In the first couple episodes, she's offered two unsuitable husbands — a handsome, irritatingly doting prince and a handsome, irritatingly self-absorbed one.
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J. R. felt irritatingly underplayed, with a rushed mumbling delivery.
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Best Picture prizes are split: I'm irritatingly auteur theory about the whole
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They did themselves no favor appearing so aggressive, aggrieved and irritatingly hostile.
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NEW YORK CITY "A few more months" is an irritatingly vague timeline.
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They seem to fit in without trying and, most irritatingly, without caring.
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Has Edith's socially responsible, sometimes irritatingly noble life actually been far from perfect?
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The A party, and more irritatingly, both tour managers, were staying at The Nimb.
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A particularly flat conceit is the most iconic "new god," the irritatingly adolescent Technical Boy.
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That said, Alexa was always irritatingly slow, first listening, then thinking, then returning the result.
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Irritatingly, the volume buttons are on the right side, which sucks if you are left-handed.
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Mr Sisi's real motive may be to block the promotion of judges who irritatingly rule against him.
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GDC resents games that scrap the traditional game controllers that have become over three decades irritatingly complex.
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The portrait with slightly clearer detail to begin with printed up looking almost irritatingly just out of focus.
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Meditation, having been fully and rather irritatingly colonized by the wellness movement, I'm assuming you've already heard of.
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The irritatingly catchy song "Baby Shark" is entering new waters as its creators capitalize on the brand's rapid success.
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Photo: GettyMerriam-Webster's dictionary has been flirting with the thin line between cheekily relevant and irritatingly attention seeking lately.
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Irritatingly, even after having completed the stupidly last-minute assignment, Darah didn't get in touch for a few weeks.
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These aren't moviedom's irritatingly token strong chicks, the tough babes with sizable biceps and skills but no real roles.
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As it is, the line between his characters marking time and a writer filling space can feel irritatingly thin.
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Then Saudi Arabia kicked the BBC's irritatingly truthful Arabic-language channel off a Saudi satellite, causing it to shut down.
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Those tiny-yet-irritatingly-noticeable dots have been an unavoidable part of smartphone design for the better part of decade.
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Irritatingly, when you move your head just a little bit, the browser window in front of you moves with it.
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Von Braunhut's produced hundreds of Sea-Monkeys, which — I have to say — are still irritatingly tiny after all these years.
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What with each pair taking away so much flexibility, they're just irritatingly difficult to build a smooth, interesting grid around.
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But different types of heat produce different results; there are nuanced distinctions between irritatingly spicy, deliciously spicy, or refreshingly spicy.
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Even Maura's friends Shea and Davina sense that their sister is irritatingly contrived in the now infamous "yas queen" scene.
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Of the latter, my favorite is "Fool," one of those irritatingly cheerful strummed acoustic coffeeshop singalongs and its marvelously cheerful tune.
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"You could just take the honey and skip the alcohol," answered both of our practitioners in almost identical irritatingly sensible tones.
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Most of the time this is a good thing; many of the core elements of classic games can feel irritatingly dated today.
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And she is thoroughly decent, irritatingly creative, and has razor-sharp instincts, encouraging whomever is in her audience to feel naturally themselves.
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European Spring, the electoral wing of a trans-European political movement called (rather irritatingly) DiEM25, wants to help Europeanise the European elections.
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The first, that Bills-Jets game, suffered streaming delays that put it irritatingly out of sync with the showcased real-time tweets.
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Pestering her about doing a group meal with what he was irritatingly calling "the family," each time making crude reference to his dwindling mortality.
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The keyboard itself is also irritatingly mushy feeling, which is appalling, as Lenovo is generally known for making the best keyboards in the laptop game.
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So earlier this year when I discovered Inkbox, a temporary tattoo company that's tailored for irritatingly sensible people like me, I was eager to try.
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That is, of course, a mistake; but Andrew and Julie are irritatingly slow on the uptake as their guests become more menacing by the minute.
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And, most irritatingly, Apple refuses to support Google's VP9 video codec, so there is literally no way to watch YouTube in 4K on the iPad Pro.
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All of which makes it the irritatingly fresh-looking guy, in a dayglow tank-top, taking big bouncing strides at the front of the running pack.
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Nyan Cat Views: 149,515,686 The top cat video on the Internet doesn't even star a real cat, just an adorable cartoon with an irritatingly infectious song.
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And a few topical jokes and moments of meta-reference (the Son's own son is a dramatist, writing a play about his grandmother) are irritatingly facile.
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This friend will post something that sounds like stunning but irritatingly vague news that raises more questions than it answers, and will then refuse to elaborate.
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At fault is a threadbare, irritatingly vague script (by the director and artist Ben McPherson) that simply strings together a series of generic setups and forgettable characters.
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The character of Joe's son, David, is, by contrast, irritatingly one-note, and Pryce is less than persuasive in the role of the Noble Prize–winning author.
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Like Einstein, who portrayed himself as a slow learner who never let go once he had seized on some question, Dr. Hawking was legendarily, even irritatingly stubborn.
