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The violence seemed like vicious filler, and the profanity seemed like a substitute for intelligent dialogue.
One day Jenny meets up with a piano player named Tye Graham, (Michael Wilding) who is a blind veteran and is a sort of substitute piano player when the original piano player quit and walked off the Broadway Production.
Brando excels with his portrayal of a greedy oil-rich company executive who is bent on keeping a synthetic oil production substitute a secret.
John Steinbeck's classic tale of two depression era migrant workers - resourceful "George Milton" and lumbering "Lennie Small" - is required reading, or viewing (not a good substitute for Steinbeck, but if you must).
The characters are a little wet, particularly our soulless hero, yet Karen Mok's engaging sidekick Ying Ying is a worthy substitute, and the delirious spurts of action make the whole experience quite compelling.
I consider Fellini a genius; he's designed a film that makes a great substitute for drugs.
Critics would have you believe that great cinematography and scenery can substitute substance.
Cryptic numbers, odd eclectic characters, and fantastic settings substitute for any character development or cohesive story line.
This CGI may be pretty but it cannot ever substitute for story and plot development.
This show might have garnered more good will from long time game show fans at the beginning, but GSN teased them by airing a few weeks of the original "IGS" at 3:30 am est and then pulled it to substitute this new, hugely flawed version, which was rerun from its 11:30 pm est time slot.
It's a dangerous message, and not all that far off from the one that the Communists drilled into their victims (for "God and the FBI" substitute "the Party").
Lovely Joan Allen plays Tucker's devoted, whip-smart wife -- an Eleanor substitute -- and Christian Slater is Tucker's eldest son, perhaps a stand-in for Coppola's son, Gio, who died before the film was made and to whom it is dedicated.
It could be used as a substitute for the electrical chair for death sentences.
For proof of this checkout "suzy parker" , at no point in the film do you see Lennon sing this song because hogg either has no footage or cant find the footage so another songs performance of John's is dropped in to substitute.
Overcome by remorse, he creates a robot duplicate into which he transfers Toby's memories (as well as rocket powered flight and assorted weaponry), but then finds himself unable to accept the substitute because he is a robot.
His boss Gene Shelby (William H. Macy) moves him from his cubicle to an office in the last floor and makes him the VP of Creative Thinking as the substitute for Vanessa Parks (Elisha Cuthbert), who has become quadriplegic with one bullet in her spine.
My Take: Nothing more but guest stars and reused footage to substitute for laughs.
The endless stream of explosions and gunfire is a poor substitute for a plot or for interesting and engaging characterization; this is not an action movie, it is more like a small-town fireworks display.
With her hangdog face, crooked mouth and watery eyes, she's about as far from plucky as a Garland substitute can be.
And the accompanying increase in imports is unlikely to damage China’s economic growth significantly; it is more likely to complement, rather than substitute for, domestic demand.
Brexit chief negotiator Michel Barnier could be a serious substitute for Weber – probably the only one within the EPP.
In this context, it is perhaps to be expected that some countries might be tempted to use ratification to try to placate those pressing for improvements in human rights, thereby turning ratification into a substitute for, rather than a spur to, real improvements in human rights.
In the face of growing risks of global anarchy, the courageous but risky activism of France and Britain should not be seen as a substitute for an engaged US.
Devaluation would also boost average eurozone GDP growth by stimulating exports and encouraging Europeans to substitute domestically produced goods and services for imported items.
On the other hand, juxtaposed against these positive developments are a fresh set of challenges, namely increasingly pro-cyclical liquidity provision by market makers, the rise of populism, and a temptation to rely on currency depreciation as a substitute for structural reforms.
Joblessness is the main cause of poverty, and the best protection against it is earned income, for which even France’s generous welfare payments are an inadequate substitute.
Merkel’s idea of establishing a eurozone super committee that would partly substitute for the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers – which Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte already proposed, to no avail – would complicate things even further.
But when the pond dries up or the substitute crop or job fails, so long as there are rich drug users in the West, they will return to cultivating poppy or coca if it provides a livelihood for their families.
The social-welfare state, the nationalists claim, cannot substitute for ethnic identity.
Then came the protracted process of income-distribution equalization, as machines, installed to substitute for human legs, and fingers created more jobs in machine-minding, which used human brains and mouths, than it destroyed in sectors requiring routine muscle power or dexterity work.
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