Sentences with phrase «same leaden»

They carry a weight of consequence that has the same leaden impact as someone going «all in» on a high - stakes poker hand.

Whether the monsters are stuck in deepest Transylvania or lost in the Egyptian desert, the same leaden feeling persists.

Not exact matches

If that past is good, this heftiness enriches us with joy's golden destiny If bad, this same solidity oppresses us with sorrow's leaden fate.

For writing that hinges on indulgent exposition, leaden metaphor, painful grade - school symbolism, and cliché characterization, Courtney Hunt is now an Oscar nominee thanks to the same AMPAS voters who don't recoil into the fetal position at the sound of actors reading aloud from a Paul Haggis screenplay.

The first two chapters of this macho mood piece intrigued me, but after the third or fourth variation on the same theme, it started feeling ponderous: too slow, too one - note, and leaden where it wanted to be weighty, the electric guitars on the soundtrack too loud and monotone too, like vuvuzelas at the World Cup.

Pousette - Dart's first mature images parallel early Pollock, with much the same birds, totems, mysterious writing, and leaden anxiety.