Sentences with phrase «for melodramatic»

New works by the Starn twins, who are known for melodramatic effects in vast, grainy photographs, explore the moth \'s pretty and sinister aspects in various formats, including sleek C - prints mounted on aluminum.

Woody Harrelson has a featured role as one of Nadine's teachers, and he provides a sardonic sounding board for her melodramatic rants.

It never asks for melodramatic, cheap tears, instead relying on two intricate character portraits and very good performances to make you all weepy.

Bay plays about half the film for goofball humor and half for melodramatic excess.

For all its contrivance and soupçon allure — it literally milks the premise for every drop — it does fall a little out of step in the third act as it trades in squibs and send - ups for a melodramatic subplot.

Kenneth Branagh seems like an interesting enough villain (a crippled Confederate with a grudge), but all depth is swapped for a melodramatic accent and acting that wouldn't look out of place in a pantomime.

With both actors performing against type — Jonah Hill in particular is known for melodramatic roles in «The Wolf of Wall Street,» about a financial tycoon, and «Moneyball,» about the use of technology in baseball — «True Story» is a gripping, fascinating film, a psychological thriller without the melodrama we associate with highly commercial works.

The poorly directed «Turn the River» wastes a good cast in a failed attempt to capture the atmosphere of smoke - filled pool halls by going for a melodramatic premise that ends on a false note.

It is a shame the final, unnecessary five minutes feel the need to hastily re-sanctify Lincoln for a melodramatic sign - off, for this is a micro-study in restraint: the neat concentration of a staggering man, and Day - Lewis maintains a tantalising balancing act between flesh and marble.

Leslie Dilley's production design already has everyone believing Vienna and Sarajevo were actual locations As for aural atmosphere, Hans Zimmer's score barely skirts cliché but registers for its melodramatic use of French horns and a lusty male chorus.

Despite all of his antics, his penchant for the melodramatic, his obvious lack of self - awareness, I am a Mourinho fan.

Game, Saturday: Prepared as they were, it is doubtful that either Darrell Royal or Frank Broyles was ready for the melodramatic game that unfolded in Austin Saturday.

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has become known for his melodramatic celebrations and diving throughout his career — as well as his gobsmacking ability, of course.

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What the Facebook - Cambridge Analytica scandal lacks in relevance it sure makes up for in melodramatic rhetoric.

I am a complete sucker for grand, melodramatic, generation - spanning narratives, whether we're talking Les Misérables or Star Wars.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

The truth is that Tolstoy, as an epic writer, is majestically brilliant at his craft, while Dostoevsky, as a dramatic writer, has his many moments of genius (Mitya and Grushenka's night together just before Mitya's arrest, for instance), but all too often falls into the worst conventions of nineteenth century melodramatic theatre.

Even for a bunch of people as obsessed with Rangers hockey as y ’ all, this might sound melodramatic.

Fishing the choppy waters off Alaska for crab is «the deadliest job in the world,» the melodramatic voice - overs repeatedly remind us in the Discovery Channel's 10 - part documentary series Deadliest Catch (set to debut April 12).

The feelings that my body was dirty, that it was not mine, that it was only for someone else to use, to decide if I was pretty, too fat, too thin, too plain, too made - up, too shy, too bold, too accepting, too melodramatic, too obedient, too defiant... you get the idea, that all never went away, I was just lacking explanation for much of it for a long time.

For something a little more soap opera / melodramatic try BLACKBERRY DAZE at the Robeson, for zany comedy try the Kavinoky's THE FOREIGNER, and for a swirl of graceful aerial charm, try STELLALUNA at Theatre of YouFor something a little more soap opera / melodramatic try BLACKBERRY DAZE at the Robeson, for zany comedy try the Kavinoky's THE FOREIGNER, and for a swirl of graceful aerial charm, try STELLALUNA at Theatre of Youfor zany comedy try the Kavinoky's THE FOREIGNER, and for a swirl of graceful aerial charm, try STELLALUNA at Theatre of Youfor a swirl of graceful aerial charm, try STELLALUNA at Theatre of Youth.

Jacob Rees - Mogg was to be seen lying horizontally on his bench for significant periods and Ben Bradshaw, spoiling for a fight, could not even provoke Tory ire when he decided to conjure the melodramatic image of the Prime Minister scorning «the howls of anguish of victims».

Let me just apologize right off the bat for the fact that I'm about to make you victims of the most random, melodramatic post of all time.

What I liked is the fact that there was a lot of potential, with this type of story, to resort to melodramatics and they hold back from it, for the most part.

His lifelong love affair with childhood friend Hephaestion (Leto); his marriage to his first wife, Roxane (Dawson), a Persian; his ascension to the Greek throne; and his many strategic triumphs all take a back seat to Stone's penchant for longwinded melodramatics.

Giving Alonso a melodramatic secret — a reason for this particular behavior on this particular day — trivializes the whole exercise.

«My childhood is over,» says the critic's 16 - year - old daughter on the ride home, and for once she's not being melodramatic.

