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There's a thin line between period acting and overacting, and more than once McElhone drifts over it.
I first saw Hawera last spring in a garden outside Chicago, where it had been planted along the foundation of a stone house in long drifts interspersed with sweeps of fern.
… [It] offers diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The wild measures Ripley takes to maintain the charade cause some critics to lose interest in the second half of the film: "When Tom's aberrant qualities become more dangerous, the movie loses its moorings and drifts into a sort of highly polished, implausible melodrama" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Visit the official site.)
Even as a great deal of the "top God" discussion drifts into remote realms of cosmology, much of the "my God" discussion becomes ever more individualized.
This data isn't as easy to keep track of as temperature extremes, partly because snow melts and drifts and does all sorts of other things that make it difficult to measure, and partly because the world's extreme snowfalls tend to occur at very high elevations where there aren't a lot of climatologists hanging around.