Hints and tips:
...Even a talented cast led by Shira Haas (who plays a futuristic cop) and Stephen Graham (who plays an elusive figure in a shadowy cult) can only do so much with an exposition-encumbered, cliché-clotted script...
...While condensing a half century into eight hours requires some exposition, it is frustrating to see capable actors reduced to regurgitating overwritten chunks of on-message dialogue or playing borderline...
...In fairness to Natixis, shonky 13Fs are hardly unheard of, so perhaps this lengthy exposition is probably overkill....
...Not in the Melbourne prison, from which a bank-robber is escaping, undetected, in the first scenes, but in the minds of us viewers as we’re subjected to an opening salvo of banalities and exposition....
...Another question is whether Bain will follow through: will it really want another detailed exposition of a sorry chapter of its corporate history, this time in open court?...
...“There I go again, just delivering exposition,” he blabs, scratching desperately at the fourth wall. Characters in GoT were very sure of themselves....
...Jack goes to their rescue with the help of his friends Xander and Amelia, whose love of spouting facts is a handy source of exposition. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong here....
...embraced the modernist aesthetic by also acquiring the rights to such epochal designs as the leather and steel Barcelona chair, co-designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the 1929 International Exposition...
...Simons isn’t big on exposition, but the show was full of ideas and strange hybrids....
...On Friday, low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines; tech “unicorn” Cloudera, a big data company backed by Intel; Carvana, a used-car platform; Emerald Expositions Events, a trade show operator; and China Rapid...
...He described the directors’ 110-page exposition of what went wrong as “simultaneously self-serving and silly”....
...Cinema and theatre are exercises in compression: internally coherent two-hour narratives that must find space for beauty and insight without skimping on the rudiments of exposition....
...His “Market-Based Management” system draws on those same insights at the level of the individual organisation, and an exposition forms the meat of the book....
...The chair, a cushion sewn from 148 pieces of leather, set upon crossed chrome-finished legs, became one of the most celebrated designs at the exposition....
...Another change is the way more office communication is taking on the characteristics of chat: short-form and informal, geared to rapid interaction rather than extended exposition....
...Financial success and dazzling new technology alone might have been enough to earn Apple’s steely chief executive the FT’s vote as the 2014 Person of the Year, but Mr Cook’s brave exposition of his values...
...Onex paid almost 10 times the $97m in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (ebitda) that Nielsen Expositions reported last year, setting a benchmark for future transactions in the...
...Initially, Fugard gives the characters all kinds of actorly business to establish the believability of their reunion, but the exposition occurs in such a hard-to-credit manner as to strain it....
...It becomes repetitive, runs out of steam and the snippets of exposition and psychological insight are too often artificially and clumsily worked in....
...saying it is not what the sector needs – Alexander Auzan, an economist at Moscow State University, says it bears all the hallmarks of an expensive prestige project: “It is just like one of those science expositions...
...The belief that American individuality and creativity somehow assure future leadership is “a clear exposition of the arrogance of empire”, warns Michael Moritz, one of the Valley’s leading start-up financiers...
...Van Cleef & Arpels’ Mr Bos says that, historically, jewellery played a big role in the world of decorative arts and very much present at the big international fairs in European capitals such as the Exposition...
...From Crystal Palace to caramel corn, international expositions are all about the newest new things in architecture, technology – and even food....
...designed hotel – arguably anywhere – than Hotel Silken Puerta América (www.hoteles-silken.com; from €138) in which 19 architects and designers – Ron Arad, David Chipperfield, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Arata...
...in Paris which produced the Eiffel Tower; and Chicago’s 1893 Colombian Exposition, which introduced the first Ferris Wheel....
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