Sentences with phrase «by aimlessness»

A heady topic distracted from by too many pointless discoveries of broken glasses and old bikes, none of which go anywhere in a picture marked mainly by its aimlessness.

You're telling me you're not driven by aimlessness?

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An exception to the general aimlessness is Adam Gellin, a scholarship student who, by following all the rules and acing every test, hopes to ride a Rhodes scholarship to the top of the capitalist heap.

Such groups can resist the aimlessness produced by the end of utopias suffered after the «collapse» of socialism.

When the sides met in January, his remit was strictly confined to the flanks and there was an aimlessness to his crossing borne out by the fact he completed just 40 percent of his attempted passes.

Retardation to momentum is further well - secured by unevenness to pacing, because, at 106 minutes, this film's seemingly tight runtime is achieved through a combination of thinning and bloating, placing little attention to exposition, and plenty of attention to repetitious, almost episodic filler, which wear down momentum until aimlessness sets in, slowly, but surely wearing down dramatic bite.

I suppose charm graces a sense of ambition, but even palpable passion is limited in a cold directorial performance by Matthews and Katie Graham, who have effective moments, but whose limp, perhaps quiet atmosphere stiffens pacing and makes it easier to notice aimlessness, while also thinning intrigue so close into dissipation that other shortcomings, including - nay - especially the natural ones, essentially impossible to ignore.

Steve Kloves has the task of capturing the final book's aimlessness and drift without allowing the narrative to be somehow infected by it

Kloves has the task of capturing the sense of aimlessness and drift of the final book's plot without allowing the narrative to be somehow infected by it.

James White (played by Christopher Abbott) is a 21 - year - old whose life is in a kind of disarray that's sometimes indistinguishable, at least from the outset, from typical millenial aimlessness.

Influenced by Taoist philosophy, Fung questions the idea of progress and the culture of overworking, and draws attention to slowness, idleness, and aimlessness by exploring what doing nothing entails.

Unfortunately, implementation of cleaner technologies has been thwarted by federal aimlessness.