Its banks, a big weight in stockmarket indices, look leaden.
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The unburdening of tears is supposed to release pain's leaden
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They seem to form a single dense, even leaden unit.
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And they hang over Annihilation with a sense of leaden inevitability.
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It's livelier than the Broadway version, which felt leaden with nobility.
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That's because it provides the episode with its most leaden moments.
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The result, Ziska told me, is a filling but leaden dish.
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Sitting under the leaden English sky, he recalls those early days.
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A lattice of rubies and diamonds crisscrossed a mysteriously leaden cuff.
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Despite that leaden symbol, the mother-son material is very powerful.
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His arms appeared leaden, as if they no longer belonged to him.
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He returned to court and apologized in a statement leaden with resignation.
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Davis said she felt woozy and leaden, unable to move her arms.
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That apron felt so heavy as if it were a leaden prisoner's uniform.
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It's so freighted with foreboding that even the would-be whimsy feels leaden.
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As such, it's a leaden, soggy mess that only gets messier as it goes.
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Crucially, however, its cuisine does not defer to the leaden palate of Olde England.
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These men are difficult to tell apart, with leaden language and dialogue ascribed to them.
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Gone were Eros' leaden arrows in exchange for a whole quiver full of passionate love.
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Picabia first became known for slightly leaden Impressionist paintings whose sincerity was regularlydebated by critics.
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But on return visits, I noticed a leaden self-importance that began to feel stifling.
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In a time of deadly seriousness, you can go leaden or you can go light.
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Though the themes of "Burden" feel uncomfortably current, their execution is leaden and dismayingly artless.
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GREEN I couldn't admire the play more, but I found this production leaden and overacted.
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There are a couple of mysteries swirling through "The Snowman," a leaden, clotted, exasperating mess.
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His graying auburn hair heightened the effect; the whites of his eyes had a leaden tint.
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"The Crimes of Grindelwald" is somehow both hectic and leaden, a thing of exhausting, pummeling mediocrity.
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In America and Europe, the world's biggest consumer markets, many firms have been similarly leaden-footed.
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In this season finale, moments of utter brilliance come on the heels of leaden plot twists.
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Of course, chicken parms aren't always perfect, as anyone who's had a leaden one can attest.
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At least my leaden exhaustion, larded with intoxication, enabled me to blend into the crowd perfectly.
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The backpack was heavy, but nowhere near as leaden as it felt with a PS3 inside.
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So keen is Ngugi on landing anti-imperial punches that at times his touch becomes leaden.
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My wheezing lungs and leaden legs remind me that I'm in foreign territory in every sense.
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Granted, Rand's prose, both purple and leaden, doesn't have the resistance-proof momentum of Wagner's music.
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In the process, it indulges in preposterous twists and leaden dialogue about nature, nurture and conscience.
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It was hard to see the night sky from the middle of the leaden, sullen city.
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The film's leaden treatment of this incredible story somehow sucks all the drama out of it.
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Myth gifts him two sets of arrows, golden ones that spark desire, leaden ones that infuse disgust.
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And just when it seemed like a leaden holiday season could not get much worse, it did.
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After several weeks of almost constant sunshine, the early starters awoke to grey Scottish mist and leaden skies.
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But Clinton's use of "everyday Americans" proved to be short-lived, perhaps because of its undeniably leaden ring.
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The sky was leaden, almost black, and the wind was strong between the high cliffs surrounding Onagawa Bay.
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Now weeds and grass and gravel, nothing but leaden, shoe-swallowing mud and shit when it was operating.
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Characters constantly crack wise, but this doesn't quite disguise their shallowness, or the leaden dialogue and repetitive narration.
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The show improves slightly after the jankily paced pilot, but it never sheds its air of leaden nostalgia.
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The screenplay by Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless alternates between painfully forced attempts at humor and leaden thematic declarations.
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IOWA CITY — The air felt leaden in the hallways at West High School on the morning after Election Day.
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But that did not deter Edward Einhorn, who adapted that leaden tome into a flawed but refreshingly unironic play.
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And for every moment that falls apart under the weight of leaden metaphors, there are still several that shine.
