Sentences with phrase «glacial pacing»

The major problem with the game, though, is that it suffers from absolutely glacial pacing.

What's crucially missing is a strong emotional connection, the development of which is hampered by Schrader's glacial pacing, which picks up by the third act, only to end rather abruptly.

That is not to say that the director compromised his style in any way; many will still find his glacial pacing, aversion to traditional narrative and the film's almost total lack of action an agonising ordeal, but for those willing to open themselves up to Hou's cinematic majesty, the results are intoxicating and mesmerising in a way no other film could accomplish in 2015.

It is wuxia as fine art employing Hou's familiar style: Glacial pacing, non-professional actors, long takes, minimal dialogue, and an elliptical story, all bound together with a graceful poetry.

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

After a stint in the Middle East managing an NGO, she decided to return to her birthplace with hopes of contributing to growth there but was appalled with the lack of transparency, nepotism and glacial pace of many government initiatives.

Business - to - business (B2B) vendor actions and reactions crawl at a glacial pace.

Adroitly exploiting the glacial pace of Canadian court proceedings, the theatre impresario for years delayed a final reckoning for his role in an audacious accounting fraud.

He left in 2006 to become the executive director of the Mountain Conservation Trust, a tiny outfit in Jasper, where, says Keller, «land conservation moved at a glacial pace.»

Unlike Target, which crashed and burned north of the border by going too big, too fast, Nordstrom is rolling out its Canadian presence at a glacial pace: six stores over three years.

The inspiration for Tezos came from watching the glacial pace at which Bitcoin evolves.

So The Glacial Pace Of Reduction, Although Technically «Tightening», Is Essentially Irrelevant.

I can already hear the complaints from the hard - money crowd about why this isn't good enough - the Federal Reserve is raising rates, but it's been at a glacial pace.

The casual fan isn't tuning in to watch Virginia — which continues to prove year in and year out that it's one of the best programs in the country — suffocate its opponent at a glacial pace.

He would not, however, shoulder the blame for the glacial pace of play that earned his threesome two warnings.

SAN ANTONIO — For years, we've poked fun at the glacial pace the NCAA and its member schools employ when faced with challenges that might require changes to the rules.

After building a 40 - 29 lead with 3:45 remaining, Las Lomas slowed the already glacial pace, which allowed Jarod Wulbrun to get the Palo Alto offense back in gear.

While Inter have not been completely dormant — the club have added Milan Skriniar, a backup keeper, Borja Valero, and a whole host of youth - side players during this window — they seem to be moving a glacial pace.

For some, this represents a breath of fresh air after the glacial pace of change under Labour.

NYC is sitting on more than 1,000 vacant lots that could be developed for housing, and is moving at a glacial pace to capitalize on the opportunity despite a housing crunch, Comptroller Scott Stringer charged.

It compares highly favourably with the dismal, glacial pace of policy under Labour in its final years — unable to move forward with many decisions as a result of the inevitable exhaustion that sets in following a decade in power.

The comptroller also hit the mayor over what he claimed was the glacial pace of the recording devices» arrival in New York City.

Benner warns that the search for alternative life on Earth will probably move at a glacial pace.

Although policy implementation often moves at a glacial pace, moving through committee after committee, I am optimistic about positive change within the UC system in the near future.

Alas, the others capture little of geology beyond its glacial pace.

He also grew tired of the glacial pace of change in academia.

But it has yet to do so and, in general, adoption of fishing regulations proposed in the Commission's scientific working groups has moved at a glacial pace in the face of opposition from the powerful fishing industry.

This week has moved at a glacial pace, so that's fun.

Here in Chicago, spring is moving in at a glacial pace.

And it's all the better for it, if you can withstand the glacial pace and loving attention to the smallest details.

Ritter is so charismatic, and so good at toggling between sarcasm and outright pain, that a lot of this is more watchable than it should be, given the glacial pace at which the plot moves and the amount of time spent on lesser characters and filler stories.

It is overwrought, underwritten and with glacial pace that makes for a piquant juxtaposition to its tropical Nigerian location.

«Winter Sleep», on the other hand, moves at a glacial pace and resembles a newly - discovered play by Chekhov, albeit one set in the stunning vistas of Turkish plains of Anatolia.

James Marsh «s Shadow Dancer moves at a glacial pace and barely does anything to build tension.

These elements contribute to Platform «s grand achievement, the monumental experience of time: how periods in one's life seem to pass at a glacial pace until they inexplicably vanish, and one has slipped irreversibly into a new stage of being.

The film is excessively long with so - so performances and a glacial pace that hardly makes the film worth your while.

Despite it's glacial pace, this film had me captivated throughout.

However, the rest of the film slogs along at a glacial pace.

Less disappointing by some stretch is the Michael Fassbender - produced «Slow West,» a unique Western that certainly lives up to its title with a relatively glacial pace, but is gorgeously shot and climaxes with a set piece that all fans of the genre will really need to eventually see.

Films like Call Me By Your Name, The Post, and Phantom Thread are still making their way to non-coastal markets, expanding at what feels like a glacial pace for impatient cinephiles.

There's little doubt that Chloe initially doesn't fare quite as well as one might've hoped, as the film moves at precisely the sort of glacial pace that Egoyan has become known for - with the lack of emotional resonance among the various characters essentially perpetuating the cold, almost clinical atmosphere.

Sam's investigation proceeds at a glacial pace, and few of his discoveries manage to pique interest.

State of Decay 2 does sport some semblance of a plot, although it moves at a glacial pace.

The zombie plague here moves at such a glacial pace that the authorities can quarantine the infected and, in cases like Maggie's, allow victims to spend time with their families before they have to be terminated.

But then Nichols hits the breaks, stops the dreams, and the tension slowly leaves the picture as it moves at a glacial pace.

But when the film fails to deliver on this potential and instead follows up with a second straight installment defined by its glacial pace and lack of interest, things go downhill quickly.

It would have also been better served if the glacial pace at the beginning moved quickly into creative, fast - paced horror action; instead, there was a lot of talking (mostly between Kaylie and a disbelieving Tim) punctuated by intermittent pieces of propelled plot.

Along the way, he meets a woman (Rosamund Pike), whose whole family was killed by some other bad marauding Indians, and together they travel from New Mexico to Montana at a glacial pace.

Pillars moves at a glacial pace and clumsily apes a point»n' click adventure but still manages to be spellbinding at times.

After winning the mayor's race in 2005, Villaraigosa wasn't about to accept this glacial pace of progress.