Sentences with phrase «plodding from»

It finds that connectedness among the brain's disparate regions is a key factor that separates the plodding from the penetrating.

Thus freed from the insuperable burden of plodding from library to library, refreshing his recollection upon index systems of various books, pulling them out and ploughing through them, and then making laborious niotes in longhand, the lawyer can devote his time and mind to the social, political, and economic aspects of law and justice.

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

Just follows the numbers, plodding from one unimaginative set piece to the next.

So he avoids the plod from hot Mercury to freezing Pluto much loved by the more pedantic.

Percy and his sidekicks plod from one updated mythical scenario to another, whether itâ $ ™ s the Lotus Eaters in Vegas or Medusa (Uma Thurman) in an out - of - town garden centre.

I think the moment where Anomaly Warzone Earth — I don't see a colon on the game's website; letting all three words of the title evenly plod from the mouth pleasingly highlights its Eastern European pedigree — really grabbed me was the first time I rerouted my caravan of tanks and mechanized walkers to loop to endlessly...

Instead, it plods from one dull scene to another, all of which limp across the screen.

It often plods from plot point to plot point.

When we pillory critics for saying hard but true things; when our leaders who've championed inclusiveness issue (and defend) bigoted remarks; when we plod from one spiteful spat to the next, played out (performed, really) in online forums and social media with all the requisite snark and ad hominem attacks, it's worth asking what kind of audience are we?

The presentation elements are revolting 8 - bit - caliber trash, and it seems like the designers didn't even give a damn about the «adventuring,» as there's little to do but plod from town to tennis court to town to tennis court.

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«They may just be sort of plodding along,» he says about the interviews he conducted with entrepreneurs from Alabama to Islamabad.

Freeing every woman and man on the face of the earth from poverty is not only its aim, but its steady, plodding achievement generation after generation.

I wrote this book in careful, plodding prose, Corrected every sentence; all was fit For press and public, free from every pose Or literary scandal, every bit Tidy, exact.

No player's is bigger than their club but arsene have made it so difficult to sell players on because nobody want our plods with their ridiculously high wages, if ox and sanchez wants to go but nothing under 100 million for both and if they stay don't give in to their wage apart from the one that's being offered at the moment

They've gone from a plodding Eastern Conference - style club to a quick team that can skate with the Western powerhouses, from a team with a caste structure that catered to veteran Brahmans to a homey, almost egalitarian group.

This season, however, the results haven't been quite as sterling, as Roma has only earned 11 points from nine matches, plodding along with +1 goal differential on the road.

Such a play could have the danger of plodding, with its unchanging set, use of silences and grunts from the men as central to the dialogue, and its lack of interval.

The pulse rate quickens ever so slightly from the plodding Zen - master groove it had achieved.

Long runs obviously help build tolerance for distance, but my tempo runs are for going a bit faster and keeping me from turning into a plodding, slow jogger.

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American Pie Presents The Naked Mile's latter half, as a result, moves along at a plodding pace that's compounded by an episodic structure, as the movie lurches from one ill - conceived set - piece to the next with little thought towards momentum or consistency - which inevitably does confirm the film's place as just another interminable waste of time designed to cash in on the original trilogy's success.

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.

As it plods along, Seven Seconds is often redeemed by superb performances from actors who are constantly called on to make the best of overwritten and not always credible dialogue.

I did not really like Costner's Prince of Thieves for the same reason, just took itself too seriously, and while the performances from Costner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Alan Rickman were good, the movie was way too plodding.

Where World War Z has clearly learned from some of the better zombie pics of the past like 28 Days Later, is in its realization that plodding, walking zombies aren't all the terrifying or thrilling even when they number in the thousands.

The Weinstein Company rolled out an ««Eleanor Rigby» for Dummies» subtitled «Them» last month that messily braided together scenes from «Him» and «Her» to plodding and self - serious effect (read my review of «Them» here).

Olga Kurylenko almost literally phones it in as his former CIA handler and the script dabbles with some truly dire dialogue — «It's no secret that you and Ben were... intimate,» recites one agent, who might as well be called Basil Exposition — but Stölzl's visuals actually benefit from the film's plodding pace.

