| 单词 | leaden |
| 例句 | I try to feel my way forward, but my limbs are leaden, and in moments I slip to the floor, my body a deadweight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The doctor himself had to stand the expense of the leaden box which went into the coffin of Josh Billings. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The coastal plain rivers in leaden serpentine across the wasted farmland. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I, meanwhile, stayed home on Euclid Avenue, living upstairs from my mother as another leaden Chicago winter descended, shellacking the trees and sidewalks with ice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She got up from her bed, where she had been lying and taking turns reading two novels chapter by chapter, and with leaden feet moved to the door. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I know,” said Harry, but there was a leaden feeling in his stomach as he looked out of the window at the Hedwig-free sky. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z My limbs ached, heavy and leaden, and I had to put my watch away in fear it might slip from my numb fingers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But his feet were leaden, and Dorian could do nothing except watch her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Long after Dovid and Haskel had gone to bed that night, I lay awake, listening to the leaden tick of the brass clock. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I tried to put into words what I was feeling, but every time I tried to speak, my tongue felt leaden and dry. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His voice is leaden, he sounds worn out. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her spirit was so light, so luminous, so gay, that I feared how leaden was my solemnity and silence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I follow her to her study, my feet leaden. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He stopped seeing color and all became a swirling, howling, leaden gray desolation. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It does not recede into its background of leaden sky, nor harmonize with the gray frame houses and black telephone poles around it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond that, the dirt road unrolled through fields that were like leaden sheets under the gray sky and disappeared behind a line of bowl-shaped hills. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Surely was,” the old miner says in a leaden voice. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was leaden and set and beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Olive removed her leaden shoes and performed a gravity-defying gymnastics routine on a set of parallel bars. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I was glad to see the sun, for in superstitious fashion I looked upon rain as an omen of ill-will, and the leaden skies of London had made me silent. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z My heart was light with Hrothgar’s goodness, and leaden with grief at my own bloodthirsty ways. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z His body went limp and leaden across me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He stands in front of a tabletop divided into compartments, placing tiny rectangular prisms of leaden letterforms into a bracket in his hand. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He evidently did not know that there was a leaden coffin, or, at any rate, had not thought of it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She tried to swallow as she neared him, but found her tongue to be leaden and paper-dry. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My back was throbbing and my thoughts were leaden, as if I had a high fever or had taken a hard blow to the back of the head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were no wounds to show how he had died, nothing but a leaden bruise upon his temple. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The best thing to do was to ignore this leaden feeling about the heart and rely on their common sense, their daylight sanity. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z During the day, she was overcome by the suffocation of that leaden sun, and at night she shivered in her bed, protecting herself from chills with hot-water bottles and woolen shawls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was burdened with a leaden fear as I kept speaking engagements all over America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The man had his back to the window and was sitting stiffly on the edge of a chair with a straight back and the pathetic air of a leaden soldier. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a leaden fear settle into the pit of my stomach. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They walked along toward a round building with a great leaden dome, set in a square bounded by honey-colored stone college buildings and a church and wide-crowned trees above high garden walls. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My leaden feet turned at the end of the bridge and I felt the pebbles of the goat path beneath the drift of snow. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mid-morning, it was at least ninety-five degrees, the air leaden with humidity. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She lay on her bed in complete, leaden exhaustion. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z A large figure in my blurry vision darted past me, leaden footsteps pounding down the hall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He was not less exhausted; on the contrary, his steps were leaden, and he could barely move his freezing, tired legs. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I think of the nightmare battlefield, and my blood goes leaden at the memory. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Heavy black clouds battled lightning in the churning sky and pelted us with leaden raindrops. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Her lungs burned and her legs were leaden, but she kept running, kept her position in the middle of the pack of Champions. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z His broad face was impassive, but his voice was leaden. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally ‘bright,’ did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z My leaden thoughts were still plodding along when Lorren strode out of the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z How wearily Lyra turned the wheels; on what leaden feet her thoughts moved. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In my confused and credulous state, the sight of the man in the demon mask startled me into wakefulness, the seductive warmth I had felt a moment ago vanished, leaving my body limp and leaden. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Over the next thirty days, there was only one day when the skies were not leaden with clouds, only four when it did not rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Out there was the gray beach with the slow combers rolling dull and leaden and the distant sound of it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I hear footsteps on the stairs, slow, leaden. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun stays longer each day now, climbing mechanical as a goat off the leaden horizon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the singer’s incredibly moving exuberance that makes one realize how leaden the time must have been while she was gone. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I felt something leaden take hold in my stomach just then, my anxiety hardening into dread. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Instant realization sent a leaden weight thudding into the pit of Matthias’s stomach! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Yossarian was leaden with fatigue and longed to remove his sticky clothing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Woodenly, Fenton turned to look, but instead of rallying to his own defense he made a slow, leaden gesture of dismissal and lay his head in the crook of his arm. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes her sleep was leaden and dreamless, and she woke from it more tired than when she had closed her eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The light is bad today, the weather’s turned, the sky leaden, threatening. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But my lips are frozen, and my body is leaden as if earth’s gravity has tripled in the very spot I’m standing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He bent over and again forced back the leaden flange; and then a shock of surprise and dismay shot through me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z There was nothing I could do but go with him, adjusting my pace to his leaden shuffle. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z What little part of my mind wasn’t leaden with fatigue was preoccupied with the screaming pain across my back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The old man stood, or almost stood, leaning heavily on the broad shoulders of his children, staring into the leaden sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z It was his business to stick the leaden seals on papal bulls, and, so as to preserve the Secrecy of the Pope, they used to make sure that he could not read a won! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was fighting through the leaden clouds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The death of his old and valued friend left a feeling like a large leaden lump inside his chest. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Still, it is with a heavy heart and leaden steps that I make my way to the royal rooms. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He dragged his leaden feet, begging them to cooperate, but the row of Barbies seemed to lengthen, stretch out for miles. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z In the leaden evening he stood leaning with his elbows on the cart handle and looking across the fields at a house perhaps a mile away. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We sat in soothing silence, listening to the leaden tick of the hallway clock and the barking of a nearby dog. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He raised his leaden body and stumbled out of the room. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He walked up and eased himself down beside him and they sat watching the leaden sea lift and fall beyond the breakers. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Such a pair were once sent with bulls to excommunicate Barnabas Visconti, but Barnabas only made them eat their bulls—parchment, ribbons, leaden seals and all. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Olive squeezed her tight, slipped off her leaden shoes, and then, just as they began to rise, Bronwyn transferred Miss Peregrine front her shoulder to the top of Olive’s head. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I confessed, then,” he said eventually, and they breathed again—but his voice was leaden. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Brianna lacks charisma or skill and the writing for her character is leaden. ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Finale: I Believe You 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z A symbol of leaden failure is useful in a story about wakeful dynamism, and, according to the obscuring logic of hindsight, must be as stale as Bonnie and Clyde – or Jules et Jim – is fresh. Cleopatra and Heaven's Gate: the last of the great Hollywood stinkers? 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z They seem to form a single dense, even leaden unit. The Many Moods and Pleasures of Judd’s Objects 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z He doesn’t succumb to a leaden moralizing because he pays close attention to the medium he’s writing about, alert to what he sees and hears. In ‘The Earth Dies Streaming,’ Film Criticism That Transcends Raves and Pans 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Except for the two tightest and most contemporary scenes, both involving Ms. Bowers as the reporter, the pace is leaden. