Check. Does it fall flat in a multitude of ways?
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He can play three crazy matches and then fall flat.
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After the first dozen times, it starts to fall flat.
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But its attempted effects fall flat a little too often.
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Finally, as to his defamation claims, they too fall flat.
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Even brands claiming a diverse range of colors can fall flat.
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With some mascaras, your lashes fall flat midway through the day.
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This last-gasp effort to derail the nomination will fall flat.
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So the rivalry never feels organic, and their interactions fall flat.
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And that's where a lot of proposals just fall flat immediately.
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For most hard-core AfD supporters, all three responses fall flat.
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You want them to be happy — or fall flat on their face.
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Rendered this way, certain characters fall flat and some passages play awkwardly.
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What made Lady Bird soar with the critics, but Landline fall flat?
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A kindergarten lesson: Friends don't let friends fall flat on their faces.
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The company's efforts to get ahead of the problem often fall flat.
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It's a bold move, and it may fall flat on its face.
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Some of it will work, but some of it will fall flat.
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For the audience, though, the play's humor and humanity largely fall flat.
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But the hard-won compromise may yet fall flat with EU negotiators.
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When only the characters narrate the story, their reminiscences can fall flat.
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Both of these moments fall flat due to the drama's upsetting romantic origins.
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The series could fall flat on its face, but I'm betting it won't.
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Why do certain companies strike a cord with us, while others fall flat?
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Having a joke fall flat in a debate is not a moral failure.
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But he said campaigns fall flat if candidates don't have a winning message.
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Without shedding light on the process, however, kinbaku's art cameos can fall flat.
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The rather obvious gag is likely to fall flat from an American perspective.
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Go deeper: Trump's promises on "phase 1" trade deal with China fall flat
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From toasters to flying cars, here are 12 inventions that still fall flat.
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It can make a joke thrilling or it can make it fall flat.
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Devices that should change the market often fall flat or gain only niche followings.
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If it was dry, or soggy, or bland, the entire thing would fall flat.
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Like, 'I don't want to fall flat on my face in front of people.
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Gubarev's lawyer said in an interview that he thought Steele's defense would fall flat.
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Your hair would never fall flat, even in the middle of a Florida summer.
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Sometimes when you shoot for the moon, you just fall flat on your face.
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But more often then not, they seem to fall flat as a standalone meal.
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But, as Walton maintains, letting Ingram fall flat will help him get better, faster.
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Unfortunately, some of Polek's fall flat, seemingly selected with the primary goal of arbitrariness.
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It's a turn that would fall flat if the cast wasn't so uniformly great.
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There are a million reasons why a project, idea or a business could fall flat.
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Remember, what works for the base can really fall flat in a more neutral setting.
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Luckey was pleased to see an attempt at "shilling for Hill" on 4chan fall flat.
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Big announcements about retail strategy and autonomous-driving technology appeared to fall flat with investors.
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Without the distinctive sight of the heavily tattooed rapper-producer, the lines would fall flat.
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Having only one source of light in a room can make the space fall flat.
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"Fall flat," he advised, which would keep me from getting scraped by any lava rocks.
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I had no idea if I would go in and fall flat on my face.
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But today, those simpler dreams fall flat, and not just because I'm in my 30s.
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His genericness makes the moments when he's supposed to be inspiring his people fall flat.
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He compared the law to other high-dollar business deals he has seen fall flat.
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I'll probably fall flat on my face and make a really horrible record but fuck, man.
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It is an audacious attempt to manipulate the viewer, and one that could easily fall flat.
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Can a sequel ever surpass the original, or will it fall flat and make no impression?
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If we were really living in a postracial society, jokes about racism probably would fall flat.
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The group said it needed another $30 million but a fundraising push appeared to fall flat.
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I suppose they're similar in that they're risky as fuck, you can fall flat on your face.
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A bit that seemed promising may fall flat in front of an audience and require a rewrite.
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After all, there have long been many reasons to expect Donald Trump to fall flat in Iowa.
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Sequels tend to fall flat and attempts to modernize old-school favorites often feel contrived and silly.
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Many attempts at modern Moroccan cuisine fall flat, combining foreign elements and losing the essence of Morocco.
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And despite the weekly meltdowns, I know deep down that I won't fall flat on my face.
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The feeling and condition of one painting may resonate strongly with some and fall flat with others.
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But this has turned into another reckoning for the tech industry, as some anticipated blockbusters fall flat.
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When premiums don't fall, when millions of people lose their coverage, the rhetoric will fall flat, right?
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If you believe you know it all, I can guarantee you will fall flat on your face.
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Most of the time they fall flat or make a PR nightmare, but sometimes they actually worthwhile.
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It's a bloodcurdling scene, but here the plodding tempo set by the music makes it fall flat.
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When they fall flat, she tries her hardest to present a compelling narrative about her own victimization.
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Of course, many attempts at subversive satire will fall flat, coming off as more tasteless than witty.
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Even his attempts at winning people over by presenting a friendlier image of himself can fall flat.
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So if the Klobuchars, Buttigieges, Steyers and all the rest fall flat, there's always good old reliable Joe.
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Fitness company Peloton saw its public debut this week fall flat, following disappointing IPOs from Uber and Lyft.
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For long periods during her quarter-final, though, it felt as ift her challenge might again fall flat.
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Many of the jokes fall flat, with the film relying on a few unnecessary fart and butt jokes.
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It can also curl, flip, and be used to add volume if your hair tends to fall flat.
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The handmade powders give your skin otherworldly depth and dimension, when most other blushes seem to, well, fall flat.
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According to polls, Biden has a real chance to win the Iowa caucuses — or fall flat on his face.
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Solicit feedback and search out training opportunities to make sure you don't fall flat in that first performance review.
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When Gilmour finally starts playing, the Audeze headphones produce a stunningly clear guitar twang where the Canfields fall flat.
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All these money-making and money-spending schemes tend to sound nice, of course, but they inevitably fall flat.
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I'm dryer than the Sahara and had that fall flat on its face many times, and also with journalists.
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"My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward," Branson wrote.
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If I fall flat on my ass, I bounce right back up and kill the rest of that performance!
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These social VR experiences will fall flat without emotion that's obscured by headsets or left out of static avatars.
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"Sometimes political shows in political years fall flat, but this one has such an air of hope to it."
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But when they stop even pretending to put the middle class first, they really fall flat on their faces.
