I found its characters to be emotionally and morally unengaging.
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We shouldn't create online copies of unengaging on-campus courses to save money.
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A lack of soul-searching is a key reason people fall into unengaging careers.
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What seems awesome and nutritive on the page can seem hollow and unengaging when spoken.
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Their personalities are basically "we're having an affair," and their sex lives couldn't be more unengaging or unimportant.
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom strips that majesty away and turns the focus on the human characters, who are markedly unengaging.
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Bills are often made to be opaque and unengaging, perhaps with the hope that consumers will "set it and forget it".
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Often, listening to this type of music is unengaging for parents who grew up listening to much more varied, complex, and creative music.
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But the M3 is simply more visceral at lower speeds, while the Model 3, to its detriment, is kind of unengaging, physically, when it isn't accelerating.
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It doesn't help that Valerian and Laureline themselves (about which more in the next section) are such unengaging conduits through which to view this particular story.
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The unengaging Mr Rabuka, another former military man who set off Fiji's cycle of coups and counter-coups in 1987, will not hector Mr Bainimarama about that.
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With such an unengaging protagonist, on what is more or less a hill-walking holiday, "Iceman" can sometimes be as much of a slog for the viewer as it is for him.
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In our digital age, it's not just the young, digital-natives who crave convenience – we have all grown accustomed to moving away from static, unengaging experiences that cut into our leisure time.
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"What critics said: "Between is all concept — characters, production values, thematic depth, and the other things that flesh out a sci-fi idea beyond its genre trappings are flat, dull and unengaging.
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Today, a combination of stereotypes, lack of role models, unengaging curricula, and often lack of equipment or effective broadband all create an environment where girls' interest in computing rapidly declines starting in middle school.
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He does tell a scared-looking Gabriel that he will "shit his pants" at one point, but that's just more of the same tired comic bookiness that's made him so unengaging to watch thus far.
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A canny marketer with really engaging (or outraging) content can goose their effective purchasing power at the ads auction, piggybacking on Facebook's estimation of their clickbaitiness to win many more auctions (for the same or less money) than an unengaging competitor.
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Performers as skilled as Kelli O'Hara, Leslie Kritzer, Melissa Errico and Brandon Victor Dixon couldn't breathe wit or inventiveness into well-crafted but unengaging numbers dragged down by a wide narrative load — there is such a thing as trying to say too much in a song.
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In short, he is a character who, although ostensibly inspired by a comic book superhero created in 1992, also seems, in this derivative and unengaging action thriller, to have been cobbled together from spare parts belonging to Frankenstein's monster, Jason Bourne, Marvel's Wolverine, Douglas Quaid in "Total Recall" and the Terminator — both the shape-shifting, liquid-metal T-1000 and the old-school-meathead Model 101.
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They criticised the plot for being "unengaging" and opined that the music, performances and dialogue were "painful" and "patchy".
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Meanwhile, GameTrailers criticized the presentation completely, citing the plot as predictable, the characters unengaging, the lightings flat, animations stiff, lipsyncing off, forgettable music, and the voice acting as dry.
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Vorel believes star Robert Ginty has the most "purely punchable face in MST3k history" and that "the film is so dull, fuzzy and unengaging".Ranking Every MST3K Episode, From Worst to Best. Vorel, Jim. Paste Magazine.
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Stanton decided this was too bizarre and unengaging, and conceived humanity as "big babies". Stanton developed the metaphorical theme of the humans learning to stand again and "grow[ing] up",DVD. Scene 16. "Captain on Deck".
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Retrieved August 9, 2007. Colleen Delaney of Stylus Magazine was unimpressed by the lyrics' double entendres and noted that the toast and "deep, booming production save this song from being thin" but that it remained "inane and unengaging".Delaney, Colleen.
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Sacha Molitorisz of The Sydney Morning Herald said that the episode featuring Rhys and Beth's wedding was better suited to "die hard fans". They criticised the plot for being "unengaging" and opined that the music, performances and dialogue were "painful" and "patchy".
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Sacha Molitorisz of The Sydney Morning Herald said that the episode featuring Beth and Rhys' wedding was better suited to "die hard fans". They criticised the plot for being "unengaging" and opined that the music, performances and dialogue were "painful" and "patchy".
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In 2010, Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times panned the story and its "vapid characterisation, dodgy science and a dearth of anything dramatically engaging". While he liked some scenes and also found the visual effects good, he did not feel that compensated for the unengaging story and lack of comedic direction.
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Ellingwood criticised the tendency for characters from different stories to "look a tad too much like" each other. Hannah Santiago, writing for the appendix to Manga: The Complete Guide, disliked the manga, saying that "the art is awkward, the characters shallow, and the plots unengaging". She also disliked the rape themes of the end of the book.
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Students often complain that self-paced individual learning can be unengaging and offers little chances of interaction, correction and success. This can be overcome through scenarios where the information is presented as rapid learning modules encapsulated in Flash SCORM packages or distributed on Learning Management Systems, and the learning activities developed through other tools, such as blogs, wikis, forums or videoconferences.