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And while she's grateful for having had the opportunity, the co-sign from Adams' has also become an irritatingly major (and actually kind of sexist) talking point.
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Finally, it has to be pointed out: this group of artists represents the boys' club of Mexican contemporary art, making the exhibition irritatingly self-congratulatory and even hypocritical.
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But even though it is theoretically part of one long, ongoing story, Dead Men Tell No Tales is puzzlingly, irritatingly ignorant of much of the continuity of the series.
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Things improve when I have the Galaxy Buds hooked up to my MacBook Pro, but I still get an irritatingly frequent blip in the connection between the two Buds.
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I will, however, say that it provides better visual displays of data than other apps in its genre, which matters more than you think in this irritatingly esoteric field.
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One, perhaps irritatingly, is named Rachel K., a call girl in Havana who intersects the lives of the Castros, of Cuba's President, and of the head of United Fruit.
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Other than registering his "rich, even sexy baritone" on the phone, she wasn't all that impressed, especially when he showed up for his first day at work irritatingly late.
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But it wasn't the result of negligence — in fact everything was irritatingly fussy — and it wasn't the result of a tight budget, for the production values were actually quite high.
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This little wonder of PVC and copper wiring solves an irritatingly modern non-problem problem: the three-foot leash that is the stock charging cable usually bundled with most smartphones.
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Mess Kid is one of those irritatingly intriguing producers who has been around long enough to have built up sizable number of releases recordings, but instead trickles tracks out with rarity.
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There are a few exceptions such as Switzerland (a stubbornly self-determined direct democracy), the Benelux (irritatingly liberal parliamentary monarchies), eight American states (taking "the land of the free" seriously) and Canada.
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On her walk to the grocery store with the irritatingly pious OfMatthew (Ashleigh LaThrop), June learns that Chicago, once controlled by the resistance (the real America!), is about to surrender to Gilead.
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A terrible game to play sober can be excellent on drugs, and a game that's amazing when you're sharp and clear-headed can be irritatingly difficult after a couple of bong rips.
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So long as there's still something else irritatingly out of my reach, some other feature that my phone doesn't yet have, I'll know that smartphone makers are still innovating and pushing us forward.
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But while the auto industry is full of engineers in leadership roles, Musk likes to express engineering in a way that's wonky and unique (as well as sort of irritatingly didactic at times).
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To readers of the Rebel, free speech is always an urgent matter; throughout the gathering, the outlet made frequent (and irritatingly incorrect) comparisons between modern-day Canada and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four.
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At the beginning of "American Weather" — Chris Green's lovely, but irritatingly oblique puppet theater piece at Here — a performer brings a metal ring to the center of the stage and sets it spinning.
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Men, bad; women, good — its feminism is irritatingly reductive, but it does make the movie topical fodder especially in 2018, a year that has reminded us that feminism speaks in many different voices.
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Take, for instance, Luke P., who told Hannah on night two of their journey together that he was already falling in love with her, but who, two episodes later, was getting irritatingly needy and possessive.
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The app enables users to send compliments in an effort to give them the confidence to make plans, according to CNBC, but if IRL is guilty of anything, it is executing an irritatingly aggressive marketing strategy.
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In Rome, by contrast, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the right-wing League, after winning the 2018 election, formed an awkward coalition based on a "government contract" that is irritatingly vague on everything important.
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Eventually, each dancer may be invited to offer his own comic take on a role, whether that be Odette from "Swan Lake", or Benno, the irritatingly bouncy "friend to the Prince" that most modern productions have quietly dropped.
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They shared an irritatingly short clip of the album's lead single "The Man," but thankfully Annie Mac played the track out on her BBC 1 Radio show in the UK earlier, alongside an interview with frontman Brandon Flowers.
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Yet while it's no surprise that Mr. Lumet can spin a tale, these murky-looking, less-than-flattering sit-downs are irritatingly suboptimal, particularly given that he was so great at telling intimate stories about men in shadows.
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It's irritatingly circular in the way it fucks women over – first discouraging them from playing a 'male' sport as children, then denouncing them as substandard on the basis of their gender when they do try to get involved.
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Black Diamond Drop Zone Crash Pad for $200 ($50 off): It might still be too muddy and wet to go far, but you can definitely, and irritatingly, start traversing stone buildings on campus with this go-anywhere, folding crash pad.
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Trump treats foreign policy like a series of personal relationships—a power dater with a weakness for the bad boys, a teenager determined to chuck that irritatingly stable "Europe" suitor his parents might prefer in favor of an authoritarian stud who rides motorcycles.
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But the toys that clear that hurdle then face another test: a panel of irritatingly precocious children who make their own sometimes fickle judgments and, each episode, send one lucky inventor on to the finals, where a winner will eventually be crowned.
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Perhaps most irritatingly, Niall Ferguson — who never had much to say on the subject before — has written a book documenting the ways in which social media companies have become hegemonic powers — and is promoting it as if he were the expert on the topic.
