Word: elements
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...Streets (2004), he shows himself strolling at night with his older brother, Charles, locked in intense mental exchange. Charles killed himself in 1995. Crumb has also drawn their addicted mother, who tried - and failed miserably - to maintain the facade of normal family life. "There's a strong confessional element," says the Whitechapel's Anthony Spira. "He's constantly confessing his sins, his deepest urges, desires, fantasies." Says Crumb's wife, "As he's gotten older, he's questioned his spiritual center, his self, more and more." He has castigated his native country for its ugliness and greed, but, she says...
It’s that element of Harvard hockey—facing adversity head-on—that both Banfield and Corriero fully embody. Along with tri-captain Kat Sweet and seniors Ali Crum and Sarah Holbrook, they were initiated into Harvard hockey via trial by ordeal, seeing more action than usual their freshmen season when the Olympians took the year off to train...
...intermittent presence of vocals only serves to further stir the strange brew of shimmers and undulations that is the band’s signature sound. Their ascetic abstention from such a historically fundamental element of rock is somewhat surprising but goes a ways in illuminating the reason these four Scots aren’t better known...
After he cries about both his past tragedy and this new case that threatens disaster, Willis just barely regains composure long enough to override local authorities and take over command. While Willis has played this caring-but-tough roll before (The Fifth Element), the abrupt transitions between teary scenes and action thrills are unconvincing...
While the family-dramedy aspect of the movie largely succeeds, the children-in-peril element introduced by the thief often falls flat. The sections in which he tracks down Damien and Anthony seem to aspire to the taut suspense of Boyle’s previous films, but hampered by the family-friendly PG rating, they are generally muddled and jarringly different in tone...