Sentences with phrase «trudge towards»

by Walter Chaw The world's most polite heist / caper / con - man Charade thing, which feels it's finally time to continue that death trudge towards completion of a Matchstick Men trilogy, John Requa and Glenn Ficarra's Focus is a studiedly - inoffensive star vehicle for Will Smith that's interesting only because of Will Smith's casual attitude towards miscegenation.

The trouble is that the director has tackled what seems, at least as translated, like lesser Le Carré; the story, involving a German intelligence officer (Philip Seymour Hoffman) keeping tabs on a Russian - Chechen immigrant who may be a security threat, feels like a long trudge towards a single damning point.

Leigh, meanwhile, explores Turner's life unburdened by any sense of purpose other than an intense, contagious fascination with this man, his work and, increasingly, the inevitable, slow, irresistible trudge towards death.We observe Turner's fondness for his elderly father; his sexual relationship with his meek housekeeper (Dorothy Atkinson); his rejection of his children and their mother; his arms - length acceptance by the lions of the Royal Academy; his late - life relationship with a Margate widow (Marion Bailey); and the mockery of the crowd when his work turns experimental.

«There was no player power» exclaimed Ray Wilkins, as Phil Scolari trudged towards the Stamford Bridge exit door with a multi-million pound pay cheque in his back pocket.

After so many poor results and awful performances, Arsenal are currently in that zombie - like state of trudging towards January, keeping in touch with the rest of the pack and hoping for reinforcements come then.

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The mother - of - three was once voted Miss England, but looked anything but as she trudged, make - up free towards her early morning destination:

But as we trudged out towards the ocean and you told me the history of the place, you got angry that the government hadn't built anything to protect what we were about to see and that teenagers were able to climb on the ruins of thousand - year old houses.

On a dreary, rainy day in Interlaken, we trudged on to the train and headed down the lake towards Thun, Switzerland.

My boots, which might as well be moccasins, fill with snow as I trudge through the darkness and thigh - deep powder towards a ladder.