Sentences with word «speechifying»

There's some on the nose speechifying in the last reel.

Until now, even the most eager, and unemployed, floating voter is unlikely to have seen even one of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders up close and personal, let alone, as they will be in the debates, not speechifying but tested and challenged live by their fiercest rivals.

The make - up team has thankfully gone easy on the prosthetics too, and his voice — soft and measured, with a folksy rasp — only occasionally descends into the expected declamatory speechifying.

But the road there is heavily laden with on - the - nose speechifying that's single - minded and strident.

With his hair dyed blonde and little effort made to conceal his Irish brogue, Farrell simply isn't believable as Alexander the Great — he's more Alexander the Cute — and his prebattle speechifying before his troops, clearly meant to recall Kenneth Branagh's electrifying Henry V prebloodshed pep talk, comes off as laughably out of place.

After all, doing so risked overwhelming the headline he wanted to make at this event, one where as speechifying prime minister he normally avoided making big news.

If Berlinerblau's thesis is correct, then it stands not only as a perceptive analysis of presidential speechifying but as a damning indictment of those Americans who claim to hold the Bible as sacred, as authoritative, as vital to their very existence.

All of the noisy speechifying seems a mere pretext for the grown - up Scout's emotional grandstanding.

For extra bonus, «Testimony from Rosemary Jenks to the House Immigration, Border Security, and Claims Subcommittee» contains a detailed history of diversity visas (caveat: this is a testimony from a source lobbying for lowering immigration); and a far more cited and less speechifying version from the same organization is here.

This style of join - the - dots speechifying is always an easier task than actually making hard choices.

It is to his credit that his lucrative speechifying and corporate sinecures were clearly not enough to hold his interest.

It feels only halfheartedly about institutional sexism, and its messaging about the urgency of confronting a corrupt executive branch is similarly relegated to climactic, pro-forma speechifying.

He and longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski have brightened up their usual palette of pale blues and grays to give «The Post» welcome warmth, but they often swirl the camera into circles to cover up for otherwise static, speechifying scenes.

In a snap, we've gone from flesh and blood soldiers to speechifying wax figures, none more dull and lifeless than Harve Presnell's General George C. Marshall, who recites (from memory!)

That's to the credit of Nichols» elegant screenplay, which pares down the events so that the emphasis is taken off the legal proceedings and avoids any overdone speechifying.

Gerard Butler speechifying!

Voters have always favored fiery speechifying over pregnant silences — and this snub baldly reinforces that notion.

He appreciates some of the clever story and structural elements in Nolan's films, but regrets the endless, insistent speechifying and paint - by - numbers cinematic imagination in the storytelling itself (criticisms I had of «The Dark Knight,» too):

It's perhaps their presence which saps the story of its vitality, replacing it with mannered emoting and tremble - toned speechifying.

I'd heard speculation that the Academy might try to tamp down the #MeToo and #TimesUp speechifying, but if they made such an attempt, it was a catastrophic failure.

The move is very affecting at times, and might've been even moreso had Potter not chosen to make the theme explicit, via speechifying during what's an otherwise powerful climax.

«Human Is,» with Bryan Cranston (who also executive - produces the show) as a petty and vindictive soldier who supposedly dies fighting aliens, only to return and raise questions about his personality, features courtroom speechifying straight from one of Jean - Luc Picard's more on - the - nose monologues.

Stumbling only when it trades sly observations for broader speechifying, Beatriz at Dinner is plenty satisfying.

A portrait of the eve of 2008's financial crisis that plays out with funereal inevitability, Margin Call loves speechifying, but the film is far more assured when lingering in the silence of its morally compromised characters.

There are no outward signs of abject suffering, no grandiose and melodramatic speechifying, no dusty churches or fiery pyres.

The hope of witnessing another night of funereal speechifying may be of limited appeal... the net result will likely be audiences scared away by the millions,» said the Ankler, an industry newsletter.