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In that case, Revolut's US launch may fall flat, jeopardizing any early momentum the neobank may have otherwise enjoyed.
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But those efforts are all but certain to fall flat in the Senate and are unacceptable to Mr. Trump.
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He challenges brands not to "fall flat," but to remain as interesting and creative as when they first launched.
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It's possible that Facebook will put a lot of work into this technology and it'll fall flat with consumers.
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They have been on a red carpet before, and managed not to fall flat on their face (Jennifer Lawrence excluded).
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"Just be sure to avoid ones infused with heavy oils, as they can make fine hair fall flat," he says.
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Attempts at humor in the book fall flat, not for being offensive, but for being either obvious or overly shrill.
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So Clinton's claims that her plan is "tougher" really fall flat to me in the context of all that history.
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Lively efforts like this unfortunately fall flat, in part because the film seems unsure about where it wants to go.
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Besides being embarrassing, the show's many attempts at offensive humor fall flat, trading in stereotype without a hint of commentary.
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Doubtful as a matter of economics, the arguments against the FAANG monopsonists also fall flat as a matter of law.
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These cuts were made simply because the material seemed to fall flat with the show's studio audience, the person said.
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It&aposs pretty hard to trip and fall flat on your face when you&aposre walking cautiously rather than sprinting.
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The prelates who organized the summit argued that any papal edicts might fall flat or fade away with Francis' papacy.
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When front-row coups and the traditional runway format fall flat, what should a label do to reach that elusive consumer?
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The public consensus was, 'Okay, this dumb girl is leaving her rich boyfriend, she's going to fall flat on her face.
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Its splurge of spending on infrastructure is popular (Mr Khan's accusations that the PML-N has built too much fall flat).
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Aren't you worried that your solutions fall flat if the system that caused the mess is incapable of managing the fixes?
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The immersive nature of VR makes it ideal for conveying ideas that fall flat (no pun intended) on old-school PowerPoints.
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Fundraising could always fall flat yet they are targeting the Chandis' California network of physicians, businessmen and retailers, according to Freeman.
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As U.S. negotiators clash with Beijing over distorting subsidies, chips are a reminder of how these grand plans can fall flat.
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The proposed fee, which would be paid by oil companies, is likely to fall flat in the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress.
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And, many exercise professionals encourage eating prior to exercise in order to help fuel a workout that may otherwise fall flat.
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Monsanto's arguments that remarks by witnesses and lawyers inflamed and prejudiced the jury would likely fall flat, some legal experts said.
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It's just the latest in a series of spaghetti-on-the-wall tactics that fall flat and make them look silly.
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Twitter jokes rarely blend with policy, and it is not just Trump who has seen a Twitter taunt fall flat. Rep.
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Snap obviously isn't the first company to fall flat attempting to push tech headwear, the most notorious failure being the Google Glass.
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Whether Roger Rabbit would fall flat on its face was its own sort of mystery until it hit theaters in June 1988.
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Archival exhibitions can sometimes fall flat, accomplishing little beyond dusting off a few pieces of ephemera from a long-gone artistic movement.
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Maybe it will come off as too far from the status quo and fall flat electorally, or distract from more popular issues.
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They're less likely to fall flat on their faces, or give us those long, uncomfortable pauses when nobody knows the answer — boring!
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Apparently, the water tablets you take to dehydrate yourself before a show can make your muscles (most importantly your glutes) fall flat.
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From gossipy coworkers to misinterpreted messages or jokes that fall flat, communication on Slack can be strife with miscues and potential landmines.
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Such an argument may fall flat with members worried about how voting for the legislation might affect their reelection races next year.
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But as is often the case with Hollywood reboots, internet sensations who try to recreate their original virality tend to fall flat.
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Claims of fairness fall flat when considering the nearly seven percent average increase in wage growth when prevailing wage mandates are repealed.
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Lamb, who refused to back Pelosi, won the election in a recently red district as the GOP attacks appeared to fall flat.
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Connie Chen, Insider Picks reporter:Whenever I try an amazing product, I always worry that the next version or style will fall flat.
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Mr. Johnson was a one-man ensemble, delivering lines that might otherwise fall flat in more accents than a United Nations meeting.
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But if the reason for not filling it out is distrust of government, additional efforts at compliance by government might fall flat.
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They keep things moving, even as the musical's attempts to beef up the comedic flair of the minor characters tend to fall flat.
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As Republicans pop champagne bottles this Inauguration Day, they should think back only 10 years and understand: The bubbles fall flat, and fast.
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According to critics, the starring performances of Eddie Redmayne and Johnny Depp both fall flat, while the fan service remains thin and unimaginative.
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We are really good at leveraging large data sets to accomplish specific tasks, but fall flat at replicating the breadth of human intelligence.
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When it comes to traffic referrals for media companies, certain topics and behaviors take off on some platforms but fall flat on others.
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Yet other attempts to bring home this power—such as when another co-worker describes watching drone hits kill innocent parties—fall flat.
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As The Atlantic cited in 223.18, many gifts fall flat because the giver focused too much on sentimentality and not enough on practicality.
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I also could have written "be more productive" on my mind map, but again, without specific smaller goals, that objective would fall flat.
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Even Titus — who could keep me entertained if he was in a coma — and Jacqueline, whom I loved previously, fall flat this season.
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For the most part, the puppetry is immersive and impressive, but again it was those key emotional turning points when things fall flat.
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Clinton has often said she's not a natural politician, and you might think that's what makes her appeals to young voters fall flat.
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Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" (2013) was applauded for its visuals, but the rest of the film appeared to fall flat with viewers.
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Kirk told Insider that having just one source of light, such as recessed lights, could make the ambiance of a room fall flat.
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"A really hard line on immigration has the potential not just to fall flat but to push off younger Republicans," Mr. Jones said.
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These pieces fall flat because they've been scrubbed of their gender signifiers, which might be all that retailers think their markets can handle.
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All I can say is that collective effervescence can uplift whether or not the proximate cause of said effervescence tends to fall flat.
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It's the kind of narrative trick that would fall flat in most games, but here it serves as a sort of uncanny effect.
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Drag queens waved from vintage cars, their sequins glinting in the sun and their hair heroically refusing to fall flat in the heat.
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Only Mr. Pence, however, charged into the race against the cautious instincts of the president's political advisers and saw his endorsement fall flat.
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London (CNN Business)The plan unveiled just last week by OPEC and allied oil producers to prop up crude prices could fall flat.