There was potential for this film to be melodramatic and overacted but I think, and this is typical of a lot of Argentinian films I've seen, the films are believably acted and they have a grit to their visual style that is more realistic.

With dogged determination, the producers continued onward with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), at which point fans finally flocked to the series, rallying behind the film's crisp space battles and the melodramatic tête - à - tête between Shatner and Ricardo Montalban.Shatner had to wrestle with his advancing age and the deaths of several characters in Star Trek II and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but by Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the actor got to indulge in his more whimsical side, which has since characterized his career.

All in all, the film is plenty conventional, even in a portrayal of Ancient Rome that is about as thin as a lot of the characterization, and as contrived as the melodramatics which slow down the impact of momentum almost as much as dull and draggy spells, thus making for a script whose shortcomings are challenged well enough by a powerful score, immersively beautiful visual style, solid direction, and strong lead acting for Henry Koster's «The Robe» to stand as an adequately rewarding and very intriguing study on the impact Christ had even on those who brought about his demise.

It aches for more depth and warmth and humour, but this is spectacular sci - fi — huge, operatic, melodramatic, impressive.

You might want to give your mom a great big bear hug upon exiting the theater after watching Tully, a sharply observed tribute to maternity that never settles for cheap sentimentality or melodramatic tear - jerking.

But their efforts can't make up for overly simplified characters, not to mention melodramatic exchanges that sound exactly like written dialogue.

Not only is it a wonder of access — the entire cast are non-actors and all dialogue is in Yiddish — but, even more impressively, it manages to be a generous - spirited examination of how practicality can rub up against tradition and culture while never reaching for low - hanging and melodramatic narrative fruit.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

His melodramatic flair is perfectly suited for a musical.

But the film takes a nosedive into overbaked melodramatics when it dusts off the history books and veers in all directions to tell its crooked tale (blurring fact and fiction) of the iron - clad will of the strong monarch (voicing that the good fight was for God and country) and how she defeated the Spanish Armada and brought a long and fruitful time of peace and prosperity to her country.

On DVD, the Farrellys provide audio commentary for the film and 11 deleted scenes, ranging from seconds - long sight gags to longish, well - developed segments (some were cut because the film had built up too many melodramatic scenes back to back, the Farrellys note).

Realistically speaking, myself and probably all critics are not the target demographic for an unapologetically melodramatic romance involving teenagers -LSB-...]

It covers the three preview performances leading to opening night in one, digitally - unbroken take, making room along the way for Method asshole Michael Shiner (Method asshole Edward Norton)-- who steals both the play Birdman is about and the play - within - a-play conceit of the movie by stealing the movie — and tons of narrative melodramatics, including a neurotic leading lady (Naomi Watts), Riggan's burnout daughter (Emma Stone), and his stressed - out lawyer / manager (Zach Galifianakis).

Douglas Sirk is a particular director that Haynes is emulating and recreating his melodramatic soap opera's like Imitation of Life or All That Heaven Allows is so convincing that you'd be forgiven for questioning whether or not you're watching a contemporary film.

by Walter Chaw There's the seed of an interesting idea in Neil LaBute's Possession — something traceable to A.S. Byatt's melodramatic novel of the same name: the film's one clumsily extended trope that it is about keepsakes and the desire for memento mori and memento amor as it manifests amongst intellectuals.

Although about the humble roots of hip hop and b - boyism, the makers of the film have a more grandiose spectacle for its subject matter in mind, featuring some manufactured melodramatic elements, culminating in a farfetched song - and - breakdance concert featuring Melle Mel and the Furious Five (recently broken up with Grandmaster Flash) and future Rolling Stones back - up vocalist Bernard Fowler's gospel chorus entertaining a packed hall of enthused aficionados.

There are no huge, melodramatic gestures of love here — there's no room for that among the literati.

The prequel benefits from not having to build on the numerous mistakes of the sequel, inventing a fresh angle on the shadowy tale that allows for more melodramatic posturing, better actors, and room to spill monster blood by the bucketful.

Two television commercials, charming for their quaintness, are nonetheless grainy and melodramatic, and a 42 - picture stills gallery showcases various poster art and lobby cards for the original release of the film.

Chris Willman saw it during the Telluride Film Festival in August and failed to witness the same sentiment as others, giving it a «C» for its soapy melodramatic premise hewing «far closer to Nicholas Sparks» brand of contrivance.»

The movie may be criticized by some for not finding a unified tone, shifting from broad comedy to serious drama, but Garrone overcomes audience doubts by seamlessly weaving in the comic with the melodramatic.

Based on the daring 1952 rescue of the oil tanker Pendleton by a Massachusetts - based Coast - Guard crew — or, rather, based on the book about that rescue — The Finest Hours does its best to immerse the audience in the derring - do of its heroes — and succeeds for a while — before merely submerging us in the overflow of its melodramatic waters.

Also directed by Fleming, the film is a romantic drama with screwball attitude, show - biz color and a melodramatic streak, an alchemy that isn't always smooth but seems just right for the era.