Sentences with phrase «significant than this strange»

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If Juan doesn't belong here, where he's a stranger to all except his children, neither does he belong among the poor villagers whose problems feel so much more significant than his own the one time he attempts, at a local AA meeting, to open himself up to them.

Schaffner came from TV, and while he has few of the obnoxious visual affectations of the TV - trained director, he tends to restrict the most significant actions and relationships in his films to spatial arenas that could be served very adequately by the tube rather than the Panavision screen: the real convention hustle in The Best Man takes place in hotel rooms, hallways, and basements; the tensest moments in his strange and (to me) very sympathetic medieval mini-epic The War Lord are confined to a small soundstage clearing or that besieged tower; the battle scenes in Patton are hardly clumsy, but the real show is George C. Scott; and Nicholas and Alexandra comes alive only after the royal family has been penned up under the watchful eyes of Ian Holm and then Alan Webb, far from the splendor of St. Petersburg or the shambles of the Great War.

Money talks, and business is business, but if an influential VOW promotes fewer business models than REALTOR.ca, it would be a strange turn of events to have the Canadian Competition Bureau wading in to support a situation where any part of the outcome would result in fewer business models having their interests advanced, in a significant way, in the name of competition!