Word: minor
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...hospital room, and the results are not pretty. The woman’s story seems designed primarily to lead to the horrific payoff, which is discouraging considering that the moment in the hospital has almost no impact whatsoever on the relationship between the two youths.This complaint, however, is relatively minor when one considers the impact that the majority of the film attains. The cinematography perfectly showcases the cold, stark isolation of the film’s wintry setting, while the meticulous framing of Oskar and Eli, isolated side-by-side in the windows of their neighboring apartments, highlights the duality...
...mundane. Often, Q-Tip can compensate for his less-stellar beats with great rhymes, but that isn’t always the case. However, there are enough great songs on “The Renaissance” to make the occasional faltering of momentum no more than a minor drawback. Does Q-Tip’s “The Renaissance” live up to its name? “The Renaissance” is a passionate effort from a hip-hop veteran. Q-Tip still has creative beats, a one-of-a-kind delivery, and songs that...
...melted over layers of guitar, banjo, drums, and tambourine to create confectionary delights. While the lyrics were jaded, the songs were escapist. One could float away on Healy’s lilting vocals as they rose above bells and pleasantly regular guitar chords. Yes, sometimes Travis played upon the minor chords too heavily, and sometimes they let their songs verge on sweet monotony, but there was a harmony, a beauty that could not be denied. Then in “12 Memories,” Travis brought their gaze to the world and saw their music fall apart. The darkness...
...first-year instead committed to play with senior sensation Stephen Curry at Davidson, last year’s NCAA Tournnament Cinderella team. It’s not all bad for the Crimson, but the team will most definitely miss Van Nest this year. Combined with a minor injury to fellow freshman forward Peter Boehm, Amaker will need to fill some holes in this class. “We don’t have them all healthy, a couple of the freshmen kids are out—Boehm and Van Nest, those two in particular,” Amaker said...
...make the San Antonio shipshape. "Forty technicians - that's ludicrous," says Norman Polmar, an independent naval expert. "It means the problems are major, because the ship has mechanics, metal smiths and other people on board as part of the crew, and they're supposed to take care of minor problems." And you thought McHale's Navy was canceled back...