Reaching for sturdy themes of love, friendship and righteous violence, the film comes off slick as a Marlboro advertisement, and that goes for its romance between John Grady and the daughter of a Mexican landowner (Ms. Cruz).
Sure, fans might have preferred a reversal that would have kept the show's sturdy "are they in love or just playing each other?" theme going, but that's not where the writers' heads are at.
Kamiisi told me he loved his sturdy Ankole bull "like my own life" but said he was starting to crossbreed again for financial reasons.
My daughter loved the sturdy yellow Tonka Mighty Dump that my father brought to her for her second birthday in 1967.
If you're a Sony-Ericsson holdout who loves the sturdy phones, high-end features, and intuitive interface it offers, you've probably been watching with some envy the shrinking form-factors the rest of the cellphone world enjoys, specifically Motorola and Samsung.
And they made lovely and sometimes perfect music: fragile songs hung on sturdy melodies; lyrics streaked with love and spite.
He meets sturdy, feisty locals, falls in love, sees the Northern Lights, changes his mind about the oil business.
They switched from the sturdy misery of Died for Love to spine-tingling harmony work on Magpie, accompanied by their violinist Niopha Keeegan.
For this one-nighter he has enlisted Mr. Mahogany, a jazz and blues singer of sturdy appeal, to help deliver a love letter to Kansas City swing.
Generally a sturdy kindergartner disdains what a toddler loves.
MARIJANA CONDIC and Lisa Leipziger, friends in Frankfurt, had a modest mission: to make espadrilles that were sturdier than the Spanish styles they love to wear.
