They found him exasperatingly Hamlet-like, saying he was reluctant to make difficult decisions.
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For Barkan and his caregivers, every urgent need takes an exasperatingly long time to resolve.
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Exasperatingly, if Neymar had stayed on his feet, he might have had a clear shooting chance.
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Whether that portrait will change anyone's mind about Previn or Allen, however, remains sadly and exasperatingly unclear.
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The downside is that the film moves exasperatingly slowly, and its 105-minute runtime seems much longer.
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It's a piece of legislation that has been debated by the government for an exasperatingly long time.
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The top closure is irritating, exasperatingly so because of all the excellent solutions already available on bags elsewhere.
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It was also an examination of how Nimoy built the character of this seemingly emotionless and exasperatingly logical starship science officer.
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The film's reliance on exasperatingly literal dialogue and images repeatedly gets in the way of honest emotion, or even just honest action.
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Israel's fate would be altogether different, although now — perhaps more than ever before — the Jewish hunger for normalcy is proving exasperatingly elusive.
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Spiked with dryly funny exchanges and lovingly shot by Eric Robbins on 35-millimeter film, "In a Valley of Violence" nevertheless feels exasperatingly two-dimensional.
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If he lacks the preternatural charm Mr. Esparza lent the role, he brings comic ease and ready sympathy to a character who can seem exasperatingly self-involved.
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Despite the clan's attendant losses, the exasperatingly vague Katharina von Globig, "famous as a languorous beauty," is still able to spend her days lounging behind closed doors.
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A later battle lets Woo pull off some signature moves, including combatants firing wildly while sliding down a flight of stairs, but it also gets exasperatingly chaotic and meaningless.
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Damien Chazelle's "La La Land" has several black characters, but it also, exasperatingly, positions a white pianist as the savior of jazz and a black musician as its corrupter.
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" In a quest that began in 2001, he has endured two exasperatingly close second-place finishes from among 15 starters, according to Racenews, at what he describes as "the world's greatest meet.
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Musically, while other rappers rhymed about indulging in weed and Ecstasy and privately snorted cocaine, this film shows Wayne giddily mixing lean as his manager exasperatingly dealt with his artist in the grip of addiction.
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Photo: GettyThere are just 60 days until the United Kingdom is set to leave the European Union, and for EU citizens looking to stay living in the UK, the process currently has an exasperatingly dumb roadblock.
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Ms. Damrau's personal life — she has two young children with her husband, the bass-baritone Nicolas Testé, who is also in the cast of "Pêcheurs" — is exasperatingly stable for an operatic world that thrives on offstage drama.
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But it is exasperatingly difficult to get a good estimate of how long until self-driving cars happen for real for the typical American, both because no one knows for sure and because companies have incentives to publicize optimistic estimates.
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Washington (CNN)The head of the nation's airport security said Thursday that airports can decide whether they want to privatize their security staff -- amid exasperatingly long waits and continued security gaps -- but the results are likely to be the same as using government workers.
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They assemble to discuss the 1989 edition of their big annual charity project, a 24-hour (more or less, everything is exasperatingly open to discussion) homemade television show to raise money for a scholarship named for a student track star killed in a car crash.
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Often shot in luxuriant black and white, these are movies to swoon over, though how long you do so in "Lover for a Day" depends on whether you find its ideas about love, faithfulness, men and women charmingly old-fashioned, exasperatingly naïve or merely deterministic.
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That is the California conundrum: It could prove to be the linchpin for almost any Democratic path to the 2020 nomination, and yet campaign officials believe there is exasperatingly little they can do to gain an edge in a state that is so vast and expensive for campaigning.
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Though it will probably be embraced by graduate school creative writing types, many of whom struggle daily with imposing deep meaning on what is exasperatingly mundane, "The Book of Resting Places" occupies that awkward literary sphere of books that seem on the surface to be more interesting than they actually are.
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And The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw was the rare critic to pan Kong, awarding it just one star out of five: This fantastically muddled and exasperatingly dull quasi-update of the King Kong story looks like a zestless mashup of Jurassic Park, Apocalypse Now and a few exotic visual borrowings from Miss Saigon.
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Oklahoma City Thunder I just don't see why George would re-sign in Oklahoma City, where he's filming Gatorade commercials with Terrance Ferguson (one of the weirdest ad campaigns nobody talks about) and playing with two of the most exasperatingly selfish scorers of their respective generations in Carmelo Anthony and Russell Westbrook.
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She writes: Instead, the curatorial team overseen by James Rondeau, formerly the museum's curator of modern and contemporary art and now its new director, has grouped artworks into exasperatingly vapid mini-galleries deserving of nicknames like The Muddy Canvas Room, The Monochrome Room, The Bad Work by Good Artists Room, The Room of Amazing Production Values and The Leftover Objects Room.
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Exasperatingly, Leah cannot even decide if Tim is wholly wrong in thinking that way. Instead, she leaves Tim with the important reminder that he might try to throw away his magic, but he will never wholly succeed: it is a part of him, and always will be.
