Sentences with phrase «too oblique»

As it stands, the film falls awkwardly between two stools; its gentle fantasy and unabashed sentimentalism could make for a lovely family film, but the storytelling is too oblique, and the characters too dry, to please a wide audience.

The trailer itself sells a movie that looks far more approachable than most of Wheatley's work so far — his penchant for combining grisly violence with black comedy is on full display, but it's wrapped in a package that could be appealing to audiences who found the psychedelic A Field in England too weird or Kill List too oblique.

The primary theme of the film, «feeling connected to yourself,» is poorly developed and far too oblique to sustain it for its 160 minute running time.

Not exact matches

This combination movement targets your obliques and rectus abdominis — the long, flat muscles that run vertically and make up the «six - pack» — all while challenging your upper body, too.

The sarcasm is a little oblique and casual readers are confused, unless I'm giving you too much credit.

In a statement, President Dick Iannuzzi makes an oblique reference to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's criticism of the education system for costing too much money, but offering little in the way of success when it comes to test scores and other indicators.

In this part of the movement, the obliques and the rectus abdominis are activated too.

And since you do that at a certain angle, you target the obliques and rectus abdominis too.

This particular exercise will strengthen your core, specifically your obliques, and by adding the overhead press to this move it targets your shoulders, too.

The bent - knee hip extension will give your core and obliques some TLC, too.

This is the ab - solute best move for strengthening your core, while the cross body punches work the oblique muscles too.

Pallof Press Targets: Obliques, transversus abdominis (rotational muscles) Attach a D - handle to a cable cross machine and adjust the pulley to chest height (a resistance band around a pole works, too).

Amp up your regular push - up with this challenging variation that also works your abs, obliques, butt, and hips, too.

While this exercise is meant to work your thighs, your obliques will get some lovin», too, in order to keep your hips square.

You can begin with basic abdominal exercises, but to target your complete core you'll need to work your back and oblique muscles too.

A side bridge with one leg elevated will challenge your oblique and lateral glute strength, so you can see if those activate correctly with this variation too.

The quadriceps muscles and other tissues such as the retinaculum are too tight on the outside of the knee and the vastus medialis oblique muscle is weak on the inside of the knee.

Stay away from crunches or anything that puts you in a crunch - like position (e.g., v - sits and oblique twists) as these will increase the pressure on the abdominal wall and pelvic floor and create too much load on the spine.

Very little data exists regarding the cross-sectional area of the abdominals whereby the oblique muscles and transverse abdominis appear to be too large to measure via ultrasound.

Unfortunately, in its quest to tell the whole story of J.D. Salinger, Rebel in the Rye speeds along too fast for us to enjoy the little things that would have made an oblique biography more satisfying.

Picture books address this, too, though often in more oblique terms, offering the youngest set an opportunity to think about the great beyond.

Everything looks much less sharp, and textures at oblique angles look incredibly blurry, which is very visible on the XL screens, though not too difficult to ignore.

One has to appreciate, too, other oblique forms of self - portraiture, such as Lyle Ashton Harris photographed from behind or Leslie Hewitt through images of her own studio merged with the gallery walls.

Matthew Darbyshire on the exhibition and commission: «In the development of this project, rather than getting too pop and «Twenty Twelve», I was thinking about the very real possibility of regression, and the potential for a more oblique commentary on the social, political and cultural implications of what's being built around us today.

Here too there is a curious oblique Biblical resonance: the story of the escape of Israel from Egypt describes how the Israelites were guided in the wilderness: «And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light...» (Exodus 13:21) The natural «fire from heaven» reverses this supernatural pattern: by day the ground and sea receive fiery direct sunlight, while (as we shall see) a significant fraction of the nocturnal «fire» is provided by cloud.