It just plods, jogging on the spot, occupying the gaps.
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Mr Young plods onto the stage in a black hat, alone.
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The conversation plods along, awkwardly, until we're politely called upstairs to dinner.
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Dour and unexpressive, he plods through the prepared presentation—which Elman continues to interrupt.
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But it's entirely possible one of them will be dropped as time plods forward.
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Even as the future of other European countries is put in doubt, Bosnia plods on.
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In good times, when the economy behaves as it should, it plods ahead with reforms.
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From there on, he plods on about the plot, in a tired, faded, jaded way.
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And that image has a constantly evolving emotional affect as the ghost plods through the years.
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The twists and turns provide adequate entertainment, but Mackintosh plods until the last scenes of the book.
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Bonbon pulls his father's body up onto the horse he keeps on his urban farm and plods home.
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The Girl on the Train plods along, playing like a lifeless wax museum version of a real thriller.
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He can be the quiet failure Fred Leiser, who plods to his death out of simple hatred for the enemy.
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Check out this instance of Silva standing in front of Okami and telegraphing his intentions twice before Okami plods in anyway.
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As work on artificial intelligence plods along, an advanced form of crowdsourcing is emerging as an accelerated way to surpass human thinking.
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The action plods along, with Lex Luthor working in the background in a pseudo-political thriller that never really makes much sense.
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The final product plods along at 15 to 18 frames per second, or about the rate of a hand-cranked silent film.
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In the clip above, Boots doesn't even hesitate; with a determination most pollsters would be awed by, he plods straight over to Hillary.
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In the third episode, an Inuit woman dubbed Lady Silence (Nive Nielsen) hides inside an igloo while a bear-like creature plods outside.
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The music plods steadily forward, her quiet, thoughtful, girlish soprano beefed up by her loud, straightforward, unvirtuosic guitar and solid two-piece backup.
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And that's not my memories talking—I can turn it on, today, and even in 16-bits it purrs where The Final Challengers plods.
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There's a lot going on in the world, but the slow march of cybersecurity research and incidents plods on no matter what else is happening.
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New evidence for the case that computer animation is homogenizing children's movies, robbing them of visual interest, this harmless, charmless movie plods along well-trodden turf.
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Freeze those suckers until solid and enjoy on a fire escape, listening to the siren song of your neighborhood ice cream truck as it plods away.
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"You end up hoping for this environment where the economy plods along, inflation kind of remains where it is and then the Fed stops tightening," Mills said.
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More pressingly, Mr Macron will have to find a way to yoke his energy to the caution of Mrs Merkel as she plods towards her political twilight.
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Kane's novel is landfilled with such highbrow trivia as May's life of quiet desperation plods on, page after page, the road trip you wish would just end.
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It's gone through several big changes — an upgrade and a currency split — all of which potentially threaten the integrity of the network as it plods into uncharted territory.
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From the director of "Bridesmaids," the festive movie follows Kate, played by Emilia Clarke, as she plods through what seems to be a spectacular series of undesirable situations.
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The show has a visual language that is undeniably eye-catching, but it's a slow show, one that asks you to admire the scenery while the story plods along.
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If Till simply plods after Thompson, as Jorge Masvidal did, expect Thompson to dart in and out with pairs of straight punches and pile up his points that way.
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Though Bale delivers a quiet, moody, and angry performance, the story plods predictably in a "and then, and then, and then" manner, while barely developing the Native characters at all.
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As the movie plods on, Leyna meets Lutz (George MacKay), the fresh-faced son of a Nazi bureaucrat who is more gung-ho about Hitler's crusade than his father is.
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After being left for dead on a fur expedition by a cruel companion (Tom Hardy), Glass plods through expansively (and expensively) shot, drop-dead-gorgeous snowy landscapes, bent on revenge.
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This, more than anything, exemplifies the vicious circle that Drake plods around, Sisyphean, eternally: he seeks love, but rarely finds it, so instead he just pretends at it to get attention.
