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Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up and descends into paralysis and polarization?
Because in the lives of the poor, it just descends like a plague and it destroys everything.
And so Lucifer descends into hell, becomes Satan, becomes the devil, and the force of evil in the universe begins.
There's no pyramid that conveniently places Victorian England at the apex and descends down the flanks to the so-called primitives of the world.
Justice is not a thing that just descends from above and makes everything right.
It's Alice Tully Hall, and it's tucked under the Juilliard Building and descends several levels under the street.
And when the Zip arrives at the hospital, it descends to about 30 feet and drops the package.
A free society requires red lights and green lights, otherwise it soon descends into gridlock.
Peter Parker is in a library in Manhattan when the spider descends from above and gives him his message through a bite.
A picture that we see on our television screens, in books, in films, in everyday commentary is one where an army of robots descends on the workplace with one goal in mind: to displace human beings from their work.
They make what is supposed to be a slight detour at a rest stop so that Nicole can pee, but it descends into terror for her when she finds that her Jesse is completely missing.
Bad acting and bad plot then descends on the real victim, you, the viewer.
One descends into out-of-control madness, culminating in his death.
It starts off with a little bit of promise, giving you the impression that the box cover artist may have actually started watching this film before designing the cover, but then descends quickly into epic stupidity.
After an intriguing start, this little drama quickly descends into the ranks of sheer mediocrity.
Helmed by a chain-smoking suave wannabe with a pencil moustache and his ultra-glamorous and immasculating harridan of an EX-wife, "Viva Variety" is a variety show that tries to get off the ground every episode but always descends into in-fighting and acts gone very wrong.
But, when a promised phone call doesn't come one day, he descends into depression and goes back on the smack.
He quickly descends further into a seemly endless spiral of madness and unverifiable venom.
Based off of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, Apocalypse Now slowly descends its protagonist, Willard (Martin Sheen) into madness, most likely the same way Kurtz plunged into insanity.
It descends into utter madness along with characters, but never seems exploitative or horrific without purpose.
The precinct house looks dirty and tired,full of desperate people on both sides of the law,shouting,cursing out,trying to do deals or just stay alive.Into this underworld descends the recently demoted Sharkey - a reward for a bungled drugs bust(caused by a corrupt cop) - he and his team are part of the vice squad.Information they pick up concerning a crooked politician leads them into the world of high-class call girls and ruthless drug barons.
The first half of the film is funny and smart with an extremely European flavor in the usage of small but wonderful characters, while the second half of the film descends into a somber story of discovery and the holocaust.
After that, though, it just descends into over-the-top unintentional hilarity.
With Biko dead the film rapidly descends into farce.
After a spirited start with an intriguing premise, it descends into not much more than a slasher flick, with some supernatural and sexual asides.
From her opening number, her classic "Friends", where she descends from the wings atop a beautiful prop cloud, Bette commands the stage with style and charisma from a rap-styled number called "I Look Good" she then proves that she has a way with a joke like few other performers in this business as she segues her way through a variety of musical selections.
Fairly amusing to begin with, this film quickly descends into realms of implausibility bordering on the absurd.
The film rapidly descends into cliché after cliché (the script seems to have been created by entering lots of clichéd lines into a computer and programming it to spit them out randomly).
There are two scenes which exemplify Binoche as the best actress in the business; when she decides to take pictures of her sleeping lover against his knowledge, she tries to make it look like she enjoys it but immediately reviles with disgust and disgrace, and when she descends to desperate begging from her lover for his help.
What seems like quite a good idea for a plot, soon descends into needlessly complex twists, and just complete craziness.
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