Sentence examples for identified this slacker-striver from inspiring English sources

Back in 2007 the critic David Denby identified this "slacker-striver" dynamic as "the dominant romantic-comedy trend of the past several years".

One of the three viable lin-41 alleles (tn1492 ), for which we isolated and identified a molecular lesion, has a missense mutation in the NHL-repeat domain, similar to the viable alleles described by Slack et al. (2000) who first identified this region as critical for LIN-41 function.

Apatow takes the slacker-striver romance to a place no one thought it would go.

The movies form a genre of sorts: the slacker-striver romance.

The perilous new direction of the slacker-striver genre reduces the role of women to vehicles.

The louts in the slacker-striver comedies should probably lose the girl, too, but most of them don't.

Authentic as Ben and Alison seem to younger audiences, they are, like all the slacker-striver couples, strangers to anyone with a long memory of romantic comedy.

She has a fine fit of hormonal rage, but, like the other heroines in the slacker-striver romances, she isn't given an idea or a snappy remark or even a sharp perception.

In outline, the story is a twist on the slacker-striver romances that have been so prevalent in recent years and that reached their culmination last summer, in Apatow's "Knocked Up".

These slacker-striver romantic comedies, as David Denby of the New Yorker refers to them, follow roughly the same formula: diamond-way-too-far-in-the-rough guy need only do the bare minimum in life and love to attract the bright and successful woman.

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