Sentences with phrase «slow plod»

Then Andrew went down, the offense stagnated, and every game is the same slow plod towards a probable loss or narrow squeezed out victory.

My prediction is a slow plodding attack with Giroud up top.

There are slow plodding levels, and quick frantic ones plus everything in between.

Not exact matches

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

They set off, all except Simeon imprisoned in Egypt, and plodded along through the day beside the slow - pacing donkeys.

Granted, my own way is a lot slower and more plodding than his.

Interestingly, some of the younger students later confessed that they found the film plodding, slow and languishing within the limited linear storyline of a casket traveling across country.

Even when the game started, Sgt. Reese was slow and plodding, almost disinterested in the game.

Skiers are likely to insist that on snowshoes you are a slow - going fellow doing something that is dull and plodding.

Much like the No. 1 seed in their region, the Bearcats have ground their opponents down with defense and are more than comfortable playing plodding games in the 50s (or lower), but if those shots stop falling through unfamiliar rims, their slow pace can keep lesser teams within striking distance longer than Mick Cronin would prefer.

It was lethargic, slow, plodding.

When the economic dust has settled and the public are plodding their way down the long path to a slow recovery, it seems difficult to believe they will want a clunking fist rather than empathy.

No, after all, I was plodding along at a slow pace that wouldn't impress anyone.

Long runs obviously help build tolerance for distance, but my tempo runs are for going a bit faster and keeping me from turning into a plodding, slow jogger.

The good news is that Snowfall, the searing FX drama about the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, does start moving at dazzling speed after a slow, plodding start.

The filmmakers were clueless as to how to handle the subject matter, which had no business coming off as slow, dull, and plodding as it does.

The dynamism pulsing through Darkest Hour is surprising, since we might imagine a movie about Churchill's speech - writing and strategizing to be slow and plodding.

The Grudge 2 is only 95 minutes, but it plods along at an excruciatingly slow pace, padding out its sparse moments of dialogue at lengthy intervals.

Slow and plodding, Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99 is another heavyweight title card that waits its audience out before pounding them into pulp in the final round.

If you thought Frankenstein's monster was just some slow, plodding brute, then you need to watch the trailer for Lionsgate's I, Frankenstein.

It's a shame that Aidyn's slow pace and plodding combat mean many of its pluses will be discovered only by the most stubborn players out there.

The film plods along for its 121 minute running time with painfully slow exposition and dull characters.

To hold audience interest, everything in the movie that looks like action is pumped to the skies, which only makes the storytelling more slow and plodding.

A mostly dull thriller that plods along at a maddeningly slow pace, «Escape Plan» is almost completely devoid of action or humor, making both stars» involvement questionable.

The movie comes with admirable ambition but fails in terms of execution, as it seems slow, plodding and forgettable.

After one screening, however, I can't help but see Skin as a slow, plodding snoozer.

In spite of this (and formidable set and costume design), The Conspirator has its slow points — periods of dissipating dialogue and plodding plot development.

As the recession plods onward, many have concluded that what we're in for is not a quick bounce - back, but a dreary, slow recovery.

VII has painfully slow, plodding combat.

If you're a fan of the look 90's shooters had while also wishing they were slower and more plodding in pace, then STRAFE is the game for you.

Sam is no longer slow and plodding.

I can't imagine a slow and plodding combat game like Dark Souls suiting the theme.

Combat has always been a slow, plodding affair in previous Warriors games.

Shadow Fall isn't as fast paced as Call of Duty but it isn't as slow and plodding as the Halo franchise's multiplayer mode often is.

Unfortunately, the story is plodding, blandly translated and slow to get going.

Slow and plodding weapons like axes and great swords obviously deal damage differently than quick and paltry daggers, but there's plenty of room for nuance in - between.

At the start of the game, you are obviously at your weakest, only able to drop a single bomb that has the smallest explosion at your slowest pace against plodding enemies.

But that's also one of For Honor's downfalls — the pace of the game rarely feels anything but slow and plodding.

It still serves its function but these days feels pretty slow and plodding.

Like a slow - moving wave of green cuteness, plodding along with adorable fervor, thousands of baby turtles make their way to the Amazon river and the start of a new life.

Past energy sources continue plodding onward to an inevitable if slow demise, while the future of energy is researched in MIT labs, deployed in the California desert, and installed in Palestine even as Israel knocks it down.

They require, I think, a conservative response, so why is the profession so darn plodding and slow to adapt?

Plus, smaller markets are prone to suffer from slow population and rent growth in addition to plodding price appreciation and new job creation.