Sentences with phrase «whose first act»

It's a tough task to center a film around a group of young kids whose first act is robbing an innocent young woman and expect your audience to identify with them throughout the rest of the film, but Attack the Block absolutely succeeds.

«This was the immigrant boy whose first act in Britain was to discard his name Adolphe because of its associations with Hitler, and become Ralph, and who helped his father earn a living rescuing furniture from bombed houses in the Blitz.»

On hand for Petty's milestone ride last Sunday was Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, whose first act upon returning from World War II, it is said, was to load his family into the car and take them all down to watch the Daytona 500.

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One of the very first acts of business between two of the most powerful people on Earth — a duo whose to - do list involves addressing pretty fundamental disagreements on, among other things, the trade relationship that supports both economies — was to commit, publicly and unequivocally, to tackling an issue that affects literally half of each of their constituencies.

One of Mr. Jean's first acts as leader was to dismiss Calgary - South East candidate Bill Jarvis, whose comments about «brown people» embarrassed the party on the night of its leadership announcement.

One of Congress's first acts this year was to extend unemployment benefits for those whose job loss last year pushed up the unemployment rate.

The function proper to the first organ is that of receiving [percevoir] each particular impression, of attaching signs to it, of combining the different impressions, of comparing them with each other, of drawing from them judgments and resolves; just as the function of the other organ is to act upon the nutritive substances whose presence excites it, to dissolve them, and to assimilate their juices to our nature.

A leering old villain in a frock, who spent decades conspiring behind closed doors for the position he now holds; a man who believes he is infallible and acts the part; a man whose preaching of scientific falsehood is responsible for the deaths of countless AIDS victims in Africa; a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence: in short, exactly the right man for the job.

The encyclical would have us consider first the journey already charted by the faith of Abraham and Moses: how the believer has been called out of prehistoric notions of a god of this or that place or season into the truly personal response («I» - «Thou») to a Word whose divine utterance both precedes us and calls us forth to journey towards a horizon which the Word himself illuminates and for which the Word himself acts as guarantor.

However Palace failed to pressure the new boy whose only act in low - key ending to the first period was a good low save to deny Townsend.

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RIP Edith Windsor, the gay - rights activist whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same - sex married couples federal recognition for the first time and rights to myriad federal benefits, who died today in Manhattan at the age of 88.

McCray, whose work as first lady has focused on mental health, called for preservation of the Affordable Care Act.

The NYS Senate's annual Woman of Distinction Awards were first presented in 1998 to New York women who exemplify personal excellence, or whose professional achievements or acts of courage, selflessness, integrity or perseverance serve as an example to all New Yorkers.

LATFOR must first follow federal law which requires adherence to the Voting Rights Act and the creation of state legislative districts whose populations are within 5 percent of the average size district.

These provisions come from an act that Baldwin, whose grandfather was an NIH - funded scientist at the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison, first introduced to the Senate in September 2013.

To illustrate, this talk will focus on infants» knowledge of objects, agents, and social beings, and on two new systems of concepts that emerge quite suddenly at the end of the first year: concepts of objects as kinds whose forms afford specific functions for action, and concepts of people as social agents whose mental states are shareable experiences of the things they act upon.

This led to her first commercial as a dancer and she started taking acting lessons at the Piven Theater Workshop, whose alumni include John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Lili Taylor, and Aidan Quinn.

Though dark hued, particularly in the first two acts, «The Fighter» is, I'm sure, a much breezier film because of Russell, whose specialty is generating humor from darkness, death, and dysfunction as in the bitterly comic «Three Kings,» «I Heart Huckabees,» and «Flirting with Disaster.»

For audience members whose knowledge of modern Middle Eastern history could stand some brushing up, the first act's portrait of Satrapi's early family life will contain a number of revelations.

Plays like a series of well - done but disconnected acting - class sketches, filled with a huge cast of first - rate actors whose careers have all gone into decline.

We indirectly learn the reason from Professor Norman (Morgan Freeman), a neuroscientist whose lecture is intercut throughout the first act (It is, in turn, intercut with montages visualizing what his key points).

Bassett, whose recent Solomon Kane suggested a director working in the hyperkinetic Paul W.S. Anderson mold, is clearly a poor fit for material that ought to be more contemplative than frenzied, and his flair is accordingly directed toward showy last - act set pieces and more blockbuster action with a capital A. Revelation trades the moody, satisfying first act of Silent Hill for one overloaded with talky exposition, and then goes on to trade its loud, cacophonous mess of a last act into an even more obtuse celebration of splatter and special effects.

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

Ernst may be falling apart, but Hawke's measured, anguished acting holds First Reformed together, and it has to, because Schrader, whose age and semi-exile from the studios have combined into a true give - no - fucks mandate, goes hard in the home stretch.

At first it seems like she's just a regular person laid low by a bad break up, but she quickly begins acting in totally insane ways, and then it seems like maybe Martha is just a crazy person whose friends humor her obvious mania for reasons unknown.

It's hard to recall when the repellant term «fan service» was first deployed as a way to describe the act of bowing down to the demands of the brand elite — those whose judgement of a product might be deemed the most harsh and, thus, the most important.

The first friend he makes is Fozzie Bear, whose stage act at the aptly - named bar El Sleazo, of course, has its patrons in a dissatisfied rage.

But Michôd also sandbags himself with a charisma - free hero, whose most dramatic act in the first two - thirds of the film is scraping the burned bits off his toast.

«And if men are there, they disrupt whatever's happening,» adds Gerwig, whose acting oeuvre thus far is filled with roles that depict a truly layered feminine experience, from drifting - apart friendships to sisterly bonds to hairbrained alliances (in Maggie's Plan, she plays a college professor's second wife who secretly teams up with his first wife in a mischievous scheme to sway his affections).

