Sentences with phrase «to leaden»

But no clear choice is forthcoming, and Hoffman moves through both darker and lighter moments with leaden feet.
They have created animated films that show the planet's surface completely enshrouded in leaden skies and stormy waters, as in Arkhipelagos, 2013, and a large decaying tree that is the last living thing on Earth, as in the three - part Abendland,
Unfortunately, the concept car's glassfibre body is overweight and the steering feels leaden, not helped by near rock - solid suspension.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is a disappointing and derivative blockbuster, whose admirable intentions are undone by leaden direction and lazy screenwriting.
Either it must, in leaden legalism, refuse to look or, having looked, it must show that no Christian art has ever truly glorified God.
Unfortunately, too many supporting scenes disappoint, almost all of them involving the villain, played by an over-the-top Michael Shannon (with whom I have had problems before) saddled with leaden dialogue that does not help his one - note performance.
A crude but sometimes startling serving of schlock, the velocity and ferocity compensating for leaden conversation and smudge - o - vision photography.
It's an opinionated but levelheaded film — politically nuanced, but not leaden with its equivocation.
Noted MPDG magnet Zach Braff went to the wedding in the pivotal scene of The Last Kiss soaked through with 30s ennui, and with the oppressive, leaden weights of adulthood, responsibility, and attractive, utterly devoted girlfriend Jacinda Barrett hanging around his neck.
Director Stephen Sommers has a kind of soulless, leaden touch, with none of the sleek, sprightly fun this kind of movie requires.
Even with one of the two suspended upside - down, they look more leaden, but then English artists often risk an overdose of seriousness when they turn up the irony.
(The costume designer Ann Roth subtly brightens Katharine, taking her from leaden gray to free - flowing gold.)
Truth is, the expectations created by those numbers are like leaden wellies around the ankles of this car.
The «material» effect is clearly seen in many of the other large - scale collages that are a major component of the Hollis Taggart show, especially the powerful, large - scale Black Board 2, a bit of Cy Twombly avant - la - lettre with Jasper Johns - worthy leaden greys and chalky dotted lines that chatter in a rhythmic Morse code from section to section.
The backpack was heavy, but nowhere near as leaden as it felt with a PS3 inside.
In the last two rounds Quarry, who had gone 10 rounds only once before, moved on leaden legs.
«Under leaden skies and beneath the ground a culture of solidarity, independence, community self - reliance and ambition was forged,» writes Jamie Reed of his constituency, Copeland, where I grew up.
Joss Whedon's quips sit ill with Zack Snyder's leaden direction, while Ben Affleck makes for an unconvincing Batman in this dire DC offering
and the stolid but unremarkable leading performances, Reynolds» film turns leaden.
I barely remembered him in the previous two films, and despite one good moment for his character in this latest film, I have no interest in his character and even less in Hemsworth's leaden performance.
Developer Terminal Reality's previous work includes 2009's decent - ish Ghostbusters, which despite leaden moments showed a real affinity for the material, and last year's Kinect Star Wars, which we'll pass over without comment.
But the balloon attraction wasn't full, not on a cold winter morning with a sky so leaden it looked as if it might descend any moment, not at eleven o'clock in the morning on a Monday.
Logan is the author of such leaden, boring movies as Gladiator, The Time Machine, Star Trek: Nemesis, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and The Last Samurai.
These 12 tracks confirm Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook's melodic talents, but leaden exposition lyrics... make the grisly bits last a lifetime.
Coming from a character who is initially introduced to us as Joe Average, that priceless bit of leaden melodrama almost single - handedly consigns Law Abiding Citizen to the «camp» drawer — but, improbably, it's also an uncomfortable moment that perfectly captures Butler's nebulous, malleable status as a movie star.
I was barely aware of The Interview until, while sitting through a trailer for what seemed like just another idiotic leaden comedy, my youngest informed me that the North Koreans had denounced the film as «an act of war».
The title of Little Miss Sunshine, like that of 1998's Happiness, serves as a giant flashing sign reading «Danger: Leaden Irony Ahead.»
That's a long way from your average Prius, to be sure, and yet driven with a less - than - leaden right foot you should be able to coax up to 31 miles of electric - only range from the car.
Not long afterward, with orders to abandon ship ringing out and life jackets on, they headed out on deck and faced the scene captured in Ms. Trust's truly chilling photo above — no James Cameron special effects, just the red bow of the MV Explorer wedged on blue ice with the low sun of Antarctic spring just peaking between the horizon and a sheath of leaden clouds.
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.
Too leaden for farce and too bland for satire, Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse's «Dear Dictator» wastes a potential gold mine of culture - clashing silliness on worn, high school movie clichés.
It seemed at once pretentious and unfocused — characters too cursorily sketched to sustain interest, the clanking machinery of the plot irritatingly audible, and the narration shifting unsatisfactorily from lucid monologue to leaden description.
You don't want a wet, leaden bread.
I rather like it when those who enter office, whether elected or appointed, announce themselves in advance by a) a long and arduous record, b) predictably constrained staff who will be paid by OUR tax dollars to pursue their pet projects, thus opening themselves up to stark exposure on countless occasions yet to unfold, and c) who must thus become leaden weights on the presumed «We'll get this done» crippled legs of those who make bold to hire them.
As you may have expected, this one is somewhat leaden with too many celebrity cameos (Elizabeth Banks, Josh Groban, Tom Bergeron, Jay Leno and author Reza Aslan in just the first two episodes), even considering that celebrity cameos have always been a Muppets stand - by.
(And the less said on the dopey subplot about Tim's unhappy marriage and his desire to have sex in new and interesting positions, the better, except that it leads to some of the film's clumsiest, most leaden gags.)
Annabelle is not a long film, yet it feels rather leaden, particularly the middle third.
Whether the monsters are stuck in deepest Transylvania or lost in the Egyptian desert, the same leaden feeling persists.
However, it may be argued that Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor harmed their standing in Hollywood with performances considered leaden and one - note.
All of my praise for both the SLS coupe and roadster duly considered, it sometimes feels sodden, heavy, a little leaden.
Post storm, the sky still leaden and the streets reeking of that just - rained - earth smell so particular to South Africa, we watched hundreds of swallows duck and dive in a display of abandon, on the banks of Lake Victoria (not that Lake Victoria, another one, b...
But, unlike Castlevania, which as we've already discussed asks some fairly tricky platforming of you that simply isn't easy to pull off because of leaden jumping physics, in Mega Man, someone else besides Nintendo got the formula right, because the jumping in Mega Man is fairly light, tight, and precise.
Queasily obsessed by suicide, comic industry in - jokes and Nazi fetish gear, «The Spirit» is a plotless parade of inane banter, leaden action, and pantomime acting from Samuel L Jackson, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson.
So often modern cinema spares us any sense of despair with a heavy sugar - leaden ending to satisfy our fairytale cravings.
7 The Greek poet Philip of Thessaloníki wrote of leaden writing instruments in the first century B.C., but the modern pencil, as described by Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner, dates only to 1565.
Overall, though, Gravity is awe - inspiring film - making with an originality and level of crasftmanship that leaves most other blockbusters looking leaden.
Made with whole wheat flour, the waffles are a bit healthier and heartier than standard ones without being the least bit leaden.
Still, the fastest - growing ice cream brands are the «premium» ones - the pricier and more calorie - leaden varieties that appeal to consumers looking to splurge.
You wanted to argue that this couldn't be true, but not simply to respond with a kind of leaden literalism — God really is in his heaven and really sits on a throne.
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