Sentences with phrase «feels inert»

Despite this theme, the work feels inert — showy, but dumb.

There's a lot of compressed energy in those brushstrokes, but the painting feels inert.

With its square - looking wheelbase you initially think that you might be able to get it set up nicely for corners if you turn in on the brakes, but the reality is that the rear just feels inert and unwilling to follow the front.

Haynes's cinematic approach to Wonderstruck is similar to those cabinets: This is a film that feels inert at times despite being crammed with ideas.

Important relationships feel inert.

This causes the story to feel inert, as it captures a specific place and its inhabitants, but the stakes about Cameron's life seem not as stressful as they should be.

The steering is not exactly lively, yet neither does it feel inert, and the 225 / 50R -17 Michelin Energy Primacy MXM4 tires do a fine job of coping with nearly 4000 pounds of weight.

Not exact matches

For Descartes the most real things about himself were his feelings and thoughts that inert things and non-human creatures do not have.

Indeed, a feeling is first and foremost a subjective, concrete experience and not a property or attribute of some inert object, let alone something composed solely of abstract entities, whatever their degree of complexity and organization.7 In brief, then, a concrete percipient event is a feeling experience, which presupposes a body capable of experiencing feelings.

And it is true, of course, that aggregates made up of concrete moments of feeling exhibit macroscopically inert qualities.

When it's blocked, you lack courage, have low self - esteem, and feel stagnant and inert.

Bilge Ebiri of The Village Voice believes the «main relationship between Jacques and Arthur feels curiously inert,» and The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw finds «something disconcertingly passionless and anaemic» in the film.

While there are a number of things to recommend within this live - action retelling of «a tale as old as time»... the movie, as a whole, feels strangely inert.

While there are a number of things to recommend within this live - action retelling of «a tale as old as time,» including many fine performances and the beautiful visual effects, the movie, as a whole, feels strangely inert.

A black and white philosophy that the hotel dwellers and forest people merely operate on two extreme sides of the same coin, equally governed by shallow and trivial rules, shying away from any real emotion and humanity, fascinates as social commentary, but ultimately makes an absolutely funny and often unique film feel narratively inert.

The Woman in the Fifth could have worked better if everything didn't feel so inert.

The Girlfriend Experience Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Steven Soderbergh's clinical portrait of a high - priced Manhattan escort (played by porn star Sasha Grey) isn't always pretty — it's uncomfortable at times, frustratingly inert at others — but it feels true to life and to the less appealing side of human nature.

Then again, everything in this movie feels awkward, right down to the inert sex scenes between Hathaway and Chen's sister, Lien (Wei Tang).

One is tempted to blame a 86 - minute run time, and the rushed nature of some character awakenings (Edwards's in particular) would seem to support that, but then the snail's pace of the talky, inert proceedings make the film — and Murphy — feel like its wasting its precious, limited time.

The unvaried register of the filmmaking leads the narrative to feel aimless and dramatically inert.

Beautifully shot and lethally inert, the movie doesn't just feel old - hat or out of touch; it's world - weary to the point of exhaustion.

But the inert interview framing narrative does no favors to the film or Natalie Portman's straining lead performance, and Larraín's attempts to convey the spirit of the era feels like watered - down Todd Haynes, minus the fascination with mystique, glamour, and forms that can make Haynes» work enticing.

The new RS5 has progressed significantly over the old model, lighter, more focused and hugely capable, although it still feels a bit inert alongside rivals.

The upgraded steering system feels so much more natural and engaging, loading up progressively as you build speed, versus the comparatively inert and distant standard rack.

> Ride and handling - The new RS5 has progressed significantly over the old model, lighter, more focused and hugely capable, although it still feels a bit inert alongside rivals.

I expected that the 918 Spyder wouldn't match that at - any - speed involvement, that it would feel a bit inert and cumbersome below warp speed.

The Cupra's not completely inert, and it has some decent pace, but it doesn't thrill or excite quite like a Fiesta ST.. However, without having driven them back - to - back it does feel like a more engaging hot hatch than the Polo GTI and it'll also offer stronger value for money.

The steering is rather inert, too, lacking much in the way of feel.

The old Mercedes E63 used to feel more involving next to the RS6, which is rather inert by comparison.

The fact that its ride is fairly moderately tuned, supple even in Sport mode, also makes it particularly well suited to fast, undemanding road driving — although it doesn't make it feel soft or inert on a tight racetrack.

The Xcent gives you a disconnected driving experience as the car tends to roll more than the Dzire and the light steering, although good in the city, feels a bit too inert at high speeds.

Prepare to feel damp all the time, even when you're in an inert state.

Now it no longer bows at you in that menacingly mechanical fashion, the chunky camera feels almost inert.

Driving the car felt like steering a brick taped to the back of a duck (note: I played this on the PC, and it may be much better on a console controller), and in the early game you're so desperate for scrap that you must destroy cars you fight to get it — which often revolved around ramming inert cars for 60 seconds to get them to finally blow up.

As in much of Rødland's work, seemingly superficial or obvious prompts open up chasms of unfathomable feeling and mystery, and the inert stuff of contemporary life becomes illuminated, and eventually mythic, through the alchemy of image - making.