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “There are no esoteric psychiatrist dialogues, dead preachments or leaden footnotes on the living pages of this book,” Iceberg Slim wrote in the introduction to his 1969 book, “Mama Black Widow.” Movie Review: Ice-T Produces a Documentary About Iceberg Slim 2013-07-18T21:50:06Z Her portraits of reporters as lying, self-promoting mercenaries are served up with a leaden hand and quickly devolve into an exercise in vituperation. Books of The Times: Lionel Shriver?s ?New Republic? Has Echoes of Sept. 11 2012-03-26T22:37:24Z Stolid, leaden, and thick, it is a material that speaks of tonnage rather than airiness. Grand and delicate sculptures by Kristina Riska go on display in Manhattan 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Thankfully Harness didn’t feel the need to introduce two characters called Roe or Wade; instead the supporting cast over-delivered on a leaden and heavy script. Doctor Who Series 8 Episode 7 Review: Kill The Moon 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z There is no way that the show could have been made without it, because otherwise all the action would have been leaden with exposition. Narcos: history turned Netflix drama traces Pablo Escobar's rise to power 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The question is which is more dangerous, the guy in the bone helmet with the big club or the writer providing the leaden dialogue. Television Review: CW’s ‘The 100’ Puts Teenagers in a Post-Apocalyptic World 2014-03-18T19:43:14Z But Christopher Smith’s book with Arthur Giron — and Smith’s power-ballad songs — are leaden from the opening narration that declares: “I was there. It’s a story that has to be told.” Review | ‘Amazing Grace’ lumbers into the new Museum of the Bible 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z At times, he seems to be playing with genre, particularly when Lara hits the island and begins pinballing from peril to peril, but the action is leaden, dispirited and finally dispiriting. Review: ‘Tomb Raider’ and the Perils of Blockbustering 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Watching his transformation over the course of the show’s five seasons – full of cocksure, swaggering, puppyish bounce at the start, but reduced to a dead-eyed, leaden ghost by the end – was truly harrowing. Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul: ‘I miss Jesse Pinkman’ 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The biographies that Malcolm had in her sights were written in leaden, journeyman prose, and usually entailed a marathon trudge from cradle to grave, punctuated with all the familiar biological stopping-off points. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z This gave us an array of characters who are vastly more interesting than the leaden, glossy action-figure leads of the 2009 version of the resistance. Which "V" reigns supreme? 2010-05-18T19:30:00Z And leaden beignets plopped on sweet potato puree made me wish I hadn’t saved room for dessert. Nina May dishes up farm-to-table food with a lovely twist 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z It was, however, one of the very few cliches from which Andrew Davies spared us in his frenetic yet leaden adaptation of Winifred Holtby's novel set in Yorkshire in the 1930s. Rewind TV: South Riding; The Model Agency; Friday Night Dinner; Silk 2011-02-27T00:05:40Z Both actors are about 30 years too old for their roles, and the strain of pantomiming cute and kooky is evident in their leaden smiles, labored physicality and expressed lack of feeling. 'Mood Indigo,' Starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z But then there are leaden images of black birds, living and dead. Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z On this occasion, as on so many others like it, the results are pretty leaden. Perspective | ‘Pretty Woman’ is another movie-to-stage dud 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Judges for the most part continued to be impressed with his charm and occasional grace, except for Bruno, who went all Michael Bolton on him and chided his leaden chimpanzee arms. "Dancing with the Stars": Florentine Henderson, reluctant maiden? 2010-10-05T12:30:00Z I hate seeing children vandalise bicycles and play online roulette as much as anyone, but there was something in the first lady's leaden delivery that made me refuse to care. There's a right way to deal with hecklers. Then there's Michelle Obama's… 2013-06-08T23:05:27Z It's leaden, thumpingly obvious lines like this that will raise the simmering ire of fans of the Danish original, but the US version appears to be a very different beast. TV highlights 21/07/2011: Torchwood: Miracle Day 2011-07-20T22:00:03Z How could one doubt the truth of such assessments, rendered as they are without the leaden cadences of boilerplate? A Letter of Recommendation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Springsteen wouldn’t be Springsteen without homilies, a few of them leaden, about fathers and sons and love and work and community. Bruce Springsteen’s Memoir: Riding Shotgun With the Boss 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s livelier than the Broadway version, which felt leaden with nobility. Review: Rupert Everett Brings Oscar Wilde to the Stage in ‘The Judas Kiss’ 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z The episode felt at once too leaden and too goofy, unrelentingly grim and yet filled with cinematic clichés. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Into the Dark, With a Cliche or Two 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z It has the leaden sting of inevitability and cannot help dampening what is still to come. Review: In ‘Among the Ten Thousand Things,’ Julia Pierpont’s First Novel, a Family Struggles 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The next day brought leaden skies, a cold drizzle and a brisk wind from the north: unpleasant for the traveler, perhaps, but perfect for harvesting hamsi. Journeys: Chasing Anchovies on Turkey’s Black Sea Coast 2012-12-14T15:56:50Z Totally agree that this is a leaden, tiresome play. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z She looks at her pendulous body, gorgonzola dolce, grotesque with gravity, stretched by too many leaden epithets and reckons Frank got lucky. Heartbreak by Craig Raine Digested read 2010-07-12T23:05:00Z Tetzlaff mastered each with dazzling musicality, but the Boston players were leaden in the Mozart and lumbering in the Bartok. Birtwistle premiere - review 2011-03-06T17:00:13Z Fanciful and leaden, the play’s quirks of form and flights of fancy ultimately seem forced. Theater Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z At the time, many young Americans were showing the first signs of disenchantment with what they saw as the leaden conformity of the Cold War era. Chanting Crowds and Camo Chic 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Two days later, a leaden box arrived at my door, with an irritated looking postman behind it. Can I spend my way out of my anxiety? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z That would have been enough for me but Orbison's then given some painfully leaden dialogue involving Boss Hogg and a speeding ticket. Pop stars who pop up as actors 2012-07-20T12:29:10Z I'm afraid this was the high point in a farrago of leaden jokes, ill-observed "observational" riffing and a yawningly familiar cast of teen idlers, old fools and Shameless-inspired lowlife. Rewind TV: Dragons' Den; Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words; My Life as a Turkey: Natural World Special 2011-08-06T23:05:53Z She says she prefers England’s leaden skies to her native country’s warmth and sunshine because they justify her impulse to stay in, reading and writing. Paula Hawkins’s Journey to ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z As the resident movie critic of the literary and political journal n+1, Hamrah writes about his idiosyncratic favorites with a political awareness that never succumbs to leaden moralizing. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z “So, you’re just … doing nothing?” my father finally asked, his voice leaden and despondent, as though his Rottweiler had just died. From Harvard to webcam girl 2014-02-10T01:00:00Z Given another scenario, the characters might have carried the day, but the leaden conclusion of "Clara and Merritt" may leave readers wondering what the point of the story was. 'Clara and Merritt:' love and labor unrest in a long-ago Seattle 2010-07-15T20:52:00Z In the process, it indulges in preposterous twists and leaden dialogue about nature, nurture and conscience. Review: In ‘What Keeps You Alive,’ a Couple, a Cabin and a Crisis 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The leaden and plain “Home,” meanwhile, was an insult to Mr. Phillips’s intelligence, a weak number that used rusticity to stand in for depth, and that needed a marching band to prop it up. Critic’s Notebook: American Idol Winner Phillip Phillips Is Known for His Modesty 2012-05-24T06:17:26Z The result is a grim and predictable adventure saga that is not nimble but leaden. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Drab, Dreary and Dysto-pointing 2013-08-08T16:08:09Z What should be light and spongy are leaden and dry — certainly nothing for Proust to write home about. Review | Primrose pours on the charm in Brookland 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Along the way, there was the usual array of leaden gags, shameless commercialism and genuinely poignant moments that transcended all the award-show contrivance. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Emmys 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The show remains indigestible, both for its leaden literary style and for its substance as the Muslim victory in France leads to regressive, socially repressive policies. Review | Extremism rules ‘Submission,’ but soul swings ‘Three Sistahs’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z After watching the slickly produced but leaden pilot with no one really to root for, the allure of the gavel wasn’t enough to entice me into watching more. The Art of More: an auction house drama not worth investing your time 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z A series of 2 Chainz love songs are emotionally leaden, but almost clumsily credible: “I love you now/I don’t care about your ratchet past.” Critic’s Notebook: 2 Chainz Is Hip-Hop’s Rising Star 2012-08-15T22:26:48Z The drama is leaden; the dialogue is cliches; the sound quality is often terrible and the acting is frankly not going to be troubling the decision-makers at Bafta. Do Elephants Pray? – review 2013-01-31T22:45:01Z The eight episodes — which detail the unsolved story of a 3-year-old's disappearance from the holiday resort of Praia de Luz — felt bloated and leaden, and were criticized for lacking a clear point of view. HBO's "The Outsider" to "Wrinkles the Clown" – why the boogeyman is all over our TVs 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z I must declare that I have had my lot Of leaden pyes and puddings made by sister Dot. Come rhyme with me: the best of the books blog poets 2010-10-06T20:31:00Z Groff’s dialogue, tying and untying ideological knots as she sketches their positions, keeps what could be leaden exposition bubbling. ‘Woman’s Party’ Review: At War With Inequality, and Each Other 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Manfredi That pleated, fabric-like facade is always changing with the light: It’s bright pink in the morning, orange in the late afternoon, leaden on an overcast day. Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Even so, the main struggle to overcome in the leadenly paced “She Who Carries the Sky” is its listlessness. Dance Review: Limón Dance Company at the Joyce 2014-05-02T22:22:24Z As ever, there is good reason for this leaden specificity. Ian McEwan, novelist-historian 2012-11-14T21:06:00Z No leaden diagnoses of the human predicament belch on the smoky skyline. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Granted, Rand’s prose, both purple and leaden, doesn’t have the resistance-proof momentum of Wagner’s music. Review: ‘The Fountainhead,’ High-Tech, Juicy and Full of Pulp 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Both sonatas were weighty and steeped in tragedy at times, but never leaden in sprightlier moments. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z There’s a tiredness to the language: Curiosity is piqued, suspicions are sneaking, people stare dumbstruck, clouds are low and leaden. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z "The result is a book that is curiously flat and leaden, and one whose central ambition, to explain its chief subject, is frustratingly unfulfilled." Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies wins Costa prize after unanimous vote 2013-01-29T20:33:00Z Despite the bits of leaden language, Lacy does manage to come to life on the page. Review: In John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler,’ a Serious Woman and Serious Crime 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The Express called it "misconceived", while the said the plot was "cliched" and the dialogue "leaden". Spice musical leaves critics cold 2012-12-12T10:39:20Z Evidently this demon unleashes a plague of spy fiction cliches, leaden dialogue and tiresomely contrived twists, because that's what happens next. The Good Shepherd: Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon can't sex this up 2010-04-22T07:00:00Z Madonna also did the world a favour in revealing Don McLean's American Pie to be soulless, leaden tripe with no meaning at its heart. Readers' panel: What we think about Madonna 2012-02-10T15:51:39Z There’s a leaden, intentional irony to Winslow’s title; both the Mexican and American characters view the other side as barbarians. “Savages”: Oliver Stone, back on drugs at last 2012-07-05T21:15:00Z Under a leaden winter sky, the low-rise residential blocks in Berlin’s Hansa Quarter couldn’t be called pretty. 