Sentences with phrase «most scattershot»

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Rice believes that this issue of singular focus versus a more scattershot approach is moot for the most exceptional people in the still small constellation of successful inventrepreneurs.

There are scattershot reports in the medical literature of gentile carriers in Spain, Chile, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Pakistan, India, even Africa, but most of these areas have or used to have Jewish enclaves.

Django Unchained, Tarantino's deliriously kicky and shameless (and also overly long and scattershot) racial - exploitation epic, is set in the slave days, and among other things, it's a low - down orgy of flamboyant cruelty and violence: whippings, a scene in which a man gets torn apart by dogs, plus the most promiscuous use of the N - word ever heard in a mainstream movie.

Like most third world or disadvantaged artists, Piňero acquisitioned the art of the ruling class: Of the three poems recited in their entirety over the course of Leon Ichaso's scattershot biopic Piňero, the first of them hijacks Percy Shelley's 1819 «Ode to the West Wind» (in its shift from Shelley's «withered leaves to quicken a new birth» to Piňero's «candy wrappers in the wind») and the last of them Longfellow's «My Lost Youth.»

Just like most films based on improvisational performances, the laughs are scattershot, with some bits working better than the others.

In Yoga Hosers, Smith engages in the most self - indulged, restraint - free and scattershot mentality he can muster.

It's a mix of loving homage to rhythm and blues, scattershot comedy, on - the - spot musical, and the most outrageous car chase film ever put to celluloid.

As all of the most unfairly scathing reviews from Cannes pointed out, Ismael's Ghosts is kind of a mess: a scattershot drama that abandons its compelling central narrative for discursive subplots.

Every one of his comedies is merely a set - up for veteran character comedians to use as a palette for continuous ad - libbing, which results in scattershot jokes that feel like the dregs relegated to deleted scenes in most finely - honed comedies.

Unfortunately, the guns seem ever present, as this mix of cute kids movie and very violent cop thriller doesn't quite mesh, making it too intense for most kids, while too scattershot in its approach for most adults.

He stumbled with his follow - up, the scattershot «Seven Psychopaths,» but «Three Billboards» is his most accomplished work yet, and will likely earn him a trip to the Oscars for either his writing or directing (or both).