That, right there, is solid character building for future leaders.
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Fortunately, you don't have to look far for character-building movies.
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Our use of technology, Turkle argues, stunts character building and relationships.
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Dares can be character-building experiences in one's formative years, however.
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It's expository dialogue without the character-building to back it up.
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"She said it was a character-building experience," Ms. Oxenberg said.
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The same goes for much of the season's other substantive character-building elements.
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It's becoming less acceptable to pass it off as character building or insignificant.
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It was of course a period in my life that was character building.
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I have absolutely no regrets, every experience has been incredible, character-building and career-shaping.
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Once Sam got the treatment, storyline and vid from us FOX ADHD started character building.
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The Etch A Sketch was an exercise in patience, character-building, and hand-eye coordination.
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Any bully has more character-building effects on you than the most moving of books.
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SISYPHUS : It's just character-building adversity that, in the end, is gonna make me stronger.
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Most of the hard character-building work will need to happen in "profoundly broken" public schools.
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As a character-building exercise, the Proud Boys forbid both masturbation and the watching of pornography.
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It makes you think about story and character building in a way you might not otherwise.
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There was something called character-building, and we were awarded pins for kindnesses done, moments of leadership.
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Unfortunately, Gray and Gross (a former Fringe writer) don't bring that same effortlessness to their character-building.
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But the anime is an interesting supplement, with a different focus on long-term storytelling and character-building.
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For all the character building you directly influence, there's a strong whiff of fatalism in the closing minutes.
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I believe in the Girl Scouts just as I believe in Boy Scouts and all character-building efforts.
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God of War fills these moments with meaningful, character-building banter between a forcibly bonded father and son.
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Character-building is replaced with the sound of deep, heavy breathing, and slow motion shots of levitating bodies.
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Newman, for his part, says that he just didn't want to spend development resources on a character building tool.
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Fallout 4 featured fewer character-building RPG options, and dialogue choices are often summarized with a word or two.
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It maintained his edge; nothing is more annoying than when a flashback undoes a lot of great character building.
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Horse Sense: A spoilt L.A. bro is sent to his aunt's ranch in Montana as a character-building exercise.
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Framing war as a character-building exercise also whitewashes the enormous damage it does to survivors and civilians alike.
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And, yes, the early hours of The Terror are far more about atmosphere and character-building than, well, terror.
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If there's a lesson the Game of Thrones showrunner need to learn, it's that trauma doesn't equal character-building in women.
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We're often jumping from one scene to the next without much character building, and then there's exposition and narration in excess.
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Yet it's also true that most families in this country are not currently engaged with any character-building youth development program.
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With the Vietnam War dragging on, 2500 was not a good year for discussing the character-building value of the military.
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Note well, though — it is a gift to the church, not to the individual priest's character-building or his emotional needs.
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This is a character building moment for her, and so I need to keep calm and be a good, fatherly example.
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Most end up walking at some point, but the entire program is based on character building and the running is supplemental.
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The premiere season, especially its first half, was a marvel of world building in which the character building was an afterthought.
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And fast food kind of emblematizes that shift, because it really did use to be something that we cherished as character building.
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It's a knock-off of Inception and the seminal Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Tapestry," but it's still effective character-building.
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"There's something about the long-term suffering that makes them prouder about the character-building," said Al Landess, manager at the tavern.
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These tips can help you spot movies that help kids absorb character-building messages: Little Kids (age 2--7) Pick simple story lines.
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It's also, because of four seasons of intelligent character building, not surprising that Terry is holding a baby blanket—definitely not a weapon!
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The expanded day does not interfere with tutoring and extracurriculars; rather, it builds these arts, sports and character-building activities into the school day.
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Dany's sudden transformation into a zealot was the final straw in a season that has seemed hell-bent on undermining years of character building.
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The 23 game takes about only 30 minutes to get through but has earned rave reviews for its storytelling, character building, and art direction.
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Madden believed that recent years had seen a deepening interest in what he called "immersive horror," with its longer arcs and detailed character building.
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Football, after all, was founded at the illustrious colleges of the Northeast, conceived and defended as character-building for future leaders of the country.
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I mean, it's absurd," she said, tucking into an outdoor lunch at a New York City French brasserie, "it is kind of character building.
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Accordingly, Death of the Outsider doesn't offer the character-building you'll find in other Dishonored games, but it plays with a new sense of flow.
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No such perks are offered at the traditional neighborhood sledding hills, which still require of participants the character-building chore of towing their own sleds.
