Mr. Sanyal's delivery of Warren's bitter plaints about having to abandon his dream of creating video games to work at his father's store are hyper-nerdy and too calculatedly zany.
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.
Their decision seems to have been calculatedly commercial yet also consistent with their narrow, manipulative, overdetermined approach to the movie's structure.
And while their performance — that's what it is — may have been directed toward a street audience, it was also calculatedly photogenic.
Their decision seems to have been calculatedly commercial — yet also consistent with their narrow, manipulative, overdetermined approach to the movie's structure.
Crowe certainly gives a clear picture of the preoccupations of rural women in the distant past but it is also a calculatedly restricted one.
Alternatively, should you have a little more time to kill, take a seat in Sugar Down's Settle Down Café, an artsy, boho space – one too genuinely thrown-together to be calculatedly cool – where you can enjoy more of that baking, alongside soups, good-looking salads, sandwiches and mini pizzas.
Elger unearths the personal undertones of Richter's calculatedly impersonal paintings, but the book is freighted with too much minutiae.
As it goes, Get Stupid is probably a bit too smart for its own good, as it calculatedly tries to jump on the Uptown Funk bandwagon, including a video where Aston darts in and out of horn players decked out like a TM Lewin Bruno Mars.
His dirty work is done for him by his favourite, Sejanus, a low-born Praetorian Guard, who, while calculatedly exaggerating the dangers and picking off his enemies one by one, also manoeuvres to become his heir.
Calculatedly artistic shots abound.
