It's pretty inelegant in execution, and it's certainly not inconspicuous.
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When it's more tendentious and inelegant, we call it spin.
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Right, that's the root of the problem here: inelegant messaging.
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It lends itself to a nasal sound that's comically inelegant.
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It works fine on Android, but it's just so inelegant.
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They avoid the stigma that canned wines are cheap or inelegant.
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Or vice versa — an inelegant image, admittedly — but who's to say?
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MC: So the solutions right now are a little bit inelegant.
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It works in a pinch, I guess, but boy is it inelegant.
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It's the one really inelegant aspect of an otherwise extremely elegant system.
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For now it all seems an inelegant solution to an unnecessary problem.
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They are inelegant ports of mobile apps to desktop-based operating systems.
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It was a somewhat inelegant technique that attracted a lot of attention.
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Still, the overall design represents Apple's most inelegant solution to a design problem.
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The Coexist logo didn't begin as an inelegant medley of beliefs and symbols.
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Trump doesn't like eating any food that makes him look sloppy or inelegant.
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Feeling super mushy and inelegant but still having some of that seductive surface.
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It's at least an inelegant dodge, if not an admission that he knew.
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The fast-growing city is an inelegant sprawl stretching into groves of coconut palms.
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So they came up with a very inelegant way to wriggle out of it.
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The filmmaking may at times be direct and inelegant, but "Breakthrough" isn't without nuance.
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During the first trial, Wyatt often held forth outside the courthouse with inelegant commentary.
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At times it is an inelegant book by a very smart and talented writer.
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Inelegant, inefficient, call it what you want—ShellPuppy's approach worked and it's something to see.
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Such a meat axe approach to payment policy is as ugly as it is inelegant.
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Epithets like "cancer whore" might be inelegant, but they were part of his native idiom.
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Passers-by offered their assistance at those inelegant moments, but she politely turned them away.
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It's a particularly inelegant information dump, something a more seasoned writer would never have done.
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At the risk of sounding inelegant, sex in the real world is driven by looks.
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The inelegant solution was to keep using census figures from 1971, an arrangement that became indefinite.
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It's surprisingly inelegant, in that you end up controlling a slider that you aren't actually touching.
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The American team used the inelegant term "partial helper" to describe its assistants in the 1990s.
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Toting one's bag, she implied, is an inelegant task best left to one's driver or factotum.
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The kebabs look like tubby, elongated meatballs, inelegant and beautiful, with black slashes and creamy interiors.
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For a career that was propelled by a relentless pursuit of elegance, it was an inelegant finale.
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In 1934, Sears, Roebuck & Co. hired the industrial designer Raymond Loewy to redesign its inelegant Coldspot refrigerator.
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While this doesn't officially break my rule about duplications, which I can discuss sometime, it seemed inelegant.
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He had injected life into a moribund San Antonio Spurs offense with his constant, if inelegant, motion.
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This resulted in inelegant, costly and risk-prone mapping processes for accommodating enterprise-wide aggregated risk measures.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found that it's still a pretty inelegant solution, as these things tend to be.
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He once tweeted that the way Obama exited Air Force One, "hopping and bobbing," was inelegant and unpresidential.
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We know what he's trying to say, but his expression was inelegant to the point of blatant sexism.
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Second, like the rest of the movie, it presents an endlessly compelling subject in a clodding, inelegant manner.
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But it would be wrong completely to discount the possibility of an inelegant, humiliating, and yet welcome, Breversal.
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It's as uncomfortable as it is inelegant, and it was the case with two different review units I tested.
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While most Android makers have simply moved the scanner to the back of the device, it's an inelegant solution.
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The arms are still the most inelegant part of the Focals, but that's where most of the magic happens.
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Hedrick's four large, rough-surfaced black monochromes are inelegant – the opposite of what Brice Marden and Ellsworth Kelly did.
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Sure, some might argue that lockers are a touch inelegant — more fitting in a gym than a concert hall.
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Yet Ms. Churches also said the contract language with donors like Lennar and Hitachi was "inelegant," although not improper.
