When he wants to be simpatico, he tries too hard.
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To him, it proves she's a phony who tries too hard.
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Here's another example where it looks like the OnePlus tries too hard ...
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All that is fine, no judgments — In the Dark just tries too hard.
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Also, when someone makes it obvious he likes you and tries too hard.
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Viola initially tries too hard to be what she thinks a man should be.
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Man of the Woods tries too hard to be different, without making a lasting impression.
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The "effortless" trope has long been the way to distinguish cool style from style that tries too hard.
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If one tries too hard the urge to take a shower and scrub off the oleaginous ooze becomes overwhelming.
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Everyone tries too hard, and no one tries harder than two girls (Miranda McKeon and Oona Laurence) who befriend Clark.
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This leads to the score's most traditional and least convincing song, an 11 o'clock revelation number that tries too hard.
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The love story has hypnotic power, but the novel tries too hard to find in it a universal lesson in tolerance.
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"He is not naturally funny and it doesn't come easily to him and I think he tries too hard," said a second Liberal.
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Right from Pankaj Tripathi, who plays Guddu's meddling relative, to Rashmi's rabid politician of a father, the film tries too hard to be funny.
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When a player who is winded tries too hard to shorten the next point, he or she usually finds trouble, Gilbert, the ESPN analyst, said.
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The young adult genre contains a multitude of writerly sins, from one-dimensional characters to OMG prose that tries too hard for contemporary cultural relevance.
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Here's another example, where the OnePlus tries too hard to make this an appealing photo by creating too much contrast in the details on the rocks.
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In general, the show comes off as voyeuristic and tries too hard to turn real, serious habits into entertainment for a hungry audience looking for aesthetics.
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Which is to say: Glass feels like fan service that tries too hard to replicate earlier success, and manages to diminish both Unbreakable and Split in retrospect.
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He tries too hard, fails too often, and has been coasting on the goodwill of one great film while cranking out dud after dud for way too long.
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Like Paris, Clinton tries too hard to achieve her goals; she wants it so much you can taste it, and many people find that scary and off-putting.
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Krrish Chhabria as Chotu has the glint of mischief in his eyes, but both he and Gada are let down by a middling film that tries too hard.
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Sometimes Ken tries too hard to emulate Logan, as in the opening scene this week, when he angrily knocks the snacks off a lackey's tray-table on the corporate jet.
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It's heartbreaking at times: when Thelma tries too hard to fit in at a college party, the sequence is just as gut-wrenching as some of the movie's more horrific reveals.
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But the new series tries too hard to recreate the magic of the original while still being a fresh concept, and ultimately ends becoming a bland imitation of the Disney classic.
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It's the difference between a movie that doesn't try to be edgy and one that tries too hard—and the difference between a movie that knows its limitations and one that doesn't.
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Created by David Callaham ("The Expendables"), "Jean-Claude Van Johnson" (a title, incidentally, destined to give headline writers nightmares) simply tries too hard, and winds up feeling too cute for its own good.
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"The film's subtle visual allure is all but stamped out by the impression that the director tries too hard to be an idiosyncratic auteur in the vein of Quentin Tarantino," said Stephanie Merry for The Washington Post.
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It tries too hard to be a sincere movie, versus A Christmas Prince, which knows exactly what it is: An algorithmic mash-up of Lifetime and Hallmark movies combined with every ordinary-girl-meets-prince flick ever.
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"It strikes me as tricky to intervene in pursuit of an imprecise benefit; if one tries too hard to use low rates to get reflation, you might end up, not for the first time, with excess leverage and frothy valuations," Barkin said.
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"Beethoven's Quartet" harmonizes conceptually with its surroundings — the art center boasts two custom-built performance venues, a collection of 10 Steinway pianos, and will host a season of classical music concerts every summer — but tries too hard to be the star performer, rather than understanding the role of the accompanist.
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Skype (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, web) Pros: Many simultaneous callers Cons: Tries too hard to do other things Skype has been around for a long time, and while its desktop app is pretty weak, the mobile version is solid and it supports big groups with no real time limit (four hours per call, 100 hours per month), for free.
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"I worry that Singapore's ruling party tries too hard to maintain a monopoly on credibility," said Li. Li, who discloses in an online resume that he has a PhD in Economics from Stanford University and a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford, said his grandfather's wish to tear down the house, a humbly furnished house near the Orchard shopping district, was to ensure that it did not become iconic and feed into a cult of personality.
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Everything Action states that the movie generally follows the outline of Wells' book, but found that movie is not worth watching as it tries too hard to be taken seriously.
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Music critic Charles Bottomley called the song "a polished ode to decadence, with a chorus you would be unashamed to punch the air to". Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia described it as an "ultra-saccharine" single that tries "too hard to achieve an exaggerated pop sheen".
