Example sentences for: panned

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  • Forgetting that the original Dolittle was also panned, critics pine for "the good old days of children's movies" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). They lament the remake's addition of "a witless barrage of off-color bathroom humor" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) and its use of sophisticated computer graphics to make cute animals engage in sexual innuendo.

  • One might have assumed that as soon as the camera panned elsewhere, she scooped up the errant earring.

  • The latest in a wash of Scream -bred teen horror flicks is roundly panned as a "disappointing adolescent thriller starring no one you ever heard of" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). Despite a promising premise--high-school students are lobotomized into conformity by a guidance counselor and their parents--the film is said to be packed with clichés (faces in windows, hands on shoulders) and lacking either an ironic or a frightening touch.

  • The 1950s nostalgia film, panned when it was released in 1978, fares better on re-release as a 1970s nostalgia film.

  • In the case of the HCV RNA, we panned a sequence (AA UUG CCA GGA CGA CCG GGU CCU UUC UUG GAU CAA CCC GCU CAA UGC CUG GAG AUU) predicted to bind to at least one of the proteins comprising the translation complex eukaryotic Initiation Factor 3 (eIF3; [ 11 12 13 14 ] ). Published reports identify the p120 subunit of eIF3 as the one binding to the apical loop of the domain III of HCV 5'UTR, and p170 (also called p160) as binding the stem portion of the domain III.


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