Sentences with word «slickness»

Collapsing into a series of depressed vignettes paced and posed like a Paul Thomas Anderson film scored by Coldplay and Simon & Garfunkel, Garden State has a pleasing slickness about it while collecting debts, too, to Wes Anderson and Doug Liman.

They vibrate with slickness and success.

There's less slickness in a car chase scene, however, a messy moment of CGI and studio work — this sequence should have at least rolled over and played full phony, instead of looking like an unnatural piece of botched reality.

In the beginning the White Sox built their hopes on slickness and quickness, on poise and determination, on pitching and speed.

Though occasionally marred by slickness, Five Came Back builds to an emotional wallop, especially in its final third when the movies make a comeback.

In this case there was very little slickness on my skin.

Although the lather feels very slick in my hands, after every pass I perform, I feel like not too much slickness is left on my face.

We can discuss how perfectly cast it was — Stanley Tucci's live - wire of an attorney impatient for you to catch up to his level; Billy Crudup's inherent slickness; John Slattery's slight air of unintentional privilege — or how it declines to let its own team off the hook for the very institutional failures they're uncovering.

«When the reflections approach slickness I'm not so sure about the work,» says Jose Kuri, of Kurimanzutto, which showed a sculpture by Fernando Ortega hewn from a piece of found glass (fitted with five fluttering feathers from birds that fly around the artist's garden), which he likes «because the glass is freestanding and it's about a humble equilibrium».

The ample food variety, amenities, and slickness make it a great place to work or simply relax during a long connection.

What I call provisionality, a sense of casualness and unfinished - ness in painting, was one way to reconnect with the foundational doubt of modern art that really had been lost in the marketing and professionalizing, in the technical slickness of the booming art market.

And although it's not a car designed for slickness around corners, the Q3 by no means falters here.

The whole tablet is powered by Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, so should benefit from the added slickness that one of the most recent versions of Android brings.

I highly recommend this soap if you want a rich thick lather with ample cushion and great slickness and glide for your shaving experience while your at it pick up the matching aftershave splash the scent is the same but even more prominent and you won't be disappointed if you like that woodsy cedar and fern aroma.

-- has an infomercial slickness to it.

Corbyn supporters, who can be blind to his shortcomings, tend to like Jeremy because his agenda is not coupled with the stage - managed slickness of previous leaders.

The fabric itself is a little fussy, heavy and stretchy with a slight slickness, and the gathering detail in the front also feels fancy to me.

This long - wearing formula can hold its ground through sweat, humidity and skin slickness.

Animated slickness may have come at the cost of writing integrity.

In this numbingly ludicrous science - fiction drama, written and directed by Alex Garland, a talented cast of actors play undeveloped characters delivering leaden dialogue in a haphazard story that's filmed with a bland slickness.

It might drift out of the memory just as easily as it drifted in, but there's a goofy likability to Pacific Rim: Uprising, a primal thrill to be had, and a confident slickness behind it that means, despite a nearly two - hour running time, it doesn't outstay its welcome.

This is a formula film, but it has the kind of good cheer and fine tuning that occasionally give slickness a good name.

This lack of showbiz slickness came in handy for the «everyman» roles assigned him.

He's lucky to have Miracle Mile DP Theo Van De Sande, who gives everything a daunting slickness, and production designer Greg Berry, who subtly mirrors the accoutrements of the meth lab in the coloured bottles dangling from trees on Broker's property, showing how corruptible is this pretense of Americana.

Writer - director Paul Greengrass's frenetic handheld camerawork, aspiring in its blue / green - tinged slickness to doc - like immediacy, and the faceless cast of unknowns, all of whom appear to be attending an actors seminar held on a Universal Studios theme park roller coaster, are in service of an ideologically muddled house of cards, which crashes to earth long before the plane does.

But overall this lacks weight and intensity: a Brontë-esque bauble smeared in twenty - first - century slickness.

Director Michôd avoids Tarantino / Guy Ritchie slickness here, and instead goes for a kind of gritty 1970s - era directness, without specifically wallowing in it, or showing off with it.

Similarly, slickness oozes from Anna Foerster's (Anonymous) slow motion - heavy visuals, mania manifests in Adam Wolfe's (TV's Criminal Minds) frantic editing, and manufactured emotions swell in the recognisable notes of frequent Emmerich collaborators Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander's score.

His boyish handsomeness undergoes a transformation into ferrety slickness, the actor hammering home Louis's mania in ferocious, near - OCD monologues — one of which will bring your audience to stupefied applause — that reveal a truly dangerous operator.

But Julian Fellowes's very British symphony of «sorry «s is extraordinarily familiar — an Adrian Lyne film without slickness or sex about what happens when a desperate housewife dabbles in the dangerous and the commensurate desperation with which her stiff - upper - lip husband scrambles to keep his dignity and status intact.

There's some road noise and a rustle of wind from the mirrors at higher speeds, but the steering feels just right for high - speed stability and low - speed effort, and there's a syrupy slickness to every control that makes being a chauffeur seem like quite an appealing change of career.

I thought it would stand head and shoulders above them as a modern muscle car that had enough Camaro - ness to please the faithful but also enough slickness and refinement to pull people out of imports.

Its rakish windshield and doors that wrap into the roof give it a 33 percent improvement in drag coefficient a measure of aerodynamic slickness over the 1987 version.

Cars are losing their individuality in the continuing quest for high - tech slickness and fuel efficiency, or so some people tell me.

The iDrive menu screen also operates with a little more slickness and is packed with higher - quality graphics than what I noticed in the 428i Coupe from a few months ago, perhaps made possible thanks to this display's greater surface area.

No delay, no lag and no jerkiness - just pure, unadulterated slickness.

Battlefront 2's executive producer John Wasilczyk, associate design director Dennis Brannvall, and producer Paul Keslin were all on - hand to answer questions from the reddit community, and the whole thing passed on by with the effortlessly evasive slickness of a well - oiled corporate PR machine.

But since its launch, there has been an undeniable slickness to the way Bungie has presented what are fairly tired old mechanics, and the Dark Below shows no sign of that attention to detail dropping.

Working across multiple platforms — «photography, sculpture, publications, sound, and single - and multi-channel video installations» [1]-- he employs the high production values and superficial slickness of Hollywood.

Curry's work always contains this constant osmosis between the warmth of material like natural wood and the artificial slickness of industrial colours, between the memory of a hand - made object and the mass - produced, reproduced, broadcast image, between tribal art and the world of consumption.

With a palette of dazzling, coruscating colours and a crudeness of line and shape that recalls Matisse's late cut - outs, Bustamante's ink - works draw on every ounce of the natural slickness and coolness of the plexiglass surface.

The other show, «Alex Katz in Maine,» at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, presents 23 works from 1958 to 2004, many in Mr. Katz's more familiar movie - screen size, some great, some watered down by a certain illustrational slickness.

But, whereas Scully has a certain impressive slickness to his painting style and application, Gouk always retains a degree of overt physicality that sometimes verges on visual and tactile discomfort.

Dodd's paintings are in diametric opposition to the deadening slickness of digital media.

Immersed in the nifty slickness of «environmentalism 2.0» it's sometimes easy to forget about the patient progress of the groups like The Nature Conservancy.

Same deal with the overall slickness of this phone.

There's a serene slickness to the Galaxy S8 + in operation.