Sentences with phrase «story than any other character»

She is the head of the Cobras, the unit of boss characters you fight throughout the game, and as you learn more of her story you realise she was playing a larger part in the story than any other character.

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The funny thing is, though, that this other group knows all of the stories your family likes to tell about the deceased, and the stories they add to the mix sound more like mythic embellishments of his character than outright lies.

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

Perhaps, though, the biblical character of Jesus, rather than being entirely mythical, was based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants who had followers who euhemerized his life to a greater extent than those of other such claimants, so that in time the stories were so embellished that he became a god in them, but the Tesimonium Flavianum is hardly proof of his existence.

MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

I thought the characters were flat and unattractive, the story ho - hum, and the premise churlish and clumsy (i.e. the whole point is to tear down the belief system of others rather than put something positive forward as an alternative).

I do not find this so strongly in other process thinkers, and insofar as Muray will not be more specific than that the criterion for reconstituting a tradition is «whatever contributes to the enhancement of relationality and creativity that are true of the fundamental character of reality itself» (93), I do not think he will much like the basis of Hauerwas» critique, namely the stories of the history of Israel and Jesus as they continue to be remembered and enacted in the Christian church.

«And, consistent with that thought, we did find that participants in both the VR and 360 - degree video conditions were more empathetic toward the story characters than their counterparts in the text condition and they also reported higher intention to share the story with others.»

Like JORD I believe watches should «tell more than time», I want my watch and other accessories to tell a story and give you some insight into my character.

While Metroid Prime engages on no level other than gameplay, that gameplay is so perfectly tuned and refined, so continuously evolving and clever that you'll keep playing and playing, even when you're frustrated, even when you're honestly just a little bored with the back - tracking, and even though you don't care about the character or story.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

While sequels like Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier have overcome feeling like prequels to a different story audiences haven't seen yet, other entries into this super-powered universe, efforts like Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War, struggled to come across as anything other than vehicles conceived and designed to get all of these characters into one place at the right time for this May's massive Avengers: Infinity War, none of them working outside of the larger story being told and as such aren't very entertaining or worth watching more than once.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

They are two of the three playable characters in Yesterday, the third being none other than the enigmatic John Yesterday, who is dragged into this incredible story after his memory is completely wiped.

You can't next really like any member of his group of anger management classmates or other birds like Bomb (Danny McBride), Chuck (Josh Gad), or Terence (Sean Penn) because they are characters with even less of a story than Red.

Packed with cliches, there's nothing remotely original about this East London crime thriller, which seems to be based on other similar movies rather than an original story or characters.

Throughout the story, we're often only told of seemingly vital plot points through second hand accounts, characters tend to change their outlooks without reason merely to fit in the story's trajectory and our main antagonist is a cookie - cutter villain who simply confronts Hope with little reason other than he's on set to be a contemptible dude.

Minions explains how they evolved along with other life on Earth, in a prologue that is actually a better idea for a story about these characters than the one the movie ultimately gives us.

As an action vehicle, Taxi has its moments when on the road, but without a good story or likeable characters, they provide little interest other than to admire the way they are put together.

Molly Bloom is a fascinating character on an interesting journey, but her story is a series of segments, and some are more memorable than others.

In King's stories, their existence always serves to highlight the cruelty and arrogance of the tolerated white American male, and perhaps no other King protagonist is more unsympathetic than the main character of Thinner.

Other than that one, final moment though, characters behave and the story progresses exactly as you expect.

While many love stories never delve much deeper than the initial attraction and union of two people who must overcome obstacles to finally come to equal terms, The Painted Veil differs by starting out with an uneasy union, with characters that have many conflicting feelings for one another at varying times, never quite able to come to a mutual understanding of what they mean to each other.

The character balance is impeccable, however: Infinity War is less worried about the characters meeting each other than it is about them doing what they have to to service the story.

In another standout track, Small Fry's writer / director MacLane shares his influences (a day of fast food research in Portland, working in a ball pit) and the stories behind all of the short's characters, i.e. the fictitious movies and TV shows where Neptuna and others come from (more thought went into that than you might have guessed).

It's also a film whose impact derives from something other than its story and characters — specifically, Wyatt Garfield's brilliant cinematography, which uses 35 mm, 16 mm and Super 8 mm film at a time when almost everyone in the entertainment business is shooting digitally; and the final lead performance by Anton Yelchin, who died last year in a freak accident.

Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz are both quite suited, perhaps all too obviously, as the good and wicked witches of the land, though the story never gives them ample moments to display any character nuance other than what is directly called for in the plot.

Loach's characters breath and bleed such local color that one couldn't imagine their stories taking place anywhere other than their homes.

