Sentences with phrase «unsympathetic on»

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.

Not exact matches

I'll admit that complaining about the education taxes aimed at the wealthy — such as the plan to institute an excise tax on endowment fund managers paid in excess of $ 1 million a year — is unsympathetic.

Such a disposition on Mays's part renders him a most unsympathetic reader of Whitehead.

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.

F. D. Maurice (1805 - 72) in his lectures on Islam was not entirely unsympathetic.

3 It is as unsympathetic an account as the Roman historian's, but once again it is an outside view which helps to put the beginnings of Christianity on the map of first - century history.

'» But it is fair to say that, on the ground of personal autonomy, he is not unsympathetic to suicide and «assisted suicide» in what he regards as hard cases.

He was wrong about married bishops, but dead right to home in on the fact that those within the ordinariates «will be free of liturgical interference by liberal Catholic bishops who are unsympathetic to their conservative stance».

He is described as «a Victorian thinker fated to live in an unsympathetic modern age», part of an «ultimately disappointing effort to turn the cloth of «science» into a wardrobe of a philosophy of life and a programme for social progress», a liberal on race who was «a reflection of elitist English upper - class attitudes towards the others, be they the races of Empire, the lower classes in England, or Blacks in the American South».

The filmmakers remark on the unsympathetic attitude of the Union - mandated Hollywood crew.

There's little doubt, ultimately, that the character works best in extremely small doses and yet much of the narrative is focused entirely on his somewhat obnoxious (and completely unsympathetic) exploits, which ensures that large swaths of The Disaster Artist completely fail to completely capture and sustain one's interest - although it's hard to deny the effectiveness of certain making - a-picture sequences in the film's midsection (eg the shooting of the infamous «oh, hi Mark» scene).

Bateman and McAdams manage to be dead - set on winning but not entirely unsympathetic thanks to their peppy enthusiasm and mutual devotion; their really ruthless streak is largely confined to the opening montage.

Interestingly, even the husband is not painted in a completely unsympathetic light, coming off as that jealous and quick - tempered man whose life is never quite as good as he feels it should be, taking it out on his wife.

Mildred's teenage daughter, Angela (Kathryn Newton, in flashback), died less than a year before, raped and then set on fire; the scorched place where her body burned is still visible; Mildred is seething at the lack of progress in the case and is laying the blame squarely at the feet of the local police chief, Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who, while understandably unhappy with the 40 - foot - high attacks on his character, is not unsympathetic to Mildred's pain.

Instead Dark Blue is built on lazy contrivances, sometimes grindingly slow and populated by almost uniformly unsympathetic characters.

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

Based on the «2000 AD» comic, Alex Garland's script sees Judge Dredd (Karl Urban), totally committed yet unsympathetic law enforcer in a future dystopia, going up against a gang leader who rules from the top of a 200 storey tower block.

She played David Tennant «s sister on BBC drama «Spies Of Warsaw,» just led the remake of «The Lady Vanishes» (she's perhaps a little too modern for the role, but proved admirably unsympathetic in the part), and got her badass on in an episode of Charlie Brooker «s «Black Mirror.»

Buffy, the so - called heroine started off on such a self - indulgent, shallow and unsympathetic note that I couldn't ever make myself like her.

The film Entourage has little value for those who don't already hold an affinity for the TV series on which it's based and the unsympathetic characters that form it.

Did his being unsympathetic give you a different perspective on how to present him in this film?

LMD: It's interesting balance that Ayano - san has to walk because depending on the viewer, Moroboshi can be viewed as sympathetic or unsympathetic.

Even the life of the titular Lean on Pete, a racehorse on his last leg, lies under constant threat as his unsympathetic owner makes passing threats of sending him off to the glue factory with all the remorse of stepping on a bug.

Firstly, the shows gambles everything on a wild main character: an anxious & depressed, socially inept, lonely, mentally unstable, and unsympathetic junkie - hacker!

Time and body - image issues stoke her desire for revenge, however, putting her on a collision course with Momoa's Miami Man, a brilliant sketch artist who's also a fearsome, unsympathetic consumer of human flesh.

It's a mishandled attempt at finding order in chaos, leaning heavily on sympathy for an unsympathetic lead.

On the one hand, Letts clearly respects these women; on the other hand, they are deeply unsympathetic — at least some of the timOn the one hand, Letts clearly respects these women; on the other hand, they are deeply unsympathetic — at least some of the timon the other hand, they are deeply unsympathetic — at least some of the time.

At the point of departure, we find Joe (Caine) in the midst of complaining to an unsympathetic loan officer (Josh Pais) about Williamsburg Savings» impending foreclosure on his home when the place is suddenly held - up by a gang of masked men.

She was adept at maneuvers on the tricky three - way territory occupied by the union, the city, and the legislature upstate in Albany, which is often unsympathetic to the state's southern metropolis.

Its progenitors were fading away, mainstream America was uninterested, and the unsympathetic forces of musical evolution were marching on.

If you were drawn to Doerr's not - unsympathetic portrait of German life during wartime — and the explanation of how everyday people could be caught up in the Nazi machine — pick up Hummel's realistic story of a German hausfrau on the homefront, which is based on the lives of her grandparents.

Now that your unsympathetic card company has refused to issue you a pass on your slip - up, you're seeing that a good credit score does not come with a reset button, even with a stellar 30 - year record.

You stand on the sidewalk stymied by a map, and before any unwired Samaritan stops, large numbers of the oblivious and the unsympathetic sweep past.

On a bad day, and to an unsympathetic eye, Rothko can look cheap rather than deep.

(I'm not unsympathetic to complaints about our crazy quilt of regulation, but getting rid of restraints on greed doesn't appear to work.)

Does that make sense, or does it foreshadow a court that is unsympathetic to the blogger / linker on the merits?

The Wall Street Journal reports on business owners who are vexed about reviewers posting harsh, brutally negative remarks about their companies on Yelp that are not only patently false, but also anonymous, and when they try to have them removed, or identify the posters, Yelp is unsympathetic.

Speaking in court she said: ««The fact that I have been left with major scarring on my wrist, which to an unsympathetic observer might look like I am prone to self - harm, is very distressing for me.

That said, I am not unsympathetic to the emphasis on rehabilitation.

- Too much resistance to recognising on appeal the quality of fresh scientific testimony with too unsympathetic a view of the problems involved in gaining it.