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There were occasional moments of very light distortion when we pushed the speaker on heavier rock tracks, but nothing out of hand.

Occasional moments of generosity — warnings about incoming projectiles; your ship surviving minor collisions and slowly regenerating — are offset by the relentlessly demanding pressure of simply staying alive and not slamming into a wall.

There are occasional moments of brilliance, but they are more often than not lost among a sea of mediocrity.

Sure, the story isn't that deep or complex, and there's some occasional moments of clumsy writing and some hit and miss humor, but like any good summer blockbuster you can forgive these flaws because you're just enjoying the ride.

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At other points it comes off like a hyperbolic and unfocused blog entry, with occasional moments of insight buried amid strange digressions about the glories of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, or how Eric Clapton's music is overrated.

As with every other Android tablet we've used, we noticed occasional moments of slowness in opening a menu or launching an app, but there were fewer of those moments than on other devices.

There are occasional moments of black humour, especially the disposal of the body scene.

Self - indulgent and, for the most part, misguided, A Life Less Ordinary is a bad film with occasional moments of genuinely good humor.

And at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, lots of filmmakers have tackled the elusive subject — including two very different films that took an episodic approach, and found common ground mostly in their depiction of love as a messy, sad and formidable struggle with occasional moments of transcendence.

Comparisons to Robert Bresson's «Mouchette» feel entirely appropriate, especially its view of life as a prolonged nightmare of suffering that makes those small, occasional moments of respite even sweeter.

Stand Off sustains an atmosphere of levity and fun, which it then undermines with occasional moments of stupidity.

Occasional moments of humor do work, along with a few nice touches, including a reference to The ’88 Games» other unexpected media sensation, the Jamaican Bobsled Team.

Good performances and occasional moments of hilarity don't make up for the meanness of the status quo at the film's centre.

Instead, the film gets its scares from the atmospheric creepiness and intensity brought in the style of suspense and thrills, with the occasional moments of humor put in there to lighten the mood.

The score by James Horner sounds great and the occasional moments of surround sound add to the film.

You'll get the occasional moments of lucidity — entire chapters told from the same perspective, for instance — but mostly, the game ping - pongs between people, places and decades with each new level.

You Were Never Really Here is a fleeting mood piece that, for its occasional moments of startling beauty and Phoenix's auching tumult, doesn't linger.

Furi performs admirably on the hybrid machine, though it suffers from occasional moments of stutter which can impede on the gameplay, but they are infrequent enough to not be a major issue.

Occasional moments of anger and outrage are aberrations from what is normally a calm and compassionate figure.

A retooling of the 1986 cult favorite, the movie features plenty of excessive blood and gore, occasional moments of explicit violence, and two heroes who get dumber and dumber as the story progresses.

The cinematography is done well for the most part with occasional moments of greatness.

No one is there, maybe, in «The Pact,» a tightly controlled low - budget chiller whose occasional moments of unexpected special effects are set up beautifully by long periods of suspense.

Rescheduled for a not inapt Easter release, what emerges is the definition of a mixed blessing: a film of (often literal) peaks and troughs, scattering occasional moments of grace.

Filing off what little edge there was from the first film's supervillainy, introducing a host of mostly forgettable new characters (Al Pacino was initially down to voice the bad guy, but dropped out at the last minute), and doubling down on the adored - by - kids, annoying - to - adults Minions, the film has occasional moments of wit and invention, but it's mostly a bland retread without the heart of its predecessor.

That said, there have been more varied groups of children collected in many other films, and in spite of occasional moments of empathy or humour, they fail to capture the imagination.

Once Zamperini is taken to the prison - of - war camp, the film settles down and becomes a bit stale, only to be saved by occasional moments of greatness.

As negative - leaning as most of this article is, «John Carter» is still fun and offers occasional moments of glory.

Everyone else, be warned and encouraged: This is a long walk on the dark side pierced by occasional moments of glittering, breath - stopping beauty.

The game offers a varied and fun experience, despite its occasional moments of frustration which will require some preparation from the players.

The drudgery is punctuated by occasional moments of excitement.

I've shed many tears while trying to re-write the script, made some errors (some weeks I've spent too much time on work or my creative life with too little for my family, some weeks the opposite), and found occasional moments of balance.

-LSB-...] Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace on how to lay off other moms, moving past judgment, and the Good Mother -LSB-...]

MONDAY, MAY 18, NOON EST... the ladies of Looking Glass Lane reconvened our online discussion following our talk with Ayelet Waldman's about her memoir and latest book, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace.

Parenting is one of the most rewarding parts of life but it is full of challenges and, let's face it, occasional moments of feeling like a failure.

Still, whether we're the «good mommy» that Ayelet Waldman wrote about in Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace — the mom who «remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children... and enjoys all their games» — or just a good - enough mommy, we all know what being a mom involves.

Behind them was Flávio Roma who despite occasional moments of madness was a picture of composure through the campaign and received his first Italy call up at the age of 30.

The 27 - year - old's first two seasons at the Emirates were filled with highs and lows and, despite the midfielder's silky touch and occasional moments of magic, he simply did not perform in the same way that had persuaded Arsenal to pluck him from Real Madrid for a club record transfer fee.

And the occasional moments of unrest from other squad members, including Danny Rose's admission that he doesn't watch the European Football Show, have been expertly damped down.

You sort of drift along with occasional moments of lucidity but then it all goes haywire with frequent bouts of «reality detachment».

Meanwhile, the World and National councils of churches, myriad regional and local councils, the many bilateral conversations, and unity efforts like the Consultation on Church Union have continued to do their work largely out of the public eye except for occasional moments of media - orchestrated controversy.

Sometimes this emphasis meant celebrating the occasional moments of victory on the front the magazine held most dear: the ecumenical.

Coquelin is a player with many strengths, although of course he is prone to his occasional moment of hotheadedness.

Still, Collateral certainly ranks as one of the best thrillers of recent years, drawing a wealth of entertainment from its meager storyline through terrific characterizations and the occasional moment of pithy contemplation.

In spite of this sterling work from the performers, the shifting tone and the endless need to explain every action and feeling mean that it often frustrates and there is the occasional moment of laugh - out - loud misjudgement (including a sequence best described as sexy pie time, pictured above right); the screening I attended was marked by quite a lot of derisory laughter.

However, watching it for the first time as an adult, I found it to be just a mildly amusing during most scenes, with the occasional moment of true inspiration.

It has to be stressed though, the film isn't strictly speaking bad, just quite bland with the occasional moment of interest / weirdness.

The soundfield is good and the occasional moment of surround sound is well done.