Sentences with phrase «than the drama on»

This is a film about the passion and complexities ticking away in the background of the tournament, rather than the drama on the court itself.

Not exact matches

The drama debuted in April to critical and popular success, with Hulu quickly renewing the show for a second season after claiming that more Hulu viewers watched the show's premiere than any previous series debut on the service.

It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

Rather than concentrating on the immediate prologue to the crisis and its day - to - day dramas, they go back 30 years to Salomon Bros.» Lewis Ranieri, BlackRock founder Larry Fink, Fannie Mae exec David Maxwell and the invention of mortgage - backed securities.

The Netflix political drama earned an Emmy nomination, marking the first time a program that aired online rather than on traditional television has received one.

Meanwhile on the TV side, the site TorrentFreak found that for the third year running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.

Drama queen conclusion, including what appear to be rather over-the-top estimates by JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank: More than 13,000 banking jobs are on their way out of London because of Brexit!

As of early Monday, Toscani's initial tweet had garnered nearly 173,000 retweets and more than half a million likes, with workers sharing their own stories and even presumably lunch - theft - immune celebrities weighing in on the drama.

The study revealed that less than 10 percent of adult viewing on Netflix was of its much - buzzed - about original series, like «House of Cards,» its political drama, and «Orange Is the New Black,» the dark comedy about prison.

Why is it so hard to believe that people truly are judged based on their actions — and that if the perception is that the drama you bring is greater than your results on the field, it could have an impact on your employment options?

Whether or not the story of the giving of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai amid thunder and lightning and great pictorial drama is to be taken literally, there is little question that the Hebrews entered Canaan with a clearer sense both of their covenant relation to their deity and of their moral and social obligations to each other than they had possessed prior to Moses» leadership.

Those rest on his uncritical use of sources, his false assumptions about both European and Near Eastern societies, and his enthusiasms for staged drama rather than accurate analysis.

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 had rather discern a cry of human need voiced in a novel, or discover the grace of God profanely proclaimed in a drama on the stage or on the street, than retell what some other has discerned there.

There has, instead, been a tendency to see nature as none other than the stage on which the drama of human life is performed.

Yeh they lost cause no penalty calls but seriously how can a team like Chelsea with so much class players being 2 nil up at home lose 4 2 imagine if that was Arsenal we would all pull the rope on Wenger Would love to hear if they have a forum like this to hear there comments It's what makes this competition the best even I would say than the World Cup is second to FA just for the Drama that unfolds England has created a beauty in this Comp I get the photo out every year to see the Copper on the White horse at the first Wembly final CB

Kantar's performance supplied the final note of drama to the standing - room - only crowd of more than 600 people who were following the progress of a bridge match on a Bridge - O-Rama board at the end of the room.

On top of that, he's also more than happy to speak his mind about things, and it's that which that led to a little bit of drama before the Australian GP.

Betting on the football can provide more drama than Joey Barton's career.

It was a hard decision to make, but it was better to make it in high school than to stretch out the drama, up the ante on the tension, or in the worst case scenario: to burn out and to lose my passion for learning at a school where I really didn't belong.

The news out of Washington is putting a kink in the bevy of political dramas on TV as reality becomes stranger than any fiction writers can dream up.

I enjoyed reading Amber Elliott's interview with Caroline Flint (TP, June), although I must confess that I now know more about Caroline's views on Swedish crime drama than I do about Labour's energy policy.

But consider the matter from the viewpoint of the J Alfred Prufrock MPs of the Tory backbenches — the real players in the present drama, since their lack of attachment to faction or viewpoint is more than compensated for by their relatively large numbers and, therefore, their decisive impact on internal events.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is on trial accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate business developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's a star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

Dramas from elections past - like the way Michael Foot was nearly sacked as Leader half way through the 1983 campaign, like Kinnock and Hattersley endlessly contradicting each other over Labour's tax plans in 1987, like Kinnock «s «take to the hills» defence policy against a potential Soviet invasion, like the tax bombshell, like Maggie Thatcher's «I want the doctor I want, on the day I want» rant in 1987, like John Major unleashing the soap box in 1992, like Neil Hamilton and Martin Bell slugging it out on Knutsford Heath in 1997, like the Prescott punch of 2001 - seem more vivid than the more measured and choreographed procession of 2010.

