Sentences with phrase «as dreck»

For example, they might feel superior reading literary works, and thus denounce everything else as dreck.

Perhaps you'd like to judge the content as dreck — e.g. certain kinds of romance novels, sales pamphlets, get rich schemes.

And ’79 did see a few films as empty, ugly, and offensively inept as any dreck of previous seasons: Bloodline, Prophecy, Nightwing, Sunburn, Love and Bullets, Ashanti, and the phenomenally successful Meatballs — as drecky dreck as ever dreck was.

Not exact matches

With Blue Ant, MacMillan appears to be tacking against the torrents of broadcast television dreck at the bottom of the dial by targeting two coveted demographics, the first of which is thinking, affluent baby boomers: its portfolio includes content about the cottage lifestyle, travel, and PBS - style documentary programming through the Canadian version of the Smithsonian Channel, as well as a nature channel called Oasis.

And if someone explained to her that he objected not so much to the decadence as to the artistic dreck and moralistic drivel, it is doubtful that she would get it.

Lucky that this isn't a theocracy, lucky their say - so is so much dreck, lucky people are free to do as they choose without legal repercussions.

If your daughter, niece, or grandchild is a Barbie fan already, a title like Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer might catch your eye, but don't be deceived: as The Mary Sue reports, this book is a big a pile of sexist dreck as you're likely to find in the bookstore.

Still, Very Bad Things isn't a terrible movie - it certainly isn't in the same league as puerile dreck like Mary.

Secret Diary of a Call Girl is the kind of hotly lit, coldly stylized dreck that purports to be classy, high - minded softcore but is actually as witless and dreary as, well, paid - for jollies.

As animation, it's substandard, primitive dreck; as comedy, however, it's gloriously subversive arAs animation, it's substandard, primitive dreck; as comedy, however, it's gloriously subversive aras comedy, however, it's gloriously subversive art.

Last year McConaughey took a break from dreck and made a strong dramatic impression as the hotshot attorney in The Lincoln Lawyer.

For all the cinematic dreck currently peddling disorienting editing as «action,» no one in good conscience could deride Tarantino for his indulgence in split screens or extreme close ups or smash zooms or any other mode of cinematic gimmickry, when it affords us hauntingly sparse centerpieces such as The Bride's live burial, an aural choir of oppressive dirt, panting whimpers, and futile struggling set to the visual accompaniment of pitch black confinement that stretches on well past any spectator's comfort level.

Christopher Walken's essential star quality, his absolute uniqueness as a performer, is never more apparent, or welcome, than when he appears in dreck.

Paddington would be a pleasant surprise at any time of the year, but it's especially disarming in January, a month Hollywood has long reserved for dreck that has no possibility of generating good word - of - mouth but can still make money as counterprogramming across from the slowly - expanding end - of - year awards fare.

And some of you dismiss this less than perfect effort to tell a story about revolutionary change as «dreck».

Read the original work instead, as whatever you envision in your mind's eye has to look better than this dreck.

The only way to enjoy such soulless dreck is to imagine a commentary from Moore's erstwhile partner in crime Peter Cook, in character as Clive, letting him have it every time he opens his mouth.

It is educational, heartfelt, and adds immeasurably to the enjoyment of the film, although as with New Line's excellent Infinifilm format, my wish is for the studios to reserve such treatment for films that actually deserve it instead of formula dreck with questionable scholarly value like Driven and Blow.

He doesn't seem terribly gifted or graceful in the helm, as the film shows flashes of sharp suspense thriller but is more often reduced to mindless, artless B - movie dreck.

But even in her worst movies, Kidman is never the problem; her performances rise above whatever dreck they're in, as if her supreme self - possession as a performer inoculated her against the toxic material she was working with.

And just as «Dexter» wastes the wonderful Michael C. Hall in its title role (ditto «Weeds» / Mary - Louise Parker), so, too, does another bit of Showtime dreck, «Dead Like Me», boast the excellent Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin in the pursuit of decidedly modest returns.

