Two words that describe the pace and plot of this film are plodding and uninteresting. |
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Married to a plodding farmer, who for 15 years didn't have a clue about her secret life, things must have been pretty dull for her. |
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I see an intrepid adventurer plodding blindly through a world of booby traps, goblins, jesters and dragons. |
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It is too long and occasionally plodding, and, despite the effervescence of the cast, not every song is a show stopper. |
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Discs are the pragmatic suit. Sometimes people see them as plodding and a bit slow, but this is unjust. |
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This plodding, wandering, disconnected story pulls out every melodramatic stop to tug at your heartstrings. |
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Neither spoke, so they carried on, the horse plodding slowly along the path. |
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I heard their heavy boots slowly plodding across the hardwood floors to the back stairs that led to his room. |
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I find it hard to keep plodding or pottering away with mid-level tasks every day. |
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Lame gags, boring characterization, and a plodding story makes for a very long 97 minutes. |
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I found it plodding, uninteresting, and, with the substitution of repetition for analysis, rather less informative than might be expected. |
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In a set comprising 20-odd songs there's something for everyone though, if just a few too many plodding ballads. |
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I pulled on Jonathan's arm, urging him to stop the oxen in the their slow plodding steps. |
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The only highlights of this uneven, plodding documentary are the moments when we do see footage from his films. |
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Nevertheless, for a short book it develops an amazing richness of colorful detail, so that there is never a dull moment nor a plodding page. |
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Don't you hate how Taurans get type-cast as plodding, stubborn, unimaginative dullards? |
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It was a speech that showed a self-absorption and a plodding mind of the sort that simply will not work on the campaign trail. |
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At this point, the movie slows to a talkative, plodding pace and loses most of its early energy. |
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Its five songs are divvied up in several, nearly indistinguishable movements, but the album moves wholly, as a gross, plodding, overstuffed mass. |
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This song, in particular, lacks the energy and dynamism of the previous two singles, merely plodding along at its own pace. |
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Research has shown that a policeman plodding the streets is likely to apprehend someone committing a crime only once every 8 years. |
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I'm plodding on with the street scene painting and it's beginning to come to life in spite of my tremulous incompetence. |
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He did twiddly things with his fingers while I was still plodding away without phenomenal skill, but with enormous, infectious passion. |
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It was just this sort of plodding dullness that made corporations work relatively efficiently. |
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She walked all day, plodding down deserted alleyways and running across busy intersections. |
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Now there's a modern spin on an old idea that makes better sense than sending bored officers plodding along mostly quiet streets. |
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I walked into the bar and let out a breath, slowly plodding through the barroom, ignoring the late-night barflies. |
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The site is well illustrated, but cries out for a search engine to save plodding through up to six pages per category. |
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The music mocks the pompous words with its crude, plodding scales, and speaks of horror rather than triumph. |
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We also witness huge elk grazing, and for a brief intoxicating moment, a massive moose plodding across a stream. |
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As the show continued, Marshall's slow plodding, material began to wear on many of the unconverted. |
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All of a sudden, Dayne has become this slow, plodding running back who wasn't fast enough and couldn't catch a ball if you threw it underhand. |
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They are filmed in a plodding, unenergetic manner, and the editing is choppy. |
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This band was too plodding, to uninventive to draw Hendrix out of his depressed shell. |
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In fact, since the plodding dreariness is usually broken by bouts of howling misery, the slow points come as rather a pleasant respite. |
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He's a plodding, conventional square, she's a get-ahead, modern girl who doesn't need to cling to conventional wisdom. |
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His ears didn't pick up anything but the digital tick of the cardiograph, not the plodding footsteps or melodic dry thumps of a cane. |
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In 1861, horse-drawn wagons clip-clopped to the top of the newly completed carriage road in a plodding three hours. |
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The fact that such views got airtime on a major network almost made the night's whole plodding exercise worthwhile. |
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It is almost impossible to read any of the various Baskerville biographies without plodding through one calumniation or another. |
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Their lives come across as a plodding, forced march — anything but enviable. |
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So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell. |
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Instead of trying to be something he is not, why not make the case to voters that boring and plodding can be good. |
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I had entered the lists of sudden love, forsaken the often plodding course of life lived between two people and pursued an elusive and illusory enthrallment. |
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The plodding Somewhere Like You piano chords give him plenty of room for melisma as a pyramid string section does some simple simpering. |
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The first section can be a bit slow and plodding but once the book gathers steam the second and third sections shine like well burnished steel rails. |
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Your words have applied what I may call the spur of conscience to the flank of plodding procedure. |
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There is every reason to turn up the pressure several notches after four years of plodding along. |
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For Nancy walking is a spiritual practice: The labyrinth is a form of meditation, there is meaning in plodding, it's not a dead end. |
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The corvettes spent monotonous months plodding back and forth across the trackless waste of grey seas that were never at rest. |
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Meanwhile, young François was plodding away at his school studies, making a good average in his grades. |
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Amazing Grace's strong performances sometimes lift its plodding pace, but it's a stodgy and old-fashioned historical drama. |
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Three months later we were wearily plodding through a day of colic with Olivia, or so we thought. |
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Intuition and the choice to deny or act: the authors argue that the acceptance of intuition is more important than plodding logic. |
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The listening test features unemployable actors or robots reading out unnatural sentences in plodding monotones, or with inflections in the wrong places. |
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They are only intended to add ponderous weight to Eastwood's simple, plodding narrative, which might as well be a 45 minute episode of a cop show. |
