Sentences with phrase «with weak material»

It has a reasonable cast who do their best with weak material that provides them with no depth or even anything resembling personality, and while it looks decent enough the action sequences are utterly bland.

She's as tortured as Liv Ullmann in an Ingmar Bergman movie, and the result is a reminder that, with weak material, it's often worse to have a really good actor.

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It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

Side by side with the growth of science, which is also the basis of the material prosperity and unification of the world, has come a steady deepening of human sympathy, and the extension of it to all weak and suffering things....

DuPont works with leading meat, poultry and seafood manufacturers, like you, to develop packaging materials and sealing technologies that can seal at broader temperature ranges with better seal - through of contamination areas, help ensure stronger, more consistent seal integrity on all sides of the package and avoid the weak seal spots that cause leaks.

3D printing has taken the world by storm, but it currently works best with plastic and porous steel — materials too weak for hard - core applications.

To understand how the material changes when exposed to light, researchers expose the material to a very short, but intense, pulse of light which causes the change, and then continuing to measure the change introduced by the first pulse by probing the material with subsequent much weaker light pulses at different delay times after the first pulse.

2 - D materials have a layered structure, with each layer having strong bonds horizontally, or «in plane,» and weak bonds between the layers, or «out of plane.»

But any experiment to prove that quantum illumination can boost the sensitivity of imaging has to use weak signals, and creating materials capable of upconverting faint beams with high efficiency is technically daunting, Kumar says.

That's important, argues Bakshy, because friends with weaker ties are more likely to read and share material that you would not otherwise encounter: «The information they are sharing is more novel.»

The scientists were using a small, 26 - centimeter telescope but surrounded it with material cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero so that it would be sensitive enough to measure subtle patterns in the incredibly weak background radiation.

Further probing will lead to either «mechanics of materials» for those with a technical background and «I make sure things are strong or weak enough to function properly» for the non-technical person.

«This work helps us to sort out how rather weak crystals can form composite materials with remarkable mechanical properties,» said materials scientist Jim De Yoreo of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

The musical material is weak to begin with all the way around, with weak characterizations, alleged songs, and self important earnestness to last a lifetime.

Mellisa George in her supporting role is rubbish, I expected more from her, but it's the weak script that doesn't give her much to do at all, she does what she can with the material she's given, but it never feels like she's really there.

I also had the misfortune of experiencing the new film version of «Les Misérables», which fails to hide the weaker aspects of the source material and, with the exception of a single sequence, never brings any imagination to the screen adaptation.

The overall plot of Fire Emblem is thin, introducing the cast in ways similar to their source material but with weak excuses for battles.

It has a mediocre supporting cast and David E. Kelley provides weak material to work with.

When it doesn't, it feels as if he's overcompensating for the weak, routine material that comes with his character — a scared guy who's desperate to get out of the fight, keep his job, and maintain his family obligations (His daughter, played by Alexa Nisenson, has a talent show later in the day, and his pregnant wife, played by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, is three day past her due date — one guess as to how the movie's climax plays out in between the fight sequence).

Unfortunately, the performers have such weak material with which to work that the entire project falls flat.

You can also collect various materials from fallen foes to augment your character with stronger abilities in the Badge Market, so you can attack weak points quicker and other similar features.

It's not surprising, since this material is fairly weak to begin with, and only the colorful performances by Depp and Turturro spark any life into it, so when they are forced to change their personalities toward the final scenes, it all falls apart.

Co - writer / director Gurinder Chadha clearly did nt have a great deal of confidence in the (admittedly weak) material, so the film is filled with these musical vignettes which do next to nothing to advance the story.

The material can also be used with strong younger students or weak older stud...

When it comes to the current material, recognize that it may be necessary, in the short term, at least, to modify the complexity of new content so that it's approachable for all students, especially those with a weaker knowledge of old material.»

The authors call for new assessments that will accommodate different learning styles, describing a student who, «blessed with bodily - kinesthetic intelligence» but weak in mathematics, struggles to learn chemistry: «we'll need to find ways to compare his mastery of a body of material with the mastery demonstrated by someone whose intelligence is in the logical - mathematical realm.»

The year prior to Dr. Cruz «s appointment, the district entered into a multi-year contract with a commercial mathematics program developer, but it terminated the contract for materials and professional development after several years, at the point of renewal, because of the cost, concerns among the elementary schools regarding the program «s effectiveness, and the program «s weak program fit with a state mathematics textbook adoption.

So the question is: With regard to clutches at least (and probably brakes and tires) is it commonplace for the higher - performance materials to have a shorter working life, even on weak bikes like a 300 - particularly when the driving habits are the same?

To avoid cats ingesting potentially harmful items in the first place, iCatCare advises owners to: keep wool, sewing cotton and other sewing materials out of reach; ensure that cat toys are strong enough to withstand rough play and dispose of any with weak seams or leaking contents; make sure bins are covered to avoid cats foraging for bones or the string around meat; encourage children to put away their toys after use; provide indoor cats with plenty of stimulation and well - made toys; and remove any non-suitable item from your cat straightaway before it is ingested and causes a problem.

It forged a gorgeous union with Noa Ginzburg's Safe Room; constructed out of 10 kilometres of knitted red «safety» tape, a clever play on the dichotomous aspects of the material itself — physically weak but symbolically strong — and its contradictory connotations of protecting / confining.

The Flex Pro cellular booster with adjustable dials allows you to optimize cellular coverage in your home or in your office where reception is weak due to topography, building materials or structural design.

• Assisted lead teacher and summer school teachers in devising and implementing core curriculum • Managed lesson plans as instructed by the teacher • Ensured appropriate space for the students in order to ensure a functional educational environment • Managed paperwork and materials for students • Supported students in weak areas and provided teachers with student progress information