Sentences with phrase «through blunt force»

As I say, the ABC / TWS joint media release is exactly what one would expect: an attempt at persuasion not through truth and credibility, as Murrow advocated, but through blunt force — through nothing more than amplification and repetition.

Not exact matches

Whether handled delicately or with blunt force, there comes a point where the film either shoehorns in these values or cleverly suggests them through a combination of strong writing and impassioned performance.

Not willing to lazily waltz their way through Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg's ho - hum one - note screenplay, Diaz and her supporting cast routinely spin gold out of innocuous moments with blunt force dialogue delivery and physical determination.

We don't grow too close to many of our unnamed or reasonably anonymous heroes — but through blunt - force filmmaking, «Dunkirk» becomes something existentially profound, in which defeat is assured, death is random and sudden and mere survival is cause enough for celebration.

It's her character who sees through the posturing, the overcompensation and macho social codes of this chamber piece of blunt - force stupidity and survival to utter a throwaway line that could easily sum up the entire movie: «Ugh, men.»

This relentless farce of humiliation asks us to guffaw at a gruesome highway death, another presumed death by blunt - force trauma and / or drowning and / or (spoiler alert for those who sit through end credits?)