Sentences with phrase «violent characters of»

He's clearly meant to be the bad guy of the film, but he's one of the least violent characters of the lot.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

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The only other possibility is that God truly is violent, and Jesus didn't fully reveal this aspect of God, which means that Jesus is not a very good representation of the true nature and character of God.

The series isn't exactly easy to watch — these are real violent crimes, after all — but the show gives a look at the failings of the justice system while also offering a somewhat unsettling character study.

Jehu is one of those hyper - violent Old Testament characters who make Christians uncomfortable.

Unless the people who penned the Gospels failed to mention that Jesus, God with us, was violent, then let's assume that the character of the God of the Old Testament and the character of the Jesus of Revelation must reflect the character of the earthly Jesus.

And so we learn, for example, from THE FEDERALIST or from Hobbes that the Athenian assembly was filled with vain and contentious men, men animated by sometimes cruel and often violent aristocratic pretensions.That «democracy» did have the characters or the institutions to support a just and stable middle - class way of life.

She suggests that the anti-Muslim views of Shourie, who is otherwise capable of intelligent commentary, may owe to «something volatile and emotionally violent in his character... something that lashes out at a perceived threat and refuses to take seriously the evidence that it might not be a threat.»

Indeed, the character of his work showed that even in a violent world kindness and gentleness can inform our efforts, and that our striving can end in gratitude and delight.

His main characters usually meet sudden and violent ends, but their deaths are almost always accompanied by hints of hope.

[12] Perhaps the more violent pattern so vividly described by Kitzinger corresponds to Reich's «compulsive character» rather than being characteristic of all men.

But the study also notes there was no significant increase in levels of physical aggression after fighting human - looking video game characters, something that suggests social prohibitions against violent acts remain strong.

Video games that pit players against human - looking characters may be more likely to provoke violent thoughts and words than games where monstrous creatures are the enemy, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Connecticut and Wake Forest University.

But males who really identified with their characters in the sexist, violent games didn't feel as much empathy for the victim,» said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and professor of communication and psychology at The Ohio State University.

He considers the dual character of violent and gentle which we share with chimpanzees, comparing the behavior of today's street gangs to early human behavior.

For every good - hearted man or woman looking for love, there is a dangerous line - up of shady characters that includes con men, liars and the most violent of criminals.

There are a couple of sympathetic pop - feminist strong ass - kicking female character violent women, but Home > Blog > Dating > Why Certain Men Will Never Do Well With Women — And What You Can Learn From Them

Like the 1997 Austro - German production, I was unquestionably distanced from the actions out of a human need to dissociate with the stories and characters who move along in Haneke's violent, pseudo-sexually abhorrent world.

There's a violent climactic outburst where most of the ensemble gang up on one particular character.

One of the central characters is introduced from the waist down and to say that the film climaxes in violent, sexual oddity would be like saying «The Avengers» features a few superheroes.

Josh Brolin, fresh off turning half the Marvel Cinematic Universe to dust, steps in as Cable, a time traveler from the future with a rather violent approach to correcting the past, and Julian Dennison plays a mutant version of his Tupac - loving Hunt for the Wilderpeople character, here with a traumatic backstory and hands that shoot flame.

Red Sparrow is a deliciously perverse, unflinchingly violent thriller — a modern - day espionage tale that breaks with the tradition of making the spy business the purview of suave and debonair characters.

Without seeing the consequences of his violent crimes on - screen, the cocky and charismatic Cagney is actually quite an appealing character compared to his moralistic but seemingly self righteous and pompous brother.

The characters are an entertaining group of misfits, of particular note is central protagonist and narrator Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with aspirations of stability, and of happiness in his life, but who is utterly unable to survive without «one more hit», the violent and psychotic Begbie (Robert Carlyle), who refuses to take heroin but makes up for not doing drugs by «doing people» instead, and the childlike Spud (Ewan Bremner), the innocent fool of the group, and the most vulnerable to peer pressure.

An Amazing Fps game with Amazing graphics... Also the most violent game I've ever played plus with the realistic graphics it makes it gruesome... The aliens (Stroggs) like to experiment on humans, people are shown with parts of their face torn off, intestines hanging out, there is a scene where you can see your characters legs being sliced off by a bloody saw while strapped down, limbless people are attached to machines, some strange experiments like that, Do nt play this game if you are a little kid or some idiot thats going to copy what you see in this game...

