Sentences with phrase «turgid performance»

(His rambling, turgid performance a year ago was a low point.)

Will United just look to grind this one out with a slow turgid performance like they have for much of the season?

Not exact matches

In previous seasons where Arsenal have won the FA Cup, there have been some turgid semi-final performances, but no - one cares when you're in the final.

Turgid direction, probably not helped by a necessarily cautious approach to framing, is married to creaky dialogue and stiff performances to render this of purely historical interest.

Tony Scott, whose late - period movies are nearly as guilty for spreading the shakycam virus as anything Greengrass did, had a big hit with the turgid revenge flick Man On Fire, a movie whose reputation rests almost entirely on a strong Denzel Washington performance that the movie doesn't really earn.

Though the script is turgid, predictable and quite irresponsible, the film succeeds where it needs to, where Felicity Jones rises above all the dross with a shining leading performance which put her on the showbiz map.

The performances are great and although niche market, it's not turgid.