We don't see Llewyn do much other than mope around between apartments he's staying in, smoke cigarettes and complain; but we do meet a full cast of characters who do more than their fair share of bringing this story to life.

Unlike other filmmakers with an eye to recreating the past, del Toro puts his movie love at the service of, rather than a replacement for, his characters and his story.

What I found added a bit to the film other than the bog standard Godzilla / King Kong etc etc, same story different character was the relationship between the Rock and the gorilla using sign language and there was a lot of humour between them.

It is a very cool story with a very hilarious Borat - Ozzy type character... this is just a great movie and since it's a comedy but achieves so much more... maybe it should win best film awards... I feel excited for the cast but also for the original the room cast... I hope somethings good comes to them other than just Greg and Tommy...

You can really see the benefit of Deadpool getting to bounce off other superpowered character in a story that has the freedom to be much bigger than your standard origin tale.

Mickey Rourke just tattoos people and tells stories instead of fighting, which makes his role essentially pointless, and the movie doesn't really know what to do with Dolph Lundgren other than to make his character crazy, nice, evil, nice and then shove him aside for all of the good stuff.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The LEGO Movie) helped put together the story for Sony Columbia's first animated Spidey feature and it includes all sorts of Marvel Comics characters you won't be seeing in the Spider - Man: Homecoming sequels, and for readers, it stars none other than fan - favorite Miles Morales!

The trailer doesn't give away too much of the plot other than Portman's character survives to tell her story, which includes eerie visitations, alien creatures and a portal to another realm.

In this corner, Mickey Rourke: winner of countless critics awards for his performance in The Wrestler, who has apparently pissed off more people than Perez Hilton, who called Perez Hilton a faggot and no one gave a shit, whose Hollywood story mirrors that of his character, who won the Golden Globe and the BAFTA and who doesn't have an Oscar to his name and may never be nominated for another one again, whose fans are fierce but respectful of the other guy's posse.

Couple that statement with the fact that many long - time fans have already expressed concern over a somewhat limited character roster, dumbed down / more accessible gameplay, the fear of an Ultimate edition on the horizon and a lackluster story mode that rather than stand toe to toe with other rival studios (NetherRealm.)

Instead, writer / director Tom Gormican (one of many responsible for the production of «Movie 43») lets the pieces of the story haphazardly fall where they may, not letting his characters develop into anything other than the asses they started as (although Mikey is a decidedly smaller ass than the others).

While other comic book movies have revelled in self - reflexive irony, The Dark Knight is never less than one hundred percent committed to character and story.

Feige talks about Doctor Strange's origin story, how the movie will be different from the comics, rooting crazy concepts in real science, does Steven Strange know about The Avengers, how the film is more respectful to other cultures than the original source material may have been, how this movie was inspired by The Oath, which characters might connect with the Runaways, Mads Mikkelsen «s character Kaecilius, multiple dimensions, the trouble with writing magic action, how Mordo is different in the movie, Rachel McAdams «character Christine Palmer, is the eye of agamotto an infinity stone, the genre of the film, how this film will defy expectations, Steven Strange's role in the larger MCU, will we see cameos from the other Marvel characters, and much more.

This wouldn't be such a big deal except that the arcade mode is only 6 fights long and has no character endings, meaning that there is no context for why many of these characters are in the game other than Project Soul couldn't think of replacements or ways to shoehorn them into the main story, but needed their fighting styles to be in the game.

Other than the story's weak points, there's also the problem that, while Le Chiffre has a creepy gimmick in the form of tear ducts that bleed, Bond's arch-nemesis finds himself at the mercy of other, lesser characters more than Other than the story's weak points, there's also the problem that, while Le Chiffre has a creepy gimmick in the form of tear ducts that bleed, Bond's arch-nemesis finds himself at the mercy of other, lesser characters more than other, lesser characters more than once.

While they might be perfect for your character, keep in mind that having a model that is the same on 100 other book covers (many in the same genre as you) may do more for your personal visual of the story than helping bring in potential readers.

Other than that the story and character development are great!

Some guesses make more sense than others (many stated in previous comments), but nothing in this book gave me a clue - I see this as a failure to underdeveloped this thread - the title of the book; some story about wolves - just enough so the reader has some connection to the main character - would have helped.

To take an extreme example: if the main character of your romance is afraid of snakes, it will only interrupt the story if you then drop that character into a pit of snakes every few chapters for no other purpose than to invoke some tension (except, maybe, if the love interest is a snake charmer).

Some had more relatable stories and more developed characters than others; some were truly fantastic.

For while some character stories are tragic (and his certainly is), his story is more redemptive than others.

It ties in well with the cinematic story mode — a major marketing point for Mortal Kombat X. Although certain characters, such as D'Vorah, featured more heavily than other, for instance Ferra / Torr, we got a chance to see them in action.