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" However, she wrote that Shah Rukh Khan "tries too hard to impress". Rohini Iyer of Rediff.com praised Kal Ho Naa Ho "fresh" storytelling and "spicy humour", saying that Zinta "captures the spirit" of her character. She concluded her review by saying that the film "will carry you with its exuberance.
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Kim Newman reflected on Geek Maggot Bingo in Nightmare Movie: A Critical Guide to Contemporary Horror Films, comparing it to Jack Hill's Spider Baby and stating that Zedd "tries to match Hill's tone" but that he "tries too hard and comes up with a movie that makes Al Adamson look like Martin Scorsese".
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Chaar Din Ki Chandni received generally negative reviews from critics. Taran Adarsh from Bollywood Hungama gave it 3/5 and added "A loud comedy that tries too hard to be funny and romantic, ." Notable critic Rajeev Masand rated this film 0 out of 5, saying this is the worst film of 2012.
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The research that Anne did was quite extraordinary: women admitting that they would literally lock themselves in a room to stop them getting to the kid. Pretty horrific stuff." Anne Deveson said, "As a child Dianne was emotionally damaged, constantly criticized and frustrated, made to feel inadequate and insecure. She longs for society's and her mother's approval, tries too hard to be perfect.
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11 In The Guardian, Billington's praise was less guarded, although he found "the diagrammatic neatness of the plotting ultimately becomes slightly oppressive". In The Daily Express Herbert Kretzmer commented that the author "tries too hard to do too much", although he predicted a long run for the play.Kretzmer, Herbert. "What the doctor ordered", The Daily Express, 11 May 1973, p.
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" Edward Douglas of comingsoon.net said it "does not take long for the movie to reveal itself as an extremely contrived and predictable movie that tries too hard to tug on the heartstrings." Roger Ebert gave the movie three stars, calling it "a movie drenched in sentimentality, but it's supposed to be. The movie also came to a very sudden end, leaving it unfinished.
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John tells Marilyn that he wants to foster another child and they foster Jordan Walsh (Benny Turland). John initially tries too hard to befriend Jordan, but he later offers him a job at the juice bar and they bond. John and Marilyn's house is burgled by Jordan's father. He apologises and Jordan decides to give him a second chance, so they leave for the city.
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Richard, although with good intentions, tries too hard to be part of first Nigeria, and later Biafra. His fascination with the culture and his wish to be part of Biafra leads to him speaking for Biafrans by attempting to write two novels, one about the art, and the second one about the Biafran war. Richard is unable to complete either, and concludes that these are not his stories to tell.
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Given that she always tries her best to look good for her husband, she expects the same from him. After confronting him, Jay explains that he does not really care for the way she looks and finds her beautiful no matter what. To prove him wrong, Gloria goes out with him on a business lunch looking hideous. Jay realizes that looks are important and confronts Gloria, telling her that he does not want to be the old guy that tries too hard.
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The film was panned by critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 14%, based on 28 reviews with an average rating of 4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Playing It Cool pits Chris Evans and Michelle Monaghan's easy chemistry against a screenplay that tries too hard to be quirky and clever, and the results are disappointingly lukewarm." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 29 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
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Soon afterwards, an attractive young Australian girl named Raylene Miles arrives at the hotel, which creates a similar situation for Basil to that which Johnson created for Sybil. Basil handles his attractive character quite differently, however. While Sybil openly flirts with Johnson, Basil tries too hard to ensure he appears uninterested, such as looking at her and then glancing away when she looks up. This makes him nervous and he begins to act as though he does fancy her, via Freudian slips or luckless accidents.
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Valerie Marks (Desi Lydic), the school counselor. She is the Palos Hills High School's Guidance Counselor, and later turned into the bad habit foremost, yet drops it to end up noticeably a Guidance Counselor, yet was later let go by the school's essential after he read the school's daily paper and Jenna Hamilton's article of Valerie. Be that as it may, she later got rehired.She clearly has her own problems as she tries too hard to be like the teenagers she is there to help.
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" MusicOMH (3/5) "Armageddon is a sop to the disaffected fans of FFAF's pomp, and in seeking to recapture their ardour it tries too hard to pander to their needs. And from the few tracks that evidence what could have been, that's a shame." Bring The Noise (8/10) "...although there are heavy elements on this, the Welsh favourites' fifth album, the real theme running throughout the record is that of a pop-punk masterpiece." SputnikMusic (4/5) "Simply put, this is Funeral For A Friend's best album.
