Sentences with phrase «thinking about his heroes»

This week, Education Word offers ten lessons that will get students thinking about their heroes.

Not exact matches

«If we let that narrative be simply about victims or heroes, I think we've missed an opportunity,» said Mike Haynie, executive director of the Syracuse's institute.

But you may not know that the traditional way we think about storytelling — to create a big, sweeping hero story — is not the most effective way to use the technique at work.

Citing studies on the early lives of heroes who rescued people from the Holocaust and highly creative architects, Grant suggests parents «help children think about the consequences of their action for others,» rather than simply yelling «no!».

He had a sinking feeling as he thought about what would happen if just a half dozen people cared to greet the war heroes.

You drive alone and think about the romance of climbing a mountain: you think about standing at the top, wind whipping your hair as you gaze out on the world below, the conquering hero.

An interesting place to start thinking about this might be to consider what makes someone a hero.

The poet wants his audience to think about and judge a hero in a way they haven't before, but in fact he can not gain an audience unless he beautifully portrays just those things the people already admire in a hero.

When I think about JaiMichael, an African - American boy full of his own dreams and promise, I'm glad to live in a country that remembers King as a national hero.

I need to tell someone about the books I've been reading because Inspector Gamache is my new hero and I want to live in Three Pines, Quebec (well, I think would like to live there... it does seem rather murder - y by my tastes).

But about this people concern themselves very little in our age which they think has reached the highest attainment, whereas in truth no age has so fallen victim to the comic as this has, and it is incomprehensible that this age has not already by a generatio aequivoca given birth to its hero, the demon who would remorselessly produce the dreadful spectacle of making the whole age laugh and making it forget that it was laughing at itself.

The familiar Hemingway conflict, we are told, deals with grace under pressure — or rather that's what the Hemingway hero strives for: he's the Good Sport and must play the game, not really caring whether he wins or loses but rather what the One Great Scorer (and this is about as close as Hemingway ever gets to the divine or even the cosmic) thinks of the game he's played.

Resurrecting the old gods and heroes, promising national regeneration through «the fire magic of music,» Wagner the mythmaker enthralled Nietzsche, who thought seriously about becoming a full - time promoter for Wagner's proposed music festival at Bayreuth.

The boss told the BBC that he thought it was a crazy game and that he was disappointed about the way that the Arsenal defenders dealt with the West Ham hat - trick hero Andy Carroll.

They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....

There never was a thought about redshirting this local - hero running back, but certainly there was the notion that maybe he should be moved slowly into the rigors of college football.

We're big fans of the show «Heroes»... I never thought about the fact that I have / had a super power until now!

After LAC 2015, and this year's Celebration of Heroes, we wanted to learn more about the importance of fundraising, the future of the Annual Fund, and to get Janet's thoughts on how members can pursue their dreams — and make the world a better place in the process.

From the bestselling author of such popular gift books as «Life's Little Instruction Book, A Father's Book of Wisdom», and «A Hero in Every Heart» comes a new small - format book of wisdom featuring a collection of heartwarming thoughts all about dads.

SNF will also be promoting the 2016 Celebration of School Nutrition Heroes, encouraging members to think about potential nominees and to consider attending the Celebration at LAC 2016.

Koch told me he has had second thoughts about letting Espada be a «hero», even though he met the criteria by signing the ethics, budget and redistricting reform pledges sent to all candidates — both insurgents and incumbents — running this fall.

JIVP — I don't know about «heroes» but since you are looking for somebody who is «believable, clever, articulate, has integrity and, importantly, says what they think».

Asked whether parade organizers should think about nixing its decision to honor Lopez Rivera — which includes a first - ever «National Freedom Hero» award — the mayor left it up to the committee.

The team estimates that the two hero shrews diverged about 4 million years ago and think that the new species could be an intermediate step in the bizarre spinal evolution.

Let's be honest here; you want to look good not because you are thinking about a long and enjoyable retirement playing golf in Florida but because you want to look like an action hero when you head off to the beach or park!

Use a weight that's lighter than you think you'll need for this one - about 1/2 to 2/3 of what you'd normally use for pulldowns (trust me on this - don't be a hero).

I have a list of a few pieces that are wardobe heroes, but I need to buy them too and just to think about them haha!

If you have in mind thinking about the western war heroes having fun with Asian women in Asia, erase those thoughts as most of the Asian women do not depict that picture and they are not dolls to play and trash later.

Though little about the technical skill of Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero brings to mind Spielberg, it's hard not to think of «War Horse.»

In the course of her «search,» Arquette interviews several of her colleagues, among them Whoopi Goldberg, Diane Lane, Teri Garr, Holly Hunter, Vanessa Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling, Meg Ryan, and Sharon Stone, all of whom have their own personal horror stories about insensitive producers and casting directors who tend to think of over-40 (and sometimes over-30) actresses as being suitable only for mother, «other woman,» and «hero's girlfriend» roles — when they bother to cast these actresses at all.

