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In the beginning, Karen seems to be an average working-class girl living a rather simple life, without any ambitions or hidden potential.
These characters are very real; they have problems, ambitions and fears.
It is the story of two brothers living in Istanbul, with very different characters, world views, and ambitions.
The alien visitor, instead of interfering over Earth's nuclear ambitions, comes to out planet in order to stop us from destroying our environment.
Despite a fully thought-out performance from Davis (who won a Best Actress Oscar), this costume mini-epic never quite realizes its ambitions...and never seems completely satisfied with itself.
In a horror film, that should help the film accomplish its ambitions, but it really doesn't, it just draws attentions to its shortcomings.
As an example, if Marie has goals and ambitions, in spite of whatever feelings she may or may not feel for Loic, why would she commit suicide, particularly if she had already sent him from her life.
Any of my future ambitions was so much disappointing.
She plays a hooker with theatrical ambitions and he wants to be a writer.
I would no go as far as that, but Star in the Dust is a B western with higher ambitions that partially achieves them.
Mike Figgis' 'Miss Julie', an adaptation of a Strindberg play, tells the story of a relationship struggling in the face of class divisions, and protagonists torn between their obsessions and ambitions.
While seemingly limited in their ambitions, the main characters are nevertheless sympathetic and there are some quirky sidekicks whose characters are fleshed out enough to be entertaining as well - everyone from the landlady, the boss, to the friend who drives.
Lloyd Bridges gives an energetic performance as a greedy and cunning counterfeiter whose brains are not equal to his ambitions.
The main characters development is as I mentioned certainly not catholic, rather they discover to abandon the vain failure of self-sacrifice and Samaritan ambitions, and that to do real good you have to accept your own desires.
Always one step ahead of the law, McGonigle and Company arrive in a small town where they encounter Cleopatra Pepperday, a wealthy widow with acting ambitions (played by Jan Duggan, one of the funniest and most memorable of Fields's female foils) who bankrolls the struggling thespians in exchange for a part in the play; meanwhile, McGonigle's daughter (Judith Allen) is pursued romantically by a wealthy college student (Joe Morrison) and Fields gets the opportunity to show off his physical schtick with Duggan, Baby LeRoy and others.
We get to learn a bit more as to what drives Mulder and how Scully feels about Mulder's ambitions.
Final negotiations over North Korea's nuclear ambitions will undoubtedly need to take place between the US and Kim Jong Il.
The EU needs to tell Iran that unless it releases the British hostages and moderates its nuclear ambitions, it will receive no export guarantees.
In the coming election, Sri Lankan voters will effectively decide whether their country should kowtow to China’s regional ambitions or shape its own destiny by promoting an independent foreign policy and an open economy.
China’s willingness to demonstrate its new might is not confined to land; on the contrary, China’s maritime ambitions have no end in sight.
Moreover, Japan’s government has encouraged Chinese regional ambitions by embracing an anti-American attitude similar to the administration of South Korea’s former president, Roh Moo-hyun.
Nevertheless, Indonesian leaders’ primary concerns – and ambitions – lie in the country’s foreign relations.
Indeed, containing Iran while thwarting its nuclear ambitions is the single most urgent priority for today’s cash-strapped American superpower.
Singh’s second principle, often erroneously attributed to Wen, who subsequently repeated it on several occasions, is that “the world has enough space for the growth ambitions of both countries.”
With diplomacy having failed to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, critics of engagement charge, it is time to resort to coercion before Iran crosses the nuclear Rubicon.
Doing so would highlight the famous case of former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, whose political ambitions alone landed him in prison, and who has been declared, after a second trial, a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.
Aimed at helping the US to maintain its strategic primacy in the Asia-Pacific region, the policy has been quietly welcomed by most regional actors, as it dovetails with their desire to check China’s hegemonic ambitions in the region.
While personal ambitions certainly play a role in the tensions, what lies at the core is a fundamental conflict over Hamas’s character.
But their soft-power ambitions still face major obstacles.
In addition, at a time when the Chinese economy is slowing and regional tensions are rising because of China’s muscle flexing in the South and East China Seas, Xi seems eager to radiate peace-loving ambitions.
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