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The review in The New York Times by literary critic Michiko Kakutani called it "an elegant, unnerving novel" but that Bock "tries too hard to underscore those links by using leitmotifs to connect his characters' experiences". In London, the review in The Sunday Telegraph was more critical, finding it "is badly let down by its form, a split-time-scale narrative...[and] is significantly short of narrative dynamism", while novelist Amanda Craig concludes that it "reads as the work of a young writer who is straining with too much effort".
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She professes that she is a "normal person" striving to be completely ordinary in work and life in general. She has a hard time understanding the other employees, seeing how awkward all of them are, and tries not to be too familiar with them. The irony is that because she tries too hard to be "normal", she ends up being pretty weird herself. Maya briefly appeared in volume one of the manga and did not resurface until volume five due to readers requesting more information on her from the author.
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Margot Kaminski of the San Francisco Chronicle found Little Bee's characterisation problematic, writing: "Sometimes she's not convincing, and sometimes she tries too hard to convince. It's too often apparent that Little Bee is not real. This doesn't do justice to her story, and puts the burden back on the author to show that he's representing her, rather than exploiting her." Ed Lake of The Daily Telegraph felt that "Bee's arch reasonableness and implausibly picturesque speech mean she often comes off as a too-cute cipher", and ultimately found Sarah the more convincing character.
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Simon Birch holds a 44% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site's consensus calling the film "Overly mushy; tries too hard to pull at the heart-strings." On Metacritic, the film has a 39/100 rating, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews." Movie critic Gene Siskel rated it the 7th best movie of 1998. The film opened at #5 at the North American box office making $3,321,370 in its opening weekend, in fifth place. The film would go on to gross $18,253,415 domestically, against a $20 million budget, resulting as a box office bomb.
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For everyone else though, EDF 2025 is the gaming equivalent of Sharktopus: a bargain basement, low-budget cheesefest of the highest order, mildly amusing for a short time, filled with awful lines, and completely forgettable." The Escapist gave the Xbox 360 version two stars out of five, saying that it "tries too hard at not trying hard enough, like one of those awful SyFy mutant movies. It knows it's terrible, and thinks it can get away with it by doubling down on its own awfulness. Clearly, this has worked for some, as the series has a fanbase.
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All I Feel was panned by most music critics. Steve Jones of USA Today rated this album one-and-a-half stars out of a possible five, stating that the album "doesn’t leave much of an impression, even though Ray J tries hard to leave one". On okayplayer, Jason Reynolds considered Ray J's sexual and drug content to be vulgar and "forced". Clover Hope of Billboard magazine gave this album a moderate review for the perception that Ray J "tries too hard" to "prove himself" to be grown up, "like a wannabe rapper in singer's clothing".
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It is a pleasant listen." Joy Dunbar, writing for BBC Music, noted that while "the albums main weakness is that it tries to offer too much diversity and Kelly tries too hard to stand outside her former incarnation," it was a must-have for fans of R&B; music, adding: "Simply Deep endeavours to demonstrate another side of Kelly Rowland, as a songwriter and an independent solo artist [...] The in frequent high points make this a must for your collection." In her review for Simply Deep, Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian wrote, "Rowland is no longer a mere backing vocalist for Beyoncé Knowles.
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Fragile received a mostly positive reception upon its release. Billboard magazine selected the album in its "Billboard Pick" feature, describing it as "vibrant, soothing, tumultuous, placid and instrumentally brilliant" and Anderson's vocals "deliciously ingratiating". In his review for Rolling Stone, Richard Cromelin pointed out the album's "gorgeous melodies, intelligent, carefully crafted, constantly surprising arrangements, concise and energetic performances" and "cryptic but evocative lyrics", but pointed out that Yes "tend to succumb to the show-off syndrome. Their music (notably "Cans and Brahms" and "We Have Heaven") often seems designed only to impress and tries too hard to call attention to itself".
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The King is amused by Kom's attitude and impressed by the various cries his people use to communicate, although Gina doesn't like it when he tries too hard for popularity, and briefly forgets her. However, there is also evil afoot. The chancellor Sebastian, the governess and their dim-witted side-kick, Gerard the Gormless, are up to evil plans: they intend to find a way to kill the King and they are slowly poisoning his daughter, Princess Ida. During a cold spell, the lake which the Lankoos believed to be cursed, freezes over, and the King leads his army to cross it to reach the "promised land" on the other side of the lake.
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It is a must watch for all you youngsters and parents trying to understand their kids." India Today reviewed "Dev DD has a good set of actors—Aasheema Vardhan, Akhil Kapur, Sanjay Suri, Suneel Sinha; it is different from Ekta Kapoor's other shows, and it 'looks' pretty good. But It tries too hard to present a heroine that doesn't care about what people think of her, so she dresses as it pleases her, abuses soundly, and unabashedly, and at one point during an episode, she especially makes it known to a shopkeeper who is trying to hand her cover for a packet of sanitary pads that she doesn't need to hide something from the world which anyway the world knows about in the first place.