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I'm looking for more meaningful verse, but nothing too heavy or leaden that might turn her off the form.
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Later it feels like purgatory, a wintry place with flat skies, leaden waters and unwelcome reminders of the past.
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Frankly, it's exhausting to consider the prospect of four or five or a dozen more of these leaden, unimaginative films.
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Strzeminski is initially unbroken, contemptuously dismissing the guardians of obligatory Socialist-Realist orthodoxy, with their leaden rhetoric and aesthetic illiteracy.
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In the hardest-hit region, in Napa and Sonoma Counties, the sun was an orange dot in a leaden haze.
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There's a tiredness to the language: Curiosity is piqued, suspicions are sneaking, people stare dumbstruck, clouds are low and leaden.
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Without it, the croissant would be a leaden mass of flour, and the jambon-beurre sandwich missing a certain something.
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His obsession with a coming dance contest brings humor into the play, as Willie rants about his girlfriend's leaden feet.
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Except for the two tightest and most contemporary scenes, both involving Ms. Bowers as the reporter, the pace is leaden.
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And, give or take a dead body here and a leaden gag there, it ultimately succeeds in doing exactly that.
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UTQIAĠVIK, ALASKA—On a crumbling heap of thousand-year-old garbage overlooking a leaden sea, Anne Jensen shakes her head disapprovingly.
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Marriage to Dr. Sprague was an ocean — one of those peculiar foreign oceans so full of salt it buoyed the leaden.
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Dark Phoenix has its issues, but at least they're different issues from the ones hampering leaden films like X-Men: Apocalypse.
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The black leather jacket the older Bell wears gives the actress some physical heft, as does a ponderous, borderline leaden walk.
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But Conviction's got no spark to speak of, even with Atwell doing her darnedest to bring the show's leaden scenes to life.
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The director John Doyle has slimmed down and toned up a show that seemed leaden and garish in its original Broadway incarnation.
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After flying too close to the sun (while leaden with steak) against Nate Diaz, he should have fallen apart in the rematch.
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As we follow his slow steps, leaden with rebuke, we realize that Washington's every gesture, from here on, will be worth watching.
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At just shy of 4,000 meters, my wheezing lungs and leaden legs remind me that I'm in foreign territory in every sense.
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As for the Democrats, there were signs, under the leaden skies on the National Mall, that they were already girding for battle.
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Mr. Macdonald's one big starring film vehicle, "Dirty Work" (1998), was called "leaden, taste-deprived attempted comedy" in The New York Times.
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McCurdy said in an email that the leaden density of Hecker's work is what made him a good candidate for a remix.
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But it's difficult, because the penis shots are so leaden and so littered throughout the gallery as to weigh the entire ship down.
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The walls of the hallway were painted with Inchyra Blue, a moody shade that recalls a turbulent northern sea under a leaden sky.
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His motivations are as cloudy as a cheap gemstone, as he alternates between lethal skill and naïve bumbling in Matthew Ross's leaden thriller.
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After parking in a dry forest, a short hike led to a rustic boathouse and dock, where we got underway beneath leaden skies.
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The plot is shot through with inexplicable inconsistencies, and the jokes and quips are so leaden that they thud like flamed-out turds.
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Rice flour is used in Vietnam to counter the humidity, but can turn the dough leaden here, according to the cookbook author Andrea Nguyen.
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Dhol Foundation, from England, fuses the thundering beat of Indian bhangra with more leaden English rock rhythms and, like current club music, prerecorded vocals.
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His diplomatic forays were leaden-footed; his personal efforts to broker an agreement between Qatar and its rivals was ill-prepared and a failure.
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Wearing desert boots, tan chinos, and a checked shirt, Simpson has a coppery glow at odds with his origins in England's leaden, drizzly north.
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The other criticism of the passive voice is that it recurs in the worst kind of prose: leaden academic and bureaucratic writing in particular.
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Mundane waves of urban sprawl wash away your capacity for emotional fulfillment and the leaden weight of unfettered capitalism pulls us deeper into bland oblivion.