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Much of the documentary, which opens on the day Donald J. Trump was inaugurated into office, plods along like a dutiful recap of a show we watched not too long ago.
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While others sidle and swerve through the political and religious hoopla of late-17th-century London court life, Anne, with her watering eyes and comfort eating, merely plods, plaintive and often afraid.
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While American Express, Citi and Chase shower consumers with bonuses and perks, Wells Fargo plods along with cash-back and reward card lineups that do not make the leader board for largess.
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Variations of this stepwise process were faithfully reproduced in medical textbooks for decades, and the image of the diagnostician who plods methodically from symptom to cause had been imprinted on generations of medical students.
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For Monday night you can go meatless, in accordance with a tradition that plods along happily, almost popular: chopped herb salad with farro, say, or hot-and-sour seared tofu with sugar-snap peas.
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But with Congress back at work after the summer recess, the pace of its probes into the Russia effort is accelerating, even as Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller methodically plods ahead with his own investigation.
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As the showdown to fund the government plods on in the House and Senate, the lack of representation of DACA recipients by Republican House members will be a factor as the two chambers reconcile a bill.
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MILAN — As the National Basketball Association plods its way to the 68th annual All-Star Game in Charlotte, N.C., on Sunday, American hoops fans should take note of how the Italians generate hardwood drama in February.
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Ostensibly a noir thriller about a man who may or may not have killed his wife, it plods along tediously, sometimes telegraphing its twists and sometimes burying them for no reason other than to manufacture tension.
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Yes, we have investigations, but the business of government plods on; right now the Senate is working on the Roy Moore of tax bills, a piece of legislation that magnifies right-wing pathologies into a cartoonish grotesque.
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Few sequences last longer than a couple of minutes; the movie plods along with a "and then this happened" dutifulness, occasionally cutting back to the prison interview to have the reporter ask a pointed question or two.
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Still, whether such moves resonate with the public, particularly within an agency that "plods along, irrespective of who is wearing the stars," is an open question, said Eugene J. O'Donnell, a former officer who teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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Franz Kafka's "The Trial," in which a man is told he's guilty but is never told of what, and plods under endless, uncoordinated bureaucracy, is more useful than Big Brother to describe our big-data reality, said Daniel Solove, a professor at the George Washington University Law School.
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Compare "Round Here" to tracks like Toby Keith's "Stays in Mexico," a party song in which the verses move forward until the bridge loops back to the beginning, or Tracy Lawrence's "Time Marches On," from 1996, which is flat and methodical and it plods through an entire life.
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Even if all that isn't your bag, this tantric two-tracker—which plods along gently on puttering drums, then recedes as gentle mystical Environments recording soundalikes and lackadaisical guitars swell around it—is a perfect accompaniment to any activity that involves two consenting adults and a pair of speakers.
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The White House declined to say on Friday whether anyone was currently serving in an interim capacity as communications director after Hicks' departure, though Sarah Sanders, the press secretary, will assume some of the responsibilities of the job as a search plods on for a permanent replacement, officials said.
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As you can see from the chart below, if the 10-year note yield (orange line) continues to fall along its current trajectory; and the Fed plods along with its avowed plan to hike the federal-funds rate (blue line), the yield curve should invert around the end of 2017.
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RELATED: Senators weigh in on 'dark money' tax deduction Speaking of the Byrd Rule: As this process plods along, don't forget that the Senate rules are a huge piece of the ongoing negotiations -- despite the best efforts of House negotiators, the Senate rules will always win out in the end.
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Even when the overall song plods by at a slow tempo, as on "In the World But Not of The World" she packs in color and detail, layering insectoid chattering and dizzy percussion under horn-like synth lines and her dazed vocals—charting microbiomes with the same glee that she once did mountains.
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Given the state of racial crisis in which the country finds itself as Mr. de Blasio plods toward an inevitable second term, there is almost no other issue in which history is likely to judge the mayor of America's largest city with a more exacting pen than the matter of police accountability.
