Sentences with phrase «takes on each of the characters»

Daniel Craig as James Bond: If his previous movies as Bond hadn't already confirmed it, Craig has the perfect balance to embody this character, able to take on all of this character's distinct traits that previous actors had only been able to focus on individually.

The flow of villains doesn't actually help the stories overall quality, but it's hard to care thanks to Rocksteady's brilliant takes on each of the characters, with every one of them having some seriously talented voice actors delivering their well written lines.

Not exact matches

«The greatest risk is not on the battlefield but in standing up for what's right,» McRaven told the cadets, adding, «The truly great officers know that real victory is achieved when men and women of character take professional risks and challenge the weak - kneed, the faint of heart, the indecisive, or the bullies.»

In part, those expectations were stoked by photos of Western influences seeping into the regime: Jong - un has done photo ops at water parks and taken roller - coaster rides with foreign diplomats, Disney characters have performed for the new leader on state TV, and Jong - un's wife has sported a Dior handbag, to name a few examples.

Beyond her age, she also lacks the spark of Superman's girlfriend, intent on blending in with the rest of the cast as a side character rather than taking any initiative.

It takes the massive wealth of tracks, races, characters, and karts from the Wii U's under - loved «Mario Kart 8,» adds a robust new «Battle Mode,» and puts it all on the new Nintendo Switch game console.

Ben & Jerry's recently launched an app to make use of those cast - aside characters to raise awareness for World Fair Trade Day, which took place on May 14.

For example, Krzyzewski likes to take advantage of a popular app known as Bitmoji, which allows users to create their own personal emoji character, for use on social media and text messages.

Granted, expressing yourself in 140 characters takes its toll on traditional communication (not to mention spelling), but the loss of one skill can enhance another.

«If we just focus on being the best we can be and bringing our best character to the table, we actually can take people who weren't attracted to us five minutes ago and turn them into people who suddenly can't get us out of their minds,» Hussey said.

His rule has also taken on a more personal character than that of previous post-Mao Chinese leaders, with The Economist noting that he has molded his political persona in a way that suggests his goal is «dismantling the... system of collective rule.»

Early PCs relied on a code called ASCII, which took care of most of the characters used in Western European languages.

As a fascinating and in - depth recent profile of several ultramarathoners by Katherine Ellen Foley on Quartz reveals, success over these extreme distances takes a particular type of character.

In my six years working as a Walt Disney World «cast member» (that's what they called us), I did everything from working attraction lines, to taking pictures of park guests with costumed characters, to being an actual costumed character (more on that one in a minute).

Dozens of people dressed up as Pikachu, the famous character of Nintendo's videogame software Pokemon, dance with fans as the final of a nine - day «Pikachu Outbreak» event takes place to attract summer vacationers in Yokohama, in suburban Tokyo, on August 16, 2015.

Hoping to avoid the possibility of a white actor taking on the role of the Chinese warrior, Molnar wrote: «Casting a Caucasian actor as a character of colour, regardless of reason has a direct, harmful impact on not only the movie itself, but the audience, as well as POC members of the acting community.»

Besides spending $ 15,000 on the 21 Royal experience for Halloween, Madison regularly posts pictures of herself and her daughter doing Disney - related activities, including having a Disney - themed cake for her daughter Rainbow Aurora (perhaps named after Sleeping Beauty), taking multiple trips to Disneyland, and dressing as Disney characters.

What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the mother lode of menial tasks — as well as some of the internal barriers, like the feeling of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back against these things.

High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

(At truly incandescent sports moments, as when the basketball team of my alma mater and former employer Valparaiso University this year advanced, against all expectation and indeed against all rational hope, into the third round of the NCAA championship, the grace takes on the character of the miraculous.)

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

Because Greek philosophical concepts had to be translated into Latin legal concepts, theology in the West took on the character of codified law after the West lost Greek.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

OK, so technically Jim Gaffigan isn't a fictional character, but his on - stage persona and ever - present internal monologue have taken on a life of their own.

They have tapped into that childlike adventure and wonder and along with fun characters take young people on a journey to discover the story of redemption through Jesus.

The descendants of Jacob, who were the nation of Israel, took on their character from their forefather.

For a while after I'd seen a program, I'd find myself remembering particular mannerisms and turns of phrase that a character used, and even taking on some aspects of them myself.

In this history God's love has taken on the character of suffering for the sinner.

Comedian Tripp Crosby got into his character of «Pastor Mark» — basically a take on the stereotypical young, cool evangelical pastor — to «interview» Rob Bell.

Like Sir Walter Scott's historical novels, it takes place amidst events events that changed the course of human affairs, in this case, World War I, but remains vividly focused on one character's fate.

In the Old Testament, when God looks like He is behaving in ways that do not match the nature and character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ, this is not because God is being deceptive, but because God is taking the sins of His people upon Himself just as Jesus did on the cross.

The Catholic moralist Dietrich von Hildebrand sketched in Liturgy and Personality a portrait of the liturgically formed person, the person who takes the liturgy seriously, who does not corrupt it for reasons of self - improvement, self - advancement or any other secondary gains, yet who reflects secondarily the shaping power of the liturgy on character.

By taking on complex characters who don't easily fit any predetermined bubble, Plaza is helping the rest of us feel better about our own lack of labels.

Without my wanting it, or doing anything to facilitate it, this had of necessity to take on the character of a summons, a challenge, a battlecry, a confession.

And African - American women, to take another example, have complicated the Anglo - European interpretation of the Abraham / Sarah narratives by focusing on the character of Hagar, the ethnic outsider, the slave, the surrogate wife.

Remember the story of Echo and Narcissus, in that Echo can only say the last word or last characters back towards a speaker, and these cropped words and characters can take on different meanings.

Right now the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada is conducting a major study of the public character of theological education, with a special focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.

In the little - seen Gamer, a young man shares responsibility for the actions of his video - game alter - ego» an avatar (played by Gerard Butler) who is employed to act out the youth's viral simulacrum in real - world situations where hedonistic consumers take on the identities and vices of video - game characters.

Hence, obedience to the individual demands, however meaningless they might be in themselves, took on the character of moral virtue, because it meant obedience to the will of God.

In neither case does the eulogy take on the character of an elegy: for both men, neoconservatism departs the scene not because it has failed but because it has, in large part at least, succeeded in what it set out to accomplish.

One of the more memorable of the characters that illustrate this truth is a «Big Ghost» who takes the trip to heaven bent on getting his «rights.»

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

We have seen how the American success ideal has taken its toll on women, on youth, on all groups who do not approximate the Anglo - Saxon Protestant ideal of character — above all on blacks.

A more robust character, like Pius XI or John Paul II, not to speak of medieval popes who took on emperors, might have said more in fewer words.

Gradually over the years the man's face took on the character of the great stone face.

In deep communion there is a transcendence of time and history in one sense, namely, the past takes on a new character relative to the present.

The nation took on a character which we are to envisage as a very moderate expression of the high concepts put forth by the three accepted exponents of the way of the Lord; or perhaps it is better said that hee nation trailed far behind such ideals.

For those who take shelter in Christ, who stand with the One who was bullied to the point of death on a cross, should display his kindness and character.

But at the same time Revelation itself enters a sphere of reality which is also determined by other forces, which indeed derive from God, the author of Revelation, but which on that account can not, in the actual form they take and in their special character, simply be derived from Revelation, which itself can not simply be identified with God as he is in himself.

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.