Sentences with phrase «as twitchy»

While no one is going to put it in the same category as a twitchy shooter, there certainly is room to kick serious butt.

The handling feels a lot better now with the cars feeling as though they now have some weight behind them and not feeling as twitchy as a unicycle on an ice rink like they did in Kylotonn's previous instalment in the series, WRC 5.

The gas pedal was as twitchy as Dirty Harry's trigger finger, and launches from a dead stop offered a surprising rush of acceleration.

Mark Ruffalo again bursts out of the screen as the twitchy, dog - with - a-bone Michael Rezendes, especially in his scenes with a genius Stanley Tucci, playing the harried, brusque DA who has been alone on the side of the angels so long in this devil's game that his humanism looks more like misanthropy.

Directed by Ben and Josh Safdie, the film was a highlight of the festival, with our own A.A. Dowd declaring Pattinson's performance as a twitchy bank robber attempting to engineer his brother's release from police custody the most deserving for the Main Competition's best actor prize.

It ultimately absolves Alice's enabling circle, which includes Joan Cusack and Jennifer Jason Leigh as twitchy TV - biz bottom - feeders.

It is a quality ensemble: James McAvoy playing against type as dogged, tightly wound police detective Max Lewinsky; Mark Strong playing to his strengths as career criminal Jacob Sternwood; Andrea Riseborough as Max's tough - cored but supportive partner; David Morrissey doing the dour boss thing; and Johnny Harris putting his terrifying, pebbly glare to terrific use as a twitchy assassin.

I like David Morse's one scene as a twitchy, traumatized CIA agent who knows something about the origin of the disease, and James Badge Dale as a U.S. Special Forces captain whose gung - ho competence is no match for the zombie hordes, and Daniella Kertesz as Segan, an Israeli soldier whose indefatigable spirit helps the hero save the day even after she's suffered unimaginable trauma.

Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

Dren starts out life as a twitchy little mite scampering around the couple's secret lab, before very quickly developing into a human female — only with wings, aquatic lungs, a tail and a venomous nature.

But just when you've got him pegged as a twitchy, type A personality, Willett plays the sensitive - husband card.

Not exact matches

Or, in a twist on this theme, others are retreating to the few remaining rural spots, such as much of Yellowstone or wilderness Alaska, that still have poor cell coverage to get away from their chiming notifications and twitchy fingers.

And then we start getting twitchy, eager to get our next fix as soon as we possibly can.

As possible harbingers of a new division order the Braves were upstaged by the Marlins in the postseason and outspent by the Phillies in the off - season, all of which makes everyone in Georgia twitchy except the Braves themselves.

He's a high - end twitchy athlete who has shown fairly good instincts and averaged more than a block and steal per game as a true freshman.

But, where full - term infants outgrow the twitchiness in a few weeks or months, premature babies tend to be twitchy and jumpy and display their newborn reflexes for a few months longer as their little bodies grow and try to catch up.

It was actually so traumatizing for me that I'm even getting a little twitchy as I'm writing this.

Many Total Politics readers will be familiar with feeling twitchy on Fridays as that is the day that, traditionally, a Sunday newspaper chooses to put a story to you.

According to one insider, Downing Street was a bit «twitchy» whenever the papers described Freeman as the prime minister's policy chief.

In a security office, a guard appeared to be getting twitchy as Hawkins and Funiciello posed for photos.

Specifically, the researchers found that a peptide, called STAT6 - IP, when delivered to the lungs of neonatal mice at the time of first RSV exposure reduces the development of allergic - type lung inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness («twitchy» airways) in mice when they are «re-challenged» with RSV as young adults.

William Gibson of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and his colleagues exposed fruit flies to overhead shadows resembling aerial predators, such as birds, and found that the more shadows the flies saw, the more twitchy they got (Current Biology, doi.org/4nx).

It's a challenging twitchy shooter that takes place at incredibly high speeds, but in today's pansy FPS market, this is the one game that really stands out as something different from the incredibly stale CoD / BF clones that get cranked out year after year.

I was also pleased at how well the dual analog worked as I was afraid it would be too twitchy to play a FPS with.

I am actually pleasantly surprised at how well Kunos has adapted the game's incredibly hard - core handling scheme to a controller (even at its default sensitivity settings it's less twitchy and unforgiving than I'd expected, and there's even an auto - throttle blip that will help keep the car composed as you downshift) but you really require a wheel to experience the best of what Assetto Corsa has to offer.

You'll need to keep your skills sharp and your thumbs twitchy as you launch, flip and tumble your fragile and OFTEN LETHAL cargo through nightmarish terrain and deadly pitfalls.

Over the past decade, Shannon has been increasingly typecast as either a twitchy weirdo on societal margins or an earnest simpleton, but Bahrani, in a stroke of casting gumption that makes one wonder why he's the first to make the move, has redirected the actor's distinctly coiled facial features and natural gift for commanding a room toward a character with genuinely threatening social and economic power.

