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He maintains law and order, because remember, there's no teacher around.
It just always maintains a certain angle to you, and if I move around with it, it'll actually follow me naturally.
What's really important here is that a solar cell has become a receiver for high-speed wireless signals encoded in light, while it maintains its primary function as an energy-harvesting device.
That maintains the body's metabolism, the series of reactions our cells perform to provide us with energy.
A typical cult requires a high level of commitment from its members and maintains a strict hierarchy, separating unsuspecting supporters and recruits from the inner workings.
We have it, and these species have it too, except one species has lost all function in that gene, and the other one maintains it.
If Bangladesh maintains its current rate of progress, it could get very close to that SDG target.
And what is the system that creates and maintains that situation?
At this point, anything can be created as long as it has the same energy and maintains a total charge of zero.
And then there is a remembering self, and the remembering self is the one that keeps score, and maintains the story of our life, and it's the one that the doctor approaches in asking the question, "How have you been feeling lately?" or "How was your trip to Albania?" or something like that.
This film struggles to keep it's audiences attention and never makes an impact or maintains a note of anything remotely interesting.
He maintains his passionate relationship with his first and true love, and ultimately gets entangled in his own romantic web.
And the fact that screenwriters don't break these rules maintains the integrity of the characters.
Director Jean-Claude Lord, who previously helmed the under-appreciated slasher psycho thriller "Visiting Hours," stages the plentiful action scenes with considerable verve and maintains a zippy pace throughout, thus ensuring that this flick sizes up as an enjoyably trashy sci-fi/horror action outing.
Director Kevin Conner, working from a blithely silly script by Milton Subotsky, maintains a constant brisk pace throughout and treats the exceptionally foolish premise with astonishing seriousness, thereby giving this picture a certain clunkily earnest quality that's amusing and endearing in equal measure.
Director Maurizo Lucidi relates the engrossing story at a steady pace and maintains a serious tone throughout.
Director Philip D'Antoni, the producer of "Bullet" and "The French Connection," ably creates a potent, gritty, starkly amoral no-nonsense tone, maintains a steady pace throughout and stages the action scenes with considerable rip-roaring vigor.
The set design is imaginative and troubling, the staging of scenes maintains your attention, while adding to your own sense of confusion and terror.
Yet at the heart of it all, each character maintains a streak of decency - moral conscience held up in spite of obvious contradictions.
It was powerful and affecting then and still maintains some sharp, painful moments of the soul stripped naked.
Director Ivan Reitman relates the amusingly off the wall comic vignettes at a ceaseless snappy pace and maintains an engagingly good-natured tone throughout.
Overall though, it is a tribute to the narrative strength of the film that the story maintains a strong and lively pace while still unfolding in its own time, and the film comes to a conclusion, natural and genuine, that nevertheless does not seem expected.
He maintains his trademark "befuddled" look throughout the film and hysterically, too.
(one thing to know is that IMDb maintains a ridiculous policy of a MINIMUM comment length based on, not CHARACTERS, not WORDS, but rather LINES.
With incredibly assured pacing and performances, this film maintains its funny/sad/insightful tone throughout.
Director Don Chaffey relates the endearingly dopey story at a constant brisk pace, maintains an amiably silly and lighthearted tone throughout, and stages the goofy slapstick gags with considerable flair.
While keeping the utmost control, he maintains the audience at arm's length, never allowing them to become completely aware of the goings on.
Sequels have a nasty habit of being disappointing, and the best credit I can give this is that it maintains that old tradition.
I mean she maintains zero interest, with zero believability.
Based on a very popular pair of TV movies featuring the Kolchak character, this series died a quick death in the mid-1970s due to low ratings, but it nevertheless maintains a strong cult following today.
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