But slick production values can't disguise the lack of imagination.
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Thorgy's real problem with this challenge was her lack of imagination.
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And restaurant owners have a lack of imagination when naming restaurants.
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The opponent is a lack of imagination, the fear of failure.
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Even experiential travel companies can suffer from a lack of imagination.
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"What it signals is a complete lack of imagination," he said.
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" [Politico] "Coverage of Bernie Sanders suffers from a lack of imagination.
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OnePlus sees a lack of imagination around 5G in the long term.
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But his brick and mortar nationalism also reveals a lack of imagination.
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It's not a lack of imagination that leads Donald to hire his kids.
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Insatiable's greatest sin is that it suffers from a profound lack of imagination.
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But Oleg wasn't moved — it was just Stan's usual American lack of imagination.
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He looks at me incredulously, my lack of imagination further proof of my privilege.
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This isn't just a lack of imagination on my part, or it isn't just that.
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It's the lack of imagination that the future can be any different than the past.
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It just speaks to a lack of imagination on the part of people who make movies.
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Critics will sniff that this shows his own lack of imagination, or the influence of neoconservatives.
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Unfortunately, users "exhibit a staggering lack of imagination and select very predictable numbers," reports The Guardian.
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There's no lack of imagination when it comes to concepts to retrieve garbage from the sea.
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The trouble that makes this occasion so awkward to memorialize is the lack of imagination about it.
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Dark Phoenix's lack of imagination is all the more disappointing because it glimmers of promise early on.
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Maybe I shouldn't be so surprised at the lack of imagination in modern day pop music videos.
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" Pfaff had a different take: The response to Turner's sentence "shows a lack of imagination among progressives.
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Partly because of economics, partly because of a lack of imagination, Hollywood barely makes character-driven movies anymore.
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Any talk of a new wall serves only to underline our lack of imagination for solving problems collaboratively.
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Trump's choice of names, John Miller and John Baron, indicates a similar boldness -- or lack of imagination -- to Tillerson's.
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I think they, like a lot of people, had a lack of imagination about how haywire things could go.
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Is a lack of imagination about taxes, policies and regulations impeding the flow from hoarded cash to productivity-increasing programs?
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Perhaps it's my own lack of imagination, but I suspect it's deeper: there's an illusion of freedom in Mankind Divided.
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And it's possible for this show to have taken a stride toward progress while still suffering from lack of imagination.
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Maybe that simply reveals my own lack of imagination — those who can't do, critique — but I doubt I am alone here.
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It spoke of a lack of imagination about the sorts of hip-hop-informed films and shows that might be made.
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If there's a fault in Berman's book, it's her lack of imagination about what an even better democracy might look like.
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The biggest hurdle of all may be a lack of imagination from Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose administration seems wholly uninterested.
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One fan blog chastised Disney for a "lack of imagination," adding that Mickey Mouse "may as well surrender" to Universal theme parks.
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My biggest frustration with New Order when we split up in 2007 was the lack of imagination shown in the set list.
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Aside from this mystic boob-show loophole, it's actually the lack of imagination or ingenuity is the true letdown of The Witcher.
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But he didn't allow their lack of imagination, nor the dark conditions of the present, to prevent him from envisioning a brighter future.
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He is also never lacking an adversary, some villain standing in the way of progress, holding the game back through lack of imagination.
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As well as a lack of visible safeguards in the Duplex demo, there's also — I would argue — a curious lack of imagination on display.
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Monsieur Gardahaut showed a lack of imagination when he named his company GAR, but his skills as an engineer made up for it, kinda.
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Defending workaholism at this point demonstrates a tremendous lack of imagination about what people can achieve when they're fulfilled at both work and home.
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It seems like a lack of imagination on the part of the publishing industry that only white men are apparently exhuming Reed's complicated corpus.
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Trafficking in bland stereotypes, demonstrating a lack of imagination or relying on anonymous, naked dead women as vague motivation all feel more urgently terrible.
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It's in these moments that the Grammys' lack of imagination and tolerance contrasts with the general progressive political stances of the artists it celebrates.
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TC: You don't think this owes to a lack of imagination by founders but rather serious flaws in the overarching way that startups get funded.
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But even then, they will prove how singular and exemplary those achievements are — and that the canon is no longer limited by lack of imagination.
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Farhad: But what was really surprising about the interview was Thiel's lack of imagination about how the world could change in big ways under Trump.
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Children's Books In a 2018 essay for Time magazine, the actress Gabrielle Union lamented Hollywood's lack of imagination when it comes to casting people of color.
