The plot, while at times compelling and inventive, could have been more imaginatively rendered.
Their career, while at times truly glittering, is littered with inadvertent mistakes.
The new piece, they agreed, while at times lyrical and sweet, is not especially funny.
But while, at times, he is no doubt showing off, his linguistic antics seem to be based on admirable principles.
While, at times, his creations chime with Oiticica's socially engaged abstractions, they also often make more direct political statements.
Moving between worlds, while at times painful and daunting, is something he counsels young black people to experience.
While at times the football was far from fluent, the win was Melbourne's biggest home success in four years.
He sees the money as a palliative that, while at times helpful in easing poverty symptoms, leaves underlying structures unchanged.
While at times debated, it is generally accepted that observational studies can distinguish associations between events but cannot conclude that one event causes another.
While at times we felt like we wanted to give up, we began to hear a positive signal in the noise of all the customer rejections.
And while at times it feels as if "Holy Motors" had been cobbled together from a million movies, it mostly, wonderfully, feels unlike anything else: it's cinema reloaded.
