Sentences with phrase «by sketchy»

Its power is lessened by the sketchy figure at its center that may represent Mr. Alfonzo's knowledge that he had AIDS.
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Her Hannah is done no favours by sketchy early dialogue that presents her as a husband - hunting career obsessive with a «PG - 13 life,» one of too many clumsy nods to the film's own rating.
We're stuck watching the villains play to the rafters, and the Rock's bland romance with a crusading scientist (Naomie Harris, Oscar nominee for her performance in Moonlight) until the titular orgy of mass destruction finally rolls around; sadly, it's hamstrung by sketchy CGI.

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(By 2008 the company settled a lawsuit and a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission, agreeing to pay back as much as $ 30 million to its customers over the sketchy claims.)
Many companies are abusing scarcity — maybe I should call it scare - ity — by using sketchy numbers or arbitrary deadlines.
Details are sketchy, but sources close to both companies confirmed to Fortune the gist of the announcement to be made in San Francisco next Thursday by Amazon (amzn) Web Services Chief Executive Andy Jassy.
Even by the standards of the commodity business (and the commodity trading business in particular) Glencore is known for its appetite for political and legal risk, and its willingness to deal with sketchy counterparties.
The BBC's online article, and the brief accompanying video that was presumably aired on the network, were both a bit sketchy in their account of the arguments made by the two sides.
And he was schooled by Jesuits, which is sketchy still.
Ministers also and the laity of the Church will know what is expected of those who hold this office For the present it is possible only to feel after and to describe in sketchy outline what this new conception is, a conception that we may believe is at least as much gift of grace as consequence of sin and perhaps more something produced by historic forces under divine government than the creature of human pride and fickleness.
The country's teavangelicals can «tolerate» a Catholic — at least they are Christians by their measure — but this sketchy Mormon stuff is one step beyond for them.
For many groups, these numbers provide a fairly accurate county - by - county picture, but to the extent that a group provided sketchy data (lots of round numbers always raise questions) or no data at all, these «adherent» numbers fail to reflect the actual religious composition of a given area.
The Gospel of Mark also presupposed the conditions of life in Palestine in Jesus» day: but the book could be understood by readers with only the scantiest and sketchiest knowledge of things Palestinian.
Hoyle's work is sketchy at best and has been largely debunked by recent findings.
Still, regression by a team like Oregon, with a defense that has been all sorts of sketchy, has opened up the Pac - 12 race.
They did make a really sketchy move by trading a perfectly good starting cornerback in Daryl Worley to the Eagles in exchange for Torrey Smith, an underperforming receiver who is presumably there to catch overthrown passes and not much else.
I was watching the end of the Twins game at a kinda sketchy bar in Santurce, when lo and behold JJ Barea and Mark Cuban walk by (followed by 3 Escalades)
Players are also bringing harm to themselves, whether by venturing out late at night, winding up in sketchy areas or just not paying attention to their surroundings.
Although details remain sketchy, it appears that the damage was exacerbated by the failure of submerged emergency generators.
My answer was sketchy at best, so I tried to mollify him by saying that they were probably all descendants of some European import.
They are motivated by the humbling realization that our knowledge of undersea life as a whole is only slightly less sketchy than our knowledge of life under those Antarctic ice shelves: Even where the water is not covered by ice, its sheer volume — not to mention the difficulty of seeing and moving through it — means that it is nearly all aqua incognita.
HTML for Dummies by Ed Tittle and Steve James (IDG, # 28.99, ISBN 156 884 330 5) sticks a sketchy explanation of everything from Usenet to modem speeds and HTTP servers into an introductory section before explaining HTML, the language of the Web.
Many women assume that any weight - loss treatment prescribed by a doctor must be safe — certainly safer than sketchy supplements or weird crash diets.
As Denise Minger demonstrates in Death by Food Pyramid, the recommendations to eat less fat and more grains was the product of «shoddy science, sketchy politics, and shady special interests»:
Death by Food Pyramid, published by Mark Sisson, is an exquisitely researched expose on how, «Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics, and Shady Special Interest Groups Have Conspired to Ruin the Health of America», and what you can do to avoid succumbing to such bad influences.
The name «Pharmacist Formulas» is sketchy and misleading because it implies that it is backed by a pharmacy or created by a pharmacists which it is not according to any information on the internet.
The how - to details are a bit sketchy as it's not a freely available practice — classes are only offered by certified Transcendental Meditation teachers and can be expensive.
While online dating once represented a sketchy activity, it has now been accepted by a wide range of normal, well - adjusted singles looking for a great way to meet new people.