What the characters have in common — the only thing they have in common, really — is the desire for community amid the well - founded expectation of imminent, violent death.

Even a scene where a group of Ku Klux Klan are presented as almost endearingly goofy, in a wonderful spoof of the outrageously racist pro-Klan silent classic The Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith, 1915), the violent fate of such characters is not at all problematic due to what they represent.

The digging party, with its suggestions of film - noir plot twists and resonances, fulfills its violent implications with the arrival of a rough - hewn neighbor (played by the majestically stolid character actor Tom Bower), who tries to dissuade Tim from the excavation with allusions to uneasy spirits, evil history, and «the Chicago Hall of Fame.»

A delicious combination of idiosyncratic character drama and increasingly violent and violently absurd comedy, this Netflix title opened the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year and is an assured debut for Blair, the star of Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room.

While revenge narratives are often highly problematic in the way they represent certain aspects of society as deserving a violent death, Tarantino creates revenge narratives against characters that nobody in their right mind would sympathise with — Nazis in Inglourious Basterds and now sadistic slave owners in Django Unchained.

For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris at the end of «Taxi Driver») rather than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.

A noisy and violent thriller, a plot that becomes absurd with too many characters and none of them with much depth.

Logan takes the wildly popular character of Wolverine and places him into a dusty, violent, fatalistic neo-western that is unlike any X-Men film — and in fact any superhero movie of this current era.

Freaky, supernatural and violent, each season brings us new characters with his troupe of players led by Jessica Lange.

While the unlikely pairing of these characters provides plenty of opportunities for humor, parents likely won't be prepared for the intensity of the violent portrayals found in this Disney - produced movie.

Aside from the outlandish financial security enjoyed by all of his characters, and the relentless stream of sentimental aphorisms, literary quotes and romantic declarations that constitutes their dialogue, it's laughable to suggest that a wedding party could ever respond to a sudden and violent downpour drenching both them and the cake quite as amicably as they do in «About Time.»

Despite the prejudice they have endured, or the violent way they may have responded, the character of Charles Xavier chooses to have hope for both humans and mutants.

Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), «one of the best and most important directors in the world» (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand - scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.

She blames herself for the loss of her parents, a bit of torment that provides Woodley with a chance to add psychological depth to a character who also struggles to contain her most violent impulses.

George, just out of jail after taking a fall for the Caine character, has virtually none of the social graces, dresses as though colour blind, and is prone to violent fits of temper, yet there's a sensitivity there, apparent in his increasing concern for Simone's welfare.

Character motivation and story drive the film forward — not a needless excess of violent, antisocial behavior.

[notification type =» star»] 98/100 — Drive is a masterpiece of vividly realized contradictions — a brilliantly stylized character study, a brutally violent love story, a slow - burning noir thriller of bright, neon - lit beauty.

He's working on something called «Seven Psychopaths», but all he has is a vague idea of a character and an ending that goes against the grain of Hollywood, without violent shootouts between cookie - cutter gangsters and thugs.

On one level, the film, written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Insidious), trots out a very familiar sort of action - hero origin story: Victimized by violent crime in a cyberpunk future, main character Grey Trace (Logan Marshall - Green) vows to hunt down the men who killed his wife.

All that's left is the action which, because there is nothing cohesive to attach it to, plays as an anthology of violent set - pieces connected by common characters instead of a series of high - octane conflict / resolution moments that advance a story.

Loud and very violent (within the limits of a PG - 13 rating), this supposedly gritty thriller strains so hard to be sleek and cool that it completely forgets to create believable characters or situations.Cops Jack and...

The title is a mixture of retro and modern graphics, adding in a first - person Hadoken mode and offering new characters Evil Ryu and Violent Ken.

Although the game is quite graphically very violent, it does balance this out with the strangeness of what your character can do.

As a game, perhaps there is enough fun to be had tinkering around with the «bullet time» - style of mechanics that packs an interesting and exhilarating violent punch to scenes where one gets to eviscerate a parade of bad guys before getting to the more challenging boss characters.

The three characters (and actors) at the heart of Husbands are possessed by eruptive, violent, impulsive, and raucous physical energy; they vociferate with frenetic, exuberant, uninhibited power; and they speak or sing or dance or leap or roughhouse in response to every scintilla of emotional fluctuation.