«Although realism is an integral element to the success of a television drama set in a contemporary workplace, be it a hospital or police department, the requirements for dramatic effect demand a focus on the exceptional rather than the mundane,» the study authors wrote.

It was a little longer than the train on my dress and I loved that it was simple, yet added a little drama.

i'm consider as family type of man whos looking to settle down with one lady i love children and easy going, drama free i love to listen to a woman not talk so much until i understand her point.i look better in person than on picture so do nt let the picture fool you

I'm not about drama or games so if you're looking for someone to play a game with on here you might want to pass my profile up cuz I'm not the one I've already been through it and know it other than that I'm just me

Want to be happy and focus on the good things of life, please no drama other than what normal life might bring.

Why do so many dramas depict doctors and nurses spending more time having sex on the job than they do treating patients?

© 2018 Contenko - Home - About - Contact - Privacy - Terms Why do so many dramas depict doctors and nurses spending more time having sex on the job than they do treating patients?

A movie about the real - life 1971 Stanford prison experiment could have been sadistic and unwatchable, director Kyle Patrick Alvarez's clinical approach focuses on realism and psychological drama rather than on thrills.

Description: Traveling psychic Manfred Bernardo (François Arnaud) settles in the small Texas town of Midnight and discovers there are more to the people in town than meets the eye in this supernatural drama based on the book series by Charlaine Harris.

Based on a short story by Richard Matheson (which also inspired THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode «Steel»), this is more a human drama than anything else.

More often than not, when a film that is a wartime drama gets released, it usually focuses on the battlefield, and the horrors of war.

This wonderful film could have so easily been made into a silly comedy but is fortunately instead a bittersweet drama that relies on a captivating performance by the always talented Ryan Gosling, who gives life to a sensitive character that never seems less than real.

Of course, reflections on laziness are as clear as they ever are when found within the conventionalism of the storytelling, which, no matter how intriguing in a lot of ways, hits trope after trope as a very»90s biographical drama, - complete with the sentimentality - even if it does so with a little more structural unevenness than usual.

We went into the experience expecting a pulse - pounding shooter with fancy cut scenes and lots of drama (no surprise, since we play more FPS on consoles than RPGs), and instead found a slower - moving and tough (but immensely rewarding) slog through a beautiful fantasy world populated by imaginative monsters and more weapons than we know what to do with.

A handsome, compelling drama, about the African - American elite settling in the Hamptons, that more than stands on its own.

The film is limiting potential enough by conceptually simply studying on Oscar Wilde's sexual revelations and their subsequent consequences, rather than the whole of his brilliant life and tragic downfall, but when it comes to the execution, not enough studying is done in this often inspired, and just as often undercooked character drama which at least finds superficiality in its resonance.

Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller due to some sticking plot points that prevent the audience from

The show still has some interesting things happening, and there are worse things on TV than a fast - paced action drama.

Director Max Joseph (MTV's Catfish) makes his narrative feature debut here and while he is keen on tapping into that younger audience he knows so well, at thirty - three this drama of young angst feels more manufactured than authentic.

... By the final episode, which I won't spoil but which touches on themes of forgiveness, her story feels richer than many dramas.

Overall Red Christmas provides much more in the way of balanced perspective and nuance than many a serious drama on the subject.

A couple of scenes (Ana doffing her top outside at a resort and some risky public car sex) indicate that the plucky heroine might have a thing for exhibitionism but, rather than explore that avenue, the movie falls back on trysts in the red room and stale drama like (SPOILER!)

Far from Heaven is indeed a great movie because it has such high aspirations - a movie from 2002 that dares to style itself after a 50's drama and to do so via (gasp) a subtle script rather than relying on special effects and things blowing up etc..

In 2003, Deschanel appeared in minor capacity as a receptionist in Sam Raimi's Spider - Man 2, with her role in Ghost House Pictures» 2004 frightener Boogeyman serving to prove that she was much more than just another pretty face.As the 2000's rolled on, Deschanel would prove to be an even bigger force on the small screen, playing forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance «Bones» Brennan, partner of FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), on the popular Fox crime drama series Bones.

In fact, the human drama of Lincoln is often less compelling than its political plot — which, even given its on - the - record outcome, becomes a gripping political thriller at its peak.