Sentences with phrase «whose machinations»

For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical angles.

A truly revolutionary equation can have a greater impact on human existence than all the kings and queens whose machinations fill our history books.

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The machinations with Singh are a stain that involved other high - level town officials and the indictment of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, whose base of power is rooted in the town.

The odds however, appear to be against the deputy minister whose reign was characterised with a series of confusions, machinations and alleged sabotage of his former boss.

Particularly entertaining is Minnie Driver's deliciously hammy turn as Carlotta, the Opera Populaire's resident diva whose star takes a tumble thanks to Christine's rising star and the Phantom's machinations; credit also must go to Margaret Preece, who provides Carlotta's amusingly overblown, ear - piercing vocals.

The film's tiresome tale of two brothers whose criminal past is resurrected not through societal determinations outside their control, but the creaky machinations of a screenplay that insists bad turn to worse as a fundamental law, predictably lurches toward acts of extreme violence with little interest other than the instant titillation such moments afford.

However, viewers resistant to art - world machinations and hyperbole (a crowd whose number is, apparently, quite limited) found the exhibit to be a sobering experience.

It is obvious that they did not want to draw attention to their past machinations whose traces they wish to erase.