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So, as movie characters who are about to have their funding cutoff are prone to do, he makes the ultimate sacrifice and becomes a guinea pig for the invisibilation (yeah, I know, I used that non-word again) process.
But in a biblical subject script, usually a sub-genre prone to illogical motivations and miraculous interventions, everything would ultimately depend on the author's skills.
He is also homosexual and Catholic prone to Catholic guilt and something of a clairvoyant, or so it seems.
Aragorns alter ego is yet another accident prone idiot who tries to fix his broken sword ("Ulrike" the legend) with scotch tape.
In Bollywood when a movie is put together the first thing a Bollywood Director is prone to do is sign up a music director and this guy (mediocre Malik in this instance)is obligated to drum up six songs to fulfill his contract.
Anyone with some knowledge of the TV industry (or any area of the media) know that executives everywhere are prone to dumbing down products that could have been amazing.
Cooper might be cute as the disaster prone little troublemaker, and the sequence where he tries to wash a car with candy floss mix instead of pink soap was amusing, but young Steiger is like the four-eyed equivalent of Annie, i.e. irritating, and it is a dull story, unfunny and just an overall boring family comedy.
He lacks Lugosi's old world charm, but makes up for it in bulk, drawing nicely on the natural arrogance that some big men are prone to, his vampire is a baleful figure, often prone to violence.
Instead, we are left with the juvenile antics of a group of drunken cops prone to sexual deviance and a disregard for the public, without the public knowing why.
The film maintains interest, even if the main character is too prone to making lengthy theatrical speeches.
The boy promptly goes to school and tells everyone he comes into contact with what he saw, but since he's prone to exaggeration and tall tales nobody believes him.
I consider it to be among the worst zombie film that I've ever seen and trust me if you've read my other reviews you'll know I'm not prone to mindless hyperbole.
My Dad was sixty, at the time, and not prone to liking many movies.
Similarly Jennifer Ehle excellently portrays Lizzie, showing her to be tender, witty, thoughtful, occasionally prone to strong judgments without all the information, yet trying to grapple with different feelings as her involvement with Darcy, et al., progresses.
Hubristic presidents contemplating Churchill’s bust in their office are prone to believe that they have been called upon to be “war presidents” – that they, like Churchill in 1940, must oppose the next Hitler.
The bulk of claims for the subsidy come from northern Italy, which is usually considered less prone to tax evasion to begin with.
First, capitalism is prone to disasters.
Babies who have lower birth weights, for example, are more prone to chronic illnesses later in life.
One possibility is that the same factors that are making entrepreneurs over-cautious about new ventures are making policymakers prone to conservatism.
The problem, as Joseph Schumpeter understood, is that even if markets often do “work” the way they are supposed to, they are also highly disruptive and prone to periodic breakdowns.
For fear of empowering the “protectionist barbarians,” trade economists are prone to exaggerate the benefits of trade and downplay its distributional and other costs.
All three countries remain fragile, divided, and, as the current crisis highlights, uniquely prone to shocks.
Overnight, Warangal was converted to a cotton-growing district based on non-renewable hybrids that require irrigation and are prone to pest attacks.
For example, she is calling for a small tax targeting certain kinds of high-frequency trading prone to abuse.
It suffers from a climate prone to massive droughts and from soils depleted of nutrients.
That help is needed, because Ethiopians are prone to malnutrition, disease, and natural calamity.
This trend began in the late 1980s, with PhDs and researchers who could not find a place at local universities, which are hierarchically controlled, prone to corruption, and starved of funding.
What should monetary policymakers do when regulators are prone to falling down on the job?
Democracies such as India may seem at times to move too slowly and be prone to paralysis.
Second, we thought that the depositors prone to panic would always be small depositors – households and small firms – rather than corporations or professional investors.
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