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The only element that outright screams "fantasy RPG" is the map window through which your character plods along to destiny and occasionally uses to hobnob in shops and dungeons; everything else, whether it's inventory or the music selection, looks like something you might have screengrabbed while writing a term paper to the sound of a Soul Asylum single.
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Beginning with the purchase of the Warriors in 2010 by the venture capital wizard Joe Lacob, Malinowski, the Warriors beat writer for Bleacher Report, plods along through accounts of seven seasons, too infrequently rising from the morass of statistics and overly detailed game accounts to tell stories of outside-the-box thinking like those that animated Michael Lewis's "Moneyball," the ur-front-office-chronicle.
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MORE has donated $2900,220006 to an effort to help register Latinos to vote as the former New York City mayor plods on with his efforts to defeat President TrumpDonald John TrumpDe Blasio calls on Trump to deploy military to set up hospitals in New York Hillicon Valley: Facebook launches portal for coronavirus information | EU sees spike in Russian misinformation on outbreak | Senate Dem bill would encourage mail-in voting | Lawmakers question safety of Google virus website Trump signs coronavirus aid package with paid sick leave, free testing MORE after ending his own 2202 bid.
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The episode received praise from reviewers for the acting and the housing estate setting, and was criticised for having a "formulaic" and "ordinary" plot which "plods along". Graham received letters from children who enjoyed the episode, while also later discovering that adult fans' reactions were poor.
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Though Holyfield looked sluggish throughout the fight, he nevertheless was able to earn the victory via unanimous decision.Holyfield Plods Way to Victory, N.Y. Times article, 1993-06-28, Retrieved on 2013-06-05 On August 12, 1993 the much anticipated rematch between Bowe and Holyfield was announced.
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The New York Times. 29. Arthur D. Murphy of Variety described the film as "erratically limp" as "[t]he action plods through some beautiful scenery," adding, "The score sounds like a mish-mash of badly- selected transcription library stock themes."Murphy, Arthur D. (August 2, 1972). "Film Reviews: The Salzburg Connection". Variety. 18.
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He noted: "For the saga of the late Capt. Joseph McConnell, which cleaves to the facts about the restless, intrepid airman who became America's first triple jet ace during the Korean unpleasantness, is dramatic only when it is rocketing through the wild blue yonder. It plods unimaginatively every time it is grounded." White, Armand (A.W.).
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Critic Mordaunt Hall gave the film a negative review in The New York Times, writing that "After a none too hopeful beginning, Richard Barthelmess's latest talking film, 'Son of the Gods,' plods its weary way through banal episodes" and that "Mr. Barthelmess is not the genius who can turn to good account the character allotted to him in this uninspired narrative".
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As Bubblegum and Lady approach the room's exit, the eyes activate and shoot laser at the duo, incapacitating Lady. Bubblegum plods on in the dark, carrying an unconscious Lady around her shoulders. Suddenly, she stumbles upon the disemboweled body of the oblivious Ice King. From the dark, Ricardio, the living heart of the Ice King, introduces himself, tossing an unconscious Finn and Jake into the light.
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Electronic Gaming Monthly similarly praised the graphics and animation, and were also complimentary of the controls and huge levels. They scored it a 7.8 out of 10. The NES version received mostly mixed reviews. GamePro criticized the "meandering game play, which plods along at a pace much slower than the rollicking movie", but assessed the animations and variety of moves to be impressive by NES standards.
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Consequently, Odysseus was equally false and true and so was Achilles (369b). Socrates proposes, possibly for the sheer dialectical fun of it, that it is better to do evil voluntarily than involuntarily. His case rests largely on the analogy with athletic skills, such as running and wrestling. He says that a runner or wrestler who deliberately sandbags is better than the one who plods along because he can do no better.