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It's no secret that True Detective had a critically-acclaimed and award-winning first season, only for its follow-up season to fall flat.
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But losing a billion dollars or more a year is a wildly risky affair and the odds are that such businesses will fall flat.
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Complex adds that some of the jokes do fall flat, which might explain why they're in the blooper reel and not the movie proper.
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Since the News Feed prioritizes showing content that gets lots of clicks and Likes, niche content could often fall flat and reach few people.
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Repeated claims of sabotage of the ACA by the Trump Administration fall flat because of these important initiatives put in place by the president.
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While Wheeler's new scheme is clever way to serve certain special interests, like the plans before it, there's a risk it will fall flat.
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If you take the hardest project and you fall flat on your face, you're as good as the guy who did the easy project.
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"Textbook partisan attacks funded by out of state special interests are going to fall flat, because they don't understand Maine," said spokesman Dan Gleick.
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The way to avoid having these attempts fall flat is simply by adapting an attitude that puts people first instead of color or culture.
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Many of the quilts in the show similarly fall flat, trying to depict their subjects too literally and ending up with worn-out platitudes.
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Her comedy is so rooted in elasticized facial expressions and meticulously off-kilter impressions that attempts to recreate conversations with her inevitably fall flat.
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The right shampoo can mean the difference between hair that stays bouncy beyond day three and strands that fall flat right after a blowout.
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But such initiatives often fall flat in rural classrooms, she said, in part because students there have such vastly different backgrounds and learning styles.
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The arguments Trump's lawyers advanced Saturday largely fall flat, running the gamut from marginally convincing (at best) to transparently flimsy, outright misleading and disingenuous.
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Sure, there are days when my curls just aren't working for me — some mornings, my strands fall flat or my frizz is on overload.
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Lots of mobile technologies and design trends are essentially at a "1.0" stage, and some are bound to fall flat in the long term.
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It remains to be seen whether Mr. Booker's aspirational tones will fall flat with a Democratic electorate energized by seething anger toward Mr. Trump.
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One of the worries I've had about this season was whether it had pushed back Stan's realization so far that it would ultimately fall flat.
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If they fall flat the second time around, they risk erasing the success of their debuts, with neither novelty nor experience to soften the blow.
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And he doesn't care, by the way, if people think that occasionally they fall flat or it looks bad on him, he just keeps going.
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Antibiotics which fall flat in the first few years can eventually become profitable, notes Bibhash Mukhopadhyay of New Enterprise Associates, an American venture-capital firm.
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Fowler and several other Sanders backers who gathered in 90-degree heat here Tuesday believe Trump's recent olive branches to Sanders voters will fall flat.
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However, concerns over the company's lofty valuation, deep losses and uncertain path to profitability have caused the stock to fall flat in the days since.
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While anti-Trump groups called for GOP electors to try to block him from winning the necessary 270 votes, the effort appeared to fall flat.
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Violent high jinks aside, the story offers little that's surprising or even particularly tense, and a few halfhearted attempts to add dramatic weight fall flat.
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The challenge here involves a will and a desire to do so, along with funding considerations, and that's where such an approach might fall flat.
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But Meadows warned on Friday that any proposal to funnel taxpayer money to insurance companies to stabilize the market will fall flat with House Republicans.
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There are many good pre-initial public offering (IPO) companies, Branson acknowledged, but he warned that others are going to "fall flat on their face."
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But Wildflower's excursions into straight hip-hop fall flat, serving as disruptions on an album that mostly and successfully coasts on a pleasing, unassuming wavelength.
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Sit up like a toddler, place one hand on the hammock, one leg on the ground, prepare to dismount and … Fall flat on your face.
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Produced by Howard Overman, the creator of "Misfits," the show passes the Bechdel test with flying colors, although its jokes about sexuality can fall flat.
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She's not afraid to pop her eyes or try about a dozen other "obvious" things, including fall flat on her back and do triple takes.
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Sendak's lyrics, which matched the tone of the animated version, fall flat onstage, and Ms. King's catchy tunes can only pick them up so often.
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Russia's recent growth is cyclical, and will fall flat if there is no restructuring of the economic system, said Eurasia Group senior analyst Jason Bush.
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For Merlan, and a significant contingency of Progressive Twitter, these apologies seem to largely fall flat, especially considering her evasiveness about her time at HuffPost.
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It's not an assured home run, as brands wading into these waters can be accused of "pinkwashing" if their messages pander to women or fall flat.
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Comedy is a funny thing: A joke that makes one person howl with laughter can just as easily fall flat with whoever's sitting next to them.
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Coca-Cola shares are on the rise this year, but one trader just bet more than $3 million that the rally is about to fall flat.
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And based on the hour-long demo that included two of the game's thirteen short stories, it amazingly doesn't fall flat on its face for trying.
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It seems that even if current attempts by the DRL and other companies to take drone racing mainstream fall flat, the underground scene will still survive.
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Go deeper: Thousands of migrant kids face indefinite government custody Trump will make it harder for Central Americans to get asylum Trump's ICE raids fall flat
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And while plenty of them attempt to hit the twenty-something's desire for easy, 'grammable, and artisanal, (and we're not naming names), those attempts fall flat.
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Legendary investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett realized an important career lesson early on: Without the right delivery, even the smartest idea can fall flat.
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But when you go outside in a meme costume it's as likely to fall flat as anything else that only appeals to a certain niche fandom.
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If Harbaugh and the Wolverines do not win more games this season and lose to both rivals again, his efforts to create buzz will fall flat.
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That said, I agree with Zack's assessment that the pacing has been off all season, meaning that these otherwise great scenes still managed to fall flat.
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And it can even help you in advance of your trip if your job or income suddenly fall flat before you even get to your destination.
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With colors like sapphire, cinnamon, and even wildcat to chose from, the Rothy's Mary Jane shoe is one that — despite its shape — definitely doesn't fall flat.
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Pussy jokes could fall flat in juxtaposition with such a grand occasion, but in this multicultural world we're able to think about many narratives at once.
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"The piece goes on to cut through various defenses of Trump&aposs behavior from Republicans, contending that they "fall flat in the face of the evidence.
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However, there's a big difference between an idea that's capable of going the distance and one that, try as you might, is destined to fall flat.
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By the end of the month, funding for the national government expires, and the Treasury's gimmicky "extraordinary measures" to pay the government's debts will fall flat.
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If Gervais' jokes fall flat on Sunday, you know where to find Ollie all warm and toasty with an "I told you so" smile. //platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.
