Sentences with phrase «things devolved»

Primarily headed up by Nina Struthers» unblinking comedic presence, she was joined by bit characters like the scientist Margaret as things devolved (hah) into body horror and gore.

He gets to mine richer terrain here, territory hinted at briefly in The Wolverine until things devolved into another battle between a superhero and a bad guy in a giant robotic suit, and as such appears to be invigorated by the challenge.

Things devolved during the Sottile administrating to where the mayor was delivering annual messages to the council in February or March, sometimes April.

Things devolved further when the White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow suggested Haley had «momentary confusion» when she announced the sanctions on Sunday.

As such, real change rarely comes until things devolve to such a level that the owner (s) sees no other alternative but to seek a some sort of remedy through the selling of the club, which doesn't always lead to positive results.

The central appeal of The Hangover lays primarily in Phillips's ability to keep things in balance, allowing his guys to have fun, but reigning it in before the whole thing devolves into a chest - thumping mess.

But with Schwartzmans politically loaded job (he protests suburban sprawl) and Wahlbergs anti-petroleum stance, things devolve into an «issues» shouting match with the «Average Americans» content with facile short - term thinking and denial of long - term consequences and reliance on blind faith.

Things devolve into a worst - case scenario requiring the sound engineers to do the unthinkable.

It would be hard to make a worse movie than «American Assassin» without things devolving into outright parody.

It shows that there's a feral testosterone - overload that exists in military units deployed in hostile areas (MASH did, too), and it shows how quickly things devolve in a war zone, how the only way people survive is through the grace of their partners and a preponderance of luck.

With or without teams, players tend to congregate in one area of the huge map, where things devolve into a move - spamming, kill - stealing mess.

Sadly, things devolve into mindless shooting galleries with little room for any but the most obvious Paragon or Renegade choices.

Not exact matches

Sometimes a situation that seems like it's devolved just into complete absurdity requires a radical, absurd response — and that radical, absurd response might in fact be more sensible than even the thing it's responding to.

I'm not going to debate whether having faith is a good thing or a bad thing, as that is merely subjective and there is no end result, nor does it benefit anyone and generally devolves into name - calling and hurt feelings.

Whenever this occurs things tend to devolve quite quickly as the club becomes overly dependent upon an increasingly stale manager who has stripped the organization of those individuals who could properly pick up the slack.

So long as Arsene Wenger still roams the sidelines things will continue to devolve.

Although it will be incredibly difficult to ever match his contributions on the pitch, it's vitally important for a former club legend, like Henry, to publicly address his concerns regarding the direction of this club... regardless of those who still feel that Henry has some sort of agenda due to the backlash he received following earlier comments he made on air regarding Arsenal, he has an intimate understanding of the game, he knows the fans are being hosed and he feels some sense of obligation, both professionally and personally, to tell it like he sees it... much like I've continually expressed over the last couple months, this team isn't evolving under this current ownership / management team... instead we are currently experiencing a «stagnant» phase in our club's storied history... a fact that can't be hidden by simply changing the formation or bringing in one or two individuals... this team needs fundamental change in the way it conducts business both on and off the pitch or it will continue to slowly devolve into a second tier club... regardless of the euphoria surrounding our escape act on Friday evening, as it stands, this club is more likely to be fighting for a Europa League spot for the foreseeable future than a top 4 finish... we can't hope for the failures of others to secure our place in the top 4, we need to be the manufacturers of our own success by doing whatever is necessary to evolve as an organization... if Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke can't take the necessary steps following the debacle they manufactured last season, their removal is imperative for our future success... unfortunately, I strongly believe that either they don't know how to proceed in the present economic climate or they are unwilling to do whatever it takes to turn this ship around... just look at the current state of our squad, none of our world class players are under contract beyond this season, we have a ridiculous wage bill considering the results, we can't sell our deadwood because we've mismanaged our personnel decisions and contractual obligations, we haven't properly cultivated our younger talent and we might have become one of the worst clubs ever when it comes to way we handle our transfer business, which under Dein was one of our greatest assets... it's time to get things right!!!

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

Just because we are Free Range doesn't mean we will allow things to devolve to Lord of the Flies.

«One thing we're keen to do is devolve more and more power out of Whitehall.

Funny thing about military action and intelligence; it's not something we devolve to layman on stack exchange.

None of the details are yet clear, but one thing is certain: in envisaging an integration of health and care budgets, decision - makers at the metropolitan centre are devolving desperately hard choices away from Whitehall at a moment when social care funding has been cut to crisis level and more cuts are required.

There are already many powers devolved but as part of the constitutional convention that I want to see, one of the things that we'll obviously be looking at is whether and what further powers should be devolved in London, that's a conversation we should be having.