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A cackling sadistic crone with a sweet tooth for gold and insult comedy, Banks' baddie gives the leaden fight scenes some adrenalin and winking humor.
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Mr. Tatko explained that this spot offered a stunning panorama of Moosehead Lake, but again the view was hidden behind a bank of leaden clouds.
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He doesn't succumb to a leaden moralizing because he pays close attention to the medium he's writing about, alert to what he sees and hears.
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Under a leaden sky, raw from a storm the night before, he looked across the cityscape dimpled with apartment lights and inched to the edge.
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Full of stock characters and leaden dialogue, these interludes only underscore what the audience already knows, blunting the momentum of the central duo's balloon ride.
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Cases in point: leaden meatballs, soggy calamari and gummy, flavorless gnocchi — all of which should have been a cinch for the pizza aces in the kitchen.
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So often books that grapple with history are so leaden and self-serious — sociology tricked out as literature — but Hrabal is light-handed and gloriously silly.
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As president, Lincoln's initial vision of the crisis was leaden with process and compromise — but it ultimately became a stealthily compelling vision of emancipation and union.
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So the act of plucking hairs entirely could lead to infections, bacteria-leaden pimples, ingrown hairs that turn into abscesses, and/or an overall bloody mess.
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Vehicles could be driven for longer hours, and with optimised software should consume less fuel than they do under the sole guidance of leaden-footed truckers.
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The playwright and director Pascal Rambert wrote a leaden play, "Mont Vérité," for a dozen graduating students from the School of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg.
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The academy and the show's broadcaster, ABC, have a financial interest in high ratings, and a sense of decorum adds a leaden note to the show.
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Russian state television showed Kim stepping out of his green private train at a railway station in the eastern port city, Wednesday afternoon under a leaden sky.
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If anything, this leaden yet intermittently fascinating movie anticipates "Spartacus" (1960) in its attempt to dress political issues in a toga, while administering a dollop of Freud.
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But on my first morning of a week spent working in a Champagne vineyard, the clouds hung low and leaden, an ominous dark mass biding its time.
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To enter the elevator, residents swing open the leaden door and as they board, perhaps they glance up at the convex mirror that reflects anyone behind them.
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An hour later, the children followed Wallrodt down to the bookstore's basement workshop, where he showed them how Gutenberg fit leaden block letters into a metal plate.
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Our thought bubble: Once inquiries like this get started, they develop their own momentum even as they proceed at what feels like a leaden pace to tech insiders.
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It was at one such leaden gathering that we met a handsome, charming Russian who spoke excellent, if heavily accented, English and seemed eager to become better acquainted.
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The Chus have buried a time capsule beneath the hotel, an echo of the leaden box entombed near the site on June 19, 1826, which has never been recovered.
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My mental state was as disrupted as the train line that had taken me to the airport, as grey as the leaden sky over Gatwick the day we left.
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Cool environments and crazy creatures, after all, can't compensate for a pair of lead actors who drive their leaden one-note repartee into the ground for two hours plus.
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Nightcrawler, Mystique, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Magneto all walk through the movie in various states of terror and leaden despair, carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders.
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"It's a less leaden way of looking at art," said Andrew Lear, the founder of Shady Ladies, an art historian and classicist who has taught at New York University.
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So Asdrubal Cabrera, the team's game if leaden-legged shortstop, bridled at taking a seat, while Rosario, who is the future, remained with the Las Vegas minor league team.
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Eduard Asser's daguerreotype from 1842 of his daughter casts leaden chiaroscuro over her face, drawing on the visual language of the Old Masters that hang just along the museum's corridor.
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Children who are 10 and under may be enchanted by the abundantly whimsical holiday-themed visuals; accompanying adults might chuckle at the movie's leaden attempt at a girl-empowering message.
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But the leaden pace of business and political decision-making while the shape of Brexit is settled has shaken Capita as well as peers such as Mitie , G4S and Serco.
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The scenery around us was spectacular, the lake extending north, under leaden skies, toward the brown-backed Langdale Pikes and, in the distance, peaks with a faint touch of snow.