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His college wants to expel him, but Ravindra (Jagapati Babu), chairman of the board, declines to do so. He wants to reform Hari and make him top the college. A de-addiction session makes Hari behave like a bull that just saw Govinda's pants, but Ravi plods on. Meanwhile, in a soggy romantic track, Ravi gets hitched with Meera (Meera Jasmine) when he sees her at a traffic light.
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Since the 1980s and especially since the 1990s, Hollywood's depiction of Iranians has vilified Iranians as in The U.S. Media and the Middle East: Image and Perception. Praeger, 1997; Greenwood, 1995. television programs such as 24,Los Angeles Times: Iranians moving past negative depictions in pop culture June 27, 2010. John Doe, On Wings of Eagles (1986), andTv View; 'On Wings Of Eagles' Plods To Superficial Heights, The New York Times.
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A lifelong chain smoker, Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.Al Capp Was Here Newburyport Daily News Sept. 27, 2009 Capp is buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Engraved on his headstone is a stanza from Thomas Gray: The plowman homeward plods his weary way / And leaves the world to darkness and to me (from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, 1751).
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Knowing it, Namadeva seeks the Lord to endorse his duty when the Lord states to search a mentor to amend his deficiency and he moves. Meanwhile, an awful incident, Gora while mixing clay get involved with a devotional ecstasy and plods the child under the mud. Due to which, furious Lakshmi takes a vow in the name of Lord that Gora should not touch her. There onwards, Gora works on his own which suffers Lakshmi.
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"Some Kind of Love" received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. Rolling Stone's Rory Crow described the song as "an almost ethereal meditation on love". Lisa Nguyen from Paste Magazine noted the track is "a delicate lullaby compared to all the punchy singles we've heard so far from the forthcoming album". However, Stereogum's Pranav Trewn called it "the most boring song Chris Martin never wrote", stating the track "just plods along without ever justifying the amount of space it takes up".
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She plods along in a constantly dishevelled state, but has a calculating mind and, despite her irascible personality, she cares deeply about her work and colleagues. She often proves her superior skills by picking up small errors in her co-workers' thought processes. Vera forms a close relationship with sergeants Joe Ashworth (David Leon) and Aiden Healy (Kenny Doughty). On 27 August 2020, it was confirmed that the show had been renewed for an eleventh series, which will air in 2021 and 2022.
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"'Poojai': All action, no soul (IANS Tamil Movie Review)". Behindwoods stated "the director takes us through a roller coaster in the first half. But it feels like Hari loses the grip post interval a bit and the film plods in the second half, with misplaced song sequences and repetitive action blocks...Poojai is still a watchable entertainer to spend time on, with your family on a festive day", giving it a rating of 2.25 out of 5."Poojai (aka) Poojai review". behindwoods.
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Defying Gravity has received had positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 68% based on reviews from 6 critics. On Metacritic it has a score of 45 out of 100, based on 7 reviews. Lawrence Van Gelder from The New York Times on 9 July 1999 stated the movie "plods along, never catching dramatic fire, sometimes suffering from amateurish acting and often relying on its intrusive and treacly music to impart mood and rhythm" and "good intentions don't necessarily make good drama".
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" Yasmeen Gharn of Nylon magazine gave a positive review of the album, noting that the album was "a natural evolution from her last musical work, Dignity." She praised Duff for not following the folk-pop direction that was first explored with "Chasing The Sun". Yasmeen criticized the lyrics of the album for being "cheesy at times" and "filled with nonsensical metaphors" but called the songs "relatable and catchy." HitFix's Katie Hasty provided a mixed review: "I nearly relish in the interchangeability of these generic pop plods.
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For over an hour the great writer plods through an aimless stream of self-absorbed fantasy, sending the audience into a state of complete stupefaction. The torture only comes to an end when an exhausted listener inadvertently cries out "Lord, what rubbish!" and Karmazinov, after exchanging insults with the audience, finally closes with an ironic "Merci, merci, merci." In this hostile atmosphere Stepan Trofimovich takes the stage. He plunges headlong into a passionate exhortation of his own aesthetic ideals, becoming increasingly shrill as he reacts to the derision emanating from the audience.
