Sentences with phrase «townspeople as»

If you forget what time it is (which is easy here), look to the «sunset dune,» which fills up with townspeople as the sun turns gold on the horizon.

When word gets out that Woody has «won» a million dollars, he is treated by all but the most skeptical townspeople as a returning hero.

But townspeople as well as some lawmakers including McLaughlin questioned why Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration didn't act earlier to respond to warnings that tests had detected PFOA.

In Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, there is an arresting scene in which Jesus and Judas come upon the townspeople as they are stoning Mary Magdalene.

Here we meet his parents, Ray and Dorothy («Paw» and «Mam»), Ruthie, two special aunts, and an assortment of colorful townspeople as charming as those in the fictional Mayberry, even if a little more earthy and complicated.

Every hackneyed anti-Church saying one can think of is used by the townspeople as a taunt against Fr.

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Transitioning into civilian life, Ryan is making a career promoting startups that develop the powerful and specialized software he wishes he'd had as an intelligence officer in Iraq — programs that can map and visualize useful information like casualties from IEDs, the market price of flour at a local bazaar, or the tribal affiliations of local townspeople.

As townspeople go about their everyday tasks, a madman bursts into the public square announcing to a confused crowd, «God is dead, God remains dead.

As his father left his mother when he was quite young, and his mother had quite limited means, the townspeople decided to raise money so that DuBois could go to college.

Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thoughtby rachel fulton browncolumbia, 656 pages, $ 75 In thirteenth - century France there lived a monk who served as confessor for many townspeople, including a beautiful married woman.

Brady is adored and applauded as he pontificates about the evils of evolution and gobbles large amounts of food, but poor Drummond is shunned by the townspeople.

The essential plot elements of Inherit the Wind — the lonely stand of the brave individualist against the small - minded bigotry of the townspeople, Cates» fear and trembling as he waits in his prison cell, the threat of ruin hanging over his head («The Scopes character and his fiancee play each scene as if he were on the way to the electric chair,» wrote one film reviewer)-- are pure fabrication.

The townspeople come together to rebuild his house as a gesture of appreciation.

She tells us frankly about her initial gaffes and missteps (some of which are quite funny), as well as the insularity of the townspeople, who are less than welcoming to this foreigner.

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

It quickly turns dark though — as their counterculture starts to unnerve the nearby townspeople — weaving a tale of rebellion, religious freedom and the blurred lines of what some may call a cult.

Three years after «The Sudden Departure,» where two percent of the world's population disappeared suddenly, the townspeople of Mapleton struggle with life including Police Chief Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), who has to deal with mysterious happenings in town, his two rebelling teenaged children, as well as a cult called the Guilty Remnant that includes Laurie (Amy Brenneman), a self - proclaimed prophet named «Holy Wayne» (Paterson Joseph), Rev. Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston), and Mayor Lucy Warburton (Amanda Warren) in this drama series based on Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name.

Though they're an otherwise friendly group, the Boxtrolls have been forced into hiding after a villainous schemer named Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley) used the disappearance of a local baby as a way to convince the townspeople that the Boxtrolls are dangerous monsters who eat children.

The state of Texas is itself a subtle character in the cast, as well as the townspeople who are unintentionally funny in their Southern gentry ways.

First, you'll find yourself sympathizing with the Rajneesh's followers as they're cruelly ostracized by the bigoted townspeople.

The rest of the film follows from this moment, in which townspeople are as podunk or shrewd as the script requires them to be.

Watching as these townspeople attempt to survive together, only to be torn apart by their own irrationality is fun and thrilling.

As such, the townspeople, rather than being honed into clarity by Olive's hard edges, fade into the background; to so sorely underutilize DeWitt, Ann Dowd, and Bill Murray seems a shame, if not a crime.

Players are still able to tear down and rebuild the world as they see fit, but the addition of townspeople and objectives makes Builders feel like a much more robust experience than similar games that came before it, even if it does at times feel a little clumsy.

For his subsequent heroic actions, Bard is celebrated as a dragonslayer by his grateful townspeople, who go so far as to proclaim him king.

