Democrats are only a trifle more secular in their appeals.
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Marx would have been proud, but maybe a trifle bemused.
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This would be a trifle, a quirk, coming from others.
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Losing or limiting this ability should not be a trifle.
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The production design, for example, is both impressively florid and at times a trifle murky, just as the animals' slightly anthropomorphized faces -- animated using the actors' expressions as the foundation -- occasionally look a trifle distracting.
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Even so, sticklers for journalistic propriety found this a trifle inappropriate.
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As for this picture, it's never boring but a trifle diffuse.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette is a serious book disguised as a trifle.
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Make it into a trifle or something and eat it for dinner.
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle.
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To assemble, spread half of the mousse in the bottom of a trifle dish.
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It seemed a trifle richer than the Haut-Médocs, and a little more tannic.
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Still, the whole notion of upsetting suburban bliss in this fashion feels a trifle tired.
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That may sound a trifle overdone—the controversy, after all, is about a playground surface.
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At 72, he embodies the common stereotype of a golfer: old, male and a trifle overweight.
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And even if we suspect it is a trifle high, we don't want to say so.
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The show's second biggest controversy involved two contestants who accidentally swapped custard while preparing a trifle.
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But the whole story has, at the very least, made the show far less of a trifle.
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Having come into the toy biz through that unorthodox channel, Forky is a trifle unclear about his role.
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The white chocolate version, made with gelatin, is a trifle spongier in texture, but also not too sweet.
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But a trifle is more complex, involving layers of sponge cake, custard sauce, stewed rhubarb and whipped cream.
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Relatively speaking, it's a trifle — again, it seems utterly untethered, but that disconnect is on a strictly narrative level.
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"The Crown" plenty of accolades for its first season, but in a way, that year was a trifle overrated.
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Mr. Smith tends to work fast and a trifle sloppily, until a certain image becomes second nature, a template.
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The speculation that the vicar's family murdered her (call it a mercy killing) may, however, seem a trifle questionable.
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The only real difference between them was that the cat wore tiny golden earrings and looked a trifle less smug.
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In more normal times, the contents of the memos themselves might seem a trifle esoteric for a partisan slugging-match.
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If that seems a trifle overcooked, the strength of the fury shows the value of the Iran deal for Europeans.
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Warmed apple tart à la mode was a trifle short on apple and ice cream and overloaded with whipped cream.
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"Bridge Over Tree" will better the world a trifle until it is taken down (must it be?), in September. ♦
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But if you... STEWART: I don't -- I don't -- I should probably -- I don't mean it's just satire, like it's a trifle.
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Use slices to make a trifle with the sauce of your choice like caramel sauce, fruit sauce, vanilla pudding, whipped cream.
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"I make really good brownies and my mum makes this crazy English thing called a trifle for the holidays," she says.
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My book wasn't going to be a triumph of my spirit; it was going to be a trifle of my spirit.
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All their furniture was new and "the surface smelt a little too much of the workshop and was a trifle sticky".
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The New York Times reviewer Mordaunt Hall thought Ms. Stuart's gown "a trifle out of place" but "a stunning creation" nonetheless.
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A trifle when matched with the nearly $1.9 million just paid at an auction through Sotheby's for a bottle of 1926 Macallan.
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A PRESIDENTIAL campaign season that is already a trifle too far-fetched for a movie script may soon get even more interesting.
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Moreover, the show's oscillating time frame -- flitting back and forth between the past and present -- can be a trifle discombobulating at first.
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Things can become a bit small-grain, which is to say that the show sometimes turns a trifle bland in its familiarity.
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It's a small thing, a trifle really, and kind of ugly (no offense Oonee), but it's a step in the right direction.
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WILBER: Nice, nice, and if you wanted to make it a trifle easier still, you could say [Crisp square at a Seder].
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Donald Trump won the Republican primary in 2016 spending a trifle of what people like Jeb Bush and even Ted Cruz did. True!
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Then they do it blindfolded and while jumping rope, which was exhilarating, though a trifle distressing for the toddler crowd — and their elders.
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Nappy-haired, dark-skinned girls occasionally appeared in the margins, as a trifle or a punchline, but they were never the main event.
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That 20 percent threshold is interesting: Regulators settled on a percentage decline just a trifle less than the one that occurred in 1987.
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Pete's wine, the 22016 People's Zin from the People's Wine Company, was soft, jammy and a trifle sweet, with some spicy, licorice flavor.
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But that's a trifle compared to what an enraged Trump could do if the courts try to stop him on the Muslim ban.
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In one of the series' many Thanksgiving episodes, Rachel misreads a recipe and ends up making a trifle of berries, beef, and cream.
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As the new season demonstrates, the AMC show has grown richer in the process, even if the pacing at times remains a trifle sluggish.
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But the makeup of the tournament guarantees that besides the Champions League winner Real Madrid, the list of entries is often a trifle obscure.
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But then, instead of building a cake, I cut the pieces up roughly and layered them in a glass dish, more like a trifle.
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But most of those situations come across as a trifle cliched, leaving the stirring music, by Colin Stetson, as the show's most memorable aspect.
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A Note of Explanation is not about to dethrone Orlando any time soon: it's more a trifle and a curiosity than a fully-fledged story.
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A trifle and nothing to worry about: All American goods sales to Europe last year — $370.3 billion — are just 1.8 percent of the U.S. GDP.
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" It cost "a trifle under $3,153,000," fully furnished, "the largest private house sale in respect to price that has ever been recorded in the city.
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France's top female league sold five-year rights to Canal+, a pay-TV firm, for €6m—a trifle but six times more than two years ago.
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A few seconds earlier and we might have gotten a trifle too close for comfort; a few seconds later and we would have missed them entirely.
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Few of them possess much spark, in a drama that seeks to present the grim reality of the times and yet occasionally feels a trifle anachronistic.
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I'll say it again: deep down, we are all the same," he has said, or, a trifle less elaborately, "Take care of yourself, and each other.
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The one she's most proud of is "Believe," a trifle of pop music that sounds like Everything but the Girl's "Missing" as reimagined by Nancy Meyers.
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By that measure, this sixth live-action iteration feels a trifle clunky, especially in patches of dialogue during the initial episodes, three of which were previewed.
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"For us to be in that position I think would be, to put it mildly, a trifle odd," Hill told the UK parliament's Treasury Select Committee.
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The movie's sexual politics actually feel a trifle dated, but the strong cast compensates that, with Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Farrell all delivering topnotch work.
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She loses her phone (actually her boyfriend, dressed as Bonnie to her Clyde, throws it in a trifle) and doesn't hear the terrible news: Myers is back.
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In the larger context of the $74 billion budget for the Department of Homeland Security (which houses ICE and CBP), the summer outlay may seem a trifle.
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The full title of Karp's book, notably, is "A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever," which might be a trifle hyperbolic.
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They're just sweet enough, a trifle soupy (chill them, and they firm up) and come in plain, with maple syrup and sea salt; chocolate; espresso (decaf); and cinnamon.
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If some of the beats sound familiar, or even a trifle clichéd, "A Fantastic Woman" avoids those pitfalls, in part because Marina is far from just a passive victim.
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The sitcom routinely presented memorable Thanksgiving episodes, from the one with the List — that list — to the one where Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston) tries in vain to make a trifle.
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To everyone else, she looks exactly the same, which makes the change in her behavior -- just assuming that everyone is drooling over her -- a trifle delusional, if sporadically quite funny.
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When her besties (Phoebe Robinson and Vanessa Bayer) tag along, a trifle of a girls-gone-wild premise turns sweetly seductive as Harper follows a D.J. (Richard Madden) to paradise.
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Behind them, Less recognizes Fosters Lancett walking alone into the room, very short and heavy-headed, and looking as soaked in misery as a trifle pudding is soaked in rum.
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As they're testing a new experimental orbiting plan, though, SpaceX says there is every reason to expect it to crash ("a successful landing is not expected," they note, a trifle mournfully).
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And a subplot involving Dr. Campbell's real identity, which involves her switching somehow to a private channel to take calls from the dean, and from her mother, seems a trifle contrived.
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Was it a trifle peculiar that my entry-level De Vries novel, the one she first urged I read, "Consenting Adults," happened to be every bit as ribald as "Tom Jones"?
