Sentences with phrase «melodramatic when»

The music goes from epic to melodramatic when it needs to, and does a good job throughout the vast majority of the experience.

One reviewer, who didn't appreciate Water for Elephants, wrote the story off as melodramatic - to which one has to respond, how could a book about the circus not be melodramatic when melodrama virtually defines the circus!

It looks good, sounds good, the creature looks totally convincing and the scale of it can be awe - inspiring (though Alexandre Desplat's score gets a little too melodramatic when Godzilla shows up).

I presume that the writer is melodramatic when insinuating that her children are going hungry because they can't choose tator tots, but if not that is a separate issue altogether.

But the film takes a nosedive into overbaked melodramatics when it dusts off the history books and veers in all directions to tell its crooked tale (blurring fact and fiction) of the iron - clad will of the strong monarch (voicing that the good fight was for God and country) and how she defeated the Spanish Armada and brought a long and fruitful time of peace and prosperity to her country.

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The heroine remembers the time before when she and her friends had dismissed news stories of violence done to women (as readers might dismiss literary dystopias) as «too melodramatic»: «We were the people who were not in the papers.

Griffiths accuses death penalty advocates of theatrics, while in fact his whole line of argument is melodramatic, as when he refers to executions as «blood sacrifices.»

There have been many times when I'd cooked up something along the kid friendly lines of muffins, pancakes, pizza, or chocolatey anything, convinced that Paloma will eat some, only to see a frown and hear around ten melodramatic versions of «I don't like it.»

Yes he's a great player when he's in the mood, but when things don't go his way, he sulks and throws his toys out of the pram, so if he wants to go, off you trot sunshine, I can't be arsed with your melodramatics any more.

Jacob Rees - Mogg was to be seen lying horizontally on his bench for significant periods and Ben Bradshaw, spoiling for a fight, could not even provoke Tory ire when he decided to conjure the melodramatic image of the Prime Minister scorning «the howls of anguish of victims».

Maybe I'm being melodramatic but nothing makes me happier than the first weekend of spring when it's warm (aka pushing 60 degrees), sunny, and everyone takes to the streets.

The soap suds bubble through clearer than ever, the laughably melodramatic twists in the plot, the car chase, the conspicuous consumption of E.L. James's novels — who knew «If you write it, you will eventually own it, when the public eats this soft - core swill up.»

Very disappointed that this turned out to be a melodramatic «people are horrible when cut off from society» show, as opposed to a science fiction show.

When that character ultimately reappears, it's in service of a conventional melodramatic resolution, leaving The Second Mother a potent, but curiously unfinished examination of filial anxieties.

An extended, affecting riff on Tennessee Williams» «A Streetcar Named Desire», Blue Jasmine tones down the melodramatics and sexual tensions to reposition its Blanche Dubois as a ruined New York socialite (Cate Blanchett) forced to rely on the kindness of her working - class sister (Sally Hawkins) when she is bankrupted by criminal husband Hal (Alec Baldwin).

«A Silent Voice» risks» being melodramatic on several occasions, but it's moments between Shoko and Shoya, or when they're on their own, are when the film works best.

The man who co-founded the naturalism - loving Dogme 95 manifesto with Lars von Trier is at his best when putting ordinary people into low - key situations that slowly become melodramatic.

When that event is the systematic killing of over a million people because of their ethnicity, one especially has to question the rationale of including such a contrived and melodramatic plot as one of the story's central points.

The story definitely lends itself to being a tad melodramatic, and the director doesn't really temper those moments with anything understated, starting with when Joey has to plow a field full of rocks so he can save Albert and his family's farm.

The kids are led by a pair of demonic teen boys, Isaac (an unforgettable John Franklin) and Malachai (Courtney Gains), but the community is far from stable: when a bickering couple arrive in town and are menaced by the kids, things escalate violently, culminating in a melodramatic showdown in which a demonic presence is summoned and fought in the cornfields.

