Sentences with phrase «times plodding»

Directed by Dick Powell in a deliberate (at times plodding) manner, the film offers its share war movie action but the focus is on the battle of wits, a kind of chess game played with torpedoes and depth charges, with the two captains attempting to outwit the other by anticipating one another's movies.

Howe's testimony in the third week of the trial was at times plodding, as Assistant U.S. Attorney Janis Echenberg introduced evidence for jurors.

I myself spend quality time plodding down by the Thames, exercising away my continued reliance on too much of a good thing (plus, doing a bit of bird - watching.

Document reviewers spend too much time plodding through multiple overlapping emails and nearly identical draft documents.

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But everyone there has a way better time watching you be you than waiting for the first dance or plodding their way through small talk over dinner.

The research should also push planters to more and better preparation, as it confirms the effectiveness of the steady plodding by those who allot time to raise their own support and maintain relationships with coaches or other supportive figures.

The common habit of using the Bible by concentrating on one verse at a time (which may or may not be a complete sentence) is at best a very slow, plodding way to get at the author's main points, rather like playing dominoes or checkers at the rate of one or two moves per day or per week, and at worst a fragmentation and distortion.

I think most of the time I have plodded through my Christian life with no sense of a destination or purpose as each day has had it's own agenda and not mine.

It was only a matter of time before Jeff Brohm's creative offensive designs had the previously plodding Boilermakers playing football that was pleasing to the eyes, but man, was that quick.

- Can you do interval workouts quite well, but fatigue after plodding for long periods of time?

At one point or another, most of us have probably dragged ourselves to the gym to «do 20 minutes on the treadmill» and plodded through the entire time with one eye on the clock and the other on Access Hollywood.

American Pie Presents The Naked Mile's latter half, as a result, moves along at a plodding pace that's compounded by an episodic structure, as the movie lurches from one ill - conceived set - piece to the next with little thought towards momentum or consistency - which inevitably does confirm the film's place as just another interminable waste of time designed to cash in on the original trilogy's success.

True Blood returns with too many new characters, not enough time with the characters I like, a general evasion of the most prickly parts of last season's finale, and some plodding hints at a lumbering dramatic direction for this season.

The film plods along for its 121 minute running time with painfully slow exposition and dull characters.

Contrived, glib and cheerfully formulaic, David Dobkin's film veers between a rather plodding murder case and a much more interesting underlying family saga, and takes its time to tell a story that could have been trotted out in 90 minutes.

I think the moment where Anomaly Warzone Earth — I don't see a colon on the game's website; letting all three words of the title evenly plod from the mouth pleasingly highlights its Eastern European pedigree — really grabbed me was the first time I rerouted my caravan of tanks and mechanized walkers to loop to endlessly...

There is considerable dark humor here — no doubt courtesy of the Coen Brothers — but even with Spielberg directing, there are times when Bridge of Spies seems to be plodding a bit (using my usual soda pop metric, my big drink ran out fifteen minutes before the credits rolled).

Otherwise, it is a plodding, stagebound production that fails to find a visual complement to Shaw's words and scenes (Pascal has no Lean on the set to help him out this time) and it ended up a huge financial flop..

By the time the credits rolled, I realized that I had just watched a feature - length prologue to a plodding supernatural epic / coming of age adventure that, apocalyptic struggle or not, I'm not the least bit invested in.

From director Ava Duvernay's heavy - handed direction to the suffocating special effects to the cumbersome, plodding sentimentality and bloated self - importance that imbues the grinding plot, A Wrinkle in Time throws everything at the screen with no idea as to how to make it gel.

Silence: Martin Scorsese's downward trajectory reaches its nadir with this plodding and generally unwatchable drama, with the absurdly overlong running time (160 minutes!)

There isn't much else to celebrate about this film, which holds your attention but not your interest as it plods along to an unsatisfying conclusion, making time for some random tangents (like the strange scene featuring Anjelica Huston as a Russian lion tamer).

You can decide what marketing tasks you want to perform, and keep plodding along with them, but unless you're taking the time to measure how beneficial they are, you could just be wasting a lot of time and money, as well as not giving yourself the chance to improve your marketing activities in the future.

It is time we lean into urban education as a place to jump - start the revitalization of an old - fashioned plodding system into a model for the 21st century.

We'll keep an eye (or, rather, an ear) on it, although we intend to waste as little time as possible plodding through traffic jams and more of it exploiting this hot hatch on some of the nation's best driving roads.

With that being said, this was a difficult read for me because Matthew's thoughts and narration are somewhat disjointed - at times I felt like I was plodding through it, which is not my favorite way to read.

A couple of readers however, didn't warm up to the style: This was a difficult read for me because Matthew's thoughts and narration are somewhat disjointed - at times I felt like I was plodding through it, which is not my favorite way to read.

Go on a camel safari in the Thar Desert, where plodding amongst the sand dunes as the harsh sun sinks towards the horizon will rank highly among the memories you will have of your time in India.

That sounds like an absurd comparison, but I love those sorts of games where you can plod along and do things how you want to but with no time pressure or no big bosses to deal with — I can make the game my own and imprint my own stories on to it.

For the first few years, Grim Dawn plodded along with only two full - time developers, supported by volunteers.

One of the initial impressions I had while plodding through Dragon Quest IV's quest was that the by using «exotic» English dialects and situating itself in a series of small - time, country villages, the game was poking fun at people from less fortunate backgrounds.

If you can up your speed even one notch and be able to drop two bombs at once, it becomes a fun strategy game, but it takes time to get there, and the first few screens are plodding.

Players can no longer grind souls forever in basic zones, but it allows them to plod forward into a difficult area a dozen times picking off difficult spawns in order to make the trek easier.

Gouk concludes: «There are aspects of modernism which of course challenge this nexus of values, but Manet's art is a permanent reminder that the complex constructions of cerebral compulsiveness, the ploddings of so called «realism,» or indexes of socio - political advance in mores and life - style, however «modernistic» they may consider themselves to be, are likely to be, in spite of themselves less a true reflection of their times than an indictment of it.

Symbiont shuffling and shifting is an evolutionary masterpiece that circumvents plodding evolutionary mechanisms of most organisms with long generation times and enables immediate adaptation.

To date, my wife Sally and I have walked from the North Sea in Holland to Nice (2,300 km) and then between Vienna and Brittany (2,900 km) and we are now on a further trek — crossing the Alps for the second time — between Heidelberg and Verona (900 km to date, and still plodding on).

Thus freed from the insuperable burden of plodding from library to library, refreshing his recollection upon index systems of various books, pulling them out and ploughing through them, and then making laborious niotes in longhand, the lawyer can devote his time and mind to the social, political, and economic aspects of law and justice.

Some broker - owners who are plodding through tough times conclude that shrinking their operation is better than being acquired or merging.