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And if Pinterest's first weeks of trading fall flat — and Lyft's don't recover — then yeah, that spells bad news for the Postmates and Pelotons of the world.
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"In order for them to grow and learn about life, they're going to have to fall flat on their face a few times in life," she acknowledges.
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Leaving aside that effect, while the rest of Tron: Legacy's visual palette and its pulsating Daft Punk soundtrack are striking, the story, characters, and dialogue fall flat.
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"In almost every comedy there are good jokes, and then there are jokes that totally fall flat," says Geek's Guide to the Galaxy host David Barr Kirtley.
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"Even in the few cases cherry-picked by Senator Schumer, his accusations fall flat because they often include unanimous opinions joined by Clinton-appointed judges," she said.
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And she also got us thinking about finding going-out shirts that don't fall flat — and can be worn with way more than a pair of jeans.
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And as such, some of his jokes will fall flat with a huge part of his former audience and will strike others as blows against political correctness.
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The other realization about watching so many of these scenes in sequence is that, even with the shrieks and clangs, the scenes eventually start to fall flat.
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Dr. Lee injects a big syringe into the lumps, which basically sucks all the gooey gel liquid from the ganglion cysts, making the skin fall flat again.
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As much as factors like genre help the chances a series might attract international viewers, content designed for the global market tends to fall flat, Craig says.
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"Whatever Trump may have thought when he claimed total exoneration two weeks ago, subsequent events strongly suggest that claim will fall flat on its face," he said.
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Yet as the writer's identity remains unknown, according to people who were briefed on the efforts to track him or her down, those arguments may fall flat.
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This model theoretically limits the risk to publishers by giving them a guarantee of some money, even as Snap tries new ad formats that may fall flat.
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For all of Dougherty's vast and valuable knowledge about China, The Redprint would fall flat on its face if the dude couldn't actually rap––which he undoubtedly can.
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Watching her fall flat on her face and stand up like the Terminator and walk straight toward the fight again, I marvel," the response is, "Which fan doesn't?
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Yet some of the most anticipated revelations fall flat, including Newt's previous bond with Leta Lestrange (Zoe Kravitz) to a deeper exploration of young Dumbledore and Grindelwald's relationship.
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Other vignettes—in which he describes his rather strange online dating persona, say, or returns to a kind of monastery at the end of the book—fall flat.
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"We're so easygoing, literally the wedding tent could blow away, the cake could fall flat, and her dress could not show up, and it wouldn't matter," says Scott.
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Democrats understand they have limited time with Mueller and face major pitfalls, especially if their lines of questioning fall flat or if Mueller fails to provide compelling testimony.
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Watch a robot attempt a task it hasn't been explicitly trained to do, and it'll fall flat on its face or just give up and catch on fire.
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According to some proponents of nuclear energy, if the U.S. pulls back even more on nuclear power, it's possible that efforts to curb climate change could fall flat.
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The plotting also doesn't lend itself to making us invest in either of them, to the point where critical character moments fall flat because you simply don't care.
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"We know we can lose, they know they can lose, so you don't want to fall flat on your face by making a joke of it," said Vertonghen.
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"Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman has presented himself as a 'reformer,' but such promises fall flat amid the intensifying crackdown on dissenting voices in the kingdom," said Hadid.
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Some of the scenes also fall flat, as when the ensemble vocalizes sound effects (tshik-tshik-tshik goes the whisk, and so on) while Babette prepares her feast.
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"It's super easy to fall flat on your face," Erik Nordby, the visual effects supervisor for "Pokémon Detective Pikachu" (due May 10), said in a recent telephone interview.
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Likewise, if his legislative proposals fall flat (as they likely will), he can blame the corrupt Republican establishment and the hated Congress (term limits, anyone?) for a while.
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"I might be wrong during 'Exposure' and fall flat on my face, but it's because I believe my best stuff will come out in that context," she said.
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If there's one bright side to all this, it's that Mylan's tricks have seemingly started to fall flat: Its revenue from the EpiPen has steadily fallen in recent years.
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The company also shifted its focus from pumping out scores of new products that often fall flat for Big Food brands to taking limited "big bets" on new products.
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And finally, Kate Bosworth cemented her Best Dresses status before she even hit the red carpet with her twirling Instagram snap, and her afterparty look didn't fall flat either.
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Despite estimations that Wendy's would fall flat in its second quarter due to strong marketing efforts from its competitors, the company managed to surpass expectations, boosting its shares 8%.
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It, too, moves through ballads, straight up pop dance hits, pulling from from other genres (hip-hop, like "Giddy Up") but they all fall flat in comparison to BSB's.
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Supporters of progressive candidates argue that the country is hungry for fundamental change, and that Biden will ultimately fall flat because he is offering the electorate something less compelling.
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Starbucks has struggled with sales in the U.S. for several quarters, as new beverage concoctions continued to fall flat with consumers and in-store merchandise remained on shelves unsold.
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Clinton is none of these things: too wonky, not to mention too female, to be a regular guy, a fairly mediocre speechifier; her prepared zingers tend to fall flat.
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We're synced together but we're still improvising with what we have and it could fall flat on its face and another time it could work—I find that exciting.
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Of all the songs in the world, Swift chose this, an immediately recognizable song a million miles away from her wheelhouse that was only ever going to fall flat.
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Yes, I did fall flat on my face almost immediately after getting into said position, but I was comfortable enough to get back up and continue with the class.
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We're looking for a reaction from the Governor as well as House Speaker Jay Lucas and the PSC commissioners for early signs of whether Dominion's proposal will fall flat.
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Otterbein: Both candidates had decent debate performances, but Biden was ultimately the winner of the night because he is the frontrunner and he didn't fall flat on his face.
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But the day comes and, for whatever reason, every joke seems to fall flat, you bumble through all your numbers and your technology seems to be working against you.
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If all he does is bash Trump over his handling of the coronavirus impact, he could fall flat on his face when he's asked what he would do differently.
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What's more, the film neglects to examine the underlying causes of misogyny and the attitudes that lead to a culture of harassment, and its attempts at satire fall flat.
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To understand why credit unions are exempt from federal income taxes, and why bankers' claims of unfair treatment fall flat, it's important to remember what makes credit unions special.
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Of a book: "this book will fall flat on its face" because Unsworth wasn't talking calls about it, and a committee approving the soccer teams' appearances hadn't approved theirs.
