Sentences with phrase «by plodding»

You move through the campaign by plodding from point to point on a map, with several of these points delivering a fight.

The market responded by plodding lazily into record territory.

Plagued by a plodding, turgid, and outdated script, the film never comes to life.

Our hero is Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr. (Morris Chestnut), who is a «private pathologist» and consultant on the murder cases worked by the plodding members of the Miami Police Department — who loathe him as a know - it - all smoothie.

This season those supposed pistols have been mostly shooting blanks — Charles Howell (24th on the money list) has been solid enough, but David Gossett (82nd), Luke Donald (86th), Matt Kuchar (175th) and Ty Tryon (199th) have been outfoxed and overmatched by the plodding veterans who thrive on the increasingly extreme course setups.

Not exact matches

Broadcast behemoths like CBS in the U.S. continue to plod along, protected by their sheer size and inertia.

The research should also push planters to more and better preparation, as it confirms the effectiveness of the steady plodding by those who allot time to raise their own support and maintain relationships with coaches or other supportive figures.

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

In his weakness and ordinariness, in the ease of his dismissal by those seeking something larger, in the character of his fragility, which fits so neatly into the world and into what is despicable about the world, Jesus is the Nobody whose prayer can mirror and fulfill the plodding of true prayer.

I myself spend quality time plodding down by the Thames, exercising away my continued reliance on too much of a good thing (plus, doing a bit of bird - watching.

In the frontcourt, although Johnson sometimes appears to resemble a plodding brontosaurus alongside Cauley - Stein's velociraptor - like agility, Johnson adds plenty of defensive value by rim protecting without fouling.

Preseason projections still account for 30 percent of teams» ratings, which doesn't help, but neither do Arizona's poor performance against UTSA or Utah's plodding offense, which has been outgained by the opponent, on a per - play basis, in every game so far.

Last night's abject defeat against Sunderland was epitomised for me by the sight of a young kid crying inconsolably as I plodded down Sir Matt Busby Way before crossing the tram tracks and heading home with a heavy heart.

A nice comedy moment in the game when two teenage girls ran onto the pitch to mob Harry Redknapp instigating a chase by the local plod that ended with one of their number toppling into the crowd.

I know there are earlier ones, but the first one that popped into my head was when my son was about a year, and starting to walk by pushing this toy on wheels; early in the morning, before anyone in our neighbourhood was up, we'd walk around the block, me in my pjs with a mug of tea, the rising sun shining on his bright little face, as he plodded that LONG distance (for his little strides) beside me.

Legislation, by contrast, plods along at an excruciating rate.

Plodding Progress for Women, Minorities in Science, by Michael Price, 5 March.

Back here on Earth, this once - gorgeous planet, now plodded and trammeled by doomed and flatulent cattle, shall see its scenery restored when billions of acres are replanted with swards of lush, sky - thickening rain forest.

So he avoids the plod from hot Mercury to freezing Pluto much loved by the more pedantic.

Jump Around Plod through a 20 - minute warm - up jog if you wish, but you could get better results in under a minute, suggests a study in the Journal of Applied Physiology, which found that the fatigue caused by lengthy warm - ups can compromise your workout.

Those are the 1 - 2 hour cardio sessions where you're plodding around on a treadmill watching the clock tick by, bored out of your mind.

American Pie Presents The Naked Mile's latter half, as a result, moves along at a plodding pace that's compounded by an episodic structure, as the movie lurches from one ill - conceived set - piece to the next with little thought towards momentum or consistency - which inevitably does confirm the film's place as just another interminable waste of time designed to cash in on the original trilogy's success.

Not bad by any means, but the seriously plodding pace for the first few episodes kills much of the excitement in Batman - The Telltale Series.

It's a 10 - episode thriller based on a series of novels by Blake Crouch that feels plodding.

As it plods along, Seven Seconds is often redeemed by superb performances from actors who are constantly called on to make the best of overwritten and not always credible dialogue.

While viewers searching for something more modern and exciting might find the more esoteric parts of the film to be plodding, most will leave Lincoln satisfied by the film, and inspired by its lessons: that one man's determination can change the course of history, that politics is not just a space for the power hungry, and that this country may have its problems, but it is men like Lincoln that established America as a home for freedom and change.

Yet there are many plodding stretches which Corbet doesn't succeed in concealing by inserting wild camera movements combined with Scott Walker's bleak, juddering orchestral score.

While the»80s Berlin - set «Atomic Blonde» was a violent, colorful, sexy and darkly absurdist film, Russian spy thriller «Red Sparrow,» directed by Francis Lawrence, is epic, methodical and unfortunately plodding, jettisoning thrills for a stultifying moodiness.

