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As for me, I love the movie's offbeat and subdued humor, with much of the cast greatly contributing to why I'm kept smiling.
It's very depressing when you come out of the theater more subdued than when you went in, and this movie will do that to you.
Harlow is effectively subdued as the devoted secretary.
Nebbish everyman Henry Winkler (shedding his Fonzie image) abandons Wall Street brokerage for the more quiet and subdued night shift at the city morgue, much to the aggravation of his weight worrying girlfriend.
But she is very subdued.
John Milius's militant conservatism is somewhat subdued in this movie, though the movie was clearly made with a sense of nostalgia for a time when women and African-Americans knew their subjugated place and stayed there, and when going off to die pointlessly in an immoral war was seen as heroic and poignant.
The emotional undercurrent at first seems subtle and subdued, but has a constant underlying intensity that is unavoidable and finally sweeps you away with it.
This movie contains a familiar and tediously subdued plot with the overly sensitive bad guys, the articulate kid with mind-powers, and a completely predictable "twist" ending.
There are no fist fights or scream contests in this movie (there is some of that near the end of the film, though); everything about the movie is hysterical, but strangely subdued.
1) The humor is subtler in these movies, and Sandler is much more subdued.
The film has the look and feel of a made-for-TV production--its titillation is a tease at best, and the violence is almost remarkably subdued.
Less blonde than in some earlier films, and far more subdued, she plays the indispensable, smart, and efficient secretary of Clark Gable.
Patrice LeConte colors this intelligent film in subdued hues in taking on the somber issue of capital punishment.
The newer episodes are good, but it's not the same without those lovable characters, because Peter Sallis I think is the only one of them still alive, and over the years is subdued to cameo appearances.
Will Smith, is a little more subdued...but isn't able to emote much or come up with funny stuff.
There are lots of off-key rehearsals in the film, but also a few finished set-pieces, mainly of McCartney songs like 'Two Of Us' and the title track, which is a wonderfully subdued performance by the four.
As the love of her life we find a young and handsome Henry Fonda.Davis,who sometimes overacted gloriously, is kept more subdued by master director William Wyler.
Moreover, Iran’s leaders seem to assume that the country is too big and too strong to be subdued by sanctions or air strikes.
As the US economy bottomed out in mid-2009, consumers entered a second phase – a very subdued recovery.
With domestic spending subdued, they have been relying on exports.
Subdued wage growth in the face of a tightening labor market is unlikely to continue, and any big rise in wages will put strong upward pressure on prices (though this might not happen anytime soon, given the relentless downward pressure on wages coming from automation and globalization).
National identities remain stronger than a common European identity, despite six decades of integration, and national interests, while subdued in comparison to the past, still matter.
Not surprisingly, reactions to its formation were subdued, with the public and political insiders alike mostly just relieved to have the long ordeal behind them.
Those who think that globalization, technology, and the market economy will solve the world’s problems seemed subdued.
With the Balassa-Samuelson effect so subdued and limited scope for future corrective inflation, the EMU criterion regarding price stability - of annual inflation within 1.5% of the average rate for the three best-performing economies in the EU - is within reach.
And the fact that higher wages in Germany will be matched by lower wages across southern Europe suggests that continent-wide inflationary pressures will remain subdued.
No “aggressive” or unfriendly effort by China will be needed;Russia will be subdued by default.
After flirting with disaster last July, interest-rate spreads for eurozone bonds have generally been subdued, and financial segmentation has been slowly reversed (that is, at least before European officials embarked on the controversial path of trying to impose losses on guaranteed bank deposits in Cyprus).
Average hourly earnings are now running 2.8% above the year-earlier level, reinforcing an acceleration that began in 2015, and well above the subdued 2% post-crisis average from 2010 through 2014.
Yet, given the changing dynamics of the labor market and subdued productivity growth, average wage gains are not likely to be much more than 2.5%.
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