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Something you expected to fall into place may just fall flat, but the moon in fellow air sign Gemini reminds you that your next adventure is around the corner.
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What's more, the film neglects to examine the underlying causes of misogyny and the attitudes that lead to a culture of harassment, and its attempts at satire fall flat.
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Well, I wanted it to feel real and authentic, and I thought it would fall flat if it was subtitled or if the actors were putting on fake accents.
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They can even create a sudden breeze with their synchronized movements, he said, causing a hawk or falcon to fall flat on its back, not unlike an aircraft hitting windshear.
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Snippets of newscasts provide the best break in the tension, but attempts at snappy dialogue, like a super-scientist making a Hair Club for Men joke, tend to fall flat.
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Their "conventional wisdom" was that the trip would fall flat and the immigration speech would simply feature more of the same rhetoric Trump opponents already pre-judge as racist bombast.
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It will need a heavy dose of development power and official partnerships with other smart home suppliers to be truly useful — and we've seen other slick demos fall flat IRL.
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In a line that seemed to fall flat, he said that she was "unfit" to lead because of her refusal to employ the phrase "radical Islam" when talking about terrorism.
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It's hard to imagine enthusiasm running as high for the unvarnished script, which could fall flat on the page without the elaborate staging and the emotional nuances of a performance.
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"My feeling is that a lot of nudes are made by mixing brown pigments with white pigments, and making a tan," she says of why most beige lipsticks fall flat.
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Facebook's "weather cat" bot Poncho seemed to fall flat in the hours following its launch by prompting users to provide a location in text, many of which it didn't recognize.
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But that framing is coming under serious question — and might be rendered entirely useless — as the South Bend, Indiana, mayor's efforts to win over black voters continue to fall flat.
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It was the latest example of a Trump remark about strongmen leaders - delivered in a deadpan style - to fall flat and fuel perceptions among his critics that the president admires autocrats.
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Allstate, the second-largest U.S. homeowners' insurer based on premiums collected, is concerned that efforts by lawmakers and advocacy groups to reform the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) will fall flat.
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He predicts the S&P could fall flat by next week's G-20 summit if President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping fail to get closer to a trade deal.
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Big Mouth occasionally leans too heavily on absurdist humor, and some of its gags and characters regularly fall flat, but the writers take much bigger risks than Groening does in Disenchantment.
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"If Trump's stimulus plans fall flat, or if there are other unexpected shocks to the economy, we could see 10-year Treasury rates come down before the May auction, " Dash said.
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Essays are attempts, literally; attempts to say something new and important, where no one faults you even when you fall flat on your ass, because you tried and you amused us.
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Parts of the film are filmed in Hawaii (meant to represent Samoa, Hobbs's home), and these sequences are lush, verdant, and meant to evoke heartfelt family bonds; those efforts fall flat.
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Mimicking the product of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution using servos instead of muscles usually leads to robots that stumble, bumble, and fall flat on their shiny metal asses.
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Why it matters: iHeartRadio, which owns over 850 radio stations throughout the country, has seen advertising revenues fall flat to major technology companies — much like others in the traditional media landscape.
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Pregnant women were meant to lay down in small kind of divots in the ground so their belly could go in to allow the whip to fall flat on their back.
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The most brilliant policy can fall flat if it is not communicated with a strong narrative that makes it real and compelling for the people who are supposed to implement it.
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New movies this weekend: Our critics say "Cars 3" is breezy fun, while the star-packed bachelorette comedy "Rough Night" and the Tupac Shakur biopic "All Eyez on Me" fall flat.
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I was just surprised by how things that worked so well on paper would fall flat around the table, and other things that seemed like not so great on paper were hilarious.
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China, which sometimes opts for modesty in unveiling plans lest they fall flat, did not hold back on April 1st when it revealed those for the "Xiongan New Area" in Hebei province.
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The movie's gruesome ultraviolence is shot through with an assumed fist pump, and its handful of attempts at emotion beyond, "Fuck yeah!" largely fall flat (including in a much-derided love scene).
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But that promise seemed to fall flat after disinformation spread by foreign actors on the platform deliberately drove a wedge between Facebook users during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.
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But not everyone's real-world friends care about video games or want to watch their buddies play, so broadcasts could fall flat if they don't find the particular subset who love gaming.
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Unhooked, they fall flat, revealing a mound of rice larded with ground pork and stained purple-black: the color of pork blood, its metallic scent softened by a squeeze of smashed lemongrass.
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If Mexico's arguments fall flat, however, and Trump threatens to impose punitive tariffs on Mexican-made goods, the sizeable U.S. surplus in services with Mexico could end up as a bargaining chip.
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Even movies that seem to be pushing for better representation fall flat: Black Panther is a step forward for black men and women in film, but what about the industry as a whole?
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But it uses this language to construct a frenetic action game; many of the military shooter's trademark moments fall flat in Vanquish because it presents this same visual index in a new way.
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The cheekiness of Kac's media (the artist invites you to take a poster for a "wheatpasting campaign") and banality of the subject matter fall flat in comparison to other works in the show.
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They just do things that women aren't supposed to do or, more truly, don't often do in mainstream American movies, like pound shots, fall flat on their faces and have sex without tears.
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Todd VanDerWerff: I would agree with you that more than a few of the movie's metaphors fall flat, particularly if you were at least somewhat cognizant of Cheney's machinations back in the 2000s.
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Like the film before it, this version of WWDITS consists primarily of jokes and situational awkwardness, all of which could very easily fall flat in the hands of less experienced writers and performers.
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Meanwhile, the partial rollback of the detente would fall flat with the majority of Americans, who supported the normalization of relations with Cuba, and with whom the country would continue working, Rodriguez added.
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The Liberal Democrats had hoped to turn the election into essentially a do-over of the Brexit referendum, but that tactic seemed to fall flat, and the party failed to gather much steam.
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"The film never comes fully to term, as it were: the visual style is sitcom functional, and even the zippiest jokes fall flat because of poor timing," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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Sure, too many of the jokes fall flat, and Larson is criminally underutilized; but Reynor and Hammer are the film's secret weapons, spinning weak one-liners into charismatic winners time and time again.
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It's not only because they almost make me fall flat on my face, but also because the parents blame me if their spawn gets covered in mashed potatoes, or worse, a piping-hot beverage.
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It has its problems here and there — the subplots about the gym operated by Olsen's character's family mostly fall flat — but I get why Facebook Watch made such a big push for this series.
