Sentences with phrase «without real characters»

The tracks are pretty generic without any real character to them.

Not exact matches

Characters and images move within and without his range in a perplexing manner; no real system is present in his work.

It's a statement about the interplay between our own emotional stability and how social media can set it reeling, and Plaza's performance anchors the whole thing, making Ingrid a sympathetic character without glossing over her very real issues.

General potentiality comprises the infinite number of ways that the eternal objects may be related to one another without regard to any specific historical entity, while real potentiality is that portion of general potentiality which is open to a specific historical entity, given the character of the actual world defined by its specific spatiotemporal locus.

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.

Dahl then zeroed in on television coverage: «Voters are asked to make judgments about the character of the candidates — without real discussion, with advertising and sound bites that trivialize their differences and give limited and prejudicial information.

Saint Nicholas of Myra in Lycia (c. 270 - 343) was a real person who is now mythologized into Santa Claus, an obese old man who miraculously keeps track of the moral character of children, travels around the Earth on a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer, visits millions of houses in one night without opening any door or window, and leaves presents for millions of children.

without strength of character it's impossible to stay at Real Madrid.

Firstly, Chris Evans took a character who could have easily become a caricature and made him real and relatable by imbuing his interactions with earnestness, integrity and bravery without making the end result appear cheesy or cynical.

But it's worse that Peter Rabbit wants to invoke the real Potter without acknowledging what an amazing, accomplished woman she was, someone well ahead of her time as a scientist and a conservationist, a self - publisher of her first book, and a pioneer of character merchandising who started selling licensed Peter Rabbit dolls in 1903.

Season 2 was more subtle and was a good examination of conflict tearing people apart, the characters were developing and were interesting, they have now turned into soundbite gimps, the creators have severely erred in trying to reconcile a fictional conflicts of a biker gang with a real world conflict of the IRA without any attempt to create even an iota a sense of realism or use skillful tact, (its difficult to see how a biker gang could make such in roads to the IRA when whole arms of government have tried and failed) The outcome of which is to turn a decent and interesting show into farce.

Conceding to formula so easily, without resistance or hesitation, has the effect of halting any real character development; the characters begin as the supposed epitome of bad taste and tough talking, and stay that stand - offish ad nauseum.

Cody's gift is for characters who do and say the unexpected while remaining real, but without Colette, it's easy to imagine Tara as a train wreck, or, worse, an acting exercise.

It has been argued that Jackson's performances in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown served to sanction his writer - director's fetishizing of certain stereotypes pertaining to African - American movie characters — and also his co-opting of subcultural postures and attitudes well beyond his real - life experiences (if not, it goes without saying, his VHS collection).

Despite some very fine performances, the characters aren't supposed to be particularly deep, serving their function without a sense of real history or future, existing for the here and now as the story necessitates.

Helen Mirren, taking a paycheck role but incapable of slumming (or, at least, incapable of doing so without giving it her all), plays the real - life historical character Sarah Winchester, the turn - of - the - century California widow whose late husband, William Wirt Winchester, left her a 50 percent stake in the Winchester Repeating Arms Co..

I had intention to skip this follow - up as well, but I ended up seeing it on a fluke chance, and given that the only real correlation between the two movies is the main character, I figured I could just pick it up without needing to complete the experience of its predecessor.

Most people don't play with orbs but why do all that work if not to use them.My answer this game isn't to its potential without them i have had battles with orbs that are so intense and face paced it makes the game seem like it was made for showing what a real saint fight would look like.Until you really dive in and master a character you don't know what you are missing.This game is a hidden gem and it is my top anime fighter.

His black and white debut «The Town» is a real toughie, containing less of a story and more of a collection of moments — but without the presence of a narrative, Ceylan is free to discover and exhibit universal beauty that isn't dependent on deep characters or drama.

April Wolfe writes for the Village Voice: «[Director Martin] McDonagh painstakingly humanises a character who we find has unapologetically tortured a black man in police custody... and then Three Billboards seems to ask audiences to forgive and forget wrongs like police violence, domestic abuse, and sexual assault without demonstrating a full understanding of the centuries - long toll these crimes have taken on victims in real life.»

Given the reins, Hemingway did what he does best: create a cast of actors who embody the real - life characters without overtaking the story with their own celebrity.

It is simply a cool action movie and while the movie is not without its faults (I particularly missed the architectural fetishism of the Tim Burton movies and some fight scenes are shot up real close so that you can't always see just what the heck is happening) it is like seeing your favourite comic book title being written and drawn by some guys with an understanding of the character involved for a change after seeing it being ruined by some talentless hacks.

This is the reason that we decided to make the playerâ $ ™ s character an avatar without a real personality.