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The action was later described by the Senior Officer as exasperatingly unsatisfactory. until Liberator aircraft, from No. 222 Group RAF, provided support. The four transports were then sunk by a series of air and surface attacks, during which one Liberator crashed. There were 52 Japanese survivors taken prisoner from the convoy and delivered to Trincomalee on 28 March.
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The realization of Sakanashi's delude doesn't sway Shioji's strategy, as he exasperatingly resumes annihilate many exorcists he could. Until then Tatara ambushes Shioji and impales him through the chest. With his last thoughts in mind, he deeply wishes for rebirth but not as a mere impurity. ; :The ninth of the eleven Basara, he has followed Hijimaru since the later found him as an ordinary juvenile Impurity.
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Yate took a small printing press with him to the Bay of Islands and used it to produce a version of the third catechism in Māori, Ko te katihama III. With only a fortnight's training as a printer in Sydney, New South-Wales, however, he found the task exasperatingly difficult and attempted nothing further on his press.Sharp, Iain (2007). Real gold : treasures of Auckland City Libraries.
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Set in the 1940s prior to the partition of India, it featured Dhawan and her as star-crossed lovers. She watched the films Mughal-e-Azam (1960) and Umrao Jaan (1981) to learn the body language of women from the era; to better her Urdu-speaking skills, she watched the Pakistani television series Zindagi Gulzar Hai. Shubhra Gupta bemoaned that she was "watchable, if increasingly, exasperatingly familiar". The film did not perform well at the box office.
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After receiving no answers about the whereabouts of the map, Drake shoots Kirk in the shoulder before threatening to kill him. Kirk asks to be killed by walking the plank, which Drake exasperatingly agrees to. Once entering the Great Sea, Kirk complains about the salt water entering his wound and wishes to choose a different form of death. Drake shoots him, and in a fit of rage, Flint cuts off Drake's hand, stabs his side and knocks Drake unconscious with a boot.
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Other works included a biography of Proudhon, and Terrorists and Terrorism. His fiction included The Astrologer (1950) a satirical science fiction novel about an ecological disaster, and Gentian Violet (1953), a satire in which the hero managed to get elected to Parliament as both Conservative and Labour without being discovered. He won a prize for his translation of Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses by the French historian Régine Pernoud. Hyams' work was praised by both Anthony Burgess and Ronald Bryden, the latter describing Hyams as "the most exasperatingly gifted writer in England".
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Film critic Todd McCarthy of Variety based his negative review of the film on the fact that "the fantasy element...is exasperatingly tame", claiming that the screenwriters "have kept their imaginations too inhibited and domesticated where greater flights of fancy would have been welcome". McCarthy did agree that his "sympathy goes out to Salinger" for her ability to "remain somewhat likable" and that a "number of talented thesps brighten up the supporting cast" even though "few will count this among their more stellar credits".McCarthy, Todd. Unbecoming Age, Variety, July 16, 1992.
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He concluded by referring to the film as "dreck". One year later, Gordiano Lupi in his book on D'Amato stated that the film was "crazy and visionary" and called it the best film of D'Amato's Caribbean period. The film was "exasperatingly slow" and the acting was sub-par, but Lupi saw these weaknesses as elements that even added to the myth of a "home- made cinema of the extreme". He wrote that the scenes of hardcore pornography were "well attended to" and "shot with craftsmanship and pioneering spirit", keeping in mind that these were the first of their kind in Italian film.
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The film garnered a 14% approval rating from 7 critics, with an average rating of 3.2 out of 10, on Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic provides a score of 32 out of 100 from 6 critics, which indicates "generally unfavorable" reviews. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 2 stars out of 5, calling it "an inert and exasperatingly supercilious two-hander: self-conscious, tedious, with a dated and cumbersome theatricality, tricked out in a 3D presentation that adds nothing to its dull stereoscopic tableaux of an idealised French garden outside Paris." Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter praised Virginie Hernvann's production design.
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Tolkien's correspondence and publisher's records show that he was involved in the design and illustration of the entire book. All elements were the subject of considerable correspondence and fussing over by Tolkien. Rayner Unwin, in his publishing memoir, comments: "In 1937 alone Tolkien wrote 26 letters to George Allen & Unwin... detailed, fluent, often pungent, but infinitely polite and exasperatingly precise... I doubt any author today, however famous, would get such scrupulous attention." Cirth runes and the English letter values assigned to them by Tolkien, used in several of his original illustrations and designs for The Hobbit.
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She was superbly gowned in silk that had a touch of purple or > lilac about it, just the tone for her full black, calm eyes and war, tawny > skin. For these of chiefly blood are many shades fairer than the commoners. > Jack London and Charmian London agreed that they could not expect ever to > behold a more queenly woman. The descriptive powers of these were > exasperatingly inept to picture the manner in which the Princess stood, > touching with hers the hands of all who passed before her, with a brief, > graceful droop of her fine head, and a fleeting, perfunctory, yet graciouse > flash of little teeth under her small fine mouth.
