Word: plodding
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...that end, most of the performances are lackluster. Actors’ Shakespeare Project is a company dedicated to bringing the Bard’s words to life through vivid acting, but here, they fall into lame, affected performances. Their acting is more indicative than realistic as they plod through line readings and Evett’s unenergetic blocking. The resulting scenes feel dull in their predictability...
...Pretty soon, I couldn’t stand to see my college career plod on in sobriety, and I continued to experiment with ways to imbibe. In the meantime, I developed a debilitating online shopping addiction. But what deepened my drinking despair was the discovery of another problem: although my body violently resisted alcohol’s advances, my mind, speech, and motor skills were all too happy to desert me at the slightest whiff of the poison. My DAPA Nalgene tells me that 78 percent of Harvard students count how many drinks they have, but it?...
...bigger banks. Amid it all, Hoare's bank has remained unshakable. With a bottle still hanging outside its central London premises, the U.K.'s last family-owned private bank has stuck to what C. Hoare & Co.'s current CEO Alexander Hoare calls its "tortoise-like approach. We go plod, plod, plod, doing what we've done for 11 generations...
...MINOR SPOILER ALERT: Married Life's twist on the genre is that there is no twist. You keep waiting for the irony to kick in, but the characters just plod through the purgatory they've created for themselves. More a case history than a devious puzzle, the movie is like a story overheard from the next restaurant booth: for all your curiosity as to how it turns out, you're not likely to have much personal investment in the people. Actually, Married Life doesn't suck. Its actors lend conviction to their roles, and the film looks classy, like...
...suffer through not only a 10 Questions with Ted Kennedy but also a puff piece on someone even to the left of Hillary Clinton: Dennis Kucinich. Good God. Don't even get me started on Joe Klein's In the Arena column. Then I have to plod thru the liberal whinings of a "journalist" about which kind of apple makes him feel better or more "connected" to his food. Who gives a rat's ass where an apple comes from? I guess the answer is liberals--they dwell on the topic in a cover story...