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crawling creeping dallying dilatory dillydallying dragging laggard lagging languid leisurely pokey poking poky slow sluggish snaillike snail-paced tardy unhurried casual comfortable measured deliberate unrushed lazy plodding loitering steady leisured lingering unhasty languorous slow-moving slow-going slow and steady vacillatory faltering hesitating doubtful timid unsure diffident halting backward wavering afraid averse delaying disinclined doubting indecisive irresolute loath pendulous stalling tarrying dilly-dallying shilly-shallying dragging your feet lagging behind procrastination hesitation waiting vacillation pausing dithering postponement hesitance to-and-fro hesitancy indecision doubt indecisiveness equivocation fluctuation delay pause oscillation irresolution dubiety scepticism(UK) skepticism(US) indisposition misgiving mistrust retardation slowdown deceleration braking downshift stoppage letup wait hindrance impediment setback holdup obstruction stall detainment hangup detention lag retardment inertness inertia sloth indolence sluggishness lethargy torpor slowness slothfulness shiftlessness stagnation torpidity stupor otiosity unemployment hibernation leisure droning joblessness laze dalliance dabbling playing toying trifling frittering frivoling idling loafing procrastinating puttering drifting resting pottering taking it easy resting on your oars wasting time diddling lallygagging lollygagging moping ambling strolling moseying pootling tootling bimbling going slowly mooching swanning walking slowly loitering along moving at a snail's pace wandering meandering sauntering rambling roaming lounging lazing lolling lazying bumming chilling chillin footling hanging about goofing off kicking back kicking around vegging out hacking around hanging around vacillating fluctuating teetering havering staggering swithering wobbling oscillating scrupling equivocating temporising(UK) temporizing(US) More

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Instead they are dawdling, which is bad for both countries.
Senate Democrats have resisted somewhat by dawdling on Trump's nominees.
Order dawdling batsmen to step into the box — like men!
"I made a big mistake with this investment by dawdling," he said.
"Virtually all of the increased exercise is not just dawdling," Mills said.
Dawdling in a lane with your turn signal blinking can baffle other drivers.
He emerges from the crowds unscathed after dawdling to examine playbills on the way.
Diversity advocates say bias is a factor in why tech companies are dawdling on diversity.
She has been silent on Trump's dawdling and denying and wants a bi-partisan partnership.
When the pace being set is so fierce, clubs know dawdling is not an option.
I remember dawdling on Paint as fondly as I do playing outside and napping under trees.
The spiritual crisis in "I Still Believe" takes about two of the movie's dawdling 115 minutes.
Maybe it feels good down here on hot, humid, dead-air days, dawdling in the cool eddies.
After initially dawdling, the company pushed out its chief executive and fired or disciplined hundreds of managers.
But the board also added a new rule to prevent players from dawdling before the match begins.
And conservative driving is not always good driving — sometimes it's the dawdling or timid vehicle that causes problems.
Old boyfriends called and said they were sorry — for cheating and dawdling, for failures of commitment and appreciation.
Silly arguments over irrelevant questions are what regulators with no skin in the game engage in while dawdling.
"Dépêche-toi!" she yelled across the lawn to one, like a school principal urging on a dawdling student.
Like Young's and Niblock's, Radigue's impressionistic compositions are agonizingly slow: based on dawdling, discreet resonances that amble along.
LOS ANGELES — Nobody can accuse Jordan Spieth or Jason Day of dawdling on his ascent to golf's mountaintop.
She borrows money from her mother, Shelly (Mädchen Amick), and seems to be dawdling in her young adult life.
Daniel, the serious cellist who always have a chip on his shoulder for getting started too late, for dawdling.
"As writer Brenda Ueland puts it, 'The imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering,'" Alcee says.
The dawdling city-country dramedy that follows could have used the caffeine for its slack story of love after grief.
But unlike their beloved spring sale (which is still going strong), there's no time for dawdling with this one. Why?
Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan's president, upset China by dawdling in America while on her way to and from the Caribbean.
Dawdling past the large Sainsbury's where I started the day, I accept that perhaps the culture simply no longer exists.
But for those who live and work in rural France, roads are not for dawdling but getting about, and fast.
The referees blew the play dead and stood nearby, dawdling like a pair of plainclothes detectives at a crime scene.
Why haven't you checked to see if it's on Netflix, so you can watch it right now, no more dawdling necessary?