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F. Gary Gray can be a fine action director and sometimes better than fine, but the scenes that should pop and pow — given the squealing tires, bared knuckles and laser beams — consistently fall flat.
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Gosling and Stone aren't the greatest at either of those — notes fall flat, steps are a bit tentative — but that seems like the point: They're struggling, and success is in no way a guarantee.
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Ed Rendell, the former DNC chairman and Pennsylvania governor who is supporting the Biden campaign, predicted that if Gabbard's goal is to be a disruptive force at the convention, she is likely to fall flat.
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What's curious about this whole thing is that there are a few glimmers where the get-out-and-vote ad tries to capitalize on Will & Grace nostalgia, tossing in a few jokes that fall flat.
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Gang Beasts, Human: Fall Flat, Goat Simulator, and a whole host of other games have been created, and risen to popularity, based on the fact that watching things flop around on-screen is incredibly funny.
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Sure, they're good enough for a viral Twitter video and or a quick Facetime, but when it comes to watching a full-length movie or to hear who's talking shit on Fortnite, they fall flat.
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Even arguments about "the energy of the crowd" fall flat: I haven't seen the Eagles live since the mid 2000s, just after their current stadium opened, so it hasn't been my cheers roaring them on.
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Although many of the works in Readymades fall flat, the Swiss Institute should be commended for taking a risk with its new space; the exhibition sets the tone for a gallery devoted to artistic experimentation.
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Written by Arman Tabatabai While US high-speed rail (HSR) projects continue to fall flat on their face, China Railway Corporation is now planning to IPO its Beijing to Shanghai HSR line within the next year.
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While this trait can often backfire, for Kristy it more often means she's the only one willing to try to turn her ideas into reality, regardless of whether she'll succeed or fall flat on her face.
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Every professional woman knows what it feels like to share an idea in a meeting and have it fall flat, only to hear that same idea repeated by a male colleague and have everyone applaud it.
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Their big emotional moments fall flat, but it would be hard for them to connect when Russell is having such a great time cavorting about the screen as Santa, never once caring how ridiculous he looks.
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OPEC's efforts to prop up prices may fail An effort unveiled just last week by OPEC, Russia and other oil producing nations to support crude prices may fall flat, my CNN Business colleague Hanna Ziady reports.
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But there's a way of telling the story of last week's flight from tech as a moment of collective recognition that Big Tech is under assault: Facebook delivers successive apologies that fall flat as #DeleteFacebook goes viral.
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But their pleadings appeared to fall flat with Trump, who made trade a central part of his presidential campaign, arguing U.S. workers had lost out to pro-free-trade policies backed by Washington politicians in both parties.
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Practically speaking, without evidence of an underlying crime, any allegations of obstruction of justice will likely fall flat, for two reasons: First, obstruction of justice in this case likely would not be charged as a single act.
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I think about the way we as humans walk, by literally hurling ourselves forward, and if we didn't continue to operate with putting one foot in front of the other, we would fall flat on our faces.
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For instance, Christine and Margaret Wertheim's hand-crocheted coral reefs look good on Instagram, but in "May You Live In Interesting Times", an international exhibition curated by Ralph Rugoff of the Hayward Gallery in London, they fall flat.
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"The holiday can really fall flat for unhappy couples, who may use V-Day as a Band-Aid to their underlying disconnection — but one day of chocolates and roses won't fix the cracks in your relationship," she says.
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When Gas Powered Games tried to recapture that magic for Microsoft in a free-to-play online format, complete with cutesy graphics that aped the dominant aesthetic of most contemporary mobile games, the experiment seemed to fall flat.
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Lawsuit claims fall flat Two issues stood out to me in reviewing Zimmerman's lawsuit: whether his claims have any legal merit, and — the broader question — where are we today as a society almost eight years after Martin's death?
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The relationship between fashion and technology has been somewhat awkward over the past few years, as designers and brands try to tap into the digital-minded consumer with wearables and other forward-thinking innovations that, frankly, often fall flat.
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But what killed the record and made it fall flat on its face was the production and the mastering: murky, impenetrable, it smothered the life out of everything that was good about the music and render it near unlistenable.
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Because if you go into it with an idea already in your head, when your fellow comedians take the scene in a different direction, that idea that seemed so funny originally is "just going to fall flat," he says.
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Some Democrats worry the party is resting too heavily on Mueller's testimony to be their ticket to press forward with impeachment, with some openly wondering whether he will be an effective storyteller or fall flat as a robotic responder.
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Trump signs an executive order to extend offshore oil and gas drilling to areas that have been off limits — a move meant to boost domestic production but that could fall flat due to weak industry demand for the acreage.
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Complex underlying science, severe capital intensity, slow-moving customers and high-cost business models outside the comfort zones of typical venture capital ultimately caused a swath of venture-backed companies and investors in the cleantech boom to fall flat.
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Bernie Sanders has been courting the Latino vote for months — a strategy that played in his favor in earlier primaries and caucuses but will likely fall flat in Florida, where the primary is proceeding despite coronavirus concerns on Tuesday.
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In fact, calculations by Justin Atchison and Mason Peck have shown that an object shaped like a sheet of paper, curved to fall flat side first, could in theory enter the atmosphere "softly" without ever reaching especially high temperatures.
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To say he was one of the world's best climbers is closer to the truth, yet even those words fall flat and fail miserably at truly describing what Hayden—or HK as we called him—really represented in our sport.
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The director, whose first feature is the beloved cult film The Iron Giant (1999) and second is the blockbuster smash hit The Incredibles (2004), lays down advice sourced from film commentaries and BTS documentaries about why some cartoons fall flat.
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Operations continue to be launched under the name of Anonymous on a daily basis — one of the most recent is a push to get John McAfee appointed as Donald Trump's cyber chief — but almost all fall flat and receive little attention.
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While one might suspect such hasty works would fall flat, Remembrance of Things Past by Stephen Mazur, performed by William J. Beaumont and Ryan Stiffelman, had the jam-packed audience cracking up and asking when the next play was scheduled.
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" She wrote on one post where she seems to fall flat on her face, "when I first moved to California I would make my sister record me doing stupid things and she would always think I really smacked my face.
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Garcia's crossover chops help guide Underwood to some strong pop and even hip hop sounds on tracks that really work ("Ghosts on the Stereo" and "End Up with You") and some that fall flat ("Backsliding," which under serves her impressive voice).
