A common sentiment, perhaps, but one rarely expressed so baldly.
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But the game in "Solo Olos" is more baldly cerebral.
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Baldly misrepresenting what the president says is the opposite of that.
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"I'm pretty, and I can make money off pretty," she says baldly.
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But Trump stands out among public figures in how baldly he indicates it.
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UKIP has returned in a nastier guise, with a baldly anti-Islam message.
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At the Republican National Convention it was even more baldly crude and crass.
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President Xi Jinping had consolidated power and become more baldly authoritarian at home.
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Occasionally, historical exposition—an account of Iran's burgeoning civil service, say—intrudes baldly.
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District Attorney Cyrus Vance made a baldly political move, unbefitting a neutral prosecutor.
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Some critics also baldly assert that existing state anti-SLAPP laws are systematically abused.
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However, not all ceilings in the palaces of the powerful are so baldly egotistical.
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George Conway has been baldly critical of the Trump administration (yet not his wife).
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Interpol has repeatedly rejected warrant applications that it sees as fabricated or baldly political.
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And though Trump seems at times to feel shame, he also is baldly easy to psychologize.
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" Honig's answer: It was legal and a "baldly political act" reflecting "Barr's political solicitude of Trump.
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Mr. Schur reminded her of his vision for her music in baldly comical record-executive-speak.
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Jesse Souki, HCDA executive director, baldly admitted that things had deteriorated beyond its ability to fix them.
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But rather than owning up, Barr instead offered up a flimsy legal justification for his baldly political act.
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Many journalists have noted that, correctly deeming it proof that the deployment was a baldly, cynically political move.
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At one point Emily, reading from an essay during a radio interview, baldly offers the play's mission statement.
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What's new is how baldly the 2016 election exposed the collision between basic Christian values and Republican Party loyalty.
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The demonstrators packed Eighth Avenue in New York City in response to a recent cartoon that was baldly anti-Semitic.
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Mr Blair declared baldly that she had "simple human decency in greater measure than any person I have ever known".
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On Sunday, Trump told Americans the US has "tremendous control" of coronavirus -- an assertion baldly out of touch with reality.
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Leave it to Rudolph Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, to baldly contradict the White House's story and reveal the truth.
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Men like Gay Talese baldly state that they cannot name any inspiring female writers, expressing pervasive but now mostly hidden sentiments.
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It appears Spicer either baldly lied to the press about the contacts or else was kept out of the loop entirely.
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And as if that play wasn't enough, the other one is as baldly avaricious as anything the company has ever done.
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On some level, we're all good Bayesians: We're skeptical of data that baldly contradicts how we know the world to work.
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This Ben lies baldly and repeatedly about whether he is married, whether he has ever been married, whether he has children.
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The story is too baldly engineered — too bullying, in fact — to engage the audience in the manner necessary to produce empathy.
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However clearly he comes to see Lenny the man, he still propounds his father's politics as baldly as Lenny did himself.
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But the cause-and-effect links are presented so baldly and explicitly, they might belong to one of Linda's PowerPoint presentations.
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Paris Jackson didn't take long to weigh in on the baldly ridiculous choice to have Joseph Fiennes portray her departed father, Michael.
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"Submitting his written statements for pre-approval does not, as Musk baldly asserts, mean that he is prohibited from speaking," it reads.
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It still takes my breath away that a president of the United States will just baldly lie about something of such significance.
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The Spice Girls played this trick most baldly, naming and dressing members after a singular trait — Baby, Scary, Sporty, Posh and Ginger.
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These are not my worst-case scenarios: They do not involve Trump making baldly authoritarian moves or accidentally touching off nuclear war.
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Chinese-made movies accounted for 54 percent of ticket sales, with baldly nationalistic action thriller "Wolf Warrior 2" topping the box office.
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Cathleen, educated in a Catholic girls' school in Tennessee, is leaving a family situation sketched in a few baldly over-dramatized scenes.
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It's also one that is baldly sexist on its face, but one the network claims it can back up with market research.
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The movie also mines a lot of laughs out of the characters sheer witlessness, or from how baldly Christian's bad behavior escalates.
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The Electoral Commission declares baldly that it has reason to believe that the source of the £8m was impermissible because it was foreign.
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President Trump has exacerbated the dynamic, they said, by repeatedly attacking Mr. Sessions and the Justice Department in baldly political and personal terms.
