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By association, what Kat wasn't was just like the little brown-skinned children frolicking through the streets of some incidental railway settlement like Tati Siding, or an off-the-grid village like Kgagodi, legs clad in dust stockings whose knees had blackened from years of kneeling and wax-polishing floors, whose shins were marked with lessons from climbing trees, who played until dusk, went in for supper by a paraffin lamp and returned to play hide-and-seek amongst centipedes and owls until finally someone's mother would call the whole thing to an end.
The cost is incidental but the gesture is huge.
Planets form as an incidental process to star formation out of the same gas cloud as the star itself.
And Justice Stevens, writing for the majority, said he had read all about the history of golf, and the essential point of the game is to get very small ball from one place into a hole in as few strokes as possible, and that walking was not essential, but incidental.
The fact that the bat uses echoes in pitch darkness to input the current variables to its model, while the swallow uses light, is incidental.
The plot is incidental at best and seems to exist just to showcase various cameos.
To save on costs, incidental music is not used, running times were kept to under an hour, the writing was often rather derivative and the actors are mostly lesser talents--and Wayne himself was definitely far from being a household name at this time.
There is very little dialog, and most of it is incidental: the story is told in a third-person voice-over, the voice being that of an actress impersonating the real-life sister of the real-life brothers.
Wood uses raw slabs of innocuous, incidental stock footage, and then builds a "story" around them - and what a story!! Wood himself stars as Glen, a regular Joe who just happens to enjoy lounging around in his fiancee's lingerie and sweaters.
Conflicts are resolved within two or three seconds of their inception and dialogue is random and incidental.
While it is not a literal biography, Schrader & his co-screenwriter Leonard Scharder (his brother) have taken several incidents from his life, including his sucide and crafted what can best be described as incidental tableaus that are visually sparse and stunning.
Yes, there are minor holes in the plot, and incidental details that are a little unnecessary, and there will always be debate between families of those personally involved as to specifics.
With a few exceptions films are now made by corporations,not individuals,and as a result are usually highly-polished "packages",a product in much the same way as a golf ball,a tin of dog food or a motor car is a product.The involvement of human beings in the process is almost incidental.Such is the appetite for the product that there appears no end to the line of well-finished,glossy,superficially entertaining but ultimately empty films that flood the countless TV channels and movie outlets.There is no time for a man like Mr Preminger to stand a little apart from the torrent of "product" and craft a personal work of art.
jackie has an incidental and more observational approach to his jokes and is more 'up yours' in this sequel.
The film is now best known from the suite of music Sergei Prokofiev extracted from his incidental music to the film, the Troika movement even turning up in pop arrangements.
I also liked the incidental music it is so haunting and beautiful, and the script was fairly faithful and in general well-written, particularly at the beginning.
The songs were almost incidental & blended in almost seamlessly with the film.
The incidental music is cartoonish and destroys any hint of dramatic effect.
Thunderbirds is just the hook to get people to see it, but are almost incidental in use.
As a result the conflicts are difficult to care about and the eventual outcome is incidental.
What there is - snatches of songs, more often than not aborted by the performers - is incidental rather than central.
(The story, while nice, is really incidental.
It is much too easy to fall into the post-World War Two media trap that the war was a man's war, and that women were just incidental to the effort.
The flashback, the incidental music, the photography, especially the fight scenes, done by the incomprable James Wong Howe.
Every female, even down to the incidental characters, is a "hottie".
Before going into that, I'll go out on a limb here and say that the mental defects were incidental to the plot, the real issue was how much love Sam (Penn's characte) has for his daughter, Lucy (played by Dakota Fanning).
An Italian ballad is playing over the soundtrack through the previous scene and continues into this scene, wherein Marc Anthony, playing a low-level restaurant bus boy, a small, quiet, incidental character, begins dancing with himself as he mops the floor of the restaurant.
Nothing is incidental or superfluous.
Due to the fact the music of 'Hills 2' is composed by Harry Manfredini (who composed the incidental music for most of the Friday films), you could often be forgiven for wondering when Jason Voorhees is going to pop up.
A boring, predictable, unimaginative plot married to over-the-top incidental music eventually leads to an equally uninspired climax.
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