Sentences with word «plodding»

Laden with lazy writing that drags out clichéd phrase after clichéd phrase — seriously, the line «you don't write, you don't call...» should be permanently retired from screenplays, especially if it's delivered between characters who hate each other — the story kind of plods along, checking off plots points from a list.

Instead of plodding through your daily routine, oblivious to the opportunities around you, pay attention to how you interact with different products.

That's because the longer global temperatures just sort of plod along without rising much (new research suggests that such a period may extend for another 20 years or so), the more established (and entrenched) the observed / model mismatch becomes.

When something isn't working you can't just continue plodding on in the same fashion and hope that you will get different results.

But this will be a low - scoring game, especially if the Tigers play at their usual plodding pace on offense.

Home prices in the South overall are following national movement, slacking to 0.6 percent quarter - over-quarter, with plodding growth in Baltimore, Md., Birmingham, Ala., Houston, Texas, Louisville, Ky., New Orleans, La., and Virginia Beach, Va. — all rising by less than the regional trend.

However, the story just plods along and much like the characters, it doesn't go anywhere.

You move through the campaign by plodding from point to point on a map, with several of these points delivering a fight.

Monday 5 January You just need to keep plodding through and meeting each challenge with a nod and a giggle.

If we were doing our usual thing of plodding around nicely in fourth, then nothing would have changed.

It's the same plodding story for the handful of Galaxy S5 variants and one - offs Samsung launched last year.

The movie plods along in its lush scenery and ends up being a bit boring.

The market responded by plodding lazily into record territory.

One's interest does, as a result, begin to wane considerably as the film plods into its increasingly predictable midsection, with the inclusion of hackneyed plot twists - eg Nick and Billy must whip their ragtag group members into shape, Billy is forced to contend with an obnoxious rival (Max Minghella's Graham), etc - ensuring that the movie only grows more and more interminable in the buildup to its expectedly uplifting finale.

Scenes of walking, getting in a car, or pretty much anything else are thrown in, perhaps to beef up the run time, and what should have been a smart and witty comedy languishes in plodding plot development and shallow, stereotypical characterizations.

For the crowd still plodding through bringing up children, what can they instill in their relationships to make the kids want to «bother» with them when they grow up?

There's a pivotal moment — a staring contest between Llewyn and a cat — where he could finally take responsibility for something other than himself or just keep plodding forward in a selfish haze.

While Cuban officials were notably slow to move forward with many of the proposed American business deals that poured in, they did plod ahead with work on bilateral agreements on law - enforcement cooperation, environmental protection, direct mail service and other matters.

I certainly don't plod well with no one watching.

After plodding along happily switching from one to the other, and often back again, I was clued in to a relative newcomer that has since become my favorite: Canary.

The first half of the film plods along as the actors stand around flatly delivering telegraphed punch lines.

Then Andrew went down, the offense stagnated, and every game is the same slow plod towards a probable loss or narrow squeezed out victory.

Brief moments of cautious unease faded quickly, and before I knew it I had hurtled through a number of the single - player gauntlets without ever feeling the need to take of the headset or reorient myself, and this is coming from someone who still gets an uneasy feeling while slowly plodding around the normally oriented world of Robinson: The Journey.

By slicing off this overwhelming task into manageable, bite - sized chunks, just like plodding through a novel at 500 words a day, you'll find your «just can't» will quickly turn into a «sure can!»

Final Verdict: A confusing mix of cinematic genius and plodding narrative.

Pac would know what to do) without Freddie) against a prime Lucas Matthysse, let alone this version who plods forward and tries to land a big shot (not much different to prime Lucas tbh, but now he is old, shot, and doesn't use a jab).

Not only can you take snaps of the hundreds of Zombies plodding towards you... you can stick your head in the picture and take selfies with them, including the ability to pull different faces with those selfies.

Fortunately, we're able to stop in time to watch a herd of elk plod across the road.

Sometimes plodding from one firefight to the next is all you need to blow off some steam, and Judgment provides many of these moments.

American audiences expect crouching tigers and hidden dragons in their Asian fare, so plodding elephants may be a little anti-climactic.

As I watch my viewership for this feature steadily decline this month, I fearlessly and somewhat defiantly plod onwards with the Adam Sandler theme for May.

If you're a fan of the look 90's shooters had while also wishing they were slower and more plodding in pace, then STRAFE is the game for you.

And, the roster that SVG has assembled, although a bit plodding with Blake and Dre, could offer up some unique possibilities for shooting and motion akin to what guys like Snyder, Stevens, and Stotts run.

Covering a century of American history, including geographical expansion, economic trends, and social values could have proved too plodding for one read; however, Ms. Sandweiss pulls it off seamlessly.

Further, simply plodding toward its 2015 target is keeping millions in jeopardy of unsafe water.

The research should also push planters to more and better preparation, as it confirms the effectiveness of the steady plodding by those who allot time to raise their own support and maintain relationships with coaches or other supportive figures.

It is thought that the friars of the Abbey of St. Hubert were responsible for crossing strains of older French breeds to create a low - built scenting hound that could plod over rough terrain while followed on foot by a human hunting partner tracking rabbit and deer.

Do you daydream about retiring while plodding through your 9 - to - 5 job?

Howe's testimony in the third week of the trial was at times plodding, as Assistant U.S. Attorney Janis Echenberg introduced evidence for jurors.

Director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi previously collaborated to turn Kureishi's novel «The Buddha of Suburbia» into a successful serial for British television, which is exactly where «The Mother» also belongs, as periodic breaks for advertisements might well serve to cover up its somewhat plodding pace and occasionally aimless repetitions.

Past energy sources continue plodding onward to an inevitable if slow demise, while the future of energy is researched in MIT labs, deployed in the California desert, and installed in Palestine even as Israel knocks it down.

The good news is that Snowfall, the searing FX drama about the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, does start moving at dazzling speed after a slow, plodding start.

I missed a recent screening of The Sense of an Ending but I read the book, which felt plodding and took me a while to finish even though it's a slim volume.

There are no literal hauntings in «Ismael's Ghosts,» a wry, lyrical, but often plodding drama from director Arnaud Desplechin («A Christmas Tale»), only metaphorical ones.

But Castlevania, as much as I love that game, was sort of a slow, plodding experience.

Contrived, glib and cheerfully formulaic, David Dobkin's film veers between a rather plodding murder case and a much more interesting underlying family saga, and takes its time to tell a story that could have been trotted out in 90 minutes.

It's only through a combination of rich, collaborative, and altogether interactive elements that something like this can be born, a piece of software that shirks tedious story and plodding industry conventions in favor of pummeling sound and pure, unadulterated gameplay.