Sentences with phrase «surprisingly effective running»

McCarthy plays Susan Cooper, a CIA analyst who sits at a bank of computers in a basement office — with a vermin problem that provides a surprisingly effective running joke — where she oversees missions for debonair agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law).

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It was surprisingly effective at holding the girls in place during standing runs on my Spin bike — and that's saying something.

At a running time of close to two hours, School for Scoundrels is clearly much longer than it has any right to be - although, that being said, there's little doubt that the film remains consistently watchable thanks to Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong's surprisingly clever screenplay and the uniformly effective performances.

Richard Attenborough's film version of the long - running Broadway musical hit A Chorus Line not only avoids the disaster that many had predicted for it, but is often surprisingly effective and enjoyable, transcending its troubled history.

While the film runs a bit too long, and the heartstring tugging becomes overwrought, overall this family melodrama about a devastating illness and the freak accident that cured it is surprisingly effective, even for those of little faith.

The only opposition candidate left was the popular and unconventional ex-foreign minister, Raffi Hovanessian, who despite running a surprisingly effective campaign on the Heritage Party's ticket, only garnered 37 % of the popular vote compared to Sargsyan's 59 %.

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If one manages to sneak up on you, you can attempt to run and hide, but once they grab you, you are subjected to a jump scare that can be a surprisingly effective climax to the whole tense chase.