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For paragraphs at a time she leans on plot summary of the timid undergraduate-book-report variety.
Critics dismiss the fourth installment in the Batman series as nonsensical kitsch, a "wild, campy costume party" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Director Joel Schumacher ( A Time to Kill ), a former window dresser, leans heavily on high-concept get-ups (villainess Uma Thurman sports a suit made from 450 Santa Claus wigs) in the apparent hope of deflecting attention from a script that "has the eerie feeling of having no beginning, no middle and no end" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Still, his overwrought attempts to make the film fun--fast editing, crashingly loud sound effects--end up making it "a punishing ordeal" (Alex Ross, Slate).
All Sport's design leans toward the low-budget and simple, and it's a touch sweeter than the others, flavorwise.
We can see that (c) is in-between (a) and (b), and in this case, leans toward (b).
Sonny leans into the window, places his hand on the shoulder of a young man with gelid eyes and blood trickling from one ear, and exhorts him to live , live . He says that there are angels in the car, that the young man has nothing to fear if he accepts Jesus Christ as his savior--and, miraculously, the young man manages to thank him.