He seemed encumbered by it but not perturbed.
The film is watchable and often funny, but still seems encumbered with a kind of Sundance-indie self-consciousness, and I wondered if, in the end, it was doing anything more than the far more unassuming and gag-packed Harold & Kumar movies.
"The production begins energetically but sometimes seems encumbered by its lavishness, losing momentum in its second half, and the knowing cleverness of the writing makes the play feel like an anthology of in-jokes and familiar quotations.
His fingerwork does not seem much encumbered by the ring he wears on his right-hand pinkie.
But they have often seemed equally encumbered by the slow conditions at many of the tour's hardcourt events.
Zardari actually seems less encumbered by the obsession with India, and less equivocal about the need to take on terrorists, than most of his predecessors, including his wife.
Sex Tape – directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Kate Angelo, with Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller – seems so encumbered by its chancy sex stuff that there is no opportunity to develop any wit or subversion; it doesn't have the charm of Segel and Stoller's other work, such as the first Muppets movie or their Richard CuromcomThee romcom, The Five-Year Engagement.
He feels the seasons change here, rainy days when the streets are splashed with reflections, a spring breeze drawn in from the ocean, December holidays when customers seem more generous, less encumbered.
Down in the thick of the valley, the river seemed to be slowly choking itself, encumbered by brush, twisting this way and that, hiding its true extent in bogs and alders.
"Hence he preferred what seemed to him like the nuisances that encumbered an otherwise comfortable life under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands to the insecurity of life as a double refugee in a new country, even if a new country could be found," Engel wrote.
