Sentences with phrase «in awkward dialogue»

Minnette Vari «s uncanny brush and ink drawings of the goddess / crone Baubo sit in awkward dialogue with Kendell Geers» La Sainte Vierge.

A poorly constructed 1 dimensional character created to bleat out Rands heavy handed points in awkward dialogue.

Not exact matches

The potty training dialogue is yet another notch on the awkward belt of parenthood, but you don't care because your child went # 2 in the toilet, and that's a big freaking deal that everyone needs to know about.

Both bits of dialogue felt awkward in the original cut to begin with (Who uses the word «detritus» in daily conversation?)

The dialogue is always authentic, even when a character is speaking in theme, like during a suitably awkward conversation about Hitler.

But this description thankfully contrasts with the character we meet on screen — Will Ferrell's performance is warm and persuasive, the dialogue suitably awkward but indicative of real humanity and intelligence in the character.

The entire film is filled with the hokiest dialogue and awkward moments I've seen in a long time.

In truth, it does simplify the potentially awkward dialogue, and the characters look enough like Northerns to pass off the ruse.

In fact, discounting a few painfully awkward dialogue scenes, The Neon Demon's first half makes the film seem like Refn's most surface - level - satisfying work since Drive.

Awkward performances, under developed characters, flat dialogue and bad dubbing are very common in his film as well as the films of his Italian horror contemporaries such as Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci.

Hearing the dialogue out loud (or witnessing some of the awkward melodramatic moments shoehorned into the material), it may be hard for even the most ardent fans of the book to deny the lack of quality in the writing.

The picture is compacted and truncated in such a way that the passage of time is hazy, the relationships between the major players is tenuous and built on stereotype, and the dialogue is the sort of stuff that plays like the awkward rip - off of The Man Who Would Be King that it is.

There was an interesting tale to be told, but it was buried in an avalanche of absurdity, corny dialogue, and awkward humor coming mostly from the highly unlikable child characters.

Isaac, in a wonderful extended cameo, makes a meal out of the character's deceptive decorum and deliciously wry dialogue; for a few minutes, you can almost pretend you're watching some lost Coens caper, not this awkward approximation of one.

Unfortunately all the game's dialogue was recorded line by line which resulted in awkward pauses during character conversations.

With dialogue as stilted and awkward as his direction and performance, Modine scores the humbling hat trick of failing in the most public way possible in his chosen profession and then on a pair of skylarking diversions that suggest that Modine should probably not quit his day job, even though he has been muddling around on his day job.

There are occasional technical glitches (sporadically duff edit points, awkward framing in a few of the key dialogue scenes) but you get the impression that Favreau doesn't care about proficiency as much as he does vibrancy.

We'd never seen him before, and he didn't announce himself in the kind of awkward expository dialogue we get in Hollywood films.

Any reviewer would be justified in calling Ha Jin's latest 672 page novel plodding, the prose laborious, the observations and reflections banal, the dialogue awkward and wooden.

- Booklist «As in her previous novels, Mapson seems most at ease describing the relationship between human and animal... Her facility with dialogue, however, is less impressive, but most readers will be too involved in the sweep of loss and recovery to stumble for long over awkward talk.»

Some books lean too much on «telling» the reader - with awkward pages of dialogue where one character expounds on a topic to another to the point that it's clear that it's really for the reader's benefit, or a character will be preternaturally «modern» in their thinking in an effort to relate to the contemporary reader.

There's necromancers, dark forces and strange magic in abundance, thereby setting the stage for a fantasy plot that manages to hit most of the genre trope branches along the way, yet hidden within the clichés is actually some rather engaging twists and turns, albeit twists and turns hampered by poor dialogue which results in stilted conversations and bouts of awkward exposition.

Unfortunately, that often resulted in abrupt cutoffs to the dialogue and some awkward alterations.

With essential characters in key situations spewing out rather droll and awkward dialogue paired with surprising lack of emotion in some characters — without spoiling anything — it really takes away from the experience.

Whether it's a localisation issue or just the game's style, cutscenes also feel overly long and dialogue not natural enough in flow — awkward pauses, silences and irritatingly slow scene transitions (all of which are not skippable) bring down what otherwise are, for the most part, interesting developments in the main storyline of protecting NLA.

For every endearing moment between characters, there were more than a few moments of way - too - awkward or overly descriptive dialogue lacking in any sort of personality.

However, the implementation of it in the game felt awkward; there were many times I had to sit and stare at the dialogue for a long time before I could understand what was actually being said.

The awkward dialogue is in top form here, and even at this point in SNK's legacy we can see why the slang «SNKlish» would become a thing among fighting game fans in the 90s.

Unfortunately all the game's dialogue was recorded line by line which resulted in awkward pauses during character conversations.

Another problem is that the voice acting in the game is pretty awful, with massive gaps in between sentences; the awkward and annoying dialogue is made infuriating and leaving players just wanting to skip the Shatner - worthy delivery.