Sentences with phrase «weariness about»

One of the things that's been interesting to see on the business community side, is that there are a lot of both smaller and large sellers that have desperately been looking for a platform and a way to get their green products and services out there, and not feel — particularly the genuine ones — that they're not caught up in the consumer weariness about greenwashing.

At the end of a highly successful franchise, a sense of closure could be equated with a cultural weariness about anything vampiric.

And the ridiculously cute Roxanne, once again abducted by Megamind in his (up to now) fruitless effort to lure Metro Man to his doom, quips in mock weariness about her «frequent kidnapping card.»

A source close to Ed Miliband told the Daily Mail that there was weariness about allowing a pay rise amid continued financial belt tightening.

Not exact matches

The same can be said, but to a greater degree, about Montenegro (who has been named Best Actress of the year by both the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association); she rightfully sees Dora's bitter anger as less a weariness with the world than with herself, a desperate, self - destructive mechanism to keep the world even more distant than it already is.

There's also a lot of pissing, puking, shitting, and farting; a disturbing running joke about putting heads on a pike; highly - imitable and often - disturbing cat violence; and a wave of overwhelming weariness that rolls off these Alvin and the Chipmunks / The Sorcerer's Apprentice pieces of shit that tend to flop but never hard enough to prevent the clockwork arrival of another something just like it.

Lively's performance is key, and she gives Nancy plenty of fight underneath her weariness and clever resourcefulness under pressure (It's a credit to Jaswinski's screenplay that we're never entirely certain about the specifics of some of Nancy's plans and to Lively that we're confident the character has a good one, nonetheless).

This is Tina Fey we're talking about, so this isn't an immediate plunge into Robert Altman-esque world - weariness.

Higher education has taken K - 12's place in the hierarchy of federal policy issues — due both to weariness with what well - intended federal efforts have wrought in K - 12 and to public concerns about tuition prices and student debt.

I don't particularly care either way about B&N, just watching from the sidelines with mild amusement / weariness as they seem to be pulling a Blackberry, having once been very prominent, now apparently fading into obscurity.

But not just because you're about to shake off the weariness of the work week.

She says with a trace of weariness that she is up to 1,680 catalogue images (including the drawing of Picasso) and counting, with about a third of the job left to do.

He talks about decay and also nostalgia and fear when confronting the weariness that what was important yesterday is no longer of any consequence today.»

It's hard not to feel a bit of weariness at the prospect of doing this all over again — the dozens of enemy outposts, the quirky characters, the cinematic story missions that nevertheless don't seem like they have much to say about anything.