Even if, as elsewhere, such partnerships become a way-station on the road to gay marriage, Mr Hsu is against dawdling.
This dawdling pace, combined with a stagnant economy and rising unemployment (it recently hit 37%), provides fertile ground for populist politicians.
Steidl does not want artists straying into town, or dawdling at a restaurant or a bar where he cannot find them.
It almost seems as if Uncle Sam hopes that by dawdling the whole challenge of dealing with drones will simply go away.
Toscanini's way with music by Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Verdi, Wagner, and Debussy could make the work of other conductors seem dawdling, nerveless.
Through the haze of scheming and months of posturing, dawdling and resistance, what has emerged is a snapshot of how the owners align.
When he visits her in Maine, a weakly acted city-country dramedy results, dawdling along with a generic story of love after grief.
At last, from a side door in the hall, out walked the queen, who was astonished to find Sullivan dawdling in the shadows.
To be sure, that's only a fraction of the time that the Italians spend dawdling at the post office or at city hall.
Private companies are dawdling at the exit door, postponing graduation to public markets because private-market money is cheap and plentiful, for now.
If you want to look smarter, you need to stop dawdling, but you also need to stop scurrying around like some crazed robot.
When William and the King moved ahead, they went around a corner and paused, waiting for their dawdling wives who were deep in conversation.
And while the car project under Teller has lost several critical members and faces criticism for dawdling, it is expected to "graduate," X's parlance, soon.
It took the winning team's autonomous vehicle nearly seven hours to complete the 132-mile course, a dawdling pace of less than 20 miles per hour.
And more than once, she slowed down to comment in a goofy, affectionate voice about kids in neat uniforms, dawdling on their way home from school.
Just as railway officials call dawdling trains "superfast," or as fawning broadcasters call Mr. Modi the "first 24x7 prime time prime minister," such claims are overdone.
The journey has been long, and I'm trying to make up for lost time, all of those hours I spent dawdling, cataloging wildlife or mining for resources.
"Chance" keeps threatening to blossom into the mordant comedy it ought to be, but the dawdling pace and a general dreariness of mood keep it tied down.
If American export performance overall has been disappointing, then dawdling by its trade negotiators could also be to blame, says Jeff Schott, an economist and trade-deal veteran.
In the 1970s, Langdon Clay turned his camera on cars dawdling on New York City corners at nightfall, in the few hours before the city reemerged from sleep.
Being lazy is enough of an art for the two of them, Mr. Harrelson said, that they warped the English language to suit their shared taste for dawdling.
The sad thing, and perhaps the hopeful thing, about the dawdling featurelessness of the early episodes is that you can see a better show struggling to get out.
"It's a very sad situation," said 28-year-old sales worker Raees Ulhaq, as soldiers hurried on dawdling worshippers and sniffer dogs nosed their way through pot-holed lanes.
Corporations like BP and Wells Fargo have faced criticism for dawdling responses to cascading crises, while politicians from Bill Clinton to Anthony Weiner have had difficulty admitting to peccadilloes.
Four years ago, the entrance poll suggested that Bernie Sanders had surged in the final weeks of the caucuses but that voters dawdling until the last minute had pulled back.
A warning to Rafael Nadal and other notorious tennis procrastinators: The dawdling days of time-wasting between points and games are coming to an end, at least at Flushing Meadows.
Already criticised for dawdling in offering condolences to the families of four American troops killed in Niger, Mr Trump became embroiled in a quarrel centred on one of the grieving widows.
Last Monday, the Cincinnati Reds took note of Syndergaard's dawdling delivery with runners on base and stole five bases, uncovering a soft spot in what was previously perceived as an ironclad makeup.
Knowing that I was paying by the minute, I was hyper-aware of the quality of my workout and didn't waste time scrolling through my phone or dawdling like I normally would.
But in this case, people's lives are quite literally at stake — and his administration is at best dawdling and at worst taking steps that will make a very deadly crisis even deadlier.
Add that to the fact that Rosetta is traveling at the same speed as a dawdling tourist blocking up the sidewalk and you have what is best characterized as a low-energy event.
Despite Congress's dawdling, there is little question that America's abundance of guns — the country has by far the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world — is driving its unique gun violence problem.
"You will find the future wherever people are having the most fun," Johnson writes, and damned if the human capacity for dawdling over Candy Crush and skipping after shiny objects isn't convincingly ennobled here.
Written by the novelist Tom Rob Smith and directed by Jakob Verbruggen ("The Fall"), "London Spy" is a mood piece, set in a blue-and-gray London and taking long, dawdling detours between plot twists.
