Sentences with phrase «more hackneyed»

At 37 minutes, this story of an arms developer (Gary Sinise) accused of being an alien impostor, is fairly taut and suspenseful, if a bit Twilight Zone / Outer Limits in its resolution — which comes off that much more hackneyed in its ridiculously padded - out feature length form, which may be longer but is about a third as entertaining.

Some of the more hackneyed presentational elements (time - lapse clouds, a button - pushing score) are beneath the material.

In Public Enemies, that duality is revisited as a more hackneyed version.

No more hackneyed calls to your murderous sky fairy to redeem me, please.

Not exact matches

Describing the region as a powder keg seems hackneyed, but the description is now more apt than it has been for a long time.

It would be nice if some pastor, some where in the US, would be willing to equip the Saints and help them get to know God more instead of instilling guilt because they're not doing enough and when they ask for the pastor to lay off the hackneyed cliches even once in a while, they get something other than «knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.»

He said the company ethos is to make cold brew more accessible whilst upholding the quality and values of speciality coffee, ethically sourcing the best in - season, single origin Arabica coffee, roast with precision, and grind and brew with cold, filtered water for over 18 hours at its microbrewery in Hackney.

Hackney and other league members maintain that further, more rigorous tests are necessary.

There are 24 local authorities where 40 % or more of those affected are in employment, including Hackney, Brent, and South and West Oxfordshire.

Jess, a children's social worker who moved here from Hackney about ten years ago, says: «We've got a lot more multicultural and a lot more comfortable with that in the time I've been here.»

Holding hands and singing «Kumbaya» might sound like a hackneyed way of making friends, but if you're doing it to get more comfortable with members of a new group, it might just work.

And our chat rooms, forums and blogs will make your communication with new friends from Hackney more interesting and breathtaking.

One's interest does, as a result, begin to wane considerably as the film plods into its increasingly predictable midsection, with the inclusion of hackneyed plot twists - eg Nick and Billy must whip their ragtag group members into shape, Billy is forced to contend with an obnoxious rival (Max Minghella's Graham), etc - ensuring that the movie only grows more and more interminable in the buildup to its expectedly uplifting finale.

Screenwriter David H. Steinberg offers up eye - rollingly over-the-top comedic set - pieces that become more and more desperate as the movie unfolds (ie a character is raped by a moose), yet it's the absence of compelling characters and the almost uniformly hackneyed nature of the various storylines that inevitably cements American Pie Presents The Book of Love's undeniable downfall.

It's a seemingly foolproof premise that's employed to distinctly (and consistently) underwhelming effect by director Johannes Roberts, as the filmmaker, working from a screenplay cowritten with Noel Clarke, Dave Fairbanks, and Marc Small, offers up a narrative that's been jam - packed with generic, hackneyed elements that slowly - but - surely drain one's interest - with, for example, the movie's absence of sympathetic characters growing more and more problematic as time progresses.

Little more than a clumsy pile - up of hackneyed themes, one - dimensional characters, and mediocre tension.

From Eric Bana's hackneyed character arc — a man wrestling with personal demons becomes obsessed with a particularly troubling case and subsequently even more distant from his family — to the merciless employment of jump scares, to the predictably lame conclusion that relies on nothing more than a standard exorcism to bring the horror to a crescendo, everything about this project suggests what Derrickson and company have to work with here is hand - me - down material.

The hackneyed trying - on - clothes montage gets a funny spin twofold when Maura and Kate, well, try on clothes in a fitting room: 1) they keep being told, «That looks amazing on you,» by an indifferent clothing store associate named Brayla (Emily Tarver) and 2) Maura's realization that they should wear clothes more their age comes with the line, «We need a little less Forever 21 and a little more Suddenly 42.»

And if the two leads are underserved by the hackneyed script, the supporting cast is treated even more poorly, with respected actors like Sam Neill and Amy Ryan wasted in relatively small roles.

Eisner starts poking around for grandiose gore zone set - pieces (including an inane clash inside a working car wash), expelling more energy on cheap jump scares and hackneyed visual touches than sustaining the unsettling devastation.

