Sentences with phrase «lackluster performances by»

King wrote both the novella, Cycle of the Werewolf, and the much better named screenplay, but it's all completely ruined by awful special effects and either ham - fisted or lackluster performances by the likes of Gary Busey and the late Corey Haim, the kind of actors who were great in the right roles.

Another contentious factor that is in the interim working against the youths is the lackluster performance by one of their very own, in one of the states of the federation.

Yes it did also seem that it was just fluff and fill for part 2 to come, but I don't know if I can tolerate another lackluster performance by this cast again...

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You may have heard about the recent decision by the Minnesota Twins to let Ron Gardenhire, their long - time manager go — most likely due to the fact that the Twins have had lackluster performance in recent years.

The beleaguered technology company's core business is up for sale after years of lackluster performance, with bidders including frontrunner Verizon, inventor Dan Gilbert (backed by Warren Buffett), TPG, and a consortium that includes Bain Capital and former Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn.

Disenfranchised with the high cost and lackluster performance of her IRA handled by a full - service broker, Ruth moved her retirement money to a Self - Directed IRA (SDIRA) in 2015.

Despite the lackluster performance of Chinese bonds in 2017, the market value tracked by the S&P China Bond Index continued to expand and reached CNY 56.9 trillion (USD 9 trillion) as of Feb. 26, 2018.

Why this lackluster performance for Arsenal by Cazorla?

Scholes» comments were received as bizarre by many in that he seems to be entirely reluctant to criticize Wayne Rooney despite his consistently lackluster performances this season, yet he simultaneously has no problem in attacking a relatively new signing who has not yet seen his twentieth birthday.

Portugal has been underwhelming for majority of the tournament but they somehow managed to sneak into the finals after three lackluster draws in group stages, two penalty shoot out wins in round of 16 and quarterfinals followed by their performance against Wales.

Narrator: The Cuomo administration responded by announcing a new ad campaign castigating the Montreal Canadiens» lackluster performance in the 2015 Stanley Cup finals.

The news, which was first reported by Capital New York, comes just over a week after Stringer announced his plans to forgo his mayoral ambitions to run for comptroller following lackluster performance in the polls.

Alternately, a somewhat lackluster performance was given by the usually enthralling Jason Sudeikis, who plays Cam Brady's campaign manager.

Led by a trio of lackluster performances from Alan Rickman, Rebecca Hall and «Game of Thrones» thesp Richard Madden, this awkward, passionless drama conveys neither the sensuality nor the drawn - out sense of longing required by its period tale of a young secretary who falls in love with his employer's wife.

The film is at its best pre-interval, when director Mohit Suri stages some creepy sequences free of the burden of exposition; when he and writer Shagutta Ratique have to deliver some explanations in the second half, the decent performances by Ranaut and Hashmi are crushed under the weight of overly contrived plotting and some distractingly lackluster (if still better than the first film's) effects work.

From Lalo Schifrin's (Joe Kidd, Dirty Harry) lackluster and repetitive Psycho - like scoring, to the god - awful performance late in the film by the glam rock / new wave artists, Sparks (any ideas on how to get the incessant chorus from «Big Boy» out of my head?)

Yet that is no reason to throw up our hands, glibly excusing our lackluster educational performance by claiming that «forces beyond our control» are making it practically impossible for schools to function at all or for children to learn much in them.

Too many put profits before performance, are run by operators who don't know what they are doing, get lackluster results, and aren't, as envisioned, collaborating with district schools.

Why America should care about its students» lackluster performance on the global PISA tests Demography is not necessarily destiny Hechinger Report commentary by ROBERT ROTHMAN, a Washington - based education writer

That's probably because of reportedly lackluster sales performance by Microsoft's latest OS so far, but still the category will grow as OEMs look to invest more in hybrid devices, sliders and tablet - style form factors that could potentially resonate better with where consumers seem to be spending their computing dollars these days.

With the exception of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, most Andoid tablets we've tested have been marred by poor design, a lack of apps, lackluster performance, or all of the above.

Despite the lackluster performance of Chinese bonds in 2017, the market value tracked by the S&P China Bond Index continued to expand and reached CNY 56.9 trillion (USD 9 trillion) as of Feb. 26, 2018.

I want to love the Couch Potato, but I feel confused by how lackluster its performance is.

It's not helped by a pretty lackluster script filled with anime clichés, but the performances are all over the map — some woefully over the top and some just feeling remarkably out of place.

Perhaps jaded by some recent headphones with lackluster microphone performance, I kept asking callers if they could hear me OK.

Conclusions For $ 230, the Samsung Galaxy J7 is a very capable phablet held back only by mixed camera performance and lackluster call quality.

That lackluster performance was mirrored by our test results.

Despite its recent lackluster performance and the company's financial reporting problems, Cendant Corp. stock continues to be aggressively recommended by leading market analysts.

Some of the company's fans would like to blame its lackluster performance on the tight financial controls exercised by American Apparel's private equity stakeholder Lion Capital, which is reportedly preventing the chain from investing in new technology and equipment.