100 years of Bauhaus: Berlin and beyond 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Club Foot, Empire and Shoot the Runner are leadenly enjoyable, but they do Fire a terrible disservice by stripping it of its silky malice and adding a gratuitous stomping beat. Kasabian ? review 2011-07-31T17:10:01Z The skies become a deep, leaden gray, and the Weeksville Center lawn a brilliant ivory. Recovering Weeksville, The First Black Brooklyn 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Johnson’s tale develops with leaden deliberateness, punctuated by full-page slogans printed over wedges of cheese, e.g. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Chekhov's multifaceted characters seem over-simplified; the pace of the action slows, at times, from leisurely to leaden. Dear Uncle ? review 2011-07-23T23:05:53Z The directors ignored its royal palaces, lovely parks and elegant 17th-century terraces, instead favouring damp motorways glistening under street lights, a 21st-century cityscape brooding beneath leaden skies. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z She sang correctly, but without buoyancy, so that the chains of coloratura emerged like little leaden pellets. Review | Strong women take the lead in Washington National Opera’s ‘Alcina’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z With most Marvel movies you start checking your watch, because either the special effects have started to get tedious or the dialogue is forced, leaden, and predictable. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z He adds, "The first two 'Expendables' were hardly great movies, but they contained enough moments of campy fun to make them passable entertainment in the dregs of August. This installment's an unremittingly leaden slog." 'The Expendables 3': Action franchise is over the hill, reviews say 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z McDonagh’s work is more nuanced and his touch lighter in the scenes with David and these other men, even as the story grows heavier and then leaden. ‘The Forgiven’ Review: When the Haves Dispose of a Have-Not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Logan Roy has been dead most of the season yet maintains a constant, leaden presence pressing upon each of his children. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z But it’s not always easy to tell how much her affectless mien is an acting choice and how much it comes from being infected by the somnolent rhythms of a leaden script. Review: Sleepwalking Through the ’70s in ‘Downtown Race Riot’ 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z She writes a blog about racial issues that features her “irreverent, hectoring, funny and thought-provoking voice,” as one online admirer puts it, though readers of “Americanah” may find it more leaden. Books of The Times: ‘Americanha,’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013-05-19T20:26:59Z Put him in a serious drama and he'll be leaden and forgettable. GI Joe: Retaliation – can Dwayne Johnson rescue it from certain death? 2013-03-28T13:32:22Z Still, even that is a flattened description of a novel that is more sophisticated than the leaden morality tale it’s often made out to be. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z But the collection was so tactile, with its torso-tight velvet jackets, shiny long coats and matte flannel track pants, that the color did not fall as leaden as the fog around Milan. Special Report: Fashion: Illuminating Shades of Gray 2011-01-19T19:14:24Z He ducked back through the brush to the beach, where he stood upright in the light and gazed out across a leaden expanse that stretched to the horizon. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z The problem is that truly healthy muffins and quick breads — with or without zucchini — are often disappointing: dry, leaden and rubbery. Here’s how to make delicious muffins that are actually good for you 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Its deep view of a rived terrain in browns and shadowy blacks is relieved by an interval of sun-dappled clouds and scattered rain showers, culminating in a band of leaden sky. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The leaden screenplay would be easier to overlook if there were more spooky sequences. ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Review: The Ghost of Jump Scares Past 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z But on return visits, I noticed a leaden self-importance that began to feel stifling. Lowlife Plays It Cool on the Lower East Side 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Perfectly fine trousers turned into pirate’s pantaloons once they were tucked into leaden mid-calf boots. Perspective | Chanel, what has become of you? Paris Fashion Week ends with a bust and then a bang. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Or maybe congruity was the problem: movement slotted too directly into the leaden rhythms and riffs of songs like “Heart to My Chest” and “Shadow of My Mind.” Dance Review: Cincinnati Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2014-05-08T20:58:00Z He added: “I wouldn’t be capable of reading this book again; I’d keel over. For me, this prose of the traditional left is extremely leaden, and my physique can’t tolerate it.” Eduardo Galeano Disavows His Book ‘The Open Veins’ 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z I felt like a junkie in a gritty TV show about Times Square in the 1970s, nervous and sweaty and incoherent even as I was beset by an achy, leaden inertia. Would 19 Hours and 16 Minutes in the Air Make Me Crazy? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z On the saggy beige sofas, the sopranos glow like two exotic flowers, framed by a dirty window, behind which the sky is leaden. Prima Donnas 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z "Too many of the evening's nearly two dozen performances felt leaden, maudlin or both," added the Washington Post's Chris Richards. Grammy audience falls three million 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Too many of the evening’s nearly two dozen performances felt leaden, maudlin or both. 2015 Grammys: One dark night of the soul 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z There is one notable exception: the hemlock, which is an attractive, fine-textured native coniferous tree that grows large but without the dense, leaden qualities of, say, the Norway spruce or the southern magnolia. New hemlock hybrid could return a beloved tree to the shade garden 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z A more overrated pedlar of leaden phrases it is hard to conceive. Distant Intimacy by Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein – digested read 2013-03-18T08:00:27Z That gives me an idea for juicing up the leaden title. | 'The Burnt Part Boys': Mining Families in Disaster?s Wake at Playwrights Horizons 2010-05-26T02:29:00Z Intermittently beautiful but frustratingly leaden, “Shutterbug” labors ineffectually to promote authenticity over artifice. Movie Review | 'Shutterbug': Photographer, Camera, Subjects 2010-03-19T04:02:00Z After parking in a dry forest, a short hike led to a rustic boathouse and dock, where we got underway beneath leaden skies. Want to See the Wild Side of Cuba? Try a Kayak 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The pleasures offered by these riffs may be fleet and superficial, but they’re a welcome break from the leaden romance that surrounds them. | 'Looking at Christmas': Holiday Windows Dress Up a Romance 2010-12-07T16:48:00Z In Anton Dudley’s fanciful and leaden “City Of,” four Americans find themselves in Paris, stumbling upon vermin, absinthe, Paul Verlaine and Pierre, the mournful chunk of statuary. ‘City Of,’ by Anton Dudley, Has People and Parisian Statues 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The few attempts at breezy dialogue, and the film’s heavy-handed deployment of Miller as comic relief, fall leaden in this funereal atmosphere. ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Review: Supersized, Super Hopeless 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Albee’s estate now requires theaters to perform both plays together, under the leaden portmanteau “Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo: Homelife & The Zoo Story.” Review: Is Edward Albee ‘At Home at the Zoo’? You Bet He Is. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Much of Sally Matthews's singing as the Countess was a consonant-free zone, and the recitative never went with the snappy conversational urgency it really needs – the leaden, approximate surtitles don't help either. Le Nozze di Figaro – review 2012-06-28T11:36:27Z She can be too sweet, too theatrical, or just plain too much in the case of Private Lawns, while Angus's leaden lead guitar solos jar with the delicacy of his songs. Angus & Julia Stone 2010-04-27T21:35:00Z The other criticism of the passive voice is that it recurs in the worst kind of prose: leaden academic and bureaucratic writing in particular. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z While “M*A*S*H” was known for its snappy humor and lively dialogue, ChatGPT’s effort was hollow and its jokes leaden at best. A New ‘M*A*S*H’ Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Both of these steps ensure you don’t form too much gluten, which will lead to tough, leaden pancakes. A Foolproof Path to Dinner, by Way of Korea 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Microphone in hand, he scored a theatrical coup by turning one of Sarastro’s leaden monologues into a winking corporate address followed by a yea-nay vote around a conference table. Review: Pulling Back the Curtain on ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Terence Winter’s drama about Prohibition-era Atlantic City improved in its first season after the leaden pilot directed by Martin Scorsese. It Girls, Mad Men and Monster Slayers 2011-09-16T19:51:47Z Dhol Foundation, from England, fuses the thundering beat of Indian bhangra with more leaden English rock rhythms and, like current club music, prerecorded vocals. Globalfest Showcases the Sounds and Traditions of World Music 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z A Kosher restaurant with gefilte fish so leaden it “could pull planets out of alignment.” Bloody Awful Restaurants and the Critic Who Loves Them 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Even under that first afternoon’s leaden skies, the Cíes’ natural, untamed beauty was undeniable. Islas Cíes, Galicia: Spain’s treasured islands 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Michael’s push for Jamal to get more involved with L.G.B.T. activism got kind of a leaden response, especially after Miss Lawrence’s desktop serenade. 'Empire' Season 2 Premiere Recap: Gorilla Suits, Lesbian Financiers and Chris Rock 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z That was a glittery performance on paper but a leaden one in practice. Music Review: Verdi’s ‘Trovatore’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-10-02T22:20:47Z The dead years, in other words, a leaden age. Why The Black Panther can hold its head up high 2012-06-06T15:46:19Z Though Franco clearly has an eye for a shot, and his use of the split screen is sometimes effective in suggesting the multi-narrative structure of the novel, the script - co-written by the actor - feels leaden. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-21T19:48:29Z Anyway, it takes us away from a leaden tale of how he met the surrealists, how he was influenced by Picasso, and so forth. Joan Mir?'s art is more alive than ever 2011-08-15T12:08:33Z The first episode, “My Struggle,” isn’t good: it’s all leaden, paranoid exposition—a too-accurate evocation of the show in its ponderous, alien-conspiracy mode. A Return to the Nostalgia of “The X-Files” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Lollobrigida does her best, all heaving bosom, see-through dresses and fluttering lashes, but Brynner's relentlessly leaden performance as Solomon kills off any spark of sexual chemistry. Solomon and Sheba: Take Bible, add ninjas 2010-07-15T08:06:00Z If only the story were leaner and more nimble — but then again this is a Ridley Scott film, so you go in expecting bombast and bloat in the service of leaden themes. | 'Robin Hood': Crowe and Blanchett in Ridley Scott?s Nottingham 2010-05-13T19:58:00Z But on my first morning of a week spent working in a Champagne vineyard, the clouds hung low and leaden, an ominous dark mass biding its time. Harvesting Grapes in France, With Champagne as Reward 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Maybe she was trying to save me from the leaden fried soft-shell-crab-sweet-potato roll, an appetizer that made its way to me only after I was halfway through my main course. Here’s why the Hamilton is one of the nation’s busiest restaurants 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Its leaden chimes still ring with a rich resonance. The art of time-keeping 2011-03-23T14:48:36Z Devoid of humor, forget about wit, it sank like a stone under the leaden retro/period treatment it was given. The Artist dominates 65th Baftas 2012-02-12T23:22:16Z It backfired last season when Anne Hathaway was teamed with leaden co-host James Franco. Draft Billy? Draft Kermit? Oscars have job opening 2011-11-10T12:16:05Z In contrast, the scenes between Sonny and Phil are kind of leaden because they are meant to generate the film's tension. From commentary on money and race, the power of Ben Affleck's "Air" gotta be more than the shoes 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z That’s because it provides the episode with its most leaden moments. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 6: Promises 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z That very heavy word, with all the flaws of all ideals, a standard nowhere ever meets, a gold and leaden star. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z His motivations are as cloudy as a cheap gemstone, as he alternates between lethal skill and naïve bumbling in Matthew Ross’s leaden thriller. Review: Keanu Reeves, Selling Ice in a Dull ‘Siberia’ 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Tools of a trade, no doubt, and the exhibition’s unfortunately leaden title reinforces that narrow, introspective idea: “Compass & Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500-1750.” Exhibition Review | Yale Center for British Art: It Took Tools to Build a Revolution 2010-02-26T23:50:00Z His voice is so leaden it's hard to stay awake. TV highlights 17/05/2013 2013-05-17T06:00:06Z The group’s psych-dance mélange of droning sirens, leaden chants and thudding baseline percussion could induce a messy séance. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z By contrast, the vocal lines often seem forced, shackled by the leaden text; and the dramatic shape wavers. Thelma ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:51Z If not you may be struck by the leaden irony that, for all Kim's talk about the masses, we never hear any voice other than his own. Dictator-lit: Kim Jong-il's political philosophy 2010-12-07T10:57:00Z Minutes later, a "SAVE AMERICA" rally began under a leaden sky on the Ellipse, a stretch of park between the Washington Monument and White House. Perspective | The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z "Don't Look Up" makes a few decent points and gets a chuckle or two, but mostly, it is leaden when it could be farcical, sluggish when it could be screwball. "Don't Look Up," sheeple! Adam McKay's comedy about a comet that will destroy Earth, fails to hit 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Instead, each episode heaps on a fresh insult -- leaden dialogue, newer, dumber mysteries, implausible twists. Help! We're trapped by "Lost"! 2010-05-08T23:01:00Z Sorry to pop your Christmas bauble but “The Claus Family” is as leaden as a Liège waffle left on the counter overnight. Netflix Holiday Movies Ranked, From Tree Toppers to Lumps of Coal 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z But here in a tiki-lantern-lighted backyard garden in northwest Washington last Saturday night, the only palpable threat was the leaden humidity. The State of Conservatism 2010-06-11T21:46:00Z Lowell exhibits an ear, in this instance for talk, nowhere to be found in his often clotted, leaden verse. Why Robert Lowell, Famed as a Poet, Should Be Remembered for His Prose 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Presumably Mailer's leaden book would provide the same necessary resistance to create a muscular movie, yet that didn't pan out. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z My sole criticism was dessert: The deconstructed s’mores, whose ganache-topped cubes of smoked graham crackers were nearly as leaden as the slice of Nebraska black walnut wood they were served upon. An Omaha Restaurant Redefining the Steakhouse Experience 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The narrative is already burdened with the leaden mythology that made Heroes such an incomprehensible slog in later seasons. Heroes Reborn: superhero reboot is as convoluted as ever 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z In the way he tackles each of the six sections, and varies their musical treatment, Harvey tries hard to lighten the leaden effect of the words, but it's a thankless task. Weltethos – review 2012-06-22T16:10:32Z So leaden are his public pronouncements, joked Bremner, he sounds as if he's speaking a second language. Scots: an auld dug with plenty of bite 2010-06-04T21:00:00Z Tempering the film's oppressive emotions, the cinematographer Zoë White's exquisite compositions charge leaden rain clouds and rustling branches with eerie life, and dusty indoor corners with shadowy secrets. 'The Afterlight': loss and alienation in farm country 2011-09-01T19:17:08Z An abridged guide to recent TV drama spinoffs Without that action, it calls attention to just how formulaic some of the plotting is and just how leaden some of the dialogue. Fear the Walking Dead: the zombie spinoff that'll keep you up at night 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z In the work’s finale, a cello line of bel canto sweetness was taken up, to leaden effect, by the bassoons and clarinets. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z One hates to weigh Morselli down with the leaden garland of prescience. It’s the End of Humanity. Maybe It’s for the Best. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Just occasionally, though, you get something a bit leaden. Tangled ? review 2011-01-27T22:56:00Z Perhaps I was the only one to find that movement also a little leaden, and something missing, in the end, from the performance’s heart. Review | The NSO’s Noseda, Met Orchestra show mutual affection at Carnegie Hall 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z There are a couple of mysteries swirling through “The Snowman,” a leaden, clotted, exasperating mess. Review: ‘The Snowman’ Is a Thrill-Free Thriller Tied in Knots 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z And then there’s his leaden rendition of “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday,” the nostalgic R&B tune popularized in the early ’90s by Boyz II Men. Pursued by youngsters, Jason Mraz is mellower than ever on 'Yes!' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z According to a surfeit of poor reviews, however, the film is tripped up by leaden jokes, lazy cliches and a general lack of craft. 'Hot Pursuit': Reese Witherspoon, Sofia Vergara land in review jail 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The cultural references in this opener – the family's emo daughter Eve decides to enter Britain's Got Talent – are leaden, so if these are the big guns to draw people in, God help it. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 12-16 November 2012-11-12T08:09:51Z Disastrously opened out, it was played and directed in a leaden manner. Clive Donner obituary 2010-09-07T17:44:00Z But I fell hard for leaden skies, low slate clouds and pale fog hanging above silvery-gold horizons broken by jagged black snow-capped peaks cradling white glaciers. Checking off my seventh continent: A half-price voyage to Antarctica 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z In Gee’s hands, thin slices of eggplant layered with cheese and basil-bright tomato sauce translate to an eggplant Parmesan that’s far from the leaden norm. Review | Italian restaurants can charm and soothe, even without their dining rooms 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The leaden disappointment in his face dampened my own elation. Modern Love: A Surrender, After an Uneasy Peace 2012-04-05T21:27:32Z Shown in a snowy New York, bright shades for the 2010 winter season seem like brave streaks of sunset in a leaden sky. 2010-02-17T12:00:00Z She loved dining out with my father, Lee Gertner, and would sometimes incorporate what she tasted in her own cooking, like broiling lamb chops medium-rare instead of the leaden well-done of the 1950s. What My Mother’s Cooking Taught Me 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z A parallel dimension where he's still the critically acclaimed director of blockbuster movies that haven't been scuppered by gimmicky premises, leaden performances and his own nebulous ego. Devil's work 2010-07-22T11:59:00Z Starting with their first single I Watch You, there's enough vim on this debut to excuse a mid-album lull, where their attempts at mantric insistence grow a little leaden. Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs: Clarietta – review 2013-05-18T23:05:14Z Directed by Sue Bourne with pleasing attention to the intricacies of steps and the politeness of interpersonal rivalries, “Jig” begins light on its feet but soon becomes leaden. | 'Jig': Young Lords and Ladies of the Dance 2011-06-16T23:57:32Z Over time, my left hand lost its agility, and my bow arm became leaden. ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman Gnocchi gratin was leaden, lumpy and far too rich; baking those delicate potato dumplings like macaroni and cheese is simply a bad idea. Bellevue's Lot No. 3 specializes in booze, beer and bacon 2010-09-23T20:19:00Z That Warhol’s celebration of our society’s leaden vulgarity and materialism seems worthy again and again of museological examination isn’t, however, the problem. ‘Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again’ Review: Pop Art’s Tragic Prince 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z There’s a point in which the moody combination — the dancing and Presley’s voice — starts to feel leaden. Review: A Choreographer Looks Back on His Pandemic Year 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z The change in context — from a heightened, lunatic realm of pure thought to a workaday world of mixed-up emotions — leads to some leaden playwriting. SCR's 'Mr. Wolf' sharply provokes, then turns blunt 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Technical innovation is sometimes yoked to leaden narratives, but Wyatt and his collaborators made sure to wed their visual strategies to potent themes. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic! 2011-08-04T16:05:00Z DeSantis’s attempts at soaring rhetoric are mostly too leaden to get off the ground. Preaching Freedom, Ron DeSantis Leads By Cracking Down 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z Myth gifts him two sets of arrows, golden ones that spark desire, leaden ones that infuse disgust. Review: When Muslim Identity Gets Tangled in the Sheets 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Then there were unexpected proportions, like super-wide belts and leaden platforms. Prefall Fashion Shows: Easygoing Tailoring and Tweeds 2013-01-09T22:11:41Z Pliable and charismatic, she slithers around leaden dialogue and a wooden co-star with the confidence of a woman who knows where her real power lies. | 'Now & Later': ?Now & Later? Explores Sex and Politics 2011-02-18T01:35:18Z This one, despite a few light touches, is leaden over all. Music Review: Mozart, Strauss and Friends, an Austrian Seasonal Tradition 2012-08-01T21:53:15Z In one room, 40 vitrines display arrangements of found objects like volcanic stones, ferns and leaden objects in the shape of anatomical organs. Anselm Kiefer and His Hallmarks Have a Moment 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z But the pleasures here have less to do with celebrity than with the astonishing fluency of van Dyck’s preparatory drawings and monochrome “grisaille” paintings, from which engravers made their more leaden, heavy and ponderous reproductions. At the Frick, clothes do make the man, and the woman 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps it is the production’s perversely dreary physical world that amplifies the leaden quality. Into the often drab woods with Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘As You Like It’ His banter is stilted, the scripts are eye–rollingly leaden, his photography is terrible and it's not funny, but there's something homely and vaguely comforting about it nonetheless. TV highlights 04/03/2013 2013-03-04T07:00:00Z Giving his version of his 1996 court battle with Joyce, who was seeking 25% of The Smiths' earnings, Morrissey accused the drummer of "constant inaccuracies and assumptions vomited out with leaden fatigue" in court. Morrissey opens up in autobiography 2013-10-17T12:09:33Z But often the responses have been leaden and patronizing. A challenge for the arts: Stop sanitizing and show the great works as they were created Waiting for a dreaded event—an interview, a Supreme Court decision—it is as leaden and as detectable as a stone in the palm; when revelling in a welcome one, it takes flight. Tierra Whack Stretches the Limits of One-Minute Songs 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z As the Charlatans plod through the leaden psychedelia of their traditional set-closer, Sproston Green, it's clear that this was one period piece that was not worthy of a revisit. The Charlatans 2010-06-02T20:46:00Z It was leaden with, at times, impenetrable plotting and an increasingly inert performance from Vaughn who looked like he was slowly de-evolving on screen. True Detective season three: what HBO needs to fix to do the show justice 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The rest of the album is similarly leaden. Live-Streaming the Newly Serious Katy Perry 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z When she reached it, she’d lock eyes with someone and see the catatonia, as plain as the weight of every leaden step they’d taken since the news that upended their life. In the shadow of loss, a mother’s long search for happiness 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z But this first half of the season has felt more leaden than golden. All-Star Game puts Seattle, and its fans, in the spotlight 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Some great movies do play better in the memory, even if “Asteroid City,” light-fingered and leaden by turns, never quite ascends into their company. Review: Wes Anderson’s gorgeous ‘Asteroid City’ is more starry than stellar 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z They told me that they can’t fall asleep for hours, even though they feel foggy, leaden and tired. High School Students Need More Sleep and Later School Start Times 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z “The prose style is leaden, but so was Theodore Dreiser’s,” Carolyn See wrote in The Washington Post about the saga. John Jakes, best-selling author of historical novels, dies at 90 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Each character – a brawny but tender trio stretching from villain to antihero – is leaden with pain. Jonathan Majors flexes his acting muscle, turns heavyweight 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Only 22 when he died in 1783, Byrne spent his last days arranging for his friends to thwart the surgeon by burying him at sea in a leaden coffin. Bones of ‘Irish Giant,’ who begged not to be a specimen, removed from display 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z But late last year, the Federal Highway Administration responded to New Jersey’s efforts at humor with a leaden warning, asking that it “cease and desist.” States love jokes on road safety signs. The feds aren’t laughing. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z They had willing runners late in the game, were on their toes as Kilmarnock became leaden, and were only denied a much more convincing scoreline by Walker. Celtic 12 points clear after seeing off Kilmarnock 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Onstage, the device had a deft, gossamer-light magic; onscreen, it’s leaden and obvious, one of those strange cases where seeing isn’t quite believing. Review: Never a dull moment (but many Dahl moments) in the charming 'Matilda the Musical' 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Without him, the oddly leaden “A Beautiful Noise” would really be singing the blues. Review | On Broadway, Neil Diamond seems a drag and ‘KPOP’ needs a rethink 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Car culture, as leaden an L.A. cliché as exists, turns up often. Review: L.A. artist Alexis Smith upended taboos. A thrilling new museum exhibition shows how 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Weighing your ingredients is more accurate and less error-prone than using measuring cups, so there’s less chance your cakes will be dry or your cookies leaden. Pie, Made Easy 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Trump’s leaden political touch has cost Republicans control of the Senate, and many in the party are finally willing to state the obvious out loud. Column: He took on Trump and lost Colorado Senate race. But Republican Joe O'Dea kept his dignity 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Without ever turning leaden or oppressive, he shows us a man who isn’t the same by movie’s end, who’s experienced more loss, fury and grief than he’d ever thought possible. Review: In buddy breakup drama 'The Banshees of Inisherin,' all's Farrell in love and war 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z And given all the options out there, it turns out you don’t have to settle for spongy, leaden nuggets. Review | What’s the best frozen chicken nugget? We tried 10 brands to find out. 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z But the most familiar portions of the ceremony, including the many scripted bits of leaden banter and an opening musical number that referenced none of the nominated shows, were among its weakest. Column: Sheryl Lee Ralph and Jennifer Coolidge helped save the Emmys from boring back-to-normal 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z "Harry Styles doesn't feel up to the material here, with leaden line delivery and a lack of light and shade making his scenes opposite Pugh fall flat," wrote Steph Green. Don't Worry Darling: Critics mixed as Olivia Wilde film with Harry Styles premieres 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z "The cliche-laden script, the dire acting, the leaden pace, the sheer inconsistency and confusion as it lurches between styles - where do we start?" The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power dazzling but slow, say critics 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z He has avoided the often leaden diplomatic boilerplate to capture the attention of his superiors back in Kyiv, the capital, and a larger global audience. At the United Nations, what about the war in Ukraine? 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z AT 9:05 A.M. on the 10th of November, a hush fell over the leaden turbulence of the Bosporus. Returning to Istanbul, a Place of Competing Identities 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z But many of us may wish for our 70-degree days without the leaden skies above. A humid Saturday seemed to suggest the stickiness of summer 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z As a pair, “Macon” and “Georgia” don’t feel leaden and ponderous like a “mature” album might. Perspective | As Jason Aldean plays to the right, his sound takes a quiet left turn 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The broth was delicious, she recalls, but she forgot to chill the mix, and the result was, you guessed it, “leaden balls.” For light, fluffy matzoh balls, soak up these tips from Team Floaters 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z But to understand the full importance of her ascent you need to dwell on the word that sits like a leaden anchor at the center of that sentence: segregation. Opinion | Judge Jackson’s long journey to the court — and ours 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z She rolled her eyes in response to Rock’s leaden comment. Perspective | Will Smith, spit-polished thuggery and disrespect 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z A man with painfully swollen legs from congestive heart failure lies on a gurney outside the emergency room, looking up at a leaden sky that is threatening rain. In South L.A., busy hospital deals with more widespread but less severe COVID infections 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z He's managed to transmute his leaden style — not to mention his countless private failings and professional bankruptcies — into political gold. A Nationalist International? Thanks to German taxpayers, the far right gets a global think tank 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z “He was lying on his back, his eyes closed and with a leaden gray look on his face.” He was close by for three presidential assassinations. Including his dad’s. 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z She had already spent years seeing patients with symptoms and disabilities, from convulsions to leaden limbs, for which no clear biological cause could be found. The "mystery" illnesses informed by culture 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Q: My wife and I have homes on Bainbridge Island and in Southern California, the latter being the one we flee to when Pacific Northwest skies turn leaden. How to deal with drying printer ink 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z On a pitch that gradually lost its green tinge under a sky that became increasingly leaden, England's deficiencies were laid bare in a familiar clatter of wickets. Dismal England collapse in first Test 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z She couldn’t bring the full force of her serve to bear, and she moved as if on leaden legs. Australia’s Ashleigh Barty tops Karolina Pliskova to earn Wimbledon title she has long coveted 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z I wish I could leave it at that, but at the risk of too precisely replicating the leaden rhythms of the movie’s ceaseless voiceover, I must continue. Review: There are infinitely better things to watch than 'Infinite' 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z But the Telegraph found the show itself "really quite bad", calling its script "leaden" and direction "lumpen". Anne Boleyn: Critics praise Jodie Turner-Smith but find fault elsewhere 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z The midfield remains hollow, leaden, lacking in craft. Phil Neville's Miami move would mark another door being held open for him | Jonathan Liew 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The majority of people of color on the panel exhaled leaden sighs. Reparations can take many forms. Let’s start by being honest about what we’ve wrought 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z He laments labor exploitation and the ongoing production of poverty, and he does so at first in ways that in another kind of book would lead to leaden axioms or airy theories. Review | Delusions, justice, accountability and freedom in America 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z A size “advantage,” especially at heavyweight – where anything goes above 200 pounds – sometimes just translates to leaden feet and love handles. Oleksandr Usyk shows speed matters as much as size in boxing | Jason Langendorf 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Set to nothing more than piano and a scattered application of backing vocals, it has an insistent hook and a swing that distinguishes it from 25’s more leaden moments. Adele – every song ranked! 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z So heavy and gummy, where the dough should be puffy and light … tragic little leaden things. Dinner at a Movie: How did our critics feel about Din Tai Fung’s ‘Full Moon Feast’ paired with Netflix’s ‘Over the Moon’? 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z Some combination of their leaden bats and his humming slider made for a montage of whiffs. The exquisite catharsis of watching Clayton Kershaw fail to implode 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z As forests burned in the distance, the leaden sky smelled like a campfire. Clouds of Smoke are Blowing Misery Across the West 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Not even a resurrected Shakespeare could supply Biden with the right words to overcome the leaden ambiance of his basement studio. Convention speeches are an art. How Biden and Trump can get it right, virtually 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z And yet in doing so they looked leaden and reactive, disjointed and disenchanted, producing a performance that will embolden rather than overawe their remaining rivals in the competition. Lionel Messi scales heights to sink Napoli and book Barcelona's passage 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z That made the opener, played in stifling humidity and under leaden skies, all the more remarkable. MLS is back tournament kicks off with silent ceremony and quiet game 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z I find the literary in-jokes leaden and self-congratulatory, the “live in your own time” messaging thin and facile. We're choosing the ultimate summer movie. This week, it's 'The Empire Strikes Back' vs. everything else 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Sometimes, it is just leaden silence, which we break by opening the windows and shouting at the top of our lungs. Perspective | One sure cure for the quarantine blues: A family pillow fight 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z A day after Mueller’s leaden testimony to Congress, the president felt able to act with such impunity that he made his bullying phone call to the leader of Ukraine. Trump's acquittal in impeachment 'trial' is a glimpse of America's imploding empire 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Politics is now leaden with bombast, words strung together to shock, numb the mind, and images overwrought with self-serving sense of riotousness and anger. Impeachment and the politics of organized forgetting: This attack on Trump isn't nearly enough 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z It was hard to see the night sky from the middle of the leaden, sullen city. “Found Wanting” 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z We meet at a favourite restaurant of his beside the Pacific shore, for coffee and pan dulce, the ocean beyond the window under a leaden sky. The man who took bullets waging war on Mexico's cartels is now taking on politics 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z In the leaden phrase suggested by the committee chair, Adam Schiff, it was a “continuum of insidiousness”. Sondland points the finger at Trump – and damns others for good measure 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Eventually the intruders were repelled – but not before leaving their leaden response to the government notice cautioning trespassers against straying on to supposedly protected land. 