Sentences with phrase «dragging the performance of»

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At times feeling like a stage play, «The Post» is fueled by the performances of its incredible cast — including Tracy Letts, Carrie Coon, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Alison Brie, and David Cross — but often the scenes drag on too long.

Though it's too early to quantify, I've noticed a growing gap between the performance of small businesses who adopt modern technology and those who insist on dragging their feet.

Political uncertainty is seen as one of the biggest drags on megadeals despite the performance of major stock markets throughout this year.

Fees paid to outside advisers and fund managers have dragged down many pension plans» performance — which is one reason Teachers cuts outsiders out of its process.

«The disappointing performance in export activity suggests that the loss of export competitiveness from the strong dollar and the weak global backdrop are becoming a net drag on U.S. economic activity,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

While slow demand for the iPhone 5c has been a drag on Jabil's performance, the product pipeline of Apple could once again provide a boost to the DMS business.

You need to scale your level of concentration to your sophistication, while also considering the performance dragging effect of spreading your money too thinly.

While you won't have fees and other performance drags that professional money managers face, the biggest determinant of your return is stock selection.

Two years later, QBE booked a $ 120 million loss on the sale of its American division in a deal aimed at shedding units that dragged on the company's performance.

(We had two Jesus» due to the extensive makeup for the crucifixion scenes) It was all very elaborate with me dragging the cross right in front of the audience and the soldiers whipping and yelling at me to live performance of the Via Dolorosa.

They dragged me along to the penultimate performance of a Christian rock musical called Lonesome Stone on August Bank Holiday, 1973.

Patrick, on the other hand, might drag up the performance of PP2 because he can skate and distribute.

even mourinho, who always needd a joke,controversy,issue,derisory,illogical - logic to augment his team performance and drags like of you in his trail, couldnt ve done more.

The guy pulled off one of the best coaching performances of the 2000s in dragging moribund FIU to a couple of bowl games, then spent four seasons under Nick Saban and one in Eugene under Willie Taggart.

(The previous week in Detroit, Garlits had become the first man ever to exceed 200 mph at the end of a quarter - mile drag strip, but that single performance might have been criticized as a fluke and possibly another among many questionable claims to 200 - mph runs.)

But a couple of below - par performances at a time when the mood around the club turned acutely toxic, and he seemed to get dragged down by it all, then got injured.

Why can't Wojciech learn his mistakes and fight for the team through his performances like Cazorla did at Man City, instead of dragging it down by wanting to play even when everybody sees that he is struggling?

Other noteworthy previous mayoral performances included Rudolph Giuliani donning drag and Ed Koch stepping out of the mouth of a man - eating plant.

Sadly, these discussions were prompted by another tragedy: Recently we lost a friend and alumnus who was a phenomenal scientist, mentor, activist, writer, and drag performance artist who touched hundreds of lives.

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Once the fear has passed, just in time for nap, visual and musical style are sometimes played in an immersive fashion by highlights in a directorial performance by Nicolas Winding Refn that bring some life to the film, though not as much as John Turturro's inspired lead performance, which does about as much as anything in bring the final product to the brink of decency, which is ultimately defied by the serious underdevelopment, overambition, monotonously unfocused dragging and near - punishingly dull atmospheric dryness that back a questionable drawn non-plot concept, and drive «Fear X» into mediocrity, in spite of highlights than can't quite obscure the many shortcomings.

Overall this film is an interesting character study, but it kind of drags and it's mainly the stellar performances that keep it going and almost make up for it not being that compelling.

In the end, the film is overrated and kind of a drag, but the set up is intriguing, and the performances are what ultimately save it, so, even though it will depress the dickens out of you, consider giving it a watch.

Bottom line, there's something a little minimalist about this dramatically promising story, and it grows harder to deny that the more sentimentality, dry spells and excessive dragging slow momentum, to the point of holding the final product shy of a rewarding state, flirted with enough by lovely scoring and visual style, some worthy story elements, strong performances - particularly that of Gene Hackman - and inspired direction to make «Bite the Bullet» a decent and sometimes gripping western drama, despite lost potential.

Much as Jennie Livingston did in «Paris Is Burning,» her landmark 1990 portrait of New York's drag - ball culture, Jordenö finds revelatory moments of warmth and intimacy in this stylish, spirited performance space — a public realm that offers acceptance, empowerment and advocacy to those who need it desperately.

