Sentences with phrase «trite material»

Like you mentioned, Spencer, the director's naturalism is crucial to the film, rendering potentially trite material as a story told with uncommon intimacy.

There are several story threads that do work, particularly that featuring Bradley Cooper and Julia Roberts during a long - haul flight, and Topher Grace and Anne Hathaway (almost) manage to succeed despite fairly trite material.

The series delivers trite material with inexplicable confidence, as if the writers were the first ones to recognize Trump's love of Diet Coke and Fox & Friends.

You sit there dreading the formula you know is coming, and feeling sorry for McCarthy, who co-wrote the script and is better than what this trite material calls for.

Not exact matches

In addition to Boe, Brandon Flynn (as Justin Foley) and Miles Heizer (as Alex Standall) are season highlights who elevate material that would feel far more trite without their strong performances.

Laura Dern was very moving but the young leads did not rise above the atrocious material and trite dialogue.

With forced jokes and performances that go for increased zaniness without adequate material to take things to the next level first, Funny Money sinks into the comedy abyss due to spending too much time spinning its wheels in plot mechanics and desperate injections of trite shenanigans for easy laughs.

Not even the ever - likable Seyfried at full - blast sun - kissed luminescence can win the battle against such trite, tired material nor make a viable leading man out of her pretty boy zero of a co-star.

December 2006 Beware the Holiday Punchbowl: An Evening of Cautionary Songs and Stories SI Museum, Staten Island, NY February 2006 MY NEW YORK SLIP: A Post-Valentine's Day Post-Mortem w / Minnie Van Driver SI Museum, Staten Island, NY February 2005 FREE LOVE w / Minnie Van Driver The Muddy Cup, Staten Island, NY April 2003 Ask Minnie Day de Dada Part Deux, The Muddy Cup, Staten Island, NY April 2002 Love Songs & Posh Tunes Day de Dada, The Muddy Cup, Staten Island, NY Feb. 1996 Original Soundtrack Dixon Place, NYC, NY Feb. 1991 The Odile Variations Theater 22, NYC, NY May 1987 Looking Good: Reuben Sandwich at The Saint The Saint, NYC, NY Apr. 1986 The Wakitty WAC's, A USO show for the New Militarism Darinka, NYC, NY Aug. 1985 Prime Parts 8 BC, NYC, NY May 1985 Trite»N' True: an unexplained series of events Darinka, NYC Mar. 1985 HEARTBREAKLAND: a performance Darinka, NYC Dec. 1984 Nocturnes Darinka, NYC Nov. 1983 Bars of Night a performance BACA, Brooklyn, NY July 1983 Man Machine / Men Magazine: a performance Inroads Multimedia Art Center, NYC, NY 10012 July 1981 Europarail: Images of Other Places Inroads, NYC Dec. 1980 I Hear America Eating: a massive media piece Rutgers University, NJ July 1980 Love is Like a Poached Egg: a performance 15th Annual Avant - Garde Festival, NYC Apr. 1980 Meteors Crossing: an exercise in 25 acts Franklin Furnace, NYC, NY Grants 2011 Visual AIDS Artists» Material Grant 1985 185 Nassau Street Corporation

Yet, as I approach the painting the barrage of material becomes apparent and I immediate become fearful that she is commenting on consumerism and pull away from the trite use of found plastics and glitter.