Sentences with phrase «just inert»

Promising to follow the James M. Cain pot - boiler formula with its dense voiceovers and faux - sordid, sepia - stained sexing, Ask the Dust is actually just inert, a painfully - overwritten, impossible - to - execute picture loaded down with self - conscious slatted shadows and mirrors (and all manner of noir affectations) that isn't only set in 1930s Los Angeles, but plays exactly as anachronistic and fusty as most films produced in the Thirties, too.

Ultimately, Murder on the Orient Express isn't necessarily awful; it's just inert, a prestige pic that's too busy looking handsome and respectable to evoke any real intrigue or emotional involvement.

Otherwise, you're just an inert chunk of randomly assembled molecules drifting wherever the universe blows you.

According to Ted Kaptchuk at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues at least one condition can be calmed by placebo, even when everyone knows it's just an inert pill.

By contrast, fusion would produce no waste, just inert helium, and its fuel can be extracted from seawater.

Not exact matches

Without having these at regular intervals, the entire multi-billion-dollar advertising industry would be struck inert, like kids whose soccer ball has just been run over by a bus.

The being [Sein] of a natural entity points, as such, to other actual entities causally efficacious within it, since what it is, is just this process grounded in others and not an inert matter within which process takes place.

If the food is just building up, inert, in the stomach, we need to know.

«It was largely assumed to be inert and just kind of disappear after activation, and most textbooks and research papers don't even show it as a distinct portion of Notch receptors.»

In the first, decel step — short for decellularisation — organs from dead donors are treated with detergents that strip off the soft tissue, leaving just the «scaffold» of the organ, built mainly from the inert protein collagen.

And for just as long, some theorists have argued that there could exist a fourth, sterile neutrino that would be even weirder and more inert than its familiar cousins.

So just as some observers have feared, warming temperatures could release formerly inert carbon from the soil.

The movie just sort of sits there, going through the motions, reveling in cliché, building to a strangely inert climax that is forgone as it is underwhelming.

It just lays there, at once familiar and inert.

It's not informative, just not inert — would that the same could be said for composer Marco Beltrami's track, which is crushingly inert save the moments where he confesses that he owes his job is in large part to the collaboration of others.

As much as I wanted to like this well - intentioned drama, the first hour is just too narratively inert and Rachel Weisz's performance, as great as she usually is, simply misses the mark here.

Beautifully shot and lethally inert, the movie doesn't just feel old - hat or out of touch; it's world - weary to the point of exhaustion.

Or educationally inert states like Nebraska and South Dakota that may just need a kick in the pants?

If it's lacking something it's more of the character and playfulness of the Rallye — the Mini's handling is just a touch inert — but it's still a cracking little entry - level evo car, and on this evidence one that wears its years well.

I have been reading up on this, it seems that this extra throttle (if you really can call it that) is just there to increase suction and therefore flow of inert gasses from the EGR valve.

With its square - looking wheelbase you initially think that you might be able to get it set up nicely for corners if you turn in on the brakes, but the reality is that the rear just feels inert and unwilling to follow the front.

Way too heavy, too inert, and just not the fine polish to the controls that you'd expect.

As somebody not too convinced by the standard M4 and worried that the GTS would just add more power to a slightly inert and spiky chassis package, I'm elated by the breathless excitement it delivers.

To me, he's a bit of a bewildered, inert sort of chap who needs the love of a good woman and the odd comforting arm from his boss just to be able to get himself out the door.

But Ding himself shies away from these interpretive frameworks of his art, insisting that Appearance of Crosses is «just meaningless crosses and nothing more, [where] the symbols are used to inhibit the inert meanings from experience,» although he acknowledges the element of spirituality inherent in their creation.

His bronze sculptures feature ropes frozen in mid-air, as if the ropes were dropped on a plinth and cast just before collapsing into inert coils.

It is interesting to speculate, with those who are open to rational argument, just what an radiatively inert atmosphere would be like.

This led to Europe's Green Parties lobbying the EU to simultaneously implement higher standards of energy conservation in building codes, and promote by an advertising campaign «Green Appliences» employing not just chlorine free HFC's, but toxic and flammable refrigerants like ammonia and propane that had been widely banned after the emergence of the inert Freons in the 1940's.