Sentences with phrase «leaden exposition»

The aggregate sum of all this leaden exposition and gunmetal hullabaloo is a self - outsmarting genre masturbation session that doesn't answer key questions, contradicts itself fatally and constantly, and fails to elicit anything like interest or empathy in any of its great - looking characters.

These 12 tracks confirm Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook's melodic talents, but leaden exposition lyrics... make the grisly bits last a lifetime.

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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.