Sentences with word «damnably»

Those principles all make sense, but they've also been damnably hard to live up to in a world where carriers not only hold back updates, but also enmesh themselves into the very operating systems of the phones they sell.

Its relationship with Legal Aid Ontario is dodgy - always has been because LAO, as an heirarchical, rule - bound entity can not figure out why it functions so well by being so damnably unconventional.

Those unfortunate enough to witness the Comet's arrival have been blinded by what they can only describe as a shifting, ephemeral hue of damnably abrasive intensity.

From what we've seen of it, the integration with general tablet activities is very slick, letting you dismiss Alexa, but then call her back via a pull - down menu, when you realise you've forgotten what she said about the weather, or what this damnably catchy tune is.

And by the way, since I'm so damnably cranky: Last week I noticed someone saying the indie revolution was a good thing for creators but wasn't any good for readers.

But Amazon is damnably clever, and steadfastly refuses to do my job for me, so let's do some analysis.

Damnably seductive, the original Vanquish.

Never released on VHS, rarely seen on TV or cable (and even then only in pan-and-scan versions) or revived in the dwindling repertory circuit, this film has not received its due as a masterpiece of American social drama in large part because it's been so damnably difficult to see.

With no gravity, no tension, no stakes, no surprises, no themes, and, most damnably, no ambition beyond mere adaptation to speak of, this is the first real disappointment of 2008, and it's a doozy.

Casting Emma Watson as a self - rescuing future princess was obvious — being both cute and damnably clever is her M.O. — as was casting Josh Gad as slightly sinister comic relief LeFou, but Luke Evans reportedly sought the role of Gaston, not exactly a positive role - model like his recent Hobbit and Dracula characters.

Anton Chekhov's Arkadina is one of literature's most narcissistic mothers — which is saying something — and yet Bening makes her damnably human.

It's weird to be put in the position of wanting the terrorist attack to hurry up and happen, already, but there's damnably little else to keep us occupied.

For an unvoiced, 2D game, Rayman Legends has a damnably well - rounded world.

is concerned with the ways in which a man doubts himself, doubts his relationships (as well as the implicit lie of the social «professional smile»), and learns almost too late the damnably difficult (for the intelligent and the sensitive) ability to accept the simple and the obvious at face value.

It's wilfully, damnably, emotionally inscrutable, of course, and if it also calls to mind a watchmaker and his intricate art, then find another explanation for Bresson's fascination with, and eroticizing of, the secret life of hands.

He talks about how this film is a fairytale and how he loves the little girl he cast and how honest she is in her complete inability to be anything other than herself (and, damnably, how much he let her ad lib her dialogue and thus alter his film).

It raises the question of why there aren't more mimes acting as Greek Choruses in movies before it answers it, and most damnably, it seems to ascribe some sort of moral failing to seniors afflicted with Alzheimer's.

It was ambitious, it was sprawling, it was damnably hard to follow.

I don't know, but either way this is a damnably interesting idea.

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«A most damnably dismal day.

How ironic (no, how damnably shameful) that scripture's very own songbook of worship is the very one that we, by our omission of it, have, in effect, tossed out of the window and trampled underfoot.

This is vaguely amusing, perhaps (even though the sentiment it expresses is entirely and damnably false), but is it worthy of anthologization?

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.