That gratuitous round of applause at the end, for the returning saviors, and thus, by implication, for the movie's own bravado?
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — When the former military ruler Pervez Musharraf ended his years of exile last month, it was with a vision of himself as a political savior, returning in the nick of time to save Pakistan from chaos.
It could be that nobody gives credit to the Pacers because they don't have the big market or the star power of Carmelo Anthony's New York Knicks teams and they don't have an intriguing X-factor like the divisional rival Chicago Bulls, who may or may not see the return of savior Derrick Rose this season.
Bogut is not returning to the franchise as a savior, his body may end up being too brittle to be one of those, but as a final piece of the puzzle.
After Negan didn't return to the Saviors, Simon Steven Oggg), one of Negan's top guys, stepped up and told the group to basically eliminate the Hilltop.
At Lemieux's first game back, a boy held aloft a sign reading "Our savior has returned to the ice".
We comics fans have to share her faith that our saviors will return to us, if not from the minds of Mr. Morrison and his peers, then perhaps from some unseen perch, up, up and away.
Barbara Woodruff (Ms. Days), a Vogue cover girl from Harlem, becomes David's muse and savior, quaintly encouraging him to return to his roots and to write about what he knows best.
But in Tuscaloosa, which was desperate to return to national football prominence, Saban, 56, was a savior, welcomed with an open wallet.
The next time he returns in the regular season, he will be the Knicks' savior or saboteur.