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Should talks fall flat next week, there would be no clear calendar for the window to reopen, a source following the negotiations on behalf of Mercosur told Reuters, as the Brazil vote is followed by European Parliament elections in 2019.
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But his proposals, like those set out by May last week and derided by a senior EU official as "pure illusion", could fall flat in Brussels where officials have ruled out "cherry picking" market access without accepting all the rules.
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The accusations didn't just fall flat – fans of Ko (and those who are anti-Paul) pointed out that Paul, who has faced scrutiny for controversies of his own, didn't have much of a platform to accuse someone else of cyberbullying.
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Whether she's calling out the Wests or fighting with Perry, the tracks Swift wields as weapons to win feuds often fall flat — but "Better Than Revenge" has even more working against it in the age of mainstream feminism and woke Twitter.
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Over and over, this written-by-committee movie (Babak Najafi directed) tries to give him and Mr. Eckhart the kind of clipped one- and two-liners that aspire to be the next "I'll be back," but all of them fall flat.
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And every year, the visitors arrive in waves — undeterred by long lines, unruffled by rubbing shoulders in a microcosm of the five boroughs — to strut their stuff, fall flat on their face and get up to try all over again.
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Not only will there be more candidates onstage than in Las Vegas, but it may end up being the last debate for some of the candidates, especially those who fall flat in the South Carolina primary or on Super Tuesday.
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After days of blaring news coverage, leaks and hints from lawmakers who have seen the memo, there must be some concern that the public release of the document will fall flat and not have the explosive impact that Trump allies hope.
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Seated in a conference room after the address, Mr. de Blasio said that he expected his "wrong hands" line to fall flat because of the ideologically diverse crowd of mayors, as well as business and government relations people in attendance.
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But removed from the opinionated throb of New York City, where reaction to both the Hammons and Noland exhibitions once radiated hotly, these replica-replica-exhibits fall flat, and the meta fog surrounding them is simply too thick to parse.
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At points, the Inhumans are given moments when they're supposed to inspire awe like the Avengers and the X-Men, but they fall flat (though this might be more of a conceptual problem with the Inhumans than Bendis's writing or Marquez's art).
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I realized I have a cowlick that runs down the back of my head from the north east corner to the middle of the back of my scalp, and instead of blowing in the wind, my hair would just fall flat. Cute.
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In November, Disney wrote down $157 million of its initial $400 million investment in Vice three years ago, shortly after reports suggested that the company's revenue was expected to fall flat last year and the company was expected to lose $50 million.
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Some of the jokes Handler makes in the episode fall flat – she mispronounces "Silicon" as "silicone," for instance, and later uses her new Gotta Go app to get her out of one of the aforementioned "terrible" situations – a coding class for kids.
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Where many photographers fall flat trying to capture a community outside the one they come from, Naito brings a level of care and respect to his portraits, allowing the work to spark from a genuine love for the people and streets he photographed.
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Sometimes they fall flat—"Ebony and Ivory" is Paul at his absolute corniest, and in 2009 Blender named it the tenth-worst song of all time—but frequently McCartney's collaborations with other artists are far better than they have any business being.
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Klepper is most likely to fall flat when he espouses a general Trump-is-bad attitude—a deep vein of material, but one that is already being mined by several besuited men every night at eleven-thirty—without finding something unique to say.
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This simplifies things for the marketer in justifying ad-spending and assessing the return on investment for various marketing strategies, especially in a climate where the usual video engagement metrics — such as number of views, number of likes and comments — often fall flat.
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Angles, breathing, and sending nudes safely You can have all of the above—LED lights all over your house, the latest phone camera, spotless mirrors and strategically-positioned tripods—but if you're not skilled in striking a pose, your nudes will fall flat.
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The tale of Havershire is a sad one, for, as it turns out, he is not such a great jester after all, a reality he is initially oblivious to as his "saucy" puns about Lord Béarnaise fall flat in front of the court.
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It's a fair critique, but what's even more noticeable is how it underscores the fact that Marvel's villains, no matter how enduring or powerful or enigmatic they are in comic books, often fall flat when they make the leap to the movies.
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At the rally in Florida's Panhandle, where a subdued crowd and presidential complaints about a slippery stage gave a somewhat spiritless air, Trump claimed that one potential rival -- South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg -- would fall flat pitted against President Xi Jinping of China.
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In his book "The Art of the Deal," he tells us that he likes to maximize his options, to keep a lot of balls in the air, because you never know what deal is going to work and which one is going to fall flat.
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"Meinertzhagen's Haversack" has him trying to kick his way out — first by going over his C.E.O.'s head and appealing to Laurie Bream, then by devising the skunkworks — but "Silicon Valley" wouldn't be "Silicon Valley" without having him literally fall flat on his face.
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The team creates many of its own problems — last week 14 of the 27 points they allowed were on special teams plays — creating a frustrating situation in which they can seem like a contender one week and then fall flat on their faces the next.
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Roth IRA tax evasion schemes tend to fall flat because the business owner ends up over-funding the account beyond the annual contribution limit ($5,500 in 2017, plus $1,000 if you're over age 50), which leaves him or her on the hook for taxes and penalties.
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It's a bold move, and it may fall flat on its face Just as Larry Page and Sergey Brin created a searchable roadmap for the early consumer internet, Google believes it can now help us navigate the real world and alleviate us of its more mundane tasks.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to extend offshore oil and gas drilling to areas that have been off limits - a move meant to boost domestic production but which could fall flat due to weak industry demand for the acreage.
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Roth IRA tax evasion schemes tend to fall flat because the business owner ends up over-funding the account beyond the annual contribution limit ($5,500 in 2017, plus $1,000 if you're over age 50), which leaves him or her on the hook for taxes and penalties.
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Although a few of the works fall flat (the world could do with fewer reflective surfaces), the smartest ones — say, an image of a Honda soaring through the air above a Martin Luther King Jr Way street sign — are puzzles you want to spend time putting together.
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As of yet, there's little evidence of Buttigieg breaking through among nonwhite voters — and, notably, nonwhite voters aren't as sorted by the openness dimension between the parties, so the messages that work for white liberals in New Hampshire often fall flat with black churchgoers in South Carolina.
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The result is that TV reboots either fall flat from trying too hard to recapture said magic, as happened with the Veronica Mars movie, or they veer off in new, potentially fascinating creative directions that nonetheless bear little resemblance to the show that viewers loved in the first place.