The choreography, cinematography, direction, and performances of this film really added some nice flare to this film, but at the same time, it had a huge flaw that dragged me too much that I actually have difficulties seeing this movie and it has to do with the story.

A fun, eerie and artificial atmosphere and a good performance by Price, but like most Roger Corman - directed products of the era it has poor effects and drags at times.

What drags the game down is not only its lack of length but sub par voice acting particularly with the DLC's main protagonist, Batgirl voiced by Ashley Greene who had come to replace Kimberly Brooks from former games lacking the tone, wit and independence Brooks brought to the role changing the character, entirely lacking personality in a worn performance, the characters are now best to be left forgotten, not even Hamill could save this train wreck with the very few joker lines he had been presented with.

His film career is a list of Oscar - worthy performances (including his actual win for «Good Will Hunting»), but 1993's intricately rendered drag act remains best of all.

This gender - fluid performer and former RuPaul's Drag Race contestant (and who made our list of 100 Intriguing LGBTs to Look Out for in 2017) was submitted for both the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards for an amazing performance in Confessions of a Womanizer.

Flawless may take its title from a drag queen beauty pageant that figures not - at - all - prominently in the plot, but it best serves as a description of the terrific performances featured in the film.

Pugh is utterly spellbinding in a fearless performance that smoothly drags us into a spiral of devastation and murder.

Natalie Portman, in the performance of a career, portrays the widow of President John F. Kennedy, alternating between fragile, half - sobbing breaths and slow, confident drags of a cigarette (but remember: she doesn't smoke).

At the other end of the intimacy scale is Christopher Young's gigantic Drag Me to Hell, represented by a fine performance of the terrific end title piece.

Standout scene: A lip - synced drag performance to Shirley Bassey's rendition of «My Way.»

Leading an outstanding ensemble cast, Bruhl and Pike both give terrific performances, letting us glimpse the early commitment of their characters and a growing disillusionment when the ordeal drags on.

Sometimes the two types of performances exist side by side: It's easy to sneer at Sandler getting in drag to play the braying, Bronx - born Jill in Jack And Jill, but there's visible effort (and sometimes startling, sweaty detail) in that character, as opposed to the surly, condescending version of a straight man that the Jack character lazily embodies.

Game Night is so absurd it's almost surreal, but between everyone committing to the premise and that trio of editors timing every joke beautifully — and that hall of fame performance by Jesse Plemons which is, not for nothing, aided by perfect timing — it works and never gets dragged down by its own concept.

Too many scenes drag on far too long, buoyed only by the charms of Law's performance as Dom tries to claw his way back to a normal life.

It's a good thing, too — Flynn's casual performance is helped by Curtiz's ability to keep his star under constant threat from well - drawn villains (big heavy Bruce Cabot is square jawed and smug; character actor / sidekick Victor Jory is the epitome of dumb, single - minded badness) and from civilization run amok (random gunfights popping up all over; children getting dragged through the street tied to horses).

Aubrey Peeples is the title heroine, a bedroom folk - singer who becomes an overnight sensation when a low - key performance video goes viral, dragging her and her band - slash - sisters into the high - stakes world of corporate pop.

While Timothee Chalamet's been racking up the critics prizes for his performance it's been widely assumed that the Oscar already has Gary Oldman's name engraved on it and has since the very first photograph of him in Churchill drag was revealed.

Where reform critics get it wrong is when they claim that America's average scores are dragged down by the particularly poor performance of low - income students, or that the advantaged kids are doing just fine.That is objectively untrue.

They found that the arrival of low - achieving evacuees dragged down the average performance of the Houston students and had a particularly negative impact on high - achieving Houston kids.

Their performance drags down the overall results of these programs, which puts the programs themselves in jeopardy.

Caps on the number of charters in a state drag down performance as much as lax oversight, because they cramp the diversification of the market and discourage investment.

Drag Strip mode has been designed to provide maximum acceleration and performance for straight - line driving and is one of five driver - selectable modes available for 2018.

It has the straight line performance to live with that company — in fact Rimac has released a video of the Concept One out - dragging a LaFerrari — but it's unlikely to match those more conventional hypercars for lap time because it lacks downforce and outright mechanical grip.

Inside the cab is what appears to be a V - drive from a performance drag boat that sends the power that comes off the back of the engine down to the rear end.