Sentences with phrase «plodding start»

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.

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Although it's often characterized as a plodding manager of cookie - cutter properties, Marriott — which started as a root beer stand in 1927 --- is actually one of the great financial pioneers in U.S. industry.

I liked reinventing myself, even at 12, I liked being able to start over as the person I knew I was becoming, instead of having to plod along as the person that I wasn't yet.

Even when the game started, Sgt. Reese was slow and plodding, almost disinterested in the game.

I know there are earlier ones, but the first one that popped into my head was when my son was about a year, and starting to walk by pushing this toy on wheels; early in the morning, before anyone in our neighbourhood was up, we'd walk around the block, me in my pjs with a mug of tea, the rising sun shining on his bright little face, as he plodded that LONG distance (for his little strides) beside me.

As the movie plods on, the jokes start to fall flat... Worst of all is a centerpiece scene, when Ben has to pretend to be a mafioso (but sounds more like a cross between Martin and Lewis), when Crystal is so unfunny that you almost feel sorry for him.

It is time we lean into urban education as a place to jump - start the revitalization of an old - fashioned plodding system into a model for the 21st century.

At the start of the game, you are obviously at your weakest, only able to drop a single bomb that has the smallest explosion at your slowest pace against plodding enemies.

Like a slow - moving wave of green cuteness, plodding along with adorable fervor, thousands of baby turtles make their way to the Amazon river and the start of a new life.

Untroubled by unnatural influences (way before any humans plodded about the islands, or sailed in the adjacent waters), the iguanas lived a largely aquatic life, until about 2 million years ago, when Isabela's rock started to soften into soil, and plants started to find a way to live there.