Some of the movie's drama is too on the nose and characterized by speechifying (Penelope Ann Miller appears as Mary Todd Lincoln, Bruce Davison as William Seward, Josh Stamberg as Salmon P. Chase and «The Office» «s Creed Bratton as Senator Charles Sumner), and other bits are outright tinny.

Though this tactic occasionally falls into didacticism and aphoristic speechifying, it not only befits Ponicsán's novel but also the characters» middle - aged reflective attitudes.

Simultaneously slight and over-explanatory, these sequences ultimately come across as unnecessary for filling in the back story of its leading man; Bomer's eyes convey so much about his character's complicated relationships with nurture and (literal) nature that the deflating speechifying of Pullman's scenes feel like a disservice to his commanding performance.

Nonprofessional actors might have lent some authenticity to the mundane events, but it's hard to imagine one getting through the convoluted speechifying that makes up most of the dialogue.

The true lingua franca of the movie is gasbaggy speechifying: Parks is a master of plummy monologuing, while Smith is too generous with an uncredited Johnny Depp, playing a mustachioed Québécois detective whose French - Canadian patter tests patience.

Whether speechifying to an affable male visitor (Stefan Menaul), a prickly aunt (Annette Badland), or her own father (Keith Carradine, playing a kinder lad than the typical Davies patriarch), Emily isn't one to self - censor, and she's quick to ruffle feathers with idiosyncratic thoughts verging on slanderous impropriety.

It seems odd, however, that The Ted would seek to get the bayonets a-rattlin» again with almost four hours of awkward period speechifying punctuated occasionally by random recreations of random early Civil War battles (Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville), each of which lead to the events of Maxwell's 1993 adaptation of The Killer Angels, Gettysburg.

Where Brest's film unfolded with pigeon - feeding scenes and wisecracks amid sighs, Braff gives us a loud machine gun robbery in the first five minutes, the bandit speechifying «You're a casualty of a corrupt system that no longer serves the people!»

His script is full of biting, memorable dialogue, such as Getty's explanation of an «abyss of freedom» that comes from extreme wealth, without ever succumbing to grand speechifying.

It was nominated for 12 Academy Awards (it won one: Best Adapted Screenplay for Edward Anhalt), but what seemed majestic and theatrically impressive back then feels plodding and stodgy today, like a film obliged to show off every angle of its grand sets while losing the characters in the drafty castle and hearty speechifying.

He's got lots of rousing speechifying, it's a technically complex transformation, and he's playing a real person.

This Churchill is quite funny, and that only makes his nobility all the more impactful when it comes time for awards - friendly speechifying.

These qualities re-emerge with a vengeance in «Happy - Go - Lucky,» a film bursting with rapid - fire banter, cathartic outbursts and occasionally didactic speechifying.

Screenwriters Strong and Craig ditch the propaganda speechifying that bogged down the previous film, while returning director Francis Lawrence doesn't allow Collins» pointed cynicism about political leaders to overshadow the fast - paced and exciting action sequences.

Ramsay's principal strength as a storyteller is her epitomising of the «show, don't tell» philosophy whereby she refuses to spoon - feed her audience with overly expository dialogue and eloquent speechifying, preferring to utilise a mosaic - effect of fragmentary images in her films and editing sequences in flashes that skirt around any sort of definitive reveal.

This latest GameSetWatch Comic deals with the classic, slightly mangled speechifying of Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night - and presumably what happened in the version we didn't see onscreen.

Filled with war - justification speechifying and the tensest gameplay moments of the whole campaign, it's centered around the most shocking kind of political power shift.

A nude woman crouches inside the window of a box covered with drippy black resin, then jumps out unexpectedly; the projected image of a finger is superimposed over a life - size rubber finger; tiny men and women speechify almost inaudibly.

Benjamin Disraeli, speechifying about Darwin's horrifying truth, said: «The question is this: is man an ape or an angel?

[A] fter seeing Plummer charm and electrify and ham it up and speechify in gloriously boozy Shakespearean fashion in Barrymore, which I saw a couple of hours ago at the Bell Lightbox, I'm all but convinced he has the Oscar in the bag... As long as the Academy sees this low - budgeted Canadian film, that is.