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Again, this is more of an iteration than a straightforward port, since it replaces fast-twitch controls and combos with character building and more simplified combat.
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Chris Coons (D-DE) pushed back on this line of character-building in his opening statement: As you know well, we went to the same law school.
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It gets across the meaning of the statement, and it fits a situation that's often mentioned alongside it: an eccentric character building or explaining a useless machine.
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All of these really highfalutin figures look back on their time as fast-food employees as kind of character-building weigh stations on their way to success.
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Like most of the rare exceptions in the Pokémon universe, these special, speaking characters have some rhyme or character-building reason as to why they're like this.
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Instead, she says, children will learn about art, science, philosophy, culture, nature and ethics, and will learn to build on their strengths and foster character-building relationships.
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What is the psychological theory that says violence causes only fear and more violence in those other contexts but is salutary and character-building in this one?
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While the competition fills seasons with quiet character-building scenes, doling out plot sparingly, "The Leftovers" has always been boisterous and busy, leaving nothing on the shelf.
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I spoke with Arkane's Lead Designer Ricardo Bare about writing and designing Prey in this fashion, taking a slightly more subtle approach to character-building and story.
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But even if we accept rape as a character-building experience and view the cruelty she suffers as subversive of chivalry and fantasy, is Sansa an effective foil?
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These character-building experiences have not diminished in recent days at the jamboree – Scouts have continued to trade patches, climb rock walls, and share stories about the day's adventures.
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Almost all of O'Malley's book follows Myfanwy's perspective, but Zwerling and Usher have taken an ensemble approach without doing any of the character-building necessary to make that work.
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As America industrialized and middle-class workers spent ever more time in stores and offices, hunting was increasingly presented as an opportunity for healthy, character-building return to nature.
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Abu Dhabi Grand Prix It has been what Christian Horner, the Red Bull team principal, has described as a "character-building season" for his talented young driver, Max Verstappen.
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Further driving child labor rates are local cultural attitudes, under which work is seen as character building for children and as a normal part of development, the report said.
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Even my childhood embarrassment was character-building, giving me a deeper sense of self-worth that is dependent neither on material things nor the opinion of those I don't admire.
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All those torturous caravan holidays, "character building" walks home from school in the rain, and the matching bowl cuts—it's a wonder you made it to functional adulthood at all.
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With little in the way of narrative depth, character building, or anything else that would give audiences a breather, it's hard to see Gears working well on the big screen.
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It's a sometimes-wry, sometimes-poignant look at urban loneliness, and the character-building accomplished in these webisodes in just a few minutes puts plenty of feature films to shame.
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As they help one another through a long parade of crises, some of them truly character-building, Ms. Adams's story develops an increasing power that can be created only incrementally.
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"I'm basically a person who has embraced my awkward phase as a formative and necessary character-building experience but I hate this photo so much," Julia says, and we understand.
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And so I'm looking at all these public radio stations, NPR, and I had a real character-building 18 months in the wilderness, trying to find a full-time job.
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"These character-building experiences have not diminished in recent days at the jamboree -- Scouts have continued to trade patches, climb rock walls, and share stories about the day's adventures," he said.
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Like the perennial adventurer of the wilderness, we open our arms to all the horrible experiences we will inevitably endure, hoping they will serve as a valuable exercise in character building.
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These past couple years have been character building to say the least – anxiety attacks, fits of rage, feelings of betrayal and abandonment – and I have concluded that I am NOT extraordinary.
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These past couple years have been character building to say the least - anxiety attacks, fits of rage, feelings of betrayal and abandonment - and I have concluded that I am NOT extraordinary.
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One could argue that the old arcade, with the ever-present threat of bullying and harassment and the challenge of claiming dibs, exposed a kid to the world—it's character-building!
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Or, in the case of Sansa Stark, as we learned just before Missandei's death, it's a useful character-building device for which the raped woman will one day look back in gratitude.
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If your best skills are character building and mic work, and they won't let you do it because you haven't proven you can draw, how can you ever prove you can draw?
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They develop an odd, culturally freighted relationship — the senescent past reconciling itself to Europe's future — until the last act blows up the script's character-building for the sake of a shock ending.
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It mostly works: It unveils a clever approach to character building, as during the opening montage of family photos, home videos and emails providing intimate details about the Kim family over several years.
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But the focus on two teens instead of six lets Cloak & Dagger's writers take their time and focus on character-building, instead of flitting around from one soap opera-style plot to the next.
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This wasn't a life or death situation, as many things on the show these days are, but rather, a character building exercise: In order to play a hacker, you need to think like one.
