Sentences with word «unsympathetic»

I have to expand my list of unsympathetic characters past Stanton because I agree with terrio that Mrs. Henley was not sympathetic at all.

Jude Law shows much greater depth as Karenin and is not unsympathetic as a cuckold doing what he can to salvage his pride in an unforgiving society.

In common with a lot of Ferrara's films, The Funeral is a very bleak affair, full of unsympathetic characters which makes it a little hard going to watch.

The supporting cast is superb, featuring Ned Beatty as a retired corrupt cop, Robin Wright as an attorney who is perversely attracted to Dave, and Sigourney Weaver and Steve Buscemi as unsympathetic politicians.

Mark Ruffalo is a fine no - nonsense actor that delivers well in a role that is sometimes unsympathetic in his human weaknesses.

Chuck Lorre has a gift for making even the most unsympathetic characters seem relatable, whether it»...

The criminals are not completely unsympathetic.

This contrasts with a downturn in 2012 as the FIT programme for homeowners began to be dismantled by unsympathetic government ministers.

The film makes a wise choice to give every character a hint of humanity, including the supremacists, as this could have otherwise been a very unsympathetic batch of characters to follow.

But justice matters even for those who seem unsympathetic upon first consideration.

The effect of this sort of extremist embellishment will be to make it easier for unsympathetic people to reject the Report - and make it harder to develop a political and community consensus that an act of reconciliation is appropriate.

In addition to starring in the football exposé North Dallas Forty (1979), Nolte contributed to its screenplay, written by Peter Gent.Showing a marked preference for unusual and difficult films, it was not long before Nolte became known as a well - rounded actor who brought realism, depth, and spirit to even his most offbeat or even unsympathetic roles.

They're also irony - rich: what might seem superficially sprightly leads not to levity but to a reminder that each of Solondz's stories concerns a deeply unsympathetic person who, despite some measure of physical plenitude, finds him or herself in a position of almost total social isolation.

We've all seen plenty of dysfunctional reunion dramas and plenty more grueling addiction studies, but Shults redeems those overplayed genres by approaching them through the subjective anxiety of his heroine: From its disquieting open scenes, the film uses editing, composition, and music to lock us into the character's frazzled headspace, while still adopting an ambivalent, sometimes even unsympathetic attitude toward her.

Despite this, Murray is great in a role that demands he play unsympathetic curmudgeon intent on offending everyone he meets.

Most of Baumbach's recent work has been sharp character studies, designed to carefully dissect the neurosis of unsympathetic protagonists.

A wholly unsympathetic character during his trial, Silver got nailed for 12 years for being too lawyerly by half.

As Trent, he plays the character as much as an unlikable, unsympathetic jerk without feeling like any less of a human being.

But mock trials also show sympathetic defendants get more non-guilty verdicts and unsympathetic defendants get more guilty verdicts in front of jurors who were explicitly told about nullification compared to those who weren't.

Jut - jawed and cobalt - stared, Cooper never gets to grips with the inner weakness of his deeply unsympathetic character, and the narrative's late attempt to give Pemberton the dimensions of a tragic hero — complete with a little half - baked animal symbolism — falls entirely flat.

In it, he addressed the «failure» of Bitcoin and personal redemption to a mostly unsympathetic audience, after losing $ 6 billion worth of...

Goldman also finds us «generally unsympathetic to reasonable concerns about social inclusion.»

[30][31] Blunt's voting record in Parliament had previously been broadly unsympathetic towards gay rights, [32] though slightly more favourable when compared with the majority of his Conservative colleagues.

I wondered how tough it must be for that little girl and felt for the parents who constantly deal with it, often from unsympathetic bystanders.

The whole film is wobbly enough that many of scenes could be moved or cut altogether with no effect, with one obvious example being a stop - over in a village, where Snatched makes some half - assed attempts to paint Emily's largely unsympathetic character in a better light and tries (and fails) to mount a gross - out slapstick bit with a cheap - looking CGI tapeworm.

Catherine Zeta Jones is tragically unsympathetic even as she dangles a lone tear from her duct that takes an annoyingly long time to fall.

It sounds like it'll be one of his more unsympathetic characters, of a slave owner who brutalizes Ejiofor's character, a free man kidnapped and forced into the titular dozen years of enslavement, before a Canadian lawyer (Fassbender) helps him gain his freedom.

«Dealing with Unsympathetic Clients,» Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Las Vegas Convention, 2004

Mel Comley: As she tries to solve the crimes, Lorne is also coping with a failing marriage and a new, unsympathetic boss with whom she has a secret past.

Mila Kunis» Julia is a substantial and often unsympathetic creation, and the question marks that hang over her motivations are unusual in mainstream cinema.

I found Christine to be a pretty unsympathetic character as well.

Cats roam further and more often, and their spraying, yowling, and fighting are more likely to attract the attention of unsympathetic neighbors — resulting in a one - way trip to the shelter.

The Chase customer service team were a little too unsympathetic for my taste.

In films from at least 1922, McClary had often played rather unsympathetic characters, i.e., a nasty rustler terrorizing the local settlers in The Lone Rider (1922) and one of the smugglers in Twin Triggers (1926).

Instead, Duran is depicted as maybe the most unsympathetic on - screen boxer in recent memory, and I give the film extra points for that approach.

If you feel he was totally unsympathetic then maybe time to bring things to a close.

Ben Mendelsohn plays a compulsive gambler who has let his addiction destroy every aspect of his life — including a marriage and even a relationship with a not - unsympathetic loan shark in his hometown of Dubuque, Iowa.

Unfortunately the makers of this film realize that it isn't enough to make a movie, so they unwisely injected a hackneyed plot about adultery and redemption, which does little but to bog down the film with a lack of realism and unsympathetic characterizations.

The education secretary has explained how the freedoms that come with academy status would mean a religious school «can place itself permanently out of range of any such unsympathetic meddling» and be true to its religious traditions.

Cat licensing is generally a taboo subject in No More Homeless Pets circles because, in U.S. cities and states anyway, putting that power in the hands of unsympathetic politicians and bureaucrats is a scary proposition.

Coming after Taxi Driver, critics probably grew restless looking for more signs of a genius filmmaker that they thought Scorsese to be within this rather straightforward drama - romance, with its length, unsympathetic lead character and ostensibly confusing themes.

A mixed school with poor and unsympathetic teachers, with hostile public opinion, and not teaching of truth concerning black folk, is bad.

His eagerness not only to form close friendships with Orthodox and Protestant leaders, but also to act as an advocate on behalf of non-Catholic Christian bodies to a sometimes unsympathetic Argentine government set him apart.

The latter is especially noteworthy, since we're left entirely unsympathetic toward Tree the first few times she goes through the day.