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The "Tree of Life", being the only thing worth seeing over there, would not be so isolated as to allow the princess to talk to, much less make out with, an unclean infidel.
Following the umpteenth painful collision with her mother, Heather is reluctantly sent to a boarding school for girls that lies isolated within a large forest.
It's here that the film's Dark Tone of Ominous Portent manifests- as one by one the various family members find themselves isolated and targeted by the denizens of the swamp.
He's persistent in his affections but Micol lives in an isolated world hidden behind the gates and her demeanor is very cold and malicious.
Showing us that it is not only a problem isolated to one country or one race of people.
He sees this as an opportunity to get the ultimate revenge against Nathan who he hates with an overwhelming passion, for taking Marni away, by targeting a 17 year old Shilo, who has been isolated from the outside world, yearning to experience what life is like away from the prison of her apartment.
The Canadian "Shivers" (original American release title "They Came From Within", aka "The Parasite Murders") opens with a slide show advertising a creepily perfect-sounding high-rise apartment building isolated on an island but just minutes away from downtown Montreal.
The major characters are isolated, one is tempted to say insulated, from humanity, and develop their own fiercely peculiar interactions.
Only an attractive and mysterious woman could possibly penetrate Kip's elaborate defense mechanisms, thus the middle section introduces a femme fatale to the isolated world of our hero.
Apparently, the producers and writers of this God-Awful show have not read any of them and seem to have no clue how life might really be like if a small town was isolated by a nuclear holocaust.
Through a detached atmosphere and an isolated French setting, Chabrol has created a movie seething with tension, and in a way that always allows the audience to fully take it in.
Under the Tsars, Russia was often isolated.
If it does not, it could find itself increasingly isolated and alone in a neighborhood where new powers have moved in.
Absent a Palestinian partner, and given continuing Palestinian terrorism - which Israel's harsh responses fail to quell - what Sharon appears to be doing now follows from his strategic-oriented thinking: set up an effective barrier, move some of the isolated and strategically untenable settlements, and wait for another day.
But the country now is isolated, which affects the whole fabric of stability in the region.
Was she prescient about the problems of European monetary union, or did she leave Britain isolated on the fringes of the continent?
Turkey – locked in conflict with Russia, estranged from Egypt and Iran, and pursuing policies on Syria, the Islamic State (ISIS), and the Kurds that clash with those of its NATO allies – has lately found itself increasingly isolated in a sea of chaos.
If pressed and isolated by Trump’s policy, however, will China become a disruptive free rider that pushes the world into a Kindleberger Trap?
These are not isolated albeit powerful individuals out of touch with reality.
Bhutan’s economy of agriculture and monastic life remained self-sufficient, poor, and isolated until recent decades, when a series of remarkable monarchs began to guide the country toward technological modernization (roads, power, modern health care, and education), international trade (notably with neighboring India), and political democracy.
Rural Americans, living on the vast plains, uprooted and isolated from the outside world, have a history of expressing their longing for community and mystical identity by gathering in large numbers in churches and tents, listening to the grand statements of charismatic hucksters.
The data revolution gives governments and businesses new and greatly improved ways to deliver services, fight corruption, cut red tape, and guarantee access in previously isolated places.
Rasheed is just turning 40, and his life reflects his country’s dramas: part of what has been called a “lost generation” of Iraqi artists and intellectuals, he and his friends were isolated for years by sanctions.
Even when non-Muslim white men launch explicitly terrorist attacks – for example, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who murdered 168 people in 1995, or the “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski – their offenses are typically regarded as isolated law-enforcement issues, not as terrorism.
Although an offshoot of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, whose Arab financial supporters loathe the Ayatollahs, Hamas decided to cooperate in Iran’s scheme because it was diplomatically isolated and cut off from Western funding due to its refusal to recognize Israel.
The ensuing damage for Germany and its international standing is plain to see: never has Germany been more isolated.
After all, a Japan that is isolated in Asia will be even more dependent on the US, the wartime victor, which Abe and his nationalist allies hold responsible for the postwar order that they seek to revise.
As long as protests remain local, however, they can be managed as isolated cases that won’t pose a broader challenge or spark a movement toward systemic change.
For starters, Qaddafi managed to unify a country that, since the Greek invasion in the seventh century BC, had been divided between a coastal strip linked to the larger Mediterranean basin and an isolated hinterland that even Benito Mussolini’s brutal regime could not secure.
If China really is distancing itself from North Korea, Kim Jong-un’s regime will be almost entirely isolated internationally.
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