'War for survival': Brazil’s Amazon tribes despair as land raids surge under Bolsonaro 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Somebody to Love is also taken at breakneck speed – this turns out to be an energy tablet before a leaden day. 'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z He nodded toward his window, beyond which the leaden East River flowed. My Encounter with the Late Mitchell Feigenbaum, Chaos Pioneer and Critic 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z This two-bedroom bungalow offered a fireplace, leaden bookshelves and a full basement that contained a small finished room. Renting is out of reach 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The walls of the hallway were painted with Inchyra Blue, a moody shade that recalls a turbulent northern sea under a leaden sky. The Luxury Paint Company Creating a New Kind of Decorating Anxiety 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Phoebe’s leaden frown practically pulled her head toward the table where she buried her face in her crossed arms. An AI video game moderator goes rogue in "Machine of Loving Grace" 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z They Live The Life lasts a leaden, eight minutes, ending in a percussive wig out with the band sarcastically chanting: “You’re so free!” 'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Warren’s sometimes leaden political touch seemed to surface when she threw her hat into the presidential ring. Elizabeth Warren is conservatives’ most-disliked liberal 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z It is a winter night in Delhi, and the air is leaden with pollution. The men who stay awake so you can sleep 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Quale and his crew clearly want this to be a good old-fashioned two-fisted caper, but the pacing is leaden and the plot lacks imagination. Review: 'American Renegades' looks fancy but is just a by-the-numbers military exercise 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z But at home, leaden legs turned his gait into a shuffle. A Rare Disease Won’t Keep This Mountain Man Off the Trails 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z His leaden recording of the First Piano Concerto with Artur Rubinstein and a messy Israel Philharmonic in 1976, when the legendary pianist was 89 and failing, is beyond painful to listen to. Review: The indomitable Zubin Mehta, back with the L.A. Phil with something to prove “Aquaman” weighs in somewhere between the lugubrious “Justice League” and the less leaden “Wonder Woman” on the uneven scales of recent DC films. Film Review: Jason Momoa swims but ‘Aquaman’ sinks 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z “I felt something leaden take hold in my stomach just then, my anxiety hardening into dread,” she recalls. Tuesday US briefing: Michelle Obama memoir reveals her dread of Trump 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z I, meanwhile, stayed home on Euclid Avenue, living upstairs from my mother, Marian, as another leaden Chicago winter descended, shellacking the trees and sidewalks with ice. ‘I wanted everything’ – read an exclusive extract from Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Director Naoko Yamada repeats shots of the characters walking, often showing them only from the knees down, which lends little visual interest to the story and fails to energize the leaden pacing. Reviews: Animated drama 'Liz and the Blue Bird,' plus 'Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland' and more documentaries - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z “The Crimes of Grindelwald” is somehow both hectic and leaden, a thing of exhausting, pummeling mediocrity. Review: ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ is one great big Dumble-snore - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Anyway, a reader said I misrepresented Lutheran weddings when I labeled them “leaden.” Musings on fall mornings, leaf blowers and my big fat geek wedding - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Most of the houses are unpainted, looking leaden in the constant autumn drizzle. Military intelligence offers career path in today’s Russia 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z “We tried using American flour,” Diaz explained, “but the tortillas just weren’t the same. They were harder, heavier and more leaden.” A Homemade Flour Tortilla to Rival Its Corn Counterpart 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z At the curtain calls for the first of three performances, Domingo was unbelievably booed for what was said to be leaden leadership. Review: Plácido Domingo is ageless as ever in 'Don Carlo,' opening the L.A. Opera season - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z “Lost Fare” wants to inspire, but its attempts gets mired in a leaden script. Review: Good intentions can't stop ‘Lost Fare’ from feeling contrived 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z As we follow his slow steps, leaden with rebuke, we realize that Washington’s every gesture, from here on, will be worth watching. Spike Lee Does Battle with “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z After several weeks of almost constant sunshine, the early starters awoke to gray Scottish mist and leaden skies. Moore makes early move as rain greets early Open starters 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Those players will look back eventually on a tournament that has shifted England’s reputation for leaden football and tournament neuroticism. World Cup 2018: reaction after England's defeat to Croatia – live! 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The result, Ziska told me, is a filling but leaden dish. Koks, the World’s Most Remote Foodie Destination 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Election day began in a leaden mood beneath a leaden sky, with Santos casting his vote in the courtyard of Bogotá’s magnificent neoclassical Congress building, and addressing reporters. Colombia elections: rightwinger and former guerrilla head for presidential runoff 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z To enter the elevator, residents swing open the leaden door and as they board, perhaps they glance up at the convex mirror that reflects anyone behind them. A Tiny Elevator, a Haunting Reminder in Brooklyn 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z And they hang over Annihilation with a sense of leaden inevitability. Annihilation is the most thoughtful science fiction movie since Arrival 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The Los Angeles Times called it “parched, drab and leaden” and The New York Times sniffed: “Oscar has seen livelier days.” The bad, the good and the none _ a look at Oscar hosts 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Economically, the entrepreneurs of Nehru Place have escaped India’s legal marketplace, which had suffocated under a leaden bureaucracy. The story of Mr Sudhir: how to survive in Delhi's 'grey market' 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z But the buoyancy of gratitude couldn’t compete with the leaden frustrations of a Quick Sinker. Life’s stresses often sink me. Here’s how I decided to change that. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Under a leaden sky, raw from a storm the night before, he looked across the cityscape dimpled with apartment lights and inched to the edge. An Aspiring Performer Steps Back From the Edge 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Leicester’s attack had pace in abundance and it always felt like that might prove problematic for West Ham’s leaden, leaky defence. Cheikhou Kouyaté steadies West Ham ship after Leicester goal threatens mutiny 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Without butter, or beurre in French, the croissant would be a leaden mass of flour, and the jambon-beurre sandwich missing a certain something. In land of croissants, butter vanishing from French shelves 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Here was Phil Mickelson, one of the best ever, moving on leaden feet, moving to no purpose, really, moving to finish the day’s obligation and get to the private jet waiting to fly him home. PGA Championship 2017: Phil Mickelson's struggles reflect the weight of time - Golf Digest 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z By that measure, director David F. Sandberg is an alchemist of the first order, taking the base — even leaden — components of horror and whipping them into a shivery chiffon of dread. Review | ‘Annabelle: Creation’ is scary good 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Not that we should’ve expected laughs from a band with a song called “Isn’t Life Strange,” to name one of several leaden ditties the Moody Blues played from albums other than “Days of Future Passed.” The Moody Blues open the season — and flirt with self-parody — at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z More likely, it’s a cheeky riff on the leaden, generic titles of so many jump-scare films before it. Review: ‘It Comes at Night,’ a brisk psychological thriller 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Thousands of people gathered under leaden skies to remember those who were killed and injured in Saturday night's terror attack in London. London attack: Vigil held to remember victims - BBC News 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z The son of a 16th century master steel-maker is torn between following in his father’s footsteps or forging his own path as a warrior in the visually galvanizing but dramatically leaden “Tatara Samurai.” Japanese warrior tale 'Tatara Samurai' fails to generate heat 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Much of her dialogue is similarly obvious and leaden. Review: An uneasy mishmash, ‘Unforgettable’ is forgettable 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Under a leaden sky, she kept them warm and they fed from her as their hair grew and their eyes began to see. Cuddling bear cubs is part of commission annual bear count 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z His arms appeared leaden, as if they no longer belonged to him. The Trauma of Facing Deportation 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z He lets his smarmy charisma shine through Malick’s words, which many actors before him have taken too seriously and made leaden and lifeless. Review: Malick gets some life back in ‘Song to Song’ 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z There were signs, under the leaden skies on the National Mall, that Mr. Trump’s opponents will return the favor. In Inaugural Address, Trump Continues to Shun Establishment 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z There, Tommy-gun battles liven up what is otherwise a pretty leaden picture. 5 movies open the week of Jan. 13: Here’s how they rate 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Tommy-gun battles liven up what is otherwise a pretty leaden picture. ‘Live By Night’ review: Ben Affleck fails to pack heat in mob drama 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z You will not wake up one morning with the sullen, leaden sensation deep in your stomach that perhaps, after all, some people do not see you as a person. 2017 will be different, I promise 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z He returned to court and apologized in a statement leaden with resignation. The Fighter 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The quiet was profound and leaden as each person in the room tried within his or her own space to convey respect for the dead and the bereaved. A look inside the trial of Dylann Roof 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z The new money will be used to replace more than 29,000 leaden service lines that channel water from water mains to homes and businesses in the city. Flint water crisis: Senate passes bill funding removal of lead-tainted pipes 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Tronc wants to seem light, fast, forward-looking, and unburdened by the media industry’s past, but its back-vowel sound and its leaden “k” ending sonically convey something heavy, slow, and dull. What’s in a Brand Name? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Unlike the Dodgers, cursed with leaden feet, the Indians led the American League in stolen bases and baserunning efficiency, according to FanGraphs. The puzzle of Cubs ace Jon Lester: He's hard to hit but easy to run on 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z His monumental chronicle follows hordes of brilliant scientific chancers who welded their talents to the fledgling union, only for many to 'disappear' into the gulags, or mentally atrophy under the leaden hand of bureaucracy. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The leaden skies are perpetually gray; the cadet uniforms are gray; the buildings are gray; and the outlook, as one frigid day follows another, is often bleak. For Army football, brotherhood in victory and tragedy 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z It was an unseasonably cold day, and a square of leaden sky loomed above the lush green lawn, edged by four Gothic passageways, through which the models were to parade. Gucci’s Renaissance Man 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Both movies shared the same problems: some of the most beautiful computer-generated visuals of their time, coupled with impenetrable stories leaden with shallow plot turns, forgettable characters, and barrels of fantasy and sci-fi gibberish. The Final Fantasy XV movie is a confusing, beautiful mess 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z His legs felt leaden but his heart was light. Somebody (His Name’s Joseph Schooling) Finally Beats Michael Phelps 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The sky was leaden, almost black, and the wind was strong between the high cliffs surrounding Onagawa Bay. ‘I Have No Choice but to Keep Looking’ 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z If the US did not earn a virtual bronze, at least they were not leaden. USA end Copa América with Colombia loss but show fight and flair in defeat 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z To me, their combined surnames suggests a new verb, “to greilnick” – ie churn out leaden paragraphs overstuffed with show-offy facts, yet be unable to create a compelling narrative or convey character or atmosphere. Top 10 books about the Beatles 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Listening to her leaden attempts to tell rehearsed jokes is collective torture. Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump’s real strength and Clinton’s fatal sleepwalking 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Nightcrawler, Mystique, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Magneto all walk through the movie in various states of terror and leaden despair, carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders. The Indistinguishable X-Men: the narrowing range of superhero emotions 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z But Clinton’s use of “everyday Americans” proved to be short-lived, perhaps because of its undeniably leaden ring. Is the U.S. Ready for Post-Middle-Class Politics? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z It is criminal they can’t celebrate late December like Annapolis and Montgomery, who bring to their citizens the joy of big-time college bowl games played under leaden skies and through early-winter gales. We mourn the sad loss of the Myrtle Beach bowl. Our dreams have been crushed | Les Carpenter 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The drama of Park’s life story transcends the leaden and acronym-laden prose of her biographer. ‘Queen of Spies’: the unusual, mysterious life of British agent Daphne Park 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Outside the trailer that houses his family is a forlorn collection of teddy bears strung on a tree, now drenched and drooping beneath the leaden sky. Kurdish migrants mired in a stultifying waiting game on the muddy coast of France 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The Chus have buried a time capsule beneath the hotel, an echo of the leaden box entombed near the site on June 19, 1826, which has never been recovered. Awakening the Bowery’s Ghosts 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The football was leaden in the first half and, once again, there were times when an impatient crowd struggled to contain their frustrations. Wayne Rooney to rescue for Manchester United against Swansea 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z The familiar ads with the blank comic-book conversation bubble rising leadenly to the ceiling appeared again this fall in Minnesota, thanks to the ongoing “Make It OK” campaign to reduce the stigma of mental illness. Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z As a writer, Jolie Pitt is better at ideas than dialogue, much of which is leaden here. Want to live vicariously through Brangelina? They know and give us what we want in 'By the Sea' 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z They gathered under a leaden night sky, more than a dozen spectators huddled on a brick sidewalk strewn with fallen leaves. As Halloween lovers venture out in search of a scare, tour guides provide a history lesson 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The Pantone charts of today are all moody leaden greys, chalky whites, cerulean blues. The avocado is overcado: how #eatclean turned it into a cliche 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Apart from anything else, Jacques told me, it was finished off by the leaden weight of its associations with communism. Marxism Today: the forgotten visionaries whose ideas could save Labour | John Harris 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr Walker, in contrast, was leaden in the first debate and overeager to interject in the second. Rubios are red 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z If Spieth’s legs are feeling a little leaden, so on Friday was his heart. Jason Day and Jordan Spieth Moving in Opposite Directions 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z In Dante's Inferno those condemned as hypocrites must trail about endlessly in leaden robes, with low hoods - "cappucci bassi" - over their eyes. The Vocabularist: How did cappuccino get its name? - BBC News 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z When the characters stop shooting, knifing, strangling and breaking bones, they launch into stretches of dialogue that are positively leaden, which makes some sense, as the film has been adapted from a video game franchise. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ and more 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Old Salty’s does chip-shop favorites with care and style: Fried cod is flaky, fresh and substantial without feeling leaden; the blood pudding is fragrant with clove and nutmeg. An Insiders’ Guide to Glasgow, Scotland 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The filmmakers try to regain their footing with storytelling strategies that include a fantasy device notable only for its leaden execution, and a grotesquely overproduced climax. ‘Trainwreck’ Review: The Funny Side of the Tracks 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z On the other, some of this prose is kind-of... well... leaden... isn’t it? Go Set a Watchman launch – follow it live 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z By contrast his policy speeches this winter have been so leaden. The Chat: Jeb Bush's Announcement Speech, Instantly Analyzed 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z For the two days of unusually cool weather, the heavens above looked relentlessly leaden, grim and gray. After an especially warm May, a chilly couple of days in June 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The boat powered south under a leaden sky, towards the scene of China’s worst marine catastrophe since Mao Zedong’s Red Army swept to power in 1949. Chinese workers face grim task recovering bodies from Eastern Star 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Pat: It is one of his strengths compared to some rivals who can sound leaden, like Scott Walker and Jeb Bush. The Chat: Mike Huckabee's Presidential Announcement, Instantly Analyzed 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z On the other, some of this prose is kind-of... well... leaden... isn’t it? Go Set a Watchman launch – follow it live 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Moreover, he added, his own rhetoric seemed stale and leaden, a product of an era of dictatorships and 1960s-style revolution. Eduardo Galeano, influential Uruguayan author, dies at 74 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z "For me, this prose of the traditional left is extremely leaden, and my physique can't tolerate it." Eduardo Galeano, a leading voice of Latin America left, dies 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The two loads of Wrights arrived 45 minutes before the rodeo began, as the leaden sky poured a cold rain. The Ride of Their Lives 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The men marched under a leaden sky, with the bright blue burqas falling over their heads down to muddy sneakers and boots. Afghan men don burqas, take to the streets for women's rights 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z But against the Chiefs, Brady’s aging legs looked leaden as he attempted to gallop forth. A Gamble on the Super Bowl 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Mexico is still seething over the government’s leaden response to the kidnap in September of 43 students by municipal police in the south-western state of Guerrero and their apparent murder by drug traffickers. The Mexican morass 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z “Leave that part to me. Spirit, craft me a drawn and haggard face. Wrap me in leaden chains.” The chains of plenty : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z I am resisting, but he is heavy, so heavy, and my limbs so leaden. Getting to ‘No’ 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z On either side of the road stretches a leached landscape under a leaden sky. The twilight world of China's wild west 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z He was a lithe, elusive figure up front, and the Celtic defenders were leaden footed in comparison. Celtic 1-3 Salzburg 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Yet look more closely into Mr Juncker’s golden package and the contents seem rather leaden. Europe’s great alchemist 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z As his own renderings suggest, the outcome would be leaden and lumpy. George Lucas' museum proposal is needlessly massive 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The photographer likely submitted dynamic, emotion-packed pictures, yet Post editors chose leaden still life. A swing and a miss on the Post’s no-hitter photo Like others, she warmed to Modi’s themes of shaking up the leaden Indian bureaucracy and encouraging Americans with roots in India to give back to the country. Modi tells Madison Sq Garden India won’t look back 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Like others, she warmed to Modi's themes of shaking up the leaden Indian bureaucracy and encouraging Americans with roots in India to give back to the country. Modi Gets Raucous Welcome at Madison Square Garden 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z It’s all rich, dusky red fruits, with soft, velvety tannins, and a light-on-its-feet freshness compared to the usual leaden CA Merlots. Nick's Wine Pick - A Venerable California Merlot 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Under leaden skies, both sides packed the midfield and sought a lucky break in the rain. Holland’s stifling tactics divert support to leave Arjen Robben isolated 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z They waited at the mammoth leaden doors of the Sanctum, until they opened, revealing a spherical room lined with translucent cylinders. Cargo cult : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z After Monday night's performance, one critic dinged Ethier for putting too much emotion into the lines, which in Reeves' readings were famously leaden. Dodgers' Andre Ethier drops in on 'Point Break Live!' role; it's epic 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z An excess of cream and cheese produce a leaden orecchiette pesto. A Review of Marie’s Italian Specialties in Chatham 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Some of the speeches are leaden, numbers-heavy treatises, while others are merely a chance for certain investors complain about all that is wrong in the world. DealBook: Live Blog: Investors Gather for Sohn Conference 2014-05-05T17:27:48Z By the end of the week, his legs are leaden from the effort of tracking the leaders. MetLife Blimp Becomes an Integral Part of PGA Tour Telecasts 2014-05-03T19:34:53Z We exert ourselves and, eventually, grow weary, with leaden, sore muscles, at which point most of us slow or stop exercising. Well: The Limits of ‘No Pain, No Gain’ 2014-04-23T04:03:50Z Lowry, Rugby League was set in places where smokestacks poked into leaden skies, spreading a sooty veneer over bowed figures. Letter From Europe: A Division in Rugby, and in England 2013-12-05T10:12:21Z The skies are leaden, the City is alive with speculation that Britain is heading for a triple-dip recession and the Conservatives are braced for a trouncing in the local elections. Cameron and Osborne will milk this strong GDP data for its feelgood factor 2013-07-23T23:01:03Z He worried about giving a leaden performance after lots of rehearsing. Online learning: How to make a MOOC 2013-07-17T17:20:41.463Z If Pebble were a software startup, on the other hand, it would arguably be in in a better position to distribute new services than large companies because it wouldn’t be so leaden with bureaucracy. Pebble Learns Why Most Startups Make Software 2013-07-12T09:58:14Z That leaden fatigue in those early months, when you nurse the baby several times a night? The Female Factor: When Dad Becomes the Lead Parent 2013-07-09T15:32:18Z And at 5,300 pounds, the car is leaden. Three Thoughts on the Fisker Debacle 2013-04-23T23:15:00.207Z Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA "After the tragedy …" Chris Adams pauses, and for a moment his words hang in the air, heavy and leaden. New era dawns for Chris Adams and Surrey after Tom Maynard tragedy 2013-04-06T20:00:02Z The squinty-eyed Illinois native—and former Princeton wrestler renowned for his quick “fireman’s carry” takedowns—stood before me in a muddy corner of Camp Fallujah under wet, leaden skies in December 2004. Condolences from the Secretary 2013-03-22T19:13:00Z I don’t like romans à clef in which leaden clichés are arrayed alongside the all-too-obvious keys. Of Pigs, Bad Literature, and DSK 2013-02-27T09:45:00Z The leaden sky had sealed the heavens up. Nicole Krauss: “Zusya on the Roof.” 2013-01-28T05:00:00Z With a spring in her step, she pounces on the second serve, but is then suddenly all leaden footed again and she produces an unforced error. 