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It was an unseasonably cold day, and a square of leaden sky loomed above the lush green lawn, edged by four Gothic passageways, through which the models were to parade.
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Armed with golden arrows to inspire love and leaden arrows to inspire hate, he'd treat the mortals of Greece like his playthings, magically inciting conflicts and unions for his own amusement.
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To borrow an old cliché: it's hard as Nails, though in this case I mean the grindcore band, who have become my standard for leaden heaviness over the past few years.
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But it is definitely a downer to report that the play's ghost story feels as leaden and ultimately unsurprising as its collective portrait of midlife doubts in the face of mortality.
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Too leaden for farce and too bland for satire, Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse's "Dear Dictator" wastes a potential gold mine of culture-clashing silliness on worn, high school movie clichés.
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At times, he seems to be playing with genre, particularly when Lara hits the island and begins pinballing from peril to peril, but the action is leaden, dispirited and finally dispiriting.
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Soon the body grows leaden and you understand the purpose of the row of lounge chairs by the windows, with elongated arms over which to drape your legs as you nap.
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The temperature was quickly dropping, the sky was leaden, and ahead of me was a nine-mile ascent, in the cold, with the likelihood of a storm breaking right over me.
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This is the curse of the sports writer, the leaden cross we have to bear; writing amusing Premier League tidbits so that you, the entitled bloody reader, can procrastinate at work.
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Even though characters do and say nonsensical things throughout the series, it's even more frustrating when they do and say things that would be better shown than expressed with leaden expository dialogue.
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Our hero is the aforementioned Hole (whose name is uttered, in several different permutations — Harry Hole, Inspector Hole, Mister Hole — entirely free from the leaden bounds of irony), played by Michael Fassbender.
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Its deep view of a rived terrain in browns and shadowy blacks is relieved by an interval of sun-dappled clouds and scattered rain showers, culminating in a band of leaden sky.
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Tronc wants to seem light, fast, forward-looking, and unburdened by the media industry's past, but its back-vowel sound and its leaden "k" ending sonically convey something heavy, slow, and dull.
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My sole criticism was dessert: The deconstructed s'mores, whose ganache-topped cubes of smoked graham crackers were nearly as leaden as the slice of Nebraska black walnut wood they were served upon.
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Coldplay's Chris Martin sings with leaden imagery and big-picture ambition, and the Chainsmokers deliver a dopey kick that's a direct callback to "Closer," the hit they had with Halsey last year.
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But it's not always easy to tell how much her affectless mien is an acting choice and how much it comes from being infected by the somnolent rhythms of a leaden script.
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Dense and rich in a homespun American style that some people will love and others will find too leaden, it followed Mr. Moore here from Commerce, where it was a big hit.
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Up front, Mario Mandzukic was leaden and static and a strike rate of one goal apiece in five games for him, Inter Milan's Ivan Perisic and Eintracht Frankfurt's Ante Rebic is disappointing.
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Just a few months later, I saw a far more muted performance she and a harpist offered sleepwalking chorales before hundreds waiting to see a pop-techno producer play hours of leaden beats.
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Rory Stewart, her successor at DfID, has made a more compelling case for overseas aid in his first few days in the job than she did in two years of leaden management-speak.
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Nothing, not even the leaden weight of guilt that began to build in my gut every time I caused pain, could make me turn away from my addiction to that sense of invulnerability.
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In his studies, volunteers used weights calibrated so that the lifters could barely complete a set of eight to 12 repetitions before their arms or legs grew leaden and they had to rest.
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"I think they've been rather leaden-footed in the way they've responded," Nigel Inkster, a former British intelligence official and senior advisor at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told CNBC's Beyond the Valley.
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Anonymously directed by Jake Szymanski, what follows isn't really a story, just a succession of thuddingly leaden, patchily strung together bits in service to the underlying theme: Mike and Dave's fear of sexualized women.
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My feet, perhaps too small in the cleats, had gripped onto the pedals like ossified cashews, and my thighs had begun to feel like leaden tapioca, swimming around and dragging down on my bones.
