Sentences with phrase «so deadened»

Yes, she's a vampire who feeds off the blood harvested by her guardian (Richard Jenkins, a hollow man with failing skills so deadened by his work that slavish devotion alone drives him).

As entertainment goes, the latest Bond works a great deal like Jason X — the tenth Friday the 13th film — except that Die Another Day has more implied sex, a higher body count, and a pace so deadening that it didn't even occur to me until well after the credits had finished to wonder why Epcot Center was in Iceland and why the bad guys were headquartered there.

Eco should improve economy but so deadens the accelerator I couldn't live with it.

Not exact matches

«He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn — and I would heal them.»

Give us our Libertairain virtues as is so given to ours now residing in the heavens deadened placements, Lead not those in vile temptuousness but deliver all from the doledrums of all acts of agressionisms for our Presidents were and now are of the powers and the animosities ever likely to unfold.

To perhaps reframe Hanson's concern so it is more in line with Jacques Ellul, what we now understand as «entertainment» has become so radically alterted by our technical rationality and the deep problems associated with it that it is deadening in ways that we do not realize.

So Marx saw a parallel between the way the British and French used guns to force opium on the Chinese people in the mid-nineteenth century and the way the Christian church used religion to deaden the social awareness of the working people.

It's hotter than the inside of a toaster oven in the deep bowl of Anaheim Stadium, so hot that it deadens the echo of baseballs cracking off the bat.

See Canadian winter deaden your dreams so much that you can't even fantasize about a proper spring look, but then one day it becomes so hot that you have no other option but to wrap that coat around your waist and trade your chunky, ugly boots for the loveliest of slides.

This leads, of course, to something that feels like a day's worth of exposition, wherein lines like «Me and my daddy used to come here» or «You remind me a lot of my daddy» cause the twenty percent or so of moviegoers not already deadened by theYeats references to squeal in delight over their ability to ferret out deeper meaning from an allegedly medium - cool text.

The first third is dedicated to a built - in, manic «making - of» featurette that essays, in deadly, deadening detail, how Verhoeven posted four pages of a script online, then invited anybody with a laptop and a Starbucks to submit the next five pages, and the next, and so on and so forth, thus pushing Verhoeven out of his comfort zone and inspiring him to new heights as a filmmaker.

If the static shots and deadened rhythms of the big - budget fantasy films John Carter and the first two Chronicles of Narnia entries are any indication, the qualities of animation may not so easily translate to live action.

Giggling and kvetching and so on and so forth, but at least it's better than the deadening self - congratulation of Rhimes / Horton.

«And the idea of the spiral curriculum — where you can over time revisit basic ideas / concepts in ever more complex ways — is so different from today, where we try to simplify things to lists, or memorization of isolated names and numbers, or multiple choice options, thereby deadening rather than waking up the mind.»

Toyota designed the car using some of the sound - deadening technology that makes the company's Lexus luxury vehicles so quiet.

The A3 sedan's got better sound deadening than the hatch, so it's quieter inside as well.

While travelling at highway speeds, we took a guess at how Kia was able to save so much weight over the heavier Camry and Accord: less sound deadening.

Ford engineers designed the interior with special sound - deadening devices so that conversations can be carried out between front and rear passengers without shouting.

Mazda used additional sound deadening material to help mitigate this, so the new model is more refined compared to previous years, but those expecting an ultra-quiet, buttery - smooth ride should probably look elsewhere.

The eight - speaker Dimension audio system filled the Veloster Turbo's cabin with excellent sound, though I was wishing for a bit of sound deadening when on the highway so I didn't have to have the system cranked when I was listening to certain things.

So rather than remove a bit of sound deadening (and weight) on a few sport models, the automakers have created yet another absurd gizmo that's meant to synthesize the experience of actually driving a real car with an engine that the driver can hear.

The Avalon feels so substantial behind the wheel; you hate to see it ruined by a lack of sound deadening material.

I hadn't noticed that trait in the Encore, so perhaps some sound deadening was left out in Chevy's version.

Here one does best to defer an encounter with de Maria's central floor sculpture until later, so that it serves first as a point of orientation for other, repeated discoveries, rather than a deadening mall.

Like Warhol, I want the world to deaden my sensation so I will not have to deal with it.

«In total, the object of desire in MARILYN is mediated by so many factors — from Marilyn Monroe's death and the age of the original film to the lethargic pace and absence of narrative closure in Conner's version — that is transmogrified into something truly strange, at once erotic and deadened.»

Of all the dangers we face, from climate chaos to permanent war, none is so great as [the] deadening of our response.

They can advise a maintenance man fit at one dimension a twirp twitch was posted and use towels to deaden the field you're hunt to get all 3 of the post, so that you can use it.

You may have worked during the last years only in one programming environment, so your knowledge of other software packages can have deadened.