Sentences with phrase «more of a soap opera»

Or perhaps it's because the original «Airport» was more of a soap opera than an action thriller.

Peter Cook of Petercook.com writes about last weeks Superintendent Advisory Council meeting being more of a soap opera than an actual meeting.

I blame this entirely on fanboyism which is a real problem that is making gaming more of a soap opera than a favorite pastime.

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After a rollercoaster APEC summit, where news on the Trans - Pacific Partnership felt at times more like a soap opera than trade talks, and a fifth round of NAFTA talks getting underway this week, Episode 002 of What the West?

We have become used to dismissing matters of religion («Oh, it's all rubbish»; «Causes more trouble than it's worth» etc) and we find it easier to sludge along with our culture soaked in TV soap operas and rising crime figures and drunken teenagers hanging around bleak shopping centres shouting at one another on Saturday nights.

The O.C. was really only strong for its first season (well, it was at its strongest) but its self - awareness and core group of friends and family made it far more meaningful than its sunny beaches and soap opera plot lines would have you believe.

These «myths» that television uses — these «pictures of reality» — are rarely explicitly stated, but they underly almost all forms of programming: news, sports, drama, situation comedies, advertisements, soap operas, and even, or more accurately particularly, children's cartoons.

Is it wrong of me to want to watch in part to see this Parker soap opera unfold some more?

Whilst a number of storylines enter into the fantastical, there is the odd occasion where soap operas manage to convey a more accurate depiction of family life.

For something a little more soap opera / melodramatic try BLACKBERRY DAZE at the Robeson, for zany comedy try the Kavinoky's THE FOREIGNER, and for a swirl of graceful aerial charm, try STELLALUNA at Theatre of Youth.

Perhaps the longest - running soap opera in academic science ended early Saturday morning when PRO / UAW, the union representing the more than 5000 postdocs on the University of California's 10 campuses, reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with the University of California.

Perhaps the longest - running soap opera in academic science ended early Saturday morning when PRO / UAW, the union representing the more than 5000 postdocs on the University of California's ten campuses, reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with the University of California.

The documentary style approach avoids soap opera style melodrama, unnecessary sub plots and sentimentality to show a truthful and unbiased picture of what happened that day and it's all the more powerful for it.

Owing more to its overambitious breadth of material than any overt political agenda, The Kennedys necessarily compresses, stretches, distorts and otherwise crams itself into a soap opera that is occasionally elegant and even moving near the end.

However, that doesn't keep Hollywood moments from creeping in now and then, with lots of soap opera antics and fisticuffs that would seem injected in order to make the tale of these boys more cohesive in terms of story development, resulting in a forced climax and epilogue that probably comes more out of fantasyland than out of the recollections of a documentarian.

Yet there is also a story between the songs; one is the soap opera love interest angle of the captain, Maria and another well - to - do woman in the area, and the other being the more serious plotline of the Nazi takeover of Austria and the changes they make in Austria.

The acting isn't particularly impressive either, some of the more intimate scenes with Huston («Pride and Prejudice and Zombies») and Nazanin Boniadi («Zoolander 2») feel plucked directly out of a bad soap opera.

It's almost as if the entirety of this series was nothing more than a repetitive soap opera that transparently pandered to wealth - based wish fulfillment, unhealthy ideas that an obviously bad guy can change under the influence of the right woman, and, naturally, a lot of sex fantasies.

With Steve Kloves (Wonder Boys, The Fabulous Baker Boys) returning as the screenwriter after skipping the last film, the more serious tone is interspersed with the lighter moments of teen romance, though these soap opera antics may seem tedious to those who don't care much about the dalliances of the Hogwarts students, particularly in how much screen time is given to it in place of the larger storyline that could have used a greater sense of build up.

Once the gears of Potter's melodramatic plot start into motion, though, it becomes little more than an over-the-top soap opera, in which current affairs and past sexual trysts are revealed, relationships falls apart, a terminal diagnosis comes to light, and the gun goes through a series of motions to wind up in the hands that held it at the movie's start.

Heading Out to Wonderful feels like less of a soap opera than Goolrick's debut, but it's much more emotional.

If you were a soap - opera watcher in the 1980s, you might feel a twinge of déjà vu as you approach this winery's elaborate, turn - of... Read More

I already did two Nurses, the little Nurse Eleanor with the paper dolls was like out of tacky romances, soap operas, more in line with Richard Prince's nurses later on.

To remedy this, she suggests encouraging more women to go into environmental fields, increasing women's representation in decision - making roles, and educating a broader spectrum of women about water issues through nontraditional methods like soap operas — which have already proven successful in other countries at boosting awareness about population and family planning.

While the attention of researchers has focused on the role of formal education in reducing fertility, soap operas on radio and television can even more quickly change people's attitudes about reproductive health, gender equity, family size, and environmental protection.

From fresh - faced rookie to grizzled veteran, organized real estate offers more plot twists in the course of a career than your average soap opera.