Sentences with phrase «not leaden»

Although there is a desire to refuse visual depth (rejecting the spatial notion of the painting as a window onto another world), this surface is not leaden and impervious to the viewer.

It's an opinionated but levelheaded film — politically nuanced, but not leaden with its equivocation.

But it must be a living word and not a leaden word.

Not exact matches

You wanted to argue that this couldn't be true, but not simply to respond with a kind of leaden literalism — God really is in his heaven and really sits on a throne.

However, when I made it following your recipe exactly, I didn't get a batter at all — I got a huge sticky lump of dough which turned into leaden bread.

The primary problem with Total Recall 2070 is that we can't work up much in the way of enthusiasm or concern for its leaden protagonists, especially when the evildoer (Mancuso) is so much more interesting.

That's the era Pathfinder, despite its sets and costumes, conjures most effectively: not an ancient North America, but a time when this kind of leaden schlock could get a theatrical release if the leading man looked enough like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Annabelle is not a long film, yet it feels rather leaden, particularly the middle third.

Although charismatic and likable, they are obviously not trained actors, and are overmatched by Eastwood's (working from Dorothy Blyskal's script adapted from a book co-written by Stone, Skarlatos and Sadler) leaden storytelling approach.

For writing that hinges on indulgent exposition, leaden metaphor, painful grade - school symbolism, and cliché characterization, Courtney Hunt is now an Oscar nominee thanks to the same AMPAS voters who don't recoil into the fetal position at the sound of actors reading aloud from a Paul Haggis screenplay.

The aggregate sum of all this leaden exposition and gunmetal hullabaloo is a self - outsmarting genre masturbation session that doesn't answer key questions, contradicts itself fatally and constantly, and fails to elicit anything like interest or empathy in any of its great - looking characters.

What's wrong with writer - director Angelo Cianci's half - leaden, half - hysterical (and not in a funny way) farce is the way he takes the wrong things seriously and pokes fun of nothing worth laughing at.

Given that both the central characters are trans women and sex workers, Baker makes them three dimensional while also not ignoring their identities, and the film feels far more progressive than, say, the leaden «The Danish Girl.»

AMG's tweaks also improve the GLC's cornering abilities, though it still doesn't entertain like a Macan and it feels heavier and more leaden than Alfa Romeo's new Stelvio.

It thrashed the BMW X5 in the bush, but couldn't keep it in sight on a twisty road as the suspension, brakes and V6 turbo - diesel struggled to accelerate, stop, and maintain cornering speeds when all the leaden 4 × 4 wanted to do was continue in a straight line.

In weather like this, if my husband were still with me, we would not be trapped in one place, watching a leaden dawn and a sunset of dull red; we would be traveling with the king's court, on progress through the weald and downland of Hampshire and Sussex, the richest and most beautiful countryside in all of England, riding high on the hilly roads and looking out for the first sight of the sea.

But the balloon attraction wasn't full, not on a cold winter morning with a sky so leaden it looked as if it might descend any moment, not at eleven o'clock in the morning on a Monday.

Post storm, the sky still leaden and the streets reeking of that just - rained - earth smell so particular to South Africa, we watched hundreds of swallows duck and dive in a display of abandon, on the banks of Lake Victoria (not that Lake Victoria, another one, but more about that later).

I am not going to summarize too much of Phantom Pain's plot here because I can't figure out any way to adequately establish it unless you're already familiar with the series and if that's the case I would be wasting more of your time than one of Kojima's leaden cinematics.

To be honest, I find his painted grays leaden, the achromatic version of the Roach Motel — the light goes in but it doesn't come out.

Amid the leaden self - importance of the abstract expressionist generation of painters, Baldessari played the ingenue, seeing what would happen, as he puts it, if he took art at its word: «If it really was all about communication, why not really try to communicate, with things that everyone could understand?

However, not everyone can withstand to a midcareer retrospective, and everything at the New Museum is leaden.

For Martin, the graffiti artists demonstrated that public spaces were not the preserve of monumental and leaden sculptures by Minimalists such as Richard Serra (1939) but could also be animated by light and dynamic paintings that did not require cranes or other equipment for their installation.

Not long afterward, with orders to abandon ship ringing out and life jackets on, they headed out on deck and faced the scene captured in Ms. Trust's truly chilling photo above — no James Cameron special effects, just the red bow of the MV Explorer wedged on blue ice with the low sun of Antarctic spring just peaking between the horizon and a sheath of leaden clouds.

But I had to read this piece twice just to make sure it wasn't one of those leaden April Fool's jests the author can't quite pull off.

There were two leaden crowns among the silver, but I would not for that stand in the way of his salvation.»

Shortly after Murphy sent her email, Gabriel Pene, an American lawyer and the other defendant in the lawsuit, sent an email to all 37 owners saying McNairn's email to Murphy was «leaden with threats, demands and the general bullying tone and mindset that does not comport with a «reputation for honesty and integrity» or even the most basic principles of professional ethics.»

'' [I] n Kerry's leaden style, lacking wit or nuance, he manages to remind people why he was rejected.

Not even the leaden skies and single - digit frigidity of a recent January afternoon could hide the fact that Jackson Park feels like an urban resort district, tailor - made for hot, sunny days.