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He tends towards the dreaded (and very modern) "uptalk" which turns normal statements into seeming questions, as in, "My name's Foyle?
It even tends to draw on some elements from JCVD's LIONHEART.
Sellers is reasonably good, though he tends to rely too much on the vocal tics that were his Achilles heel throughout his career.
In fact a poet could be more effective in that direction than a historian who is paid for his work and tends to follow the trend of whoever pays him, be they publishers or politicians, or committed associations on one side or the other of the many rivers that run through historical time.
"Possessed" (1947) is one of Joan Crawford's last great outings as the grand dame of Warner Brothers, in a film so deeply disturbing that even today it tends to hold an audience spellbound in its neurotic tension.
It seems to me that, when contemporary filmmakers try to present an "honest" depiction of the Glaswegian he tends to go for the "gritty realism" of the drunk or the druggie or the wife beating hard-man!
Because he's frustrated and in a position of absolute power, and power tends to corrupt, doesn't it?
There's the exploited lake girl (also a whore) who tends the pontoon huts in The Isle, miles from civilisation, and the murderer who seeks his hideout on the water.
Woody Allen tends to rehash his movies a lot, and when he every so often makes a movie that departs from his usual formula, I'm doubly pleased.
As such, the treatment of weddings within mainstream film tends to take on a somewhat birfucated approach, either challenging and questioning the reality of such a romanticized social construction, or relishing in the fun and overt sentiment of the sort of wedding everyone has been taught to yearn for.
There are references in the film about TGTBTU, Django, Fistful, Once Upon a Time in the West,My Darling Clementine(Shakespeare) but the one that touched me the most was about "Duel in the Sun", a film that tends to be neglected nowadays.
Yes the characters also use weapons, and cars that the every day consumer tends to drive.
The directing is quit poor as well as it tends to jump from one part to another leaving the audience unsure about what is happening while the funny exaggerations of actor's powers are quit overwhelming.
It is also why the rare enforcement of human rights law that we do see tends to conform to the enforcing nation's political interests.
During a boom capital flows from the center to the periphery; when confidence is shaken it tends to return to its source.
Capital tends to avoid countries where employment is heavily taxed or heavily protected, leading to a rise in unemployment.
These countries’ need to establish policy credibility tends to be more acute, whether as a result of histories of high inflation, an absence of credible institutions, or political pressure to monetize budget deficits.
Rent-seeking tends to lead to policy failure in the form of intense political competition aimed at gaining short-term access to revenues and benefits, as opposed to political competition over what policies might be in the long-term public interest.
Trump tends to express himself in terms of national interests, sovereignty, military capacities, and economic supremacy.
But it does come, and once a policy consensus has been established, it tends to be durable.
While periodic bubbles may be unavoidable, and no bubble is without consequences, a highly leveraged bubble tends to cause far more damage, owing to its impact on the real economy and the duration of the deleveraging process.
But, as Harvard economist Dani Rodrik pointed outat the launch event, the way someone answers it tends to say more about them than about the Chinese economy.
The notion used to be frowned upon because any warring party tends to view its own cause as just.
Given that wealthy people have a higher propensity to save, increased inequality tends to produce sluggish demand growth – unless, that is, the savings of the wealthy are lent to the poor.
But, unfortunately, the Brexit debate tends to bring out EU elites’ worst instincts, not least because it encourages them to fight for the status quo, rather than for reform and innovation.
Democracy, in their view, leads to disorder; freedom of thought causes popular “confusion”; and public criticism of the Party tends toward the breakdown of authority.
Codependency deepens as partner feedback tends to grow in importance and self-confidence steadily diminishes as a result.
The International Monetary Fund, which tends to adopt a conservative posture on such matters (not least to avoid antagonizing powerful governments), estimates that 15% of Chinese loans to nonfinancial corporations are at risk.
By contrast, the innovation supply chain (the process by which companies obtain and/or develop future products and improve on their current products) tends to be characterized by inefficiency, ambiguity, and competition.
But paradoxically, it may also contain an element of forgetfulness, because it tends to conceal the fact that liberation required a military defeat.
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