For those of us dawdling to take the easiest of self-protective steps, all that can make it seem as though worrying about the issue of privacy is a pointless exercise in stopping the inevitable.
But while Clarke, who owns 15 Ferraris, is easing into a slower lifestyle the 2011 British Open champion insists golfers need to pick up the pace because those guilty of dawdling are slowly killing the sport.
Today it is clear that the species currently creeping, crawling, striding, swimming, photosynthesising—and sometimes just dawdling—across the face of the Earth represent a tiny fraction of those that evolution has created and discarded over the aeons.
It was eight and five years respectively until the ideas in Far Cry 2 and Kane and Lynch 2 were more fully exercised—if violent games go back to their dawdling, it will just be business as usual.
A good PK is hard to perfect; the most common flaw is a gummy interior due to over-mixing, or a gray tinge due to dawdling during preparation and letting the potatoes sit out too long before baking.
I don't want to look back as an adult and regret wasting four years solely on busy work and sleepless nights, but I also don't want to look back on four years spent dawdling idly with my friends.
For someone looking to bake a carrot cake for my trip, (cousin J. requested that I bake a cake to bring on our trip) I am mortified to find that I spent two hours dawdling on social media.
Every encounter with the police splits us into two selves, one a quiet, brooding figure cursing the cops from within, the other a dawdling doppelgänger, a concrete-staring, shuffling Negro we are ashamed to admit lives inside of us.
In Brooklyn, his fourth home in four years, Howard's role under a coach who is allergic to dawdling post-ups and stale offense could curdle a positive yet delicate culture that seems to be heading in the right direction.
Without introducing any notable scenes, Mr Favreau roves around the uncannily convincing savannah at such a leisurely pace that he adds a half hour to the running time, turning a brisk 88-minute cartoon into a dawdling 118-minute movie.
But the forecast tracks showed Harvey's center dawdling after landfall, and many computer models predicted enormous rainfall totals for large areas on and near the coast -- including Houston -- as they envisioned the storm lingering into the middle of this week.
While all states require slow-moving vehicles to keep to the right, laws that went into effect in Tennessee this year, Indiana last year, Georgia in 2014 and Florida and New Jersey in 2013 are setting harsher penalties for dawdling drivers.
Like diesel last winter, excess gasoline is pooling in onshore tanks as well as on ships anchored off refining hubs and dawdling along slow-steaming routes around Africa - traders are sitting on the fuel to cash in on higher future prices.
Richer people are less tolerant of dawdling at the ticket barrier, people who stand on the left side of the escalator (which is meant to be kept clear so others can walk on the left) and of music being played loudly from a device.
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter The arc that carries the drama through humiliation, atonement, tragedy, heartbreak and a final, very public reaffirmation of Ally's love for Jackson is pretty much indestructible, even if some dawdling in the mid-to-late action softens the emotional impact.
As the players were shedding their uniforms and dipping their feet into buckets of ice, Kyrie Irving, James Jones and Jordan McRae trilled a dawdling rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner," uncoiling the lines with waggish emotion as their teammates looked on and laughed.
The earlier images depict them quite young, about 12 or 13 years old, still very much behaving the way children do: blowing chewing gum bubbles as they mug for the camera, dawdling on the sidewalk in Catholic school uniforms, and gossiping as they sit draped over two-wheeler bicycles.
The event was taking place at the school that expelled Stormzy as a teenager for a series of minor disciplinary issues, so he knew the winding route well enough to chat, smoke cigarettes and hum along to Top 2100 radio while gliding across lanes and overtaking a dawdling double-decker bus.
Christian Galani, a Louvre employee and union representative, said in a telephone interview that it had been agreed that guards would no longer have to move among the crowds in the room to stop people from dawdling in front of the Mona Lisa and to break up large groups that could cause bottlenecks.
A stand-up comic in his spare time but known for his no-nonsense demeanor during more than three decades on the bench, Justice Tomei witnessed suicide and murder attempts in his courtroom, quoted Scripture to a priest convicted of child molestation and once penalized dawdling prosecutors by dismissing charges against a serial rapist.
"Oh, hello," Isaac said, and his tone, with its high, slight whine of riskless civility, made him, he figured, the more likely Hamptonite, as though he were greeting Stoma in some vacation-town supermarket, both of them just back from the ocean, relaxed, pleasantly melancholy, dawdling down aisles in salt-encrusted swim trunks for a twilight resupply of wine and fresh corn.
