We are not spared a gimlet-eyed glimpse of the Troubles.
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"Angels in America," however, is no gimlet-eyed critique of homo high jinks.
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And he has kept up his gimlet-eyed observations of the Trump administration.
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Gimlet-eyed, we see the world as it is, and we won't get fooled again.
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But this meant he sometimes clashed with his collaborators and their more gimlet-eyed sensibilities.
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She is an expert on obsolescence, a gimlet-eyed judge of what might have legs.
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Often cited as the network's moderate voice, he brings a gimlet-eyed disposition to his work.
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Online lender SoFi, a CNBC Disruptor, approaches the task of ranking business schools like a gimlet-eyed banker.
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Its fretting system stares at us, gimlet-eyed, while the plucking system continues its dark work on the strings.
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All the airline deals you've seen reported on Facebook probably showed up in the forums first, thanks to its gimlet-eyed users.
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Yet today's Labour Party high-command contains several people who are more starry-eyed than gimlet-eyed when it comes to the Russian revolution.
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Reporters had just understood the function of what he was saying, rather than taking a gimlet-eyed look at the words he wasn't using.
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She sometimes shifts between plain-spoken, even folksy slang and her old kewpie doll voice, code-switching between savvy and silly, gimlet-eyed and wide-eyed.
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For all the talk of campaign organization, for all the gimlet-eyed analysis of fundraising totals, nothing in politics matches a late-breaking burst of enthusiasm.
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He's even raising the specter of Trump casually getting involved in nuclear war, which is something even Trump's most gimlet-eyed critics consider an unlikely possibility.
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Cutting against the magazine's exuberance—but also propelled along by it—is a heretical strain of gimlet-eyed, anxious ambivalence about who will pay for the future.
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When Diana Trilling started reviewing books for The Nation , at the age of thirty-six, she brought a gimlet-eyed assurance that has not always aged well.
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To the title role, Taylor-Joy brings a spirited, slightly otherworldly charisma: part wide-eyed, 19th-century Valley Girl, and part gimlet-eyed Cupid on a mission.
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"One has to suppose that he's looking for ways to shock people," Russell Baker, the gimlet-eyed longtime observer of Washington, said in a rare interview on Thursday.
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Marina Lee is the head of consumer products for Pinkfong USA, a SmartStudy subsidiary, and through the rollout of "Baby Shark Live!" has acted as a gimlet-eyed brand monitor.
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LONDON — A century after they won the right to vote, British women celebrated their gains on Tuesday but took a gimlet-eyed view of their status in modern-day Britain.
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In her intelligence, in her gimlet-eyed recognition of both the limits and the possibilities of government, she's a particular kind of inspirational figure, a pragmatist and a Democratic moderate.
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Camp, in this sense, is not a pup tent, but a circus tent: not an activity, but a way to see, a gimlet-eyed but eyebrow-cocked gloss on the world.
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And by the time the enormous success of The Group rolled around, Kael had long been working as a McCarthy-like, gimlet-eyed movie critic, but without the mainstream success or recognition.
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The writer, a gimlet-eyed blonde named Frances Welty, has fallen for the same pitch that lured the other eight: How about an "exclusive 10-Day Mind and Body Total Transformation Retreat"?
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The only seemingly trouble-free relationship is the one that doesn't involve any women: Elijah (Andrew Rannells) finds himself dating a television newsman played by Corey Stoll with his customary gimlet-eyed magnetism.
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But to the less gimlet-eyed, the Christodora represented an opportunity to escape the creaky floors and clanking radiators of the typical East Village walk-up without abandoning a neighborhood that inspired them.
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With its tale of provincial life, gimlet-eyed spinsters and thwarted love — not to mention the discovery of a dead body — it feels almost like a Miss Marple mystery written by Colm Toibin.
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All the cast members — including a gimlet-eyed Louis Cancelmi as Coriolanus's Volscian archrival and secret soul mate, Tullus Aufidius; and Nneka Okafor as his neglected wife, Virgilia — speak with engaging, heightened naturalism.