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But to pack mystery, surprise and a solution into > three or four thousand words is to achieve a feat. There is no doubt about > Miss Christie's success in the eleven tales (why not a round dozen?) > published in this volume. All of them have point and ingenuity, and if M. > Poirot is infallibly and exasperatingly omniscient, well, that is the > function of the detective in fiction." Unlike The New York Times, the reviewer favourably compared some of the stories to those of Sherlock Holmes and concluded, > "We hope that the partnership [of Poirot, Hastings and Japp] will last long > and yield many more narratives as exciting as these.
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" She said that the author "comes off as an irritating, solipsistic brat." "It would be possible to have more sympathy for Ms. Wurtzel if she weren't so exasperatingly sympathetic to herself," wrote Ken Tucker in the New York Times Book Review. He observed, "The reader may well begin riffling the pages of the book in the vain hope that there will be a few complimentary Prozac capsules tucked inside for one's own relief." Kirkus Reviews thought the book to be filled with "narcissistic pride" and concluded, "By alternately belittling and belaboring her depression, Wurtzel loses her credibility: Either she's a brat who won't shape up or she needs the drugs.
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Wonderful images abound: a white-haired Aboriginal chief touring his lands in a rusty car pulled by camels; a car pushed into the path of a train by a combine harvester; a ghostly Aborigine revenge squad implacably hunting a murderer - and spearing him. Australian Aboriginal people are represented as dignified characters in the series - low-key, reserved, but dangerous when angered, operating on the edges of the white world, but sometimes willing to help Boney, often using telepathy or magic. James Laurenson’s Boney is magnetic, arrogant yet charming, exasperatingly self-confident and determined not to take "No" for an answer (unless it's the answer he wants). "James gave an excellent performance," John McCallum said later.
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But the lesson has not been learned in the way that she hoped, because of Tim's focus on the small scale: it was not the destruction of the forest that prompted him to reconnect with his magic, but the threat to the single tree. Exasperatingly, Leah cannot even decide if Tim is wholly wrong in thinking that way. Instead, she leaves Tim with the important reminder that he might try to throw away his magic, but he will never wholly succeed: it is a part of him, and always will be. Perhaps a little wiser, Tim begins school at Bardsley Boarding School - Cyril's school - where he forms a strong bond with their newest teacher, Thomas Currie.
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Holmes's BonfireOn 9 August 1666, Holmes achieved his best-known feat, characteristically (and, to Pepys and Coventry, exasperatingly) using his own judgement in interpreting his orders. Holmes was to land five hundred men on the island of Vlieland and four hundred on Terschelling and loot and destroy as much as possible. Instead of this, Holmes executed a fireship attack on the mass of merchantmen lying in Vlie Road, destroying some 150 ships, and sacked the Mennonite town of West- Terschelling.The Dutch Raid on the Medway, Samuel Pepys, 1667 This, Holmes's Bonfire, was the heaviest blow the English ever dealt Dutch merchant shipping, severely endangering the Netherlands' war effort, at the cost of no more than twelve English casualties.
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While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of mankind and of selfless devotion to the care of patients, Lewis throws many less noble temptations and self-deceptions in Arrowsmith's path. The attractions of financial security, recognition, even wealth and power distract Arrowsmith from his original plan to follow in the footsteps of his first mentor, Max Gottlieb, a brilliant but abrasive bacteriologist. In the course of the novel Lewis describes many aspects of medical training, medical practice, scientific research, scientific fraud, medical ethics, public health, and of personal/professional conflicts that are still relevant today. Professional jealousy, institutional pressures, greed, stupidity, and negligence are all satirically depicted, and Arrowsmith himself is exasperatingly self-involved.
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The film had a mixed reception, with some critics such as Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian suspicious of it as Oscar bait, but Hoffman gained second consecutive Best Supporting Actor nominations at the Oscars, BAFTAs, and Golden Globes, and was also nominated by the Screen Actors Guild. On stage in 2009, Hoffman played Iago in Peter Sellars' futuristic production of Othello (with the title role by John Ortiz), which received mixed reviews. Ben Brantley, theatre critic of The New York Times, found it to be "exasperatingly misconceived", remarking that even when Hoffman is attempting to "manipulate others into self-destruction, he comes close to spoiling everything by erupting into genuine, volcanic fury". Hoffman also did his first vocal performance for the claymation film Mary and Max, although the film did not initially have an American release.
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Critic James Berardinelli gave the film his first four-star review of 2009, stating, "With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has made his best movie since Pulp Fiction," and that it was "one hell of an enjoyable ride." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times also gave the film a four-star review, writing that "Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he's the real thing, a director of quixotic delights." Author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn was disturbed by the portrayal of Jewish American soldiers mimicking German atrocities done to European Jews, stating, "In Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino indulges this taste for vengeful violence by—well, by turning Jews into Nazis". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian stated he was "struck ... by how exasperatingly awful and transcendentally disappointing it is".
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