Sentences with phrase «without bombast»

The brilliance of A Scanner Darkly is how it suggests, without bombast or fanfare, the ways in which the real world has come to resemble the dark world of comic books...

On Wednesday, George Osborne delivered his spending review to the Commons without bombast or superfluous oratory: he galloped through his inventory of measures as if it were a standard financial statement, a spot of robust housekeeping to keep the nation's books in order.

Not exact matches

Keys both sang the anthem and provided her own accompaniment on a white Yamaha piano at midfield on the Superdome turf, singing it relatively straight and without much bombast.

Stripping down the bombast of the original games (and films) allows Uthaug's reboot to feel comparatively grounded and immediate, without dragging itself down with unnecessary pathos.

Robust sound design and effects work all keep the pic rattling along without drawing overt attention to themselves; Thomas Newman's score, on the other hand, could probably stand a little more bombast.

Even without Roach's grating habit of shooting the proceedings in too - tight close - ups, Cranston delivers a titanic fill - the - screen turn, capturing the man's bombast and sincerity in equal measure.

Like Game of Thrones crossed with Braveheart but stripped of most of the budget, this scrappy film tells an intriguing story without the usual Hollywood bombast.

Director Jordan Vogt - Roberts serves up the big ape early and often, while smart and talented writers effectively blend homage, humor, metaphor and bombast without ever committing the film too much in one direction.

Not surprisingly, the lossless DTS - HD Master Audio 5.1 mix is similarly excellent, capturing the subtleties of ambience and bombast of Stravinsky's music without ever sacrificing any clarity of dialogue.

It's a random mishmash of juvenile ideas without a single lucid thread to hold them together, except for both the incessant CG bombast ripped off from video games and the works of Peter Jackson, the Wachowskis, and Quentin Tarantino, as well as the recurring lascivious gaze of Snyder's camera on the china - smooth skin and full lips of bleached - blond heroine Baby Doll (Emily Browning).

It pushes the rhetoric and arguments to one side or the other - by necessity, since the tendency is for each side to engage in greater and greater bombast until those of us in the middle have a hard time being heard as neutral without being cast to one side or the other, because all people know is either extreme.