Sentences with phrase «almost despairing»

It's almost unheard of for a Marvel movie to get a screenplay nomination (though «Black Panther» may manage it next year), and it's a tribute to the risks Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green took in bringing this brooding, melancholy, almost despairing «X-Men» movie as close to authentic drama as they could.

So it's not surprising to find him at the center of this brooding, melancholy, almost despairing X-Men film set in a future world where bad things not only might happen, they're pretty much guaranteed.

And at the end, a solemn, almost despairing, coda on Blair's grappling with the democratic dilemma: Do you do what the people want?

Not exact matches

It's almost like Marmite... Been looking for a tofu recipe to try on my tofu despairing boyfriend.

The feeling of the film is overwhelmingly hopeless, so despairing that it almost becomes funny.

It is almost as if the man who made a tv show about nothing but incessant talking wanted to make a bee movie with the same premise, but test screenings left the audience so despairing that scenes featuring Barry trying to stay alive within the machinery of a car or negotiating the impossibly complicated honey factory equipment had to be inserted to keep the children docile.