The Magnus Effect, as it were, describes the various sociocultural phenomena accompanying his rise: the way Carlsen, a menschy young man from Tonsberg, became one of the country's most famous people; the way television producers here turned a notoriously dawdling activity into a rollicking spectator sport; the way millions of Norwegians, most of them casual or new fans of the game, have integrated it into their lives.
Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye By Ellen Doré Watson Year after year you keep on being gone, goneafter years and years of gone, of marginal, mute,vacant, of breathing, and then, within minutes, a shydescent, some huffs and stutters, and a hushingto waxen, no, to stone-gone, finally unloosed(to our tired, to our relief) to revisit us — gleeful,earnest, jigging you, who I wear on my left pinky,on my worn face, all through the fading, the warmforgettable grief, the still water of it, until my owntides' tugging, morning's horror-mirror, rude singleton-time, its skeletal, long view of the hurtling, the waythe body speaks of it, first one syllable then two, and youstill gone, and him here, ancient, healthy, walls of all-he-is inching inward, leaving him small and dawdling.
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But he only manages to catch the dawdling old woman Pelageya Diomina ...
The filly was then moved up in class for the Grade II Demoiselle Stakes over nine furlongs at Aqueduct Racetrack in November. After showing some reluctance to enter the starting gate she set a "dawdling" for three- quarters of a mile before tiring to finish third behind Wonder Lady Anne L and Cinderella's Dream.
"U-M can make fitting pledge to pluralism" Joe Stroud, Detroit News, 5/14/89. News and Information Services Faculty and Staff Files, Box 85, Bentley Library."U-M accused of dawdling on diversity" Karen Grassmuck, The Ann Arbor News, Friday 15 September 1989. News and Information Services Faculty and Staff Files, Box 85, Bentley Library.
Palmerston enjoyed robust health in old age,Hibbert, Christopher Disraeli: A Personal History (2004) p. 256 living at Romsey in his home Foxhills, built in about 1840. On 12 October 1865 he caught a chill, and instead of retiring immediately to bed he spent an hour and a half dawdling. He then had a violent fever but his condition stabilised for the next few days.
Due to injuries, Toivonen only made 17 appearances in which he scored eight times. At the end of the season, PSV wanted to sell Toivonen as he had refused to extend his contract which would expire in the summer of 2014. Norwich City showed interest in the player, but preferred countryman Johan Elmander after Toivonen had been dawdling too long in the opinion of the club.
A play that encourages this type of behavior also interests the audience more in the rascal than the honest man showing the viewers that morality is shallow, worthless, and inverted. Even Beaumarchais admits that some critics describe the genre as deadly dawdling prose with no comic relief, maxims, or characters with improbable plots that will inspire laziness in young writers who will not take the time to write verse.
Mr. Morgan's Last Love received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 31% rating, based on 39 reviews, with an average score of 4.67/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Last Love benefits from a typically strong Michael Caine performance, but it's ultimately too mawkish and dawdling to make much impact." Metacritic gives the film a score of 36 out of 100, sampled from thirteen reviews.
Series Eight, Episode Two The presenters tried to host a drive time radio show on BBC Southern Counties Radio in Brighton, but ended up with many complaints from the listeners. This was mainly because Clarkson's travel bulletins focussed on hounding motorists he could see dawdling on CCTV, rather than issuing the more normal information on the location of problem areas caused by such people and how to avoid them.
Rancon, however, chose to continue on, deciding in concert with Amadeus III, Count of Savoy, Louis's uncle, that a nearby plateau would make a better campsite. Such disobedience was reportedly common. Accordingly, by mid-afternoon, the rear of the column —believing the day's march to be nearly at an end —was dawdling. This resulted in the army becoming separated, with some having already crossed the summit and others still approaching it.
Impresario Zwickel (Rudolf Platte) fears for the preview of the new operetta. One day remains to complete the fragmentary opus. The complete finale is missing. While Zwickel is plodding to bring the dawdling composer duo Jupp (Willy Fritsch) and Juppi (Hardy Krüger) Holunder up to speed, there is mobbing going on behind the scenery: chorister Maria Schippe (Sonja Ziemann) accuses diva Rose (Anny Ondra) only to strike false notes.