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Indeed white nationalists operating under the banner of the "alt-right" are the whining boy kings of the "just" framing, most conspicuously that their hateful messages are "just" irony, or more irritatingly, "just" trolling, as argued in Breitbart's infamous alt-right "young meme brigade" explainer.
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The whole misleading-people-with-meaningless-sex thing was bothering Philip more than ever; after the latest irritatingly inconclusive scene with Stan and Renee, Philip told Elizabeth that he didn't want "Stan to be like Martha," a sentiment that drew a death stare from Elizabeth.
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In addition to her family, there's also Longshot, another probability powered X-Men affiliate who is only lucky when he's using his powers for the benefit of others, and Gladstone Gander, Donald Duck's irritatingly fortunate cousin, who is only lucky as long as he's not working.
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In fact, it's the sentence "She's dead," uttered in a strangulated voice by the still-sleeping Marcie, that allows Don and Karla to start bonding, after meeting in a barrage of noisy insults that is as classically and irritatingly New York as a stalled subway car.
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From the jump, Peter's decision to ask Victoria on a one-on-one date a mere two weeks after her last one — while a number of his other contestants have not received a morsel of personal attention — is irritatingly oblivious at best and purposefully pot-stirring at worse.
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The #MeToo movement hasn't strongly impacted music yet, with post-Weinstein accusations most notably leveled at Russell Simmons, Sean Carlson of FYF Fest, and country music publicist Kirt Webster while well-known sexual predators who have long faced accusations — R. Kelly and XXTentacion top a long list — have faced maddeningly slow or irritatingly few consequences.
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"I Need U," their first big single, rattles with propulsive snare drums, irritatingly high-pitched synthesizers, squeaky whistles, maximalist keyboard roar, a chorus that combines several familiar melodies into a giant yearning monster — behold a song that's streamlined but also sprung, as if the many little crunchy parts are straining to burst through the polished surface.
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That faux-naïf eccentricity has become an international period style is evinced by the fact that show could be a cross between Andy Coolquitt and Tal R. This should come across as irritatingly derivative, but Jones succeeds in walking a line between sincerity and knowingness, and the inventive playfulness of the work actually feels inventive and playful.
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The BBC maundered on until 2013, doing less and less but doing it ever more irritatingly, investing its remaining big days with up-itself portentousness: all forced banter, moody music and silly slo-mo.
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Gigwise included "Marvin Gaye" on their list, with Alexandra Pollard elaborating that it is "irritatingly catchy - but it's not even catchy", and went on to say that it is an unclever and "really stupid play on words".
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Meghan Sullivan of IGN gave the game a 6.5/10, saying "It charmed me with its blend of old-school RPG and contemporary satire, but nearly lost my vote with its sluggish pacing, irritatingly high enemy encounter rate, and crashes".
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Although it was a commercial success, it was disapproved of by many critics. New York Magazine called it an "arrogant piece of vacuous pornography", and added "if anyone had any doubts about Vadim's utter worthlessness this irritatingly pseudointellectual garbage should allay them".
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Paul Cooper of Pitchfork Media said,"Kittin's dull-as-dishwater celebrity fantasies and irritatingly neutral delivery pale in comparison to how Harrison Crump performs in an identical environment. It's the difference between true talent and a plastic knock-off."Cooper, Paul (2002-04-09). Felix Da Housecat: Kittenz and Thee Glitz Pitchfork Media.
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Sam and Bridget are freelance zombie hunters desperate for a gig. And Bruce is an irritatingly cheerful previously- deceased-rights activist. All five characters struggle to find their place in this strange new world and collectively uncover a sinister plot by a multinational corporation looking to plunge the world into another zombie- human war, regardless of the cost.
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Mitchell meets him in a coffee shop and initially is fascinated by the colorful character. However, with the passage of time, as Gould becomes irritatingly intrusive and demanding, disrupting the ordinary life Mitchell shares with his photographer wife and their two daughters, the journalist begins to question if the elderly man's 9 million-word opus actually exists or is merely a figment of his imagination.
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Cleverdicks is a game show that originally aired on Sky Atlantic, hosted by Ann Widdecombe, now shown on Challenge. Four contestants compete each episode for the right to call themselves "cleverdicks" and play for a cash jackpot. As explained by host Widdecombe at the top of the first episode, a cleverdick is a person who is "irritatingly and ostentatiously knowledgeable or intelligent." The question material is therefore primarily academic in nature.
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On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 20% based on reviews from 5 critics. Nathan Rabin of The A. V. Club called it "really boring in an extremely earnest fashion." Rabin warned that it "is not, as its box would somewhat dishonestly indicate, a Jennifer Love Hewitt vehicle. It is, instead, a laughless, irritatingly earnest comedy-drama about ..." the characters played by Mihok and Facinelli.
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They think about the words that his former girlfriend used to "fill into the cracks of [his] irritatingly lived days." The protagonist hides the shadow of a crescent moon with his thumb, and "[pushes] it far into [his] dry eyes." The song's second setting is at sunset, describing someone "looking over [her] shoulder, perhaps thinking of what to say," while the protagonist wonders if their lies and worries were constantly repeating.
