Sentences with phrase «more aimless»

The often impossibly tedious narrative is compounded by stilted dialogue that rarely sounds authentic or even plausible (ie it's as if everything's been translated into English directly from another language), while the total lack of tension ensures that the movie's second half, ostensibly designed to operate as a suspenseful thriller, feels even more aimless and irrelevant than anything preceding it.

The film features even more aimless scenes of Frida and Anna frolicking around the countryside.

Not exact matches

Free from any real responsibility, with more money than they know what to do with, the recent generations of Johnsons represent the idea of the wealthy family dynasty in its purest state: rich, bored and dangerously aimless.

Medieval writers saw a clear dichotomy of wonder as a humbling realisation of ignorance in the face of God's creation and curiosity as a rather more negative and aimless desire to uncover the secrets of nature.

The randomness, struggle, and seemingly aimless meandering that the theory attributes to the universe are more or less what we should expect if creation is the product of the non-obtrusive love of a self - emptying God.

More recently, in Returning, Wakefield confessed that after a decades - long struggle against the bland piety of his youth, he found that he was unable to find peace until he gave up all the artificial props — alcohol, drugs, psychiatry, aimless sex — and returned to what he had been running away from: a connection with God.

Without Bravo, more possessions would end up as aimless clearances up the field.

Neither side seemed able to string more than a couple of passes together before a bad touch, some poor decision - making or an aimless ball sent out of reach of a teammate or into no man's land, gifted possession to the other side.

Aimless wandering would probably be more fun!

The film might feel aimless in spots, but as more layers of the narrative are peeled off, you understand just exactly how things came to be and how Wyeth, John and Dee might want revenge for what was done to their parents.

The world doesn't need any more movies about angry, aimless, and affluent white men in their late 20s... however, it's hard to dismiss a movie with as many good elements as this one has.

Synopsis: Aimless Vann Siegert (Owen Wilson) takes a bizarre turn in life and becomes a serial killer, tracking down the miserable, the self - destructive and... [MORE]

Someone should've told Bergie that black comedies require more than grisly deaths and scant pieces of hystericaly aimless dialogue to qualify as plausible cinema.

All of the tracks play to that love - sick, hopeless, aimless existence that encapsulates each of her characters, each song adding one more crack to the already shaky, family structure of friends depicted.

Detailing the romance between big - hearted, aimless, aspiring kickboxer Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack in his quintessential role), and the bright, socially awkward valedictorian with family problems (Ione Skye, who somehow failed to become the biggest star in the world on the back of this), Crowe never once subscribes to stereotypes or cliches, following an authentically stunted, awkward romance that makes the heart swoon more than once; few filmmakers have captured the stomach - churning thrill of first love better.

Set in suburban Detroit, this aimless indulgence in teen angst strikes this critic as more improvised than scripted.

First with the mopey 5 to 7 and now, more recently, with last year's aimless,...

But Desiree Akhavan's autobiographical debut about a twenty - something's aimless drive into adulthood is looser and more easygoing than the HBO show, and it encompasses the daily grind of being not white and not straight.

The raunchy comedy Bachelorette has its fair share of conflict as the women try to repair a torn wedding dress during the never - ending night before the wedding, but it's less concerned with slapstick and more concerned with the unhappy, aimless paths of its characters.

At the same time, Not Fade Away is more than a little aimless.

It might have a typically game performance from Mark Wahlberg at the center, and a few fitful laughs, but the rest of it seemed aimless, lazy and offensive without being transgressive (say what you like about the mostly weak «The Dictator,» but it sets out to hit more taboo subjects than «Chinese people speak funny.»)

It's not until Jimmy and Judy begin to get to know one another (and eventually start to fall in love) that the film starts to become more than just an aimless exercise in audaciousness, as the palpable chemistry between the two stars infuses the narrative with an authenticity and sweetness that becomes progressively difficult to resist.

Robert Frost once famously compared writing free verse poetry to playing tennis with the net down: Operating without restrictions tends more often than not to produce results that are aimless, pointless, often pretentious, and just plain boring.

Still one could hope for more tension to replace some of the soft - spoken, often aimless dialogue.

Mumblecore was yet another classification that was used far more often as an epithet than as a self - descriptor, but it's still a handy way of categorizing those low - key, deliberately kind of aimless, sometimes indifferently filmed movies of the early Duplass brothers» era, producing filmmakers like Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies; Happy Christmas), Lynn Shelton (Your Sister's Sister), Adam Wingard (You're Next), Andrew Bujalski (Results), and Lena Dunham (you know who Lena Dunham is).

The experience breaks down, however, when you're hopelessly stuck on one of the more perplexing puzzles without the benefit of the titular narrator distracting you from the tedium of your aimless wandering.

The script has taken rather a trim in comparison, this film concentrating on machismo and gunplay rather than the more artful and character driven original; the result is that Eastwood's gunslinger comes across as more of a cynical operator than Mifune's aimless but moralistic samurai, and the build up has a brisk, almost rushed feel about it.

It's ironic that a story about the value of discipline and restraint would feel like it needs more time in the editing room, but that's the new God of War — promising but aimless.

Having regular bulletins, a table of contents, syllabus and easy access to each topic means your students have all the information they need right at their fingers for less aimless clicking and more time with the material.

First - novelist Tartt goes muzzy when she has to describe human confrontations (the murder, or sex, or even the ping - ponging of fear), and is much more comfortable in transcribing aimless dorm - room paranoia or the TV shows that the malefactors anesthetize themselves with as fate ticks down.

(Hell, much as I love the Harry Potter series beginning to end, there are still large chunks of the latter books that I wish an editor had stepped in and said «Look, we need to pare this down...» Or had told her «Break your rule about only one POV, because frankly, what's going on with the student rebellion at Hogwarts would be WAY more interesting than pages and pages of aimless wandering / camping by Harry and co.»)

It is common for them to be up more at night, yowling, pacing, and aimless wandering or restless but a few withdraw into themselves, playing less and sleeping more.

Words commonly used by owners in describing this problem are dazed, confusion, disorientation, forgetful of past learning and pleasures, trapped in corners, spacey, aimless wandering, less playful, more irritable.

Without a structured career mode, there are no unlocks to keep you coming back for more, for example, making the overall package feel barebones and aimless.

And still more Zombie games are due to grace our screens with their slow methodical, aimless wandering in search of flesh and brains.

Sadly, aside from a sharp online Wii experience, Conduit 2 rarely impresses, relying too much on generic drudgery and sad attempts to capture the magic of more popular titles; worse yet, the storyline and characters seem aimless and forgettable.

It's just more proof that aimless violence can be cathartic for all ages.

People here are really missing the point of this series, it is really not about power ups, character progression or a vertical platforms, it's about getting lost in a maze and ending up enjoying the aimless wandering more than the reaching of your destination, and that is something mostly missing in modern games where it is unconceivable to leave the player cluelessly exploring without a defined objective (even in Metroid Prime there was a hint system ON by default to avoid ADD sufferers from abandoning the game).

Shooting sections tend to be mechanically lifeless and contrast the pacifist leanings of the Andromeda Initiative's core principles so much so that I often wished the game was more like No Man's Sky in encouraging aimless cultivation.

I don't have the answer, but I do have a suggestion for how you can make your recent roster of freelance jobs make you appear less like an aimless job jumper and more like a serious - minded careerist.

Our desires will be aimless, and we'll wind up constantly hungering for more than we have.