Sentences with phrase «if unconvincing»

If the unconvincing repertoire between Smith and Robbie feels a bit undercooked, they make up for it through impeccable cosmetic beauty where even a hard thrown punch or gushes of tears don't smear their make - up or make them any less unhandsome.

Sometimes it leaves their bodies, too, resulting in a handful of eye - popping if unconvincing gross - out scenes that add just enough shock - value to qualify the generally comic proceedings as a horror movie.

• The whole bar scene in Inglourious Basterds set up in terms of complex conversational dynamics, winding from silver - screen trivia into linguistic unmaskings and bloody massacre; even the coda taking the form of a touching, if unconvincing, speech...

Not exact matches

«Thou shalt nots» are singularly unconvincing to youth, particularly if parents are also misusing their own favorite consciousness - altering drugs.

As to your blogs, I would be glad to read them if you could provide direct links, but if your discussion here is representative, I expect to find them equally unconvincing.

But the larger argument — that we can live as if war has been abolished and that faith in God requires that we live that way — is morally unconvincing and at times morally perverse.

United have not won the Premier League since Sir Alex Ferguson's final season in 2012/13 and many will question if Mourinho is really the right man for the job at Old Trafford after an unconvincing first two years in charge.

Largely because of our unconvincing display this year so far, I too have mostly given up, but still cling on to that small hope that our team would suddenly click and go on to win all our games this season COYG:) For the remainder of this season, if the current retched form especially upfront continues, I fear that every match from this point forward could be a struggle for us.

Finally, Luis Suarez leads the line ahead of unconvincing Chelsea strike duo Alvaro Morata and Olivier Giroud, with the Uruguay international still among the most prolific forwards in the game even if he's not been at peak level this term.

With Romelu Lukaku unconvincing at United, Kane could be an ideal upgrade up front if his exploits for Spurs are anything to go by.

If you shut your eyes and drift off and dream a while, get some luck in the draw and in the matches, you could conjure up a series of tight and unconvincing matches, turn up in the final and win on penalties.

winning to Man City is seen by some as a prowess and the resurgence of WENGERS glory days, well I don't see it that way, some see it as an outstanding victory first because we were not beaten merciless and then we scratched a win to a Man City that btw is not at it's best... we had an awful game yesterday, yes we got the points but unconvincing to say the least... WENGER is willing to change!!!!!!??? YES only when pressure mounted and for the first time his job was questioned, why did not happen before, we all know that the stubborn deluded man would have change nothing on his own accord if it wasn't because he was against the ropes....

He described how Arsenal showed «strength» to come back from the Bayern and Blackburn defeats and win against Aston Villa, even if it was «unconvincing» in his own words.

Swansea have no injury worries and it could be an uncomfortable afternoon if they really give it a go against our unconvincing formation.

A battling if blunt display against Stoke, followed by an unconvincing showing against Bournemouth had delivered 6 points from 6, before the Reds turned in an impressive display away at the Emirates.

In what was supposed to be a struggle, the toughest game of the group, and the game where Liverpool's European campaign hits the rocks, The Redmen achieved a deserved, if occasionally unconvincing 1 - 0 victory at home to Anzhi Makhachkala.

McNair, in his limited exposure, already looks a better prospect than the unconvincing Blackett, but if both of them get some games under their belts this season, we will be the better for it, even if we do buy someone in January and / or the summer (as we really should).

Ginia Bellafante: «Many have found Mr. Cuomo's sincerity as a progressive Democrat dubious, if not entirely unconvincing, but the problem for Ms. Nixon is that as a performer of related ideologies in recent years, he has done quite well.»

Supporters of leaving the EU are trying to insist that any Brexit effect is in the past, but the argument is increasingly unconvincing, especially if you look at the distinction between construction and exports.

Many have found Mr. Cuomo's sincerity as a progressive Democrat dubious, if not entirely unconvincing, but the problem for Ms. Nixon is that as a performer of related ideologies in recent years, he has done quite well.

Even if there was no fossil evidence of the evolution from H. erectus to H. sapiens, Goodman's theory would be unconvincing.

Played by veteran Italian actor Paolo Bonacelli, who bears a disconcerting resemblance to Rodney Dangerfield, Father Benedetto is not a fascinating conversationalist, and lines like «a man can be rich if he has God in his heart» play as unconvincing as they sound.

If that's not bad enough, the convoluted plot features double - crossing, triple - crossing, quadruple - crossing — all of it completely unconvincing.

It's a strong (albeit familiar) premise that's immediately threatened by a surprisingly (and distractingly) low - rent visual sensibility, as filmmaker Craig Gillespie, along with cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe, has infused Fright Night with a hackneyed artificial darkness - ie it's almost as if the pair were trying to emulate the appearance of David Fincher's movies - that both holds the viewer at arm's length and highlights the laughably unconvincing computer - generated special effects.