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story aspires to being an offbeat comedy, somewhere between a fairy tale and a whimsical love story. What it is an irritatingly smarmy, implausible mess. A kind of slow-motion farce that ill-advisedly attempts to mingle wildly disparate realities and acting styles, [it] might have worked had its various plot strands been ingeniously interwoven. But no P.G. Wodehouse or Georges Feydeau is anywhere in sight . . .
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The next figures shows what happens to the compressed pulse when the compressor is set at 2T duration and then at 1.1T duration. New far-out sidelobes have appeared with amplitudes that make them clearly visible. These sidelobes are often referred to as “gating sidelobes”. They can be irritatingly high but, fortunately, even if the compressor is set have just 10% extension, the sidelobes are still at a level than that achieved without correction.
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He decides that Leslie and the kids are ingenious squatters, but abandons that when he sees that "his" kitchen looks entirely different. He then thinks that it is all an elaborate practical joke created by Dirk. This theory crumbles bit by bit, the coup de grace being delivered when the local police and emergency services are called to the house of their neighbours, the Needhams. In Robin's universe the family are irritatingly perfect.
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Reviews of the book were largely positive. Harish Khare, editor of The Tribune, called it "an irritatingly brilliant book [told] with considerable competence and style." He further described it as a sobering and condemning view absent from newspapers. Rishi Raj of The Financial Express agreed that the realistic viewpoint was rarely seen in journalism or academic works, and recommended it to analysts and those interested in an uncompromising look at post-independence India.
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This album was also certified gold, reaching number 10 on the Top Country Albums chart and number 69 on the Billboard 200. Nash gave it a C+, calling Tillis's vocals "irritatingly in-your-face". In 1993, she won her first major award from Country music, winning the Country Music Association' Vocal Event of the Year with George Jones and Friends for "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair". The association also named her Top Female Vocalist in 1994.
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Adam Starkey of Metro and Jasper Rees of The Telegraph gave the film four out of five stars. Rees commented that Chaudhry performed as Dev like "slipping into an old coat". Starkey praised the actors for "convincing, likeable performances" and wrote that Dev "takes the natural course from irritatingly vibrant neighbour to having a sympathetic, misunderstood circumstance for his enthusiasm". In 2018, Chaudhry appeared in the Ben Wheatley black comedy Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, playing Sham.
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The positioning of the cooling fans render the laptop incapable of supporting high-end graphics cards. Some users have encountered technical problems, many of which center around the webcam and built-in microphone. A common complaint is that the supplied fan is irritatingly loud, and many users have tried to rectify it on their own. The placement of the headphone jacks on the front of the unit leads to inconvenient trailing wires when external speakers are connected.
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The irritatingly bossy pupil Patsy, always depicted in a red dress with a huge red bow in her hair, goes to extreme lengths to please her female (unnamed) Teacher, which annoys the other pupils no end. But Patsy's schemes always backfire, either causing Teacher to punish her or resulting in a humiliating accident for Patsy, much to the other pupils' delight. None of Patsy's classmates is ever named, but they usually include another girl and two boys of different heights.
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Trelawny's friend Daniel Roberts designed and supervised the construction of both vessels. The construction of the Bolivar cost £750, a sum which Byron found irritatingly high. The Funeral of Shelley, by Louis Édouard Fournier Trelawny had planned to accompany the Don Juan in the Bolivar during the voyage in which the Don Juan sank. He was held back by the Port Authority because he was not carrying his port clearance with him, though he had sailed without bringing his clearance several times in the past.
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According to the Jargon File, "Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly naïve and tremendously stimulating." Early on, cyberpunk was hailed as a radical departure from science-fiction standards and a new manifestation of vitality.Brians, Paul. "Study Guide for William Gibson: Neuromancer (1984)" Washington State University Shortly thereafter, however, some critics arose to challenge its status as a revolutionary movement.
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The album received mixed reviews from critics. Hermione Hoby from The Observer gave the album two stars and quipped "Stylish, rather than substantial, it's filled with busy arrangements of standards such as 'I Got Rhythm' and 'Moon River', which, for the most part, are irritatingly light. Mannered perkiness reaches its nadir on 'Good Morning' – its fussy tempo changes, cuckoo clocks and spoken 'good morning's will have you wrenching the duvet over your head and groaning." Andy Gill from The Independent also gave the album two stars.
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GamePros review criticized the game as having boring tracks, drab graphics, irritatingly droning engine sounds, difficult controls, and poor gameplay design, especially in "Dirty Racing". They concluded that "Race Days is a cart that will disappoint even the most liberal 'I'll play anything' gamer." Electronic Gaming Monthly's two sports reviewers gave it scores of 73% and 75%. They remarked that the graphics and sounds are average, but praised the game as having good controls, addictive gameplay, and a good value with two games on one cartridge.
