility into the tale of black ops mercenaries in a culture of betrayal and retribution, with James Caan as the contract killer who returns from a crippling injury by sheer force of will and the desire for vengeance, and he stage some terrific set pieces to go with Caan's brutal odyssey.

Around him, Kinnear and Gleeson are effectively solid and not quite trustworthy, while the excellent Ryan (as a journalist) is underused and the terrific Isaacs (as a black ops leader) steals scenes with sheer force of will.

For the rest of the film, we watch in amazement as this lone figure faces test after test, surviving each one through sheer force of will and physical endurance.

He learns that when he's incarnated as the Green Lantern, he can turn whatever he thinks into reality by sheer force of will.

As the dizzy socialite Agatha Runcible, she's hardly the picture of elegance: She has a big, hooked schnoz and a sibilant «s.» But Woolgar's lack of conventional attractiveness makes her Agatha more lovable: The woman dominates by sheer, glittery - eyed force of will.

In the distance, as if by magic, or more accurately sheer force of will, a bright light appeared.

The paintings» background colours are matched to the hues of their modish clothing, as if they had turned them by sheer force of will.

Later, when Musk took the reins as chairman and eventually CEO, he doggedly guided it to manufacture the Roadster, largely through sheer force of will.

By sheer force of numbers, millennials will have the same impact on the coming decades as the baby boomers had on the decades between 1960 and 2000.