Sentences with phrase «leaden writing»

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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.

Their writing has been tin - eared and leaden, trying too hard and falling too short, with a distinct Ubisoft tone.

Pousette - Dart's first mature images parallel early Pollock, with much the same birds, totems, mysterious writing, and leaden anxiety.