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"There has been a lack of imagination in Hollywood, which sets us up to bring in really new, creative ways of storytelling," Peele told Variety last year.
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Yet even as this crisis has become national news, and Democratic candidates for president are offering competing solutions, the conversation still suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Our stupidity, he realized, was neither willed nor wicked; it reflected, instead, a lack of imagination — or, perhaps more accurately, a lack of material for our imagination.
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The problem that arises is not in Iza's good intentions or kindness, but in Iza's very lack of imagination, a fatal absence of poetry in her soul.
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It is folly to expect dramatic changes in direction, no matter how great the opportunity, from an institution whose lack of imagination rivals that of Kaiser Wilhelm.
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And I think that Facebook had a failure of imagination about how haywire it could go and a lack of imagination now about how you solve that.
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Courtesy of LucasFilm New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is no fan of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which he thought displayed a stunning lack of imagination.
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"'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' suffers from a frustrating lack of imagination, but concludes this beloved saga with fan-focused devotion," the site says of the film.
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It's not the first time a fictitious story filled with fantastical, mythical creatures suffered a lack of imagination when it came to casting diverse characters (see: Game of Thrones).
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The plot, deliberately kept vague, either to disguise its true nature or a lack of imagination, concerns a band of people in combat gear who are on the run.
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Not all food hall contracts have worked out well for the vendors, and some of the halls show a depressing lack of imagination on the part of the curators.
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So to see and hear and read cisgender straight reporters fret that it's "very hard to imagine" Transparent without Tambor is rather a shocking, borderline violent lack of imagination.
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But through Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman highlights the lack of imagination and character development applied to superhero girlfriends who are trapped in other franchises, going through the same stagnant motions.
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Clinton has consolidated her base and a lack of enthusiasm from liberals shouldn't become an excuse for a lack of imagination in winning over moderate voters from both political parties.
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What endures, sadly, is Roth's lack of imagination, the unempathetic and incurious caricaturing of others that he turned into a virtue — and which now defines much of American public life.
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Or was it Netanyahu, whose lust to hold onto his seat of power is only surpassed by his lack of imagination to find a secure way to separate from the Palestinians?
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But once again—with a lack of imagination that equated fundraising with pocketing checks in Park Avenue living rooms—the media failed to appreciate this new-fangled gizmo called the internet.
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I don't know that I think that's a storytelling failure, but I do think it shows a distinct lack of imagination when it comes to the crafting of the Marvel Cinematic Smorgasbord.
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Art Review An exhibition meant to show off the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of art from the 1940s to the present day only points to gaps and a lack of imagination.
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This lack of imagination means there are no templates for the necessary conversations about who does what, who pays for what, and how this uncommon dynamic feels day-to-day, for both partners.
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Unfortunately, old stereotypes and a lack of imagination continue to hinder our work to expand this type of care, which science and experience tells us gives most individuals their best shot at recovery.
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At its worst, this kind of fiction, the writer Hari Kunzru has observed, can "degenerate into something like an artfully curated social media feed," lapsing into solipsism and betraying a lack of imagination.
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Early media reports on the conflicts of interest inherent in Trump's dual roles as a business titan and a president are showing a lack of imagination about exactly how bad things can get.
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For their part the Chinese accuse the Americans of a selfish lack of imagination, for failing to offer such concessions as a freeze on large-scale military exercises with their allies in South Korea.
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But it's hard not to think the repeat selection demonstrates a not entirely flattering truth about the industry's lack of imagination about its own future, and the way certain names dominate the fashion landscape.
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Mr Keating, who declared Australia to be part of Asia when that idea was shocking to many of his countrymen, says lack of imagination about China is one of the current crop of politicans' greatest failings.
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Some people may love this, but it reflects a serious lack of imagination when you think about the ways the service at Blue Hill at Stone Barns or Noma, for instance, is integrated into the experience.
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Even the best of secret servants would be hampered by a pervasive culture of inertia, lack of imagination, smug self-satisfaction, and that infectious curse of the bureaucratic mandarin, the incessant need to CYA: Cover Your Ass.
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He said that at a time when Hollywood was criticized for its lack of imagination and for churning out cynical garbage (although Mr. Berg used a more pungent term), "Deepwater Horizon" represented the mainstream movie business at its finest.
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Meg is the medical director of the abortion clinic in town, and all day she has to hold her patients' stories and their bodies, as well as the tragic lack of imagination from the chanting protesters on the sidewalk.
