Sentences with phrase «trodden territory»

Despite its well - trodden territory, the story rarely feels stale.

That's all well - trodden territory these days, [1] except for the house - selling part.

A familiar criticism of geometric abstract painting is that it is predictable and leads to already well - trodden territory.

Date nights are often spent watching romance movies and Netflix, and video games are less - trodden territory among couples.

The premise of a murder mystery with an unreliable narrator is well - trodden territory at this point (The Girl on the Train, In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Sharp Objects all come to mind) but there were at least two moments where I let out an audible gasp over an unforeseen plot twist... so I guess I'm saying if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

As expected, Eisenberg makes an effectively harried straight man to all the chaos, and McBride and Swardson work their respectively well - trodden territories of misguided machismo and oafish cluelessness, but the big stories here are Aziz Ansari, upstaging Eisenberg with his hilarious timing as his schoolteacher best friend; and a scene - stealing Michael Peña in a change - of - pace comic turn as a hitman.

Not exact matches

In 1958, microbiologist Carl Woese, an assistant professor at Yale who later identified the kingdom of Archaea bacteria at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, advised Finch to head into little - trodden scientific territory.

Perhaps it's that the film seemed to mine, on paper, territory already well - trodden by films like «Wall Street» and «Margin Call.»

To be sure, Game Night takes on well - trodden story territory, as we've gotten roughly 10,000,000 «suburbanites stuck in action peril» movies over the years.

The concept of a high school student being transported to a dark version of their own world is obviously territory that's already been pretty well trodden by the Persona series also, though it's executed fairly differently here as poor Youngho has no way of defending himself from his and every high - school students true nemesis... their teacher.

the Move walks a path already trodden by Nintendo's Wiimote, the primary controller for the Wii, and so, one might ask, how does Nintendo feel about this long awaited foray into their territory?