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Democratic lawmakers like Representative Elijah E. Cummings vigorously defended the FBI's decision and criticized Republicans obsession with Clinton's emails as baldly motivated by politics.
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As the abuses escalated Min Aung Hlaing, the army chief, stated baldly that his troops were solving the "Bengali problem" once and for all.
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But was his appeal to voters on trade, especially in the Upper Midwest, separate from his more baldly inflammatory arguments on immigration and refugees?
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Men hate women who violate patriarchy's rules: women who seek power too baldly, women who are too slutty, women who don't act feminine enough.
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Yet "Peppermint" is a belabored exercise in lazily constructed déjà vu, without the grit or stylized ham of predecessors it so baldly steals from.
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Yet they have been modified and altered repeatedly as his poll numbers shifted and he sought to look more — although never too baldly — presidential.
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While lawmakers assert that those provisions will not be allowed to expire, that claim is baldly inconsistent with the revenue costs of the bill.
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But no other modern occupant of the White House has so brazenly embraced foreign strongmen or so baldly jettisoned any pretense of promoting liberty.
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" He added that another intelligence gathering tool — the telephony metadata database — "does not compare in importance to 702," arguing baldly that: "We can't lose 702.
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" When Menendez asked Sullivan whether Giuliani was behind her removal, Sullivan baldly declared that Giuliani was "seeking to smear Ambassador Yovanovitch, or have her removed.
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While commitment to scientific principles remains priority, it would be unethical and morally irresponsible not to express judgment against repugnant behavior that is baldly bigoted.
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So any pro-lifer inclined to cast a vote for Hillary has no cover; to stop Trump, they have to cast a baldly pro-abortion vote.
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More than 50 years later, this technology is commonplace, but the photo remains hard to believe, because it so baldly violates our ordinary experience of time.
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WASHINGTON — In the world of big-dollar political donors, Imaad Zuberi is notable less for the scale of his giving than for its baldly transactional nature.
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Things we need to know (handsome 40-ish lawyer bears secret anguish over sense of purposelessness) are posted baldly in dialogue like a weird Tinder profile.
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Adam Papagan's O.J. Simpson Museum at Coagula Curatorial is baldly commercial, but it also demonstrates how much of a cultural touchstone the famous trial has become.
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The story the world likes to hear every October is the one about survival and pink warriors, boldly (and yes, baldly) charging forth in their celebratory 5Ks.
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Art Review Starting with its mouthful of a title, "Cosmic Communities: Coming Out Into Outer Space — Homofuturism, Applied Psychedelia & Magic Connectivity" at Galerie Buchholz is baldly ambitious.
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In John Logan's baldly written (and still trimmable) new book for the show, Satine is a feral survivor of the streets who began turning tricks at 13.
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Vaidehi is up against a lot: The first scenes of "Badrinath" remind us comically, but baldly, that baby boys are still considered assets while girls are liabilities.
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By that, I don't mean its Lena Dunham-style references to body parts but its habit of stating baldly, and then repeating, what is already affectingly evident.
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But gradually, White House allies anonymously leaked what they claimed was a rationale for this baldly misleading statement — Durbin, and the Post's sources, was one syllable off.
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With a baldly political light cast on the court in the Trump era—especially during last autumn's explosive confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh—the chief seems increasingly circumspect.
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In Indiana and Illinois, Obama lambasted Republicans for "blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying" about their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act's protections for those with preexisting conditions.
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They'd borrow melodies from one another, half-nod to each others lyrics, baldly write songs about each other with barely veiled nicknames like Ronnie Ronaldo, Franklin the Flirt.
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In his Tea Party rant, Santelli's "get it over with" philosophy is not stated quite so baldly as it is in his more recent statement on the coronavirus.
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During one backstage meet-and-greet, Mr. Cohen is baldly propositioned by a female fan, and he demurs with a combination of gentlemanly grace and camera-conscious awkwardness.
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But by characterizing the trip so baldly in this fashion, Pence's aides risk politicizing the Games in exactly the same manner they accuse Kim of wanting to do.
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Some of the lyrics are pantomimed baldly (opening the schoolbook), and when the narrator affectionately mocks those lyrics for corniness, he could be speaking of the choreography, too.
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And I had never had an experience where someone had tried so baldly to let me know that they were important and other people thought they were successful.
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"He cares about the people up north, who we were trained our entire lives to ignore," Downie said, baldly invoking Canada's national shame when he knew everyone was watching.
