Sentence examples for compassionate picture from inspiring English sources

What a clever, ambitious, compassionate picture it is; what a success for Joe Wright and for Knightley and McAvoy - though it is probably in the long, languid wordless summery scenes at the beginning that the film works best.

The British actor Damian Lewis gives the performance of his career in this involving, compassionate picture by US indie writer-director Lodge Kerrigan: the story of a lost soul in New York's Port Authority bus terminal, which marries up an American location with the sensibility of European movie-making.

Historically, it's been thought that our actions are largely selfish in motivation (look no further than the popular theory of Social Darwinism), but that school of thought has started to give way to a new, and more compassionate, picture of human behavior.

Some of his most compassionate pictures were done on location.

A tough, compassionate movie.

Mr. Foote's compassionate but stinging picture of an American family sniping as the walls of its cozy, insular world collapse provided a cogent comment on a cultural moment of general bankruptcy.

Last July, while discussing civilian casualties in Iraq, he said, "It's hard to imagine that any compassionate person could see pictures, just pictures, of what the Crusaders did to those children, and not want to go on a shooting spree at the Marines' housing facilities at Camp Pendleton".

And Harry sits there taking a picture, so compassionate from his life of inherited position and wealth.

Kirby Dick's typically insightful and compassionate documentary presents a harrowing picture of an epidemic of sexual assault and rape within the US military.

Yet a top-to-bottom tour of the building last week, from the 13th-floor garret, whose existence beyond the reach of the elevators makes it unknown to most people, to the stately second-floor meeting room where major policy decisions are made, revealed a world at once far more mundane, compassionate and productive than the picture of mindless, malevolent bureaucracy purveyed by the mayor.

When ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN (1941) opened at Radio City Music Hall 62 years ago, Bosley Crowther, writing in The New York Times, declared it "cheerful and warmly compassionate," one of the best pictures of the year.