But the result is a movie that's vastly more satisfying to think about — to consider in retrospect, slowing its moments down in memory (and I suspect that watching the movie analytically, with the slow-motion and freeze-frame of a DVD player, will prove very rewarding) — than it is to experience in its impressively, calculatedly unreal time.
His doggerel — which influenced the Lennons' own writing for a time — is calculatedly outrageous and defiant, as in this verse from one of the songs on "The Pope Smokes Dope," the album he recorded under the Lennons' supervision: I'm proud to be a New York City hippie!
Times guidelines: calculatedly inoffensive.
At the same time, Mr. Haarsma very calculatedly gave gamers who might not otherwise pick up a book a clear incentive to read: one way that players advance is by answering questions with information from the novel.
Though at times a little too calculatedly heart-tugging — I would have welcomed a clearer view of city agencies and rather less of the boys performing the titular play and song — "In My Mother's Arms" takes a distressing snapshot of an ongoing struggle.
The ties that bound us to break-time role-play revelry were calculatedly severed.
When I saw this building, this blue beacon, in the background of the updates and feeds of the last days of the year, it seemed a little like a time-traveller from another troubled time, arriving in our moment neither lugubriously sentimental nor calculatedly bombastic nor merely stoic but, in its lucidity and gravity, with a lesson about how to bear the unbearable.
Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times Magazine that the singer's "mayhem is so calculatedly over the top that it seems no more or less offensive than typical multiplex Grand Guignol".
People have been heartlessly and carelessly or calculatedly murdering or injuring children through gun violence for a long time now.
The calculatedly cute critters are pumping new life and revived profits into Apple, so I a long time devotee of the Macintosh operating system ought to be grateful that anything can help keep the company out of bankruptcy.
Calculatedly self-promoting in his self-effacing trickery, von Trier again makes a work of an audacity — this time, not as tragedy but as farce — that belongs more to advertising than to cinema.
