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RB: I don't actually think that the stereotype of a businessperson treading all over people to get to the top, generally speaking, works.
A day without a shaming began to feel like a day picking fingernails and treading water.
This movie moved much too slowly for my taste.The concept of the story is refreshingly different in that it explores the family dynamics of living with a mentally-retarded family member in a way that I have not previously seen on-screen.However,the execution of the concept was flawed.Each character was developed fully within the scene of her first appearance,then one had to endure the feeling that each character was treading water the rest of the way.That is,each character flailed about awkwardly in her interpersonal relationships with others in the movie,which I found to be a form of emotional and social retardation.I suppose this has artistic merit,given the irony that the story centers around an intellectually retarded individual surrounded by way above-average intelligence friends and family.The acting,however,was well-done without exception.I agree with other reviewers that the cinematography was beautiful.In summary,I think the film has strong artistic merit because of the fine acting and cinematography,but fails on an emotional level due to the shortcomings described.
Director Vincente Minnelli has absolutely no idea how to mount this outlandish plot, concocted by Edward Chodorov from a story by Thelma Strabel, and the friendly, first-rate cast (including Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum and Edmund Gwenn) is left treading in murky waters.
Barbet Schroeder is treading way too safe ground here for such a seasoned filmmaker.
The story was treading water from the get go, and the choice of Mickey Rourke was not such such a good idea.
Was VH-1 treading on hollow ground here?
Then we come to his two movies with the Beatles - and here I am well aware I am treading on sacred ground for millions of admirers of the lovable mop - tops,but basically they were a rag - bag of gimmicks based around pointing his camera at the boys while they did their schtick.He got lucky and rode on their coat tails ,as did many another lesser - talent.
Alas, although the knight's role is little more than a cameo in Alice, the writers here have mercilessly expanded the part, even though it meant treading on the lines of more capable players like break-your-heart Rita La Roy (a most engaging and super-attractively regal young duchess) and Kay Hughes' pleasing Cheshire Cat who, as we might expect, disappears from the action, alas, for long spells.
Alas, with this project, he is treading the familiar ground of "Spinal Tap" and "Waiting for Guffman," two highly superior projects that set the standard for all mockumentaries on the same subject.
Crocodile Dundee is back and treading in the footsteps of Axel Foley as he brings his rough and ready personality to the uptight show-offy candyland of Beverly Hills.
Director Casper Andreas, who also had a hand in the script, hopes to titillate and shock his target audience with bitchy, outré dialogue and flashes of naked behinds; unfortunately, this isn't anything any filmmaker treading in queer-cinema waters hasn't tried before.
Woo had never worked with special effects, so he was treading into new territory.
For being the introduction to one of the most enduring horror series in European cinema, FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR is rather lame - apart from being an edited variant of the original Spanish cut, bearing the more accurate title THE MARK OF THE WOLFMAN - but one tends to forgive Paul Naschy the many shortcomings of his script on this occasion because here he was still treading the waters, as it were.
The nineteenth-century philosopher John Stuart Mill had a more civilized view:“I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think…that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind….The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.”
That may explain why Trump is treading where Nixon never dared to go, by trying to smear both Mueller and the FBI.
To be sure, he is constantly treading a fine line between jittery markets, EU demands, and partisan maneuvering ahead of national elections in less than a year.
As with all counterfactuals, we are treading on thin ice here.
Of course, Big Pharma is treading a well-worn path.
But China is treading carefully enough that it can continue to advance its goals, without spooking its intended quarry.
The classical economists of the nineteenth century looked forward to what they called a “stationary state,” when, in the words of John Stuart Mill, the life of “struggling to get on…trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other’s heels” would no longer be needed.
At this stage, however, we are still largely treading on terra incognita .
In the West, we tend to smile at Jain monks who sweep ants from their paths to avoid treading on them.
This means treading carefully as she seeks a semblance of justice for past military misdeeds and tackles endemic corruption.
But it would certainly mean a paradigm shift for a conflict in which everyone has been treading water for almost two decades.
Yet, in the search for what Cameron has called a new “look, feel, and identity,” these parties have been treading a fine line: on the one hand, they have attempted to appear more modern – for example, by appointing an increasing number of women and members of ethnic minorities to cabinet posts.
And, because another Merkel-led coalition seems to be more likely (at least from today’s vantage point) than a real change in government, post-election Germany, absent renewed pressure from the crisis, will remain wedded to the politics of small or tiny steps, leaving Europe treading water.
As often happens with brilliant ideas, the creative spark consumes itself in the act of creation, and IOR-ARC has been treading water, not having done enough to get beyond the declaratory phase that marks most new initiatives.
When he went to the Voreux, when he came back, whenever he came out of his hole, he could scarcely put a foot down without treading on a couple in the grass; and it was worse if he wanted to gather wood to heat his soup or look for burdocks for his rabbit at the other end of the enclosure.
An instant later our feet were treading the bottom of the sea.
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