It's only as Shepard begins emphasizing more traditional plot elements that Dom Hemingway begins to lose its grip on the viewer, as the film's second half has been suffused with developments of a disappointingly hackneyed nature (eg Dom attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Dom tries to find a legitimate job, etc, etc).

To that end, The Face of Love ultimately proves itself to be a much more subdued film than its setup might've indicated - with, especially, the movie's resolution handled maturely and without any hackneyed histrionics.

In the last couple of decades, however, what was once the distinction of the science - fiction film is the default of Hollywood cinema; the now - hackneyed «fantasy of living through one's own death and more» seems to signal the death of cinema itself.

Petchey Academy in Hackney, London, is one school which has already banned packed lunches in favour of what it says are healthier, more nutritious school meals.

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To the US Academy, graduates» blood is on your hands — yours and all your minions», in their infinitely variable guises (the loan officers and administrators, high school advisors who push - push - push college, university faculty and administrators who ply with spoken promises of a far better tomorrow post-graduation, and the online «experts» who keep parroting the hackneyed, specious line that college grads earn more (that, I'm confident, is an illusion of the social backgrounds of those who're employed, as the immensely wealthy father of a good friend of mine pointed out when he recently commented when I shared with him about the job insecurity - college degree paradox that he'd simply «manage my children's trust funds and get them placed at friends» companies.»

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On the surface, the visuals aren't up to scratch, the plot is fairly hackneyed and the turn - based RPG battles aren't exactly... Read more

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The railway arches near Hackney Central Station look set to act as a useful art resource until more commercial developments take over, and the biennial Sluice fair will use four of them at the end of September.

But his forthcoming installations at the ICA and for the Turner make a more conventional professionalism necessary, though there's an itinerant, vagrant quality to his art that explains why having this large space in Hackney Wick, east London, troubles him.

Tworkov's work from this period is commonly referred to as geometric or minimal, and it has been often misinterpreted as a repudiation of abstract expressionism; however, while it is true that the artist did believe that the painterly self - expression of the 1950s had become hackneyed, his late paintings were more about the addition of the intellect, vis - à - vis formal structure or planning, than about the elimination of the subconscious impulse.

Ken Worpole is a writer and social historian who has lived in Hackney for more than forty years.

With a combination of permanent galleries, pop - up group shows, street performance, music, theatre, stalls and open studios, Hackney Wicked was a brilliantly varied three - day event which — in the energy, optimism and improvisation stakes at least — topped the capital's more established art fairs.

Today, even with the Olympics threatening to smarten parts of it up, you are far more like to meet an artist in Hackney than you are in Montmartre.

More often than not, Albert Pinkham Ryder and Marsden Hartley are haunted in their work, while Dove settled a little too easily and often for hackneyed symbols — the glowing orb of light in his paintings isn't just unreal; it's downright banal.

Other citations within Hackney's essay do nothing to lessen the problem about any given prominent accusation against «industry - corrupted skeptics» being separated by no more than three degrees from Ross Gelbspan and those worthless non - «ICE» «reposition global warming as theory, not fact» / «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» memo strategy / targeting phrases.

To support this notion, Hackney first feels compelled to point out more about the junk science funding of people who question the existence of the scientific consensus:

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In response, people in business seem to want to jazz up the English language — but the result, more often than not, is a collection of expressions that were often bizarre to start with and hackneyed soon after.

To create robust digital solutions that will enable Hackney Law Centre to deliver legal services in a more efficient way and be used as a pilot to be used by other law centres across the UK.

Six or more senior lawyers describe doing something (tilted runways for law firm beauty pageants) and we have the DECADE DEFINING practice, which is topped only by seven instances (cleats on brogans to gain traction and thus productivity in the office) and the practice is HACKNEYED.

London's first LegalTech Hackathon, which was organised by Legal Geek to help Hackney Community Law Centre deliver more cost - effective legal advice, was won by Fresh Innovate, a team from magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

Fontsmith, the type foundry behind fonts like Hackney and Ingrid, launched FS Industrie, an adaptive type system that features five different widths and seven weights, for a total of more than 70 variants.