Sentences with phrase «preen less»

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Birds fed the crude oil were less active and spent less time preening their feathers than birds fed peanut oil, said study coauthor Christopher Goodchild, an ecotoxicologist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

But revisiting the film, I was irked less by any perceived preening desire to be «authentic» than I was absorbed by the power of its story — though the movie's one go - for - broke stab at regional poetry, a black - and - white squirrel - centric dream sequence scored to a chorus of chainsaws, still falls completely flat.

Donald Sutherland remains a preening, gleefully and theatrically arch villain (though the less said about his rebellion counterpart Julianne Moore's performance the better), and Hutcherson puts in a strong, conflicted performance (Jennifer Lawrence, however, never seems entirely at home once she embraces the role of inspiring leader).

In lesser hands, the far - ranging dissertations might have seemed like authorial preening, but with Alameddine, in part because of Aaliyah's rich voice and in part because of the sheer brilliance of her words, the reader is charmed into complete acceptance.

Waters freely manipulates images of less - than sacred, low - brow references — Elizabeth Taylor's hairstyles, Justin Bieber's preening poses, his own self - portraits, and pictures of individuals brought into the limelight through his films — to entice viewers to connect to his astute and provocative observations about society.

Now if only her women preened a little less.