Sentences with phrase «very human character»

I found him to be a very human character.

This intelligent, engaging indie sets out to find a few answers and in the process introduces a clutch of interesting, very human characters.

The three panelists — stars Connie Britton, Peter Krause and Angela Bassett, who also serves as co-producer — described the delicate balance of creating very human characters who must present the face of calm in grave emergencies, even as their personal lives are dissolving into chaos.

Simonson's comedy of manners charms with its lovable and very human characters, as well as its wry wit and wisdom.

These supernatural characters are grounded by the novel's detailed and vibrant setting in 1899 New York City, which teems with a host of very human characters, from rich socialites to resourceful immigrants.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

Another very human flaw revealed by Jesus was a character flaw, vindictive hubris.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

This, of course, is not to say he is not rightly esteemed truly human, a man of flesh and blood with the peculiar Biblical force of that phrase; indeed it might be claimed that the very stress laid on the limited character of his experience makes us more vividly aware of the reality of his human nature.

It is immediately apparent that no rule of thumb is applied, but that the purpose of constructive love is very flexible in the face of human complexities of character.

The beauty of the inspired Word is that none of the characters except one is very human and susceptible to poor choices.

You stated:»... Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) who has the most noble character and dealings with fellow humans gave us a very clear and simple message and advice in regard to friendship.

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.

In the simplest terms then, human social experience is a form of togetherness in which there is a sharing of feeling, a concordance of emotion, between two or more individuals who become immanently related one to another by the very character of their mutual experience.

it's a deeply human series with flawed and beloved characters whom you grow to love deeply for their very flaws and their courage.

Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) who has the most noble character and dealings with fellow humans gave us a very clear and simple message and advice in regard to friendship.

This may be true with some people about some things, but overall, the Bible has grown organically, is very close to human experiences of people over centuries and millennia, speaks the truth about our frailty, draws characters that are complex, raw, and authentic, warts and all.

In such an environment, the very idea of «developing values,» «cultivating character,» or generating «good» human beings is difficult to imagine, much less realize.

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

But this particular drama had its own mercurial character, in part reflecting the complicated, very human Desmond Tutu.

The premise behind this kind of character teaching is not that we should be teaching a whole different dimension of human existence, but that we've been leaving out some very important skills in terms of what makes kids happy and productive and fulfilled.

But according to Martin Sheen, who played the president, the character was drawn largely from Bill Clinton: «He's bright, astute and filled with all the negative foibles that make him very human,» Sheen once told the Radio Times.

They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselvesEven though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets ™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.

I wanted to bring this spiritual nature with me back to the east coast; the easy going, earth conscience, almost divine human character that is very hard to find in such transient cities.

I do recall this movie coming out and it was quite a big deal, very popular, quite an original idea and following on well from things like «Flight of the Navigator» and of course «E.T.» This was possibly one of the first movies to use this concept where a robot featured as the main character with humans mainly as secondary characters.

Perhaps, though, the most human beat in the movie belongs to one of the giant robot characters — betrayal being a very human act.

Except, «Annihilation» exists outside the realm of previous human experience, allowing Garland to toy with still other (im) possibilities — including the atavistic fear of how our bodies work on a microscopic level — by turning the characters» very DNA against them, while doing even stranger things to their minds.

Overall I love the show and how relatable it is in terms of the spectrum of human emotion, one thing I must say is that Paige is my favorite character by far because she has a very girl next door kind of thing to her but, is still a total bad ass.

While this is definitely about animals and right around the world, this is also a very touching human story that cares about relationships and characters.

Its got all the usual cute characters vs human plot line but it has a slightly adult edge, due to its original comicstrip background, which gives it a very funny and slightly dark outlook.

The animation is fluid, very well done, and the character designs, not just for the humans, look great.

By contrast, the very fine character actor Catherine Keener is excellent as his no - nonsense partner: she's every inch the believable special agent, controlled, efficient, dedicated, human but highly disciplined (as was, come to think of it, Clint Eastwood in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»).

Though this is a drama first and foremost, true to form he blends in liberal doses of humour (both visual gags and subtle, character - based material), showing the very human frailties of the lead characters but never ridiculing them.

Through a crazy array of puppetry, machinery, very creative acting, and lots of post production, we get to see the landmark characters of Disney, Warner Brothers, and countless others grace the screen, interacting with each other and the human cast.

At the end of Anthropoid, we're introduced to one of this hidden character that emerges at the very end — who had been there all along in the story too — and isn't a human character, but someone it is given a voice towards the end.

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

And the marvel is that she never loses her innate femininity, even when performing some very outlandish physical comedy — like turning her Lily Garland character into a human barbell so lover boy Bruce Granit (Andy Karl being absurdly macho) can do his bicep curls as the 20th Century carries the two of them from Chicago to New York City in 16 hours.

Showtime President David Nivens describes the series as «very realistic, it's very grounded; the characters are are in very human form in turn of the century London.

Bloom: The way he shot Liv was particular... Arwen and Galadriel were shot very differently than Miranda Otto's character [Eowyn], who was one of the humans.

The characters in this film are compelling and entertaining and because of them and the choice to use the shrinking aspect of the story as a jumpboard rather than an isolated boat with nowhere to go, this allows a very human story to shine through an unrealistic story mechanism.

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

While I came into this movie excited about every inch of it, M'Baku a.k.a Man - Ape in the comics has had a very messy and problematic history being written as the scary, angry, dark - skinned black man who wants Wakanda to be a primitive society that includes human sacrifice, because... this character was created by white authors in the late 1960s, and this was their idea of nuance.

While the movie doesn't come close to touching the very best of the genre (Babe), it was charming and clever at times, and it elicited genuine laughs as it followed the covert operations of evil cats and human - loving dogs carried out behind the backs, and underneath the noses, of the unsuspecting human characters.

Arguably, Zooey Deschanel's character Summer in (500) Days of Summer has been deemed a MPDG, although the movie can also be viewed as scrutinizing the archetype, since it shows the romantic failures of idealizing a woman, rather than accepting a woman for her very human complexities and flaws.

Payne's characters may see themselves as figures in a spaghetti - western - style landscape of moral absolutes, but their real value lies in their refusal to inhabit the Hollywood hero - to - villain spectrum; they're banally human and humanly banal, lovable for the very qualities that make them terrible.

I actually enjoyed it more than the Damon films (although very good) and Renner was a more human character than Damon's robot - like hero.

With strong performances by a very intriguing cast, particularly by Kate Winslet, Little Children manages to overcome the obstacles of the artificiality of the characters and situations to deliver ultimate truths about the human condition, particularly in the lives of people who normally wouldn't make for interesting study.

This week - long odyssey adds up to a very moving film which is surprisingly human considering the lead characters.

It does almost nothing to explore the inner life of the main character and as a result, ends up revealing very little about technology or human nature.

There is a cast of human characters here and they're very good (more on them shortly), but «Crimson Peak» is first and foremost a cinematic picture book, dispensing the kind of confectionary art design that few films attempt and even fewer get right.