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The sound was thin, murky and diffuse, like a cloudy broth; the brasses were inelegant even when not flubbing.
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O.K., now we're getting somewhere, but just sticking OTHELLO into the grid as a revealer of sorts seemed inelegant.
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The technology went by the inelegant acronym BECCS, and Karlsson was apparently the only BECCS expert the reporter could find.
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Erin Brockovich, Forrest Gump, Pretty Woman, A League of Their Own, Good Will Hunting—the template is dusty and inelegant.
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With folding chairs and weeds peeking out of the asphalt, this eight-year-old microbrewery's patio is inelegant but functional.
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In his autobiography, published in 21964, Mr. Zeffirelli wrote that he considered himself "homosexual," disliking the term "gay" as inelegant.
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The large, inelegant reception desk belongs in an airport; you half expect to be asked if you're checking any luggage.
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It was only a matter of time before Julius left, but having him quit for this reason is inelegant writing.
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By and large, they are an unpleasant, inelegant group, yet they are nonetheless visited with some form of divine grace.
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That said, I still find Huawei's EMUI software to be inelegant at best and deleteriously in thrall to iOS at worst.
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It's a somewhat inelegant solution and one I've never been a particularly huge fan of, but the company swears by it.
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They tote all they own in inelegant bags and pass the hours in cavernous passages between track gates or bus bays.
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It's awkward and inelegant—but that's what a 23-year-old woman thrust into the national spotlight would realistically come across as.
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Conway's inelegant grammar can grate on the ear, but it won't keep you from enjoying the view as she takes her revenge.
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Even when the romantic trio seem too aware of the laughs, watching them — particularly the wonderfully inelegant Ms. Khosh — is a delight.
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Inelegant construction and unsubtle, occasionally tub-thumping dialogue further drain the movie's potency, as do Mathilde's overripe musings on war and suffering.
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Early leaks focused on the product's somewhat-retro looks and, even today, some are still dragging Amazon for the Show's arguably inelegant profile.
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I fulfilled the desires of an inelegant but constantly media-hungry, Internet-based workforce by writing like one of their chat room buddies.
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But as Umair Irfan has explained for Vox, scooters, while inelegant to some, do fill in an important gap in our transit system.
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The object, a 200-mile-wide rock with the rather inelegant name of 2015 TG387, is some 7.9 billion miles from the sun.
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His comically inelegant works look as if they were created by a manically inventive but not especially skilled handyman in his basement workshop.
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Most hunters now don padded headgear that, however inelegant, is a lot more useful in the event a rider becomes a human cannonball.
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Paris is an elegant role with marvelous costumes, so why did Thomas Forster employ the same lumbering walk he applies to inelegant characters?
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"They drummed up what was an inelegant way to get at this pool of talent," one MassGAP worker summed it up to the Globe.
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Fitbit's last wearable, the $299 Ionic, was launched to average reviews; The Verge's own Lauren Goode noted its inelegant hardware and limited smartwatch functionality.
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Several people defended his valiant if inelegant use of Spanish at a recent debate, after Mr. Rubio accused him of not knowing the language.
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At the other end of the spectrum, the Outback is practical for hauling, but it's bulky and inelegant; in other words, it's a Subaru.
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But the White House kept pressing lawmakers for a solution and, eventually, some inelegant policy fixes were found to send the bill to the Senate.
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There are little hassles and plenty of inelegant things to complain about, but there's also a coherence that you won't get on other desktop platforms.
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A long time ago (but not in a galaxy far, far away), a video game was the catalyst for my inelegant stumble from the closet.
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Despite her inelegant attack, with its coarse brushwork, abbreviated forms, and predilection for darkish, grayed green-blues, the paintings possess a kind of brute grace.
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James spread 29 points, 26 rebounds and 20 assists across 33 minutes of an inelegant but compelling war of inept 23-point shooting and attrition.
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While current RFID drones on the market technically solve many of the inelegant problems with RFID, they require bulky readers to be attached to the drone's body.
