Sentences with phrase «less charismatic»

First, it's a great way to show off how squee - worthy some of the less charismatic creatures can be, from bugs to fish.

This was mainly due to the game's bugs, glitches, and its less charismatic lead.

At any speed, occupants are well insulated from wind and road noise, as well as the less charismatic sounds from the engine.

Sociologist Seymour Papert, a perhaps less charismatic precursor to Ken Robinson in terms of editorializing about education, held that that schools were not only screwed together all wrong, but that they were in danger of making themselves obsolete:

She's a few years older than Pollyanna and The Parent Trap, but no less charismatic.

Not that «Florence Foster Jenkins» is at all bad — it's mostly great fun, with just a bit too much gooeyness near the end — but you wonder how it might have worked with someone less charismatic at its center.

One hopes this series leads to more of a career than Rings gave the less charismatic Elijah Wood.

It is slightly jarring as we are so used to the comedic timing of a witty ex-cop John McClane archetype, that here Washington plays a somewhat introverted, more pensive and less charismatic character which takes the film from an average action thriller to a suspenseful character - driven narrative.

Schauder acknowledges as much in the DVD's bonus features, confessing that he arrived at Sheppard after being unsatisfied by two nice but less charismatic subjects.

Does that make it any less charismatic or humorous?

Uwais, who practices pencak silat, is the real deal: less charismatic than Bruce Lee, but far more present onscreen than Tony Jaa; he's certainly more than capable to anchor the film (and its even more insane sequel; our review).

In the hands of a less charismatic actress, Jessica could easily be intolerable.

Sin - Dee isn't exactly likable — she knocks a tray of food out of an interrogee's hands after he's just received it from a homeless shelter for not answering her questions fast enough — but Alexandra knows that she's the plainer and less charismatic (if also the more balanced) one between them.

It's worse for the Inuit people, polar bears, walruses, and a host of less charismatic residents of the far north.

The beloved Chinese icons have basked in good press lately — their extinction risk status downgraded from «endangered» to «vulnerable,» their good fortunes shown to rub off on their less charismatic forest neighbors that benefit from panda - centric conservation efforts.

«This paper, by addressing the issue for all mammals, reminds us that we also need to think about the less charismatic species, and the less high - profile ones,» says E. J. Milner - Gulland, a conservation scientist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

It's impossible to give a recipe of what is more or less charismatic — it's like fashion, it changes drastically with time.»

On the whole, the sleep - deprived group was rated as less charismatic than their well - rested peers.

Not only is that sort of chronic sleep deprivation terrible for your body, other studies have shown it makes you less charismatic, more paranoid, and can even reduce your IQ as much as being drunk.

Not exact matches

If you're getting a business off the ground, you may think that pulling all - nighters or always being on call will inspire confidence in your employees, but that lack of sleep really just makes you less of a charismatic leader, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the exhausted participants were less likely to find the speeches and the orators charismatic.

She has offered social and political guidance to balance to Zuck's less - charismatic personality.

In less time than it takes to travel once around the sun, these charismatic preachers went home to the Bible belt, and their parting shot?

Today leaders and, to a lesser extent, followers of black and white independent charismatic churches enjoy more frequent contact.

· In the United Church of Christ, the charismatic Focus Renewal group has become smaller and less active, said David Runnion - Bareford, who edits its newsletter.

Interestingly, the story of the charismatic renewal begins less than twenty miles from the Azusa Street Mission where Pentecostalism was birthed almost sixty years before that.

In other words, Pentecostals and charismatics are growing and influencing, but they also look a lot less like the Pentecostals and charismatics of a few decades ago.

The festival was full of acts fronted by charismatic female singers, and even though she preceded Charli XCX on the very same stage less than an hour later, Ryn Weaver stood out.

As a group, charismatics affirm such beliefs less often, but still more often than other Christians.

Outside the charismatic world I've experienced church splits and they tend to be ugly, nasty and hurtful but decidedly less spiritual.

Shaken and disillusioned, my parents abandoned the charismatic church, and during my later elementary school years we shuttled between Lutheran and Methodist churches, finally settling for prayer at home as schedules grew busier and church worship less fulfilling.

They fall under the spell of one or another charismatic rabbi (or «Rebbe»), a phenomenon for which a precedent already existed in the century - old Hasidic communities of Lubavitch, Satmar, Belz and other less well known East - European centers.

The charismatic offshoots have placed Pentecostal phenomena in a new format (more orderly and less taboo - ridden) which is more acceptable to the middle class.

Sartore wants to publicise the plight of these species, some of which are no longer easily photographed in the wild, and some of which receive less publicity than their more charismatic relatives.

But such a charismatic carbon project is all too rare these days, both because the carbon market is dominated by less robust emission reductions from heavy industry in China and India as well as development efforts that proceed with little thought of the environmental cost or co-benefits.

Megamind finally gets a leg up on his annoyingly charismatic opponent but doesn't have much of a plan for running the town, much less the world, without an enemy of Metro Man's stature to measure himself against.

Each has a (more or less) charismatic leader — Tim Foley, with the Arizona Border Recon; and Dr. José Manuel Mireles, with Autodefensa, a group in the state of Michoacán — who both serves as his group's mouthpiece and as a narrative hinge.

Ritter is so charismatic, and so good at toggling between sarcasm and outright pain, that a lot of this is more watchable than it should be, given the glacial pace at which the plot moves and the amount of time spent on lesser characters and filler stories.

The actors, including the charismatic William Petersen and the exquisite Marg Helgenberger, lend credibility to the portrayals that might be indistinct in lesser hands.

And while Farrell is admittedly quite good as the smooth, charismatic Jerry, Yelchin is simply unable to become the compelling protagonist that the narrative clearly requires - with the actor's less - than - engrossing performance matched by an underwhelmingly bland supporting cast (eg Toni Collette, playing Charley's concerned mother, is hopelessly wasted here).

Downey keeps us distanced from the less appealing nature of Stark's personality with his charismatic performance, and Rockwell complements the dichotomy between the two weapons manufacturers by playing the scummy extent of Downey's charm.

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Carano's screen presence evokes nothing less than»70s Pam Grier — where the effect is not that of an actor giving a natural and charismatic performance in a film, but, rather, a natural and charismatic person acting in a film.

There's little doubt such attributes, coupled with Will Smith's typically engrossing work, goes a long way towards compensating for the ineffectiveness of the younger Smith's performance, as the fledgling actor's less - than - competent turn ensures that Kitai simply never becomes the dynamic, charismatic lead character that one might've expected (and hoped for).

By definition, grab - bag films are uneven, and some of Coffee And Cigarettes» segments — a meeting of Spike Lee's less - charismatic siblings, an aloof beauty's lonely afternoon — capture Jarmusch at his most oblique and least rewarding.

The drama and tone are powerful and effective and Lawrence makes an exceptionally charismatic heroine, but an almost total lack of action means this is less catching fire than treading water.

Lin's fleet direction and the charismatic cast give dedicated fans their fix and the casual moviegoers a fun enough time, but Beyond offers a less memorable outing than its more ambitious predecessors, providing more for the eyes of its audience than for their hearts.

His role is less to be a charismatic catalyst than to be perpetually schooled on the inveterate cruelty and viciousness of existence by a series of more interesting and colorful underworld figures.

Each has a (more or less) charismatic leader - Tim Foley, with the Arizona Border Recon; and Dr. José Manuel Mireles, with Autodefensa, a group in the state of Michoacán - who serves as his group's mouthpiece and as a narrative hinge.

A boring, all - powerful bad guy, played by the otherwise charismatic Oscar Issac, buried in makeup, wants to, more or less, take over the world (yawn).