Sentences with phrase «sticks to the script of»

By all accounts, though, Medieval Defenders sticks to the script of the tower defense genre, never deviating from the original formula.

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The bulls are finding comfort in sound fundamentals and sticking to a familiar script: So long as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell takes on the mantle of gradual rate hikes, the «Goldilocks» growth story stays intact and earnings remain robust.

We stick to social scripts out of habit.

Powell stuck to a more reassuring script during his prepared remarks — his first public speech since assuming the role of Fed chairman in February.

But in public Mr Xi stuck to his script about the virtues of co-operation while Mr Trump insisted they'd formed an outstanding relationship and made great progress.

With the meeting just days away, everybody is playing ball and sticking to the script, and the odds of an agreement have improved markedly compared to a few weeks ago.

Huffington Post: Cardinal Timothy Dolan's Benedictions At RNC And DNC Offering a benediction to close the Democratic National Convention, Cardinal Timothy Dolan largely stuck to a similar script as he did when praying in front of Republicans at their convention last week, with two notable exceptions.

Hundreds of Protestant and Catholic thinkers were polled for ideas on the script, and most endorsed the plan of sticking to one Gospel — Luke — rather than blending Gospel accounts, Eshleman said.

Because that's exactly what happened after I descended that platform and walked into a world inhabited not by the straw figures I'd been taught to defeat and convert, but by flesh - and - blood human beings who didn't stick to the atheist / Muslim / feminist / gay / liberal / poor / skeptic / foreigner script, a world less characterized by black and white certainties than by mile after mile and year after year of thick, impenetrable gray.

Even as the reviewer urges the writer of the teleplay to stick to The Script, however, the point is again being made: John and Jesus are purely literary presences.

It's based off the October, 2002 issue of Bon Appétit, and is so easy to use ingredients you have on hand rather than just sticking to the script.

Indeed, Sunday's scripted reunion between Rory McIlroy and his recalcitrant 3 - iron — thanks to the beneficence of Donald Trump — capped a weekend of chuckling, attaboys, and figurative high - fives celebrating the fit of pique that landed the world No. 1's Nike stick at the bottom of a lake on Trump's Doral Blue Monster course.

Or maybe we just stick to the script, stay disciplined, and trust in the law of averages to bump up our shooting percentages and bump down OKC's.

Here's some bad news for the people in your life who join the college basketball season during the second week of March, pick the top seeds to win almost every game and somehow walk away with office pool bragging rights: Most of 2017 — 18's best teams have been exceptionally bad at sticking to the script.

As the corruption trial of his former close aide and confidant Joe Percoco played out in New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo stuck to a largely similar script when asked about the details of the testimony.

She said: «The Prime Minister is sticking to the same old script that she can get whatever she wants, that we can all have all the same benefits of the single market without playing by the rules.

The same could probably be said of scripted political orgies of adulation: if you're not the one being praised, then why stick around to inhale somebody else's hot oxygen?

We understood that he was going to be much more conversational, would discuss many of his ideas, but no, he stuck to the script.

Tales from Number 10 have circulated that the pair held too much sway over the PM insisting she stick to the «strong and stable» script during the election campaign and even making her wear a pair of much criticised # 1000 leather trousers for an interview last year.

Under the guise of a discussion of our economy's recent credit rating downgrade, we heard some lessons in why not to stick to the script, or, heaven forbid, to ad lib.

When asked multiple times if there was a deal on the tax cap and to describe which aspects of the proposal the GOP conference supports, Skelos stuck to a one - line script.

For more than a decade, the club had been the Republican Party's foremost enforcer of fiscal conservatism, finding and funding primary challengers against party members who didn't stick to its rigid anti-tax script.

But unlike Stefanik and Funiciello, both of whom excelled at sticking to the script, Woolf could never quite hatch a one - size - fits - all rebuttal to put these issues to bed, opting instead for cyclical and uneven responses.

They are sick of politicians speaking in soundbites, sticking to the script and looking like they don't believe a word they are saying.»

The Tories have been so successful at transforming a crisis of market failure into a crisis of public spending because they have stuck to a script: they've repeated the same arguments whenever a microphone has been pushed in their direction.