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Then, a rather inelegant rubber band must be awkwardly stretched into place to hold the collapsed components together (I prefer the magnetic latch of the GM Ariv).
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Generally, it's an inelegant, creaky process, and, moreover, the burden falls on account holders in the event the third-party software manages to fuck it all up.
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He may be inelegant, he may go way over the line (calling Sarah Palin the c-word, for example), but few doubt the sincerity of his principles.
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Visitors to the Accademia will notice a large, inelegant plastic brick mounted behind the David to monitor all of its vital signs: temperature, motion, angle of inclination.
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It sounds silly and inelegant now that we all carry around internet-connected phones in our pockets, but pagers made a ton of sense in their day.
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It is an inelegant term, and must have seemed a strange one when it was first introduced, in a 1964 essay by Ruth Glass, a British sociologist.
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Scott Pruitt's stint as head of the Environmental Protection Agency may have come to a conclusively inelegant end, but his blunders continue to haunt the Trump administration.
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Microsoft's Kinect had a rapid ascent and slow, sputtering demise — it was an inelegant end, as the company couldn't find a permanent spot for the once revolutionary accessory.
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A world-class talent by her teen years, Harding's scores are kept down by judges who prefer poised princesses and classical music to Harding's inelegant Southern rock routine.
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Tall, lanky, some say deceptively inelegant, Éder showed impressive upper body strength and single-mindedness with his low shot from 27 yards that beat France's goalkeeper, Hugo Lloris.
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It was inelegant, with Froome pedaling sitting on the top tube of his bicycle frame for aerodynamic gain, but effective, putting him into the yellow race leader's jersey.
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The closing of the inelegant station, its shabby convenience store invariably full of drivers dancing in place while waiting in line for the restroom, has a familiar feeling.
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Known for its promotional posters featuring needles taped underneath Betty's eyelids "Opera" isn't entirely inelegant, but it is more brutal, signaling the shift that would change Argento's career.
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This has been accomplished to date in a most inelegant way, using hundreds of proprietary data standards in a very costly, risk-prone mapping (matching) and reconciliation exercise.
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Six months before being incarcerated in their box, an inelegant coffin of sorts, Brancusi's stone kissers were already completely obscured by plastic wrapping and some light wood support.
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Kate's revelation fits into a scattered episode that's a little all over the place, with some inelegant cutting between past and present and a lack of a cohesive feel.
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"Compared to the advancements in PMPs and smartphones as of late, it's just very difficult to sit in awe of the Go's inelegant hardware and clunky software," Wilson said.
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It started at $499, and ran a "real" version of Windows, not Windows RT. But it was also underpowered; and, Panay admits now, it had an inelegant charging mechanism.
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Their message is as deliberately inelegant as it is direct, as lines like "we don't need you" and "you are nothing to me, leave me alone" become reoccurring mantras.
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He noted that skaters still receive points even if they fall on a quad jump, leading to more attempts and infecting some competitions with inelegant spills on the ice.
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STEINBERG: Yup, the software used RE-AIR — a terrible entry to begin with, and one that duplicates the AIR of MACBOOK AIR, usually seen as an inelegant no-no.
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In the middle of an already awkward adolescence, one marked by resilient pimples and even more resilient pudginess, the smattering of hair made my face look even more … inelegant.
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Voters presumably subscribed to the heuristic rationale that a bad (inelegant, inconsiderate, poorly poised) debater would be a bad president – without a shred of evidence supporting such an outlandish contention.
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BrainDead – even the inelegant title probably won't put off Good Wife fans – is a satire of Washington politics based on a horror premise borrowed from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Also, I know a few friends with an Echo Dot plugged into their Sonos Play:5, and while that gets things moving, it's inelegant and you're still using two devices.
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And, at least for the purposes of this article, we're going to refer to these companies using some variation of that inelegant if quite inclusive phrasing: "blockchain and blockchain-adjacent."
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And for what it's worth, thanks to the incredible talent of Robin Wright, much of the season was still pretty fascinating — even if it did have some inelegant narrative holes.