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In Van Nuys, California, two men in their early twenties named Blake and Mike (Tyson Turrou and David Faustino) sneak into a house that Blake claims was where the comedy television series The Brady Bunch was filmed. Inside, they find a perfect recreation of the house from the series; Mike, unsettled, gets worried and leaves, but Blake plods on. Blake is subsequently sent hurtling through the air and smashes into Mike's car and dies. John Doggett (Robert Patrick) and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) are called in to investigate.
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" In a negative critique, Vanity Fairs Sonia Saraiya chastised the show saying "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is hysterical. Hysterical as in histrionic; hysterical as in somehow funny; hysterical as in you wish its team had worked harder to take the temperature of the world around us before sending this highly charged and obscenely blinkered James Bond manqué into the world." Equally dismissive, Pastes Amy Amatangelo criticized the series saying, "But more often than not, the show plods along with no real sense of urgency. I often had to restrain myself from scrolling through my phone.
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" Joel Selvin of the San Francisco Chronicle called the film "very boring"; a "story without irony, perspective or any leavening that would make it something other than an ordinary military-action caper. The story line is telegraphed from word one and the meticulous unfolding plot plods ahead inexorably without the slightest bit of suspense." Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel said, "[The characters are] all real people, and much of this really happened. But director John Dahl (Joy Ride) and the screenwriters have conjured a dreary, old-fashioned 'last roundup' of war movie and prisoner-of-war movie cliches, small but forgivable sins.
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Fermina's marriage devastates Florentino, who vows to remain a virgin, but his self-denial is thwarted by a tryst. To help Florentino get over Fermina, his mother throws a willing widow into his bed, and Florentino discovers that sex is a very good pain reliever, one he uses to replace the opium that he had habitually smoked. Florentino begins to record and describe each of his sexual encounters, beginning with the widow, and eventually compiles over 600 entries. Now a lowly clerk, Florentino plods resolutely over many years to approach the wealth and social standing of Dr. Urbino.
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Very much in the thrall of Peter Sellers, he allowed Quilty to take over the movie, with Sellers improvising vast swatches of dialogue. If you look at the Kubrick movie today, the Sellers stuff still seems amazingly energetic and funny and alive; the rest of the story plods by comparison. The other strange choice in the Kubrick film, of course, is Sue Lyon, who, even though she was only fifteen when she played Lolita--the same age as our Dominique Swain--could easily have passed for a twenty-year-old porno star. Dominique can easily pass for a twelve-year-old, which we all think is a very good thing.
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Reviews for 'Smash the Windows' were mixed, but mostly favorable. Punknews called it, "DIY folk punk at its finest," while HeartattaCk Zine praised the lyrics: "Poetic anthems to a downtrodden life and the hope for a brighter tomorrow that inspire you to throw a wrench in the gears and enjoy what little of the natural world is left." Razorcake Magazine, however, described it as "Sub-Pogues pseudo Celtic style balladeering," claiming that it "[never] really rocks out; it just plods along like a campfire singalong." Shortly after its release, The Village Voice rated Erik Petersen/Mischief Brew "Best Anarchist Political Folk-Punk Singer" in their Best of NYC 2005 Issue.
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" Although he regretted the inclusion of ballads such as "Breath Away from Heaven", Bill Holdship wrote in Creem that "a good album's a good album, and Cloud Nine is plenty good … it's the best record from a former Beatle in at least seven years." Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required). Less impressed, Daniel Brogan of the Chicago Tribune opined: "Cloud Nine plods hopelessly. Most of the blame must fall on Harrison, though producer Jeff Lynne's influence is far too prevalent ... The album is occasionally redeemed by the deft guitar interplay between Harrison and Eric Clapton, as well as the perky single 'Got My Mind Set on You.
