Sentences with phrase «up slack»

Where they falter, Oscar nominee Michelle Williams picks up the slack.

Once the movie gets going, they pick up the slack, supplying many production anecdotes.

But I'm optimistic about the additions of Chris Pine («Star Trek «-RRB- and Christoph Waltz («Django Unchained «-RRB- being able to pick up any slack.

This anemia in the noir component leaves Takakura to take up the slack, and he does so with aplomb.

So Gold has relied on the multiplexes to take up the slack, but it hardly qualifies as a must - see.

While it's sad that the bigger AAA Survival Horror games seem to be disappearing as publishers try to minimize risk or move away from single - player offline titles, and beloved scary franchises like Silent Hill or Dead Space aren't getting new entries, at least we have Capcom and Bethesda releasing big epic Survival Horrors and all the cool indie titles like Outlast and Observer picking up the slack.

It really does get down to being without the crafts nominations to pick up the slack.

A good chunk of the season is devoted to vampires — creatures who can, in the «True Blood» - verse, run like The Flash, fly, and fuck like pornstars — sitting around a conference table debating politics and religion, and the other «super» groups don't exactly pick up the slack, what with the werewolves holding auditions for a new pack leader and the faes throwing slumber parties with their new BFF, Sookie.

Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth pick up the slack where Kristen Stewart is as wooden as always.

Thankfully, there are talented fans out there picking up the slack and making the old PC games play in widescreen without stretching and with a variety of bug fixes!

But Kate McKinnon and Beck Bennett were on hand to take up the slack as Jeff Sessions and Mike Pence, respectively, sweating out the recent FBI raid on Trump's...

Where Amped failed, Amped 2 starts to pick up the slack, and that is in the Fun Factor section.

So here's the redoubtable Scream Factory to pick up the slack, and the company has done a mighty fine job bringing this visually elaborate and tricky film to the currently dominant high - def format.

Florentine's style plays well with precise physical performers like Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, and Jean - Claude Van Damme; aside from a few nervous tics, Slater isn't much of a physical presence — he acts with his voice and face, not with his body — and Portnoy, who spends a good chunk of movie staring off blankly into space, doesn't exactly pick up the slack.

Don Cheadle picks up the slack replacing Terrence Howard as Rhodey, and reins in the character with more purpose and balance.

With his father on the run, and Nik unable to work, it falls to his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Lacej) to pick up the slack.

If the pacing is set at a metronome beat or three too slow, Tatum» s performance helps take up the slack.

t's an intriguing tale that's fairly well - told, and the performances more than pick up the slack whenever it veers a little too sharply into corny territory.

If there's a weakness it lies in the slightly brief single - player campaign, but the brilliant, potentially Modern Warfare 2 beating multiplayer more than picks up the slack.

The first film was devoid of real humanity; this one makes a valiant effort to pick up the slack, but it's a little late to the dance.

The three central characters are all blandly pretty faces who give continuously stilted line readings and never convincingly embody their respective mythic archetypes, so it's up to the old pros to pick up the slack.

The developers opted for a realistic, on - court feel by removing play - by - play announcers, but the crowd and music fail to pick up the slack.

Are they picking up the slack for a lazy coworker?

I'm a team player who will take up the slack...

And if your pal is a SAHM who picks up your slack during the week, let her kids hang at your place some weekends to give her a break.

Anthro has been such a miss for me these past 8 months or so (I've only purchased two pieces in that time) and J Crew has been picking up the slack.

It also really helps when one of us goes M.I.A. for a week long vacation or stressful work project because there's someone there to pick up the slack and make sure we're posting regularly.

My muscles are picking up the slack big time so I can so relate to the big knot and tired muscles.

Herbalists have long known that if liver function is compromised, the skin tries to take up the slack.

People won't abandon you, and you'll still be a good person if you let others pick up the slack.

It's truly a sign that your deep inner core, a.k.a. your support system, isn't doing its job, which makes a lot of other parts angry for having to pick up the slack.

What happens in reality, though, is that tightness in the muscles, ligaments, and cartilage restricts the movement of some vertebrae, forcing others to take up the slack.

That's where anti aging supplements can step in and pick up the slack.

Focus on food first, and then do whatever you need to do to make up any slack.

When you challenge your metabolism with exercise when you don't have a lot of carbs to use for fuel, two things happen: your athletic output (which, in your case, depended on carbs) drops because you only have fats to burn, and your energy levels also drop because when your fat - burning metabolism gets exhausted, there's no other energy system to pick up the slack: even though the anaerobic (sugar - burning) metabolism isn't exhausted, it doesn't have any fuel to burn.

So by reducing the caffeine gradually rather that stopping you allow the body to take up the slack slowly but surely.

It's so important for tackling all manner of reactive oxygen species that having low levels means that other antioxidants will have to pick up the slack.

And parents don't generally pick up the slack and teach kids nutrition because they were never taught about it either.

Your hip muscles and hamstrings will now feel looser so you take up the slack and increase your stretch an inch or two and then repeat the process of tensing the muscles holding the tension for a few seconds and then letting go until you have reached your current maximum range of movement.

Without nerding out too hard, lazy butt muscles cause the surrounding muscles to pick up their slack.

You should look at your breathing pattern first and see how your breathing could be affecting your core control and making other muscles pick up the slack.

When the structures in the upper body (i.e., thoracic spine, shoulders, arms and neck) are not doing their jobs well, the muscles of the lower back must take up the slack and end up becoming overworked.

When estrogen drops rapidly in menopause (usually due to impaired adrenal gland estrogen output, that should take up the slack), inflammation sets in and bone breakdown is one of the signs.

Obtaining carotenoids from dietary sources — as well as supplementation if indicated — is still necessary, of course, but beneficial gut bacteria can help «take up the slack» in cases where diet or supplementation is less than optimal.

According to Dr. Edward Howell, an early pioneer in the field of human nutrition who spent his entire professional life studying enzymes, if you don't have enough enzymes to digest your food, great strain is placed on your entire body to «pick up the slack.»

Otherwise, when you do our big lifts such as squats, deadlifts and hip thrusts, your glutes won't wok like they should and the rest of your muscles will have to take up the slack — this is a very common cause of lower back pain.

As the core breaks down, the rest of the body is forced to take up the slack resulting in unwanted rotation, flexion / extension and increased risk of injury.

I can't always fit in enough veggies or calcium rich foods in my day so I feel like this stuff helps pick up the slack.

If your glute muscles are weak, your hamstrings will have to work overtime to pick up the slack.

A bit like a project team in a company, if one slacks off then another has to pick up the slack.