Jeremiah Johnson is boring, overlong, and pointless, a plodding, methodical journey from A to B with neither a hint of innovation nor, indeed, anything like a slight deviation from the expected.

by Walter Chaw Featuring the valedictorians of the indie brat pack past and present, Matthew Ryan Hoge's sophomore hyphenate feature The United States of Leland is woefully overwritten, self - indulgent, and plodding — a shame given the squandering of another nice clenched - jaw performance from Ryan Gosling, and no surprise given the full martyred weight of actor / producer / saviour - of - mankind Kevin Spacey, thrown behind the project as simultaneous catalyst for completion and guarantee for failure.

From director Ava Duvernay's heavy - handed direction to the suffocating special effects to the cumbersome, plodding sentimentality and bloated self - importance that imbues the grinding plot, A Wrinkle in Time throws everything at the screen with no idea as to how to make it gel.

It tends to follow the «haunted house» standard without much to veer away from the crowd, factors that lead the film to become plodding and predictable.

Thus begins Don's painful «lost weekend» in which he plods drunkenly from low to even lower to lowest.

Contrary to the nearly ironclad custom that sees competition entries filtering through to French cinema screens in the months following the festival (with each one, no matter how lukewarm its critical reception may have been, invariably touted by its promotional campaign as «la sensation de Cannes»), Netflix supremo Ted Sarandos brazenly declared his company's impatience with the requisite three years for his productions to make their plodding way from theatrical distribution, to DVD, premium cable and even free - to - air television before being allowed to air on the platform that had funded them in the first place.

Catching Fire may be a slight improvement but it suffers from the same weaknesses of The Hunger Game offering plodding action sequel light on action.

What we get instead is a confusing story that plods along and almost collapses from its own weight.

Veering from breathless, cinematic set pieces to frustrating space warfare to plodding downtime on board the Retribution, Infinite Warfare's campaign could learn a thing or two from Titanfall 2 or Gears of War.

Butterfield and his big blue eyes make Gardner's exploration of Earth sweet, and solid performances from a veteran supporting cast including Gary Oldman and Carla Gugina give what life they can to the plodding, predictable plot.

Scripted by John C. Higgins (who penned Raw Deal, T - Men and Border Incident for Anthony Mann) and directed by Howard W. Koch, it's an inconsistent film, with striking imagery, creative twists (scuba gear) and ruthless turns (death by steam tunnel) next to plodding direction and tired first - person narration from Reed Hadley, who plays the colorless but dignified FBI agent on the case.

by Walter Chaw Plodding, ugly, moribund, Burnt Offerings is bolstered by a few great campy turns from a game cast that includes Oliver Reed, Karen Black, and Bette Davis in a performance that runs counter to the self - loathing roles of her Baby Jane / Sweet Charlotte days.

Khan Academy isn't likely to close the learning gap because some kids, freed from the teach - to - the - middle plod of the usual classroom, gallop ahead.

Instead, each entrepreneur focuses on the sensible, plodding, arduous work of growing within the existing rules — and winning exemptions from those rules while ruffling as few feathers as possible.

It's unlikely they'd be any less angry if they knew the reason for our plodding obstinacy — that a bunch of sweaty, stubborn journalists are engaged in a fuel - economy challenge, attempting to drive 834 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to San Diego, California, on a single tank of fuel.

When you want, the GS 450h lets you plod around in highly adjustable sofa - like chairs, insulated and isolated from excessive engine noise or road harshness, while netting fuel efficiency not far below hybrids with less than two - thirds the power.

We doubt that RIM has any illusions that it will be able to unseat either iOS or Android from their dominant positions in the market, but nevertheless Heins» target isn't to plod along with low marketshare and an an exclusive enterprise focus.

The idea you're going to make windfall profits from plodding utilities is ludicrous: a) Like bonds, these safe stocks are rapidly becoming dangerous investments due to yield compression, and b) any secular rise (let alone a step - change) in water costs will inevitably sqeeze them, not help them — governments will impede / forbid them to raise prices accordingly!

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As frustrating as it is to plod backwards through environments you've already tackled the game does at least manage to justify it from a narrative sense, and some of the levels are open enough that going through them again can feel quite different.

The alien arrives and now you're faced with a lumbering indestructible inscrutable plodding guard, sometimes leaping from vents, sometimes just going away, sometimes ducking into doors.