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On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 28% based on 159 reviews, with an average rating of 4.74/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Blake Lively delivers an impressive lead performance, but The Rhythm Section plods predictably through a story that could have used some flashier riffs." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 45 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported it received 2.5 out of 5 stars in their polling, with 35% of people saying they would definitely recommend it.
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" His review concluded "I'll grudgingly admit, while it is an absolutely dreadful film by nearly every objective measure, Nukie probably isn't the worst E.T. knockoff ever made. However, it is definitely the worst one you can watch with your lights on, the volume up, and your door unlocked." Reviewer Matt Caracappa was more lenient on the film, highlighting the uniqueness of the film's premise. However, he notes that the film is "incredibly annoying... as in, painful and grating to see and hear," and that ultimately "once the novelty of the insanity wears thin, you're left with an exceedingly boring movie that plods along worse than a one-legged duck who just barely survived a big fire.
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Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, saying, "...with a running time of two hours and 10 minutes, 12 Strong has at least 20 minutes of scenes that are either unnecessary or repetitive...[it] winds up being an almost-good film about some great American soldiers." Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote: "On its own terms, the film is watchable enough, but it’s blunt and stolid and under- characterized, and at 130 minutes it plods." Gleiberman notes that the soldiers riding on horseback do not amount to much, but praises the director and cinematographer for using the New Mexico locations to conjure the landscape of Afghanistan, calling it the most impressive aspect of the film.
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Comparing the episode to "The Idiot's Lantern" in terms of plot, he felt that the latter was "far more entertaining" and that "Fear Her" lacked originality and humour. Dave Bradley of SFX awarded "Fear Her" three out of five stars, describing the plot as "ordinary" but thought it was "a decent breather before grander adventures to come". He particularly praised the dialogue and thought "the claustrophobic effect of limiting the action to one household works". Arnold T Blumburg, writing for Now Playing, gave the episode a grade of B+. He felt that the guest cast were "only just adequate", describing Agbaje's acting as "decent but not impressive", and that the story "plods along in places", but the story worked because of the "delightful" interactions between the Doctor and Rose and the feel-good ending.
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Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle said the film was all premise and no development, adding, "I saw this movie in the middle of the day, having had a great night's sleep, and I had to slap myself awake a few times." Varietys Owen Gleiberman called the film "a reboot of a remake of a film that wasn't all that scary to begin with", and wrote, "The Grudge plods on as if it were something more than formula gunk, cutting back and forth among the thinly written unfortunates who've been touched by the curse of that house." Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, saying that it is "often as nasty as you want it to be, its cheesy jump-scares and generic packaging be damned".
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From a contemporary reviews, John Raisbeck reviewed a 95 minute dubbed language version of the film in the Monthly Film Bulletin. Raisbeck found the film to be a "lifeless Italian Western" which "plods wearily through the required rituals, drawing ineffectually on the work of Leone: the black-caped stranger, Doc, is clearly a first cousin to the van Cleef character in the Dollar films, and the final shoot-out takes place, conveniently and derivatively, in a cemetery." In his investigation of narrative structures in Spaghetti Western films, Bert Fridlund argues that Django Shoots First presents a complicated rendition of the partnership plot that was used in many Spaghetti Westerns following the success of For a Few Dollars More, where one of the bounty killer partners turns out to have a secret vengeance motive. Glenn is the protagonist who has a double motive.
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" Raziq Rauf of the BBC gave the album a positive review and said, "With a concept loosely based upon Fritz Lang's dystopian science fiction film, Metropolis, it sounds as stark and uncomfortable as you might expect." Many music critics gave attention to Vertikal's almost-19-minute track, "Vicarious Redemption." Heaney wrote, "Confident in their craft, the bandmembers are careful never to rush things, allowing the songs on Vertikal to play out the way they're supposed to, as is the case with the 18-and-a- half-minute epic 'Vicarious Redemption,' which seems to grow exponentially as it slowly plods toward its conclusion." Brown called the song an "intimidating centerpiece," but also that it, "may be the pinnacle of Cult of Luna's artistic output; a piece which covers plenty of ground through well-paced ascending and descending passages which directly maintain a strict sense of cohesion that renders running times redundant.
