Sentences with phrase «small number of scenes»

Field in the small number of scenes she gets does her best to hold her own, but it is impossible not to notice how much better she is in the small moments of quiet madness, such as when she dresses down Republican Leader Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) in front of a White House party, than when she falls to screeching.

Not exact matches

If there are some noticeable gaps in the European venture scene, the first is there is still a small number of European entrepreneurs who have built products and scaled and exited and then went on to become investors, relative to the size of the market.

Nativity scenes of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus added color to the windows of shops across this lively city, a small symbol of the growing number of Iranians embracing the Christian holiday.

The number of Christians remains small, but Christian schools (kindergarten through university) and leaders are disproportionately influential and Christian churches are a well - established part of the present scene.

Although the American religious scene is slowly becoming more pluralistic and diverse, the number of non-Christian teens in this country remains relatively small.

The battle scenes are appropriately spectacular, with Hogwarts under attack from an army of Death Eaters, Dementors, giants and beasties and defended by a small and dwindling number of students and teachers.

By reducing either the movement of crowds or just the numbers that comprise them, they save money but at the cost of making their climactic scenes feel smaller and more static than they should be.

William Wellman («Yellow Sky» / «Blood Alley» / «Track of the Cat») keeps it raw and hopping along in a linear manner with a number of memorable scenes about the rise and fall of a small - time violent gangster.

Unfolding in flashbacks, The Killers provides a number of memorable scenes, especially the sizzling opener in a diner in a small town where Lancaster has worked at a gas station for seven years since the robbery.

The acts of violence in «Timbuktu» are small in number but huge in impact, particularly in the scene where two transgressors, buried up to their necks, are stoned to death.

So, those numbers that aren't exactly going to set your hair alight, and still fall behind the league of hot hatches dominating the small performance car scene, but it's an improvement.

Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such as Amazon... a sociologist, armed with some numbers.»

Maenam's dining scene hosts a small number of excellent restaurants.

As with the small number of cut - scenes, I was disappointed that there was no voice work in the game; however, I understand there are some limitations to the 3DS hardware that arguably prevents the ability to include some voice work, especially this early in the handheld console's lifecycle.

«Although the games development scene is fairly small in number of people, it certainly has left a permanent mark on the global scene when it comes to successful studios and games.

In a lengthy blog post on the issue, Vogel said that despite years of a rising and successful indie scene, the sheer number of small developers releasing games on services such as Steam was becoming unsustainable.

With a permanent show space no longer retained, the number of print releases in 2014 restricted to a small handful (by Paul Insect, Maya Hayuk and Invader), and plenty of competitors arriving on the street art scene eager to fill the void, many wondered what the -LSB-...]

Her painting is distinguished by constant changes, experimentation and development and her works cover such subjects as socio - political portraits, primitive masks, underwater scenes, tropical flowers and wild animals, as well as including a number of small collages.

When Lew, who like Locks is Asian - American, led me to a smaller gallery on the floor, it had already been hung with a number of photographs by the same artist, Deana Lawson, 38, who carefully stages powerful scenes of black domestic life.

In addition to his favourite hobby of copying the narrative «action» paintings of Old Masters, he specialized in small - scale detailed works of landscape painting, executed in oils, containing a number of human subjects and typically several features of topographical or other interest, including crowds or military scenes.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.