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She gives the proverbial Jane Wyman Performance, that of a prudish woman forced by circumstance into skirting grown-up female issues.
It is no extenuating circumstance that the rapist has proceeded with a certain finesse in cutting up and disposing of the body.
I've been 12 years old and I can't imagine that any 12 year old would get away with behaving like that in any circumstance.
The scene as it is stresses even more the sense of brutality and sadness of the circumstance, whilst respecting the audience and avoiding to spectacularize death.
I think the movie tried to portray Frank as a victim of circumstance where he tries to go straight but is pulled back into crime by the bad influences around him.
Andrea after suffering the killing of her father could not think in other thing but justice just like Bruce after she leaved him, then for an unknown circumstance, but the other difference is that Batman doesn't kill, the Phantasm does.
The best utility of this film is that it tells us that every human life is useful.It is the circumstance which forces people to lead a life of crime.
This is a true heartfelt movie that should not be missed under any circumstance.
But, as with all fables, it is the struggle that matters, not the circumstance, and what this movie shows is the very real struggle of all young men to find meaning in and a purpose for their lives.
I gave the movie a 2 because awful implies that it should never be watched under any circumstance.
This awareness may naturally take many forms in people of different character, social circumstance, cultures or civilizations, or different periods of time.
Thus, the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) could truthfully state that "the I of Man is immersed precisely in what is not himself, in the pure other that is his circumstance."
As a large power, China will have great weight in any circumstance, and it can reduce its self-inflicted damage by agreeing to a code of conduct.
Nomads have been victims of famine, violent conflict, and circumstance, accounting for a significant share of the deaths – as many as one million – caused by 22 years of civil war, and of the 260,000 Somalis who died of starvation in 2010-2012.
We can and must do this by forging bold climate and protective ocean agreements together – regardless of belief, circumstance, or status.
But it will not be long before people begin to notice that the main driver of that perception – that Germany’s economy continued to grow, while most other eurozone economies experienced a prolonged recession – represents an exceptional circumstance, one that will soon disappear.
So most economists came to view persistent unemployment as an extraordinary circumstance that arises only when things go terribly wrong, certainly not the normal state of market economies.
We always experience pain as a distressing thing happening in some part of the body, in some particular circumstance, and usually it has a particular meaning.
As for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is no new initiative or circumstance on the political horizon that could break the deadlock.
Sarkozy, of all people, should know that a large part of the gravitas of office derives from pomp and circumstance.
Such a person will be a dishonest leader, ideologue, or diplomat in any circumstance.
The election of Putin’s longtime acolyte and handpicked successor, Dmitri Medvedev, as Russia’s president means that Putin is formally surrendering all the pomp and circumstance of Kremlin power.
The only circumstance in which democracies sign up to such a deal is when a clear security interest is at stake.
Corruption – under any form or circumstance – is a cancer that cripples developed and developing economies alike.
In even the best-performing economies, such as Germany, growth since the 2008 crisis has been so slow that, in any other circumstance, it would be rated as dismal.
Our alliance of circumstance with these countries will not overcome all problems between them and us.
Or does it simply reflect the fact that the ECB now is reverting to its old policy of not commenting on exchange rates whatever the circumstance?
In his book The Signal and the Noise, the American statistician Nate Silver says that forecasters perform worst when faced with a circumstance that they have not encountered before.
This is such a circumstance.
It was only the unique circumstance in Europe and the US over the last half-century – most notably rapid demographic and productivity growth – that made his ideas seem plausible.
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