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It would mess with the meerkats and the Kalahari's delicate way of life.
The non-rhetoric tone chosen for the story is Eastwood's true landmark (see also "A perfect world") and I found extremely touchy and delicate the scene where "Doc" finds the corpse of his mate Iggy brutally tortured, he lights up an electric torch but all we see is his own face looking at the dead man, not the corpse.
The movie delat with a delicate topic.
This delicate shipboard romance was a popular favorite in its time and it's not hard to see why.
Usually, Cinema is considered as the most delicate form of art because it has the biggest potential to become 'dated' one day.
Unfortunately, it is also a tricky act to pull off thanks in no small part to the delicate balance between the two disparate elements.
Society fails in that it is unable to prevent the original crime; and then again, in locking up those criminals in a world of squalor, drug abuse, and violence, ruled, in effect, by the criminal hierarchy whose delicate co-operation with the authorities is necessary to maintain any semblance of order.
Jury justice in a world that is so deeply cut in small antagonistic pieces does not work in any sensitive delicate case because of any kind of un-namable bias having to do with race, wealth, age, sex, sexual orientation, and any other parameter you may think of.
I find the conflict between faith and sexuality to be a very delicate and personal issue.
There he touched a delicate real life story and treated with the vigor of a vintage Costa Gavras.
It's a subtle, delicate, yet powerful film with a directing style that can best described as artfully unobtrusive.
two guys embark on a journey across the u.s. and find themselves in races all over the u.s. it is a loose love story, it shows how delicate and impermanent life is.
But Possessed is actually a riveting psychological drama about the delicate nature of emotions and how they are often abused or taken for granted.
She has at least 2 or 3 of the greatest lines ever uttered in the movies that will make you absolutely fall out with laughter (unless they offend your delicate sensibilities too much).
The Fanny Price of the novel is a delicate wallflower, intelligent and warm but extremely timid.
I have to admit I didn't watch the beginning of or even the middle of the movie, I'm glad I didn't for fears of what it would have done to my delicate psyche.
This film is a delicate and thoughtful celebration of life, not only because of the beautiful rendering of family-life in its highs and lows but also because of the uplifting message director Van De Sande Bakhuysen leaves with his audience.
Since assuming power after Mubarak’s fall, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), led by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, a defense minister for two decades under Mubarak, has consistently undermined the delicate work of democratic transition.
Yet America demands that it should be left alone to put back on track the delicate Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in jeopardy since the assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Israeli right's return to power in Jerusalem.
The case for doing so can best be shown by Britain, where the situation is particularly delicate.
At such a delicate time internally, China would gain nothing from antagonizing the US.
Given the precision required to operate on an organ as delicate as the brain, the convergence of mechanical technologies with the art of surgery catalyzed progress in the field.
Moreover, as was true in Poland, Burma’s opposition leaders must strike a delicate balance: satisfy their impatient supporters (many of whom have suffered mightily under the old regime), while offering those still in power the prospect of a worthwhile future.
If no agreement on the last remaining issues is achieved, escalation will ensue: the Palestinians may declare independence unilaterally;Israel may retaliate; the delicate balance of Oslo may unravel.
But another wave of global liquidity, prompted perhaps by a third round of quantitative easing in the United States, could upset this delicate equilibrium.
Undertaken by politicians, an audit might be viewed as an opportunity to score political points or steer policy in self-serving directions, with delicate information leaked in order to pressure policymakers.
China’s adventurism and its blithe assumption that it can deal with any international dictator it wishes and disturb the delicate military balance in outer space is emblematic of something sinister and dangerous.
The military’s high and positive profile seems to suggest that it is the only institution left in a tottering state that seems able to stabilize a delicate situation.
In the end, the next decade will be marked by a delicate balance in which Europe remains dependent on Russian gas, but Russia’s need for export revenues will also make it dependent on Europe.
Sharply raising the government’s already outsized profile in the economy will upset this delicate balance leading to slower growth in the future.
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