So without needing to really think about it, I do score Shantae: Half - Genie Hero a 9/10.

My temper was lowered the more I had heard news about this film, but it's nice to know that this is clearly still a Captain America movie and not just some orgy of every Marvel hero they can think of.

Using the greatest hits blueprint, one would think any big - time film treatment about Thurgood Marshall, an American hero for racial equality, has to include Brown vs. Board of Education and his ascension to become the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Akeelah and the Bee (2006) American Loser (2007) An Inconvenient Truth (2006) And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991) Autopsy (2008) Barnyard (2006) Batman (1989) Batman Returns (1992) Best Seller (1987) Bio-Dome (1996) The Black Stallion (1979) The Blue Lagoon (1980) Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009) Carrie (1976) Contact (1997) The Cove (2009) The Cup (2012) Dances with Wolves (1990) Dare Not Walk Alone (2006) The Dark Half (1993) Disturbing Behavior (1998) Dead Hands Dig Deep (2016) Defiance (2008) Down to Earth (2001) Dr. Strange (2006) Dying Breed (2009) Eternity: The Movie (2014) Fools Rush In (1997) Fright Night (2011) The Golden Child (1986) Gridiron Heroes (2015) Harriet the Spy (1996) History of Jazz: Oxygen for the Ears (2012) Hitch (2005) Home Sweet Hell (2015) Indecent Proposal (1993) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) The Invincible Iron Man (2007) Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1997) Kill Me, Deadly (2015) L.A. Twister (2004) Lars and the Real Girl (2007) Last Chance Harvey (2008) The Last Godfather (2011) The Levenger Tapes (2011) The Loved Ones (2012) Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) Man About Town (2007) The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) Mistress (1992) The Monster Squad (1987) My Girl (1991) My Girl 2 (1994) Nacho Libre (2006)

Or — look, the movie is hopeless, so let's just have fun thinking about casting — they could have kept Elba as the hero and hired Jude Law as the villain, because Law knows how to do that double thing the role required: complete self - love and utter self - loathing happening at the exact same time.

We live in a Golden Age of superhero TV shows, but these ugly costumes have made us think twice about watching these heroes on the small screen!

Finally, Twilight Time has five releases this week: Robert Rossen's «Alexander the Great,» the sword - and - sandal epic about the titular hero; Anatole Litvak's «Anastasia,» a historical epic about a Russian businessman who tries to pass of an imposter as the Grand Duchess Anastasia; Otto Preminger's «Exodus,» about the founding of the state of Israel; Ralph Nelson's «Lilies of the Field,» about an African American traveling handyman who encounters a group of nuns who think he's been sent by God to build their chapel; and finally Richard Fleischer's «10 Rillington Place,» a crime drama about the serial killer John Christie.

(OK, a few: Don Cheadle in Miles Ahead and Tom Hiddleston in I Saw the Light, and although I liked Deepwater Horizon, I think I would have loved an alternate version in which John Malkovich's and Kurt Russell's characters each had about three times as much to do while Mark Wahlberg was off being a hero.)

Many of our greatest action movies are about ordinary characters doing extraordinary things, but off - beat casting choices can add a whole other meta - dimension to this idea, showing us actors we'd previously not thought of as action heroes stepping up to play big parts.

In a recent forum post asking about Sombra's sitting emote and the 24th hero, Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan offered up this teaser: «24 is not who you think it is.»

Depp gives a layered performance as a confident folk hero who worries about what people think.

Plus, I don't think Stone makes movies about heroes... not really.

It introduces new heroes (Black Panther, Spider - Man), new villains (Baron Zemo), and it will radically change the dynamics of everything you thought you knew about the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

We're just now getting our hands on Fire Emblem Heroes, but you can see all about what we think of it after we dive into it.

When a super soldier arrives on a murderous mission, Deadpool is forced to think about friendship, family and what it really means to be a hero — all while kicking 50 shades of ass.

When I think of words to describe beloved children's heroes, the phrase «cold - hearted sadist» rarely springs to mind, but I couldn't help but feel that way about the title character in this movie of «Peter Rabbit,» based on the much beloved children's books by Beatrix Potter.

I'm a little unsure about what to think of the movie's ending for lighting Tommy Wiseau as a misunderstood hero; although the movie was best when it shows Wiseau trying to escape the villainy prescribed to him, it's hard ti know whether we should dislike him for his recklessness and ignorance of his crew or sympathize with his lofty dreams and willingness to support Mark.

There will be different interpretations of exactly what «Hereditary» is about, and that kind of open horror storytelling often infuriates viewers looking for a traditional hero - and - villain story (think of the response that greeted «mother!»

After the first film, which was on my list of the ten best films of 2001, I was ecstatic about the possibilities of a sequel, but after this satisfying but occasionally dull entry, I'm starting to think there's no gas left in the creativity tank for our irreverent heroes.

You would think that even with it's R rating, a moment like that would be softened or not even an option, but in director Shane Black's universe, the bad guys really do hurt people, the jokes are about Hitler, and the heroes are not invincible.