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But while a dose of gritty humanity is a welcome contrast to the earnestness of Ms. Kondo or the mindfulness of the stress expert Jon Kabat-Zinn, a 732-unit-tall mountain of it suggests a lack of imagination.
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Her lack of imagination, squandered majority and the all-consuming Brexit negotiations—the ones with her party, rather than the EU—mean that, more than two years on from their great howl, the British people have seen nothing in return.
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Shadows of 1979: Wright, also a fellow at the Wilson Center, noted a palpable sense that "the revolution is fraying" as the revolutionary generation ages and Iran's leaders show a "lack of imagination in solving the problems" facing the people.
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I've been part of a community that's been pushing for this, because it's only a lack of imagination that [dictates] such a perspective would be limited to a 22-minute television program or to the pages of a printed book.
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And it comes from a fundamental lack of imagination — not just the creative imagination you'd hope to see from professional designers, of all people, but also the empathetic imagination required to actually care about the lives and needs of others.
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He replied that he thinks that these hypotheses are unproven, and reveal a lack of imagination, just as a resistance to accept animal uplift as a potential reality ignores what it might help us learn about cognition, consciousness, or anthropocentrism.
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In choosing to use an alias, Tillerson was able to hide thoughts he felt he needed to communicate without being discovered -- though using his middle name shows either a lack of imagination or remarkable confidence that no one would uncover his ruse.
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The last line with its so easy repetition not only reiterates the horizontality of the poet's vision but the temporary lack of imagination he feels in the face of the real world around him while implying the notion of a "so-so" universe.
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The more mundane obstacle for the would-be fabulist of the peloton is that sportspeople are such unpromising material: The very things that make a professional athlete successful — single-minded dedication, self-belief verging on narcissism, a requisite lack of imagination — don't necessarily make for interesting characters.
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She teases the idea of being open to the public — of setting the record straight, of finally moving forward, of becoming bigger than the tabloid headlines we all remember about her — but fails to fully commit, whether out of fear or exhaustion or just plain lack of imagination.
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It is that lack of imagination from clubs that makes English managers seem so limited compared to their continental peers, and ensures that English managers are always adopting German, Italian or Spanish concepts and styles: These are the same old ideas, riddled with the same old flaws, regurgitated again and again.
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But The Times's co-chief film critic Manohla Dargis, in a scathing review, faulted the filmmakers (for their "vulgarity, insensitivity or lack of imagination"), the characters (for their "incomprehensible stupidity"), the camerawork ("executed without a discernible subjectivity") and even expresses empathy for the reptilian creature wreaking havoc on New York.
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Yet the near lack of imagination behind them, coupled with their abstract, pleasingly passive titles like "soft cake in the wind" and "to speak of anger, i will take care," underscore how ridiculous it is that our society is not only anesthetized to but continually produces these rote representations of womanhood.
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There was criticism at the time that the show fetishized stay-at-home mothers, and maybe back then I did, too, but the behavior (mine and the show's) was probably for lack of imagination of a future where being single didn't mean you were childless, or when childlessness didn't mean you were considered pathetic or lonely.
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In his seminal text The Uses of Enchantment, psychologist Bruno Bettelheim exposes the need for magic in children's development because it conforms to their less literal view of the world; he also expounds on how, when forced into reality too quickly, many adults pursue "magic" in the forms of daydreams or drugs to make up for the lack of imagination earlier in life.
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Starr wrote that the novels of the genre "encountered a critical silence similar to that occluding red- light novels, though for apparently more 'objective' aesthetic reasons, after the genre was dismissed for its lack of imagination".
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On 19 December 1986, The Indian Express wrote that while the film had a good start, many scenes looked like they were executed with "lack of imagination", leading to "clichéd situations and loud acting (especially by Sivachandran)".
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3 (1989): pp. 481-82. Others have suggested that the lack of imagination of such readers is precisely what is at stake.Rorty, Richard. "Unger, Castoriadis, and the Romance of a National Future", Northwestern University Law Review 82 (1988-87).
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By then "the dominant characteristics of the senior leadership of the American armed forces had become professional arrogance, lack of imagination, and moral and intellectual insensitivity."Cf., Ricks (2012) pp. 252–284, 325–326. President Johnson himself was suspicious of his military's advice.
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All the illustrations were by Heitman, whom Weinberg describes as "... notable for his complete lack of imagination. Heitman's specialty was taking the one scene in a frightening story that featured nothing at all frightening or weird and illustrating that".Weinberg (1999d), p. 79.Jaffery & Cook (1985), pp. 4–9.