By offering the first act of the concluding tale as a stand - alone film, Lionsgate and company have made us wait a year for a plodding, dull, and thinly plotted movie that does little to move things forward.

The excessive familiarity of the film's storyline is exacerbated by the almost unreasonably plodding pace, with the hopelessly inert midsection - in which Ben and Jane investigate their demon's tragic past - certainly proving a test to the viewer's ongoing patience.

It's a shame that Aidyn's slow pace and plodding combat mean many of its pluses will be discovered only by the most stubborn players out there.

And the stripped - down acting style echoes the way Mitchell approaches the material, dwelling on the plodding ordinariness of the situation by using sharp comedy, sudden emotional responses and wrenching anguish.

In addition to its overly familiar plot, Homefront runs its course in some predictable ways, and the leaden, by - the - numbers events of the film are too plodding for this relatively talented and appealing cast to overcome.

Beatty's first film in 15 years — co-written, produced, directed by and starring himself as Howard Hughes — is a plodding exercise in narcissism

Beatty's first film in 15 years — co-written, produced, directed by and starring himself as Howard Hughes — is a plodding, airless exercise in narcissism

Bertrand Bonello has made what I'd be more comfortable calling a far masterpiece rather than a near masterpiece, a film that comes to life in sublime flashes while being surrounded by more plodding and mediocre parts.

By the time the credits rolled, I realized that I had just watched a feature - length prologue to a plodding supernatural epic / coming of age adventure that, apocalyptic struggle or not, I'm not the least bit invested in.

Full of all those iconic sounds, and a predictable plodding plot to go along with them, this movie gets less scary and more tedious as the minutes tick by.

by Walter Chaw Featuring the valedictorians of the indie brat pack past and present, Matthew Ryan Hoge's sophomore hyphenate feature The United States of Leland is woefully overwritten, self - indulgent, and plodding — a shame given the squandering of another nice clenched - jaw performance from Ryan Gosling, and no surprise given the full martyred weight of actor / producer / saviour - of - mankind Kevin Spacey, thrown behind the project as simultaneous catalyst for completion and guarantee for failure.

Bound by duty, Carrie plods forward with an investigation that grows increasingly complicated after she discovers another dead body and is nearly killed by a man wielding an ice axe.

Yet any ambience created in tandem by Lubezki and Malick repeatedly dissipates in the face of the plodding treatment of fascinating material: the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and, more specifically, the relationship between lithe Native - American girl Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher) and sensitive English settler John Smith (Colin Farrell).

It is, as such, impossible to overlook the feeling that the movie is simply spinning its wheels in the buildup to the action - packed climax, with the plodding nature of the midsection exacerbated by an almost total dearth of energetic interludes - which, perhaps predictably, ultimately cements Man on a Ledge's place as a decent 22 - minute television episode that's been unnaturally stretched into a full - length feature.

Contrary to the nearly ironclad custom that sees competition entries filtering through to French cinema screens in the months following the festival (with each one, no matter how lukewarm its critical reception may have been, invariably touted by its promotional campaign as «la sensation de Cannes»), Netflix supremo Ted Sarandos brazenly declared his company's impatience with the requisite three years for his productions to make their plodding way from theatrical distribution, to DVD, premium cable and even free - to - air television before being allowed to air on the platform that had funded them in the first place.

Scripted by John C. Higgins (who penned Raw Deal, T - Men and Border Incident for Anthony Mann) and directed by Howard W. Koch, it's an inconsistent film, with striking imagery, creative twists (scuba gear) and ruthless turns (death by steam tunnel) next to plodding direction and tired first - person narration from Reed Hadley, who plays the colorless but dignified FBI agent on the case.

While much of the plot is ridiculous and counterintuitive, the film itself just plods along knowing the audience won't care and will have a blast by the end.

by Walter Chaw Plodding, ugly, moribund, Burnt Offerings is bolstered by a few great campy turns from a game cast that includes Oliver Reed, Karen Black, and Bette Davis in a performance that runs counter to the self - loathing roles of her Baby Jane / Sweet Charlotte days.

Directed by Dick Powell in a deliberate (at times plodding) manner, the film offers its share war movie action but the focus is on the battle of wits, a kind of chess game played with torpedoes and depth charges, with the two captains attempting to outwit the other by anticipating one another's movies.

As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

* UPDATED As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

The Splash — by no means complicated on the suspension front — plods along over bumps and abrasions on the road in a steady manner.