Sentences with phrase «like in any soap opera»

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This would be like a soap opera ending in the middle of the desert, with the main protagonists stranded.

and in top pf that he got only 20 years after he took a life and now for recompensation he has the best buddy... the brother of the victim, whaooo this sounds like a soap opera!!

The first was like a soap opera in which there's a crisis every 13 seconds and a hero is resurrected every minute and a half.

I remember watching WWF (before it was WWE) as a kid, Roddy Piper, Hitman Hart etc and you'd get the camera going backstage into a soap opera like drama, arguments between fighters, The Million Dollar Man stole an ambulance after a fight in a staged kidnap scene etc..................................

Lopez came on the scene, Stephenson turned into our own little soap opera, and now younger players like [Juli] Inkster and [Patty] Sheehan are getting in on the action.

I was beginning to feel like I was in a game or soap opera.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo groused to Fred Dicker on Talk - 1300 this morning that us hacks in the LCA tend to cover things «like a soap opera.»

Indeed, long - term observation of these animals in the wild is like following a soap opera.

Stick with the ones you get the biggest effect from then gradually work in OTHER exercises on a rotational basis like a continuous audition process at a soap opera.

Every time you go on a date with a younger woman, you feel like you're in a soap opera.

A fascinating experience, with morbid touches, like a television soap opera, but in the academic field.

Except for Rourke, who seems like he's in a different movie, it's a soulless roller coaster devoid of thrills interspersed with too many soap opera developments that aren't given any time to develop before they're resolved.

The problem is the story is just poor, all the excitement was in the previous stories, in this last instalment it just seems like a vampire soap opera.

That is, expect a fast - paced, beautifully mounted and well - acted soap opera with overripe dialogue that plays fast and loose with history — just like they did in the»30s,»40s and»50s — and you won't come away disappointed.

The Guardian really doesn't like Quaid's performance in this «tragi - melodramatic soap opera,» but enjoys what Efron brings to the film.

The Oval Office looks like a business tycoon's mansion in a soap opera, and every shot of a building exterior or rushing ambulance appears to have been bought from Getty or Shutterstock.

What's a superstar like Hoffman doing in a meandering soap opera like this?

It ends up feeling more like a soap opera than a feature, with everyone smiling and dancing in the end, because why would you expect anything else?

The fact that we have so much drama going on in one film does at times make it feel like a soap opera act.

Her mom, Terry (Virginia Madsen) sits in the bed like a vegetable, watching soap operas all day.

As much as I wanted to like this film it's ruined by soap opera antics with an unforgivable, poorly written death scene, that serves as the nail in the coffin.

France's official submission for the 2017 Academy Awards (a mistake in my opinion), Elle is a psycho sexual thriller that plays out like a fetish soap opera.

Like any coming - of - age teen soap opera, much of the film's appeal is in its vaunting of style over substance — coining whole ways of speaking, dressing and posturing for an impressionable generation brought up on Hollywood tropes — but Heathers embraces its style as an essential keystone to filmmaking, recognizing that even the most bloated melodrama can be sold through a well - manicured image.

According to Feige, the movie is «a soap opera in high school» inspired by Hughes joints like Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club,...

The haze rising off the bonnet makes the view ahead look like the beginning of a dream sequence in an»80s soap opera.

Dickens especially I find interesting as works such as «great expectations» were written in serials and shipped to America like episodes of an old fashioned soap opera

I wanted to clue - in my non-writer friends and followers to an epic soap opera - like battle between bookseller Amazon and publisher Hachette Book Group, one of the Big 5 remaining traditional publishers.

- Publishers Weekly «Lacking mystery and low on suspense, this installment reads more like a family in extremis soap opera larded with Native American lore.

New or casual readers of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series will be lost in its eighth installment (after 2009's Lover Avenged), but Ward's fans love her soap opera storytelling and are happy to forgive unpronounceable names and occasionally overeager tough talk (at a solemn wedding, [the bridegroom] was smiling like a motherfucker).

They're like my version of soap operas — slow - moving, constant, and not always good — but after investing in 400 chapters of manga, I feel compelled to see what happens next.

Island life often feels a bit like a soap opera, but this week work began on the first - ever soap to be set in San Pedro town.

We all know that one person, who can describe a fist fight against a real - life latex - clad alien in the basement of Area 51 and make it sound like a script of a Mexican soap opera being read in the voice of the «guy on the couch «from «Half Baked».

I already did two Nurses, the little Nurse Eleanor with the paper dolls was like out of tacky romances, soap operas, more in line with Richard Prince's nurses later on.

In 2010 Kalup Linzy created the duo «Kalup and Franco» with Hollywood actor James Franco and apart from their participation at soap operas (like General Hospital), they have presented several performances and have released an EP.

His new exhibition is inspired by Latin American telenovela, in which a novel is shot like a soap opera.

It's too much like trying to understand a soap opera or a mystery serial by watching one episode in the middle.

To remedy this, she suggests encouraging more women to go into environmental fields, increasing women's representation in decision - making roles, and educating a broader spectrum of women about water issues through nontraditional methods like soap operas — which have already proven successful in other countries at boosting awareness about population and family planning.

Alienation of affection lawsuits are among the most talked - about topics in family law, not only because they occasionally involve soap opera - like fact patterns but also because they're rather ancient to modern society's way of thinking.

This allows it to successfully avoid the so - called soap opera effect, in which motion for some content looks like it's been shot on someone's aging camcorder.

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In what played out like an everyday soap opera, two days later yet another hard announcement hit the papers on September 15.

Aggressive behavior that many of us shake our heads at in dismay while watching soap operas or talk shows like Jerry Springer occurs in every - day relationships too.

Like anything in life... a balance must be used and when it comes to time online or gaming even watching sports or soap operas on television....

The pair lost in the finals, but not before getting rave reviews from the judges for their creative confections, including «Cheddar Habanero Crisp» (the habanero pepper was an ingredient with a «twist,» just like every soap opera has), «Strawberry Chocolate Seduction» (which was topped with two figures in a bed made from fondant), and a tombstone - topped «Gluten - Free Escaping Death» cupcake (because someone's always cheating death on soap operas, Friedman said).

Kind of like when you see an episode of a soap opera, stop watching it for 6 months, then watch it again, and everyone's wearing the same outfits and that guy is still in a coma.