Sentences with phrase «looking leaden»
Overall, though, Gravity is awe - inspiring film - making with an originality and level of crasftmanship that leaves most other blockbusters looking leaden.
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Still, the fastest - growing ice cream brands are the «premium» ones - the pricier and more calorie - leaden varieties that appeal to consumers looking to splurge.
Either it must, in leaden legalism, refuse to look or, having looked, it must show that no Christian art has ever truly glorified God.
The grave tone makes it stiff and leaden, the digi - saturated look is a turn - off.
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.
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.
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 pace is leaden and the acting overwrought, while the script contains such wonderful life wisdoms as «Emotions are all we have» and «When you're young, everything looks close; when you're old, everything looks far away.»
The dialogue is often pleasantly leaden («I've never seen you look at any man the way you looked at that slave!»
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 the balloon attraction wasn't full, not on a cold winter morning with a sky so leaden it looked as if it might descend any moment, not at eleven o'clock in the morning on a Monday.
Even with one of the two suspended upside - down, they look more leaden, but then English artists often risk an overdose of seriousness when they turn up the irony.