Sentences with phrase «otherwise noble act»

The one flaw is this otherwise noble act was that she drove to the police station.

Not exact matches

The progressively muddled storyline - coupled with the inclusion of a few decidedly underwhelming action sequences - slowly but surely transforms The Last Airbender into a lamentably tedious experience, and there's little doubt that the interminable build - up to the final confrontation results in as hopelessly anti-climactic an atmosphere as one can easily recall (with a noble sacrifice made by a periphery figure standing as the only reasonably compelling interlude within the movie's otherwise disastrous third act).

Kara Walker's racially charged gouaches in sepia tinged hues act as a sarcastically delicate counterbalance to Terence Koh's white chocolate monoliths; Tino Sehgal's harmonic narrative «This Is Propaganda,» performed by a female guard, adds an air of the ethereal to an otherwise politically heavy - handed section of the exhibition; artist team Tim Noble and Sue Webster's «Black Narcissus» (2006) draws us back into the corporeal with their penile and phalange inflected shadow - cast portraiture; and Cindy Sherman's work from the early 80s shocks with its carnal ferocity.