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The album received generally favorable reviews, with Exclaim!s Chris Whibbs describing it "Sometimes it plods a bit...but at other times it's pretty awesome", while saying that the album is "full of lovely moments but the gimmick remains a gimmick."Whibbs, Chris (2007) "The Choir Practice The Choir Practice", Exclaim!, June 2007, retrieved 2011-05-14 Margaret Reges, writing for Allmusic, compared the album to folk acts such as The New Christy Minstrels, Peter, Paul & Mary, Fairport Convention, and The Mamas & the Papas, calling it "nostalgic, wise, inspiring stuff" and stating "The Choir Practice are at their best when they take the traditional chorale sound and gently twist it into indie rock shapes with the help of a lone electric guitar and some handclaps".Reges, Margaret "The Choir Practice Review", Allmusic, retrieved 2011-05-14 Cassandra Kyle of The StarPhoenix, described the album as "completely enjoyable and fun", describing the band's sound as "a 1960s easy listening vibe with a modern twist".
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In 2009, Mark Braxton of Radio Times noted that The Space Museum "kicks off so well", but did not take the opportunity to discuss ideas such as predestination and also boasted a predictable, "poorly acted" conflict and many implausibilities. However, he felt that the serial showcased Vicki's "vibrant" character and the Dalek joke was "one of the few elements that make this rather tedious traipse memorable". Reviewing the DVD release, SFX Nick Setchfield described The Space Museum as offering a "killingly dull environment in which to stage an unengaging take on Who's eternal 'rebels vs despots' formula", despite the "lovely fourth-dimensional weirdness" of the first episode and the "refreshing" Moroks who were reminiscent of Douglas Adams' work. Jonathan Wilkins of Dreamwatch also called the first episode "great" and the rest "dull, bog-standard Who" which were "not terrible but ... not terribly exciting either, as it plods rather than races towards a deeply unsatisfactory climax".
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The text of the poem, as published in the Australian Town and Country Journal, is as follows: A cloud of dust on the long white road ; And the teams go creeping on, Inch by inch with the weary load ; And by the power of the green-hide goad The distant goal is won. With eyes half-shut from the blinding dust, And necks to the yokes bent low, The beasts are pulling as bullocks must, Till the shining rims of the tire-rings rust ; While the spokes are turning slow. With face half hid 'neath a wide brimm'd hat That shades from the heat's white waves, And shoulder'd whip with its green-hide plat, The driver plods with a gait like that Of his weary, patient slaves. He wipes his brow, for the day is hot, And spits to the left with spite ; He shouts at "Balley," and flicks at " Scot," And raises dust from the back of " Spot," And spits to the dusty right.
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He spent a period working in Wales before settling in Newcastle upon Tyne. His 1887 painting Lighting the Beacon shows the role of working class women in guiding ships to shore. Other paintings include The Wayfarers (1879), The Turnip Cutter (1902), The Ploughman Homeward Plods his Weary Way, The Worker, The wreck of the Hesperus (1868), Lady Macbeth (1878) and In the Cottage Garden (1886). In 1860 he married Juliana Phillis Glover (1839–1878) and with her had two daughters: Margaret Hannah Phillis Marsh (1877–1931) and Phillis Clara Sylvia Marsh (1877–1965). He married Ellen Hall (1863–1942) in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1884Marriage of Arthur Hardwick Marsh – England & Wales Marriage Index: 1837–1915 (1884) and with her had a further five daughters: Nellie Wellesley Marsh (1885–1964); the militant British suffragette Charlotte Marsh (1887–1961),Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928, University College London Press (1999) – Google Books, p. 381 Dorothy Hale Marsh (1890–); Margaret Marsh (1892–) and Lois Marsh (1895–).
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