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Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times agreed, "A movie's heroes may have their names above the title, but often as not it's the sidekicks who get the real work done." Turan went on to pan Simba, describing him as "irritatingly callow." Chris Hick of the Deseret News complained about the fact that Simba and the other "characters in The Lion King are not as warm and fuzzy as other Disney animated features," crediting this with making "the film a bit tougher to warm [up] to." ComingSoon.
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Emma was a six-part TV serial adaptation of Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma by BBC Television that was broadcast in 1972. It was directed by John Glenister. This dramatization brings to life the wit and humour of Jane Austen's arguably finest novel Emma, recreating her most irritatingly endearing female character, of whom she wrote "no one but myself could like." Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find that it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification.
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English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies Volume 30, Issue 2, 2013. In addition to the Progressive Organisation, she also attended meetings of the Fellowship of the New Life and Karl Pearson's Men and Women's Club, where she was insistent on the critical importance of woman's equality and the need to consider men as well as women when looking at gender relationships. However, her own relationships with men were anything but happy. She had refused a proposal from her doctor, Bryan Donkin, but he was irritatingly persistent in his suit of her.
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On Metacritic, a review aggregator, Space Colony has a score of 75/100 based on 21 reviews. Dan Adams of IGN rated it 7.5/10 and wrote that it is "almost great" but has too many annoyances, such as the characters' irritatingly quirky personalities. In his review for GameSpot, Andrew Park called it "an interesting game but not a truly compelling one". In rating it 6.7/10, Park criticized the lack of variety in gameplay, as each problem can be solved in very similar ways, and there are few spontaneous interactions between the colonists.
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However, they concluded that the game loses "by a hair" when compared to its rival, Virtua Fighter. The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a positive review, chiefly praising the character design, graphics, and special moves. Maximum made note of the graphical and gameplay innovations such as gouraud shading, rotational backgrounds, dramatic camera angles, and the sidestep. However, they remarked that the poor quality directional pad on the original PlayStation controller "just isn't built for taking diagonals and quarter circle rolls", making it irritatingly difficult to pull off special moves.
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Hannah Moscovitch (born June 5, 1978) is a Canadian playwright who rose to national prominence in the 2000s. She has been dubbed "an indie sensation" by Toronto Life Magazine; "the wunderkind of Canadian theatre" by CBC Radio; "irritatingly talented" by the now defunct Eye Weekly; and the "dark angel of Toronto theatre" by Toronto Star. The National Post, The Globe and Mail, and Now Magazine have all hailed Hannah as "Canada’s Hottest Young Playwright". She is best known for her plays East of Berlin, The Russian Play, and This Is War.
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He and other members of the Orb record nature sounds for use on albums, especially FFWD and Orbus Terrarum. The Orb's combination of ambient music and sampling from lower fidelity audio sources often creates a "fuzzy texture" in the sound quality, depersonalising the Orb's music. The Orb are lauded for their "Monty Python- esque levity" in their use of audio samples, though NME asserts that Paterson "sabotage[s] his majestic soundscapes" with "irritatingly zany" sounds. The Orb has been a prolific remixing team, having completed over 80 commissioned remixes since 1989.
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In 2010, EastEnders came under criticism from the police for the way that they were portrayed during the "Who Killed Archie?" storyline. During the storyline, DCI Jill Marsden (Sophie Stanton) and DC Wayne Hughes (Jamie Treacher) talk to locals about the case and Hughes accepts a bribe. The police claimed that such scenes were "damaging" to their reputation and added that the character DC Deanne Cunningham (Zoe Henry) was "irritatingly inaccurate". In response to the criticism, EastEnders apologised for offending real life detectives and confirmed that they use a police consultant for such storylines.
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Her relationship with her husband is one of easy camaraderie; she is his staunch supporter, a wife who never cribs that they're forever in debt and who, even when she suspects that her husband is in love with another woman, does not protest or demand his love for herself. (Instead, she tells him to marry a second time). This is an intriguing woman; she can be surprisingly progressive at times, irritatingly dull at others, and even, occasionally, appealing and wise. Right now, however, the one facing hard times is Chaudhvin Begum.
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" Some, like Pauline Kael, were often critical of his subject matter for being "melodramas," and "irritatingly self-righteous," although she credits his films for their "redeeming social importance . . . [with] situations and settings nevertheless excitingly modern, relevant." Kramer, however, saw himself as "a storyteller with a point of view": In the 1960s Kramer blamed the growing "youth culture" with having changed the "artistic landscape" as he remembered it from his own youth. "No longer," he said, "were writers or filmmakers interested in creating the Great American Novel or the great American film, or indeed with exploring what it meant to be American.
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EuroGamer gave NGEN an overall score of five out of ten, praising the ability to customize planes, as well as the ability to choose between normal and 'pro' control schemes. EuroGamer praised NGEN's "very nice" and "colourful" graphics, but noted that "irritatingly" the player's plane blends in with the background too well, causing the player to be "passed by another plane, and not to realise it until you see your position in the race has changed". Despite later levels becoming more difficult and "frantic", EuroGamer expressed that they got "very bored ... far too quickly" due to NGEN's "repetitive" music and gameplay.
