Sentences with phrase «sheer dint»

For his part, Diesel falls back on his usual gravelly monotone, smirking his way through awful dialogue as though he could make it clever by sheer dint of will.

By sheer dint of numbers and authority, a particular view tends to predominate for a period.

For one thing, in addition to potentially violating the privacy of Google users and subjecting them to unreasonable searches, one can imagine people being wrongly accused by sheer dint of being tied to a murder scene via cell phone location records.

Lila & Eve, from director Charles Stone III (who is black), is certainly no worse than many of the films studios presume will appeal to widespread mainstream audiences, and it's a lot better than some by sheer dint of the fact that it does not star the likes of Neeson or Crowe and as such has a freshness that a different perspective can bring.

Because Marmaduke is inherently desirable, perhaps, by sheer dint of his being male and the protagonist of the story (I just threw up a little in my mouth writing that).

When art, by sheer dint of its existence, can, at its best, genuinely function as a tool of ennoblement, of resistance, as a bulwark against the noxious ooze pouring out of Washington, it's frustrating to watch same old practices played out in the face of obvious opportunity to do something better.

... This marvelous debut succeeds in creating an impressive sweep by the sheer dint of powerful writing and narrative scope.

Nevertheless this marvelous debut succeeds in creating an impressive sweep by the sheer dint of powerful writing and narrative scope.

Still, by sheer dint of his reach, the song might have made Jackson (who bears no relation to U.S. EPA chief Lisa Jackson) a kind of super-sized Al Gore, a decade before An Inconvenient Truth.