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In a season of leaden skies, during which we tend to dress ourselves in black, washed-out hues like eggshell blue, lavender and blush offer a welcome relief from gray scale — without being jarringly vibrant.
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What's most fascinating," Klaus said, "is the way Trunov was always breathing the leaden air of war—he was up to his neck in it—but war, the war itself, never appeared in his paintings.
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Read on for a conversation we had about political engagement and the story behind Undertow, alongside a leaden new track from Right in Front of You—a limited CD that comes with presale copies of Undertow.
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The essays which lay it out are both leaden and nearly incomprehensible, and since he cultivated it over time, it's contradictory as well — the "genders" the light and the void are identified with change multiple times.
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But at least they were playing instead of complaining, even if it had to be under a leaden sky that made spotting the Eiffel Tower from the upper reaches of the Philippe Chatrier Court an impossibility.
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Both movies shared the same problems: some of the most beautiful computer-generated visuals of their time, coupled with impenetrable stories leaden with shallow plot turns, forgettable characters, and barrels of fantasy and sci-fi gibberish.
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Then there were less impressive numbers like oysters (kaki) in thick leaden breading; overly sauced and overly pulverized curry chicken meatballs and half shells of grilled mussels under an off-tasting sauce that might have been mayonnaise.
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Outside his flagship bistro, Les Philosophes, the normally traffic-clogged rue Vieille-du-Temple was empty under a leaden sky, save for a few people with suitcases rushing to catch trains and hail taxis to flee Paris.
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The song fits neither the mood nor the message of the scene and its placement demonstrates for me how "The Handmaid's Tale" can swing wildly from blisteringly powerful to absolutely leaden thanks to decisions that feel artless.
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Like the first Ant-Man, it's surprisingly playful visually, and it lands in that sweet spot between taking itself seriously enough that the action sequences matter, and not taking itself so seriously that they become leaden and bleak.
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Under a leaden Berlin sky on a blustery November afternoon, a small group of mourners gathered outside the creamy, red-roofed Wilmersdorf apartment complex that the couple had fled on the eve of World War II in 1939.
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While "The White Album" alone merited Mr. Jafa the Golden Lion, his contribution at the Arsenale was large chain-choked tires (previously shown at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York) that solidified American racism into literally leaden symbols.
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Whatever investigation it's attempting, the movie is leaden in its pacing — the first 15 minutes feel like an hour — and its constricted shooting style, practically all hand-held almost close-ups, is transparent in its contrivance of realism.
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He invoked Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" while planning for one important transit vote, and Michael Harrington, author of "The Other America," on the need for dramatic exposés of problems to force change in a leaden bureaucracy.
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The leaden king was to be repurposed "to make musket balls, so that his troops will probably have melted Majesty fired at them," during the Revolutionary War, said a letter from Ebenezer Hazard, New York's postmaster, to Gen.
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For every cliché and leaden bit of dialogue they kept out of the story of immigrant life, they tossed one into the story of undercover police work and its toll on those who are condemned to do it.
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He is not afraid to be solemn and grand, even blaring, but he lightens the textures of much of the score nearly to chamber music; this is the rare "Parsifal" that never feels leaden, that is deliberate, yet propulsive.
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And I definitely didn't talk about that leaden, sickening feeling I had every day after work as I pulled open the front door of my apartment: I'd check every room one by one, not knowing what I would find.
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The world number seven was dictating terms as a leaden-footed Stephens struggled to match Svitolina's relentless pace and once the Ukrainian moved 3-0 ahead after edging two epic games, the American could sense her chances were slipping away.
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This dynamic doubtless explains why Facebook has been so leaden in its response to some very stark risks attached to how its social products accelerate the spread and consumption of misinformation in some developing countries, such as Myanmar and India.
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Ms. Retik's asparagus, leek and dill quiche, for example, is fluffier than most quiches because it is made without cheese and the crust relies on coconut oil and almond flour, rather than the more leaden vegetable oil and white flour.
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That may help explain why Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire" — which she wrote, in 1976, after a three-week workshop with actors helping to develop the characters and scenes — is the first of her plays I've found indulgent and leaden.