I can't guarantee you'll like it, but I'll wager that almost anything you pull out will contain just as much thought and entertainment at a fraction of the cost in money and your time as this half - baked dreck.

Seeing the similar books you have out already, I'd like to suggest that you also do one on Z movies, stuff like «Plan 9» and «Robot Monster», as well as more recent dreck.

Christopher Walken is a multiple Oscar nominee, but his talent has been overshadowed to significant degree by both his highly imitable vocal delivery patten and penchant for eccentricity as well as, simply put, his love to work, which has led to him appearing in many dozens of films, including a lot of dreck.

It's now unfairly seen as one of his worst films, a title to be uttered amongst dreck like the ill - advised sequels Caddyshack II and Fletch Lives, not to mention Nothing But Trouble, Cops and Robbersons, and Man of the House.

He's mocked almost as often as he's adored, and his films dot a spectrum that stretches from unfunny dreck (Jack and Jill) to heartwarming humanity (Punch - Drunk Love) to stuff somewhere in between (Happy Gilmore, still one of Sandler's best ha - ha comedies).

Under «The Evolution of Spider - Man» you'll find Josh Dreck & Eric Matthies's 25 - minute «Spider - Man: The Mythology of the 21st Century,» an excellent primer on the origin of the character and his various transmutations over the years delivered through interviews with a few of the good men who drew him, such as John Romita («The Norman Rockwell of Marvel,» says Todd McFarlane, meaning it as a compliment) and his same - named son.

Cursed not only lives up to its name as an adjective for the production problems, but as a verb — used to describe what the majority of viewers who paid for this dreck did for the film's entire duration.

Derek Luke, a terrific and charming actor, does his best with his nice - guy role, and Jenifer Lewis, as Montana's mom, has a witty imperious quality that helps to elevate the clichéd lines she too often has to say above total dreck, but every time we leave Gail and Sam behind, the movie drags.

As an indie author and reader I agree one hundred percent that we are awash in dreck.

What is desperately needed is a better way for the typical reader to sort through the inevitable dreck to find those precious gems they will grow to love much as we did in olden times when a paperback reprint went for a quarter.

As a working author myself, I have limited time available in which to read books for review, and I don't have time to waste picking through the vast piles of unpublishable dreck in search of the one rare quality self - published book.

Besides, as the reviewing author said, these same wonderful traditional publishers have published dreck.

«I predict that freelance book editors, book cover designers, and book marketers will have banner years, as individual authors turn to self - publishing but seek to separate their books from the typical self - published dreck.»

For just about any other traditional publisher their logos set off a caution warning, as they have developed a reputation for putting out far too much dreck and ignoring what the readers really want.

And as far as: if anyone offered to pay me to edit hopeless dreck by the hour I'd turn down the project.

Lloyd is as much into the hardware of projectors, screens on shiny metal poles, the techno - dreck of wires and boxes, as the images of cranes and bridges, motorbikes and bodies they project.

The Helios Smart includes rubber plugs for the two USB ports, as well as for the micro-USB port, which will help keep dust and dreck from gumming up the ports.

«mindles h. dreck» writes, «Earlier a poster posits a «conspiracy of scientists» as part of Crichton's plot.

I'll offer that by Michael's metrics of innocence there are other much better candidates to uphold as examples of self - deluded, internally honest communicators of climate science dreck.

I believe that people like Rose give skepticism a bad name — as to «skeptics» who defend dreck like that Rose writes.

But the problem, as noted by others, isn't just that they ripped off my name, but that they did so with unadulterated dreck.

I... I...» — «I did this,» «I want that,» and I'm so great because...» How do hiring managers read through such — as my grandfather would say — dreck?

Wabi - sabi is all about clearing away the clutter and dreck so that we can appreciate our homes as beautiful, just the way they are

«Wabi - sabi is all about clearing away the clutter and dreck so that we can appreciate our homes as beautiful, just the way they are,» she says.