Sentences with phrase «with hoary»

Writer - director Jonathan King subverts this overrun of ovines with the hoary notion that Man Should Not Tamper in God's Domain.

State - of - the - art filmmaking and showy narrative technique meld uncomfortably with some hoary old war movie clichés in Dunkirk, the latest exercise in borderline bombast from Christopher Nolan.

Previews for the new kids» film Real Steel, which have been running in theatres for the better part of a year, forewarned a mash - up of the vintage game Rock»em Sock»em Robots with the hoary father - son drama The Champ (1931, 1979), about a washed - up boxer and his plucky kid.

The baggy 137 - minute story drowns out Mr. Feng's assorted sharp moments with hoary family drama and clumsy plotting, and Li Yifeng is generic as Mr. Six's son.

MacPherson, a 23 - year - old dental student at the University of Nebraska, makes do with a hoary single - engine plane called a Luscombe, a cramped two - seater that was built the same year he was born and drones through the sky at 95 mph.

Fairies paint the panes with feathers, Frost the frames with hoary whiteness, Limn the pines and posts with snowflakes, Weave the world the gown of Winter, Fragile lace, its frills and flutters Fixed, all frozen water falling.

Not exact matches

It's a hoary old stereotype that women take longer to get ready than men, but there are several reasons it might be true that have nothing to do with outmoded jokes about complicated hair care or excessive vanity.

This by now hoary bit of academic jargon marks Institutions of Modernism as the offspring of «cultural studies,» that popular pseudo-discipline that resulted from crossing Marxist animus with deconstructionist verbiage.

Both carry on hoary practices from the dim past but each has so industrialized the process with advanced technologies that the fundamental activity is transmuted into something new that raises questions beyond standard discussions of right and wrong on battlefields or in the marketplace.

Postliberals rightly complain that liberal critics repeatedly inveigh against a hoary insulated «neo-orthodoxy» that has little to do with Barth's rich and profound thinking.

Bright young minds are refusing to be put off with answers that have no more to commend them than the hoary beard of antiquity» (Voices of Concern: Critical Studies in Church of Christism [Mission Messenger, 1966], pp. 2 - 3).

In addition, when exposed to such hoary doctrines of some classical Eastern religions and philosophies as that of the fundamental unreality or illusory character of the entire material world and that of the all - encompassing reality of God, the average Westerner can only respond with astonishment and incredulity.

Last year's cup winner and world champ, Austria's resilient and wily Karl Schranz, a hoary 31, stood third with 106.

He proposed a left - right split, and offered a watery vision of what latter - day «modernisers» should be all about: a «renewed sense of moral purpose», reducible to the hoary New Labour emphasis on social mobility, and a politics that would «be seen to be grappling seriously with the big questions of the day: migration, globalisation, terrorism, the environment, welfare, housing, our place in the world».

True, most solar system and astronomical phenomena are still calculated with Newton's hoary theory of gravitation, but we would be nowhere without our GPS gadgets, which work only once corrected for the effects of general relativity.

Migrating bats such as the hoary bat, which can travel from as far as northern Canada to Argentina and Chile, make up most of those fatalities because they often navigate through areas dotted with wind farms.

Yes, Deadpool 2 eagerly puts many of the hoariest superhero tropes on blast — so many that this ceaseless mockery quickly supersedes the film's actual plot (which has to do with Deadpool befriending a troubled young mutant played by Hunt for the Wilderpeople's excellent Julian Dennison) to protect him from Brolin's time - traveling cyborg).

It's clear almost immediately that Creevy isn't looking to reinvent the wheel here, as Welcome to the Punch, for the most part, comes off as an excessively familiar, almost generic actioner that's been suffused with decidedly hoary elements (eg the weary cop, the exasperated superior, the skeptical partner, etc, etc).

Even the most hoary of running gags — the breaking of the maestro's glasses — revels in its banality, just as the famous lines about Jew - Nazis uttered by Godard at his most contemptible are with deftness shown to be the ramblings of a farcical character.

Unfunny, overly hoary, and easily foreseeable, Last Vegas is like being stuck on that road trip with your grandparents that lasts way too long and features them having discussions about what brand of denture cream they bought last.

Sure, that's a pretty hoary old story, but with the talent involved it still has appeal.