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If running around a cavernous space playing VR tennis with a human opponent sounds like a trifle, it should; it's a supersized extrapolation of why the Nintendo Wii was such a phenomenon.
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Directed by Andy Muschietti ("Mama"), "It" relies a little too heavily on jump-out-at-you thrills, and perhaps unavoidably yields diminishing returns in its second half, which becomes a trifle repetitive.
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A trifle mannered at first, the performances similarly grow on you, capturing the bonds these men shared -- forged through loss, pain and guilt -- even if they can't always give voice to them.
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Where Rubio touts the fact that he wounded Obamacare, and proposes to transform it into a less generous coverage scheme, Cruz insists on repealing the law with barely a trifle to replace it.
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And while there are some fine moments buried within all that -- some showcasing Gilligan's quirky streak, like an incongruous rendition of the song "Sharing the Night Together" -- it still feels a trifle unnecessary.
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The hype that attended the surprise declaration by Friedrich Merz, a politician-turned-businessman, that he would run for the leadership of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) may have been a trifle overdone.
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Words and phrases that contain two Qs are the theme today, and while this grid was a trifle light on theme material compared to recent puzzle themes, Mr. Newman's puzzle solved smoothly and pleasantly.
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I appreciated the tone of director/co-writer/star Roberto Benigni's film about a father shielding his young son from the horrors of a concentration camp, the premise seemed a trifle strained and sanitized.
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Buying his prints for about three sous or about 15 centimes — a trifle compared to the costs of daily necessities at the time — it's doubtful that his dealer would have gone through the ordeal.
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What Washington hasn't done -- working from an adaptation that Wilson wrote before his death in 2005 -- is find a way of opening up the material, which reveals its theatrical roots by feeling a trifle claustrophobic.
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While Cena has clearly endeavored to establish himself as a comedy actor (including "Trainwreck" and the "Daddy's Home" movies), in much the way Arnold Schwarzenegger did, his hulking WWE-honed physique does a trifle distracting.
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While that turned out to be a public-relations bonanza when then-Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the show/character in 1992, it feels both a trifle forced and extra treacherous in today's hyper-partisan climate.
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If a president chooses not to explain himself to Congress or withhold the information that Congress would need to determine whether high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed, then he can render the impeachment power a trifle.
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The ornate mythology of it all -- in a film directed by the teams behind "The Princess and the Frog" and "Big Hero Six," and that credits its story to seven writers -- risks becoming a trifle overwhelming exposition-wise.
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The female characters are also a trifle thin, with Laura Harrier as Peter's crush, while deriving modest mirth from Zendaya as Peter's surly classmate and continuing the gag about Tomei being far more attractive than Aunt May in the comics.
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" Clearly, Spielberg savors the validation that came with those movies, although with such a rich filmography to cover, the balance might be a trifle off when the topic shifts to lesser titles like, say, "War of the Worlds" or "The BFG.
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Since the struggle for dominance in East and Southeast Asia is the hot topic at hand, the bulk of Rachman's book concerns that question, and he has interesting things to say about it, even though his conclusion is a trifle lame.
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That is a trifle in the global 100-million-barrel a day market, but the company has leased over 2,500 acres of private land, and executives say they will eventually be able to produce 10,000 barrels a day over 25 years.
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But while you may feel this show is only a trifle at first — an hors d'oeuvre of a play next to the multicourse meals of "Journey" and "Iceman" — it keeps growing larger in your mind, the way a quietly told ghost story might.
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The first, frankly, is a trifle: The Star Destroyer is white, instead of the murky grey of the Star Destroyers in the original trilogy, because white was largely used by the costume designers and scenic artists of the 1970's science-fiction cinema.
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The premise feels a trifle half-baked logistically, but the notion of turning to technology to thwart crime has certainly been popular of late, from Fox's "APB" (canceled after one season) to CBS' "Person of Interest," which enjoyed a more expansive run.
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That felt a trifle tacked-on at first, until the brilliant final twist, which underscored something else "Veep" has reveled in from the beginning: the indignities endured by those in these positions, thanks to forces and events which they're unable to control.
