Though high heels are often the first to come to mind, flat shoes, sandals, and shoes made out of synthetic fabrics (review #2!) are equally as bad, and for different reasons.
If you don't mind flat strips, or want to make a curtain of long strips, construction paper works well, as it doesn't rip easily.
Indeed, it is rather flat and fatuous, a classically minded Closer: "And they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them".
That's fast on the flat, never mind in the mountains.
Fans will doubtless have the striped sofa and fruit with faces of Miranda's flat in mind.
If Nigella's love buns look unusually flat, who minds if they are given a lift for the perfect shot?
The stilted and awkward physical and vocal performances in combination with the visually flat cinematography bring to mind the look, sound and visual texture of American daytime soaps, an association that perversely makes the movie more and more watchable.
That's reason enough for Mr. Condon to get the character's shirt off, as is the unavoidable truth that Mr. Lautner, whose pumped physique and flat affect bring to mind one of those friendly pizza delivery boys in a pornographic movie, remains a dish best served with as few words and clothes as possible.
I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.' In the meantime, Channel 4 is rushing out Born With Two Mothers, a docu-drama about an embryo mix-up between a black and a white couple, in which she stars with Lennie James.
But she flubbed introductions, occasionally seemed lost when jokes fell flat, and didn't mind pandering for Samsung (even if she redeemed the shoehorned product placement by briefly shutting down Twitter with the most celebrities ever fit into a "selfie").
"[Atlas's] sense of the life is on the whole censorious, flat-minded and peremptory," insisted Poirier.
