Sentences with phrase «buckles under the force»

Snappy dialogue and spiffy performances aside, Barry Sonnenfeld's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's «Get Shorty» almost buckles under the force of its own incomprehensible plotting and vapidity.

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This is important because it helps the buckles and other plastic parts not become brittle and breakable when put under extreme force.

And we've seen a bipartisan process buckle under the weight of these withering forces, even as we have produced a proposal that is by all accounts a common - sense, reasonable, non-ideological approach to target the root problems that led to the turmoil in our financial sector.