Sentences with word «slightness»

A great deal of care and craft has gone into this handsome production, but it never overcomes the perilous slightness of that premise, the outlandishness of which might be more engaging in a more heightened, elaborate narrative.
Telling the same story twice requires a facility that Gardam handles with ease, though even she can not prevent a certain overall slightness to The Man in the Wooden Hat.
There's a similar slightness to both movies, and like Evans, Tanne lacks Linklater's visual acuity.
While it felt a little like a miscalculation in the first film, here Hutcherson's relative slightness and lack of out - and - out hunkiness seems to be part of the point: the love triangle, for all it feels a little mishandled (see below) is between Katniss and two actual people, not just two guys who are desperately in love with her but otherwise differ only in the type of «studly» they embody.
Even for a character stemming from brief appearances in the Spy Kids quadrilogy and a fake trailer in the Grindhouse double bill, his inherent slightness is starting to wear thin.
The one knock on Aardman is that its full - length features, like Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were - Rabbit, can not sustain the charm of its diamond - cut short features, in part because their cheery slightness fits the smaller format.
The hyper - colour, hyper - kinetic animation is designed with the youngest viewers in mind, as is the film's evident slightness and simplicity; many of the gags, particularly those stemming from the voice work of Samuel L. Jackson (Django Unchained), Snoop Dogg (Scary Movie 5), Maya Rudolph (The Way, Way Back) and Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation) as fellow snails, are firmly aimed at their adult chaperones.
With the prevalent use of linen canvases, the artist manually intervenes with absolute accuracy and an attentive visual slightness.
«Because our lives are really a gigantic collective effort in which one person's bulk makes up for another person's slightness of stature and where everyone is so tightly bound together that one person's forward progress drives another person's forward progress and that is the society we need — not just a big society, but a united society.»
But considering Tammy's overall slightness, «novelty» is probably the best - possible legacy it could acquire.
Not complaining in the slightness... Ramsey has been awful this season in the middle no way near a replacement for Santi, hech Ramsay couldn't lace Santis boots yet alone replace the lil magician...
even if there is the slightness amount of sun and there is chance i won't freeze i am wearing shorts!
Writer - director Jim Strouse's The Incredible Jessica James plays as little more than a star vehicle, with all the slightness that implies.
A stellar turn from Viggo Mortensen overcomes Everybody Has a Plan «s slightness of script, says Sarah Ward.
Dialogue is wordplay and joke heavy, but every intermittent hit helps compensate for the easy misses, just as appealing, energetic visuals somewhat mask the slightness of story.
The film is utterly inconsequential, but wears its slightness with such good - natured style that it's hard to dislike.
The two best films of the week are notable for the slightness and precision of their scale: Each clocking in at less than 85 minutes, they are models of economical filmmaking based on a clear sense of what the movie wants to accomplish.
While it's reasonable to argue that the trinket / trifle (delete as personally applicable) that is Magic in the Moonlight may bear a slightness at odds with its lavish production values, one can't help but be wooed by an aesthetic and directorial commitment that places it at the top of the filmmaker's Euro - flick deck.
Although Oscar - nominated screenwriter Hossein Amini's (The Wings of the Dove) adaptation of James Sallis» novel retains the slightness of story, the film unravels as an intense exploration of the outcome of selfish and selfless acts, aligned with the crime paradigm.
Also taxing is the slightness and repetition, the usual bodily functions constantly mined for mirth to fill in the gaps.
Alas, once she is ensconced in the massive gothic castle, Watson is more reactive than pro-active as her slightness causes her to be swallowed up by the ornate scenery and upstaged by the chatty servants in the guise of furniture and knickknacks.
But also like Married, there's a slightness to I'm Sorry that is both strength and weakness.
Following a trio of 13 - year - old Swedish girls in the late 1980s who form a punk band, the film has a featherlight tenor that could be mistaken for a kind of slightness.
The slightness of a film like «An» will let it slip through the cracks unscathed, escaping the more volatile criticism surely to de dumped on, say, Gaspar Noe's «Love» and other more audacious entries in the official selection.
Though this particular painting is on wood panel, it could just as well have been on cotton or linen canvas thus showing that the truth of the matter is that no matter the slightness or grandness of a picture, it is enacted on a mere piece of humble cloth.
It is typical of Baselitz's slightness that I can offer no easy response.
The Christie's news release refers to the Bess paintings on view as «master works,» but, as if in tacit acknowledgement of the slightness of some of them, they have been supplemented by three canvases borrowed from museums that are quite a bit better than almost everything else here.
I also liked Eichenwald's observation that the Enron problem was first noticed by a short seller who noticed that Enron always reported a tiny but positive profit even though capital employed was enormous, with the slightness of the profit margin indicating accounting issues to him.
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