Sentences with phrase «not bombast»

Dragons soar, statues come to life, and ghosts deliver strategic clues, but it» s not the bombast of tumbling crenellation that delivers the drama.

At his Chicago brewery, trained chef Jared Rouben applies a culinary mindset to brewing, deftly incorporating ingredients for create layers of flavor, not bombast.

Not exact matches

Musk, who tends to respond to criticism with bombast and address missed goals by setting an even more ambitious one, didn't disappoint.

The news was announced with the typical bombast for which Stone and founder Greg Koch are famous — but that doesn't mean the lawsuit isn't serious.

A defiant Kevin Burgess, better known as «KB,» announces over the glass - rattling bombast of «DNOU (Don't Nobody Own Us),» Radio hasn't bought this / Way, way too exhausted / to...

His bombast about technology and progress does not fare well against Don's lyricism — especially when the subject is the stars, for heaven's sake.

If IBM and LeaseTech's «technological advancement» bombast — their linear model of predictable and ineluctable triumph — is not a true model of progress, what is?

A defiant Kevin Burgess, better known as «KB,» announces over the glass - rattling bombast of «DNOU (Don't Nobody Own Us),» Radio hasn't bought this / Way, way too exhausted / to tap - dance for your profits.

While Ms. Barron hasn't gone as far as publicly showering Ms. Mugabe with praise, she is nonetheless a radical bereft of only some of her husband's bombast.

This time, bombast and deceit may not be enough.

Of course, that creates problems too, not least the incessant hand - holding, whether that be in the form of cursing out a trader at a financial firm or loudly lamenting the stupidity of a would - be participant to said participant — a situation common to all commodity markets, at least judging by the occasional bombast from the coal or weather desks.

We've already suggested taking your date to the Florida Grand Opera, but the pageantry and bombast of opera isn't for everyone.

The Frodo / Sam / Gollum story not nearly as involving as the visceral bombast of the Helm's Deep line (itself softened by a pair of sickly flashbacks meant to flesh out the love affair between Aragorn and the elf Arwen (Liv Tyler)-RRB- nor the awe and humour of the Ent storyline, a certain impatience manifests itself as an urge to indulge in frustrated, mocking laughter.

While it may promise some action bombast and movie stars, Greg Mottola's Keeping Up with the Joneses basically operates at the level of a network sitcom, and not a critically acclaimed one like Black - ish or Fresh Off the Boat.

Something this stripped - back hasn't won the Oscar since Crazy Heart's The Weary Kind in 2009 — which probably only won because voters were split between two Randy Newman choices — and Stevens» feathery songwriting will likely be blown away by the bombast elsewhere.

Had it been any other director, the word «restrained» would probably not appear in that sentence, but Bay dials down his own bombast to a degree that is genuinely surprising.

Having mastered the art of bombast with the Just Cause series, Avalanche Studios dials down the silliness but not the scale for the apocalyptic deserts of Australia in its Mad Max video game adaptation.

He doesn't show off with his direction or the performances, going for detail instead of bombast with eerie silences, traded glances, trembling gestures and beaded sweat.

Not surprisingly, the lossless DTS - HD Master Audio 5.1 mix is similarly excellent, capturing the subtleties of ambience and bombast of Stravinsky's music without ever sacrificing any clarity of dialogue.

While there weren't any real all - time classics hitting the multiplexes between the beginning of May and the end of August, there was a cheaper, more disreputable, and often much more fun version of the season bubbling up underneath all of the sequel bombast and yammering animals.

Very early on in the process of doing last year's crossover, Greg Berlanti said there's probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the next crossover especially epic is if you can't increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that's a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.

Even if these references hint at the sort of story that Midnight Special tells, what you won't see coming is the genuinely extraordinary coup de cinéma that Nichols pulls at the climax, about which I'll say only that, after years of brain - numbing visual bombast from Hollywood, here is a sequence that restores your faith in the capacity of special effects to achieve real grace, strangeness and beauty.

Don't expect bombast, though: festival programmers describe it as a «low - key epic,» which hopefully means that the filmaker's impeccably nuanced feel for relationship drama and beautifully sketched sense of character is still intact.

The bombast of these pronouncements couldn't be further from the world of a non-studio, intensely personal artist like Terence Davies, but the British filmmaker nevertheless begins the narrative proper of his 1992 masterpiece The Long Day Closes with the blazing brass pomp of Twentieth Century Fox's iconic fanfare, written by Alfred Newman.

It wasn't just the promise that was later kept with «The Avengers,» but it was the idea that disparate elements could come together in a fluid way to tell a massive story full of bombast and circumstances.

I offer an apology if my bombast lacked civility as it must not interfere in the free exchange of evidence and ideas.

However, it's not all smoke and bombast, as clearly there is something to the fact that seemingly every single multi-platform game is running at a resolution, sometimes significantly, lower on the Xbox One.

It doesn't have the lean efficiency and murderous creativity of the Hitman series; it trails the razor's edge stealth and gadget lust of Splinter Cell; it lacks the vision and bombast of the Metal Gear series.

And yet, in all this gleeful bombast, CA have not lost sight of the little things.

And despite their bombast and sheer energy, these are not pieces that collapse beneath their weight.

These sculptures impress with the immensity of their production and amuse with their bombast, but if you are not susceptible to Hirst's brand of extravagant humour, they will sit empty.

But big painting in the present art context tends to look like bombast, not grandeur, no matter how well - adjusted a picture's internal relations.