Word: shallowing
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...making this work in the theater. And it's not just the sets that disappoint. Hannigan may be one of Hollywood's most compelling young actresses - onscreen she has a delicious, quirky sense of humor and a rare ability to show depth in even the most shallow characters - but her inexperience on stage is palpable. She looks lovely, lashes fluttering appealingly over her big Disney eyes, but spends much of the evening trying to master basic technique, such as voice projection. You care about Hannigan the actress trying to win through, but Sally gets lost. Perry's Harry...
...shallow irrigation trench winds away from the women splashing in the spray of a newly dug well, cuts through a patch of tall grass and curves past the spot where John Makur Agok tends to his peace dividends: a fragile array of seedlings swaddled in black plastic, a future of lemons, oranges, mangoes, papayas and dates. "What shows that I've resettled," says the rangy 43-year-old farmer, "is that I'm planting all these trees - and there's nothing to disturb them." For two decades, the people in Agok's village of Mayenwal have lived a life...
...perhaps, from his gentle fans. "I wanted to avoid [romantic] roles in my 20s," says Law, "because I didn't see much longevity in my career were I to take that path. I've not seen many films like that when guys come across as anything but shallow. It's all [in a dopey voice] 'I'm in loooove...
...doing so, the film rejects the depth and ambiguity that would have made it a middling to satisfactory historical drama, remaining instead a risible—if ultimately forgettable—showcase of shallow revisionism and awkward racial overgeneralization...
...emotion and enlightenment that hip-hop could never approach. He’s just talking about himself the whole time, isn’t he? About how great he is, how successful his career’s been? That’s bad, right? That’s shallow...