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Emma Amos trained at the Royal College of Music from 1982 to 1989, and in 1991 she landed a part in the British film Buddy's Song. Designed as a vehicle for the rising pop-singer Chesney Hawkes, the film also starred Roger Daltrey of rock band the Who as Terry, Buddy's dad. Amos was cast as Dawn, Terry's girlfriend, but only featured in a few brief scenes. Amos's first television role was in an episode of long-running sit-com Men Behaving Badly, playing the part of Mandy, the annoying girlfriend of Tony's brother, in the episode "People Behaving Irritatingly".
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In places, the album expands upon the synth-pop genre with flavours of guitar pop ballads, as with "This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave" and "My October Symphony" (a song about the decline of the Soviet Union) featuring guitarist Johnny Marr. Later, singer Neil Tennant would reflect on the different style of Behaviour: "It was more reflective and more musical- sounding, and also it probably didn't have irritatingly crass ideas in it, like our songs often do". Tennant stated the album was inspired by fellow synth-pop group Depeche Mode's album Violator,"10 years of Being boring". Retrieved on 18 January 2013.
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When the film premiered at the Leicester Square Theatre in London on 18 March 1965, the film critic for The Times had mixed feelings about it. While enjoying the first part of the film, and generally praising Michael Caine, the critic found the second half bewildering to the extent that the characters "cease to be pleasantly mystifying and become just irritatingly obscure." A review in Variety was largely positive, describing the film as "anti-Bond" for its unglamorous depiction of espionage, and praising Caine's understated performance but criticizing the sometimes "arty- crafty" camera work. Subsequently, the film has come to be recognized as a classic.
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In a contemporary review, David Badder (Monthly Film Bulletin) stated that the film had characters that eschewed "any believable motivation", that "deadly dull sex scenes irritatingly tricked out with arty-crafty camera work, almost guaranteed to send the bulk of his frustrated audience into a deep sleep" and that the film was "burdened with a crushingly pretentious score". The review negatively compared D'Amato's work to that of Italian genre filmmakers Dario Argento and Riccardo Freda, stating that he had "none of [their] inspirational touches". In his 1999 book on the film's director Joe D'Amato, Antonio Tentori found that it skilfully combined eros and horror.
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Alan Rich of Variety said that "Ackerman has fashioned an absorbing tapestry of media essays on human sensuality". Walter Goodman of The New York Times stated that "much of the information ... is fresh", but "the programs meander down dull paths; the scientific material tends to be delivered in clumps that are hard to absorb". Ken Ringle of The Washington Post was not impressed, and described the series as "distracted, disorganized, frequently trivial and irritatingly self-indulgent". He went on to say that "instead of exploring our senses' role in the natural world", the programs "tends to celebrate instead the way corporations seduce them artificially for profit".
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This crazy attempt from Balaji Mohan definitely warrants the support of fans who want different type of films to hit our screens more consistently."Vaayai Moodi Pesavum review Moviecrow 25 April 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2014 In contrast, Gautaman Bhaskaran of the Hindustan Times gave 2/5 and wrote, "For a good part, the film runs without dialogues, though the loud, almost irritatingly intrusive, background score robs the work of, what could have been otherwise, beautiful silence. And, what is downright silly is a government minister camping in the town – a man who is caught between a smart personal assistant and a haughty chief minister.
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Meanwhile, he selects Ravenholm as a residence where he can commute to and from City 17, but lacks proper transport with which to get there. After a failed attempt to reach Ravenholm using Dr. Isaac Kleiner's teleporter leaves him stuck in a Counter- Strike: Source server for a week, he seeks Ravenholm by foot instead. Traveling through City 17's canals, Frohman arrives, badly injured and dazed, at Black Mesa East, the headquarters of the human resistance, where he is welcomed as a helper. His stay there is cut short because he causes trouble in the base, and also irritatingly overuses the gravity gun.
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Netea (November 1972), p.13–14 The Wallachian exile took to agnosticism, reading both the Bible and atheistic tracts, and refusing to baptize his children by Maria Rosetti-Grant.Călinescu, p.167, 168, 170, 275 By then, Rosetti and his men were perceived as extremists even among the leftist Wallachian émigrés: Nicolae Bălcescu, a radical, complained that the Rosettists were "communists", and that their supposed critique of property as theft was irritatingly obstructionist.Cristian Ilie, "Anticomunistul Nicolae Bălcescu", in Magazin Istoric, July 2010, p.40 The Crimean War (which placed Wallachia and Moldavia under direct supervision of the Great Powers) meant C. A. Rosetti and Ion Brătianu were allowed to return home.
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On June 8, 1964, the sheriff of Gila County, Arizona, took 15-year-old Gerald Gault into custody, without notifying Gault's parents after a neighbor, Ora Cook, complained of receiving an inappropriate and offensive telephone call.. Fortas noted that it was sufficient "to say that the remarks or questions put to her were of the irritatingly offensive, adolescent, sex variety." After returning home from work that evening to find her son missing, Gault's mother eventually located him at the county jail, but was not permitted to take him home.387 U.S. at 5. According to Gault, his friend Ronald Lewis made the call from the Gault family's trailer.
