Sentences with phrase «felt plodding»

I missed a recent screening of The Sense of an Ending but I read the book, which felt plodding and took me a while to finish even though it's a slim volume.

It's a 10 - episode thriller based on a series of novels by Blake Crouch that feels plodding.

It was nominated for 12 Academy Awards (it won one: Best Adapted Screenplay for Edward Anhalt), but what seemed majestic and theatrically impressive back then feels plodding and stodgy today, like a film obliged to show off every angle of its grand sets while losing the characters in the drafty castle and hearty speechifying.

Not exact matches

Wordsworth concurred, declaring that «the sonnet's scanty plod of ground» provides fertile creative soil for artists who have «felt the weight of too much liberty.»

While American wants to be a deep character study, instead it just feels like a plodding exercise in nothingness.

As the movie plods on, the jokes start to fall flat... Worst of all is a centerpiece scene, when Ben has to pretend to be a mafioso (but sounds more like a cross between Martin and Lewis), when Crystal is so unfunny that you almost feel sorry for him.

If the action sometimes feels disjointed and plodding, the performances of the main cast do much to sustain the film.

However, Lonerism feels like a band focusing on an even smaller sound stage; preferring only hollow reverb, trippy organ, and hookless plodding through each

However, Lonerism feels like a band focusing on an even smaller sound stage; preferring only hollow reverb, trippy organ, and hookless plodding through each similar sounding track.

The Marked Ones plods along amiably enough, feeling like a bit of a crossover with both End of Watch and Chronicle, but then kicks into high gear during the climax.

As Martin Freeman recites his plodding poetry quotes, you get the feeling that you are seeing Saving Santa being saved right in front of you.

The problem is that these moments are rather few in what might have worked better as a character study, as the story at its core is not particularly new or interesting, and plods along to a predictable beat to its ultimate conclusion that feels too long in coming.

Michael Mann doesn't make standard frantic - pace thrillers (see Heat and Public Enemies); he prefers to work at a more controlled stride, so while this hacking adventure - mystery is intriguing it also feels a bit plodding.

Hawkes and Hunt provide The Sessions with a strong emotional core, but Lewin's utter indifference to style undermines the film at every turn, making it seem soggy, plodding, and ugly where it should be suffused with feeling.

It is, as such, impossible to overlook the feeling that the movie is simply spinning its wheels in the buildup to the action - packed climax, with the plodding nature of the midsection exacerbated by an almost total dearth of energetic interludes - which, perhaps predictably, ultimately cements Man on a Ledge's place as a decent 22 - minute television episode that's been unnaturally stretched into a full - length feature.

The movie plods along, thinking that it's far more interesting than it is, while Cusack and company do their best to make the plot developments feel meaningful.

And like its brethren, the Gran Coupe can feel a bit soft and removed when you're just plodding along in comfort mode.

In Comfort mode, you can plod around town over speed bumps and patchy surfaces, and not feel too ruffled.

With that being said, this was a difficult read for me because Matthew's thoughts and narration are somewhat disjointed - at times I felt like I was plodding through it, which is not my favorite way to read.

A couple of readers however, didn't warm up to the style: This was a difficult read for me because Matthew's thoughts and narration are somewhat disjointed - at times I felt like I was plodding through it, which is not my favorite way to read.

Besot by feelings of futility and loneliness, Andrew Bankson is rudderless as he plods through his research with the Kiona tribe on the Sepik river.

As a fiction writer I imagine myself to be a plodding farmer of sorts, enjoying the feel of the dirt, kicking stones out of my fields, chasing chickens off the new seed, furrowing row after row after row out of rich clean loam.

As frustrating as it is to plod backwards through environments you've already tackled the game does at least manage to justify it from a narrative sense, and some of the levels are open enough that going through them again can feel quite different.

By contrast, the actual pace of the game sometimes feels ponderous; waiting for Harry to plod over to collect an item needed for the next part of the puzzle when you already know the next three steps he needs to complete can be tedious, especially in the earlier parts of the game where there is less atmosphere to soak up.

But that's also one of For Honor's downfalls — the pace of the game rarely feels anything but slow and plodding.

It still serves its function but these days feels pretty slow and plodding.

It touched me deeply and inspired me this late night as I just spontaneously created some beautiful art «outside the lines» while feeling some pangs of impatience with the plodding pace & details of «getting it out there» - wondering if anyone will EVER see it lol!

It is challenging to keep from becoming frustrated with a plodding pace of change that sometimes feels like one step forward, two steps back.

Then you might agree that the pace of change actually feels fairly plodding sometimes.

The Z300M plods along well enough, and offers better value than a rival Samsung slate, but this feels like a tablet designed for clueless high street shoppers.