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I mean that we have mathematically consistent theories that were actually introduced to explain a completely different phenomenon, OK, things that I haven't even talked about, that each predict the existence of a very weakly interacting, new particle.
The most offensive scene occurs when Belushi is dying, looks up from his deathbed to see the author standing above him and he weakly utters "Breathe for me, Woodward."
Although there was still an impressive number of features hitting shelves in 88, most of them were weakly produced and taken as a whole they were eminently unappealing.
There's practically no plot and 90% of the movie consists of various people walking in and out of the screen, weakly trying to interact with each other while talking about the Katyn massacre.
In my opinion it is an inaccurate, poorly acted, weakly scripted, pretentiously directed piece of gumpf.
The highlight of the film is the heist sequence at the end but even that is so weakly executed, any excitement it might have added to the film is completely missing.
He responds to the deaths of some of his hands weakly; he escapes from Knox's gang by hiding in a full rain barrel; his escape to the high country and pursuit by John Russell seem superfluous, as does much of the film.
Poorly written and weakly directed with so-called actors unable to act, but able to grimace when ordered to.
A tedious mixture of puerile efforts at humour with romantic relationship melodrama fails to provide this weakly made film with any flavour of reality.
Even John Goodman delivers his weakly comic lines with an absence of panache, as if the witless humour needs to be recited slowly in case anyone misses the joke.
I actually think that the romance between Inman and Ada is weakly developed in the script (they really don;t get much screen time together to develop a relationship), but Law and Kidman give it their all and convince.
He made the well written parts very believable and affecting, and the more weakly written parts much more bearable.
There are echoes of 'Bride Of The Monster' when the heroine carefully winds the octopus like tentacle of a flesh eating plant around her before weakly thrashing about, the difference being that the Ed Wood film is a hundred times more entertaining.
Then, too, the 'modern' segment is weakly written.
It's a strange thing to see a film where some scenes work rather weakly (if only in comparison to other films in its legacy), and others in a 'sub-plot' or supporting story are surprisingly provocative and strong.
A critically important component of virtually all successful cinema is suspense, a perception of uncertainty within the viewer as to what may ensue from the events occurring upon the screen, whichever genre, present even when we know an outcome (Apollo 13) if the work is done well; all of which is meant to point to a total absence of suspense in this weakly directed feature, which dully plods from scene to scene until its flat ending.
It weakly conveys that the main character (a boy named Evan Taylor) believes he has some kind of control over the field, but it falls short of the intended correlation to his sensation of "music everywhere" which is better illustrated later in the film.
It is a weakly conceived, cheaply made film, and has none of the inherent pleasure of the original Robin Hood legends.
So, yeah, it ends weakly, to say the least.
Yes it's a big subject, Balzac and Dostoyevski wrote about it long before we were all born, but it was done so weakly.
Besides being badly written, poorly acted, weakly directed and cheesy, this film is also unimaginably boring!
The first 20 minutes plays out like a weakly dramatised infomercial on the dangers of drink driving, the two characters we have a handle on by this time are about as deep as a cookie tray, seem to have an almost fatal case of the clichés and just as "she" confesses to "he" that she was responsible for her best friend's (and his girl friend's) death - what do they do?
There are parts that should be funny, or could potentially be decently twisted, but the film is too weakly written to be funny and not well executed or demented enough (it never goes far enough) to shock.
Overall government expenditure is only weakly correlated with the size of the government.
As the advanced economies recover, however weakly, the growth differential is likely to narrow again, perhaps to about two percentage points, which still implies steady convergence at a decent pace.
This is exacerbated by their strong anisotropy – the materials have a quasi-two-dimensional structure consisting of a weakly coupled stack of conducting sheets.
Compared to producers in the US and Europe, those in China are weakly organized and passive.
But Brazil’s government has also begun to criticize, albeit weakly, Iran’s performance on human rights.
Far from deepening multilateral structures, he wants to dismantle them, dislodging the global market from the regulatory institutions in which it is already only weakly embedded.
Moreover, in the Atlas of Economic Complexity, my co-authors and I show that these indicators are weakly related, if at all, to economic growth.
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