Equally - unconvincing, if not as annoying, were the manners of speaking of co-stars Justin Timberlake, Kate Winslet and Juno Temple.

Here, Thor wonders if he's being mocked, only for Star - Lord to respond, «He's trying to copy me,» in the same, unconvincing voice.

Even if you don't particularly see people from your own family in them, you can certainly relate to some of what they're going through and with this type of potentially manipulative and unconvincing film that's certainly nothing to be sniffed at.

Unfortunately, it is spoiled somewhat by unconvincing voice acting and repetitive lines of dialogue; during one puzzle, I actually had to mute Poirot because he would not stop telling me that I was doing it wrong, although perhaps that would have been less of a problem if I was better at puzzles.

Where Twilight started as a «true love waits» metaphor, it makes in this segment a grotesquely unconvincing argument for maternal martyrdom, in the form of taking a baby to term even if it kills the mother.

It is the filmmaking that delights, and not the tired reveal that some men long to be dominated by a beautiful woman, nor Vanda's unconvincing feminist update — that such a woman will oblige if only to prove that the desire for submission belongs to the man himself rather than to the woman's insatiable quest for power and revenge.

Full of lazy dialogue, unconvincing performances, and lackluster action sequences (made nearly incomprehensible if you have the misfortune to see the movie in its 3 - D version, inarguably the worst conversion to stereoscopic imaging since the trend began anew), The Last Airbender is an unintentional laugh riot.

Trying to look at the film objectively, I can honestly say that, even if it falls short of the greatness of a Shakespeare play, as a straightforward film, Nelson's opus is overly melodramatic to a fault, with unconvincing character touches and a climax that borders on idiotic.

Never once do you wonder if our narrator, David, is going to be lured by the wild life (of course he is), and Teller's delivery is stiff and unconvincing; he's no Ray Liotta in Goodfellas.

``... a well - crafted, if sometimes unconvincing, portrait of a talented filmmaker whose ego was too big for Hollywood.»

These elements combine into a well - crafted, if sometimes unconvincing, portrait of a talented filmmaker whose ego was too big for the Hollywood studios.

Part of it is in the reliance on unconvincing computer - generated effects, which undermine the impact of swarms of slimy eels, turn a scene of unwanted dental surgery — a squirm - worthy idea if there ever was one — into a joke that goes on too long, and reduce a gruesome revelation near the end of the movie to a walking, talking, and unconvincing lump of mincemeat.

There are some redeeming qualities in the film, even if the redemption in the narrative is unconvincing.

Krueger offers an energetic, if ultimately unconvincing, call to expand existing education and training programs for people of all ages, focusing especially on the most disadvantaged.

If you want to understand why a strong federal role is needed in advancing systemic reform of American public education — and why arguments for a so - called «energized retrenchment» or backsliding in that role from some conservative reformers like Andy Smarick of Bellwether Education are unconvincing — consider what happened in 1946 after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Morgan v. Virginia.

Sony even went as far as putting a future on Move, using up its FIFA slot for the motion device and showing a distinct — if slightly unconvincing — line - up of Move games.

It's unconvincing and cheapens the game more than if they'd just kept the characters silent, like the Star Wars games did.

The Met Office description should have been mentioned in Mr Bolt's print article and blog of 1 February, even if he then rebutted it as unconvincing.

And this: Validation» on functionals with high «configurational entropy» (like globally averaged anything, an infinite number of configurations can give the same number) should be rather unconvincing (in this case where the empirical knobs of the various parametrizations are balanced in exquisite relative alignment to prevent nonsense output) if the intended use is prediction.

«Validation» on functionals with high «configurational entropy» (like globally averaged anything, an infinite number of configurations can give the same number) should be rather unconvincing (in this case where the empirical knobs of the various parametrizations are balanced in exquisite relative alignment to prevent nonsense output) if the intended use is prediction.

«The 1100 emails represent no more than 0.1 % of the entire email record» — if you find the argument unconvincing, then explain why.

And I'd add that the next part of the argument — that if it were to be true the consequences would be so horrific that we must take immediate, drastic and highly disruptive action now to prevent them — are deeply unconvincing.

If you want to complain about the «upwelling» and «downwelling» radiation arguments, well, I find them unconvincing as well, but that has nothing to do with whether or not the GHE exists!

if the data are being juked, why aren't they done so in such a way so that they better match the GCM output???? Sweet Peter, Paul and Mary, why go through all the motions of a serious and legitimate worldwide scientific endeavor to fabricate a lie which is so utterly unconvincing to so many people?

If we compare the costs incurred in supporting the wind industry with the result in terms of emissions reduction, the picture is rather unconvincing.