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Jeff Flake: Obama's tone 'is better' than Trump's "What we have not seen is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying -- just making stuff up," Obama said in Miami.
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"Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue," Mr. Wolff writes.
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Though Berlin donated all royalties from the song to the Boy and Girl Scouts, many people accused him, in baldly anti-Semitic terms, of trying to profit from it.
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While the "Sovereign District of New York" (as the lame lawyer joke has it) is known for fierce independence, the SDNY would not baldly defy an important DOJ policy.
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A television show's length, and its episodic structure, could let a showrunner dive deep into the train's faction system in a way that seems less simplistic, obvious, and baldly metaphorical.
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Similarly, he lies so baldly that he forces you to stand up for what's a very narrow idea of truth: that some things are wrong and some things are correct.
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Interpol has rejected requests that it viewed as baldly political, but the Russian government has at times found workarounds by seeking a different type of warrant, known as a diffusion.
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The vulgar side, the trashy, the elemental, the baldly populist — the side never better embodied than by this hulking, sweaty man with stringy hair, a patchy beard and an unforgettable sound.
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The redrawing of Maryland's House map by Democrats was also baldly political, ousting a 22016-year Republican incumbent by infusing the rural 26th District with tens of thousands of urban Democrats.
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Sometimes the claims are flatly true, and sometimes they are baldly not, as when President Trump said that the tax plan then working its way through Congress wouldn't benefit him personally.
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But several experts said the Russian version is more coordinated, more baldly designed to muddy the discussion at a time when that country is perceived by many to be overly aggressive.
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"Betrayal" was dismissed as lightweight by Pinter standards when it opened at the National Theater in London four decades ago, and hearing it described baldly, you can sort of understand why.
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There are some other baldly pragmatic reasons that Clinton must look beyond Sanders for her running mate -- whether to Warren or someone else -- in what could be a painfully close general election.
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When Stenberg first became a public figure it was through the dual impact of The Hunger Games' mainstream exposure and the baldly racist reactions that exploded around her presence in the film.
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The conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch has filed more than 20 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits over Clinton's emails, in a move that's hard to interpret as anything but baldly partisan.
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The recently passed "retirement bill" that doubles as a giveaway to the insurance industry is similarly unequal to the scope of the problem it supposedly addresses, though it is less baldly ridiculous.
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"Submitting his written statements for pre-approval does not, as Musk baldly asserts, mean that he is prohibited from speaking," the SEC wrote in its reply to Musk's order to show cause.
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But with this particular offhand and baldly inaccurate comment, the president landed himself in the company of other presidents and presidential hopefuls who have fumbled while trying to showcase their everyman appeal.
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Wolff says that Kushner failed to pass the normal security clearances, and was granted a reprieve only when Trump intervened (calling this assertion "a fact baldly denied by Kushner and his wife").
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Gorsuch then declares, baldly — and quite falsely, in my view — that physician-assisted suicide, as opposed to the withdrawal of life-sustaining care, always involves a doctor who intends to harm his patient.
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As Lukashenko is known for dramatic outbursts, his speech—which might have caused an international incident coming from any other leader—was baldly reported on the national news wire and quickly forgotten about.
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"Texas health officials are baldly imposing the view that the fetal tissue is elevated to personhood—a religious opinion that conflicts with our own," said Satanic Temple founder Lucien Greaves in a statement.
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Lots of times, they would baldly state what they were thinking or feeling, leaving nothing to the imagination, and even 6-year-old children were often deeply aware of their buried psychological motivations.
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In the past two years, Zuckerberg and his leadership team have admitted that they were late to recognize the downside of free expression: political extremism, intentional misinformation, and political ads that baldly lie.
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"The show exists in the gap between you and your image of yourself," DelGaudio told me, and these cards were among the more baldly theatrical means by which that gap would be explored.
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In an introduction to the book, Wolff writes: Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.
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Still, the Senate is scheduled to go ahead and vote on Kavanaugh's confirmation on Friday, despite the fact that, as Roche claimed in Slate, he lied "baldly, without hesitation or reservation" in his hearing.
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But in between songs, Mr. Russell peppers his sitcom-style dialogue with political points too baldly made, and the roadblocks he puts in the way of a happy ending are all too easily removed.
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Opponents said that the Justice Department's rationale for seeking to add a citizenship question to the census was baldly contrived, a conclusion shared by federal judges in all three lawsuits opposing the administration's action.