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She turns the privileges of the past into a heavy, unprotected public mausoleum, though her concrete furniture is useful too: One morning this week, a person in torn sweatpants and another in Brooks Brothers were both reclining amid its leaden opulence.
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Instead, a penetrating silence enveloped Paris on Sunday morning as thousands of people across the city massed under a leaden sky for the anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attacks in France's postwar history, a year to the day after they shook the nation.
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She's four years older in the real world, but she brings a naïve, fulfilled flush of energy to her role, and when she puts it next to Shannon's lined face and the leaden sense of responsibility he projects, the story's conclusion seems forgone.
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But at the same time, it's got this one leaden scene early on, when Dany and Sansa sit down to chat about their complicated family situations, then spend most of the conversation summarizing the plot of Game of Thrones to one another.
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A batty composer, a fusty French chateau, missing children — and that old faithful, the Antichrist — add up to a whole lot of silliness in "The Sonata," a leaden Gothic ghost story whose high-gloss imagery fails to disguise its low-energy plot.
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Yes, you can, and getting to the inevitable conclusion requires you to choke down an unending stream of leaden dialogue, because apparently there's nothing linemen (still an overwhelmingly male occupation, at least in this telling) like better than exchanging self-glorifying phrases.
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Russian society's relationship to politics tends to be marked by a leaden self-seriousness, Rodnyansky told me, but in Ukraine, where politics is defined by a cycle of hope and disappointment, people approach everyone and everything with a guffawing irony and an abiding skepticism.
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On clear days, the hills would flash and glint with bits of quartz in the northern sunlight, shining along old scars carved by the Ice Age, but nearly a week of worsening rain and heavy cloud cover had given the island a dull, leaden air.
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In game one, the Spurs—coming off a dominant Kawhi-less win against Houston—were blowing the leaden-legged Warriors out at home, flashing some macro-competitive potential for the series while still dragging the audience through yet-another blowout win on their televisions.
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With the same stew of hope, despair, shame and perverse pride endured by the long-suffering fans of a long-losing team, Kureishi's readers have stuck by him even as he churns out, with dismaying industry, a series of leaden farces and desultory intrigues.
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American farmers accustomed to snow and cold during the winter would be forgiven for mistaking their corn and wheat fields for the Arctic tundra, as temperatures dip well below zero at night, and barely recover above 10 degrees Fahrenheit during the day, under a milky, leaden sky.
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The capable cast around Martin-Green — which includes Doug Jones, Isaacs, Anthony Rapp and Mary Wisemen — all make fine first impressions....Though "Discovery" has a number of patches of leaden exposition, the mentoring relationship between the two women is nicely sketched out by Yeoh and Martin-Green.
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You'd also better believe that it's leaden and self-serious and features, like footage of the life cycle of a cicada intercut with young people hooking up and a man with a vaguely Cajun accent drawling about nothing in particular over stock footage of the planet.
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Jean Fritz, an award-winning writer whose work helped transform historical biographies for children from leaden recitals of battles and dates into warm, human narratives full of quirks and crotchets and satisfyingly strange facts, died on Sunday at her home in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. She was 21988.
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Instead of writing leaden columns on America's imperiled democracy, I can be found occasionally delivering flowers for her flower shop, driving to remote country hollows, dodging chickens in the driveway and using my body to shield delicate petals from angry winds (recently I got a $15 tip).
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Writers like George Peele and Robert Nashe, for example, were blamed for the leaden classical allusions that occasionally weigh down "Henry VI, Part I". Similarly, acknowledging Thomas Middleton's hand in a particularly choice section of "All's Well That Ends Well" recognises that Shakespeare's contemporaries often matched his skill.
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Where to watch it: Via season purchase on Amazon During the leaden, serious first season of Legends of Tomorrow, there was almost no sign that the show would become not just one of the most reliably funny and escapist hours on television, but also one of the most fearlessly bizarre.
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You might smirk at scenes of the former Sansa Stark smiting unworthy men, or snort at the increasingly leaden dialogue spouted by Professor X. By the time the fire alarm went off in my theater, deep into the final battle, it was too late for them to ruin much of anything.
