Sentences with phrase «still less a character»

Dorothy is still less a character than a supporting player to Edgars subplot but the moment where he imposes himself upon her when she asks him if he can just change medications was an upsetting moment for a character typically percieved as the most gentle, good natured of the bunch of assholes on the show.

Not exact matches

Among the visions and messages some have always been too patently silly, among the trances and convulsive seizures some have been too fruitless for conduct and character, to pass themselves off as significant, still less as divine.

While there is less of a wait and more opportunities to meet the characters on the cruise than in the parks, you still do actually have to wait a bit — which is nice because when it's your turn you don't feel like you are being rushed through.

The relatively favorable conditions in which he had placed them were still far from allowing a rational development of the character and of the intellect in all directions, much less of the free exercise of all their faculties.

The Milibands insist they are still close, but relations between their camps have become strained, with David's key allies branding rival Ed «Forrest Gump» after the less - than - bright character played by Tom Hanks in the hit film.

The debate focused less on the comptroller's duties, and more on character bashing (though their barbs still weren't as nasty or personal as the Post's average «Love Gov» cover).

The sometimes impenetrable Yorkshire accents in the English drama «God's Own Country» are still less thick than its central character, Johnny Saxby.

The last few years of moto gp games have not been the best 2015 was ok but not great but this yrs has gotten a bit better but still has alot to do to be as strong as f1 2016 graphics are good the bikes sound great but the lack of commentary during races sort of makes the last corner over take less fun the main selling point of the game is reliveing rossi's career in the challenge mode its fun to see the video of him talking about it before you try recreate it but its easily cleared in less then an hr and theres some great races left off the list overall it has many different modes now the drift and rally are nice the dirt bike section is fun and the career is your character going through the vr46 riding team to moto gp its fun and id advise fans of motogp to buy it

Hill, meanwhile, is a little less convincing — I kept seeing him as an eager college reporter, not an award - winning thirtysomething writer — but still solid, and his offscreen friendship with his co-star no doubt helps cement the believability of their characters» connection.

This game is solid, decent storyline, well crafted environments, good graphics, good characters, western thru and thru, shooting mechanics are good, showdowns are good fun and sometimes challenging, concentration modes are fun, is a fairly average length, around 15 hours, multiplayer is less than inspiring however and the game really does everything GOOD but not GREAT, so a good solid shooter for a western fan, otherwise a good game to rent if no better options exist, really nothing special but still good fun for the short while it lasts.

The universal quality you mentioned is interesting given the earlier films where the characters» idiosyncrasies are more pronounced — they still have universal themes below that — but this one seems less about heightened idiosyncratic characters and more about a universal fear.

It looks like enough Americans still believe in the fabled powers of intense British character actors: Less than a week after Emily Browning was cast as Laura Moon in the new TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, another actor has developed the requisite number of followers to grant him power to participate in...

The characters are as quick on the uptake as the audience, and the Thing, while showing less forethought than the 1982 version, is still incredibly intelligent and, most importantly, scary.

Mildred's teenage daughter, Angela (Kathryn Newton, in flashback), died less than a year before, raped and then set on fire; the scorched place where her body burned is still visible; Mildred is seething at the lack of progress in the case and is laying the blame squarely at the feet of the local police chief, Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who, while understandably unhappy with the 40 - foot - high attacks on his character, is not unsympathetic to Mildred's pain.

Still, Pipe Dream is - more often than not - an engaging little comedy that undoubtedly stands as a testament to Donovan's ample talent and charisma (it goes without saying that, in lesser hands, his character surely would've come off as a sleazy scumbag).

It doesn't help that this is an Eighties flick, redolent of the standard biases of the decade: Since Stiller and McCarthy are playing trust - fund babies (in a manner of speaking), the filmmakers are far less afraid to flaunt their penniless affectations than those of the actual poverty - stricken characters — like Ringwald's, who appears on - screen only in conjunction with Matt.

Both principal actors have a strong enough sense of their characters, even as they're pulled into increasingly harrowing places, to make the film a more successful one than Loach's last few, but it's still schematic and predictable, and it aggressively stacks the deck against Blake and Kattie in a way that makes it more effective as social activism, and less so as drama.

Unfortunately but not unexpectedly, be it the because the characters are less likeable, the jokes not as well written, or simply because the very idea of a The Hangover Part II is just so implausible, this darker, dirtier, nastier follow up, although still generally funny, does not hold a candle to its predecessor.

But so long as he's still the vaguely defined and nebulous character that was seen in Dark World, nobody could possibly care any less.

While The Last Stand is perceived as a lesser film, it still has the biggest balls of any comic book adaptation to date, killing so many lead characters in one movie.

It would be one level less, but it's still not a great character.

The characters of Golden Exits are less openly and hilariously hostile; they're still prone to simmering resentment, but this time only some of it gets to boil over.