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The film had a low profile release on 1 May 2003. Film critic Balaji Balasubramaniam wrote "whatever the director's faults, he cannot be faulted with a lack of imagination" and that he does well "to make the movie a marginally entertaining one". The film did not perform well at the box office.
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Other literary figures include Moncef Ghachem, Hassan Ben Othmen, Habib Selmi, Walid Soliman and Mahmoud Messadi. Messaadi was known for points of intersection of Islamic themes and nationalism within his work. Tunisian poetry is non-conformist and innovative: the language of Aboul-Qacem Echebbi opposes the lack of imagination in Arabic literature.
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May's mother, who has raised her daughter to be a proper society lady. May's dullness, lack of imagination, and rigid views of appropriate and inappropriate behavior are a consequence of this influence. Augusta has effectively trained her husband, the weak-willed Mr. Welland, to conform to her desires and wishes. Mrs. Welland is the driving force behind May's commitment to a long engagement.
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La Prensa opined that "All the elements have been played with awkwardness and memorable lack of imagination". Raúl Manrupe and Maria Portela in their book Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995) wrote: "Forgotten incursion of 70s erotic cinema to which some porn scenes were added for its exhibition abroad".Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2001). Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995), p. 317.
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OK, maybe that's being generous to a young man with a lot of promise. His new album is actually dreadful. It's dark and brooding, and while it was informed and inspired by Hurricane Katrina and government's failure to help the people of Scott's hometown, that's no excuse for the plodding dullness and striking lack of imagination that pervade Anthem". Will Layman of PopMatters noted "Anthem is dark-toned.
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Finn was born on 22 April 1946 in Brisbane. His father died when Finn was a child. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Queensland, majoring in literature. Although his father and stepfather were both lawyers, Finn was never pressured into following them into the legal profession; in an interview in 2010, he stated: "I did law by default, probably a lack of imagination".
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It is James's lack of imagination and petty thievery that allow Lestat and David to track him down. Despite his newfound wealth and powerful new body, James continues to steal jewelry from people. He also makes a conspicuous show of his wealth, boarding the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 and draining victims of their blood along the ship's path. The pattern allows his pursuers to easily find him aboard the ship.
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After damage from vandals, restoration began in 1966. Betjeman's lease included furniture from the house by Burges and Betjeman gave three pieces, the Zodiac settle, the Narcissus washstand and the Philosophy cabinet, to Evelyn Waugh. Betjeman responded to architecture as the visible manifestation of society's spiritual life as well as its political and economic structure. He attacked speculators and bureaucrats for what he saw as their rapacity and lack of imagination.
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Forge was a third-person massively multiplayer online combat game developed and released by Dark Vale Games on December 4, 2012. The game received mixed reviews that praised its uniqueness in its gameplay, and criticized a lack of imagination in its visual presentation. It was developed as a way to play end- game MMORPG player versus player combat, without the hours of work to get there. The game has now been removed from Steam.
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In his review for AllMusic, Michael G. Nastos states: "the trio weaves in and out of improvisations and written passages quite effectively and holds a certain degree of interest if one pays close attention. ... This second recording from the Trio shows no lack of imagination or resolve, though the pure musical content might leave some creative music listeners wanting for the third, hopefully breakthrough effort that must come from these talented, challenged sonic explorers".
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In September 2013, Douglas's essay "Why I won't be watching The Butler & 12 Years A Slave" was published in The Guardian. Douglas criticized Hollywood for having a lack of imagination and making derivative Oscar bait black dramatic films about slavery. He also accused Hollywood of being heterosexist and creating films that only focus on black heterosexuals and ignoring black gays and lesbians. Douglas piece caused an uproar in the African American community.
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Sankhayan Ghosh of The Indian Express was impressed with the arrangement of the tune, though he felt the song "shows a serious lack of imagination". Rucha Sharma from Daily News and Analysis wrote: "For a change, it's good to hear Arijit Singh singing happy tunes. Aditi Singh Sharma complements his voice very well". Surabhi Redkar from Koimoi described the song as "an amazingly upbeat number that hooks you in right from the start".
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In June 1945 he was one of four Conservatoire students awarded premier prix. He was described in the examiner's report as "the most gifted—a composer".O'Hagan, 14. Although nominally still registered as a student of the Conservatoire for the academic year 1945–46, he soon boycotted Simone Plé-Caussade's counterpoint and fugue class, infuriated by what he described as her "lack of imagination", and organised a petition that Messiaen be given a full professorship in composition.