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Some of Richmond's more biting attempts at humor appeared to fall flat, including an exchange in which the senator asked Scott to explain a photo that went viral this week of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway sitting with her legs tucked under her on a couch in the Oval Office.
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Today, as we watch her efforts to uphold the version of ideal womanhood she strives to represent fall flat, part of the cringe comes from imagining her 21st-century counterpart: her adaptogenic smoothies, blowout appointments and flawlessly curated Instagram account; her midi skirt caught in an Uber door.
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I remember telling a friend that it felt like like a make-or-break moment: Marvel was either going to prove it could expand beyond the well-known heroes that had come before, paving the way for subsequent phases of its cinematic universe, or Guardians of the Galaxy would fall flat.
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The plot does hinge on a few weird elements that ultimately fall flat—a blow-up doll and a tawdry video of Tracey and the narrator in stolen lingerie—but the narrator's responses to them (rage and shamed silence, respectively) are rendered in a thoughtful way makes up for it.
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The Sanders campaign, among other Biden detractors, views the debate as a chance for him to fall flat on his face, reviving questions about the durability of his candidacy just as Biden is poised to break the race wide open with a four-state sweep in the March 17 primaries.
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Although for years the most widely read daily, Yediot Ahronot, and its owner took a decidedly anti-Netanyahu line, claims of left-wing bias fall flat these days, when most Israelis are getting their news from Israel Hayom or Walla News, and when the only remaining liberal bastion — Haaretz — struggles to stay afloat.
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" Much of the material, however, appeared to fall flat in the room, including a bit in which he urged the recipients not to discuss politics, referenced actress Felicity Huffman's role in the college admissions scandal, and was bleeped twice by NBC's censors, including an off-color joke about Dame Judi Dench in "Cats.
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If you've ever left your stylist's or barber's chair with perfectly coiffed and voluminous hair feeling ready to take on the world, only to have your efforts fall flat when it comes time to recreate the look on your own, we're going to let you in on a secret: It's probably your blow dryer's fault.
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But while art that ably functions as a primer to important social matters can often fall flat in its storytelling, The Hate U Give is as moving, funny, and riveting as its narrator, Starr — and the new movie based on the novel succeeds at least as much as, if not better than, its source material.
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ET, FSN Detroit, CSN New England (Boston) ABOUT THE PISTONS (223-243.5): Jennings also had six assists in his best game since returning from an Achilles tendon injury, and his increased production should keep Detroit firmly entrenched in a tight Eastern Conference race, as long as the rumors of his possible departure before the trade deadline fall flat.
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And though Trump announced on Twitter that he felt "vindicated" after Comey's testimony, the president—of all people—should know by now: A single tweet won't stop the trolling, let alone by plucky ad creatives looking to make a new dent in their market, as other companies manage to fall flat on their faces attempting to take a stand.
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Biden's advisers said the former vice president will be ready to take on Sanders and prevail against his attacks onstage just as he did when opponents Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Julián Castro, and Bill de Blasio went after him, only to see their critiques fall flat as they lost ground and exited the race as Biden pressed ahead.
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More from the campaign trail … House GOP efforts to grow the ranks of female lawmakers could fall flat (The Hill) … The Midwest becomes a gubernatorial battleground in 2900 (The Washington Post) … Former Vice President Biden boosts candidates in purple states ahead of potential presidential run (The Hill) … The Democratic National Committee moves to limit the influence of superdelegates (The Hill).
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The dynamic on the Affordable Care Act suggests a broader difference when it comes to African-Americans and working-class whites: When Mr. Sanders implicitly criticizes Mr. Obama from the left, white working-class Democrats may see it as advocating for their economic interests, but the claims tend to fall flat with many blacks, among whom the president is still wildly popular.
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Elsewhere the anthems fall flat; a roomful of sympathetic young people chanting along with "We are just, we are just, we are just teens of style" in a tune as nostalgically celebratory as this one, or for that matter, the ballad about the unforgiving world but she's not an unforgiving girl, constitutes a ritual of resigned sentimentality that inadvertently self-congratulates.
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Then again, when a brand endeavors to be more creative, the well intentions behind it can fall flat when it prioritizes celebrity names – as has happened with adidas' collection, where supermodels Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, musicians Skin, Elton John, Pharrell Williams and Liam Payne, designer Marc Jacobs, David Beckham, and nightlife icon Amanda Lepore each made over a pair of Sambas, working to a 'prouder' theme.
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When a man's actions don't line up with his words, when a man's promises fall flat, and when a man dares to string you along (whether it's for 16 days or for 8 months) knowing very well he does not see a future with you — we are better off on our own than loving a man who doesn't know what he has when he has it.
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Perhaps aware that a focus on shootouts might fall flat in this age of mass killings and gun-control debates, he detours into the skirmishes of the Civil War and into such historical arcana as the origins of the Pony Express; the adventures of the 10th Cavalry, whose enlisted men were all black; the early days of the circus; and the backgrounds of the bad guys.
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RELATED: Senate Republicans weigh trade fight with Trump as other options on tariffs fall flat While many Republicans -- including GOP leaders -- have released blistering statements and worked behind the scenes to encourage Trump to change his mind on enacting steel and aluminum tariffs on US allies in the European Union, Canada and Mexico, Republicans leaders have shown very little appetite to actually defy Trump legislatively in recent days.
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But the hard-won compromise may yet fall flat with EU negotiators By also committing to ending free movement of people, the supremacy of the European court and "vast" payments to the bloc, May could be accused of "cherry-picking" the best bits of the EU by Brussels officials, who are determined to send a strong signal to other countries not to follow Britain out of the door.
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If you don't have any diversity on your staff then you don't know that, or like if you're having someone write about an afro that has no idea what an afro is or like what that means to my culture or what that means to my style and like just what that means in the Black community then like it's gonna fall flat, it's not going to be good and just don't do it.
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"If you look at the type of fear-mongering and scaremongering that Republicans do quite often when it comes to national security, quite unfairly, there is a strong patriotism that comes with being a veteran that makes those kinds of attacks fall flat and even backfire," said John Lapp, who was the executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats' campaign arm, in 2006, when his party took control of the House.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE's (I-Vt.) absolute entreaties to ideals like free education for everyone (as someone who will still be paying off student loans when my one-year old is in college – rock on), but anyone who has spent 10 minutes in Washington knows these types of declarations fall flat.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters MORE (D-Calif.) accused Sessions and President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE of trying to "bully" her home state, but asserted that their efforts would ultimately fall flat.
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