Unencumbered by baggage, they reached the summit of Cadmus, where Rancon had been ordered to make camp for the night. Rancon, however, chose to continue on, deciding in concert with Amadeus III, Count of Savoy, Louis's uncle, that a nearby plateau would make a better campsite. Such disobedience was reportedly common. Accordingly, by mid-afternoon, the rear of the column —believing the day's march to be nearly at an end —was dawdling.
Later, Cohn became angry when he learned McCarey was apparently dawdling on the set by playing the piano and telling stories. He angrily confronted McCarey in front of the cast and crew, shouting, "I hired you to make a great comedy so I could show up Frank Capra. The only one who's going to laugh at this picture is Capra!" When Cohn caught McCarey playing the piano another time, McCarey dismissed his concerns by claiming to be writing a song for the film.
June 15, 2011 Jesse Schedeen of IGN gave issue #1 an "Okay" rating of 6.0, expressing the view that Deadpool's exploitation of a suburban family's paranoia and fear was so close sentiments in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks that writer Christopher Hastings struck at the heart of the crossover's core ideas, and that although some elements were characterized by dawdling exposition, spoilers and heavy-handed attempts at humor, penciller Bong Dazo was adroitly brought the physical humor to life.
Sixteen-year-old Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and dog, Toto, on their farm in Kansas. Though her work there keeps her busy, she often gets distracted in her boredom with farm life, choosing instead to play with Toto and dream of someday seeing far- off lands. Aunt Em, however, has little patience for her daydreaming, believing that dawdling is contrary to their way of life. After an argument, Aunt Em apologizes to her for an unintentionally hurtful remark.
Reliable witnesses who had nothing to lose or gain by telling police what they knew said Tirtschke was dawdling, apprehensive and obviously afraid. Just a few metres away from the Australian Wine Saloon in the Eastern Arcade, between Bourke and Little Collins Streets, where Alfred Place runs off Little Collins Street (next to present day 120 Collins St), Tirtschke was last seen about 3 pm on 30 December 1921. Her naked body was found early the next morning in a lane running east off Gun Alley, not far from Alfred Place.
Elections for a second National Assembly returned one in which the balance of power had shifted to the unitarists in the Fall of 1797. Nevertheless, the federalists managed to retain control of the new constitutional commission by a bare majority. This led to more dawdling and the unitarists in the Assembly now came with their own proposal in the form of the Declaration of 43 on 12 December 1797, containing a nine-point manifesto concerning the minimum conditions to which the new constitution should conform.Schama, pp. 295–296.
In 1641, during the Tibetan civil war, Norbu was deputed to lead a body of troops west from Shun, six miles east of Lhasa, via upper Tolung to reinforce Gushri Khan's Mongol army besieging the fort at Shigatse. Avoiding Kagyu resistance en route he progressed at a snail's pace, finally reaching Chushur (') on the north bank of the Tsangpo (') after dawdling along and losing time. His men eventually engaged in battle in Tsang (') under Gopa Tashi of Drungme ('). Some were assigned to operate cannons, others to take positions on hilltops.
After a ludicrous first furlong with the whole field dawdling along, Mercer took the lead but only at a moderate gallop. However going down towards Tattenham Corner he set Buoy alight such that entering the straight he was 10 lengths clear. By the final furlong he was dead beat but Mercer kept him going to the line to record a one and a half length victory over Tennyson. Buoy's final victory was in the Princess of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket when he beat Jupiter Pluvius in a workmanlike fashion. As regards 2yos two Sobell youngsters came to the fore.
"mueang") stalling the northern Burmese army's advance, but it was early in the campaign along the Wang River in northern Siam (not near Ayutthaya) during the rainy season (August–October 1765). The Burmese general who was then present near Ayutthaya was not Thihapate, but rather Maha Nawrahta, whose southern army was waiting for the northern Burmese army to show up to attack the Siamese capital.Phayre, pp. 188-189 It appears that the three verified events: petty chiefs resisting Thihapate in the north, Thihapate's campaign period of five months, and Maha Nawrahta dawdling near Ayutthaya—have merged to create this Siamese mythology.
His father is annoyed with his dawdling. Mulberry refuses at first to do the job putting it off constantly much to his father's annoyance, and eventually, we learn the source of Mulberry's love of life: his mother, is actually Springtime. Mulberry's mother is one of the few things able to move his father as he grudgingly lets Miss Farnaby have three extra months of life and allows Mulberry to stay for that time after his mother visits. Mulberry also meets his mother for the first time who says she "does have some influence" on his father.
