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The skeletal tree limbs submerged in Lake Volta often catch the fishing nets, and weary, frightened children are thrown into the water to untether the lines.
They raised more money more quickly for these causes than any events in history, all based on the idea that people are weary of being asked to do the least they can possibly do.
She looked at me with the weary eyes of someone who had experienced enough dogmatism to last a lifetime, and said, "I'm tired of hating people."
And the community that once welcomed them there had become weary of them.
They were weak and weary.
So, to accomplish this seemingly impossible task of finding infinite beds for infinite buses of infinite weary travelers, the night manager assigns every current guest to the first prime number, 2, raised to the power of their current room number.
And when Noah had done built his Ark ... Move on ... In fact ... Concern ... So they get tired, has come dark and rain; they get weary and tired.
It was come dark and rain, will make you weary and tired.
Enthralling stories about animals are in my dreams and I will sing them all if I / am not exhausted or weary.
During a long day spent roaming the forest in search of edible grains and herbs, the weary divine farmer Shennong accidentally poisoned himself 72 times.
While Cervantes was a fan, he was weary of these repetitive tomes, which focused more on listing heroic feats than character development.
Weary totin' such a load, goin' down that lonesome road.
Their adventure had taken many dark turns, and the weary sailors were desperate to rest in a safe harbor.
At the beginning of the movie, he tends to neglect and overprotect her and this makes her weary.
Unfortunately the film then proceeds to plod its weary way through a standard Chan formula that is only barely enlivened by the always wonderful Mantan Moreland.
All the enviably relaxed, pretty, unnecessary characters take turns masticating the scenery with an air of weary sophistication.
Tom Selleck plays an absentee son to senile "pop" Don Ameche and weary mom Anne Jackson, making up for his indiscretions (one presumes) and taking them in after Ameche has burned down his mobile home; meanwhile, Selleck's job is vanquished by the F.B.I., his assets are frozen, his wife and kids leave him and his obnoxious sister and her brats have come to stay.
One reviewer says of those who might not like this film that "it will only be appreciated by film goers who weary of film as diversion".
Although I weary, because I have a fear of injection needles, I sort of came to expect when they were coming.
Had it not been for the film's unorthodox ad campaign (and the fact that by the time it came out the Monkees so oversaturated the media that the public had become weary of them and every critic was ready to pounce on them) this could have had a much greater impact.
DW3 has been unfairly criticized as "trash" and "a weary entry in a worn out series."
I rented this because I'm a bit weary of '80s NBC programming and apparently I saved myself a lot of money.
Now, mind you - I am weary of "computer-game-generated" movies.
It almost worked the first time because McQueen was such a vital presence on the screen--even stone silent and weary, you could sense his clock ticking, his cagey magnetism.
Burton is hammy but weary...not even telekinesis could save him at this point.
This lent a new vigour and complexity to a weary medium, and, in the best of them (eg BONNIE AND CLYDE, early Scorcese), a new subversion of received practice.
I grow weary of these biased, one sided and completely inaccurate portrayals of the Spy game that went on during the cold war.
Kindly old couple care for weary hero and get murdered for their troubles.
In the opening scene of "Malta Story" Mr A.Guinness bore such a startling resemblance to Noel Coward that I fully expected his first words to be "Certain women need striking regularly - like gongs" or some such world - weary bon mot.Unfortunately his dialogue is hardly deathless prose and even the Master would have had trouble bringing it to life.Indeed Mr Guinness wanders through the picture as if looking for a focal point and failing to find one.And therein lies the fatal weakness of the whole movie.Mr J.Hawkins likewise gives up early on and ends up giving a "Jack Hawkins" performance without an ounce of individuality.It could have been spliced from any of a dozen British war movies.Many of the early fifties usual suspects turn up and do their schtick to very little purpose.
Peter Lorre was clearly weary of trying to pump some sort of human interest and entertainment value into the wispy character of Moto, and the dreadful idea of pairing him with a "funny" British sidekick utterly defeats all his efforts here.
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