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The jerky comes in three styles: Original, which has a subtle coconut flavor, is a trifle hot-sweet; Ginger Teriyaki is musky, salty and spicy; and Chili Lime is tart and delivers some fire: Cocoburg Coconut Jerky, $5.99 for 1.5 ounces at coconutjerky.net.
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" In fact, he's a deep-state RINO, finding the new bureaucratic term "homeland … a trifle Third Reich-ish," and arguing against funding a hagiography of the conservative pundit Norman Podhoretz: "Let's not reject their junk just so we can start pushing our junk.
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Directed by Kenny Leon (whose credits include the live TV productions of "Hairspray" and "The Wiz") from the play by Christopher Demos-Brown, "American Son" disgorges a whole lot of information in a compact timeframe, in a manner that feels conspicuously stagey and a trifle forced.
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It's all kind of messy, but the "90210" alumni (which also includes Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering and Shannen Doherty, albeit initially in a limited role) certainly appear game for pretty much anything in terms of how they portray themselves, although even that can feel a trifle depressing.
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Therein, ultimately, lies the real challenge for "Five Feet Apart," which can't help but feel a trifle claustrophobic, while endeavoring -- often through musical montages -- to tease out the details of a relationship that begins with "We have nothing in common" and appears destined to end in tears.
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At the same time, the idea of a star held together by booze and pills, thirsting for a final hurrah, is such a well-worn cliché that even the fact-based underpinnings can't really prevent the movie itself from feeling a trifle humdrum, the showiness of its central performance notwithstanding.
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Slow to start, the movie feels a trifle clunky in the early going, and indulges in a bit of a gimmick toward the end, building toward a much-ballyhooed appearance by Cher, which feels like one of those token cameos by a big studio contract player back in the heyday of big musicals.
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It's what happens next, and much of what ensues after, which feels a trifle forced, as Midge in short order discovers her own knack for comedy, meeting an enthusiastic backer (Alex Borstein) who wants to manage her and legendary bad-boy comic Lenny Bruce (Luke Kirby), who also encourages her to pursue it.
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That said, Pelosi -- daughter to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and granddaughter of Tommy D'Alesandro, a congressman and mayor of Baltimore -- sounds a trifle unconvincing as she seeks to bring a certain gee-whiz quality to her chats with billionaires, who reveal a host of motivations for supporting candidates, from pure ideology to the thrill some achieve from rubbing elbows with politicians.
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The weightier issues, admittedly, aren't always a perfect fit with the wild antics of Karen and Jack (Sean Hayes) or the physical gags -- including a Grace-Karen sequence in a subsequent episode that plays like a Lucy-Ethel homage -- and some efforts to comment upon the political and cultural moment, like name-checking Caitlyn Jenner, can feel a trifle forced.
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LONDON — Despatches from Athens agree that the British hospital ship Britannic, of 50,000 tons, was torpedoed by a German submarine between eight and nine o'clock on Tuesday morning, a trifle more than two miles off the Island of Zea, while en route for Mudros, the port of Lemnos, in the Aegean Sea, where she was to take on board sick and wounded.
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Iberian ham is nicely meaty, sparkling wine is alluring and a trifle sweet, black truffle is slightly funky, and caviar definitely has a fishy flavor: Torres potato chips, $9 to $79 for three to six bags (1.41 ounces and up) online, $2.95 to $6.95 for single bags at Chelsea Market Baskets, 459 West 15th Street (Ninth Avenue), 888-727-7887, chelseamarketbasket.com.
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Even at a mere 80-some-odd minutes, the movie (written and directed by Scott Aukerman, who broke the story with Galifianakis) begins to feel a trifle listless in the let's-put-on-a-show department, but fortunately, every time it starts to sag there's another interview -- with nifty little touches, like a chyron that reads "Bill or Ted" during the Reeves chat -- to reinvigorate things.
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"Paul was quiet, ironic, self-effacing, witty, warm, scholarly, and diligent — just the kind of guy who'd crunch the numbers to make a point about Latino realignment, whose commitment to a decent future for his nation was such that he'd research and rewrite from his hospital bed on what the Democrats needed to do to win in 2018, who could dismiss his own illness as a trifle indisposition."
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