Sentences with phrase «like leaden»

Truth is, the expectations created by those numbers are like leaden wellies around the ankles of this car.

Indeed, Nispel's film is so slow - moving that it blows its one lead — it was actually completed before the battle - heavy spectacle of 300 and Apocalypto, but still manages to look and sound like a leaden knockoff.

This also made me feel terrible, with no energy and a longing to hibernate I felt like a leaden zombie.

This was a waste of great ingredients - the whole wheat flour overpowered the scone and made it taste like a leaden hockey puck.

Not exact matches

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.

That's the era Pathfinder, despite its sets and costumes, conjures most effectively: not an ancient North America, but a time when this kind of leaden schlock could get a theatrical release if the leading man looked enough like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In a way, the film plays like a greatest - hits collection of the worst films so far of Summer 2017, from an appearance by the Knights of the Round Table that calls to mind «King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,» the leaden comedy and leering courtship of «Baywatch» and the general «Why are we in England again?»

The story development is poor, with a leaden, nonsensical script by Hans Rodionoff, whose previous efforts include crap like The Skulls II and The Hollow.

The first two chapters of this macho mood piece intrigued me, but after the third or fourth variation on the same theme, it started feeling ponderous: too slow, too one - note, and leaden where it wanted to be weighty, the electric guitars on the soundtrack too loud and monotone too, like vuvuzelas at the World Cup.

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.

The title of Little Miss Sunshine, like that of 1998's Happiness, serves as a giant flashing sign reading «Danger: Leaden Irony Ahead.»

AMG's tweaks also improve the GLC's cornering abilities, though it still doesn't entertain like a Macan and it feels heavier and more leaden than Alfa Romeo's new Stelvio.

The tall and narrow stance hints at a perched, top - heavy feeling that never materialises out on the road, yet the 2 still feels fleet of foot rather than reluctant and leaden like some of its rivals.

In weather like this, if my husband were still with me, we would not be trapped in one place, watching a leaden dawn and a sunset of dull red; we would be traveling with the king's court, on progress through the weald and downland of Hampshire and Sussex, the richest and most beautiful countryside in all of England, riding high on the hilly roads and looking out for the first sight of the sea.

But also like Castlevania, SUPER leaden, cumbersome jumping.

His skies take on a particularly uncanny sheen, rendered in this medium, when overcast they are like vast sheets of something leaden and seamless, when they are post-sunset skies they take on the glow of sheets of copper or zinc.

Artists like Jacob Epstein, Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Maurice Lambert, Frank Dobson and Leon Underwood were confined to very small dealers» galleries, a tiny public and the odd leaden spoof among the cartoons in Punch.

Not even the leaden skies and single - digit frigidity of a recent January afternoon could hide the fact that Jackson Park feels like an urban resort district, tailor - made for hot, sunny days.