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All the cast members — including a gimlet-eyed Louis Cancelmi as Coriolanus's Volscian archrival and secret soul mate, Tullus Aufidius; and Nneka Okafor as his neglected wife, Virgilia — speak with engaging, heightened naturalism.
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Until now India has relied on aircraft armed with nuclear bombs, which might struggle to break through air defences, or land-based missiles, which are at risk of being spotted by gimlet-eyed satellites.
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The result is that Rivera can cast himself both as a gimlet-eyed insider with a powerful readership and as a mostly anonymous entrepreneur running a niche link blog from the comfort of his home.
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Her photographs and short films, as gimlet-eyed and gutsy as they are visually compelling, have gone a long way toward resetting our expectations of pictures and challenging our assumptions about her largely African-American subjects.
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The movie's gimlet-eyed mise-en-scène is exceeded only by the flamboyance of John Heard's career performance as a raspy-voiced madman who lost an arm, a leg, an eye and possibly his mind in Vietnam.
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With its gimlet-eyed view of romance, Sahara-dry humor and love of whimsical instrumentation, "69 Love Songs" established Mr. Merritt as one of the most arch, and literate, songwriters of his generation — a Noël Coward for now.
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Whatever target she's skewering, Douglas's tone remains calm and sardonic; it's easy to picture her as the witty but gimlet-eyed friend who sits at your kitchen table, listening sympathetically to your complaints while making rapier jabs at their patriarchal roots.
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Vanity Fair has called upon some of the most gimlet-eyed to supply them over the course of its history: Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, James Wolcott, Patricia Bosworth and Michael Lewis for starters, all of whom are represented in this volume.
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The American photographer Louise Lawler may be the wittiest and most gimlet-eyed member of the Pictures Generation, revered for her matchless photographs of the secret life of art, as it cycles through gallery back rooms, collectors' homes, and museum installations.
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What a way to cap a season in which this ruthlessly entertaining and intelligent show, so gimlet-eyed about the corrupting influence of power and so deft at depicting its argot and appeal, finally brought in the buzz it has long deserved.
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"Love" is hardly the first revisionist rom-com to hit TV. Hulu's "The Mindy Project" embraces movie myths while dismantling them, FXX's "You're the Worst" explores the chemistry of self-destructiveness, Amazon's "Catastrophe" is a variation on the gimlet-eyed raunch of Mr. Apatow's movies.
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"The Kiss" landed in 1997, an early example of the dark-cornered memoirs that would dominate publishing for the next two decades, paving the way for the gimlet-eyed investigations of Rachel Cusk and the wincing beauty of Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels.
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"Her photographs and short films, as gimlet-eyed and gutsy as they are visually compelling, have gone a long way toward resetting our expectations of pictures and challenging our assumptions about her largely African-American subjects," writes Megan O'Grady in her profile of the artist.
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"I will always put America first, just like you, as the leaders of your countries, will always and should always put your countries first," Mr. Trump declared to a smattering of applause from an audience that included gimlet-eyed diplomats from some of the countries he criticized.
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But with his first credited directorial outing, the black-and-white "Black Sunday" (July 16 and 23), from 1960, he skillfully honored old-school horror conventions — witches at the stake, spooky paintings, disturbed graves — and wisely cast the gimlet-eyed British actress Barbara Steele in two roles.
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Over the last half-decade, this former tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist and financial pundit has reinvented himself as a gimlet-eyed self-help guru, preaching survival in an era when the American Dream — the gold-embossed college diploma, the corner office, the three-bedroom home — seems like a sham.
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" In the pages of his magazine and the clubby dining rooms of his restaurants, Mr. Carter created a version of the fantasy Manhattan that intoxicated him as a child: ice-cold martinis, bon vivant writers, gimlet-eyed gossip in the manner of one of his favorite films, "Sweet Smell of Success.