Yes, your character may die which means having to restart the current sequence all over again, but you will still end up more or less with the same result.

As the movie continues, and certain events that came to define America and its character — particularly the Civil War — touch the lives of the Dickinsons, and we hear more of Emily's work in voiceover, the movie's style becomes less constricted, more fluid, but still retains an unearthly quality.

In multiplayer, the characters obviously control separately, but player two can still jump on Donkey Kongâ $ ™ s back at any time to make getting through certain obstacles less troublesome.

The rest of the cast — Crystal Reed, Dichen Lachman, Robert Forster, Jeff Fahey, Rider Strong, Dash Mihokhas, Brett Jacobsen, Vail Bloom, Sydney Tamilia Poitier, and Natalie Zea — all have significantly less screen time, but the varied cast of characters still manage to feel nuanced and true.

Still, its instantly recognizable lines, characters, and scenes must be acknowledged, and Samuel L. Jackson's alert but world - weary hitman gives this tale of L.A. lowlifes an emotional weightiness Tarantino's lesser efforts don't quite achieve.

The less good news is that the film has other problems — unrelated to that character — deeply embedded in the script (by David Scarpa, The Day the Earth Stood Still remake).

On the visual front (all of which is encoded at HD resolution, despite lesser production methods), things begin with a 41 - still Costume Designs gallery, which compares the sketches of Jean - Pierre Delifer to character stills from production.

As a result, the film is looser and less intense than Yates» previous films, but it will most likely please Rowling fans, who are still likely to complain about a great many things that may have been left out from the text, a bit more now that the balance of character touches and plot are a bit more representative of the style of the book.

Frances McDormand's character fights tooth and nail for justice (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Emma Stone's character struggles for respect and success in an industry designed to make her feel lesser (La La Land), Brie Larson claws for freedom and a semblance of normalcy for her young son (Room), Julianne Moore struggled with the betrayal of her own body (Still Alice).

Ash Ketchum, trainer of Pikachu and other Pokémon, is still the hero here, but the more or less character in the film is Molly Hale, young daughter to Pokémon researcher Spencer Hale.

Though the way different characters interpret what would seem to be virtues, twisting them into something less than noble, but still rhetorically valid, has its own fascination.make a sacrifice that may do no good or might save them all.

But those aren't REAL problems as, if you strip «Paper Mario» from the name, replace it by something else with Mario and Paper, and then say it is not part of the Paper Mario series, all the (although still valid) critics of lack of storyline and characters would be taken less seriously (even though the game would of been much better with) and the hate would be much less abundant then it is now, which is much more than it should be.

Playing Florence, a Californian au pair weary of resigning her life so others may live theirs, Gerwig cleverly plays dissatisfaction without registering as simply bored or routinely «quirky»: wit, self - awareness and uncertain ambition clash within the performance, set off by her bemusement at having found a less functional stray soul in Stiller's title character.

It's more (and less) of the same, which means a bunch of socially awkward settings where a character is embarrassed by something sexually dumb they did, but that still proves very trustworthy for a laugh.

I know, the graphics are good, and there are still plenty of characters to go, but people are upset because this game may actually have less content than Mario Tennis Open.

Even when you have figured out where the story is going (it is less about what is going to happen, but how it is going to happen), these scenes still thrill, as McAvoy's character morphs constantly and is pushed into new and exciting places.

Spielberg can't resist bathing his characters in heavenly white light and swaddling their dialogue in John Williams melodies, but Lincoln is still less reverential than you might fear.

The Killer is still a big flashy John Woo action movie, but the story is simpler, there's less action, and there's more work in developing at least Chow's character.

When it comes to nailing the look of these characters, Meinerding also added, «In my opinion, it's much, much more difficult to find the first version of the character — more or less because the tone of those movies are still being worked out.

The movie reportedly will include a number of additional mutant characters, which may make the movie feel like it's going to focus less on the merc with a mouth, however, the writers want to assure fans that this will still be a Deadpool movie.

Stiller opted for a less prickly performance with this character than in the manic comedy GREENBERG, which was an arguably more focused project.

Using images / characters most are familiar with has meant my less confident readers can still access the poster.

At only $ 2.99, it's meant to pique readers» curiosity about some of the town's other characters, while still demonstrating Fitzgerald's sleuthing skills and introducing other less developed story lines that just haven't been presented in the longer works in the series.

Some of the supporting characters were less developed but still fairly well written.

This quiet, unblemished stretch of sand is less crowded than its neighbors but still full of character.

Ridley could still easily be the largest character in the game, and the thing about looking less menacing is a opinion, as Ridley has varied in size a lot and has always been a scary character.

The obvious difference between cinema and videogames is that there isn't the audio - visual connection between the words out of the characters mouths and the movements of their mouths, even with current - gen technology lip synching is still less than perfect.

Combat still functions the same as in PoE I but can be streamlined more with the improved character AI and less party to manage.