«We've seen how things can devolve between the city and the state.»

It would be one thing if Tom was just depressed, but he becomes borderline crazy, devolving into a grizzly mountain man who hunts deer and makes mead.

What began, however glossily, as an ambiguity - laced power struggle between two people from separate social and sexual worlds has devolved into a far less intriguing victory lap for an exquisite couple that wants, and can afford, most of the same things — at least until the pesky matter of baby - making gets in the way.

The best thing about writer - director A.B. Shawky's feature - length debu... is the way it burrows inside Beshay's life without devolving into a pity party.

If you were going down the list of things needed for a comedy to take flight you'd find them all here; the three main players pass the ball, the chemistry works, and the film never devolves into that most debilitating trope of the romantic comedy - a serious third act.

Things start out promising but unnecessary devolve.

The film gets off to a good start, especially with Michael Caine around to class things up as Diesel's friend / handler, but it eventually devolves into a CGI - driven bore that lacks a compelling villain.

And so, to break things up, he not only provides a (sort of) love story but also drags out the relationship between Montgomery and Stone until it devolves into standard - issue buddy - buddyism.

First introduced in Marvel Premiere # 1 back in 1972, the Soul Gem started off as a gift, handed down from the High Evolutionary, a scientist - turned - cosmic being with the power to evolve and devolve things at will, to Adam Warlock.

Things still occasionally devolve into «run through this burning structure while everything onscreen wrecks around you» kinds of moments, and they still undermine the bleak and haunting mood that's often pulled off.

This team builds things just to blow them up, and by the film's climax — which juggles several high - peril situations aboard two criss - crossing locomotives, including the sight of Reid riding his «spirit horse,» Silver, atop a train — what began as an elegantly epic, potentially realistic retelling of the Lone Ranger legend has devolved into Wile E. Coyote - style cartoon shenanigans.

Every time someone hears something they don't like, things immediate devolve into forced fisticuffs.

When Winehouse's later life devolves (and devolves again), Kapadia creates a sense of recall, of looking back at small things the viewer had «lived through» with younger Winehouse, ultimately creating the realization in the viewer they are watching Winehouse spiral downwards in real - time... and there is nothing that can be done about it.

Trapped in a dead - end marriage that's long since devolved into bitter animosity, unfaithful spouses Boris (Alexey Rozin) and Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) have one thing in common: Neither has much affection for the 12 - year - old son (Matvey Novikov) caught in the middle of their spats.

Annihilation This attempt at a thinking person's action movie devolves into a motiveless slog, in which a group of women soldiers go on a suicide mission, for little or no reason, and end up seeing some very gory, disgusting things.

Unfortunately, the intrigue to the film ends there, as it quickly devolves into gross people doing gross things to other gross people.

He's the only thing that keeps the movie afloat, because although the first half builds some nice tension as David infiltrates the Peterson's family dynamic, all of that hard work is wasted in the final act when it devolves into a silly B - movie that favors violence over subtlety, falling victim to the typical slasher film conventions with some incredibly strange and odd - placed moments of humor.

Although some parts of the trampoline have been well maintained, thanks to successful condition improvement fund bids, others were wearing out as the remaining maintained schools tried to patch things up from devolved formula capital.

One thing led to another and (so the story goes) the discussion devolved into a «my new car will be better than your new car» challenge.

Things came to a head following the infamous Goodreads Bullies wars (Amazon brought into it as the owner of Goodreads, but refusing to get involved) in which authors and reviewers waged war online, often devolving into personal attacks.

No idea, but with the way things have continued to devolve between the two this week, I'd guess it wasn't intentional.

However, since even slow creatures can frequently move quite far combat can devolve into stacks of troops walking behind the enemy and stabbing them, and then the enemy stack doing the same thing to them, and so on and so on until victory is achieved.

Watching the second Death Star explode from the perspective of a downtrodden Stormtrooper is a novel start, though things quickly devolve into a generic revenge plot.

Worst - case scenario: The series devolves into even more of a dudebro shooter franchise, with Chris and Leon donning heavy suits of armor and deciding to travel to the Umbrella homeworld to end this thing once and for all.

I would've given the first Uncharted a much better ranking in my all - time games, but the game devolved near the end into a zombie game, and this one BETTER not do the same thing.

That devolves pretty much every combat section into a war of attrition, rendering things like special abilities and the «Fear Effect» gameplay mechanic where you do more damage the more injured (read: afraid) you are all but meaningless.

Unfortunately, things do devolve into JRPG tropes quickly, but push on and you'll find a very hard - to - not like cast of characters and story hook.