Much of the awkwardness of a first date stems from people sticking to a stuffy script rather than letting the conversation flow of its own accord.

Staff were apparently told to stick to the script, which said to tell prospective members «Oh, by the way, I've got three people that I'm thinking for you just off the top of my head.»

If you'd like to stick to the script and go for a dinner date, Bread in Common in the heart of Fremantle is a good way to go.

Based on J.D. Salinger: A Life by Kenneth Slawenski, the movie sticks to the formula of Strong's other scripts, focusing on major moments in the life of a public figure rather than concentrating on any one period in history.

The dialogue and sparks seemed to flow so effortlessly I often wonder how much of it was improvised between them or if they stuck pretty closely to the script.

Once he's moved into the director phase of filmmaking, it's about actors sticking to his script while digging into their skill set to bring their own perspective into the character they're bringing to life.

«The idea is to have them stick to the script as if it's a piece of music, but to have them play it in whatever fashion they feel is the most truthful.»

The plot is preposterous of course, the script only sticking to the major points of the source material.

What's really bothering Snow is that Katniss has become a symbol of hope for the oppressed, and even when she's sticking to the official script, her very presence becomes a beacon of revolt.

The script gives each of the main characters the opportunity to stand out, so we're not stuck with one three - dimensional character and several support staff.

Thankfully a live table read of the script convinced him to stick to his guns (e-hem) and commit to turning it into his next movie.

The script for Love Me or Leave Me by Isobel Lennart and Daniel Fuchs sticks pretty closely to the facts, with some minor whitewashing of realities not acceptable in 1950s film.

Reality stuck to the script as the chubby young actress, Brittany Murphy, eventually brushed past «Clueless» stunner Alicia Silverstone to become Hollywood's It Girl and the star of several films.

Even Warren and Faye stuck to the script... although Del Toro made a point of double - checking the envelope just in case.

In fact there's so much for the cast to get their teeth stuck into - a sharp script that serves up big juicy bites of mean - that you can see the actors visibly relishing every line.

«We have a lot of very funny people on the set, so typically we wait for the first take or two we'll have them stick to script and then we let them go off script and probably shoot five or six more takes off script, and then you get in the edit room with all that footage and you spend hours and hours combing through it until you find the right combination that balances the tone and gets the humor across but keeps the stakes moving forward.»

As if I enjoy demonstrating this, since hanging up his director's cap, Hughes has produced and / or scripted a series of junk kids movies (a few of which stuck only through sheer force of hype)-- in addition to overseeing the screenwriting debut of son James, New Port South, a teen - aimed film, like those Hughes became famous for, that may well speak to the specifics of today's youth but fails to get at anything universal.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their nominations for the 2018 Oscars this morning, sticking relatively to the script written out by awards season pundits, critics» groups and Golden Globes voters.

While the account of her story in The Longshots takes plenty of liberties with the actual details of her life, the script sticks to the tried and true football film genre like a determined defensive back.

I hoped the performance and the integrity of that would be the most important thing to her, and it was... She's very strong - willed, as am I. I'm pretty pedantic about sticking to the script and making sure it's all word for word.

Worst - case scenario: The initial trailer for the film relies more on scatological humor — one prominent gag involves a music box being stuck in a supporting character's butt — than sparkling dialogue, raising the question of whether Fey and Poehler's chemistry is enough to overcome even the dumbest script.

The supporting awards stuck more to the script, with Christoph Waltz and Mo'Nique each taking their third award of the day.

It's hard to imagine that the movie was greenlit based on an actual script (and not just the idea), because most of the story is spent aimlessly following Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried around a not - so - futuristic city as they get stuck in a monotonous cycle between having too much time and not enough.

But «The Big Stick» is not one of those semi-awful, schematically spelled out conflicts such as the unfunny «My Big Fat Greek Wedding», but rather features a crackerjack script graced with a marvelous ensemble that mixes melodrama and broad comedy, and comes across like a hilarious memoir based on Kumail's actual marriage to Emily in one of the most beautiful stories of love and its conflicts you may run across in the theaters this year.

From a meandering script (conceived by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro) that doesn't stick to a single body of...