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Keith is supposedly hired on as a bodyguard, but his true purpose is never really explained.
It's the sort of movie that would be demeaned by having it's plot explained, like trying to explain Beethoven's Ninth symphony to a deaf person in sign language.
(Perhaps it was explained earlier in the film somehow?
If we's have to," explained the Executive Producer.
The whole phone line to hell deal is never really explained, and the film is so boring, we don't really want it explained, we just want it to end!
Why he is traveling with the band, or why Rogers is getting away with the phony royalty bit is never really explained.
It's never really explained why but there's lots of lapses in logic and stuff never explained in this garbage.
When I heard Daniel Stern speak at Lewis and Clark College in September, 2004, he explained that in the case of "Home Alone", everything was pretty ridiculous, but at least they only did it once; he affirmed that with the second one, they just repeated everything.
This is the most bizarre part of the movie as it might have explained what the hell was going on, but it just made it more confusing.
For reasons more fully explained in my posting for Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
The science is only hinted at and is explained away in a cursory fashion, it would have been more interesting to expand on the strange science theme instead of going for typical cheap scares which is what the movie devolves to in the conclusion.
There are a number of other people living in the house, but it isn't really explained what they're doing there.
Actions that seem like pure fantasy are explained with possible reality and give us a glimmer of hope for a fairy tale adventure in real life.
The origins of the Tall Man were explained wonderfully.
The natural interest rate was low because, as the Fed’s current chairman Ben Bernanke explained at the time, the world had a global savings glut (or, rather, a global investment deficiency).
In other words, as I explained at a recent panel organized by the Education Above All Foundation at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), attacks on education are quite literally attacks on our collective future.
ECB President Mario Draghi explained why in his introductory speech: The eurozone lacks both growth momentum and resilience to adverse shocks.
“People in this country have had enough of experts,” Gove testily explained, referring to “experts from organizations with acronyms, saying they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.”
SALZBURG – As war loomed over Kosovo ten years ago, Germany’s then foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, explained that the principle that had always governed his involvement in politics was: “Never again war; never again Auschwitz!”
Because women’s roles within ISIS are related mostly to reproduction and consolidating territory, Saltman was able to deduce the reason: “ISIS wasn’t just looking to have combat forces in Libya, but also to build statehood there,” she explained.
In a recent speech in Chicago, Irish President Michael D. Higgins explained how private debt became sovereign debt: “As a consequence of the need to borrow so as to finance current expenditure and, above all, as a result of the blanket guarantee extended to the main Irish banks’ assets and liabilities, Ireland’s general government debt increased from 25% of GDP in 2007 to 124% in 2013.”
Price stability during the 2000’s explained the low interest rates that supported strong growth.
But when we explained to China why this was necessary in order to recognize them, they balked.
The struggle for independence, he explained, was aimed at creating the kind of efficient administrative and economic structures that would enable Scotland to reach its potential.
This gap can be explained largely by students’ belief that a career in technology is not a viable option – a view that is particularly prevalent among women.
This disparity can be at least partly explained by its 43rd-place ranking for “connectedness” in terms of flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data and communications.
Patimat Suleimanova, the Tsarnaevs’ aunt in Dagestan, explained that her older nephew never prayed before he went to America at age 16.“He didn’t even know what Islam was,” she told CNN.
To be sure, this explosion of political extremism cannot be explained by economic distress alone.
But what if many of the abilities and dispositions in question are a product of history, capable of being understood and explained but not readily replicated?
(The WHO has never explained why these obvious examples do not meet their criteria.)
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