Writer - director Brian Taylor's Mom and Dad invests a hoary conceit with disturbing and hilarious lunacy.

And what's with all the hoary Canadian jabs?

Hoary as the training montages with Blunt are, there's something uniquely perverse about watching Cruise learn basic survival skills in his new skin, given his typical projection of obnoxious cool.

Worse, Ready Player One reinforces hoary old stereotypes about nerds and fandom cultures, including the centering of white males whose love of stuff coincides with being socially maladroit.

Wrote Morris: «The movie could be about grace and vengeance, but they're presented as hoary lessons and hokey contrivances... There's no reckoning with anything, no introspection, just escalating mayhem.»

DEA agent and ex-Ranger Tom Hardy (John Travolta) is that hoary action - movie standby: the alcoholic detective with a sordid past called in to solve one last case by the last man on the force who has any faith in him.

Built around the hoariest of plot devices (a Dubliner stalked by his evil doppelganger), with hammy acting to match, this attempt to highlight the social cost of Ireland's economic revival suffers from the same identity crisis as its tormented hero.

With Get Out, writer - director Peele doesn't just present a standard horror film with a black protagonist; he's not just subverting the hoary «black guy always dies first» trWith Get Out, writer - director Peele doesn't just present a standard horror film with a black protagonist; he's not just subverting the hoary «black guy always dies first» trwith a black protagonist; he's not just subverting the hoary «black guy always dies first» trope.

The main sticking point with Ghostbusters 2 is the ending, a conspicuous failure of imagination that operates on that hoary sequel principle that you want the same thing you liked the first time, but more.

Untraceable's been infused with a by - the - numbers sensibility that's evident virtually from the word go, as screenwriters Robert Fyvolent, Mark Brinker, and Allison Burnett place an almost relentless emphasis on some of the hoariest elements that the genre has to offer (ie the plucky partner that inevitably winds up in the killer's clutches).

by Walter Chaw Sex without foreplay, Marc Forster's limp dick of a James Bond flick Quantum of Solace takes the kinetic, angry ugliness of Casino Royale and, together with Paul Haggis's Dances with Wolves screenplay of affected naivety and wide - eyed, late - blooming outrage, fashions a most - unwelcome return to the hoary Bond franchise of old.

But the temporarily pluralized title made some sense: As in last year's Prisoners, which similarly treated hoary genre material with poker - faced seriousness, there's a sense that all of the characters are trapped — by their guilt, by their grief, by their obsessions.

With a screenplay that is a hopelessly melodramatic regurgitation of hackneyed clichés from the hoary genre of boxing films, director Antone Fuqua's Southpaw is a disappointment.

With one notable exception (spurring long overdue changes in some state laws), the implementation of this mammoth statute has confirmed several humbling, hoary lessons of federal policymaking, including the limited ability of Uncle Sam to drive education reform.

This issue of Education Next vividly illustrates these dilemmas and shows how such hoary questions of political philosophy are now entangled with interests and ingrained practices.

This collaboration has helped jump - start this work across the state and shed light on the many significant challenges associated with overhauling the hoary systems in place, such as measuring student achievement in «untested» grades and subjects, ensuring inter-rater agreement and accuracy of teacher practice observations, and ending the long - standing culture of «The Widget Effect.»

To align its menu of trucks and people movers with rising interest in smaller, more fuel efficient transportation, GMC has broomed the hoary Envoy in favor of a fraternal twin to Chevy's Equinox called Terrain.

With the quiet closure of both Entitle and Oyster in 2015, the consumer could be excused for thinking the hoary «Netflix for textbooks» was an idealistic, albeit doomed premise.

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Fluidity, which D&D 3 attempts to add to it's hoary franchise with multi-classing (and a preference for humans - only they can multi-class with impunity).

A hoary old fart reader got in touch with me today to say he'd started a firm's blog.

The show itself is rather a mixed bag, and the artists in it I preferred seem to have little to do with the by - now hoary abstract expressionist tradition.

'' Chemical Ali, why has Greenland's hoary beard turned white with icy rage?»»

It's a hoary old debate in law, but one that many managing partners still wrestle with.

Third, they probably did not learn how to write elegantly in law school because the writing professor was necessarily preoccupied with purging comma splices, the passive voice, and hoary legal jargon from a small mountain of papers.