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Former senior U.S. diplomats said it took courage for Yovanovitch, who joined the foreign service in 1986 and also served as ambassador in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, to so baldly call out the Trump administration.
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Like the novels that preceded it, "The Cursed Child" is stuffed with arcana-filled plots that defy diagrams and baldly wrought sentimental life lessons, along with anguished dives into the earnest, tortured solipsism of adolescence.
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But to watch an elected official—who claims to represent the people of this state—baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote has been truly appalling.
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Less successful are the direct-address monologues Ms. Hamill has interpolated, which state themes too baldly, and dance sequences set to the likes of "Thriller" and "Single Ladies," which blare the play's contemporary bona fides.
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The latter position is held by certain activists and philosophers, but even the most liberal politician hesitates to defend abortion rights so baldly, which is how you get the mysticism of life's first breath instead.
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In addition to Ludington, Brookes and Swisher, Jamie Roche, who shared a dorm with Kavanaugh at Yale, wrote in an op-ed for Slate on Wednesday that Kavanaugh "baldly" lied under oath about his drinking habits.
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He said Mr. Wildstein had duped him into believing the lane closings were a legitimate traffic study, one that was important to the governor, and had baldly lied to him that there was no punishment involved.
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Wanda Sykes and Chelsea Clinton led the fierce and swift backlash against Roseanne Barr for her baldly racist Twitter rant overnight on Monday, with Sykes quitting as a consulting producer on the actress's hit ABC sitcom Roseanne.
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"But to watch an elected official – who claims to represent the people of this state, baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote – has been truly appalling," she added.
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To put things baldly, Tesla and Musk did not disclose the very material fact that a man had died while using an auto-pilot technology that Tesla had marketed vigorously as safe and important to its customers.
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Fan culture around comics is already fraught, and even moves that are baldly unpolitical — like casting black actors, or letting a woman be an action hero — have been met with resistance from some of Marvel's hardcore fans.
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Now, you might scoff at all this and think that since the Republican Party has capitulated to Trump so baldly before, the Republican Senate will be certain to do the same, and that's certainly a strong possibility.
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To put it baldly, I'm saying that in my closing years I would willingly accept care by a machine, provided I could relate to it, empathize with it and believe that it had my best interests at heart.
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To put it baldly, I'm saying that in my closing years I would willingly accept care by a machine, provided I could relate to it, empathise with it and believe that it had my best interests at heart.
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Miscimarra's many dissents in NLRB cases since his appointment in 2013 helped lay the foundation for claims by the business community that under Obama, the board baldly favored unions rather than promoting a balance between labor and management.
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But I know of no comparable case where a President baldly, consciously misused the power of the whole nation for his own purely private political benefit, without even a credible claim that it was in the national interest.
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While it's admittedly not the toughest questioning, it does baldly address the simple idea that Graham and others consider Facebook effectively a monopoly and intend to craft regulations or legislation to remedy what they perceive as a regulatory gap.
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"To watch an elected official who claims to represent the people in this state baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote has been truly appalling," Abrams told supporters in Atlanta.
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"But to watch an elected official who claims to represent the people of this state baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote has been truly appalling," Abrams added in her concession speech.
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Again, it isn't useful to be baldly honest, proud, and pushy all the time, but Leo is the rare sign that not only knows what it wants but knows how to pursue it and, in the end, usually get it.
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Reacting to Cissna's turn at the podium, Gregory Chen, director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, called it "baldly transparent" that the administration could not make a sufficient connection between the immigration programs it is targeting and terrorism.
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As the feminist authors of the Combahee River Collective put it baldly in their influential 1977 manifesto, 'the most profound and potentially most radical politics come directly out of our own identity, as opposed to working to end somebody else's oppression.
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In a fiery op-ed, China's ambassador to Canada baldly stated that the detentions of Kovrig and Spavor were "self-defense" from Canadian bullying, all but admitting the detentions were in retaliation for Canada's detention of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.
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"The new monogamy is, baldly speaking, the recognition that, for an increasing number of couples, marital attachment involves a more fluid idea of connection to the primary partner than is true of the 'old monogamy,' " she wrote in the article.
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The question in Rutan was whether the state government in Illinois could base its hiring and promotion decisions on baldly partisan considerations: how much applicants had contributed to the Republican Party, for example, or whether local party officials supported them.
