Sentences with phrase «hackneyed material»

Burstyn's solid (yet often histrionic) turn as the title character is ultimately rendered moot by the pervasively uninteresting atmosphere, and it is, in the end, impossible to discern just what drew Scorsese to the hackneyed material in the first place.

David M. Rosenthal's direction is similarly uninspired, and you can practically feel the fatigue of the lead performers straining to elevate the hackneyed material.

Paul, sporting a brown beard, a trucker cap, and haunted eyes, does what he can with the hackneyed material, and Lewis contributes one of her rare, grounded performances.

Not exact matches

To help with understanding the crystal structure, Steve Hackney, professor of materials science at Michigan Tech, was able to provide crucial high - resolution images and diffraction patterns using transmission electron microscopy on ultrathin samples prepared with a diamond knife by Owen Mills, director of Michigan Tech's Applied Chemical & Morphological Analysis Laboratory.

From Eric Bana's hackneyed character arc — a man wrestling with personal demons becomes obsessed with a particularly troubling case and subsequently even more distant from his family — to the merciless employment of jump scares, to the predictably lame conclusion that relies on nothing more than a standard exorcism to bring the horror to a crescendo, everything about this project suggests what Derrickson and company have to work with here is hand - me - down material.

Some of the more hackneyed presentational elements (time - lapse clouds, a button - pushing score) are beneath the material.

The better than average cast does a good job of selling the material, but it is the material itself that compels while not being derivative or hackneyed.

This wacky family road trip is all about hackneyed misadventures and gross - out scatological humor — material that already seemed stale when the «Vacation» reboot came out in 2015.

Although the actors do the best they can with the material provided, there's nothing about this hackneyed macho soap opera that you haven't already seen a hundred times before.

Notoriously elusive Dean Blunt gives little away in the materials surrounding New Paintings, his latest exhibition for Hackney's [space].

Hackney Live combines live streaming events with East London Dance and music with Rising Tide, with Invia contributing on - demand material.

Just as Tom Dixon drew inspiration from Greenwich, the Warehaus is apparently «constructed from materials traditionally used and found in Hackney».

Matteria the, until now, online shop for good design + smart materials, opened their showroom at Nudge presenting Frank's new shelf Hackney.

Emmanuel v City & Hackney Teaching Primary Care Trust and Secretary of State for Health [2011] EqLR 1291 Junior Counsel for Secretary of State — equal pay — NHS nurses — national test case — genuine material factor defence (market forces) made out.