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It's an easy technology to hate on in 2016—inelegant, awkward, slow—but Applets spent a cool decade or more predicting the internet of applications we now have before us.
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Specifically, the inelegant use of foil in Perle Fine's "Early Morning Garden" (1957) and "Image d'Hiver" (Image of Winter) (1959), and the unresolved quality of Mary Abbott's "Oisin's Dream" (1952).
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When it comes to Leonardo, the result is either an inelegant and amateurish faux pas, as her critics contend, or a political masterstroke ahead of European Parliament elections in May.
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The flashbacks are kind of inelegant — it turns out she didn't always have the best interests of children in mind, if you can imagine — but they mostly get the job done.
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The smart home landscape is still a mess, and Wink's solution for it — tie together multiple standards — is functional but inelegant; not to mention something that can be reproduced by competitors.
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And even without professional technique, allowing yourself to be touched by an inelegant (but well-intentioned) partner might help build intimacy, increase calm feelings, and reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety.
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These are slightly inelegant fixes—and they obviously won't be updated any further—but they did result in a game that was less stagnant and reliant on certain "auto-include" cards.
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I began to wonder if what I had been admiring as purposefully inelegant expression in the service of an authentic adolescent voice wasn't something different: careless prose or an awkward translation.
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Tile has touted its Bluetooth trackers' abilities to keep track of laptops for years, but it's always required the rather inelegant solution of sticking a physical tracker to your laptop's lid.
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The shoes reduce you to an inelegant waddle, but once you're strapped in, they make it nearly impossible to fall off and allow you to focus on getting your legs moving.
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THERE WAS little grace to the Grace 1's journey, a 12,000-mile (19,000km) slog around the Cape of Good Hope that came to an inelegant end off the coast of Gibraltar.
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I would sit inside the Ferrari 23 GTB and ponder the cramped interior, hard leather bucket seats, and the horribly inelegant, butt-first method for getting in and out of the car.
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But The Surge uses inelegant constraints to stop players from stumbling into content their characters weren't prepared for, instead of letting the difficulty of that content guide players away from those areas.
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One thrilling formation becomes a frame for Teresa Reichlen, but Mr. Peck (at his best with all-male ensembles) makes Ms. Reichlen (often a formidable stylist) look inelegant in line and coordination.
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The piece that is defined by a "far too simple" use of math, rife with inelegant solutions and scattered, obsessional formal conditions, is Alfred Jensen's "Beginning Study for Changes and Communication" (1978).
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This might be an inelegant metaphor, but this ICJ provisional ruling strikes me a bit as telling a murderer to stop killing and also preserve all evidence he's killed in the past.
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This was a truth I had come to recognize when playing some of the old Metal Gear Solid games, whose inelegant controls and outdated graphics now significantly dampened the experience for me.
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Were it not for a few problems — the screen, the slightly inelegant design, and (yes) the lack of a headphone jack — it might have received the highest score we've ever given a phone.
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On the other hand, there seem to be a lot of shorter, inelegant entries, like ASU, ORT, DOS, MSG, BTWO (it always stops me when numbers are spelled out), AT IT and YSER.
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Before, if you wanted to resurface an old tweet you would have had to quote that tweet—an inelegant solution when all you wanted to do was digitally pat yourself on the back.
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The clues included a Waltons actor who had been dead for 40 years; inelegant acronyms or abbreviations showed up as answers 11 times, including the nearly unforgivable double abbreviation MTST (the clue: "____ Helens").
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By the end of that year, Giertz had uploaded a dozen clips—all documenting her attempts to build and test devices that solve everyday problems in the most inelegant, brutishly futuristic way possible.
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I thought the premise of children being forced to murder each other on a reality TV show sounded gross and trashy and exploitative, and I thought Suzanne Collins's sentences were clunky and inelegant.
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Here's one stretch that struck me, in inelegant translation: We are all people, we are all equal, We were all made of the same materials Which is why material things cannot measure your worth.
