Sentences with phrase «bombast on»

Another churning Marianelli score, this time quite welcome, rolls us along, Wright pausing the bombast on a occasion for a quiet moment with two women in Churchill's life: a sweet assistant played by Lily James (appealing as ever), and Churchill's wife, Clemmie, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, doing her most with what could have been merely a bland supportive wife role.

Cuomo, an early supporter of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has repeatedly criticized Trump directly and indirectly for his bombast on the campaign trail and hard line against immigration and Muslims.

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A report, long on bombast but short on details, was then published on Citron's website.

I liquidated my short position on the NAFTA / auto news because the market had been very focused on Canada's vulnerably to Trump's protectionist bombast and any «let up» could trigger a rally in an oversold market.

The troubling fact, though, is that so far he's shown a weakness for eccentric vulgarity, bombast, bullying, and punitive instincts on immigration and America's role in the world.

Keys both sang the anthem and provided her own accompaniment on a white Yamaha piano at midfield on the Superdome turf, singing it relatively straight and without much bombast.

And, at 64, he gives no sign that he intends to tone down his bombast (in fact, in a YouTube video released last fall, he vowed to «bag» Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on arriving in the state legislature).

«All necessary pressure and diplomatic efforts must be brought to bear on North Korea to accept peaceful resolution of the crisis,» Buhari said in what could be read as a tacit rebuke of Trump's bombast.

On Wednesday, George Osborne delivered his spending review to the Commons without bombast or superfluous oratory: he galloped through his inventory of measures as if it were a standard financial statement, a spot of robust housekeeping to keep the nation's books in order.

All tech and design aspects here are first - rate, notably Patrick Taylor and Kevin Hilliard's ominous score (despite an occasional excess of percussive bombast), and cinematography by Alex Disenhof («The We and I») that makes excellent use of the widescreen format, both on land (the pic was shot in Kenya) and at sea.

MTV's big swing at epic fantasy is a lot of hokey bombast, wasted on a cast of callow babes in the exotic woods.

The performance borders on scenery chewing, but its bombast works because it's tinged with Gary's sad desperation.

Robust sound design and effects work all keep the pic rattling along without drawing overt attention to themselves; Thomas Newman's score, on the other hand, could probably stand a little more bombast.

Director / co-writer Roland Emmerich returns from part one, determined to re-create as many scenes as he can and up the ante on ships, aliens, and overall bombast.

Countless times he has been the poster boy for bombast and agressive speech, even once claiming, in an extremely offencive manner that verges on stupidity, while implying that «freedom of speech» is no longer tolerated in North America (which was / is rubbish then, as it is now).

Shot on quasi-grainy digital at close range and evenly lit in autumnal tones, Zachary Treitz's Civil War - set Men Go to Battle lacks the polish and bombast of much costlier historical dramas.

In an age where character and stakes take a further backseat to increasingly absurd, conxtext - free bombast (for which the Star Wars prequels take massive flak, with current examples like Jurassic World even more guilty than those lackluster films), Abrams» film feels almost subversive in its steadfast focus on character to get us cheering.

With unrepentant bombast — and, one imagines, a smirk — Yorgos Lanthimos announces, in just the first shot, that this is his film, and he doubles down on the stylistic tics that define his polarizing work.

Very early on in the process of doing last year's crossover, Greg Berlanti said there's probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the next crossover especially epic is if you can't increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that's a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.

This is a cinematically holistic work of diversity, in which cultural identity has been carefully woven into every element of the movie: a cast almost exclusively made up of people of color; a costume design based on traditional African jewelry and garments; a soundtrack that, at its best, puts a damper on the usual orchestral bombast and allows chanting or drumming to dominate.

It's a random mishmash of juvenile ideas without a single lucid thread to hold them together, except for both the incessant CG bombast ripped off from video games and the works of Peter Jackson, the Wachowskis, and Quentin Tarantino, as well as the recurring lascivious gaze of Snyder's camera on the china - smooth skin and full lips of bleached - blond heroine Baby Doll (Emily Browning).

Nuanced and supplemental, the score thankfully relies little on incidental cues (read: atonal bombast), typical of John Williams» or Howard Shore's work.

By Piñeda's next visit, in December 2002, the BOMBAST project was growing, and the students had created a peer - tutoring program (Club FrEd, short for «Fremont Education»), as well as taking on mini-projects such as Voluntary Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and the Business Student Empowerment Team.

was at long last being asked in earnest, the worst of these critics used it as an excuse for bombast and dark mutterings while the best sat idly by, carping on the standards rather than using the occasion to guide thoughtful implementation.

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (novel), a book full of irreverence and bombast — about a pack of teenage beauty contestants stranded on a desert island.

However, it's not all smoke and bombast, as clearly there is something to the fact that seemingly every single multi-platform game is running at a resolution, sometimes significantly, lower on the Xbox One.

The Halo 4 approach to multiplayer add - ons has been low - key compared to the bombast of its more earthbound shooter peers.

Another 2016 soundtrack from the mad - for - sadness section is Disasterpeace's Hyper Light Drifter (listen on Spotify), which while possessing flourishes of action - backing bombast, is for the longest time a yearning, aching listen.

«Games that try to operate at 11 all the time rely on bombast and spectacle.

While Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony showed off their wares with bombast, the excellent games and infinitely more powerful hardware on the PC received no such spotlight.

Those painters practice, however, a kind of juicy bombast (with Mr. Kiefer, more a charred bloviating), while Mr. Penck reduces his ingredients to thickened stick figures on lick - and - a-promise backgrounds, with titles no more enigmatic than newspaper photo captions.

About two years ago there was a contest on Slaw to see who could come up with the best collective noun for, well, a legion, a conspiracy, a bombast, an argument, etc. of lawyers.