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It is very eighties, very sickly sweet, but Paul Nicholas is absolutely gorgeous in it!
First half is about Aamir and Kajol's never ending sickly sweet love story, at least that's how it felt like.
It definitely did NOT make me want to physically injure myself just so i could experience something worse than the sickly sweet clichéd banality manifesting itself on screen!!
The film has one of the... no... it has THE most sickly, honeyed endings in the history of cinema, followed by a second ending, just as ridiculous as the first one.
He is crippled and sickly from the First World War (he is probably emasculated, as well).
The ending is perhaps a little sickly but that apart, this is a top notch comedy with Beckinsale putting in a marvellous performance.
The movie has a stunning lack of agenda - which is meant as a compliment in that it's emotional payoffs are earned and natural as opposed to being sickly or cynical.
Strong supporting work is given by Ciaran Hinds, as Bernie's spent and sickly husband.
War of the Robots is a much better film than its sickly half-sister Cosmos War of the Planets.
What's worse is that it is liberally sprinkled with the kind of sickly B-movie idealism that I thought mainstream cinema had grown out of in the mid-seventies.
For starters, she looks terrible; wan and sickly, with circles under her eyes and primarily, she plays a punching bag.
Fred Zipfel was dead and Mr. Haney just looked dead (he was very sickly and died soon afterward).
In the meantime, Western welfare states will remain financially unviable, economically sickly, and politically strained.
Much of the world, especially Europe, but also the slightly less sickly US, remains stuck in a semi-slump.
Europe’s banking system remains sickly, even though many national governments have gone to great lengths to hide their banks’ woes.
Beyond getting a glimpse of the equipment – old and sickly green – I learned that my interpreter and her colleagues were augmenting their state salaries with direct (and much higher) payments from Finnish dental tourists.
Levin could not listen to the second part of the concert, for Pestsov, who stood beside him, talked all the while and found fault with the piece because of its unnecessary and sickly affectation of simplicity, comparing it with the simplicities of the pre-Raphaelite school of painting.
And glancing at the red-cheeked husband and his thin wife, she saw that the sickly wife considered herself misunderstood, and that the husband deceived her and encouraged her in her opinion of herself.
The author was a very young and sickly journalist; very bold as a writer, but extremely uneducated, and shy in personal intercourse.
Behind a curtain of sickly poplars, the only trees in these flat regions, was a group of isolated buildings, houses placed four together, and surrounded by their gardens.
Madame Hennebeau was already getting tired, happy for a moment to amuse herself in the weariness of her exile by playing the part of exhibiting the beasts, but immediately disgusted by the sickly odour of wretchedness, in spite of the special cleanliness of the houses into which she ventured.
Here and there chrysanthemums sprouted timidly at the feet of aloes with long, sad, sickly leaves.
One morning--whose date I'm unable to specify--I was slumbering near the first hours of daylight, a painful, sickly slumber.
"Moorland landscape," said the painter passing the picture to K. It showed two sickly trees, well separated from each other in dark grass.
With his fair hair devoid of lustre, his sparse beard, his face covered with red blotches, he resembled a sickly, spoilt child arrived at manhood.
The following day, when the young couple came downstairs, Camille had still his sickly languidness, his righteous tranquillity of an egotist.
After a while he came accompanied by his son Olivier, a great fellow of thirty, dry and thin, who had married a very little woman, slow and sickly.
At night I got as far away from him as I could, to avoid the sickly odour of his body.
They had turned me into a docile brute with their tame benevolence and sickly tenderness.
At Vernon, his sickly condition did not permit him, when a child, to go and dabble in the Seine.
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