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Movies don't need to be as sparse as the original Predator, but this version seems to pad on storylines just for the sake of having them, all cut together in a surprisingly inelegant way.
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Well, except for one thing: the way that the notch "area" cuts off into the rest of the screen can be super inelegant, and it can make stuff just look a little chopped off.
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While every adolescent story has its brushes and run-ins with sex, Sex Education does a remarkable job of tackling the inelegant topic of sexual growth with equal nuance and distinction for every character.
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Both teams stumbled through an inelegant, touchdown-less first half, but in the third quarter, the Eagles took their first lead of the game, 221-523, on a 252-yard touchdown run by Ajayi.
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Darth Vader illustration via Nerdist, via Pinterest/Gay Times A long time ago (but not in a galaxy far, far away), a video game was the catalyst for my inelegant stumble from the closet.
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It was the race that demonstrated, both to Mr. Bloomberg and to those who might doubt him, that an inelegant campaigner with bottomless resources, party agnosticism and a heap of political baggage could prevail.
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"I was supposed to turn the book in this month and I kept thinking about how egregious it is to give someone like Milo a platform for his blunt, inelegant hate and provocation," Gay wrote.
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After his victories in Michigan and Mississippi last night, Trump in his usual inelegant way talked about how the Republicans attacking him are a bunch of "eggheads" who haven't made deals or gotten things done.
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Venice has become arguably the European capital of overtourism, an inelegant neologism describing the hordes of tourists who have laid waste to the neighborhoods and character of some of the European continent's most cherished cities.
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Reporters will sometimes offer sources inelegant solutions, like allowing someone to decline to comment on a specific matter so as to allow them to become a background source on another piece of information in the story.
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None of the setup is very hard, but it involves a lot of equipment, and arranging a headset cable around a plastic guitar that's attached to a black half-moon controller is as inelegant as it sounds.
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Pegg and Lin underscore the final passing of the cinematic baton in an inelegant but nevertheless touching scene that gives the original cast (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and the rest of the crew) a final onscreen bow.
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Without the BrainPort, Weihenmayer's climbing style is inelegant but astonishingly fast—a spidery scramble with arms and feet sweeping like windshield wipers across the wall in front of him in order to feel out the next hold.
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Indeed, Seuss can generally look inelegant compared with his greatest contemporary rivals; place him against Maurice Sendak's mysterious vision and delicately detailed designs, or Charles Schulz's sparely drawn, Chekhovian melancholy, and Seuss looks still like a prewar entertainer.
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The president may have been inelegant in his phrasing of facts he remembered from a Fox News segment, adding one extra word about events that allegedly happened the "night before," but he was not wrong on the facts.
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Under ideas in favor at this moment, nicknamed COIN, the military's inelegant shorthand for its optimistically conceived counterinsurgency doctrine, troops were expected to follow a three-stage process to declaw and displace the Taliban: clear, hold and build.
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While sitting with them, wearing the dead girl's shoes on her feet and sweatband on her wrist, she speaks vehemently about beating an opponent, all the while with the inelegant look of someone reading lines off of a screen.
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Maybe instead of adding another class, another file that the next developer has to keep open while trying to follow your flow of control, you should just do things the dumb way, the inelegant way, the simple way. 4.
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Seeing these characters' fight styles work together is a treat: Jones and Cage are inelegant bulls in a china shop, relying on their superpowers to get the job done, while Rand and Murdock are acrobatic, elegant martial arts machines.
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It had slowly, deeply been destroyed the last few years, but also I realized it was a deep child's wound that kept being triggered when people had inelegant, judgmental or mischievous words and opinions regarding my musical and private life.
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The inelegant graphic design of this self-proclaimed "ultimate art gift shop" had me question whether this was an e-commerce store quickly set up by a Zazzle-savvy entrepreneur, or, more likely, a facetious, deliberately crude project by an artist.
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But the button also had other problems: it took up a huge amount of real estate on the front of the phone at a time when screen sizes were growing, and it was increasingly inelegant to use in a world of touch controls.
