Sentences with phrase «too implausible»

In light of this, it wouldn't be too implausible a claim that Geng's retrospective show at the ShangArt gallery traversing two decades of his artistic practice is as much a chronicle of China's socio - cultural logic as it is of his oeuvre.

Instead, writer / director Jeff Lowell settles for a story that takes a little too long to tell, concocted situations a little too implausible to buy and repartee that occasionally hits the dartboard but never gets close to the bull's - eye.

Despite a capable cast and attractive Baton Rouge, La., locales photographed by Bobby Bukowski, The Ledge suffers from a seriously flawed script that's just too implausible to be taken seriously.

Writer / director Jeff Lowell settles for a story that takes a little too long to tell, concocted situations a little too implausible to buy and repartee that occasionally hits the dartboard but never gets close to the bull's - eye.

It has been said that a novel depicting the past week in the history of the Labour Party would have been rejected as too implausible.

The hop, step and jump boys were clearly too remarkable to miss but, the camera seemed to think, too implausible for attentive study; so they made their screen appearances (and disappearances) with the impromptu of interloping kangaroos.

Not exact matches

(As I've also noted, this is not a practical or optimal strategy by any means, since it has far too much tracking risk and would have required implausible levels of patience, but it's an enlightening fact nonetheless).

This, it seems to me, is a historically inaccurate and radically implausible assumption that we have inherited from the Enlightenment (and that is too often perpetuated by the unsuccessful counter-Enlightenment Christian movement, fundamentalism).

Too often in Jewish - Christian exchanges, Jews play the Holocaust as trump, and Christians, on cue, engage in unseemly and implausible rites of self - denigration.

In their eagerness to highlight and address the inevitable contacts between religion and government, and to move beyond implausible, distorted versions of church - state «separation,» Eisgruber and Sager abandon too much.

By the way, I find equally implausible the Labour critique that the BBC is too right - wing.

It's too drawn - out, too talky and, at the most crucial moment, needlessly implausible, to sustain its humor and large dose of violence.

It's kind of hard to know where to begin with what's wrong in Traffik, a movie where every scene takes about twice as long as it feels like it should, and the characters far too often make an escalating series of implausible and / or stupid decisions.

Ten minutes was too much of this drivel abt implausible characters going nowhere slowly.

The movie too often works against itself, pitting an increasingly implausible story with Chouraqui's hard - core realism.

The movie also goes on too long, has implausible moments where characters should die and don't, and features superficial touches that leave the audience yearning for more (like story details and the underdeveloped characters).

Thankfully, this week's installment, «Parabiosis,» demonstrates that it's possible for the series to have both an implausible cake and analytically eat it too.

Though it's predictable and sometimes implausible, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and the crowd did too.

It's almost a miracle that despite numerous problems — a cultural context that's implausible, characters that are too old, a cast - against - type Richard Gere, a wooden Jennifer Lopez, clumsy direction — that Shall We Dance the American remake of the 1996 Japanese hit, is an enjoyable film.

Every element of the movie feels fabricated, from the stilted conversation to the all - too - convenient obstacles the movie keeps throwing in the path of progress, including a flat tire, an empty gas tank and an implausible detour to a church.

OHF tries way too hard to be serious in a completely ridiculous situation that is more implausible than finding the closet to Narnia.

The plot and character development of Sabine de Barra, which may have initially appealed to Winslet, owing to a feminine victory over patriarchal social structures, is wholly abandoned and the narrative evolves into a love affair between a noble man and a subordinate woman, an affair that is implausible, farcical and simply too convenient.

But the film as a whole felt phoney, relying on implausible plot turns and leaning too heavily on Audiard's fascination with the gutter — when the characters and relationship at its heart could have done with a lot more love.

It would be implausible for anyone to constantly look up words or simple multiplications — it just takes too long and breaks the thought process, very inefficiently.

The author, too, finds himself wondering whether the ancient poet's descriptions of lovemaking were also censoring a similarly violent scene - a disturbing though not implausible conclusion.

That amount of warming is comfortably compatible with all plausible climate sensitivities, and some implausible ones too.

And, current ice sheet models exhibit implausible hysteresis (they're too lethargic), i.e. SLR is likely to happen much sooner than expected.