Sentences with phrase «plods into»

«Week in, week out, some dire British movie plods into a Soho screening room, puts its head on the block and waits for the critics to swing the axe.

«Week in, week out, some dire British movie plods into a Soho...

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.

Of the 70 percent who chose to continue running, 31 percent plodded into their third trimesters.

While we wait for the next one to plod into view, we've got some choices: chip in $ 49.99 for a second - gen Echo Dot or buy a refurb Echo from Amazon for $ 79.99.

Not exact matches

In his weakness and ordinariness, in the ease of his dismissal by those seeking something larger, in the character of his fragility, which fits so neatly into the world and into what is despicable about the world, Jesus is the Nobody whose prayer can mirror and fulfill the plodding of true prayer.

A nice comedy moment in the game when two teenage girls ran onto the pitch to mob Harry Redknapp instigating a chase by the local plod that ended with one of their number toppling into the crowd.

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.

Unrepresented at the highest management structure of NOMS, neglected and misrepresented, the probation service has for years plodded along in the shadows, only to be thrust into the limelight when the spotlight fell on individual tragedies amid media frenzies.

That is exactly what the 47 - year - old physicist has done: she has forced light to plod, pile up and squeeze into a tiny cage, stay docile in that cage and even vanish, only to reappear some distance off.

As Silberberg explains, «When you take downhills slowly, you get into a plod - stop - plod - stop rhythm, so your muscles have to conspire to stop you.

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.

There are flashes of light — Rene (Luis Guzman), the ex-con Our Heroes go into debt with is a menacing delight with his own delusions of grandeur, and Cam's frenetic, audacious ambition blasts the plodding story line along in most unexpected ways.

Unfortunately, the story moves at a plodding pace, and the game falls into more unfortunate strides of repetition than I'd hoped for.

Having established the characters in a most entertaining way in «Iron Man,» the sequel SHOULD get right into the action, but it plods along.

Slow and plodding, Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99 is another heavyweight title card that waits its audience out before pounding them into pulp in the final round.

The Marked Ones plods along amiably enough, feeling like a bit of a crossover with both End of Watch and Chronicle, but then kicks into high gear during the climax.

Thankfully, the game likes to get you into the race, rather than plod through menu after menu.

But things aren't quite as fans had been anticipating, with a shift in the combat mechanics turning Bloodborne into an all out offensive attacking romp rather than the plodding experience of hiding behind a shield and patiently waiting for a window of opportunity to strike before quickly going back on the offensive.

Kolia's almost entirely separate descent into thugville is simultaneously overripe and familiar, and I predicted how his storyline would link up with Hadji's literally two hours in advance, as the movie plods on for a wearying two and a half.

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.

The pace plods with uninteresting sidebars and the banal scenes of dialogue and storytelling outnumber the fascinating or interesting ones that could have offered a richer and more absorbing look into the man's method or the historical art period itself.

The beginning borders on plodding, but all is forgiven about 45 minutes into the film, when the antagonists come into full view in a scene of extreme depravity and violence.

It is, as such, impossible to overlook the feeling that the movie is simply spinning its wheels in the buildup to the action - packed climax, with the plodding nature of the midsection exacerbated by an almost total dearth of energetic interludes - which, perhaps predictably, ultimately cements Man on a Ledge's place as a decent 22 - minute television episode that's been unnaturally stretched into a full - length feature.

At least the dancing is good, and Vincente Minnelli's restless camera gooses a plodding story into liveliness.

With a little bit of serendipity thrown in for good measure — Nancy is mistaken for Jessica (the would - be date) in part because she happens to be holding the same book Jack has been reading — our adventure plods onward through the streets of downtown London and into pubs.

Whereas Mockingjay — Part 1 worked as a rounded, stand - alone film, the plodding nature of Part 2 suggests that the third of Collins» books should have been turned into one instead of two films.

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.

With a little old - fashioned hot - rodding, perhaps the CTS - V could be transformed into something that's not a plodding embarrassment to all America.

The 2016 C - Max falls back into the pack with its less - efficient 42 mpg city, 37 mpg highway and a turning circle that is plodding in comparison at 38 feet.

It could be the carrot at the end of the stick that many companies can use to motivate a fickle donkey to plod forward into 2012.

Who would have thought that the ageless, exquisite Cinderella could be recast as the silly story of an enormous yet lovable elephant who plods along to the ball with glass pie plates on her feet; or that Sleeping Beauty, that most regal of all fairy tales, could be twisted into the story of a frog with a most unusual and promising dance career?

The market responded by plodding lazily into record territory.

Then for the last decade, bazillions in Wall Street marketing ads have brainwashed investors into buying ETFs instead of regular old - school boring not - cool plodding open - ended mutual funds.

At the dog park this week, he has plodded along lethargically, showing little interest in other dogs — even when he ran into this little white fellow who shares his name.

Being sheep they have a tendency to simply plod forth into whatever danger awaits them, falling straight off cliffs and walking into spinning blades with reckless abandon, the blood, gore and pained bleats of their fellows failing to perturb the rest of the herd.

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.

But things aren't quite as fans had been anticipating, with a shift in the combat mechanics turning Bloodborne into an all out offensive attacking romp rather than the plodding experience of hiding behind a shield and patiently waiting for a window of opportunity to strike before quickly going back on the offensive.

I detested the plod of the story, the endless scrambling around in dark tunnels and the mind - numbing puzzles, and the Lara Croft character made me cringe, frankly, with disgust: grown men drooled over a collection of pixels arranged into a pretty shape, as the designers made her ever more pneumatic in each sequel.

All I could think of plodding through the episodic game long before I excruciatingly made it past the first chapter and was well into chapter two, was that Man, I wish someone would take the survival concept from Dead Island and apply it to the Jurassic Park Franchise for a first person game.

From there, a trudge through an overly - long section in the Batcave, a plod through the Halls Of Justice, and then finally, into space.

Thankfully, the game likes to get you into the race, rather than plod through menu after menu.

I can not overstate the game - killing absurdity of four players running circles around a boss emptying hundreds upon hundreds of rounds into his head, refilling their ammo, and doing it over again while the boss slowly plods after them like a fat kid who wants his lunch box back.

Overworld stuff makes the odd modern concession, such as having enemies visible and therefore able to be encountered or avoided at will, though the basic plod is much like any old Square Enix RPG — work from town to village, helping locals in well - disguised selfish acts that further your own ends far more than theirs, then pop into their houses and steal their life savings and underwear.

Players can no longer grind souls forever in basic zones, but it allows them to plod forward into a difficult area a dozen times picking off difficult spawns in order to make the trek easier.

Unlike their terrestrial relatives that plod along on a slimy «foot», pteropods transformed their foot into a pair of wings to «fly» through ocean waters.

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.