Sentences with phrase «subtlety of a sledgehammer»

This year, a sizable chunk of the festival's biggest hits have a few key things in common — they're coming out in the first full year of the Trump administration, they're deeply topical despite many of them being period pieces covering unfortunate historical events, and they have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

But other beats are delivered with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

Not only is this message delivered with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, it is somewhat distastefully handled, and the tone for it isn't set up properly from the onset.

When Abe finally arrives on campus, the attention starved locals greet him with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

For all its good intentions, NCLB will be remembered for ushering in an unprecedented era of high - stakes testing — and for saddling public education with a federal mandate on school accountability that had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

Blood Dragon doesn't miss a chance to poke fun at video game and action movie standards, although it does so with all of the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

Not exact matches

As Dane transforms from boiler - room brute to doting daddy, plenty of lessons are learned along the way, delivered with sledgehammer subtlety by Butler and rookie director Mark Williams.

Thimbleweed Park, through a sledgehammer approach to subtlety in referencing its progenitors, is inseparable from the nostalgic history of Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle.