Sentences with phrase «into leaden»

Initially he was greeted with warm applause, but a minute into his leaden, formulaic speech, a lone voice bellowed out, «Justice».

However, when I made it following your recipe exactly, I didn't get a batter at all — I got a huge sticky lump of dough which turned into leaden bread.

Not exact matches

Where Crashers satisfied itself with a clumsy mix of raunch and leaden traditional romance, Carell and Apatow aim higher, assimilating their source material (the sexual blunders of American Pie, the horny men vibe of Old School, the inept tutelage offered Jon Favreau's character in Swingers) into an affecting whole: Andy's world.

While Shyamalan effectively introduced a touch of comic relief into Signs, here the humor is leaden.

When Albert and Hubert have an outing together in lady's clothes and take a stroll on the beach that turns into a tampon commercial, I was pulled between continuing to try to figure this shit out and simply accepting that one day I'll see this programmed into a Midnight Special series, leaden with camp irony, at the local arthouse.

As it turns out, Fox has neither the acting chops nor the movie star charisma to elevate the disorganized tornado of horror movie clichés and leaden one - liners whirling around her, and with no real base to support the film, Jennifer's Body quickly careens into an incoherent exercise in high production values glossing over an utter lack of imagination.

Speaking in rich Balkan tones, Lugosi transformed even the most leaden screenwriting into gold.

For writing that hinges on indulgent exposition, leaden metaphor, painful grade - school symbolism, and cliché characterization, Courtney Hunt is now an Oscar nominee thanks to the same AMPAS voters who don't recoil into the fetal position at the sound of actors reading aloud from a Paul Haggis screenplay.

I've spent a lot of time in cars where you flick it into Sport mode and then five minutes later start prodding desperately through submenus to stop the damn thing feeling so artlessly leaden, and the solution to this is always, absolutely always, as follows: softer suspension, normal steering, sharper engine / gearbox response.

He is misled into thinking that these leaden, aggregated data from the past can be transformed into golden truths about the future.