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Upon release, Lesley O'Toole of Record Mirror wrote: "Once upon a time, if you didn't own a copy of "Fascist Groove Thang", you were much too untrendy to be seen associating with. Since then, Heaven 17 have cobbled together the odd pearl of synthesised wisdom, but with decreasing regularity. "Trouble" does little to alleviate fears that the rot is setting in, being just another mish-mash of unexciting keyboard riffs and irritatingly distinctive Glenn Gregory mouthings." Aaron Badgley of AllMusic said in a review of Pleasure One: "Some of the Pleasure One songs are among their best, including the wonderful "Trouble" and the opening track, "Contenders.
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This time, however, he vows to keep this one no matter what. On the eve of Diwali, Sunny has loads of stuff to do and very little time to do it. He has to meet his screenplay deadline, he has to get rid of Pandey (Saurabh Shukla), his irritatingly intrusive next door neighbor, and he's got to avoid his editor's telephone calls who is livid that he's bunking work. But more importantly he needs to get Jenny out of the way because he has a date with Maya (Mahima Chaudhry), a South Indian superstar who he has been in love with since as long as he can remember.
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The film was released for home video on December 2, 2008 in a single-disc rated edition, a single-disc unrated edition and a 2-disc unrated edition. The film generated sales of an estimated 3.87 million units in DVD and Blu-ray, totaling $63.7 million. For the home video release, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Adam McKay recorded a commentary track mostly in song, accompanied by Jon Brion; the track covers "the movie-making process [and] their characters' offscreen lives" in remarks that range "from the inspired to the irritatingly prolonged, but when Ferrell and Reilly really get into a good groove, they're actually funnier than the main feature".
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Other writers were involved too, but somehow Lee and > I became the main contributors and so we began seeing a lot of each other's > work at the following readthroughs. I thought Lee's stuff was annoyingly > good, and he thought my stuff was irritatingly splendid, so when Lee was > later given the go-ahead to develop a comedy-drama which shared similar > aspirations to the one-off "Words" series, he rang and asked if I would like > to collaborate. Up until this time I had trained and worked mostly as an > actor (Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Royal Shakespeare > Company) but because I also loved writing (and had a tax bill to pay) I > immediately said "certainly".
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" In a review of Gilbert's Bob Dylan – 1975–1981 Rolling Thunder and The Gospel Years (2006), DVD Talk noted the film was "clocking in at a staggering four hours" and intended "for, and only for, the diehard Bob Dylan aficionado." They said the film was "exhaustive and exhausting," "an unexceptional, sometimes amateurish, video production." Of Gilbert's 2008 documentary Inside Bob Dylan's Jesus Years: Busy Being Born Again, DVD Talk noted that the film was an "examination of the period from 1978 to 1981 where Dylan shook off his Jewish heritage and became a born-again, Evangelical Christian." The reviewer said the film was amateurish and that viewers would "be hard-pressed to find a more irritatingly edited project.
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He concluded that "While Shodown III won't disappoint fans of the series, it isn't the jump that Shodown II was over I." A brief review in Next Generation similarly said that "Fans of the first two won't be let down by III, but there should be a much larger jump in quality in the sequel." Maximum assessed the Neo Geo CD version as "an excellently detailed and extremely playable beat 'em up, maintaining SNK's usual high standards." They particularly praised the fact that character alignment affects the gameplay instead of just cosmetic differences, the much improved balance of the characters, the constantly moving backgrounds, and the highly experimental soundtrack. They remarked that the game's one major problem is that it is irritatingly difficult.
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As it is, it's just another action title with lots of guns and explosions." Glenn Rubenstein, writing for GameSpot instead contended that the game has a frustrating level of challenge, and praised its full motion video sequences, selection of weapons, multiplayer mode, and soundtrack, assessing that "it definitely ranks in the top 10 percent of what is currently out there." GamePro found the maze- like level designs in Steel Reign irritatingly restrictive, and while agreeing that the multiplayer mode is fun, felt that it was soured by the fact that matches are so short, they are nearly outlasted by their load times. They summarized that "Every time a bright side to this game pops up, it's pummeled by four problems.
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Thirty-nine years old, with twenty-one years' service behind him, Duncan can be irritatingly smug about his experience of the job, an inveterate tease and, when roused, witheringly accurate in his put-downs, but his ready wit wins him friends and allies in the station. He is not as impulsive as some and often acts as the middle-man preferring to see both sides of an argument. The chink in his armour is his wife, Shona, who he treats with a healthy degree of respect and secretly adores, until she has an affair and leaves him. Shona is a highflying career woman, working for one of the larger financial institutions, and it is her salary rather than Duncan's that pays for their Docklands Riverside apartment.