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Warner Bros. Records released two versions: a two-disc edition entitled Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack, which featured all the tracks from the film, and Evita: Music from the Motion Picture, a single-disc edition. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the soundtrack as "unengaging", while Hartford Courants Greg Morago praised Madonna's singing abilities. The soundtrack was a commercial success, reaching the top of the charts in Austria, Belgium, Scotland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
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" Truitt also argued that the film "marks one of the deeper and most thoughtful projects in Scorsese's career". The film also garnered criticism. Writing for Variety, Peter Debruge found major flaws with the film, writing, "Though undeniably gorgeous, it is punishingly long, frequently boring, and woefully unengaging at some of its most critical moments. It is too subdued for Scorsese-philes, too violent for the most devout, and too abstruse for the great many moviegoers who such an expensive undertaking hopes to attract.
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Brodie Hanson portrayed by actress Susie Rugg appeared between 2000 and 2002. In 2004, Andrew Fraser from Inside Soap revealed that when Brodie returns she would be involved in a "sizzling love triangle" and a dramatic car crash. Sacha Molitorisz of The Sydney Morning Herald said that the episode featuring Brodie and Hayley's car crash was better suited to "die hard fans". They criticised the plot for being "unengaging" and opined that the music, performances and dialogue were "painful" and "patchy".
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As a result of the injury and also the fatigue of striving to injure the armoured heavy horse, the bull holds its head and horns slightly lower during the following stages of the fight. This ultimately enables the matador to perform the killing thrust later in the performance. The encounter with the picador often fundamentally changes the behavior of a bull; distracted and unengaging bulls will become more focused and stay on a single target instead of charging at everything that moves, conserving their diminished energy reserves.
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Little has been written on the contributions by Montgomery or Brewster. According to Mazzeo, Montgomery's biographies, which draw a picture of the subject's character and incorporate autobiographical material, are written in a "digressive though not unengaging manner". He is less concerned with factual accuracy, although he identifies his sources, and more interested in developing "extended parallels between Italian and English literature". Brewster includes descriptions of 16th-century scientific experiments in his formally written biography of Galileo, as well as information on other Renaissance natural philosophers.
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Critical reception towards the soundtrack was mixed, with AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine calling it "unengaging" while Hartford Courants Greg Morago praised Madonna's singing abilities. Evita was a commercial success, reaching the top of the charts in Austria, Belgium, Scotland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, while attaining top-ten positions in other major musical markets. In the United States, the soundtrack reached a peak of number two on the Billboard 200 chart, and was certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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By contrast, Tim Cant wrote in PC Gamer UK that Traitors Gate is a boring title, which contributes "nothing to an already-tedious genre". He condemned its puzzles, pace and control system, and summarized that playing it is "as much fun as being crapped on by crows, then beheaded." Cant's complaints were echoed in PC Zone, whose writer Mark Hill called the game dull and dismissed its puzzles as "childish". Hill and Cant both strongly critiqued Traitors Gates graphics, which they considered bland and unengaging.
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Dr. Dre's earliest recordings were released in 1994 on a compilation titled Concrete Roots. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of the website AllMusic described the compiled music, released "several years before Dre developed a distinctive style", as "surprisingly generic and unengaging" and "for dedicated fans only". His frequent absences from school jeopardized his position as a diver on his school's swim team. After high school, he attended Chester Adult School in Compton following his mother's demands for him to get a job or continue his education.
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Rhys Sutherland, portrayed by actor Michael Beckley debuted on screen during the episode airing on 19 June 2000. Beckley spent 20 years as a theatre actor before he joined the cast of Home and Away he told Joanne McCarthy of the Newcastle Herald. Sacha Molitorisz of The Sydney Morning Herald said that the episode featuring Rhys and Beth's wedding was better suited to "die hard fans". They criticised the plot for being "unengaging" and opined that the music, performances and dialogue were "painful" and "patchy".
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 19% based on 113 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Though original and full of bizarre visuals, Monkeybone is too shapeless a movie, with unengaging characters and random situations that fail to build up laughs." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 40 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale.
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Kirk Van Houten gives a speech to the kids at Springfield Elementary about his occupation of assistant flyer distributor. Due to the short and unengaging nature of his speech, Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel take Lisa's advice and visit the Springfield Writer's Forum to find a better speaker, where they meet Jeff Jenkins, creator of the popular TV cartoon Danger Dog. He comes to the school to give a presentation on Danger Dog, which includes a sneak preview for the next Easter special, and fascinates the kids by telling them about the cartoon industry.
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Aero Fighters Assault received mostly mediocre reviews. Commentary varied considerably from critic to critic, but though the more common criticisms included the music and the inane dialogue of the voice clips. A number of reviews praised the diversity of the missions, but some found that the overall formula of enemy jets, boss, enemy jets, boss to be repetitive and unengaging. Most also remarked that while the graphics are appealing in still shots, with impressive effects, the frame rate is choppy enough to hurt both the visual appeal and gameplay.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 40% based on , with a weighted average rating of 4.5/10. Caryn James at The New York Times called the film "a disjointed, jigsaw-puzzle movie that is constantly announcing its borrowed characters and subplots and special effects." TV Guide awarded the film one out of five stars, criticizing the film's plot as "overly complicated and unengaging" and its special effects as uneven. Brian J. Dillard from Allmovie stated that the film "remains watchable in spite of its weaknesses," commending the film's visual effects, music, and Gothic trappings.
