Word: smouldering
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...certain flaws are inherent in every entry in the B-revenge genre. Tony Scott’s latest effort may have as many gaps as The CIA’s last intelligence report, but the man who brought the world Ice Man still knows how to smoulder...
...modern standard for which was set by Scott with 1990’s aptly-titled Revenge—and even this craftsman cannot avoid them. Think about it this way: Marc Anthony appears in Man looking like an extra from Wall Street, but that cannot hide his essential sensual smoulder from coming through. Tony Scott’s latest effort may have as many gaps as the CIA’s last intelligence report, but the man who brought the world Ice Man still knows how to smoulder...
...post-comic fiction so attractive. The final section, with its political uncertainty and sense of alienation, faintly resembles a low-key A Bend in the River. And even the very frank sexuality, which has been absent in some of Naipaul’s other work, manages not to smoulder in the slightest. This dampening of emotion is surely deliberate, and it makes Half a Life at once more sublime and less enjoyable than Naipaul’s previous works, fiction and nonfiction. Nevertheless, in the category of writers who have examined the colonial condition as a worldwide phenomenon, Naipaul stands...
Other flashes of sparkle were present. Backlit against Robin Wagner's magnificent Art Deco set, the choreography of the swing members made the big production number "Le Jazz Hot" smoulder. And the two-level, four-door hotel rooms of the secnd act's set did allow for a funny screwball hide-and-seek scene. But one good song does not a great musical make, nor can one humorous scene sustain an entire comedy. It all seems so meager in relation to the possibilities, which is what makes it so disappointing. The very fact that 'Victor' is supposed...
...victor, in Waiting to Exhale, where most of the guys are so lame and preening that there's little triumph in outsmarting them. The set piece in both films was blowing up an automobile: sexual revenge as car-nage. But that was not nearly so explosive as the smoulder of Sharon Stone's sexual menace in Basic Instinct. In elevating or degrading the '40s femme fatale to pansexual sociopath status, Stone showed that a gorgeous woman's predatory stare can be as piercing as an ice pick...