And the littling down process hasn't been helped, particularly, by the film's star, Hugh Grant, who gave a cheerfully detached performance on television with Jonathan Ross, indicating that he wasn't exactly pinning Oscar hopes on it.
We show that POIMs recover many known motifs: they exactly pin-point length, location and typical sequences of motifs.
England's lynchpin has been exactly that: pinned, and lynched.
Grito unfolds in a clearly delineated sequence (male group, female group, trio, duet, ensemble), each scene in its own way exposing the bones of flamenco technique – the torque of the torso, the switch of shoulder and hip, the lines of limbs cleanly displayed, steps and poses pinned exactly to the musical rhythms.
Vandenberg later commented on the cover art: "There were three elements that Mike [Watt] wanted in the photo: a natural kind of glint in his eyes reflected in the rearview mirror, the speedometer pinned exactly at 55mph, and, of course, the San Pedro sign guiding us home".
But research has not yet pinned down exactly how important these factors are.
More than 80 years after Clyde W. Tombaugh spotted Pluto, astronomers still have not pinned down exactly how big, or small, it is.
While researchers have not pinned down exactly what distinguishes accents across the boroughs, one offered a test: if a New Yorker pronounces "Korea" and "career" the same way, he is from Queens.
It's not that he doesn't like to be pinned down, exactly; it's more that he can't seem to verbalize what he truly wants to say.
We never pinned down exactly what was wrong, whether he's impotent or sterile, but there's a medical condition called morbid jealousy, where you become falsely convinced that your partner has been unfaithful.