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It's less frustrating than the first, with more options for customization, better abilities and more stuff to do. It's hampered though by a garbage storyline and a serious lack of Barry Pepper. It's worth a look if you liked the first game, or if you like super hero games at all." The Guardian gave the Xbox 360 version a similar score of four stars out of five and stated, "The very purity of purpose which makes the game such a fine arcade killbox also renders it unengaging on any level that isn't soggy and littered with stray organs.
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GameDaily's Big Download considered Simutrans to be one of the best freeware games, highlighting the logical system of routing passengers and freight to their destinations, decent AI opponents and the support for custom aesthetics or rules-sets. However, the sometimes unreliable vehicle pathfinding was criticized, particularly with respect to alternate routes and switches for train lines. The sound effects were deemed to be unengaging, and new players may be baffled by the range of transportation possibilities. Another review from Amiga Future came to very similar conclusions (apart from the lack of sound support on Amiga OS).
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In 2009, Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times stated that the serial was "peculiarly variable", with uneven performances and quality; he wrote that "the first episode is surprisingly leaden and unengaging, whereas episode four is one of the most stimulating and creatively innovative under Barry Letts' stewardship". He praised the design of the Mutants and some of the cliffhangers. DVD Talk's John Sinnott gave the story two and a half out of five stars, calling it "terribly average" but "a solid adventure ... worth watching". He was critical of the acting, especially Rick James, and felt that overall it was too long and "a bit convoluted".
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Kirkus Reviews considered it to be "brilliantly inventive, dense, demanding" and "intellectually stunning", but nonetheless faulted the narrative for having "frequently impenetrable metaphysical musings", and described Severian as "remote" and "unengaging".THE URTH OF THE NEW SUN, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published November 23, 1987; retrieved March 26, 2018 The SF Site praised Wolfe's imagery, but noted that Severian's departure from linear time can be difficult to follow.The Urth of the New Sun, reviewed by Stephen M. Davis, at the SF Site; published 1998; retrieved March 26, 2018 The Urth of the New Sun was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Novel, and the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1988.
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Hunt also felt that Simone Bianchi's art was looser than on his Astonishing X-Men run, and criticized his lack of backgrounds, but enjoyed his intricate visuals and his restrained rendering.Hunt, James. "Review of Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Force #1". Comic Book Resources. July 10, 2011 Jesse Schedeen of IGN, however, gave each of the three issues "Mediocre" ratings of 5.5, 5.0 and 5.5 out of 10, complaining that the story was barely related to the crossover, that the characterization was "bland" and unengaging, the humor "stilted", that it was entertaining on only a superficial level, and of Simone Bianchi's poorly defined and figure- crowded page construction, bizarre anatomy and storytelling that lacked a proper flow.
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In a review of the EP, David from auspOp said “"Sydney to Me" is a nice ode to a city they love... It’s a great sentiment for a great city.” Andrew P Street from Sydney Morning Herald was critical of the song saying "[it's] a song that sounds like it was looped on a laptop in someone's bedroom" adding "In short, "Sydney to Me" beautifully reflects up the soul of the city right now: vapid, unengaging, and forged entirely by the forces of naked commerce. It's not a song anyone could love, but it's unambiguously the song that we deserve." Zanda Wilson described the video as a "shockingly insular, cringeworthy, one-dimensional view of Sydney" adding "the overly synthetic, instrument-free song itself is hardly a redeeming factor".
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The film has an approval rating of 8% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 189 reviews; the average rating is 3.49/10. The site's consensus reads: "Jim Carrey has been sharp in a number of non-comedic roles, but this lurid, overheated, and self serious potboiler is not one of them. The Number 23 is clumsy, unengaging, and mostly confusing." Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B-" on scale of A+ to F. Of the few critics who liked the film, Richard Roeper and critic George Pennachio of KABC-TV in Los Angeles stand out, as they gave the film a "2 thumbs up" rating on the television show Ebert & Roeper (Pennachio was standing in for Roger Ebert due to Ebert's illness).Ebert & Roeper, air date February 24, 2007.
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In 2009, Mark Braxton of Radio Times noted that The Space Museum "kicks off so well", but did not take the opportunity to discuss ideas such as predestination and also boasted a predictable, "poorly acted" conflict and many implausibilities. However, he felt that the serial showcased Vicki's "vibrant" character and the Dalek joke was "one of the few elements that make this rather tedious traipse memorable". Reviewing the DVD release, SFX Nick Setchfield described The Space Museum as offering a "killingly dull environment in which to stage an unengaging take on Who's eternal 'rebels vs despots' formula", despite the "lovely fourth-dimensional weirdness" of the first episode and the "refreshing" Moroks who were reminiscent of Douglas Adams' work. Jonathan Wilkins of Dreamwatch also called the first episode "great" and the rest "dull, bog-standard Who" which were "not terrible but ... not terribly exciting either, as it plods rather than races towards a deeply unsatisfactory climax".
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