Sentences with phrase «without much character»

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The 34 - year - old ad sales manager leads a team of 13, and among them he is known for saying exactly what's on his mind, without filter — much like the Star Trek character that inspired his nickname.

Or maybe, he just put too much energy into building his reputation, without putting enough effort into considering his character.

however it wasn; t perfect, there was quite a lot of filler in this 12 episode season which I could have done without, characters which were really interesting and important in the last seasons are just not as much right now and can be quite annoying, breaking the flow of the emotionally heavy scenes in that very episode.

It's hard to say much about Aubrey Plaza's character on Legion without veering into spoilers.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

«39 The present writer has found great inspiration, much truth, wisdom, and beauty, fervent witness to the numinous character of ultimate reality in the great Hindu writings through the ages, and hopes to learn still more from them; but he can not agree with Radhakrishnan's conclusion that «Jesus» own testimony, philosophical truth and religious experience alike demand that He should be brought in line with the other great saints of God, who has not left himself without a witness in any clime or age.

As she describes it, «You can pretty much add, sub, or remove 10 percent of any ingredient without changing the character completely.

To be honest, I think it's a lovely idea for the traditional apple - and - honey element but it's otherwise not necessary because the cake has so much character and moisture without them, they're not going to be very noticeable.

Right now Oxlade is probably the biggest character we have of the outfield players — know what I mean without saying much?

And they were exposed to parents who were also narcicistic, or had character problems, and if we can get them in touch with their feelings about how they were raised, then sometimes the empathy can increase and that's a much more workable person to be intimate with, but without empathy, it's hard to really extend your trust to somebody because it's always the risk that even if they don't intend to hurt you, they will miss the signals that they are going to hurt you.

Because adolescence is the time when your tween goes from concept to concrete personality-wise, allow them to work out the nuances of their character traits under your supervision without too much push back.

They add so much character without being overly bold.

It depicts your whole character sometimes, so always be well dressed without caring that how much you're depressed.

For me it's the quickest way to add character and interest without clutter or too much colour.

I understand these exist to illustrate the character's insular, lonely existence, but they nearly exist in isolation; without much else to give the movie life, we're left with tedium.

While there's not much room for character development amid the chaos, the unsettling film is provocative without resorting to heavy - handed contrivances.

The problem I have with so much writing about screenwriting is that it is often only about structure (Syd Field's plot points; the Hero's Journey, etc) without a lot of understanding of the nuances of character, tone, et al involved.

Without giving too much away, the contrived nature of the story makes it a challenge to fully connect with these characters.

The valuable lessons go by without too much heartstring tugging, and you can enjoy watching the title characters, human and avian, cavorting in Popper's snow - filled Manhattan duplex.

Solo is as much the Kessel - running starship's origin story as it is the title character's, and without wanting to give away too many surprises, it's great to see how the Falcon looks before she is turned into a hyperspacing bucket of junk: all shimmering and white and with an escape pod neatly filling the gap between those two front prongs.

This game is pure genious, even has disgaea 3 characters as playable characters and has so much replay value to keep users playing for months and months without getting bored.

Love a game that challenges you enough without taxing you too much, nice story, good computer / character interaction.

In between the talking, we mostly see the characters wandering around their various locales without much sense of purpose.

I was befuddled by the sheer number of characters and the constant battling without much context eventually made me fall asleep.

The novel by Jason Matthews is cleaner, without so much jumping around between the two main characters.

I can't say much without many spoilers, but I will say: this season brings things nicely to a close but makes you miss these characters and the fine actors who play them all the more.

I appreciated very much hers old albums, but now she seems to me only a without character artist.

A well - acted, if not terribly well - crafted, character - driven drama without much in the way of a purpose.

I am frustrated by the lack of modern - or future - set films without strong female characters, but I'm aware that, historically speaking, women haven't been given much training in warfare or an equal share of about anything.

As much as Blanchett gives herself to the role of Hela, the character is yet another lackluster villain without interesting dialogue or a long - term purpose, a Monster of the Week.

