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The lady is grateful, but rejects Mr. Fenton's more mannered advances.
It is truly a shame that a Turkish filmmaker can make a truly awful film with all the advances in modern technology, books about film-making and online film courses about Ingmar Bergman and Alfred Hitchcock.
Anyway, because of turning down a dwarf's advances the child is cursed to be possessed by the devil.
A very young and beautiful Mary Astor is a veiled woman who boards the ship and is a target of romantic advances by both men.
He loves his assistant Nanon, who through unexplained hang-ups of her own (she is repulsed by the touch of a man) rebuffs the advances of Malabar the circus strongman, instead preferring Alonzo.
This documentary is a history of cinematography, illustrating major advances and highlighting the work of major cinematographic innovators.
Eric Braeden is brilliant and matched action for action with the entire cast in low-key masterpiece about dangers of unchecked scientific advances.
This is a really well done movie that advances gradually toward a really "edge of your seat" ending.
Lydon's character becomes a little obsessed with Curtis wooing his mother and making disturbing advances toward his younger sister.
More than 80 years after its release, the first adaptation of "The Lost World" remains as one of the most influential silent films ever, due to Willis O'Brien pioneer advances in the field of special effects, as it showcases the first time stop motion animation was used to create creatures on a feature length film.
Sexual advances that her mother's current druggie boyfriend is making towards her bring it on.
The cast includes the fabulous Tallulah Bankhead as a bitchy photo-journalist, Hume Cronyn as kind-hearted man who finds love on the lifeboat, Canada Lee as a kind steward, Walter Slezak as a mysterious German, and John Hodiak who has to dodge Tallulah's nonstop advances.
I'm no expert in the world of trick photography, but still there has to have been some advances between "Attack of the Puppet People" and "Empire of the Ants."
Thrown in is possibly the worst bit of dialog I've seen since the Star Wars Prequels where for some reason Daniel goes on a ridiculous rant rejecting Claudia Black's character's sexual advances towards him.
Shot entirely using body cams and spy cams, the movie attempts to explore the horror of the increase in stalking due to the advances in and availability of technology.
Handsome lad takes a computer course and finds the male teacher making warm advances to him.
She is, however, engaged to be married to another, undivorced man, and the plot advances from here.
The spider woman spends time fending off the lecherous advances of her uncle, played by Eric Mason, whose acting style reminded me of William Shatner.
I enjoyed the early-70s touches (shag carpeting in the bathroom, 8-track cassettes) but realized that -- despite so many advances in gay rights over the years -- it could almost be re-made today and still make sense.
Speaking before the match between Lee and AlphaGo, he said that humanity would be the winner, whatever the outcome, because advances in AI will make every human being smarter, more capable, and “just better human beings.”
Both groups of countries achieved great advances in education, health, poverty reduction, and other human development indicators.
Probing the Productivity ParadoxWASHINGTON, DC – Over the last decade or so, productivity growth has slowed considerably in most major developed economies, even as impressive advances have been made in areas like computing, mobile telephony, and robotics.
All of these advances ostensibly should have boosted productivity; and yet, in the United States, a world leader in technological innovation, business-sector labor productivity growth in 2004-2014 averaged less than half the rate of the previous decade.
“Techno-optimists,” for their part, believe that ICT advances do have the potential to drive rapid productivity growth; their benefits are merely subject to lags and come in waves.
The term reflects a growing awareness that rapid developments in these fields offer the potential for great benefits, but that the knowledge, tools, and techniques that enable scientific advances also can be misused to cause deliberate harm.
The international scientific community has a key role to play in ensuring that efforts to manage the risks improve security and strengthen international collaboration to ensure non- maleficent use of scientific advances.
However, if the global trade framework institutionalised in the WTO advances, especially through multilateral, non-discriminatory liberalisation in the present Doha Round, the new regionalism will probably turn out to be benign.
On one hand, “growing material wealth and advances in science and technology” have enabled unprecedented rates of development.
This so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution is centered on advances in digital technology, including “labor-linking technologies” (which enable workers across continents to work together in real time) and, more recently, artificial intelligence and robotics.
These advances have enabled economic globalization, which, like the Industrial Revolution, has brought unprecedented progress, as Xi acknowledged, while generating new challenges, including rising inequality and worker vulnerability.
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