As the early favorite for the 2011 Kentucky Derby, the first leg of the U.S. Triple Crown series, Uncle Mo made his 3-year old debut in the Timely Writer, a one-turn mile overnight stakes at Gulfstream Park. After dawdling on the lead for the first three-quarters of a mile, he came home in 22 4/5 for the final quarter. His next start was the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct on April 9.BloodHorse, March 31, 2011 Running 9 furlongs for the first time in his career, Uncle Mo was defeated by Toby's Corner and finished third.
Of the events of this time may be mentioned the failure to relieve Colonel Hudson Lowe at Capri, the expedition against Murat's gunboats in the bay of Naples and the second siege of Scylla. The various attempts made by Murat to cross the straits uniformly failed, though on one occasion the French actually obtained a footing in the island. A. G. Macdonell in his 1934 book Napoleon and His Marshals describes Stuart as "a dawdling, incompetent and evil-minded man", but it is unclear why Macdonell issues such a disparaging description. In 1810 Stuart returned to England.
Nock observes that the station was rebuilt to an exceptionally pleasing design with a light glass canopy to the circulating area; the pier could accommodate five steamers at once. He goes on > At Wemyss Bay ... quite apart from the beauty of the station itself, the > traffic facilities provided in the reconstruction of 1900 are remarkable in > themselves. The enterprising timetables of the day required that a train and > a steamer should arrive simultaneously, and exchange passengers. Although > the changeover did not need to be done at the lightning speed demanded by > the most competitive services at Gourock, there was to be no dawdling about.
Following his dismissal from a draper's shop, where his father had placed him as an apprentice, protagonist Alfred Polly (John Mills) finds it hard to find another position. When a telegram arrives informing him of his father's death, he returns to the family home. With a bequest of £500, Polly considers his future; and a friend of his father's, Mr Johnsen (Edward Chapman), urges him to invest it in a shop - an idea that Polly dislikes. Whilst dawdling in the country on a newly-bought bicycle, Polly has a brief dalliance with a schoolgirl, Christabel (Sally Ann Howes); but later marries one of his cousins, Miriam Larkins (Betty Ann Davies).
John Migliore stated that 'great performances and a spectacular ending make The Rizen a winner…'. Chris Luciantonio gave the film a less favourable review, commenting that 'even upon enduring the abysmal apocalyptic indolence of The Rizen for 140 incoherent minutes of dawdling about in underground corridors littered with feral mutants(?), I am still uncertain as to where director Matt Mitchell’s head was at behind the camera or if he can even make sense of the mess he made'. Similarly, Helen Murdoch stated that the film 'is a plodding and at times awful film to watch'. Jim McLennan lamented that the viewer has 'to endure painfully repetitive meandering through dark corridors for what seems like forever'.
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that two of ten surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 4.9/10. Todd McCarthy of Variety called it "a self-indulgent drama" that plays like a dreary variation on New Jack City", Cooper's first film. Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it "an ambitious but terminally self-important film". Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that it "sinks under the weight of excessive violence and a welter of overwrought plot contrivances". Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly rated it C− and wrote, "Though the movie itself isn’t much — a dawdling inner-city pastiche of Mean Streets and the Godfather films — a couple of the performers do succeed in fleshing out their threadbare roles.
Critics praised the film for its unique feel while also complimenting its brutality through the eyes of someone who is so caught up in their own fantasy of sorts. Bettis' performance was also praised. Roger Ebert granted the film four stars out of four, and called it "a horror film and something more and deeper, something disturbing and oddly moving" and characterized the denouement as "a final shot that would get laughs in another kind of film, but May earns the right to it, and it works, and we understand it". Variety magazine critic David Rooney turned in a review that was more middle of the road, stating that the film was "More successful when the title character finally embarks on her bloody mission than in the dawdling buildup".
This memoir tells of a precocious boy who loved the sights and sounds of his childhood but felt reticent about full participation in life. The note is sounded from the first chapters, as James recounts the limitations—and rewards—of the child he was: "For there was the very pattern and measure of all he was to demand: just to be somewhere—almost anywhere would do—and somehow receive an impression or an accession, feel a relation or a vibration. He was to go without many things, ever so many—as all people do in whom contemplation takes so much the place of action; but everywhere...he was to enjoy more than anything the so far from showy practice of wondering and dawdling and gaping: he was really, I think, much to profit by it." James clearly suffered from a sense of his inferiority in the "showy", active parts of life.

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