Sentences with phrase «curious lack»

The speech comes after two Tory donors criticised Cameron for a «curious lack of energy and belief in his campaign» and accused him of being not the «slightest bit inspiring».
Curious lack of love at the Césars for «Atlantic City»... Only nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Music.
And yet it remains true that to criticize the Revelation harshly is to show a curious lack of historical insight and a complete lack of sympathy.
There is even a curious lack of stink in the air.
Garland's direction occasionally has a curious lack of drama, as if, in his effort to avoid being over-the-top, he's gone too far in the opposite direction.
As deftly as Lawrence conveys every note on the emotional scale from deadened terror to helpless fury, there's a curious lack of spark with either childhood friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) or lovelorn fellow contestant Peeta (Josh Hutcherson).
Anachronisms abound, as we watch 70s style outfits in the superfluous roller derby scene, the Chuck Taylor Converse All - Stars sneakers worn by one of the main fighters in the brawl, and a curious lack of segregation in many of the situations that would have been taboo at the time, including an interracial relationship that goes by unnoticed even to the obvious racists in the film.
When it arrives, though, it lands with a curious lack of emotional impact — perhaps inevitable, given the nature of a story that seeks to connect characters who are rarely and sometimes never on screen together.
As with Bourne, car chases and hand - to - hand fights are heavily edited, and quite exciting visually, though there is a curious lack of white - knuckle tension that should have resulted from the scenes had the script by first - time feature film scribe David Guggenheim spent more time with the characters to get us to care about their situations before throwing them on the run.
However, there's a curious lack of exhilaration to them that makes them feel like they're perfunctorily checking off boxes of audience expectation rather than in trying to tell a good story.
Ben says Christine's mind still thinks she's in her early 20s, though in a curious lack of oversight (or just a reluctance to get into it), Joffe never has Christine remember anything: not her life before the accident, not her childhood, not older world events, nothing.
A major problem is structural, as the plot rambles with no clear directorial vision and a curious lack of character development, which is likely partially due to the poor lead performance.
That would explain the curious lack of physical effects on two planets so close together.
Considering this new level of Frankentruckness along with the curious lack of powertrain improvements and the absence of key features, we have to ask: will Toyota ever get the big truck thing right?
Chief among these is a curious lack of crescendo in its delivery.
There» $ ™ s a shocking lack of enemy variety, meaning you $ ™ ll quickly get bored blasting the same type of enemy again and again, and for a Survival Horror game there $ ™'s a curious lack of tension or horror.
There has been a curious lack of representation of how people live — a question being asked about what kind of person the player becomes when placed in a real life situation.
While the pacing wasn't quite up to series standards and there was a curious lack of new gameplay ideas, there's still more than enough on show to make the 15 - hour stint worth every second.
Unfortunately, the curious lack of overall continuity and apathetic gameplay relegates Witchaven II: Blood Vengeance to the «almost - but - not - quite» bin.
Cursing the heat, the desert, the curious lack of Nazi symbols on his attire and in the base, and above all the generator for failing, he continues diligently on his patrol clutching to fading memories of his home in the Third Reich.
But sadly the game was beset with flaws - namely, a curious lack of much sniping - which we hope has been rectified in the PS3 port due a review very soon.
For all the physical presence, however, there is a curious lack of energy; a mood, even, of depression.
At least, they seem to be, when you first walk into the gallery: only a curious lack of energy appears to be keeping this quarrelsome, visually jarring display of work from breaking up into a general fracas.
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