When the townspeople see their tragedy enacted in front of them, it's as if they've just seen it on the news or read it in the newspaper; it reinforces the events and makes them more real.

In a towering performance cast in a slow - moving picture of a lost world, Brendan Gleeson holds court as a priest who is a reformed alcoholic who may find himself off the wagon and a townspeople who to a great extent have lost faith in the Church and in the beneficence or even existence of God.

In one scene, as two known killers are caught and attacked by dozens of raging townspeople, the unwavering depiction of these vilified monsters turning into cowering, terrified men is painful to watch.

As Victor struggles with the implications of reanimation and the increasing attention of meddlesome, misfit classmates, the townspeople converge to confront what frightens and confuses them.

The sequence, fittingly titled «Belle,» features Watson as the titular character, fleshed out by the townspeople, made up of the film's chorus, who — like the townspeople in the animated version — don't understand why Belle is all about the books, and not about acting like everyone else.

James Franco appears late in the picture as one of the townspeople who threatens and questions Ballard, hoping to find the dead bodies he has hidden.

But thanks to Dean Cundey's cinematography, it's one of the most elegant - looking horror pictures ever made, with views of the Pacific from the lighthouse home of the KAB radio station (from where Adrienne Barbeau as DJ Stevie Wayne warns the townspeople about the fog) that are so intensely painterly they pop.

As the mischievous demon Cid, the player navigates the town of Darkestville, speaks with townspeople, and manipulates the environment in a traditional point - and - click adventure style.

Set in Barrow, Alaska — a town that experiences, as the title of the film suggests, a period where the sun doesn't rise for thirty days — the film follows a group of townspeople that fend for their lives against an onslaught of vampires that take advantage of the sun-less situation.

The script also allows for some great training and planning sequences as the seven work to prepare the townspeople for the upcoming attack.

We meet an array of townspeople, and many of the men are positioned as potential suspects.

Of course, the townspeople, who must be able to see the subtitles as well, figure this out without actually figuring it out.

But Kai's friendship with Lu has its limitations as well as dangers: Merfolk, like vampires, can't endure direct sunlight without getting flambéed, and Hinashi's townspeople don't take too kindly to the fish - legged.

But what the townspeople don't realize is that missing child is alive and well, raised by the Boxtrolls as one of their own.

sung by the townspeople just off screen, is to witness one of cinema's most remarkable evocations of burgeoning love; it's as heartrending in its delicate understanding of interpersonal attraction as it is keenly aware of how romance is shaped by social codes and communal expectations.

An exhibition in the old town hall, formerly used as the headquarters of the Belgian army in 1914, aims to tell the unique, personal and remarkable stories of the townspeople, divided into themes including religion, jurisdiction, diplomacy and medical care.

The townspeople brave the blustery weather to see the animals» performance, but just as the tuxedoed tiny hippo takes center stage, she finds herself frozen in fright!

When Bruce announces news of his own plans, it comes as a shock not only to Claire and Joshua but also to the townspeople who have watched this unusual family grow and have come to love them.

The townspeople are suspicious of all four of them, but many want the suspicions cleared, as Lina has been chosen to take an exam that may get her into a prestigious school in the city, which will benefit the entire town.

In recognition and admiration of the man who became known as «GRIZ,» the townspeople held a festival all week.

For the last 376 years, barring a break for the Second World War, this play takes over Oberammergau as over two thousand townspeople produce a heart - wrenching epic detailing the Passion of Christ and his final days.

The dungeons are quite fun and the townspeople are as diverse as ever.

Characters speak in a sort of stilted manner, such as a political prisoner languishing in jail lamenting that he goofed up, or an evil townsperson telling you his city doesn't tolerate smiles.

Townspeople are presented as 2 - D renders on the screen during conversations and the dialogues are usually composed of simple small talk that doesn't help out at all or rewards you with an item.

Within the townspeople and portrait toy store, Alice, Time and Mad Hatter have been revealed as playable characters with their toy unlocks being shown, with the note «To Unlock, play as this character».