The first two acts of The Maze Runner play out exactly as you'd expect them to, with all of the various details and requisite dynamics sketched in through the thin characterizations of the group's leader Alby (Aml Ameen, who along with Sangster are the only actors who manage to escape this unscathed), the rote and relentlessly irritating (for no reason other than drama) group villain Gally (Will Poulter, whose acclaim and popularity continues to baffle me as he turns in another dreadful performance), the trite cliche of the young innocent Chuck (Blake Cooper) and so on.

After thanking son Pedro and director husband Joel Coen, whose 1996 «Fargo» was the source of her first lead acting Oscar, she placed her statuette on the stage and asked all the female nominees in every category to stand.

Though I thought the actor - dominated Academy might be more inclined to support Sally Field, whose return to cinema prominence is a nice surprise for someone who's acted for nearly 50 years, there's virtually no chance Hathaway doesn't come away with her first Oscar.

The film's first act is set before the events of Snow White and shows the conflict between Theron's Ravenna and her sister Freya, played by Blunt, whose daughter and lover are mysteriously killed.

Though the operatic dissonant relationship between Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe's Javert does prove to be compelling opera as it weaves throughout the rest of the story, the film's second act focus on the story of rich pretty boy Marius (Eddie Redmayne, whose singing voice is 45 percent Kermit the Frog) falling for Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) at first sight doesn't register nearly the same amount of urgency, feeling like a silly problem that doesn't fit into the story's near - apocalyptic presentation of revolutionary France.

Despite his conservations with Victoria over headsets, it's a solitary existence, especially given that his heart remains with some half - remembered woman, and director Joseph Kosinski (whose graphic novel was adapted by himself, Karl Gajdusek, and Michael Arndt) revels in that solitude in between the first act's requisite action sequences.

Interspersed with Ariel's story are the nineteenth - century journal entries from one of the founding members of the Alex division and his first experiments in «de-extinction,» and the bizarre narrative of the crazily unraveling Lenny, one of the first biodrones, whose hallucinations lead him to commit grotesque acts.

Amazon is known for acting first and putting the burden of proof on those whose books (or reviews) have been removed.

And the headline acts weren't for jazz snobs: Norah Jones played on the first night, and I arrived in time to catch Ben l'Oncle Soul, a millennial - age French phenom whose breakout hit «Soulman» evokes mid -»60s R&B.

Whistler, whose work opened the doors to abstract painting, was also the first artist to use the exhibition space as an additional means of artistic expression as well as to intentionally act so to arise attention on his work such as in 1883, when he used art critics» harsh comments on his work as captions for etchings at an exhibition.

BRIC Arts Media Bklyn is proud to announce the first show of its 2012 - 13 contemporary art exhibition season, which focuses on artists chosen from BRIC's online Contemporary Artist Registry, whose three - dimensional works act to transform and activate the physical space around them.

This form (known as «art corporel» in France) is exemplified by the Serbian artist Marina Abramovic (b. 1946), whose most famous performance - «Rhythm 0», first performed in 1974 - involved her passively enduring a range of acts performed upon her by the audience, whose members cut her, pricked her with thorns, tickled her with feathers, took off her clothes and even pressed a loaded gun to her head.

Neil acted for the family of Frances Cappuccini, whose death led to the first prosecution of a health trust for corporate manslaughter.

«(1)[Subject to subsection (1A) below,] In sections 11 and 12 of this Act references to a person's date of knowledge are references to the date on which he first had knowledge of the following facts --(a) that the injury in question was significant... (2) For the purposes of this section an injury is significant if the person whose date of knowledge is in question would reasonably have considered it sufficiently serious to justify his instituting proceedings for damages against a defendant who did not dispute liability and was able to satisfy a judgment.

Norm Pattis wonders whether the case of Librarian George Christian — whose treatment by the FBI violated his First Amendment rights, according to United States District Court Judge Janet Hall — will lead to additional hearings about The Patriot Act.

Despite subsection (1.2), if the Minister is of the opinion that a WPPT country does not grant a right to remuneration, similar in scope and duration to that provided by subsection 19 (1.2), for the performance in public or the communication to the public of a sound recording whose maker, at the date of its first fixation, was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2 (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if a corporation, had its headquarters in Canada, the Minister may, by a statement published in the Canada Gazette, limit the scope and duration of the protection for sound recordings whose first fixation is done by a maker who is a citizen or permanent resident of that country or, if a corporation, has its headquarters in that country.

Despite subsection (1.1), if the Minister is of the opinion that a Rome Convention country does not grant a right to remuneration, similar in scope and duration to that provided by subsection 19 (1.1), for the performance in public or the communication to the public of a sound recording whose maker, at the date of its first fixation, was a Canadian citizen or permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2 (1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or, if a corporation, had its headquarters in Canada, the Minister may, by a statement published in the Canada Gazette, limit the scope and duration of the protection for sound recordings whose first fixation is done by a maker who is a citizen or permanent resident of that country or, if a corporation, has its headquarters in that country.

However, in my view, the issue of whether Part 7 benefits constitute monetary compensation paid by or on behalf of a person whose acts are alleged to have caused the disability is a question of law requiring consideration of the legal distinction between first - party no - fault insurance benefits and tort damages.

The first thing I noticed is that the tragic demonstration of the raw lobbying power of Big Tech: The litigation reach back safe harbor seems to still be in there which is designed to deny due process and other Constitutional protections to songwriters whose works are infringed prior to the enactment of the Music Modernization Act.

While our first act must be to provide for the care and assistance of those whose lives were shattered, we must also take swift action to prevent this from happening again.