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Mr. Bostridge is a veteran performer of the Schumann, and even recorded it with Mr. Drake; but on Thursday he was joined by Mr. Mehldau, a brilliant jazz pianist who brought a largely indelicate, inelegant reading incongruous with Mr. Bostridge's warmth and grace.
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It's a problem companies like Stir sought to solve back in 2013 with its Kinetic Desk (which features a screen built into the desk's surface), but now appear over-designed and inelegant compared to Herman Miller's Live OS app and sensor system.
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The TM2s are built around Qualcomm's QCC3026 chip, which Fostex credits for making their laudable 12-hour battery life possible (well, that and the chunky battery modules that go behind the listener's ear and give the TM2 that inelegant hearing aid look).
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Now, this detailed catalogue of biological data is helping researchers answer one of the most perplexing scientific questions of all time: Why do some of us age gracefully, while others find that their bodies begin an inelegant process of failure long before death?
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It was left to Japan and Australia to pick up the pieces and proceed with the inelegant sounding Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership which is the original TPP minus the U.S. Even so, policy introspection must apply to all countries.
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Modern art for him was and is just big, factual stuff like the shiny, garish, gloppy, inelegant spray-paint work "Cardboard Relief" (1965) that followed up on his 1963 series of black monochromatic tar paintings, which eschewed all forms of foot action.
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My only cavil about Ms. Kretzschmar is that the slow turns in the ballet's finale make her feet look inelegant as she rises each time onto point; my only cavil about Ms. Woodward is that her physical brilliance hasn't yet become spatially expansive.
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Moreover, if you do take the proper steps and send an encrypted message to your friend, they'll end up with a sketchy notification on their phone, masking your identity and the message's contents: It's a bit inelegant, and there's plenty of room for error.
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In that regard, and in the rather inelegant and desperate way they were deployed to change the current narrative of the race, they resemble the disorganized, information-dump-like attacks his primary campaign rivals aimed at him, just as their campaigns were about to falter.
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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter this week confirmed what had been rumored for months: The Air Force's ground attack jet, the inelegant but well-armed and well-armored A-2130 Thunderbolt, nicknamed the "Warthog," will not face retirement until at least at least six years.
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" Writing for Wired, Lauren Goode said she "managed to squeeze the folded-up Fold into the side pocket of one of my most fitted jackets, but it's inelegant in this state" and also likened to its slim narrow design to "carrying a TV remote.
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It's only upon revisiting her seminal works that I realize how easily impressed I was in my girlhood, charmed by inelegant, poorly argued tracts as much as I was charmed by David, the moody, floppy-haired boy who lived down the hall from me.
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You'll notice that I tacked on four more black squares to form those T-shape configurations, which still feels inelegant to the constructor in me … but zippy stuff like HIT JOB, Y SHAPE, BRO HUG, COACH K and SPRINKLE wouldn't be there without them.
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The singer-songwriter won Best Original Song for Spectre's "Writing's on the Wall," beating out "Earned It" from 50 Shades of Grey and "Til It Happens to You" from The Hunting Ground — and then followed his win with an inelegant, erroneous, and self-congratulatory speech.
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The inelegant but well-armed and well-armored ground-attack jet, nicknamed the "Warthog," was facing quick retirement after the Air Force said it needed the money and crews being used to keep the A-210s flying for the brand-new F-303s and other missions.
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He finally arrived at an inelegant solution to an intractable problem: Delaying a decision on the final fate of about 800,000 "Dreamers" covered by President Barack Obama's executive action for six months, and putting it on Congress to come up with a legislative solution to the problem.
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So while there's much to celebrate about "Orlando" as a milestone, there's also much to lament: an apparent lack of self-editing, an inelegant integration of music and text, and an agitprop bluntness that turns the final scenes into a cringe-worthy litany of liberal causes.
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When prepared for a bourgeois like Giscard, though, the rustic soup metamorphosed into a beef broth, served in a porcelain bowl with a brunoise of vegetables, and topped with truffle shavings and a medley of greens—the whole begging to be slurped up in a most inelegant fashion.
