Sentences with phrase «aimlessness in»

«Permanent Midnight,» set in Los Angeles with an eye toward grit and a sense of aimlessness in paradise, is frequently painful to watch.

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Those who have their «heads hidden in the sand - piles of uneasiness» are deemed as os - trac - ized lemmings blindly running to and leaping off the cliffs of «dutied» aimlessness.

In short, colleges and universities face ethical difficulties primarily because they are reflections of the moral aimlessness of our society as a whole.

What we need to engage in are acts of imagination that penetrate the apparent opacity and aimlessness of the historical present, and reveal how persons and institutions are accomplishing their destinies in relation to the sovereign God of history.

Faculty and students continue to operate in a spiritual climate where even the best are filling merely the outward requirements of their roles and suffering the malaise of aimlessness and false consciousness.

What can be better for Lisa and me than to be among these lunatics, laughing with them, teasing them, affirming them in their beauty and aimlessness, and receiving their reckless affection?

When the sides met in January, his remit was strictly confined to the flanks and there was an aimlessness to his crossing borne out by the fact he completed just 40 percent of his attempted passes.

Retardation to momentum is further well - secured by unevenness to pacing, because, at 106 minutes, this film's seemingly tight runtime is achieved through a combination of thinning and bloating, placing little attention to exposition, and plenty of attention to repetitious, almost episodic filler, which wear down momentum until aimlessness sets in, slowly, but surely wearing down dramatic bite.

Garden State may not define an entire generation, but it has a sharp eye for the passive aimlessness that can take hold when young adults realize there's no handbook on how to find purpose and meaning in life.

I suppose charm graces a sense of ambition, but even palpable passion is limited in a cold directorial performance by Matthews and Katie Graham, who have effective moments, but whose limp, perhaps quiet atmosphere stiffens pacing and makes it easier to notice aimlessness, while also thinning intrigue so close into dissipation that other shortcomings, including - nay - especially the natural ones, essentially impossible to ignore.

She still suffers from the same kind of aimlessness found in Girls and countless «mumblecore» films, but there's never any pretense going on with her.

Perhaps the best way to approach All These Sleepless Nights, then, is not as documentary or even as drama, but as an abstract feature - length snapshot of youth in transition from the devil - may - care aimlessness of adolescence, to the initial agonized stirrings of adulthood.

series of scenes: Sam (Kevin Kline), in the midst of a forty - year marriage, is living the retired life in Florida, though he has a burst of energy in him that suggests he may not be relishing the aimlessness of post-work life; Archie (Morgan Freeman), also retired, is coming off a stroke, and finds himself tediously recuperating in the New Jersey home of his too - vigilant, married - with - a-kid son (Michael Ealy); Paddy (Robert De Niro) is the only one still living in Brooklyn, though he spends his days cooped up in his ragged apartment, mourning the death of his cherished wife, Sophie (from the prologue); and Billy (Michael Douglas), a successful, high - priced Malibu attorney, has taken the unprecedented step of proposing marriage to his much - younger girlfriend while presenting the eulogy at his mentor's funeral.

Mer, who acquits himself nicely in the film as his protagonist's gifted - with - gab best friend, captures a sense of aimlessness among these kids, who live in a luxurious post-apartheid environment and don't fully know what to do with themselves, or with real emotion and problems money can't fix.

Opening as a funny fish - out - of - water premise, the script now flounders in a sea of contradiction and aimlessness.

James White (played by Christopher Abbott) is a 21 - year - old whose life is in a kind of disarray that's sometimes indistinguishable, at least from the outset, from typical millenial aimlessness.

David Thompson parroted these claims in his New Biographical Dictionary of Film when he stated that Wise's «better credits are only the haphazard products of artistic aimlessness given rare guidance» and complained that his filmography was merely a «restless, dispiriting search among subject areas.»

A heady topic distracted from by too many pointless discoveries of broken glasses and old bikes, none of which go anywhere in a picture marked mainly by its aimlessness.

You might expect that such thin storytelling might lead to aimlessness, but Dark Souls is anything but aimless, in part due to the structure and design of its large, seamless world.

Thiebaud's paintings, like good novels, use telling details to draw us in, so as to obliquely convey some harsh intimations of aimlessness and loss, of the insignificance of human wishes.

Lixenberg's video installation captures life in Imperial Courts in a spectrum from drama and play to aimlessness and routine, enhancing our grasp of the normalcy of life in a part of the American inner - city habitually derided as aberrant and extreme.