Because some users may be a little sketchy, SingleParentMeet protects your safety by allowing you to block or raise a concern about any profile.
I am 99.9 % sure that DateACougar.com is either a scam, run by bots, or way too sketchy to trust any information with.
Johannes Roberts» 47 Meters Down follows Mandy Moore and Claire Holt's vacationing sisters Lisa and Kate as they embark on a shark - watching expedition aboard an exceedingly sketchy boat (captained by Matthew Modine's Taylor), with problems ensuing after their cage sinks to the bottom of the ocean and they're forced to fend for themselves.
The first installment a surprise hit that coasted on a novel combination of savvy music design and an affable cast led by Anna Kendrick; there were enough B - sides left over to for a watchable second movie; now, the premise is stretched so thin that someone thought it would be a good idea to pad it with an action - suspense subplot involving Fat Amy's (Rebel Wilson) long - lost father / international crimelord (John Lithgow with a sketchy Australian accent).
In Triple 9, Hillcoat's ode to Michael Mann's and David Ayer's LA oeuvre, plus more recent crime dramas The Wire (the HBO series) and The Town (the Ben Affleck film), a gang of outlaws / inlaws / lawmen - some are criminals, some crooked cops, some married into the same family - must carry out a series of sketchy robberies for a Jewish mafia crime queen played by Kate Winslet.
Takahata embraces the sketchy, impressionistic, painterly qualities of animation being displaced by CGI.
While Wonderstruck is so very much more than this one incredible landmark metaphor, you understand what Selznick means when Ben, the boy from 1977, played by the very talented Oakes Fegley, opens the door in Port Authority Station to the blinding daylight of sketchy, un-Disneyfied Times Square.
She's joined by romantically - awkward Renzo (Tony Revolori), sketchy skinny man Walter (Stephen Merchant), super-polite former nanny Jo (June Squibb), the inquisitive diner owner Jerry (Craig Robinson) and his wife (Lisa Kudrow).
Snazzy production design and clever soundtrack choices can't overcome the sketchy performances by Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf as Southern bootleggers
A dressed - down Judd lands credibility to the sketchy traumas by which she's meant to be haunted (one involves a long - lost family member), and nails a climactic monologue.
From its sketchy screenplay to its uninspiring score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul to its showy but shallow performance by Jackman and its oddball staging of musical numbers (one is actually performed by Efron and Zendaya while they're twirling on ropes and spinning dizzyingly as in a Cirque du Soleil routine), the film does little to advance the cause of musical motion pictures.
Djbril (Sy Alassane), an aspiring singer and Canal Street peddler, may move through a gray - market immigrant world of pirated CDs and sketchy back rooms, but everyone and everywhere looks fashion - spread terrific, thanks to the serenely muted colors and elegant, wide - screen compositions by the cinematographer Bradford Young.
Conceived by its stars as a stylish pop divertissement, this irrelevant anthology of sketchy setpieces, dazzling fragments, and disposable conceits is a post-feminist, girls - kick - ass in - joke whose point was lost somewhere along the way.
The mechanics of the heist are rather sketchy, and the buddy - buddyisms could be cut by half.
But then there is the rest of the movie — two whole hours of it, this being a co-production with Judd Apatow, and all — which would seem sketchy even by the standards of sketch comedy.
They are awards picked by 80 or so international journalists (some slightly sketchy) who, granted, want to make the «right» choice, but are a very small pool with somewhat unique tastes and distinct agendas.
As for the characterization, it's all fairly sketchy, but it's pulled off by the actors with insouciance, grace, and a touch of Shakespearean loftiness — not least by Swinton, whose non-stereotypical, non-Eastern sage comes across with the poised, patrician coolness of a London PR executive who has abandoned worldly things to become a top - range feng shui coach.
Its characterization of the madness that begins to slowly engulf city - bred Genevieve (Kate Lyn Sheil) in the countryside is rather sketchy, and its depiction of the sexual jealousy she begins to develop toward earnest country girl Robin (Takal herself) doesn't go far beyond Eyes Wide Shut lite; still, the film packs a wallop, with a pungently atmospheric score by Ernesto Carcamo and some unnervingly prolonged long takes (Nandan Rao was the cinematographer) that offers an unsettling counterpoint to the beautiful scenery and naturalistic performances.
Though it's flecked with deadpan humor, the sketchy psychologization of the deterioriating Marina and her family is overshadowed by the film's ruthless narrative drive and violence.
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I just ordered LED tail lights for my Jeep (made by KC, not something super sketchy).
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