Even when the script allows Lawrence to tap into her intense melodramatic acting genes, which it does only rarely, Russell allots Lawrence the time to cook the emotion and lets it stew in her eyes before she erupts with stirring power.

There's also a melodramatic scene where Gale can't help but feel sorry for himself and notes that Katniss only kisses him when he's in pain.

When a story line threatens to become powerful, such as the ones involving Taslima or Claire, Kramer invariably cuts away to more mundane melodramatics, especially those involving a Korean teenager (Justin Chon) pressured into joining a gang.

In a film that has just a few melodramatic moments — such as when Nat is severely whipped for baptizing a white man on his master's property — the climactic, chaotic, violent moments might well give rise to cheers in the audience.

Director Nat Faxon as waterworks employee Roddy, and Director Jim Rash as a nerdy concessionaire at a booth «nobody goes to,» join in with the spirit of the occasion, the big melodramatic scene occurring when Duncan accuses his mom's boyfriend of sleeping with the much younger Joan (Amanda Peet).

And for those who do know the movie, there are no shortage of before - the - fact nods to ingredients that would later filter into the project: as when Wiseau and Sestero play an awkward game of football (as they later would in The Room), or a couple of melodramatic moments staged on the roof of Wiseau's apartment building (a venue he would inexplicably approximate via lousy greenscreen on a soundstage for the film).

Though overly melodramatic at times and absent the full details of the toll CTE really takes, Concussion is at its best when operating as an underdog story.

The script also loses its edge near the end, when the film loses its sharp - tongued humor and becomes maudlin and overly melodramatic.

The movie beats on, and in its rush to convey the extravagance of the Roaring Twenties and — when that part is complete — the melodramatic beats of Fitzgerald's story (which, on the page, is not at all melodramatic), The Great Gatsby loses that final, essential truth of the novel — that, try as they might, these characters and this world are not making any progress against the current of their memories.

When the women are forced to accommodate a German soldier, Bruno (Matthias Schoenaerts) in their home, an unlikely secret romance blossoms, leading to assorted melodramatic ramifications.

Lover for a Day seems at times almost a parody of Garrel's work, a throwback to a time when a filmmaker's artistry or hubris often excused, for many viewers, melodramatic characterizations of women, who in this kind of thing all too often threaten suicide or erratically burst into tears.

And when I start to talk about how district policies and technical changes are undermining Colorado's school accountability system, people think I'm mostly being melodramatic.

Bright's light, droll tone ably skips over melodramatic pitfalls (and glosses over a few plot elements that strain belief), but when Nick and Adelaide's secrets come out, her sparkling prose becomes unrelentingly sharp.

The story takes a melodramatic turn when the beloved stuffed bunny is left behind.

A: This may sound melodramatic, but I cried when I read your note.

At age 20, in a generation when quality writing is expected, Final Fantasy XIII's over-the-top melodramatic bullshit just doesn't cut the mustard.

The voice acting for all the different characters is great as well, as their melodramatic yelling and exclamations really sell the lovingly crafted anime aesthetic, especially when paired with the

The voice acting for all the different characters is great as well, as their melodramatic yelling and exclamations really sell the lovingly crafted anime aesthetic, especially when paired with the Gundam opening themes that often play throughout battles.

Perhaps a touch melodramatic, but sometimes I do worry that there will come a point when my favorite pastime will pass me by, when that passion is no longer there.

Linzy has kept the art world entertained since 2005, when he introduced his cast of melodramatic alter egos in the group exhibition «Frequency,» cocurated by Golden and Christine Y. Kim at the Studio Museum.

Thus, when he came to write his «Letters on Landscape Painting», Durand deftly sidelined Cole's mature but melodramatic style, and advocated instead a straightforward method of plein - air sketching shorn of most philosophical content.

It may seem melodramatic to suggest that David Bitton's word should be law when it comes to maximizing productivity via automation, but it certainly stands to reason that, at the very least, the co-founder of the highest - rated practice management software company in the world knows what he's talking about.