Jolie plays Christine Collins, a character based on a real - life woman of the same name whose nine - year - old son, Walter Collins, went missing without explanation in 1928.

Think «Blue Crush» without water — or awesome surfing footage, likable characters with real personalities, beautiful girls in bikinis or anything else worth watching — and I guarantee whatever you have in mind is still better than «Grind.»

Without any real stake in the story or the characters, it's just a lot of vague noise and action distraction, an Erector Set Apocalypse that tries to dazzle audiences but merely pummels them into submission.

Think «Blue Crush» without water — or awesome surfing footage, likable characters with real personalities,...

The idea of students trapped in an auditorium after dark and chased by vengeful spirits isn't without promise, but rookie directors Travis Cluff and Chris Lofing show no facility for the kind of plausibly claustrophobic camera setups that make Paranormal Activity (or its sequels) so visually compelling; it also doesn't help that their cast of fresh - faced young actors (all playing characters under their real names) never quite inhabit the supposedly pants - wetting terror of their situation.

It's hard ignore the sobering parallels between these colorful characters who are being persecuted by those who didn't take the time to understand them, and the real - life individuals in this country who may, sadly, suffer a similar fate without steadfast protectors like Newt.

«McDonagh painstakingly humanizes a character who we find has unapologetically tortured a black man in police custody... and then Three Billboards seems to ask audiences to forgive and forget wrongs like police violence, domestic abuse, and sexual assault without demonstrating a full understanding of the centuries - long toll these crimes have taken on victims in real life,» April Wolfe wrote at the Village Voice.

Without giving any real story elements away I can say that you play as John Martson who at first glance may not seem like that interesting of a character, but wow does he have depth even more so then Niko in GTAIV.

Instead of really delving into Bulger's character and showing his rise and fall, Black Mass features scene after scene of him doing crazy things without any real need to.

The Bechdel Test may measure the female presence in a film, but in truth, it can't do anything to increase it without others taking action and working to assure that more films find a place for real female characters.

It's a play for the high and the low, in other words, a movie where a pissing dog is the only character that grows as a person — where the final message of the film are the shockers that there's a difference between men and gods and that real decisions can't actually be made without God (contradicting the picture's God directly, as it happens).

This is a game which features a huge range of unlockable content including characters, relics, runes and tough achievements — none of which can be accessed without real commitment from players.

Sadly, those playing through the game without doing any real exploration of the Felton mansion will end up missing a lot, as most of the backstory and additional details on characters and events are told through optional documents, photos, and collectibles.

The country's vibrant colors and life are affectionately captured by director of photography Seamus McGarvey (whose stunning cinematography alone makes the film worthy of a cinema release), with the work of production designer Johnny Breedt and art director Vivienne Gray further giving the place and community a character and pulse of its own: warm and inviting, often funny and friendly, but also not without real danger lurking on the fringes and beneath the surface.

I would write stories without much thought to if the plot worked or not, if the characters were real or not, if the world made sense or not.

Fiction readers arrive generous with their time but expect a world rich and complex enough to inhabit and a cast of characters who seem real and recognisable without being too familiar.

For good reason: Gyasi, who was born in Ghana but grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, manages to deal with heavy themes like race and identity without sentimentality, creating characters that are flawed and real as she brings history to life.

I exclude new genres of digital content that can not be reduced to printed form without losing much of the essential content or character of the work (though this is where many of the real long - term revolutions may lie, and some of the most fascinating developments are to be found; for elaboration, see Peter Brantley's article in American Libraries» June 2013 Digital Supplement).

He draws the minor characters as idiosyncratic without sacrificing authenticity; each one seems to be a real - life (if somewhat peculiar) individual that readers could well have met.

Her books managed to be dramatic and compelling without being salacious or soapy; her characters handled their real - life problems in realistic ways.

They can not know what the characters (real people) were thinking or feeling, so they can not dip into the character's inner life without letters or diary entries.

The goal is to find a recipe that mix pure action with a strong story and a progression system that will give to the player a real feeling of character improvement without beginning as a powerless guy.

The characters handle well, get into cover without any real issue and the shooting feels chunky and satisfying.

The characters themselves seem fluid in their animations, and the game goes along at a fair lick without any real problems.

The two limitations were previously a lack of higher resolution to characters, something that is no longer a problem thanks to the 3DS» improved graphics, and a lack of real solid controls without a control stick, now a moot point due to the thumb stick controls.

Capcom has previously revealed players can unlock DLC characters without spending real - world money, and today we received more information on how this will work.

I consider it a real revival of what made the series great: classic RPG gameplay, interesting characters and story, but without the long winded tedium that was a hallmark of some of the Super Famicom games and was especially notable in Dragon Warrior VII.