Sentences with phrase «sluggish pace»

The questionable control scheme and overall sluggish pace of the game make it feel like, well, a zombie.

The ABA found consumers with prime and subprime credit scores opened new cards at their most sluggish pace in three years.

What they found was they had a more sluggish pace and fewer memory skills compared to rodents fed with omega - 3s.

But it carries a significant risk if the economy continues to grow at its current sluggish pace, he and other research analysts note.

The flat performance of the three major sectors has been a factor contributing to this year's sluggish pace of property sales.

While The Lost World had some good ideas at play and Steven Spielberg at the helm, it suffered from sluggish pacing and a silly, overindulgent finale.

Others, like Kessler, say the economy could grow beyond its recent sluggish pace if domestic policies encouraged investment in large infrastructure projects, such as upgrading aging transportation and power networks, which in turn would put more businesses to work.

Although I like Mertersacker, he has aged and this I fear is affecting his already sluggish pace.

The ocean - bottom microbes also reproduce at an extraordinarily sluggish pace, replicating at most just once every 100 to 1,000 years.

BOTTOM LINE Sluggish pacing plagues this mid-series installment, but Lawrence's tough performance once again carries the day.

Although it moves along at an incredibly sluggish pace, Beauvois manages to keep the viewer engaged through his delectable direction, breathtaking images of the Limousin countryside, and with the help of several outstanding performances from his cast of leading women.

The concept is compelling, but the dark, angry attitude and sluggish pace override the quirky appeal.

Belabored and suffering from a hopelessly sluggish pace, Ned Kelly is less of a biopic than it is the portrait of a haughty outlaw, painting Kelly as a renegade, self - serving Robin Hood driven further into brutality by the overzealous persecution of the police.

As a vertically scrolling shooter, normally a fairly intense experience, Silpheed suffered from a oddly sluggish pace.

We need to start thinking differently about what we can do to change the current sluggish pace towards sustainable change: we need to innovate!»

The first case, against Imax Corp., has moved at a similarly sluggish pace since Siskinds filed in September 2006.

Here's a pleasant thought to take with you into 2011 — in spite of sluggish pace of economic growth, Americans» penchant for shopping is back and in robust health.

The article discusses the potential impacts of the Senate's sluggish pace in filling federal judicial vacancies have on the ability to resolve key cases, including intellectual property disputes.

Gen X homeowners — those aged 35 to 50 — wound up seeing the worst effects of the downturn, and though they have begun to recoup equity, they are doing so at a more sluggish pace than older generations, according to the recently released Zillow Home Equity Report.

Since then, new technologies have unlocked previously hard - to - access oil and gas reserves, and the global economy has been growing at a sluggish pace after enduring a deep recession.

«The problems of latency, low internet availability and sluggish pace of digital - content progress due to high content delivery costs will soon be over,» Zhicheng wrote.

Asian investors in particular are growing weary of Canada's sluggish pace of building energy infrastructure — the pipelines and liquefied natural gas facilities needed to get Canadian fossil fuels to offshore markets.

Tech industry observers are greeting the news as further evidence of a brighter IPO market in 2017, after 2016's sluggish pace.

Slower growth — a function of structural changes such as an aging society — means economic slack created in the last recession is being eroded at a sluggish pace.

Five years after the onset of the global recession of 2008 — 2009, the sluggish pace of recovery and worries over employment and financial security continue to weigh heavily on consumer sentiment in developed economies.

They're baby steps, though, given the sluggish pace of economic growth and the uncertainty around Donald Trump's plans.

Indeed, last November, Augur co-founder Joey Krug shared his frustrations with the sluggish pace of Ethereum's development in this area, tweeting that it «really needs more developers... there simply aren't enough.»

This was a welcome development for Metals & Mining equities, as metal prices have been under pressure for most of 2011 and 2012, largely, we suspect, due to concerns about a recession in Europe, slowing growth in key emerging markets, especially China, and the sluggish pace of economic recovery at home.

He outkicked Bernard Lagat to win the 1,500 here on Aug. 24 and on Saturday night sat patiently as the 10,000 - meter gold medalist — and 5,000 world - record holder — Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia set a sluggish pace in the 5K.»

So finally, little by little, at the sluggish pace that progress follows need, some companies are changing.

At the same time, the number of jobs have not recovered to pre-recession levels, regulatory reform is being implemented at a sluggish pace and the state and city governments are increasingly relying on the revenue generated by Wall Street.

«It's still premature,» Mr. Jeffries told the Observer, praising the mayor's affordable housing plan, but criticizing what he saw as the sluggish pace of police reform.

That's some 1000 times faster than the sluggish pace most home users of the Internet endure.

The sluggish pace of these «floating islands» may also have made it easier for some species to reproduce and for their larvae to attach to the debris.

The sluggish pace exacerbates the perpetual mismatch between NASA's ambitions and its budget.

And while we are waiting we do have some sluggish pacing and two romances that in all honesty I was left indifferent to.

The movie may try and hastily deliver Eva, but it barely delivers anything worthwhile beyond its sluggish pacing.

At the same time, very few things went memorably right, and the sluggish pace dampened the thrills.

From the ridiculous title, with those two M's gummily stuck together in the middle, to the uniformly atrocious performances, from the incomprehensible plot to the sluggish pacing, The Phantom Menace is an unsalvageable disaster.

With its sluggish pacing, Rollerball gradually loses momentum between its slickly constructed game sequences

Don't let the sluggish pace discourage you, and enjoy both the dark humor and the uncanny vibes of a tortuous Hungarian romance.

Critics Consensus: The Legend of Tarzan has more on its mind than many movies starring the classic character, but that isn't enough to make up for its generic plot or sluggish pace.

Critic Consensus: The Legend of Tarzan has more on its mind than many movies starring the classic character, but that isn't enough to make up for its generic plot or sluggish pace.

Nothing about the approach or the writing is original and the sluggish pace isn't augmented by any of Mann's visual style.

However, sluggish pacing, frustrating puzzles and weak supporting characters hold it back from being a truly great experience.

Like most films from the Asian market, however, «New World» is about 20 minutes longer than it needs to be, and as a result of its sluggish pacing, what could have been a superb movie is merely a good one.

For such a short film (in terms of superhero cinema), nearly the entire film continues at a sluggish pace before diving head - first into a finale that is rushed, but even worse, unearned.

Curtis Hanson's «In Her Shoes» is an exercise in sluggish pacing.

While there are a few moments of hope and possibility, they are soon squandered and crushed by sluggish pacing, a rushed climax, comical dialogue, a lack of constistant tone, and uneven chemistry between it's cast.

The main complaints against it appeared to be its sluggish pace and generic plot, which were indeed my main issues with the film, fo...