The casting of twitchy Ethan Hawke as the burnt - out copper defending his snowbound station works effortlessly well.

John Turturro is wonderfully twitchy as the titular playwright slumming it on scripts for wrestling pictures.

Both Wiress and Beetee could have simply been twitchy, nerdy caricatures, but casting Wright (who seems to be everywhere) and Plummer (who we always want to see more of) gives them depth and brings additional emotional weight to the arena's proceedings, to the cast of other tributes (which needs all the rounding out it can get) and to the film as a whole.

He's twitchy and shifty, and as East of Eden opens, the unconditional love Cal's simpleton brother Aron (Richard Davalos) has for him does nothing to convince Aron's girlfriend Abra (Julie Harris) that Cal isn't some kind of sulky creep.

So all of the colourful people he encounters, brilliantly played with mercurial energy and twitchy personality, come across as twists on movie caricatures compared to him.

Less impressive is the only - too - obvious back - projection, but the smart idea of an admittedly arbitrary 60 - minute limit before the crew start growing back to normal size generates cumulatively effective tension as debut gal Raquel Welch provides the glam and ever - reliable Donald Pleasence offers more than a hint of twitchy menace.

Deadpool accompanies Colossus (voiced by Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) to take care of an incident in which young mutant Firefist (Julian Dennison, «Hunt for the Wilderpeople») lets his powers get out of control as he tries to escape an evil mutant «rehab» — basically the equivalent of one of those despicable «pray away the gay» gulags — run by the twitchy Headmaster (Eddie Marsan).

Timothy Spall, who has played a cabbie, a cook, and a photographer in previous Leigh endeavors, is all grunts and twitchy frowns as this ambitious, restless, complicated fellow.

It's perhaps not surprising to note, particularly given the origins of the eponymous creatures, that Trolls has been unapologetically geared towards very young viewers, as the movie, directed by Walt Dohrn and Mike Mitchell, boasts a bright, colorful, and ridiculously fast - paced sensibility that's sure to hold the attention of even the most twitchy of children - with the film's decidedly goofy atmosphere, at least, ensuring that it remains tolerable for the duration of its appropriately brisk runtime.

Curtis is played by character actor Michael Shannon, known for twitchy supporting roles in mainstream films, including his Oscar - nominated turn as a mentally fractured man in «Revolutionary Road.»

Nothing in the movie embodies this uneasy tension more than Gosling, whose performance as the formidably intimacy - averse Lars (who literally screams when touched by the supremely patient physician / psychologist played by Patricia Clarkson) is one - half thrift - shop geek joke and one - half twitchy study in terrified child - man.

A capable dramatic actor, he is supposed to be broadly comedic here, like a verbal Mr. Bean, but comes up short with a twitchy, unappealing performance you don't enjoy as the common thread.

The film is just as much about the ownership of women's bodies as it is about an alien invasion — ScarJo's blank face and slight, twitchy physicality are incredible to watch, as the men she encounters (many of them non-actors who were captured with hidden cameras) leer at her, make conversation, and eventually get sprung by the same trap they clearly wish to set for Scarlett.

When the Wolf and Twitchy the Squirrel (co-screenwriter Cory Edwards) fail in the mission, and Granny gets kidnapped as well, the boss calls in Red.

The attempts at a bumbling slapstick duo are there: one scene has Gosling evoking the twitchy stammering of Lou Costello, for instance, while another shows Crowe engage in that passé device known as a spit take.

Sheryl Lee gives an award - worthy performance as the demonized Laura Palmer, while there's great (if even too brief) turns from the likes of Kyle MacLachlan (briefly reprising his role as agent Dale Cooper ---- who, quite frankly, the film needed more of), Harry Dean Stanton, crooner Chris Isaak, Gary Bullock and a twitchy Kiefer Sutherland.

Jake Gyllenhaal did similarly twitchy work in Nightcrawler, but there his efforts were given a near - surreal context, as the character's sociopathy seemed a natural extension of L.A.'s tabloid seediness, captured brilliantly in Robert Elswit's luxuriantly scuzzy nighttime photography.

Some of them add new features and improve some of the shortcomings that are found in the «vanilla» (unmodded) version of the game such as the floaty physics system and twitchy driving mechanics.

It has a miniscule gas tank, twitchy steering, and is completely devoid of creature comforts such as a rearview camera and satellite radio.

The M4 already seems to have veered away from this as apparently its twitchy and horrible on the limit.

Weiner compares it with the Mercedes - AMG GT, though «not as aggressive, twitchy, or up to its performance task, but it's very predictable and easy to drive fast.»

And finally there's the driving experience, which is made up of shocking straight - line performance and a cornering attitude that feels as high stakes as any hyperactive, twitchy «ordinary» supercar you care to name.

For example, there's the adaptive power steering that is so light that it can be steered around a parking lot with just one finger, but firms up as you gain speed so it doesn't feel ponderous and twitchy on the highway.