Sentences with phrase «theatrics like»

But Hooper lacks the nerve to stand by his transgressions, and resorts to cheap effects like an over-used fluttering camera speed to imply a bad drug trip and sentimental theatrics like a third - act monologue where the villains spin monologues about their past sins that feel ripped from a dud soap opera.

Maybe we have really bland lives that never veer into the dramatic, but I can say when an argument gets heated in my house it is bigger than life at times, and I have never had any arguments worthy of theatrics like Dean has in that particular moment.

The result is a powder keg NASCAR hopes manifests in frustration, hurt feelings and possibly theatrics like Tony Stewart chucking his helmet at Matt Kenseth's car, or the numerous instances where Dale Earnhardt shoved his way to the lead.

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The crowded Senate hearing was not without theatrics, although most was from the audience, like an activist dressed in costume as a Russian internet «troll.»

They are members of a nationwide group known as The Initiative Collective — a volunteer crime prevention outfit that encourages people to fight back against violence using self - defense, armor and theatrics — in addition to doing general good deeds like fundraising, feeding the homeless and offering free martial arts training to anyone who wants it.

We don't give a damn about theatrics, your SKOL claps, them Viking pigtails, your shitty Dunkin' Donuts, or our rejected sons, like Matt Ryan playing in Atlanta and making national broadcasts talk about him like he's special because he went to Willy Penn Charter.

The former Bob Hope Classic ain't what it once was, and Rahm's win didn't feature a beatdown like his countryman Sergio provided in Singapore, nor did it feature a how - did - he - do - that type theatric rally like Fleetwood supplied in Abu Dhabi.

I'm not the greatest fan of Neymar cos of his theatrics and his Beckham - like love for fame over football but guess what if Arsenal get him i'll be over the moon too.

Sometimes, however, it seems like nothing but elaborate theatrics - the tearful meltdowns every morning at day - care drop - off, which (your child's teacher assures you) are over as soon as the door closes behind you.

Polls show she is not well known, and the first debate's substance was largely overshadowed by the shouting and Dietl's theatrics, including a rehash of comments he made about an African - American judge who ruled against him looking like the mayor's wife, Chirlane McCray.

Just like all the other theatrics Davey and his crew have come up with during this budget mess, this exercise was totally not necessary.

Do yourself a favor: «Skip the theatrics, and offer some constructive criticism instead,» says Morse — like one of these tips for better orgasms.

Pitt plays his partner, David Mills, a hothead rookie who looks like he copped his style from macho movie theatrics.

The song is incredibly catchy, a mix of styles just like the film, with a bit of a Beach Boys sound, a bit of Queen's theatrics, a bit new wave and even a bit heavy metal — but it is without a doubt a singular piece, telling a singular story.

Although games based on properties like the WWE focus on over-the-top moves and theatrics, in UFC Undisputed it is all about stats and strategy.

One part intimate old school Western recalling William Wyler's The Big Country, another reveling in the Italian Spaghetti theatrics directors like Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) and Sergio Corbucci (The Big Silence) practically invented, the movie's most obvious comparison might actually be the works of playwright Tennessee Williams, the scenario at hand owing more to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof than it does Once Upon a Time in the West or Shane.

At first glance, it would seem like an amusing premise for a satire, yet for large stretches the film takes itself seriously on the one hand, then completely goes for bad over-the-top theatrics and schlock in the other.

With his signature theatrics and lavish style, Luhrmann should only flourish on a streaming service like Netflix, which gives its creators complete artistic control.

After witnessing the master's methods, we — like Michael — are left wondering what's real and what's just mere theatrics.

William Castle - like theatrics aside, Ducournau's film deserves to be seen not only for its incisive view of identity, but because its a terrifying film about teenage angst and the unrelenting feelings of confusion and displacement that comes along with it.

The new TT RS is a devastatingly rapid sports car in anyone's language, its sheer speed, pin - sharp steering and pop and crackle theatrics on the overrun making it intoxicating to drive on a road like this.

Of the dramatic plot twists that routinely occur in suspense fiction, one character in Harriet Lane's Her complains that they are «unsatisfying... nothing like life, which — it seems to me — turns less on shocks or theatrics than on the small quiet moments, misunderstandings or disappointments, the things that it's easy to overlook.»

There is nothing like someone's loud theatrics to make me cool as a cucumber.

Like the setting to a Lana Del Rey music video, their seductive, 24/7 theatrics and faux opulence is a never - ending source of amusement.

Jonas's own work has frequently engaged and questioned portrayals of female identity in theatric and self - reflexive ways, using ritual - like gestures, masks, mirrors, and costumes.

While some may consider psychedelic art to be exclusive to the period of the 1960s, its influence is still alive today at music festivals, in festival - favorite music genres like psychedelic drone, as well as in contemporary paintings, art installations, and concert theatrics.