Sentences with phrase «with ugly stories»

And with ugly stories like the Scratch dust - up (Genius sues Activision), Band Hero shenanigans (No Doubt and Activision sue each other), and the sad and pathetic Kurt Cobain tale (Courtney Love sues Activision) the genre has lost some of its charm.

The directorial debut of cinematographer Reed Morano (Frozen River, The Skeleton Twins) is perhaps predictably gorgeous, a shiningly beautiful film with an ugly story.

Not exact matches

If we had an ugly product it would probably be a different conversation, but it's a beautiful bouquet on with these incredible flowers that we can tell stories about.

All you see anymore on this site is ugly pictures of GOP hopefuls, with misleading stories about their pasts.

As my father related the story to me, I thought of the ugly arguments I have had with colleagues and friends who angrily deny that racism is a problem in this country, or imply that it is all our fault for being here in the first place.

It's been all at once, overwhelming and ugly and beautiful and filled to the brim with mediocre miracles, which is the story of faith in a nutshell: Not a compilation of transcendent mountaintop experiences, but a muddling along through the desert with manna here and there to keep you going.

The ugly (now purple) three story with the HUGE oak tree by Urwelleir.

Family loyalty angle But legal and political experts alike expect the Skelos lawyers to try to turn the family narrative to their advantage, recasting the ugly allegations as a more sympathetic story of parental love for a child who needed help that may resonate, and arguing that any quid pro quos were imagined by people who wanted to curry favor with the GOP leader.

This is why there are so many ugly PhD stories featuring years of hard work with nothing to show for it.

You've heard good, bad, and ugly stories from postdocs as they navigate the murky area between the roles of student and junior faculty, between trainee and professional, and between apprentice and employee, often with the burdens of each role and the benefits of none.

Well, patents have to do with money, and money turns a lot of beautiful scientific stories into ugly legal narratives.

I would bet that everyone reading this has a treasure chest in her heart, full of stories with the good, bad, and the downright ugly of being in love.

love to be regaled with stories about dates the good, the bad and the ugly.

Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak Special Gigs is a superb Visual Novel with a good OST and original novel mechanics... But the tactical phases are boring and ugly, and the story isn't that good.

That I'm willing to tolerate a launch title this buggy, this poorly prepared for its own release date, this far below the considerable ambition of the previous X games, this demanding on my hardware, this glutted with hard - coded story beats, this busy and ugly and cluttered.

A game cast quite literally gives the film their all but it's hard to ignore the ugly treatment its leading lady receives, coupled with a story that — though open to multiple interpretations — never rises above a pretentious and scummy tale of male exploitation of women, both on and off - screen.

The story starts with the ugly break - up between Peter (Jason Segel), a semi-famous composer and his ultra-famous actress girlfriend of five years, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell).

An ugly duckling story with romance, smoking and Mary Wickes!!

Perhaps a bit of trimming may have been in order, as a story this devoid of substance doesn't require a nearly two - hour run time, especially when there are at least two unnecessary and largely unfunny subplots (anything having to do with the skip tracer and the hitmen brings the comic momentum to a screeching halt) that continue to rear their ugly heads just when the comedy begins to hit something close to a stride.

THE MISSION injects much needed life in the Hong Kong gangster genre, and one can only hope the other directors in the field stop trying to make 90 minutes of ugly images mixed with over-the-top stunts and start making interesting stories with engaging characters again.

There are some predictable moments, such as Dan's date with an ugly duckling who has turned into a beautiful swan, his daughter's first big drive, and a few other examples, but Dan in Real Life always seems to know just the right ways to overcome inherent story clichés with surprising grace and affability.

In BookPage, reviewer Jillian Quint gave a perfect description of the novel: «Through three men's interlocking though asymmetrical narratives, Mr. Peanut tells the story of all marital strife — with an emphasis on the ugly side, replete with violence, pain, inertia, manipulation, sexual longing and destruction.»

If you try to sugar coat your story, you miss out on the sense of connection with another human being that you can only attain when you're letting someone see your warts and your big ugly tail.

wish they had installs right about now MS is a joke and anyone that bought a arcade system is the sort of consumer they want... one with no clue what a HUGE STICKING PILE OF SH!T MS is turning into... now just wait for Too Human will be called ugly and last gen with lame gameplay I hope Epic learns how to make a good story because Gears of War is about to get smashed by RFOM2!

But you can only get the ugly story costumes with Fm.

It almost becomes a hindrance when playing, because you feel distracted by the ugly orange gleam that covers your whole screen when playing an integral part of the story or you are trying to breach enemy territory, and combined with the dodgy cover system it can become a very infuriating experience.

Atmosphere and action gameplay are not bad, but instead of graceful ballistic dances, it rather shoots its own legs with technical issues, ugly graphics, poor optimization, and a miserable story, which results in a title that has nothing to offer.

To Sherry, videogames were ugly, confusing and boistrous, but once Lorne had promised they could not only design a graphically beautiful, intuitively controlled game with a captivating and meaningful story, but also get it funded, developed and published, Sherry agreed to the idea.

It's an ugly overworld, and it clashes with the story on multiple occasions.

For a story beset with some of the ugliest traumas of fractured contemporary America, Mary Troy's busy new novel careens along with remarkable lightheartedness.

Geoengineering research proponent Ken Caldeira has said «the vision of Lomborg's Climate Consensus is «a dystopic world out of a science fiction story... Geoengineering is not an alternative to carbon emissions reductions... If emissions keep going up and up, and you use geoengineering as a way to deal with it, it's pretty clear the endgame of that process is pretty ugly».»

The story begins with a tall tale about your smartphone and the ugly impact of mining on a picturesque landscape.

The MSMs eventually picked up the stories and their investigative journalists started delving into the scandal to reveal yet many more skeletons, and whipping up a general hysteria among the general public because of the lies that had been told to them in order to justify policies which caused the rape of our countryside with thousands of ugly wind turbines, which caused the numbers of people in fuel poverty to increase by five fold in only a couple of years and which caused many energy dependant jobs to be permanently exported.

Nomadic / Peckham About Blog Victoria mostly writes personal stories about all the ups and downs that go with trying to «find yourself», stories of grief, false starts, love, nomadism, working on the road, frustrations, freelancing, confusion, trying to start a business, and the good, bad and ugly side of travel, on her blog.