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Both players expressed respect for each other's abilities. Morphy said that Staunton had great analytical ability and judgement of positions but his play showed a lack of imagination, and that Staunton may have been the strongest player of his time. In 1860 Staunton published Chess Praxis, which was a supplement to his 1847 work The Chess Player's Handbook. In the new book he devoted 168 pages to presenting many of Morphy's games and praised the play of the American.
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The String Quartet No. 14 in C minor, Op. 131, was completed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1826. It is the last-composed of a trio of string quartets, written in the order Opp. 132, 130 (with the Große Fuge ending), 131. It was Beethoven's favourite of the late quartets: he is quoted as remarking to a friend that he would find "a new manner of part-writing and, thank God, less lack of imagination than before".
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Opinion on the serial, especially as an adaptation on the pulp magazine source material, is mixed. Harmon and Glut are critical of the serial. Filming The Shadow in brightly lit environments undermines the mystery and menace of the character. The quality of the plotting is also brought into question for its lack of imagination and the fact that the hero appears to survive cliffhangers and threats for no reason other than that he is the hero.
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It's an interesting conceit, but sadly it fails." He deems it "an odd novel, more travelogue than adventure, and Carter's constant references to other works of fiction are a bit annoying ... [and suggest] a painful lack of imagination." He finds the plot and action thin, and the author an inadequate action hero, pointing out that "the 'dog' that adopts him does practically all the work." The seventh volume is "[b]etter ... [and] Carter makes a real effort to keep the pages turning.
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Vietnamese singer Dan Truong, his management and record label sued Thuy Nga productions for using copyrighted songs without permission. They claimed that both Minh Tuyet and her label have not even contacted them about using the songs. Thuy Nga (which is not the first time) had to pay for the damages, which was estimated around $10,000. The full design of this album (booklet/CD) has also been very criticized for its lack of imagination and obvious cheap copycat of Beyoncé "B'Day" album.
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EMAP, July 1986 Even CRASH, who rated Pentagram very highly, hadn't quite worked out the game's objective at the time of review.CRASH, issue 29, page 134. Newsfield Publications, June 1986 Review scores ranged from the 3/5 awarded by Sinclair User, who described it as "lazy" and criticised a perceived lack of imagination in the setting and design, to the 93% "CRASH Smash" awarded by the ever Ultimate-friendly CRASH magazine, who cited the graphics, re-spawning enemies, and atmosphere as high points.
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Sweta Kaushal of Hindustan Times gave the film 1.5 out of 5 stars taking on originality, said that "The well-meaning plot of Fireflies is totally wasted for a singular lack of imagination and the over-dependence on stereotypes. Skip this one, unless you are looking for a depressing movie that only confirms to all norms of cliches in the name of an Indie film". Renuka Vyavahare of The Times of India gave the film 2.1 out of 5 stars.
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Of her 1930 performance at Carnegie Hall, the New York Times critic noted "a general effect of monotony in the lengthy movements of the Brahms and Schumann works", and cited a "prevailing lack of imagination" as the cause. By the time she moved back to the United States in the late 1930s, she was becoming deaf. She retrained herself as a deaf musician, and returned to a performing career after the war. In 1946, she played again in New York, introduced by Edwine Behre.
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While there was some praise for the opera's orchestral introduction, described by the critic from Teatri, arti e letteratura as the most "luminous" piece in the score, the rest of the music was criticized for its lack of imagination and originality. However, it was Carlo Pepoli's libretto that came in for the worst criticism. La Moda wrote that "it seems impossible that Maestro Vaccai, who lacks neither intelligence nor experience, would consent to set a mess like this to music."La Moda (25 February 1836) p. 67.
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Though "Monica" suggests a particular child of Potter's acquaintance, Monica was simply one of many children who posted fan letters to the author. "I do not know the child," Potter wrote, "She is the school friend of a little cousin, who asked for it as a favour, and the name took my fancy." MacDonald suggests it was this lack of a clearly defined audience that led to Potter's lack of imagination and control in the tale, and her "false step" with the chipmunks' marital relationship.MacDonald 1986, p.
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Life appears to have adapted to the universe, and not vice versa. Some applications of the anthropic principle have been criticized as an argument by lack of imagination, for tacitly assuming that carbon compounds and water are the only possible chemistry of life (sometimes called "carbon chauvinism", see also alternative biochemistry).e.g. The range of fundamental physical constants consistent with the evolution of carbon-based life may also be wider than those who advocate a fine tuned universe have argued. For instance, Harnik et al.
