Sentences with phrase «felt phony»

It felt phony and padded — energized with his poetic dialogue, but generally going nowhere fast.

I felt bound to go through with the date, but I felt phony as I made polite conversation and spent time with someone I knew I wouldn't meet again.

That said, if you're like me and are connected with people you don't know in real life, it can feel phony to receive endorsements from strangers.

Not a word about hunting or mining; knowing this, the environmental agenda feels phony.

Dornan is monotonous, but Murphy is intense enough for them both; side romances for the men feel phony but apparently are based in fact.

The progression feels phony.

While the characters are colorful, and the situations sometimes strange, About Schmidt never feels phony or contrived for laughs.

This all feels phony.

Nothing about this movie feels phony or unnatural.

* altruism — this is great if say, love, kindness and generosity are important character strengths for a person, but if not, practicing altruism might feel phony.

Not exact matches

«I feel I have to talk about it,» he told a rally at Greensboro, North Carolina, adding, «It's a phony deal.

Winging it will make you feel like a phony.

They know what they want and who they want to be but never move toward it, leaving them feeling like a phony.

Because the user is opening a Gmail attachment, the presentation of a phony Gmail login page does not seem alarming — especially when the person opening the attachment feels that he or she has been viewing a «safe and familiar» correspondence.

As a result the relationships felt fake and phony and superficial.

I feel a good deal more malevolent, oblique, phony, ironical, and, I hope, more entertaining....

hypocrite — a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives dissembler, dissimulator, phoney, phony, pretender beguiler, cheater, deceiver, trickster, slicker, cheat — someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

Overachieving kids, he says, are distorting their high school experience to create a perfect but phony profile they deem necessary to get into the best schools, while those who can't keep pace, often for family reasons, feel there is no point in trying.

It didn't feel like it was phony or in any way insincere.»

I want people to watch it and to feel that it's not phony.

Traditionally, he noted, doctors have «looked down» on the placebo effect — a phenomenon in which people feel better after receiving sugar pills or some other phony therapy.

I think there is no worse feeling than that moment when you realize you're acting like a phony.

I felt that when I was being one Molly and pushing back the other, that I wasn't being myself, or that I was being a phony version of myself.

For example, Variety's Peter Debruge writes, «Not many are likely to mistake what Marion Cotillard does in Angel Face for great acting, as the glamorous French star gives a performance so phony it feels like a Saturday Night Live parody of a white - trash trainwreck, downright pathetic in its attempt to achieve what came so naturally to relative amateur Bria Vinaite in last year's The Florida Project.»

Almost every scene feels awkward and phony.

It tacked on a heart that felt so phony.

Don't allow yourself to be put off by the pedestrian backdrop, for the movie is likely to resonate even with folks who feel pro wrestling is phony.

Goodwill Hunting very much stands at the intersection of the Bay State, in between its gritty old town feel and working class folks — and the more educated, often more phony, newer, wealthier types and hipper, Brahman locations.

The special effects are top - notch and don't ever have that phony CGI feel to them.

Yet there will always be those people, much like myself, who actually want to feel good watching a movie, and to laugh and smile and root for the good guy no matter how phony - baloney the reasons are.

The movie makes eye - rolling stabs at pathos that seem to pursue real emotion but instead feel cheap and phony.

They're one - dimensional and each persona's lone dimension is fairly grating or phony - feeling.

As a means of resolution, it feels both trite and phony.

Patric's Louis is a chilling construction, a man often visibly confused over whether to drop his phony persona of death - dealing lothario and instead attempt to forge a connection with a woman who stirs authentic feelings within him, but who wants no part of him outside their established roles.

But the scenes of Traynor threatening and battering his wife feel just as phony and unconvincing as the sunnier stuff that preceded them, partly because Sarsgaard — usually a fine and subtle actor — flies so over the top in his depiction of a creepy Svengali.

It's a bit more direct about sex, but it still feels like any of the recent phony high school movies, «She's All That» or some other dud.

In other words, an incongruent teacher is phony; he or she has not really figured out how he feels, or what he or she really believes in.

To make the kid feel like the rest of the gang, Volkswagen's given the e-Golf a rear chrome trapezoidal «detail» element, which in you - and - me talk is a phony exhaust.

How do you feel about Amazon's campaign to «out» the phony reviews, reviewers, and review buyers?

Unfortunately, these critical moments are literally staged ones, and the artist seems only to capture that sense of phony emotion in moments that already feel cheaply wrought.

Furthermore, acts of self - promotion made him feel like a phony, and he would sometimes give interviews in which his answers were scripted.

An African - American patrol officer's «feeling» that a detective set up a phony sting operation to frame him on drug charges to get him off the p

Wazniak feels that fiat currencies which can be printed as per the government's will is «kind of phony».

Technically, the G3 is still a phony, as it can't truly simulate the feel of actual aluminum devices like the HTC One (M8).

While you don't want to create a phony professional persona at work that doesn't make you feel comfortable or like you're being yourself, there are a few words that should be stricken from your vocabulary — at least at the office, if not beyond.