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In her performance over the past week, however, Mitchell -- in service of a baldly partisan cause -- has undermined the efforts of law enforcement to protect sex-crime victims and discouraged those victims from coming forward to bear witness against their attackers.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday raised the possibility of moving the Australian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, an idea that drew criticism as a baldly political gambit meant only to win a crucial local election.
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Democrats also view Moore, a current fellow at conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, as a baldly political choice — and pointedly wonder whether someone who's encountered personal finance issues in the past is qualified to help run the US's central bank.
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Instead, The O.J. Simpson Museum is a rather baldly commercial affair, with admission charged at the door, mostly bad art sold by the gallery, and T-shirts for purchase in a modest gift shop set up in a back room.
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At its worst, the divide between the national news and local realities creates an environment in which baldly false rumors flourish and true information is disregarded because it doesn't square with what rural media consumers can see in front of their eyes.
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That message emerges with unexpected force at the Fashion Institute of Technology in a museum exhibition that explores variations of a color that has ping-ponged across the centuries, varying in tone from demure to baldly subversive, from classy to trashy and back.
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His novel, like the work they have championed, rejects many of the prevailing conventions of contemporary fiction, most significantly in this case that of having a narrator who is, to put it baldly, confined to one body for the length of the narrative.
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"The norms that might have made it inappropriate to baldly pursue national partisan advantage, regardless of all constraints, have just been eroding," Richard H. Pildes, a professor of constitutional law and an election-law expert at New York University, said in an interview.
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Of course, the idea that five minutes is a universally acceptable amount of toilet time is baldly ableist, ignoring the needs of those with digestive issues like Crohn's disease and irritable bowel syndrome—conditions which, by the way, impact millions of people.
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As a result of public outcry and the president's own baldly heinous actions, CEOs of Intel, Merck, Campbell's Soup, 3M, Under Armour, Ford Motor Company, and the president and deputy chief of staff of the AFL-CIO left their seats at Trump's golden table.
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If the actors' race has been marked by one thing this year (aside from being dominated by white people), it is the triumph of the season's most baldly transparent narrative: Leonardo DiCaprio has been tortured enough, and not just by his director, Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
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Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obvious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes.
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I was struck by how many officials and experts at a Tsinghua University seminar I attended were so willing to baldly state that their top-down, one-party system of governance and state-directed capitalism was superior to our multiparty, democratic, free-market system.
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They told stories of being asked for favors in return for career advancement, of being subjected to baldly inappropriate propositions, of being cornered in a restaurant while Weinstein masturbated in front of them, of being forced to perform or submit to nonconsensual sex acts and raped.
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Others have been demolished or have been repurposed—including the bullshit "Pennhurst Asylum" haunted house attraction at the former Pennhurst State School and Hospital in southeastern Pennsylvania, which baldly exploits its harrowing history of abuse for Halloween thrills and paints former residents as monsters to be feared.
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"In many ways, I think this is something that is going to turn off so many voters because it is so baldly political that maybe one option is to … give them enough rope and let them hang themselves," she said when asked how Republicans should respond.
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The most baldly subversive among them, Instagram personalities with mysterious or sometimes off-putting handles like Fecal Matter, Forbidden Knowledge and Genesisfawn, are turning to prosthetics, extreme makeup, props, bodysuits and digital effects to mask or make hash of commonly held notions of what it means to be human.
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He baldly opined that several journalists are mere "cogs in an activist enterprise that churns out both pro-Antifa propaganda and doxing information about real or imagined ideological enemies"—which is a rather rude way to refer to people who are doing their literal jobs by exposing neo-Nazis.
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" Obama also made an apparent jab at Trump's propensity for exaggeration and inaccuracy, saying he had never before seen "an approach in which folks at the highest levels of office … will just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly just make stuff up — just say things that they know are not true.
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Last year, Sotheby's promoted a charity auction with a video that baldly appropriated Gouzer's skateboarding stunt: it showed John Farnworth, the freestyle-soccer champion, dribbling and heading a ball through the lobby of Sotheby's London headquarters and into showrooms hung with works by Yan Pei-Ming and Damien Hirst.
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The first, offered by David Frum, Chris Cillizza and others, holds that Mitch McConnell and Co. would have been better served politically by pretending to consider an Obama nominee and then simply using a sixty-vote threshold to avoid approval, rather than coming across as baldly intransigent from day one.
