Sentences with phrase «whose very character»

What's even more incredible is that PRISM extolls a piece of music written by a man whose very character PRISM would call into question because of his s3xual orientation - except PRISM is so ignorant he failed to educated himself sufficiently to know that Barber was openly gay.

Not exact matches

This limitation is by no means evident in terms of the ontological principle as we know it from Process and Reality, but it was very real in terms of the ontological principle Whitehead was then working with: «That every condition to which the process of becoming conforms in any particular instance has its reason in the character of some actual entity whose objectification is one of the components entering into the particular instance in question» (EWM 323f).

Plato, whose academy, Josef Pieper reminds us, regularly performed religious sacrifices, understood very well the integral relationship between virtue and knowledge, character and learning.

Called «All the Bridges Rusting,» it centered around a character whose job was to be a «newstaper» — he travelled with a video camera on his shoulder and produced and published television news stories in something very close to real time.

The past few days have resembled a very bad play whose mechanics are excruciatingly visible to the audience, in which every character reveals their own fatal weakness by calling out someone else for it.

In other words, picture this very large «hippie» character whose sole activity is walking up and down Main Street Sedona waving at cars.

Its so awesome with the protagonist being an antihero, whose very profession and character are flawed in the eyes of society.

Like «Entourage,» whose laughs often are found in its secondary characters, «How to Make It in America» boasts some irresistible ones, including... Martha Plimpton as Edie, the very funny interior - designer boss of Ben's ex-girlfriend Rachel (Lake Bell).

Bachchan, now 75, can afford to coast on his charms, as he does in «Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna,» where he plays an insatiable aging horndog whose very appearance prompts a theme song of «Sexy Sam, Sexy Sam» to start spontaneously playing (his character's name is Sam, by the way).

Players assume the roles of two very different characters: Azriel Odin, an ex-assassin searching for a defector from the Gemini system, and «Delta - Six,» a hospital inmate whose memory has been wiped by mysterious, Big Brother types.

To that end, we have three very strong contenders — in the lead is Jennifer Lawrence, whose character not only has a mild sex addiction, not only chases relentlessly after Bradley Cooper, but also spends much of the movie in a tight danskin top bouncing up and down joyfully.

Hopkins» character is even helped along by a senile robot named Cogman, an unapologetic C - 3PO ripoff whose very existence proves that Bay thinks nothing is sacred in his plundering of cinematic traditions.

A former superhero whose career has been defined by that one role isn't far from Keaton's own story, making Birdman a film that explores «truth» in the very way its characters wish to in their play.

Whereas the Heavy is your traditional tank type character whose attacks are very powerful but they are limited with their speed.

Egoyan, as expected, has peppered Adoration with relentlessly morose figures whose behavior and motivations often stretch the very limits of credibility, though the superb work of the various actors (Speedman, especially) inevitably proves effective in infusing the broadly - drawn characters with a small degree of authenticity.

While the same can't be said for Mirren, whose character could have been played more convincingly by a host of fine French actresses, she is very likeable in the role, speaking all of her lines in English with a regality and refined quality that has been her bread and butter for many a year.

In the trailer alone, you'll hear a «snap into a Slim Jim» joke, a «don't ask, don't tell» joke, Larry grunting «git - r - done,» and poor Trejo — whose character is named Carlos Santana — doing some (hopefully very lucrative) slumming.

As far as the details of the character are concerned, Mayhew is very different from Faulkner, whose experiences in Hollywood were not the same at all.

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.

They are, too, very much like Demy's characters, whose extremely personal emotional dilemmas often feel like they touch the heavens.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Showrunner and executive producer Scott Buck comments, «Black Bolt is a character whose deep complexity must be conveyed without uttering a single word, and I'm very excited to have Anson on board to bring him to life.»

But don't be mistaken — the film very much has Ford's steely and militant glamour, especially as it relates to Adams» character Susan, a gallerist and Los Angeles society type whose marriage is on the brink of collapse, and who interprets the manuscript of a violent novel by her first husband, Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal), as a metaphor for their own failed relationship.

But the real star is Franco, whose Alien is one of the very best characters of the year.

It's completely out of character for a filmmaker like Braff, whose first two features («Garden State» and «Wish I Was Here») were such deeply personal pieces of work that it's very surprising to see him slumming it as a director - for - hire.

Mother's Day (PG - 13 for profanity and suggestive material) Ensemble comedy revolving around a cornucopia of characters whose lives serendipitously intersect over the course of a very eventful week leading up to Mother's Day.

Norman lives up to its very long subtitle with a character study of a man whose only joy in life seems to be making valuable connections and wielding influence.

Instead of being the eye in the storm character whose very matter of fact he puts more work into things now.

And I'd like to single out Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run), one of my favorite German actors (also very good in The Baader Meinhof Complex) as one of the supporting characters whose role — unlike poor Vikander's — does add to the depth of the story.

However, for those who liked the cameo appearances and detective storyline from the first film, there's less to identity with in this sequel save for the personality of the main character, whose famous catchphrases and one - dimensional delivery become redundant very quickly.

As we hear from New York Times columnist James Reston, newsmen were «the principal characters in the drama, whose very presence is so ubiquitous that most of the time Mr. Khrushchev is addressing them, or addressing others with them in mind.»

A dart contest on a Thursday night in Garnet Lake, Idaho brings together five very different characters, whose fates are threaded together more closely than they realize.

Usually these women had spent their time — as I had, myself, until very recently — investing in a series of untenable characters, men whose inability to commit was as clear as the color of their eyes.

The banter between characters is consistently funny, and has a relatable quality that makes it appeal even to players whose circumstances might be very different.

The player character is a young mechanic by the name of Nick Ramos, whose talent for constructing something of great utility out of very little would make McGuyver blush.

The characters were not written very well, like the writers were worried about driving too much attention away from Ratchet, whose relationship with Clank felt rushed.

A long time ago (2011) in a galaxy far, far away (this very blog), we featured the art of John Karpinsky, a computer artist and Star Wars geek whose mashups of Star Wars characters done Day - of - the - Dead style caught our eye.

To summarise, initially compelling pictures whose character depends on a single year's worth of data and only if you use a very specific dataset are unlikely to be robust or provide much guidance for future projections.

When an entire issue has every appearance of looking like it's steered by emotionally - driven figurative lynch mobs whose goal is to achieve «climate justice» by any means possible, including negating facts from critics through character assassination, you have one very serious problem on your hands.