Sentence examples for weak script from inspiring English sources

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Lupino's direction was deft, but the picture suffered from a weak script.

But it's a shame Ms. Miller has to try so hard, to grimace so much, to add emotional embellishment to compensate for a weak script.

Never one to linger ghoulishly over violence — or to rely on bloodletting to plug a weak script — he prefers to strike and move on.

So Karl Rove does what any director does to bolster a weak script -- pump up the ominous chords on the soundtrack.

The fact that he could have shot this weak script is itself an indication of the societal significance that Zuckerberg's discovery has meanwhile attained.

Reviewing it in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther said its problems were a "weak script," direction that seemed "completely artificial and stiff," and Mr. Ladd's reversion to "that stock character he usually plays".

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She had a couple of solid outings: as a female Shakespearean wannabe in the all-male world of Elizabethan theatre, in Richard Eyre's "Stage Beauty," and as a vulnerable aspiring artist behind the glove counter at Saks, in Steve Martin's "Shopgirl" — both strong performances in weak scripts.

Here, the use of phytosterols and the weak scripts accompanying the milk and margarine in particular, came up against other more or less material scripts, rationales and conventions, about appropriate meals, palatable sandwiches and weight reduction.

The weak scripts about appropriate servings and daily consumption that we identified in both labels and elements of the packaging and formulation of spreads, yogurts and milk rarely featured in these interviews.

Including Morgan's other scripts for the show, VanDerWerff called his writing "deeply, deeply funny", but said that "Humbug" "may be [his] weakest script".

Director David Nutter felt that casting Željko Ivanek was the key to creating the episode, feeling that "Roland" was "probably the weakest script from start to finish" that the director had seen, but that once Ivanek had been cast, it became "important to push that as much as possible, to help outweigh the frailties in the script".

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