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Mess+Noise's Kate Hennessey noted that May is "strong, talented, irreverent and sexual; aspects of being a woman that are so rarely role-modeled in a holistic way – or in a way that talks to me – that I want to defend her against comments that seem irritatingly reductive" and despite some fans' fears that "ditching the blues muse and aspiring to a mainstream pop aesthetic would leach her authenticity. The opposite occurs ... By snipping ties to the blues' ground-bound earthiness, May’s self-expression can – and has – soared, and she's transmitting more personally than ever". At the ARIA Music Awards of 2013 May was nominated for Best Female Artist for Kiss My Apocalypse. On 2 February 2018 Abbe released her fifth studio album, Fruit.
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In the December 1983 edition of Dragon (Issue 80), Ken Rolston was guardedly enthusiastic about Timeship. Roslton admired the simplification of the rules system, and the ambitious nature of a game that attempted to cover all of past and future time. However, he sometimes found the humorous tone in the rulebook "is often irritatingly cute and self-indulgent, and the rules of play themselves are difficult to read and reference because of the idiosyncratic style." Rolston thought the first scenario, "Murder at the End of Time", to be "pretty silly", but found the third scenario set in wartime Berlin to be "the most detailed and credible", although he faulted writer Herbie Brennan for not including a bibliography of references about wartime Berlin that a gamesmaster could use to flesh out the scant details provided.
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Chris Mautner of The Comics Journal observed that the manga is "enigmatic and elliptical enough to frustrate and confound even an attentive reader", noting its blurring of perception, fragmented narratives, and its poetic ambitions. Mautner lamented that there wasn't more background material and concluded that the manga will likely require multiple readings, although the award for doing so might not be obvious. Noel Murray of The A.V. Club noted the dreamlike quality of the manga's art and how it tries to explore reveries, concluding that it is a striking "sketch of the woes and wonders of everyday life that makes room for those moments when we zone out." Hillary Brown of Paste called the manga "irritatingly vague", finding a cultural barrier to understanding it like its background noises, concluding that the manga is too unsatisfying to make up for its weak narrative.
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Revolution Now received less favourable reviews upon release and did not chart in the UK. In a review for AllMusic, Richie Unterberger wrote that the album is hard to categorize musically, and that "the result sounds more irritatingly confusing than impressive." He described the music as "'80s British dance rock, neo- psychedelia, and White-boy soul, sometimes in the same song". Unterberger added that "there are some nice bits of melody here and there, but you get the uneasy feeling that eclecticism is being used as a cover for the lack of killer material or a compelling lyrical thread." In a more positive review, Ira Robbins of Trouser Press wrote that Sensible "reached some sort of artistic peak" on Revolution Now, although it was "hampered a bit by Sensible's minimalist singing and the obvious use of synthesizers where real instruments would have sounded better".
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" Lou Lumenick of the New York Post gave the film four out of four stars, saying "A fat green ogre with a grouchy disposition and worse manners, Shrek is the sort of unlikely hero that nobody could love – except just about everyone who sees this hip and hilarious animated delight." Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News gave the film four out of four stars, saying "The brilliance of the voice work, script, direction and animation all serve to make Shrek an adorable, infectious work of true sophistication." Rene Rodriguez gave the film three out of four stars, calling it "a gleefully fractured fairy tale that never becomes cynical or crass". Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times gave the film four out of five stars, saying "Beating up on the irritatingly dainty Disney trademarks is nothing new; it's just that it has rarely been done with the demolition-derby zest of Shrek.
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" Loud and Quiet's Reef Younis found the LP to be "expertly fashioned, set to cutely coax awkward shapes to unassuming, hip-snaking rhythms and irritatingly infectious melodies", concluding that "The standard was set high but the pop renaissance shows no sign of letting up." Clash magazine writer John Freeman scored the album a seven out of ten, calling it "pleasingly playable", while a CMJ critic stated that the duo were able to "create its own form of stark intimacy that the members, luckily for us, have translated nearly flawlessly into musical form." A review in DIY magazine called it an "outstanding debut to suggest that they will be around for a very long time", but also wrote that the album could be disliked for "favouring style over substance". A similar sediment was shared by Jim Carroll, a music critic for The Irish Times, writing that "In between the electro shimmer and the plush melodramatic moods (best experienced on The Ballad), New Look [...] show many good reasons to pay attention to what they’ll produce in the long run.
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In The Guardian, journalist Gaby Hinsliff praised the writing style and noted "for all her contradictions and irritatingly sweeping generalisations, when she's right she is very right" and "you find yourself nodding too many times to ignore it: when she explores the media's obsession with 'fucked up white girls, beautiful broken dollies, unable to cope with the freedom and the opportunities they've inherited'. In The Independent the book received a strongly critical review by Daisy Wyatt. Wyatt criticised the book for being "provocative" and "dramatic" and condemned Penny for including too much personal information, such as writing about being caught masturbating, losing her virginity, and a section in the book in which Penny notes "she has slept with numerous nerdy male activists, and some women – sometimes with both at the same time". According to Wyatt, "the transitions between passages from her personal life and polemics about sexual submission are often very abrupt...After a visceral passage about women's fertility still being seen as a sin against market forces, we cut straight to a first-person diary entry about flirting with a Catholic pro-lifer at a protest in Dublin.
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