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In the immediate term, as foreign diplomats sift through Pompeo's pronouncements reflecting hostility to the Iran nuclear deal, some equivocation about Russia's interference in the US presidential election and a gimlet-eyed view of the North Korean threat, they say they aren't sure, at this point, who they should be reaching out to or speaking with, even as a series of important meetings loom.
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The term is also used figuratively to describe something as sharp or piercing, and also to describe the twisting, boring motion of using a gimlet. The term gimlet-eyed can mean sharp-eyed or squint- eyed (one example of this use is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, who was known as "Old Gimlet Eye").
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Her first EP, Small Crimes/Keep on Calling, was released in 2016. Her second EP, Plant Feed, was released in 2017, followed by Do You Like Pain? in 2018. In 2019, she released her debut studio album, Miss Universe, which received rave reviews and critical acclaim, with critics noting her ability to bounce back and forth between musical and lyrical styles, shifting between "gimlet-eyed composure and cataclysmic panic".
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While the sources do not indicate that Bethmanns and Rothschilds were friends—and while the curiosity and appreciation the Bethmanns expressed for the Rothschilds were not reciprocated in equal measure—in the rough-and- tumble world of international finance, complicated further by the delicate state of Judeo-Christian relations and the burden of history, the keen rivals and (less frequently) gimlet-eyed business partners did manage, as far as can be told, to transform a grudging respect into a more cordial relationship.
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Condell performed alternative comedy shows during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom. His first performance on stage was at the age of 32 in a comedy sketch called Mountbatten’s Plimsoll. He also wrote poetry and appeared in the Poetry Olympics at the Young Vic Theatre in 1982, which led to a job writing weekly poems for the Time Out magazine. Condell was described at the time as "a manic gimlet-eyed, crop-haired poet" in Drama: The Quarterly Theatre Review book.
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Miss Universe received wide critical acclaim on its release, with critics noting Yanya's ability to bounce back and forth between musical and lyrical styles, shifting between "gimlet-eyed composure and cataclysmic panic". The album was described as nervous and restless, combining influences from indie rock to soul, jazz, and trip hop. A Stereogum review called Yanya's voice "malleable and endlessly expressive", and described the song compositions as "minimal and instinctual". Pitchfork ranked the album as one of the best of 2019 in their year end review.
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His small roles, according to The New York Times, were typically "a bewigged, gimlet-eyed British judge". Mudie made the postwar transition into television, and appeared in several episodes of Adventures of Superman. For the postwar cinema he played the regular character Commander Barnes in the series of Bomba, the Jungle Boy films."Leonard Mudie", The New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2014 Mudie’s final acting role was as one of the elderly survivors of a wrecked spaceship in “The Cage”, the first pilot episode of Star Trek, which was filmed in 1964 but not broadcast on television in full until 1988.
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Kirshenbaum's The Scenic Route was published in 2009. The novel is the story of a divorced and recently unemployed woman who travels to Europe and has an affair with a married man. It has been described as “a refreshingly gimlet-eyed examination of memory”Megan Doll, "The Scenic Route", Time Out New York, May 28, 2009. and “a cross-cutting investigation into the horrors of the 20th century.”Mark Doten, "An interview with Binnie Kirshenbaum", Bookslut, May 2009. Richard Howard wrote of her, “This author is indeed a humorist, even a comedian, a sort of stand-up tragic.
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Based on the Argentine film Nine Queens (2000), Stephen Holden of The New York Times felt that "John C. Reilly may be one of our finer character actors, but his portrayal of Richard Gaddis, a gimlet-eyed con man, in Criminal allows too many vestiges of the duped schlub of a husband he played in Chicago to leak into his performance." Reilly reportedly quit the 2005 Lars von Trier film Manderlay to protest the on-set killing of a donkey. He played the lead in one of Miranda July's short films, Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (2005). He was in the Jennifer Connelly-led horror film Dark Water (2005) as the manager of a mysterious hotel.
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