Sentences with phrase «collapsing under the weight»

One of the most accomplished entertainment moguls Canada has ever minted, who saved the production when it was broke, he is now battling to get the show opening - ready before it collapses under the weight of its cost, or literally kills someone.

These large Rust - Belt metropolitan areas are collapsing under the weight massive budget deficits and catastrophically underfunded public employee pension funds.

But some other critics have in a sense taken the other side of this trade, contending that if anything the formula underestimates the potential liability of long - dated options by failing to adequately account for so - called tail risk — the prospect that the markets will collapse under the weight of, say, a giant housing bubble.

The grand, opulent, rococo edifice of Hegel's system rested upon so shallow a foundation that it could not fail to collapse under the weight of its own magnificence.

Our task is to work hard, master the arguments (scientific, ethical, philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.

I am a priest in a church which, like most churches, threatens to collapse under the weight of a perverse notion of a sexuality that is to be neither celebrated nor related to other issues of love and justice.

The truth is, as Silver says, that «Any other species would have collapsed under the weight of its own voracious appetites.»

Our structures are collapsing under weight of their own baggage as our memberships age and decline.

A person can not carry that much anguish around every day without collapsing under the weight.

It will be «fun» to watch the nannystate collapse under the weight of young men who collect their welfare check on Monday and commit jihad on Friday.

Justifying God as a God of well - intentioned benevolence by placing boundaries around the triumphant omnipotence of God finally collapses under the weight of its own insufficiently conceived alternative.

Mark offered the empty tomb as a symbol of the faith fact, that when our dreams die, when the life of faith collapses under the weight of illusion, Christ is not consigned to the tomb, nor does the whole structure of faith collapse.

That is to say, the naturalism of modern science is collapsing under the weight of scientific evidence, hardly an original insight.

When the men let go of the supports, the entire tent collapsed under the weight of the water.

Unlike some weeks, when it's hard to scare up items for the Buffet, today's buffet table might collapse under the weight of bacon, chocolate, Stacy's pita chips, a whole lot of cereal, and one very stuffed lunchbox.

«The Leave campaign's central arguments are collapsing under the weight of independent scrutiny.»

How could one column hold all of that valuable information without collapsing under the weight of ideas?

A first ever continental title is the goal for Cameroon when the women's Africa Cup of Nations kicks off on Saturday but will the hosts flourish or collapse under the weight and pressure of expectation?

The debate on electoral reform has collapsed under the weight of its own tepid irrelevance.

However, that does leave open the possibility that the Coalition will collapse under the weight of its own contradictions.

To keep the Web from collapsing under the weight of ever more data, the network needs to radically change the way it handles information, says the head of Bell Labs Research

Conventional air - pressurized stadiums such as the Metrodome, whose inflatable roof collapsed under the weight of snow in December, are rare in the U.S. — and may be accidents waiting to happen

Liberia's medical system, which collapsed under the weight of Ebola, is gearing up again.

In an opinion piece for Yale e360, he and Anne Ehrlich write: «Many human societies have collapsed under the weight of overpopulation and environmental neglect, but today the civilization in peril is global.

It's too much to bear for a politician who's collapsing under the weight of his own political savvy.

In lesser hands, Abyss may have collapsed under the weight of its self - seriousness.

Critic Consensus: While providing several top - notch action scenes, The Kingdom ultimately collapses under the weight of formula and muddled politics.

If you're familiar with writer - director Rian Johnson's prior films, Brick and The Brothers Bloom, then you can be forgiven for assuming that Looper will collapse under the weight of its gimmickry.

Critics Consensus: While providing several top - notch action scenes, The Kingdom ultimately collapses under the weight of formula and muddled politics.

A boring, all - you - can - regurgitate buffet of buddy - movie / cop - movie banality, «The Man» would collapse under the weight of...

Jonathan Mostow: That's a very insightful question — you're right — so often in sci - fi films, the pacing tends to collapse under the weight of the filmmaker's feeling the need to convey a lot of exposition.

However, despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed under the weight of arguments, technical complications and illness.

A History of Violence is not so much a bad film, but rather one that collapses under the weight of its own convictions.

Psychological all - star British cop thriller BLOOD follows two cop brothers who commit the ultimate crime and soon see their world collapse under the weight...

It's a raw psychological thriller centring on two cop brothers, Joe and Chrissie Fairburn, who commit the ultimate crime and soon see their world collapse under the weight of their former Police Chief father's shadow.

It's the sort of picture that feigns profundity, but instead collapses under the weight of its misguided imagery.

Despite Lawrence's best efforts, not to mention the obvious efforts of director Francis Lawrence, Red Sparrow collapses under the weight of screenwriter Justin Haythe's dull, uninspired adaptation of former CIA - agent - turned - author Jason Matthews» debut novel.

The basic serial killer mystery offers enough to make Solace interesting for maybe 20 minutes, but the film soon starts to collapse under the weight of its own pretensions and idiocy.

Despite Lawrence's best efforts, not to mention the obvious efforts of director Francis Lawrence (Hunger Games 2 - 4, I Am Legend, Constantine), Red Sparrow collapses under the weight of screenwriter Justin Haythe's (A Cure for Wellness, The Lone Ranger remake) dull, uninspired adaptation of former CIA - agent - turned - author Jason Matthews» debut novel.

Resident Evil has been a mainstay of the horror genre for decades now, and by most accounts had grown a bit stale as it ventured further and further into action game territory and started collapsing under the weight of its own convoluted lore.

Now sure, the back half of the movie completely collapses under the weight of the genre's conventions, but hey, a quality hour of movie is roughly twice what I was expecting so I consider that a victory right there.

The rumour of it raised eyebrows, but it wasn't until we all saw that leaked Mario + Rabbids artwork that the Nintendo faithful started to wonder if the Big N had collapsed under the weight of its own whimsy, forcing Internet satirists into existential crises.

In the vein of such divisive cult favorites as «Primer» and «Upstream Color,» Mike Cahill's crazy - ambitious sophomore feature (after «Another Earth») refuses to let a modest budget constrain its larger - than - life - itself concept, cramming everything from the existence of God to a new, all - encompassing theory of reincarnation into the guise of a sexy, globe - trotting detective movie that very nearly collapses under the weight of its own mumbo - jumbo.

A boring, all - you - can - regurgitate buffet of buddy - movie / cop - movie banality, «The Man» would collapse under the weight of its own generic stupidity if it weren't for the screen presence of Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy.Continuity - blind director Lee...

Without any real emotional center, SATC2 collapses under the weight of its embellishments.

A Christmas Story could collapse under the weight of all these tonal shifts; that it doesn't is credit to Clark.

As well as marking a major tonal shift, this point is, somewhat unfortunately, where the film falls apart, collapsing under the weight of significantly amateurish writing, acting and essentially every major facet of the filmmaking process.

Released four years after Lilies, the film collapses under the weight of its own niceties.

A best case scenario is that there will never be an agreement on the local assessments and this whole new evaluation process will then collapse under the weight of its stupidity.

Yet after two visits by the education department and an investigation by the attorney general's office, the troubled Indianapolis private school still received thousands of dollars in public funds through Indiana's school voucher program and remained eligible to receive state voucher money until it collapsed under the weight of its unpaid debts.