Sentences with phrase «tidy endings»

The relatively tidy ending also feels slightly lazy after a series of more challenging plot twists.

A too - tidy ending notwithstanding, this is an exceptional character study of a young woman and her hospital mates who struggle with demons so severe that only their bodies can confess.

Do not, though, expect too tidy an ending.

Her poor decisions do nothing but prolong the film's jarringly tidy ending which, at under 90 minutes, is a pretty remarkable feat.

Though an overwhelming score and a too - tidy ending threaten the film's power, brilliant performances across the board — in particular, by Oscar nominee Naomi Watts — and a staggering recreation of the tsunami itself keep you breathless most of the time.

It's got great performances and a tidy ending that's too often missing from real life.

There's the impression out there that Christian books must include wholesome characters, tidy endings, and «conservative» values in order to make it to bookshelves.

Those words I toss around so casually in my lectures — faith, doubt, fundamentalism, gender, sexuality, church — are potent seeds that have nestled, split, and grown inside of them, over many years, producing testimonies as unique and as urgent as the ones they print in Christianity Today, but without the tidy endings.

The tidy end of the studio.

The spoof of consumerism scores some predictable points, but the tidy ending is a sell - out to the ultimate marketing machine: Hollywood.

The tidy ending is sourly sweet and unbefitting of what began.

Starting with a look at Harvey Fierstein's Tidy Endings (1988), this weekly column at The Film Experience studies the way the cable network has tackled gay storylines in its award - winning films, miniseries and TV shows.

If it had been produced by a major Western studio, the story no doubt would have devolved into high melodrama with a tidy ending.

And don't expect a tidy ending, with this being only the first in yet another triple title adaptation.

A satisfying power struggle and the provocative use of ambiguities that refuse to offer a tidy ending help the film hang around after credits role.

But this is supposedly a sitcom, so all these weighty matters are swept clean for laughs and tidy endings.

And it made for a tidy ending, when there wasn't much tidy about Crow's life.

If you like your mysteries to be all blood and guts and tidy endings, move on, but if you're interested in a writer of thoughtful noir crime fiction who includes Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in his list of favorite authors, and cites Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as his favorite novel, stop right here!

If you like your mysteries to be all blood and guts and tidy endings, move on.

In this novel, as in all Coetzee's work, there are no closures, no tidy endings.