Sentences with phrase «quite congeal»

Johnson's warped ambition and sheer audacity can not be dismissed, but he doesn't yet have the skill to pull off such a difficult juggle of conflicting moods with ease and fluidity; as such, the film plays as a jumble of wildly disparate elements that don't ever quite congeal as a whole.

It certainly has spots where it breaks out of its half - realized side jaunts to deliver worthy scenes of amusement or pith, but for the most part, it plays like a series of barely - connected romantic fantasy bits that don't quite congeal into that truly satisfying and enriching capturing of the spirit of love and infinite possibilities that it seeks to be.

Not exact matches

Until quite recently orthodox neuroscience held that only the brains of young children are resilient, malleable, and morphable — in a word, plastic.This neuroplasticity, as it is called, seems to fade steadily as the brain congeals into its fixed adult configuration.