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Critics Stephen Metcalf and Benjamin Schwarz separately agreed that the book successfully dismantled Ariès's thesis, its primary goal. The Atlantics Benjamin Schwarz called the book "a model of accessible scholarly history" and lauded its illustrations for an academic work. Slates Stephen Metcalf praised the book for its scholarship and utility, but criticized the book's timing and lack of imagination. He adds that Orme's language is "phlegmatic and common-sensical" where Ariès was "oracular and tendentious", which was used to make the era appear familiar or alien, respectively.
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Yet, when exporting the films, the erotic elements needed to be toned down in order not to offend the working class audiences. In 1913, Nordisk released the first full-length feature movie, Atlantis directed by Blom. After 1913, Danish cinema began to lose its leading foothold in the film industry, with foreign companies having intensified competition in the production of feature-length films. Danish cinema had also begun to suffer from a lack of imagination and a willingness to take creative risks on the part of Danish producers.
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Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, pg. 54. After this first foray into theoretical economics, Tugan-Baranovsky turned his hand to the writing of biography, contributing short popular sketches of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and John Stuart Mill to a series entitled "Lives of Remarkable Men", produced by the publisher Pavlenkov.Kindersley, The First Russian Revisionists, pp. 54-55. In these roughly 80-page books Tugan- Baranovsky was highly critical of Proudhon for his lack of internal consistency, stylistic obscurity, lack of imagination, and hypocritical support of the regime of Louis Napoleon.
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In Consensus is not Unanimity, consensus practitioner and activist leader Starhawk wrote: Confusion between unanimity and consensus, in other words, usually causes consensus decision-making to fail, and the group then either reverts to majority or supermajority rule or disbands. Most robust models of consensus exclude uniformly unanimous decisions and require at least documentation of minority concerns. Some state clearly that unanimity is not consensus but rather evidence of intimidation, lack of imagination, lack of courage, failure to include all voices, or deliberate exclusion of the contrary views.
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I would love to see the style throughout their next album, but this is one of my favorites for the year." Kevan Breitinger of CCMCentral optimistically stated "The punk pop genre has been known, let’s face it, to lend itself to sophomoric behavior, repetitive beats, and a notable lack of imagination. But Eleventyseven’s sophomore release, Galactic Conquest, is decidedly un-sophomoric....Eleventyseven wrings as much out of it as anyone else in the mix, often a bit more. Galactic Conquest goes a long way in bringing soul to the genre.
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" Reviewing a performance of the work by the New York Philharmonic, Zachary Woolfe of The New York Times described it as "the product of a mature master, working with more confidence and patience on a larger canvas. The chorus’s hypnotic incantations have the undergirding of a glistening orchestral landscape, sometimes swaying, sometimes blooming." He continued: Jay Nordlinger of The New Criterion was slightly more critical of the piece, however, remarking, "I found Karawane a bit tiresome. But perhaps the problem was my lack of patience, rather than a lack of imagination on the composer's part.
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Film critic James Benefield of Little White Lies magazine regarded Mesrine as "a pretty ropey, half-baked biopic", inferior to the later 2008 film starring Vincent Cassel. Benefield criticized Génovès' "bland direction" and "lack of imagination", likening the film to a television production rather than a cinematic release, and noted that "the film fails to come to terms with Mesrine’s controversial glamour and celebrity". The Blood wrote a song about Mesrine which preceded both the 1984, and 2008 movies. The song featured on the 1983 album False Gestures For A Devious Public.
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Close Up would discard the vulgar entertainment films coming out of Britain and Hollywood, preferring the avant- garde productions from Germany and the Soviet Union. Blakeston, the most prolific of the magazine's writers, would mock British lack of imagination and general ineptitude. Editorial offices opened in 1928 at 24 Devonshire Street, and from April 1930 at 25 Litchfield Street, off Charing Cross Road, London, above Anton Zwemmer's bookshop and gallery. The Academy cinema at 165 Oxford Street, which was dedicated to showing Continental and 'Unusual' art-house films, frequently advertised in its pages.
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Scientists have generally responded that these arguments are poorly supported by existing evidence.Stenger 2011, p. 243Susskind 2005 Victor J. Stenger and other critics say both intelligent design and the weak form of the anthropic principle are essentially a tautology; in his view, these arguments amount to the claim that life is able to exist because the Universe is able to support life. The claim of the improbability of a life-supporting universe has also been criticized as an argument by lack of imagination for assuming no other forms of life are possible.
