Sentences with phrase «so leaden»

London Diary has been on hiatus for the summer, having spent July nominally working on a photographic project in Paris and returning to its spiritual home for an art world August so leaden you could've caught painter's colic just by walking past a gallery.

But the balloon attraction wasn't full, not on a cold winter morning with a sky so leaden it looked as if it might descend any moment, not at eleven o'clock in the morning on a Monday.

Not exact matches

Leaden footed Joe Hart is thankfully ineligible due to the terms of his loan deal and so Adrian gets a long overdue opportunity to impress in a Premier League game.

So often modern cinema spares us any sense of despair with a heavy sugar - leaden ending to satisfy our fairytale cravings.

We had a sunny day this week after days and days of rain and leaden skies, so I begged my husband to come take photos of this dress before it sells out online.

«Man of Steel,» which is more leaden than steely, is an example of everything that has gone wrong with so many big - budget spectacles.

The primary problem with Total Recall 2070 is that we can't work up much in the way of enthusiasm or concern for its leaden protagonists, especially when the evildoer (Mancuso) is so much more interesting.

Indeed, Nispel's film is so slow - moving that it blows its one lead — it was actually completed before the battle - heavy spectacle of 300 and Apocalypto, but still manages to look and sound like a leaden knockoff.

In a way, the film plays like a greatest - hits collection of the worst films so far of Summer 2017, from an appearance by the Knights of the Round Table that calls to mind «King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,» the leaden comedy and leering courtship of «Baywatch» and the general «Why are we in England again?»

The sexual subtext of this classic story of the id is handled pretty poorly — subtext that's so textual tends towards the leaden and the pretentious.

Under a leaden sky it's an eerie, post-apocalyptic sort of place to wander around, and the lack of people in a place so clearly designed to be inhabited makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck.

I've spent a lot of time in cars where you flick it into Sport mode and then five minutes later start prodding desperately through submenus to stop the damn thing feeling so artlessly leaden, and the solution to this is always, absolutely always, as follows: softer suspension, normal steering, sharper engine / gearbox response.

Post storm, the sky still leaden and the streets reeking of that just - rained - earth smell so particular to South Africa, we watched hundreds of swallows duck and dive in a display of abandon, on the banks of Lake Victoria (not that Lake Victoria, another one, but more about that later).

As well, there's the sometimes pesky matter of appropriate link text: you want to enable your reader to go to the source of something but there's no graceful way to use some of your text as a link and so you wind up being explicit, commonly with «here» or with the leaden «link».