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In September 2010, Fiona Glaser, a developer of the x264 encoder, wrote a very early critique of WebP. Comparing different encodings (JPEG, x264, and WebP) of a reference image, she stated that the quality of the WebP-encoded result was the worst of the three, mostly because of blurriness on the image. Her main remark was that "libvpx, a much more powerful encoder than ffmpeg's jpeg encoder, loses because it tries too hard to optimize for PSNR" (peak signal- to-noise ratio), arguing instead that "good psycho-visual optimizations are more important than anything else for compression." In October 2013, Josh Aas from Mozilla Research published a comprehensive study of current lossy encoding techniques and was not able to conclude WebP outperformed JPEG by any significant margin.
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Moral Instruction received positive reviews from music critics. Ehis Ohunyon of Pulse Nigeria called it a "compact album that holds important conversations" and said while the remaining tracks on it are good, they failed to keep the spark and edge of the project's opening three tracks Music journalist Oris Aigbokhaevbolo said Moral Instruction lacks introspection, but "does a much better job of political commentary than This Is Nigeria". Aigbokhaevbolo also opined that the album might be Falz's "best chance to outlive his corporeal self". In a review for Nigerian Entertainment Today, Umar Sa'ad Hassan praised Falz's narrative skills and cognizant efforts to deliver positive messages, but ended the review saying he tries too hard to exert himself on some Fela sounds.
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Unfortunately, she is rejected again and again by the King, who constantly reminds Seraphina that no matter how hard she works, even after she becomes a 1st class faerie, she will never compare to Oran because Seraphina simply tries too hard to be something Oran comes by naturally. When Pain and Fanta arrive in Avalon, Seraphina appears again to eliminate Pain only to find that he is powerful enough to detect her spells with ease. Oreadia eventually masterminds Seraphina's downfall by using Fanta, Pain, and Syndra; Seraphina is punished for her attempt to get rid of Oreadia and reborn as a human on earth who would remember her heavenly origins only when she turned fifteen. ; Syndra (수마, Soma) :One of Oran's companions, who was involved with the prank that left Oran stranded on Earth.
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What will it take to get Josh Holloway on as Peter Pumpkineater, or something?""'Once Upon a Time' recap: Locker, Stalk, and Two Smoking Hotties" from Entertainment Weekly (November 4, 2012) The Huffington Post's Laura Prudom gave it a good review: "After the last episode's hit-and-miss introduction to Frankenstein, this week's 'Once Upon a Time' felt like a breath of fresh, top-of-the- beanstalk air." Prudom also thought that this was the strongest episode of the second season so far.'Once Upon A Time' Recap: A Trip To Emma's Past Gives Us Answers In 'Tallahassee' by Laura Prudom from The Huffington Post (November 4, 2012) The A.V. Club gave this episode a D: "'Tallahassee' is the first big misstep of this show’s second season, with a flashback that tries too hard to be 'Lost' and fantasy sequences that are crippled by this show’s limited special effects.
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Critic Fred Hawson whose review on All of You got republished by ABS-CBN News described the film as "generic" and "had nothing new to offer" remarking other recent films at that time romantic drama genre had a gimmick to make themselves stand out such as Kita Kita, 100 Tula Para Kay Stella, 12, Changing Partners. Hawson expressed his puzzlement of the fact that the film was given the Best Screenplay Award at the MMFF Awards though he commended the performances of Jennylyn Mercado and Derek Ramsay. Oggs Cruz of Rappler labeled the film as a "missed opportunity" and criticized the direction of the plot which he says "tries too hard to navigate a relationship towards a happy ending that just doesn’t feel justified" though he commended the performance of Mercado and Ramsay as well as the technical aspects of the film especially the lighting.
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" Awarding the album four and a half stars at 365 Days of Inspiring Media, states, "Each of the 14 tracks are unique, and each of them are a reminder of the hope we have in Christ Jesus our Lord!" Rating the album a four and a half stars from The Christian Beat, Chris Major says, "Without a doubt, Stars Go Dim has proven their creativity and sincerity with their debut collection." Allocating the album three stars at CM Addict, Michael Tackett says, "The rest of the record is very similar lyrically and musically that each song starts to blend in a little too much." Signaling in a two and a half star review from Jesus Freak Hideout, Christopher Smith cautions, "At its worst, this self- titled album is background filler and at its best, it is catchy formulaic pop...but overall this album tries too hard to produce a sound pulled off much better by other artists, even their own label mates for King & Country.
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