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But it might have been the first time someone had said it to my face so baldly, as if it were a compliment instead of a casual rhetorical act of sweeping erasure — that Asians shouldn't need to see themselves, because we should be content to see ourselves in white people.
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But Trump's first month in office has only plunged us deeper into the weirdness—he has attempted to institute a Muslim ban, his advisers lie baldly on a daily basis, and scandal after scandal is leaking out of the White House like a sieve with a hole punched through it.
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As he admits in the preface to Fire and Fury, he doesn't always make an effort to weed out self-serving or dishonest accounts: Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.
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From one perspective, the State Department's move against Hoda was something bold and new: A U.S. president was flagrantly expanding the role of executive power, baldly asserting the right to personally decide, with no due process or hearing, that a woman born in the United States wasn't an American citizen.
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In the Afghanistan document trove, as in the Pentagon Papers, you can see military and civilian officials feeding the press over-optimistic assessments of a likely unwinnable conflict, conducting clever statistical manipulations to create illusions of success, telling hard truths in private while lying subtly or baldly in their public statements.
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After President Donald Trump tweeted that the Pentagon would bar transgender Americans from serving their country in uniform, the White House acknowledged that Trump's snap decision to ban trans troops was a baldly political move, with an administration official saying the maneuver "forces Democrats in Rust Belt states" into tough terrain.
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But it is there, and, as with the best songs, it is not stated baldly but emerges from the performance itself, accumulating in all the small gestures and surprises and flourishes, gathering force, bit by bit, until the song has ended and you find yourself applauding or stunned into silence, ready to listen again.
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Views like Fan's are rarely expressed so baldly in official public forums, but they do reflect worries in Shanghai that the city's goal to become a global financial center to rival Hong Kong and New York by 2020 took a serious setback in 2015, thanks at least in part to clumsy central intervention by regulators in Beijing.
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Unlike the novelist Nancy Mitford's codification of social division according to a series of U — for "upper class" — and non-U words (looking glass and not mirror; sofa, not couch) that functioned mostly as booby traps for unwitting members of an aspirational middle class, Mr. Haslam's lists are so baldly and so risibly snobbish as to be a hoot.
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Sure, as a piece of art "Call on Me" verges on the problematic—all that bare flesh, presented baldly there, without context, without any sense at all of it belonging to anyone, presented as pure object— but come on, anything that has such a pervasive, wide-reaching impact on a nation's psyche deserves to be valued on some level, and maybe even cherished.
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BBF's introductory incantation (the pitched-down voice of Craig David intoning "This makes me proud to be British" over and over) and the intentionally terrible Oxford Street tat-shop aesthetic the record came draped in may seem like surreal goofs, but dig into—and past—these pointed jokes, and you'll find one of the most baldly and boldly affecting albums of 2016.
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In vetoing a 1952 immigration bill (a veto Congress would override), Truman took on the central logic of the quota system: "The idea behind this discriminatory policy was, to put it baldly, that Americans with English or Irish names were better people and better citizens than Americans with Italian or Greek or Polish names," he wrote in his veto statement.
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Granted, these movies are based on superhero comics, which do this sort of character development a lot, with characters baldly stating what they're thinking or feeling because of the comparative struggle of comics to delve into their characters' heads, lacking consistent devices for inner monologues (as a more traditional novel would have) or the benefit of an actor's performance (as a movie or TV show would have).
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" Ending her campaign Friday, Abrams said the next phase in her career would be to try to fix problems that allowed Brian Kemp, who will be the next governor, to "baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people's democratic right to vote" in Georgia, where Abrams on election night said that "civil rights has always been an act of will and a battle for our souls.
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It's amazing to witness the baldly commercial attempt to shove as many recognizable apps as possible into The Emoji Movie's sad excuse for a plot: Crackle (owned by Sony), WeChat (hugely popular in China, where this movie is aiming to make a killing), Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Dropbox all make appearances, with Dropbox in particular representing a kind of heaven that some of the emojis are trying to reach.
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Alissa Wilkinson, Vox: It's amazing to witness the baldly commercial attempt to shove as many recognizable apps as possible into The Emoji Movie's sad excuse for a plot: Crackle (owned by Sony), WeChat (hugely popular in China, where this movie is aiming to make a killing), Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Dropbox all make appearances, with Dropbox in particular representing a kind of heaven that some of the emojis are trying to reach.
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