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So there's an added shiver of anticipation when the characters in John Doyle's ravishingly reconceived production of "The Color Purple" (adapted from Alice Walker's novel and first seen in more leaden form on Broadway in 2005) start singing that women better lock up their menfolk because Shug Avery's back in town.
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The meaning of ash, for example, does not end with its soft and leaden appearance, but carries through precisely to its properties — ash levels all differences, ash makes everything the same: The ash from a rococo desk is indistinguishable from the ash from an ordinary cigarette — and continues into history.
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Soon after Harlan's body is discovered, the law (Lakeith Stanfield and Noah Segan) questions the family, a finely curated collection of gargoyles presided over by a crisp Jamie Lee Curtis and a leaden Michael Shannon as Harlan's children, and rounded out by Don Johnson, Chris Evans and Toni Collette, among others.
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" But it was also met with fierce criticism, notably by Irving Howe, who, in Harper's Magazine, described it as "a figment of the Zeitgeist, bearing the rough and careless marks of what is called higher education and exhibiting a talent for the delivery of gross simplicities in tones of leaden complexity.
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One of the more gratifying elements of Season 2 of The Magicians is the sense that the creative team has thrown out most of their allegiance to the specific text novels, but also that they've figured out how to gingerly sidestep some of the leaden plot dictates of this kind of fantasy series.
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Kate Erbland, IndieWire There's plenty of plot to drive Ritchie's film but the third act of "Aladdin" is so laden (and leaden) with major plot points that it wallops all the fun that came before Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly What's old is new again — but not quite as good as you remembered it.
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It not only reflects the Hollywood mainstreaming of fantasy fiction, but also combines the basic fantasy set-up (normal boy is spirited away to a parallel world of magic and adventure) with the leaden, self-serious spectacle of the modern fantasy epic (army of good guys fights evil racist despot and his minions).
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Having once made that stop myself, I can report that the food, while leaden, introduced people who weren't Italian to the idea of Italian food at a time when the pasta most Americans dipped into was a can of precooked Franco-American spaghetti clinging to a thin coating of sugary tomato sauce.
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His descriptions show off a horrifying landscape: Everything was shrouded in a leaden miasma, an amalgamation of the white mist generated by the boiling aqua regia in the acid baths and the black smoke from the unceasing burning of PVC, insulation, and circuit boards in the fields and on the shore of the river.
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Not everyone thinks it's worth the trouble; the book has been called "an overwrought, overwritten epic of gratingly obvious, self-congratulatory, show-off erudition that, with its overstuffed symbolism and leaden attempts at humor, is bearable only by terminal graduate students who demand we validate the time they've wasted reading it" — and much worse.
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He wrote the screenplays for "Catch-22" (1970), an earnest but unwieldy adaptation, directed by Mr. Nichols, of Joseph Heller's corrosively comic antiwar novel; and for "Candy" (1968), which turned a novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg — a riotous sendup of "Candide" set during the sexual revolution — into a leaden and star-studded bomb.
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If you're just well enough to drag yourself to your place of employment (your thoughts still a sound cloud of distress, but the volume on low), or if your depression takes the form more of an itchy sweater than a leaden dentist's apron (which is to say, anxiety), you are forever and always performing your okayness.
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It looked about the same as now: fading black facade of peeling paint, windows papered over, without a sign or even a doorbell to announce the light within — and behind that leaden barrier: him, whirling about in his mechanical chair, his body slumped low in the seat, his chin thrust high as he scrambled to complete the day's work.
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As things grow loopier and more leaden — there's a subplot about Eliot's obsession with volunteer firefighters (long back story) and another about his fascination with a science fiction writer named Kilgore Trout — you may begin to pine for the coherence, emotional nuance and less blunt-edged humor of, um, I don't know, maybe a Disney movie?
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Its pacing is leaden (it vastly overestimates the entertainment value of watching Schumer stumble over her words), its dialogue is stilted (when Schumer does get her words out, she often speaks in first-draft diatribes), its characters are underwritten, and it sometimes seems as though the film can't make up its mind about what we're supposed to be laughing at, or why.
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