Sure, it's to bridge a connection and unity between their opposing viewpoints so that Lyndon B. Johnson's staunch pushing of the Civil Rights Act feels in character for someone that previously toed the line of racism (he has a friendly association with an openly bigoted US Senator played by Richard Jenkins in a subplot without much engaging drama or consequence), but it also isn't a good enough defense for formulaic and conventional filmmaking.

Without giving away too much of the plot, the trailer hints at a mission masterminded by Woody Harrelson's Tobias Beckett, who recruits Solo, his trusted Chewbacca, Qi'Ra (Game of Thrones» Emilia Clarke), Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover) and a character played by Thandie Newton to join his crew.

It's just not a story that lends well to a dramatized presentation, and though the issues are important, they don't exactly make for an interesting plotline or for characters we enjoy following without a thematic underpinning to wrap it all around, much in the way that the mostly fictitious but highly watchable The Social Network does.

Without so much as a line of dialogue on the part of Winstead, Trachtenberg artfully presents the character and her circumstances (including a voice cameo from Bradley Cooper), bringing his protagonist to life out of mere screen direction.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Christoph Waltz — whom the whole film seems to have been built around — is excellent and he plays a charming character much like his stint in Inglourious Basterds but without the slightly negative Nazi connotations.

The one question that remains is why, after watching these characters for nearly eight hours of time over the course of three films, do we feel like every character is underwritten and without much dimension?

On the down side, most of the characters are one - dimensional stereotypes drawn without much affection (though all are more or less redeemed): Norman's shrill cheerleader sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick); dumb - jock Mitch (Casey Affleck), the older brother of Norman's one friend, nerdy, overweight Neil (Tucker Albrizzi); goth bully Alvin (Christopher Mintz - Plasse), an older version of Moe from «Calvin & Hobbes.»

As directed by John Cameron Mitchell, in a style much less outrageous than in his previous «Hedwig and the Angry Inch» and «Shortbus», «Rabbit Hole» is full of sentiment without being sentimental, it's not afraid to make its characters seem unsympathetic.

It's an interesting wish and she is pretty much prodded into the search by the dying writer, but the character admits she really could live without the knowledge.

Character designs are gritty and realistic, more so than their respective games have portrayed them; it's a twisted view of a usually family - friendly world, and this is achieved without altering the original designs too much, barring one or two minor exceptions.

And if someone can speak volumes in a glance or a gesture without saying a word — or if cinematographer Roger Deakins can suggest menace and moral ambiguity by letting the camera slowly creep - glide into a performer's personal space (what Villeneuve calls the visual equivalent of «putting pressure on your characters»)-- he'd much rather do that.

His desperation to smooth the choppiness of the story and format is palpable in the short - selling of the Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) character (and Aragorn's horse who, without much in - text warning, becomes a key character) and the desire to infuse heterosexual romance (with both Arwen and Miranda Otto's Eowyn) into Tolkien's sexually sterile universe.

However, without learning much about the supporting characters and knowing they aren't going to make it, it's hard to feel much for them outside of the basic connection between viewer and talented performer.

Its story holds precious few surprises and the title character ends this film as pretty much the same person he was when we met him at the beginning — without quite becoming the person Luke Skywalker and Obi - Wan Kenobi found and pulled out of a wretched hive of scum and villainy on Tatooine.

As much as Uncharted 4 is a love letter to fans of the series with repeated callbacks to events, characters, and relics from previous games, it doesn't rest on its laurels without building on that foundation and adding new elements to the series even as they are closing it out.

I was impressed by how much Radnor could convey just in facial expressions, without using words, which is ironic because his character is a writer.

Scenes of success blend with scenes of struggle, and while the relationship between Dewey and Greene and Greene's own discomfort with fame (capitulated to on his scheduled appearance on «The Tonight Show») keep things focused to a degree, the film becomes a string of events without as much connection to the characters.

Much ado was made regarding the use of photo realistic 3D animation, which is quite stunning, and even if the movie overall was a financial failure, it did succeed in at least one major breakthrough — it showed that movies can have realistic characters without the need for actors.

Ryan Reynolds has delivered some really good performances lately, although he's capable of so much more, while Ben Mendelsohn is without a doubt my favorite character actor working today.