Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the audience, and we are able to see what the film could have become in the hands of actors better suited to their roles and to one another. Unfortunately, the bulk of the movie is weighed down both by the actors' slightly unsympathetic characterizations and by its sluggish pacing...
Harvard's defensive effort was uncharacteristically sluggish, however, as evidenced by the 80 points the Crimson allowed...
...dread scenario goes something like this: the emerging Asian economies--Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines--either slow sharply or sink into recession, and the ills spread throughout the rest of Asia, including Japan, which ships nearly half its exports to those countries. Japan's already sluggish economy buckles further, and because it is America's third largest trading partner, its difficulties are felt in the U.S., and ultimately throughout the world...
...University legendary for the boistrous and vociferous opinions of its students, undergraduate participation in yesterday's citywide election seemed sluggish...
...lack of energy is palpable to the viewer. Brian Tufano's camera, which was so sharp and dynamic in Trainspotting and so creepily sedate in Shallow Grave is only able to capture flat, washed out images. Setups that ought to be bold and striking are rendered as drab and sluggish...