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In 2008, The Age ranked Fisher as the seventh greatest Xbox character of all time, stating "he's a man of action rather than words and a lone wolf, and sometimes, you've just got to respect that." On the other hand, PC Zone staff listed Fisher as the eighth worst character in PC gaming history, declaring "Once a great, iconic character - now one in freefall due to a genuine lack of imagination on the part of his creators." Text of this critique targets Splinter Cell: Double Agent. In 2010, Game Informer's readers voted for Fisher as the twelfth top character of the 2000s decade.
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Although making a property manifest is only aesthetic, it is a useful tool for making sure the theory actually has that property. For example, if a theory is written in a manifestly Lorentz-invariant way, one can check at every step to be sure that Lorentz invariance is preserved. Making a property manifest also makes it clear whether or not the theory actually has that property. The inability to make classical mechanics manifestly Lorentz-invariant does not reflect a lack of imagination on the part of the theorist, but rather a physical feature of the theory.
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Shortly thereafter, the arms appeared with different tinctures; the field was now red. With the lessening importance of fishing, the arms, too, presumably ended up being forgotten, for in 1822, arms appeared bearing the current charges, the cloverleaf and the billhook. These two charges illustrate nothing extraordinary and likely stem from the sealmaker's lack of imagination, for he also chose the same charges for many other municipalities in the Schaffhausen area. When the coat of arms was revised in 1949, the municipal council and the community association chose the historical arms, as there was a firm basis for them and they were unique for Schaffhausen.
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Jim Faber of the New York Daily News wrote that Cyrus' vocals sounded like "they were recorded through a bong"; the album "could use a hefty dose of editing" and was "annoying to any listener". According to Dan Weiss of Spin, "the total lack of unpredictability ... is what betrays Cyrus’ true lack of imagination" and he raised the possibility of an "all-time backlash" she might experience if her return to the mainstream market "doesn't woo radio". Sasha Geffen wrote in Consequence of Sound that the album "is a huge mess, but at least it's an honest one"; Pitchforks Meaghan Garvey criticized Cyrus for releasing "the definition of a vanity project".
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Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the James Callaghan Memorial lecture "Religious Hatred and Religious Offence" delivered in January 2008, called the book "immensely intelligent", stating that Webster shows that absolute freedom of speech is neither desirable nor possible. Williams said that Webster "offers some extraordinary examples of 'liberal' aggression and ignorant bigotry" during the controversy over The Satanic Verses in 1989 and 1990, and that he approved of his argument that writers and dramatists who defend the right to offend religion show a lack of imagination, in that they fail to understand the possibility that offending religion may cause real mental suffering.Williams 2011.
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Diana's shapeless dress, titled 'the unknown', disappointed the group for its lack of imagination, and during the party she disappeared, last being seen heading towards the grove. The others followed and found her in her true costume, magnificently adorned in the moonlight as a priestess of Astarte. She warned the others not to approach but Sir Richard did and promptly collapsed on the ground. When he was examined by his cousin, Elliot, and then Dr Symonds, they found he was dead, killed by a stab to the heart, but no one was seen to approach him and no weapon was found on the grassy floor.
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Empire Magazines Genevieve Harrison gave the film a 3/5 stars rating and remarked, "More The Wild Geese than The Wild Bunch, The Expendables is not a wasted opportunity, but more one not fully exploited. For action fans raised on Commando and Cobra, the ensemble cast and '80s-style violence will be pure wish-fulfilment — but even they could have wished for something better." Some highly negative reviews appeared. In The New York Post, Lou Lumenick labeled it "the brain-dead male equivalent of Sex and the City 2", and in The New Yorker, Anthony Lane called it "breathtakingly sleazy in its lack of imagination".
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" McDonough stated that "it's never clear whether P&F; are intended to entertain children or are merely a reflection of grown-up animators engaged in a juvenile lark." Marylin Moss of The Hollywood Reporter described Phineas and Ferb as "Pretty mindless but kids of all ages might find a humorous moment in it." Moss called the plot lines redundant but did praise the music styles and guest stars. Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz gave a positive assessment for Phineas and Ferb in their 2016 book titled TV (The Book), stating that "In television, formula often seems to come from a lack of imagination.
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His History of Portugal is a great but incomplete monument. A lack of imagination and a deficit of the philosophic spirit prevented him from penetrating or drawing characters, but his analytical gift, joined to persevering toil and honesty of purpose, enabled him to present a faithful account of ascertained facts and a satisfactorily lucid explanation of political and economic events. His remains lie in a majestic tomb in the Jerónimos Monastery at Belém, near Lisbon, which was raised by public subscription. His more important works have gone through many editions, and his name is still one to reckon with when considering modern historians of Portugal and of the Iberian peninsula.