30-all, 40-30, deuce. Laura Robson v Petra Kvitova – as it happened 2013-01-17T14:43:33Z Nine blocks up Van Brunt, just south of the Lobster Pound and beneath a leaden sky, a young man with a bushy mohawk and bejeweled combat boots sawed through metal posts. | Red Hook: Brooklyn Businesses See February as Time to Reopen 2013-01-17T03:55:39Z Her footwork, once leaden, is pleasingly light and her anticipation is improving steadily. Laura Robson puts on the glitz on eve of Australian Open 2013-01-13T17:45:03Z To this day I don't know why I was so stultified during this act, why I felt catatonic while they manipulated my leaden limbs for their amusement. ‘How I Survived’ 2013-01-06T05:00:00Z It's not that I can't concentrate or reason or hear; it's more like I'm not paying attention, maybe because I'm worried about the pins-and-needles in my leaden feet. Living With Cancer: Chemo-Feet 2013-01-04T18:35:59Z Despite the leaden grey skies, there is already a long line of people queuing on the drawbridge to get into tonight's performance. Street theatre revives French city 2012-12-24T01:31:45Z Under chilly, leaden skies, police and bomb-sniffing dogs conducted a precautionary search of the street lined with white balloons outside the Fairfield, Connecticut, funeral home where Noah's brief life was remembered. Funerals begin for Newtown victims as schools confront tragedy 2012-12-18T00:04:04Z What about the leadenly inserted boast about the best growth opportunities? Sainsbury's has the momentum but beware the internet 2012-11-14T18:18:18Z Through the alchemy of memory, the leaden buildings in which he'd wandered as a boy became the golden vistas of his fiction, and the traumas of his childhood were transmuted into images of fulfilment. The alchemy of memory 2012-08-31T16:03:46Z After all that, they taste like nothing more than Scotch eggs: irresistible on the first bite, leaden on the second. Hungry City: The Toucan and the Lion—Restaurant Review 2012-08-17T19:53:07Z Good morning from Trent Bridge where, despite the presence of leaden skies and much morning drizzle, the busy presence of the ground staff suggests that there will be a prompt resumption, writes Scott Oliver. County cricket blog – live! 2012-08-17T12:08:03Z Under leaden skies, with the occasional cries of beasts and birds punctuating the moist air, Dr. Samper moved easily through the throngs of visitors. New President of Wildlife Conservation Society Says Mission Is to Protect Species 2012-08-02T01:10:34Z England and Australia defied leaden skies to produce a superb contest in the first one-day international of the series at Lord's. Crowds dwindle and counties suffer as rain leaves cricket under a cloud 2012-06-30T22:00:03Z Open began under leaden skies on a cool but dry morning at the Olympic Club on Thursday. McIlroy set for late teeoff as U.S. Open begins 2012-06-14T15:41:19Z The Sunday I took the steam-tramway was a threatening one; before Bagni was reached a solid sheet of water poured from an implacable leaden sky. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Sir Ralph could pride himself that his leaden pots contained the genuine horror. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z Alchemy is a great thing;--without its aid I could never have transmuted brother Martin's leaden silence into such golden loquacity. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z The azure of the sky changed to a leaden hue; the sunlight paled and gradually faded away, although no clouds gathered to veil it. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z On two sides were windows, or perhaps we should call them casements, with the glass set in leaden frames, and opening only in part. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z The goblin shadows of eighteen or twenty of the Readers danced on the ruined works, and the sky behind their illumined faces was of a sad and leaden lavender hue. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z Too bad she has lost most of her teeth; her features are leaden, her hair is twisted under a net in lumps, her arms dangle crookedly. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Its own people may not feel it, 395 but one accustomed to the free life of Europe looks upon it as a vast Dead Sea, in whose leaden waters nothing can live. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Sometimes these stratus clouds may cover the sky at midday, but in thin platings and not leadenly. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Twilight was settling down over the city, but the sky was leaden, with not a gleam of sunset along the horizon. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z The prospect of the green river was leaden with the thought of her stupidity. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z There was a leaden weight upon his spirits he knew not why. Henry of Guise; (Vol. III of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:29.713Z And they were shot; they had been killed by leaden bullets: one in the head, another in the heart, whereas the third, poor wretch! had died in agony, with a great wound in his stomach. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z Soon after the leaden hues are thus seamless the first snowflake falls. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z The surface of the sea both to port and starboard was lashed by showers of shrapnel bullets, so that it was just as if hailstones were falling from the leaden skies. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z It had ceased raining, but the sky was still leaden. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z Hubert was wont to say that his speech was like to the drawing of a leaden sword out of a gilded sheath. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z A leaden clamp seemed bound round her aching temples. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z And when, three months later, his body was brought home, the sailors divided the leaden coffin into fragments, as relics of “Saint Nelson,” as his gunner had termed him. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z For a moment, he struggled violently to free himself; and it was then that the revolver went off, and the leaden bullet was driven deep into the flooring. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z During the week the sun had hardly appeared, and the succession of leaden skies had helped to depress his spirits. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z No. 487, "Among the Alps," by Gignoux, is a solidly, though coarsely painted work, and notwithstanding a prevalent cold, leaden tone, tolerably effective. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z A seaman stood, with his broad back turned to them, looking out over the smooth, leaden expanse of sea. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z To the right was the church, with its thickset tower, and the sun shining feebly on the wet surface of its leaden roof. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z A round of grape-shot raked the ship from fore to aft as she swung into position; and one of the little leaden pellets struck Burke immediately above the heart. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z The men had made a knapsack and a revolver case for the captain; we opened the leaden box from Professor Hochstetter, and the other from the Geological Reichsanstalt, which caused much merriment. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z He could even see the leaden bullet that was soon to go skelpin' through his brains! The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z For his face had turned a leaden white, and he was groping blindly for something to hold on to. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z The leaden little jest was uttered so miserably that Barbara only sighed in answer. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z In it was a leaden coffer, containing an imperfect plank of wood, 2 inches thick, 1½ palm long, 1 palm broad. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The steady, silent drizzle, the mist creeping about the stems of the oak trees, the leaden sky proved too much for him in the end. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z The rain had ceased, but the clouds were low and leaden, the trees dripped sadly, and the little procession across the park had a funereal look. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z But he loved also to paint the storm-tossed sea, under a leaden sky, when it seems to be almost monochrome. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z Barbara's shyness was palpitating and aflame; his was leaden and chill. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z M.P. for the borough, and a knight in 1734, who presented the leaden equestrian statue of William III., that now stands in the market square, in admiration of that “Vindicator of Liberty.” The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z The best thing to measure the lead with is a wooden or leaden wedge having but a slight degree of taper, as say 3⁄16 or 1⁄4 inch in a length of four inches. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Their almost uniform color of leaden black, and their compactness of form, make them a striking feature in the scene, though they cannot be compared in beauty with many other waterfowl. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The great hills stood forth before the sunset like the thrones of giants, their irregular, rugged outline a deep leaden colour where they were not wrapped in gathering clouds. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z Can he lift the leaden covering from the conscience? Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z For the rest, the “Dolphin” is a singularly dull and unromantic-looking house, painted a leaden hue. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z I had seen every place of interest through the dull heavy atmosphere of a week's rain, and it was in such leaden colors alone that the finer squares and palaces had become familiar to me. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z He painted them very nicely; brick red and ginger, and arsenic green and a leaden sort of blue, and brought them over to show our young people. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z She had crossed the room to examine an old mirror made of squares of glass, welded together by little leaden frames, which had once been gilded. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z A leaden cloud seemed now to rest on the water, shutting out the fair sky; and, as the sullen waves rolled on the beach, a close and stifling air oppressed Edith's spirits. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z Breathing is often labored, and the mucos� and white skin assume a dull red or leaden hue. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z The excitement was over, the flatness remained; the failure, and the grey skies and leaden water and dying bracken. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z But to pass to truth, it is a fact that in the year 1631, when the pavement of the Church of the Carmine was being lowered, a leaden coffin was found behind the high altar. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z He rose and collected several heavy leaden paperweights from the different desks in the offices and put them into his pockets. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z Proud were they by such to stand, In hammock, fort or glen; To load the sure old rifle— To run the leaden ball— To watch a battling husband's place, And fill it should he fall. Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent 2012-03-10T03:00:13.687Z Small Sticks of some flexible Wood may be as convenient for the same Use, such as the Birch-tree, the Hazel, the Ash, the Willow, a flexible Plummet, or a leaden Ring. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health 2012-03-10T03:00:11.780Z The frosty promise of the morning had vanished, and in its place leaden clouds dulled sky and lake, and hung heavy and black on the scarred forehead of Bow Fell. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z A sort of leaden, death-like hue had begun to spread over his face; he could scarce see with whom he was conversing. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Then, too, the purity of the pearl which you choose seems to render duller than their wont the leaden sentences with which you enclose it as a setting. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The morning greets us not with her late smile; Now chilling damp falls heavy on our hopes, And leaden hues tarnish each sighed-for scene. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z BY some strange alchemy that turns to gold The light that drops from gray and leaden skies, Though heavy mists the outer world enfold, 'Tis always sunshine where Napoleon lies. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z The door of the shady dairy stood open, and afforded a glimpse of the great leaden milk-pans, and the row of shining pails. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z |
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