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" Elizabeth Kuhn, the governor's spokeswoman, said in a statement to ABC News that Bevin met with the chess club to "showcase an important program that is encouraging sportsmanship and character building among Kentucky's youth.
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But I think that's all kind of relevant because ultimately at this point all these characters begin to feel like, the things the character building has been done to this point, it's been gutted.
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Both trailers suggested a season much more concerned with internecine warfare than character building (excepting only the always-talky Samwell and Gilly scenes), which is fine; by this penultimate season, the characters are built.
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Any professional setbacks, like the layoff that preceded his company's founding in the 1980s or the assorted stumbles of his mayoral bids, have been presented in the retelling as more character-building than demoralizing.
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From Christina Aguilera's "Stronger" to Little Mix's "Shout Out To My Ex," there is a whole world of music that celebrates the failed relationship as a character-building experience, and interprets heartbreak with unbridled optimism.
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Lady Bird is tender and romantic, but doesn't use "getting a boyfriend" as its leading lady's source of validation; it's also very much about her character-building relationships with her mother, best friend, and teachers.
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First fist fight:Same school… it was rough as hell and character building in the way that it completely unraveled my character from myself, left me incredibly traumatized, hollowed out, and lacking faith in the world.
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Later on in the episode, Daryl executes an unarmed man Rick promised not to hurt in exchange for information, only further cementing the feeling that these scenes are blunt character-building exercises for our main character.
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There's more character building in the theme song for the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV cartoon from the '80s ("Raphael is cool but rude / Michelangelo is a party dude") than there is in this boondoggle.
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Back in the 19th century, during their heyday, Whigs promoted infrastructure projects, public education, public-private investments and character-building programs to create dynamic, capitalist communities in which poor boys and girls could rise and succeed.
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Three years after the A.A.P.'s recommendation, an American Medical Association official declared that, although football was potentially "a killer and a maimer," it offered "character-building advantages" for young children, and should not be banned.
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Saturn, however, is the planet that loves to say "no" and you'll find that no matter how much you try to defy your limitations, you'll be brought back down to earth through life's character-building circumstances.
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A string of "character-building" jobs followed: cleaning debris out of street sweepers, operating light and heavy equipment, laying asphalt with a road crew and repairing broken sewer lines "while the sewage continued to flow," he said.
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As "influencer" continues to make its way into everyday language, these kinds of lessons are taking their place among the vaguely character-building activities kids are encouraged to do, like arts and crafts, or team-building exercises.
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Non-handshakes have been producing visceral reactions and hot take commendations for as long as we've had sports—in part because they threaten the character-building, man-molding, Rudyard Kipling-stiff-upper-lip, What About The Kids?
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At worst, it does more harm than good by cutting off necessary conversations with women about consent, character building, pleasure, sexism, ambition, and the kinds of support they should expect from the people who claim to love them.
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This is the kind of details-light, realism-indifferent storytelling that's always concerned with a fast rush to the next action beat, and past the introduction, O'Donnell has no time for anything but the most rudimentary character-building.
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Beyond wanting you out of their hair, the people who looked after you growing up may have insisted you get a weekend job to learn about the value of money and the "character building" virtues of the hard graft.
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" De Paco said that this wasn't something the team did lightly or maliciously, but that they went with it "because it's also a matter of character building, and to me, an important part in picturing Edgar's lack of touch.
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To torture the baseball metaphor just a little further: Eileen winds up taking the loss in this week's episode, but it's one of those character-building losses, allowing her to see the game more clearly the next time out.
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A beat like that could be an opportunity for a funny bit of story and character building, for explaining the sheep spell and its background and cultural context, or even just a running joke about the oddities of magic.
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Elizabeth Warren, but said those attacks seemed more the result of "character building" in which the accounts were sharing content to bolster their respective personas -- for instance, liberal-looking accounts attacked Trump, while conservative-looking accounts posted negative content about Rep.
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Such an attitude is increasingly common among youth coaches but not yet the norm, said Ruben Nieves, National Director of Training at the Positive Coaching Alliance, a national nonprofit aimed at making youth sports a more positive and character-building experience.
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It ends with a slapdash fake-out, where the sisters were apparently in on a plan to trap and kill Littlefinger together—which begs the question: Shouldn't there be a greater purpose than misdirection to undo two women leads' character-building?
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Half an hour of slow-paced character-building and tech talk later, it emerges that the Americans are being killed off by what appear to be ghosts — fast-moving, transparent blue-white energy-figures that ignore conventional weapons and kill with a touch.
