Sentences with phrase «like turgid»

Director Francis Lawrence's movie has some smarts and some thrills, but too often it feels like a turgid, repetitive slog, especially compared to the excitement and the cliffhanger ending of its predecessor, «Catching Fire» (which Lawrence also directed).

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Will United just look to grind this one out with a slow turgid performance like they have for much of the season?

At time it felt like the PM was ploughing through a particularly turgid political theory text book.

The movie is a turgid, swollen, wheezing old contraption, a crashing bore of special effects in which the most exciting moment gives us two ships sitting in water sending cannon balls at each other for what seems like hours on end.

While Ted 2 never reaches the turgid lows of A Million Ways to Die in the West, the writer / director's misguided western spoof from last year, it also demonstrates yet again that his brand of comedy is far more suited for the half - hour television format of his series like Family Guy and American Dad than it is for a two - hour picture that requires more narrative heft and character development.

Interesting for some extreme choices but more often than not a bit turgid, Red Sparrow plays like a missed opportunity at something more malicious and subversive than it ends up being.

A turgid experiment in elliptical lyricism, William Vincent plays like a hybrid of Pickpocket, In the City of Sylvia, and The Passenger, except far more pretentious than even that description suggests.

by Walter Chaw Stephen Frears, like antipodean director Phillip Noyce before him, found the Hollywood waters to be a touch turgid and so in 2000 went back to the small country where he first rose to prominence.

Perhaps it seems like over-thinking to quibble with the ideological talking points of a movie that mostly dawdles from one skit or cameo to another, interspersed with the occasional song - and - dance number, and which contains one of the best comic set pieces of the Coens» career: a director and his recently re-cast lead trying to work through a single awful line of dialogue («Would that it were so simple») while filming a turgid melodrama.

Like the moonlit water, the film is beautiful but turgid and at times untamed in the hands of first - time feature film director Rowan Joffe.

Otherwise, the spy plot seems like a rough draft of something John le Carré tossed in his reject pile; there's more exciting spycraft in 10 minutes of The Americans than you'll find in the entirety of this turgid twaddle.

His analysis suffers from all the intellectual flabbiness (for example, claiming that «the U.S. is fascist,» or that «the greed and avarice of the U.S. ruling class are seemingly unparalleled in history») and turgid prose (like his reference to the «Dickensianizing of postmodern megalopolises,» or his final chapter, entitled, «Unthinking Whiteness: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia») that are commonly associated with the postmodern genre.

minus two, and words like orotund, grandiloquent and turgid!

In the stifled, historically turgid world of contemporary art, Le Melle seems like a breath of fresh air and a welcome sigh of relief for Artpace, which has had four executive directors in the past five years — including Sue Graze, who served as interim director for a year when Amada Cruz left to lead the Phoenix Art Museum in January 2015.

Hanging opposite the elevators on the new Whitney's fifth floor, as a kind of preamble to «Frank Stella: A Retrospective,» are Pratfall (1974), a precise arrangement of 12 concentric squares in contrapuntal grays that sucks the viewer into its black core; six untitled photographs, from the late 1980s, of curling smoke that looks like jellyfish, or ink dispersing in water; and Earthquake in Chile (1999), a 40 - foot - long, turgid mess of a painting.

In college it was Hegel, Heidegger, and «the incomprehensibles,» as I like to call them, the turgid philosophers.