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When I was 14, I stared impatiently at the clock in my math class and wrote an inelegant ditty in the corner of my notebook: Wishing I could force the minute hand forward/to free myself/why must I learn the Pythagorean theorem/if one day I will be dead.
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I'm keeping the headphone jack because I want the phone to be thick enough to have a battery that lasts more than a day of heavy use, and I have one pair of commuter headphones that are basically soundproof, and I don't want to replace them or use an inelegant dongle.
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All of this adds up to a real devil's bargain that wouldn't exist if the Apple TV would simply switch modes on your TV. I asked about it, and Apple told me it thinks mode switching is "inelegant," because TVs often flicker and display built-in interface elements when they do it.
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He's so inspired by Arturo Sandoval's La Virgin de la Macarena pumping out of his iPhone 7 (and apparently oblivious to the other people around him who also have to listen to it) that he silently mounts the highest diving board at the pool and pulls off a rather inelegant, yet inspiring, dive.
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It's not such a problem if you don't need that result right away, but imagine if you had to do that in order to play a game on the highest graphical settings; you want to get those video frames up ASAP, and it's impractical (not to mention inelegant) to send them off to be resolved remotely.
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When it comes to actually taking the Xelento headphones wireless, Beyerdynamic has taken a somewhat inelegant solution: instead of terminating the cord in a 3.5mm headphone jack, the end of the (much shorter) cable features an aluminum cylinder that houses the Bluetooth and battery components, along with a port for connecting a 3.5mm cable once the battery dies.
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Now as he tries to connect with Americans who know little about him, other than what they see in his ubiquitous, slickly produced ads, his campaign is trying to buff the rough exterior of a 78-year-old who can be surly, inelegant and averse to talking about himself in a way that voters find revealing and personal.
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Well, I've already told you how I feel about the -ASE's and WHAT A's and long or ugly abbreviations (a four-letter abbreviation would have to be as common as HTTP for me to feel comfortable using it, and plural abbreviations are generally extremely inelegant to me unless they're three letters at most and extremely common).
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Look, I'm scared about that Dark Tower movie, y'all.) It doesn't help that games barely have a few decades of experimentation under their belt (or that the most interesting forms of narrative storytelling aren't happening in the biggest games), but even if we eventually found that games remain a flawed or inelegant medium for narrative storytelling, that shouldn't disqualify them for trying.
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Ending this epidemic might require something different than a trans-positive Instagram ad from yet another brand seeking points, a book deal from yet another overexposed trans social media microcelebrity, or a workplace inclusivity session in the wake of a misgendering incident in the office — or, for that matter, #canceling someone like Natalie Wynn for her inelegant comments about nonbinary people.
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"Sober" feels, put crudely, like an aural journey through the inelegant reality of getting smashed, with its loud, weird heartbeat and the palpable sense that a paranoid Lorde could be delivering the lyrics to her reflection in a broken mirror while sat on the toilet at a rager (indeed, she told the New York Times back in April that the album would "tell the story of a single house party").
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In her essay, Krauss states that LeWitt's generational cohort viewed "a false and pious rationality [to be] the enemy of art," and defines LeWitt's "irrationality" in terms of his congenital inability to adhere to modes of logic in the formulation of his conceptual works: His math is far too simple; his solutions are far too inelegant; the formal conditions of his work are far too scattered and obsessional […].
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The museum's mouthful of a name—and its inelegant initialism, N.M.A.A.H.C.—testifies to a bureaucratic slog that began in 1915, when black veterans of the Union Army, together in Washington to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the war's end, and fed up with the discrimination they found in the capital city, organized a "colored citizens' committee" to build a monument to the civic contributions of their recently emancipated people.
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But while most of the speakers have focused on the danger that Trump (and his party) poses to America's immediate future, Obama offered a gentle reminder that some parents have had to have awkward conversations with their children over the past eight years as well — about why everyone is so obsessed with the "real" birthplace, religion, and loyalties of the first black president, and about why some Republicans think his first lady is so inelegant and angry.
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