Sentences with word «dreck»

Our unnamed traditional author has a point: there is a lot of dreck in Indies because the only gatekeeper is the customer.

It does, unfortunately, mean there's a higher percentage of dreck in indie because the manuscripts haven't had to survive a dip in a slush pile before making it into print.

Yes, there is a lot of dreck out there but, if you look at it with a cold eye, there is as much (if not more) on a percentage basis coming out of traditional publishing as there is from indie publishing.

Proyas has always been a visually - minded filmmaker, even with dreck like I, Robot, and there are a few moments of enjoyable spectacle from time to time, aided helpfully by the filter of low expectations.

It is educational, heartfelt, and adds immeasurably to the enjoyment of the film, although as with New Line's excellent Infinifilm format, my wish is for the studios to reserve such treatment for films that actually deserve it instead of formula dreck with questionable scholarly value like Driven and Blow.

If you can't find yourself an agent and can't get yourself a traditional publishing contract then you simply need to accept the fact that you aren't good enough to be a writer and you shouldn't be filling up the digital shelves with what can only be classified as dreck.

Paddington would be a pleasant surprise at any time of the year, but it's especially disarming in January, a month Hollywood has long reserved for dreck that has no possibility of generating good word - of - mouth but can still make money as counterprogramming across from the slowly - expanding end - of - year awards fare.

There's just such a HUGE percentage of people self publishing who DO fit into that stereotype of publishing dreck that was rejected because they can't bear to edit or kill one little darling.

It seems that enough folk have come across dreck at the lower price levels that they're less likely to take a chance on the lower priced eBooks.

So it is with Japan: Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa ply their trades at AC Milan and Manchester United, who may have been utter dreck last season but still just about count as big clubs.

While the Academy Awards seek to praise the most impressive cinematic achievements, the Razzies highlight the most unwatchable dreck to grace the silver screen.

Try again, without posting the same dreck that you've already posted, okay?

Lucky that this isn't a theocracy, lucky their say - so is so much dreck, lucky people are free to do as they choose without legal repercussions.

might in fact be wasting our hard earned money on dreck like this.

However... there is an awful lot of driveling dreck coming from traditional publishers, and the quality of editing / proofing / spelling / grammar from the traditional NYC publishers has plummeted in the last decade or two.

They also warned that allowing just anyone to publish without having to prove themselves by finding a way past the gatekeepers would allow nothing but dreck into the holy waters of publishing.

Independence Day is certainly dumb, poorly written dreck, but somehow despite everything going against it, it's still fun to watch all the same.

The movie Was absolute dreck for reals... there were good elements, but everything felt like it was pasted together, no character interactions beyond the surface and the vfx save for the Pegasus and kracken were uniformly terrible.

Bestselling authors are inundated with requests and I'm not sure she would have agreed to read the ms on spec if it wasn't for the industry «endorsements» that validated for her the ms isn't total dreck.

As a working author myself, I have limited time available in which to read books for review, and I don't have time to waste picking through the vast piles of unpublishable dreck in search of the one rare quality self - published book.

Hiswillingness to spout ridiculous, baseless dreck makes him popular with the constant whiners and doom and gloom idiots who can't seem to understand that in football, shit happens.

But even in her worst movies, Kidman is never the problem; her performances rise above whatever dreck they're in, as if her supreme self - possession as a performer inoculated her against the toxic material she was working with.

In lieu of taking in this weekend's Prom Night, or other dreck at the theater, one might be advised to simply enjoy an analytical look back at the story of the original, very Canadian slasher film, from 1980, and its desperate stabs at Americanization.

With multiplexes playing the usual dreck coming out after December (Mortdecai?

The only way to enjoy such soulless dreck is to imagine a commentary from Moore's erstwhile partner in crime Peter Cook, in character as Clive, letting him have it every time he opens his mouth.

Some people want the dubious distinction of being able to call themselves a «published author» so badly they will put up any kind of dreck just so they can claim that honor.

When no agent has sorted through that pile of dreck looking for the rare gem, then the reader has to do that job herself.

Sure, leading man Kor Meteor almost comes off like a parody of the headstrong Japanese RPG protagonist, spouting such dreck as «Kor Meteor doesn't try.

It's now unfairly seen as one of his worst films, a title to be uttered amongst dreck like the ill - advised sequels Caddyshack II and Fletch Lives, not to mention Nothing But Trouble, Cops and Robbersons, and Man of the House.

You can also find dreck in both camps.

With Blue Ant, MacMillan appears to be tacking against the torrents of broadcast television dreck at the bottom of the dial by targeting two coveted demographics, the first of which is thinking, affluent baby boomers: its portfolio includes content about the cottage lifestyle, travel, and PBS - style documentary programming through the Canadian version of the Smithsonian Channel, as well as a nature channel called Oasis.

And if someone explained to her that he objected not so much to the decadence as to the artistic dreck and moralistic drivel, it is doubtful that she would get it.

Now wait for it: Unreal Stupidity and Redundant Retard will post some crap about this being a «national crisis» in which the government would be justified in overturning all rights to privacy under HIPAA, just like he did the last time he posted this moronic dreck.

There's no need to respond with anything original when the posts you vomit up are beyond dreck, honey.

That's the sort of dreck pundits and TV commentators dredge up to make themselves look like that have insights into the complex workings of English football.

For starters, the offense was unsupportive dreck.

The problem is that there aren't enough of them, and there's no room to move other young players in because of the veteran dreck that is clogging up he roster.

If your daughter, niece, or grandchild is a Barbie fan already, a title like Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer might catch your eye, but don't be deceived: as The Mary Sue reports, this book is a big a pile of sexist dreck as you're likely to find in the bookstore.

Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans, neatly summarized the sentiments of city officials and many education experts during his questioning, saying, «a lot of the discussions taking place have been political dreck.»

What Sloboda eventually unearthed was a 17 - inch - long, 5 - inch - high, 6 - inch - wide piece of dinosaur dreck.

That said, there is clearly an audience for this sort of mopey, romantic dreck, so let's see how well this one achieves its goals.