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We got some fairly predictable and superficial insights last week into what acting was for him as an abused child — an escape, a way to be someone else — and I first assumed this detail was a somewhat hacky attempt at character building.
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Television has always been the medium where Star Trek has thrived, and Discovery is already taking advantage of the format for the kind of thoughtful, long-term storytelling and character-building that the recent action-packed theatrical summer Star Trek blockbusters have sorely lacked.
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They go to the dive bars, drink the wine, eat dim sum, and serve food, but the show doesn't know how to give the food — which is nicely styled, but on screen far too briefly — the same character-building power as the novel did.
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Todd VanDerWerff: Well, Caroline, you've worked with me long enough to know that there are two things I love in this world: cold opens that exist primarily to serve world-building, character-building, or theme-building purposes rather than set up the story to come; and tigers.
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As exposition goes, this is a tremendous character-building moment, and it's a big step up from Littlefinger's sexposition class, back in the days when Game of Thrones' showrunners assumed no one would be able to concentrate on a speech without boobs hovering in the background.
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Game of Thrones may kill off people you love, and Homeland may test your patience, but there's something unique about The Walking Dead's ability to get you invested, hold your hand through long stretches of dialogue-heavy character building, and then blow it all to hell.
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Shooting at Nuka-Cola bottles (and the raider that attacked me midway through) is as much fun as handling any weapon in VR. But many people don't primarily play Fallout 4 as a first-person shooter; they're in it for the conversations, crafting, character-building, and exploration.
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This is a different writer's take, so I'm paraphrasing, but her argument was that the preoccupation of a lot of literary novelists tends to be on an individual, familial level, and that you take the beautiful sentences and the careful character-building and apply it to larger social questions.
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The film is necessarily a clash of multiple personal visions and multiple corporate ones: original director Zack Snyder stepped down from the film after a family suicide, and Joss Whedon stepped in to complete the movie, stitching together Snyder's footage via months of extra reshoots to add character-building and comedy.
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Unlike video game adaptations like the Tomb Raider series or Assassins Creed, which have to contend with years of accreted mythos and complicated character-building, Rampage was always going to be on pretty safe ground, as long as it featured a giant ape, lizard, and wolf pounding some buildings to powder.
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Mr. Crawford, as it happens, lends an entirely engaging, purposefully ghostly presence to a narrative that finds the aging Leo Colston shadowing his younger self as events are recalled from that character-building period in 1900 when young Leo, then barely 13, acted as "the go-between" of the title.
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"While fraternities and sororities bring countless benefits to participants and the community as a whole through lifelong friendship, philanthropy, and character building, Andrew Coffey's death should make us question whether these benefits are outweighed by the danger of an organization whose culture celebrates drinking to excess," the grand jury said.
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TV news talking heads who comment on the action, as well as "Law & Order"-style rundowns by the detectives on her case — Moses Beltran (John Ortiz), Stan Carmichael (John Gallagher Jr.) and Lisa Inman (Annie Ilonzeh) — are employed by the screenwriter Chad St. John to fill in the character-building.
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I got the impression that the company was implying its workers preferred this injustice — they were single moms and college students who valued the flexibility and character-building precariousness of their gig worker status more than such trifling elite concerns as getting the full amount of money customers intended them to have.
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I got the impression that the company was implying its workers preferred this injustice — they were single moms and college students who valued the flexibility and character-building precariousness of their gig worker status more than such trifling elite concerns as getting the full amount of money customers intended them to have.
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In each man's case, the setback is a prelude, a learning opportunity, a character-building experience: Abraham Lincoln as a young man withstood a depression so severe that friends removed all the sharp objects from his room; Theodore Roosevelt saw both his mother and his beloved wife die within a day; Franklin Roosevelt was stricken with polio; and Lyndon Johnson lost his first race for the Senate, throwing him into a depression of his own.
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The introduction of the crew and their gumbo of accents is only slight more coherent: There's Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation) as the no-nonsense rep from the Centers for Disease Control; Jake Gyllenhaal as the slightly depressive chief medical officer; Ryan Reynolds as (what else?) the wisecracking scientist tossing off Re-Animator references; Ariyon Bakare (Jupiter Ascending) as the ship's exobiologist with withered CG legs (which seems like a very pricey method of character building); Russian actress Olga Dihovichnaya as a Boris-and-Natasha-sounding cosmonaut; and Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine) as a Japanese engineer and proud father of a newborn back on Earth.
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