Sentences with phrase «offers occasional glimpses»
Although the movie offers occasional glimpses of wit and humor — a quick clip of IBM executives singing company anthems, for example — it is, at its heart, a rather maudlin made - for - TV movie, complete with wincingly bad dialogue, cartoonish character representation and one particularly awful acid trip.
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Beyond occasional glimpses of quality from the talented Xherdan Shaqiri, Mark Hughes» team was largely flat and offered minimal threat, suiting Palace and particularly the in - form Zaha.
In the remaining eleven stories, A.L. Kennedy goes on to depict such towns, such characters, all dealing in their own complex and eccentric ways with despair, longing, and the occasional glimpses of love that enter their lives... If all this sounds incredibly depressing... well, it sometimes is... On the other hand, her sharp sense of humor acts as a rescuing hand reaching into the bottom of a well, offering a saving grace to her characters in their darkest moments of despair.