The message for him in the film, which is about a group of kamikaze pilots attacking American ships at the end of the second world war, was that young men in those times were manly and purposeful in contrast to today's "herbivorous" youth.
The decision to cast age-similar actors was purposeful to contrast the series from other shows of the same period such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek, which had cast actors in their twenties as teenagers.
In contrast, purposeful or non-probability sampling is an ascending method, working up from individual cases to draw conclusions and generate idiographic knowledge [ 33].
Cutting between the women's journeys — one fearful and hopeless, the other purposeful and noble — Mr. Yameogo contrasts the shackles of tradition with the stirrings of rebellion, never allowing the heat of indignation to cloud his eye for a striking landscape or an expressive face.
When she finally adopted a grittier tone, however briefly, the contrast seemed strikingly purposeful.
The scene is one of wetlands and water, and pleasure boating is depicted as a contrast to the purposeful train.
Studies increasingly measure specific characteristics of the social and built environment, use purposeful definitions of areas in contrast to relying on administrative boundaries and analyse specific outcomes rather than, for instance, all-cause mortality or self-rated health [ 4].
Picking oakum looks, by contrast, like a positively purposeful activity.
What happened down on the field, by contrast, was calm and purposeful.
Barney Frank, the liberal Massachusetts congressman, also contrasted Reagan's "more purposeful" agenda with Obama's "technocratic" style, and said that Obama "would have been better off with a more adversarial approach" toward pharmaceutical firms, insurance companies, and banks.
