Sentences with phrase «so plodding»

So it's disappointing, and more than a little confusing, that his sophomore feature film is so plodding and lazy.

American audiences expect crouching tigers and hidden dragons in their Asian fare, so plodding elephants may be a little anti-climactic.

Kavimba is a deserted village without a camping site, so we plod along on the sand road.

So I plodded carefully on until an absolute poster child for these criteria showed up.

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There has been no news or movement to boost Litecoin in Apr so it has plodded along perplexing to locate up wit the other altcoins and mislaid two spots in the market cap charts dropping down to 7th.

What I've learned since then is that God has given us so much more potential than we will ever realize or utilize if we plod through the years at a secure but soul - killing job, just waiting to retire.

In his weakness and ordinariness, in the ease of his dismissal by those seeking something larger, in the character of his fragility, which fits so neatly into the world and into what is despicable about the world, Jesus is the Nobody whose prayer can mirror and fulfill the plodding of true prayer.

No player's is bigger than their club but arsene have made it so difficult to sell players on because nobody want our plods with their ridiculously high wages, if ox and sanchez wants to go but nothing under 100 million for both and if they stay don't give in to their wage apart from the one that's being offered at the moment

For some reason Wenger decided not to play with recognised wingers so he was left to plod up and down the pitch without any purpose.

Preseason projections still account for 30 percent of teams» ratings, which doesn't help, but neither do Arizona's poor performance against UTSA or Utah's plodding offense, which has been outgained by the opponent, on a per - play basis, in every game so far.

So he avoids the plod from hot Mercury to freezing Pluto much loved by the more pedantic.

The pulse rate quickens ever so slightly from the plodding Zen - master groove it had achieved.

As Silberberg explains, «When you take downhills slowly, you get into a plod - stop - plod - stop rhythm, so your muscles have to conspire to stop you.

So, instead of plodding along on the treadmill, try kickboxing cardio workout.

As the movie plods on, the jokes start to fall flat... Worst of all is a centerpiece scene, when Ben has to pretend to be a mafioso (but sounds more like a cross between Martin and Lewis), when Crystal is so unfunny that you almost feel sorry for him.

... But the script is so full of mood and moralizing that it mostly plods.

The plots are contrived, plodding and predictable and so are the characters.

On DVD, the picture is so severely letterboxed that we grow tired another way, straining to see it, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is plodding besides, filled with enough mock - losophy for a third Matrix sequel.

Michael Mann doesn't make standard frantic - pace thrillers (see Heat and Public Enemies); he prefers to work at a more controlled stride, so while this hacking adventure - mystery is intriguing it also feels a bit plodding.

What could have been a film to break new ground as did the filmmakers for the superb «Mad Men» series instead create a same ol' retread of spy stories, which in itself would not be so bad if the story did not plod along with boatloads of banter which do nothing more than confuse the viewer further.

X-Men: Apocalypse runs over two hours, which is surprising because — while the movie does plod along — I didn't realize it plodded along for quite so long.

These are crusaders in rumpled suits with coffee cups instead of capes, plodding through the boring legwork that comprises so much of real journalism — making lists, finding almanacs in dusty rooms that stink of dead rat, filling out forms at the courthouse, eating leftover pizza in dismally unkempt apartments.

The movie comes in at 94 minutes but the thing plods along so slowly that you are lucky if you fall asleep and unlucky if you try hard not to and succeed.

So, these days, I tend to go on Amazon and buy their entire corpus, stack it up on my bedside table and plod through them.

Rather than having to plod through semester - long courses or sit through ineffectual workshops, they can focus on mastering a specific competency, demonstrating that they have done so, and then moving ahead, all at their own pace.

So I just have to keep plodding along and make my memoir writing as compelling as possible, hoping that THAT is my platform.

Nook brings the US onside; Kobo brings the rest of the world and, so far, a dedicated owner with a good team in place that has been plodding away building a substantial brand and business.

But I still plodded along and picked up loads of leaflets on various things including self publishing and generally just being excited to be surrounded by so many books and people who are super passionate about books.

In fact, the development of annuity products is so rapid and extensive, much of it based on applications of behavioral economics, that insurance companies, once seen as plodding and dull, are at the center of financial innovation.

So when Congress was developing these student loan forgiveness programs I was basically just making the payments and plodding along and I haven't become eligible until really the last couple of years because Mrs. ROB's student loans and mine combined make me eligible for the program.

So most everyone in the system is happy to just plod along using outdated and totally wrong methods of doing most everything, because that's how they make the most money and are able to do the least amount of work.

I crammed in so much that with the exception of the past couple of months the year has plodded along just nicely.

Her back story alone is enough to pique a player's interest, but so little of it is properly addressed that I found myself less and less engaged with the story as it plodded along.

The story and acting holds up, even if it's monotonous to plod through, so when you inevitably find this in your local bargain bin it's still worth a play through.

Gouk concludes: «There are aspects of modernism which of course challenge this nexus of values, but Manet's art is a permanent reminder that the complex constructions of cerebral compulsiveness, the ploddings of so called «realism,» or indexes of socio - political advance in mores and life - style, however «modernistic» they may consider themselves to be, are likely to be, in spite of themselves less a true reflection of their times than an indictment of it.

Smaller, heavier ships have to be used and they have to push through ice so they don't compete on fuel per container load with the giant container ships that plod the southern seas.

But they did know that ecosystems were especially tiresome when they got fubared, so they protected the environment with the same implacable, plodding, green - visored mentality that they applied to designing overpasses and culverts.

That's because the longer global temperatures just sort of plod along without rising much (new research suggests that such a period may extend for another 20 years or so), the more established (and entrenched) the observed / model mismatch becomes.

A judicial attempt to provide legal services paid for by HMCTS has been overturned by the Court of Appeal in re K & H (Children)[2015] EWCA Civ 543, [2015] All ER (D) 230 (May), so the individuals will either plod on, aided if possible by the court staff, the judge and pro bono work by lawyers.

Why is it that many judicial decisions are packed full of money quotes, those pithy little paragraphs that make the decision pop off the page, while by contrast, so many legal briefs, even those that would garner an «A» in writing, are serviceable, plodding and dull?

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

This plodding approach is why so many people are flocking to digital currency to circumvent burdensome regulations and excessive taxes.