Word: slight
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...still, there is also great sweetness and appeal in Smith's work; the supporting cast, led by Jamie Foxx's Drew (Bundini) Brown, is strong and real. The boxing sequences are superbly directed by Mann and ferociously enacted by Smith and a variety of sparring partners. And maybe the slight air of cautiousness that clings to this very conscientious film is a good thing. It does not brutally impose itself on the audience as so many big, riskily expensive films do. It permits us, in the audience, our own reflections not only about its subject but also about the times...
...mean to ridicule these notions. Even eight years along, I can still pass as healthy most of the time, or could until this week; but there has been a slight pang of disloyalty to the cause in doing so. A woman with multiple sclerosis once said to me, unknowingly, about disease activists in general: "We all pray for someone famous to get our disease." Although I am a very minor public figure compared with the Pope--let alone Michael J. Fox!--I haven't been doing...
...Ginger” secret project. As many people correctly guessed last January, Ginger is a new electric scooter officially called Segway and notable primarily for its gyroscope-powered, automatic propulsion system. Step onto a Segway, think about going forward, and the gyroscopes under your feet sense a slight forward tilt in your posture and promptly whisk you onwards...
Overall, Anderson’s third film The Royal Tenenbaums is much darker than his previous cinematic ventures, but the slight divergence is worth the effort. With its collage of complex familial and romantic relationships, demented humor and all-star talent, the film certainly lives up to its tagline: “Family isn’t a word, it’s a sentence...
Nevertheless, there are a few things that put a slight damper on the production. First of all, fans of The Who may not embrace the production’s rendition of “Pinball Wizard.” Though there is nothing particularly wrong or lacking with the staging or singing of the number, the fact that The Who are not performing it, and that the orchestration is altered for the theatrical version, make it less than fulfilling...