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It's a shame then that after such an inventive start the album begins to flag midway, with a series of mid-tempo ballads plodding by in unremarkable succession. |
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Most of the day I've kept myself busy, working on the website, plodding steadily through the task of establishing a new, unified approach to the archives. |
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For adults, it will seem extremely plodding and predictable. |
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The show itself, though, with live music and a terrible plodding half hour album chart at the beginning, had lost much of its life and vitality, which is a shame. |
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And it hurts when we have this clumsy, plodding exchanges because he was my best friend, and now we can't seem to talk to each other without diffidence and discomfort. |
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Unfortunately, that decision really makes this a slow, plodding film. |
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The actors, left with little choice but to act their socks off to save face, sporadically energise the plodding script but there are many dull stretches. |
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And it is, say those familiar with previous inspections, a plodding, unglamorous business involving diplomacy, boring leg work, cunning and much analysis. |
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The acting from the four members of the cast is adequate, but the real problem is the plodding pace of the script and the somewhat laboured dialogue. |
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The Ulsterman made 32 plodding pars in his opening 36 holes. |
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The tunes might be used to bang the drum to, but they provide a plodding pulse for American stamina. |
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And that was probably all that saved them from another embarrassingly low finish as this plodding ballad sent the entire world to sleep simultaneously. |
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And the plodding pace of the French justice system has a way of interfering with career plans, no matter what the ultimate ruling. |
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It's a painfully bittersweet film, but told without any of the plodding, maudlin notes that in less sturdy hands could have sunk the entire endeavour. |
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And so the revisionists dismiss Churchill's so-called strategy in 1940 as simply to keep plodding on, as Churchill acknowledged. |
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Christ values the enthusiastic and faithful plodding on until our task is complete. |
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But the thrill is fairly minimal, since the seats in the Lunt-Fontanne can't make like a roller coaster and jolt us around, addling our brains to the point of forgetting the plodding apparatus of the story. |
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Roth excels as a weary assassin lumbered with the plodding son of a crime boss and the story truly engages as the mismatched pair bond. |
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Lead guitarist Kawabata Makoto, looking like Slash's Japanese alter ego, shreds his guitar to pieces as what begins as a plodding succession of repeated phrases escalates into a mad dash up Mount Olympus. |
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Try praising Canadian Ryan Gosling for his turn as a crack-addicted teacher in the plodding but well-executed Half Nelson. |
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His likely successor, Ayman al-Zawahri, is cold, plodding, and officious. |
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As with Saturday, the start of yesterday's session was more plodding than whizz-bang. |
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By The Sea is undone by a plodding, impotent script that struggles to verbalise the central couple's turmoil. |
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The greatest benefit of exercise is that it increases your metabolism. Sport can turn a plodding metabolism stuck in the slow lane into a turbo-powered engine that guzzles gas. |
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Allenson, a plodding runner, dropped down a drag bunt and Carney Lansford scored the winning run. |
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Holmes's writing ranges from plodding to razor sharp. |
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Enraptured by the latest whizzy chip or clever bit of software, California's engineers paid little attention to IBM's plodding transformation in the 1990s from a maker of computer hardware into a seller of business services. |
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Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house. |
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People who have hope in the future have something to lose and are therefore prepared to fight for peace instead of plodding along in the status quo or, even worse, thinking that violence is the answer. |
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She had a baby slung on her back in a shawl, a girl child clinging to her skirts, and a heavy-faced boy plodding behind her. |
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Now, instead of traveling in a nice, compact group, some are veering off toward the woods to the right, a few have chosen to go left, and the less adventuresome ones are plodding on straight ahead. |
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She listened hard while she took the horse there but its hooves plodding across the scrabbly hard clay ground drowned out all other sounds. |
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It is not at present as striking as it was, for example, at Kyoto, as we are now at the stage of the operation where we are plodding through the very many technical details. |
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The difference is that the Rat Pack's gin-sodden original was plodding, preening, and almost unwatchable, while Soderbergh's remake is an irresistible, effervescent champagne-cocktail of a heist-movie. |
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The hard, plodding work of plowing makes the plowshare shine as it goes down the row turning up the sillion. |
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That would reassure Europeans that Greece will keep plodding on. |
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In the runup to the election, barely a day goes by without the residents plodding to their front doors to find yet another faceless political representative asking if they can rely on their vote. |
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Following a spirited pre-match huddle, Gretna started with a determination that continued throughout, although they were aided by Aberdeen playing at a plodding pace for the most part. |
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Unfortunately, the film is determined to make you sit through Power's plodding fictional storyline, based on a historical novel by Samuel Shellabarger, rather than just enjoying 100 minutes of Welles at his finest. |
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A so-called flop and journeyman kept plodding on fruitlessly. |
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And during his plodding stay in Djanet, he would see other Africans arrive, who surely also almost fainted when they saw the human remains on the dusty road. |
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Things are plodding along within an organization or community. |
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This sounds depressing, but these are not movies that will corroborate the fear of the unconverted, that all European art films are plodding and pretentious. |
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Here you are on this high powered ship that can do 30 knots and you're plodding along at seven knots with a convoy, or eight knots, you know, but it was an essential thing to do. |
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Madame Corre, who made the important decisions after her plodding husband had spent hours on the ledger, sold the family debentures and put the money into Dutch decurities. |
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Sarah's boyfriend, Mark, was looking after Yogi, who had serious Access All Areas and was plodding around their Ten tour dressing room and aftershow. |
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In another twist to the myth, his Head of Department, the ageless and loathsome Vermishank, was not a plodding epigone but an exceptional bio-thaumaturge. |
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I could hear my roommate plodding up the steps to our apartment. |
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