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Mahoney went on to say "But what this flat, glassy show lacks is any sense of connection with its audience and any real personality. It's a chilly, alienating listening experience, quite at odds with its snug, easy-going Sunday lunchtime slot. In 2007, Lisa Martland of The Stage said while Paige had become more relaxed and confident on the air, she had realised the music was bringing her back to show on a regular basis and not the singer's lightweight presenting style. Martland added "News snippets about forthcoming productions and interviews are included, but often these opportunities are wasted and there is a distinct lack of imagination about the whole affair.
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This argument forms the core of intelligent design, a neo-creationist movement seeking to establish certain variants of the design argument as legitimate science, rather than as philosophy or theology, and have them be taught alongside evolution. design arguments such as William Paley's watchmaker analogy of 1802 have long been popular objections to the theory: Version 2.1 Draft 1. Paley's book included a response to the proto-evolutionary ideas of Erasmus Darwin. This objection is fundamentally an argument by lack of imagination, or argument from incredulity: a certain explanation is seen as being counterintuitive, and therefore an alternate, more intuitive explanation is appealed to instead.
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Working for the Sunday Times foreign news service under former naval intelligence officer (and later creator of James Bond), Ian Fleming, Divine travelled widely. He claimed to be the only journalist to charge expenses for an aeroplane and a camel on the same claim form. As newspapers published longer articles and features, Divine made his reputation as the Sunday Times defence correspondent, where he wrote extensively about Britain's defences in the age of the nuclear missile.Obituary, p.72 He subjected Britain's defence establishment to withering fire in The Blunted Sword (1964) for a lack of imagination and for missing countless opportunities since the Royal Navy began its transition from sail to steam.
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The X Factor was met with lukewarm responses from critics. AllMusic rated the album two stars out of five, stating that "suffering from a lack of powerful riffs and tightly written songs, The X Factor is a lackluster latter-day album from Iron Maiden. Although the band doesn't sound particularly bad on the record, they don't sound inspired and there's a noticeable lack of energy to the performances which makes the lack of imagination all the more apparent." Sputnikmusic were somewhat more positive about the release, deeming the album "a change for Iron Maiden, and a very important one at that" as it "paved the way for future albums of similar length".
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Although the Tsar was not at the Winter Palace and did not give the order for the troops to fire, he was widely blamed for the inefficiency and callousness with which the crisis had been handled. While it was unrealistic for the marchers to expect Nicholas to ride out into the Palace Square to meet them, his absence from the city, against at least some advice, reflects a lack of imagination and perception that he was to show on other occasions. The killing of people, many of whom had seen the Tsar as their "Little Father", resulted in a surge of bitterness towards Nicholas and his autocratic rule. A widely quoted reaction was "we no longer have a Tsar".
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Although Alton Towers had previously gained the necessary permits to expand the Enchanted Village, these plans were eventually scrapped and reduced into a "pod"-style accommodation option. 102 individual pods were constructed, each sleeping up to four people. The proposals have faced some critical views from the public, with many criticisms being raised over the capacity of bathroom facilities as well as how the resort will cope with the increased demand in food and beverages, as the Stargazing Pods will not have its own restaurant or bar facilities. The council even initially rejected the application citing lack of imagination and "magic", although the plans were granted permission the second time without making any notable improvements.
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Among secular buildings his strong restrained style, with its suggestion from Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, is best exemplified in the Lateran Palace (begun in 1586), in which the vigorous application of sound structural principles and a power of co- ordination are undeniable, but also the utter lack of imagination and barren monotony of style. It was characteristic of him to remain satisfied with a single solution to an architectural problem, as shown in the fact that he reapplied the motif of the Lateran Palace in the later part of the Vatican containing the present papal residence, and in the additions to the Quirinal Palace. Fontana also designed the transverse arms separating the courts of the Vatican.
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The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a 7.125 out of 10 average, describing it as one of the best first person shooters to date. They cited the graphics, storyline, and most especially the deep strategic approach to combat as the game's strong points, though some of the reviewers felt the levels had too little variation between them. In contrast, Sega Saturn Magazine gave the game a 70%, citing dull gameplay, monotonous visuals, lack of appropriate music, and absence of any gore, accessing it as a mediocre Doom clone. GamePro was also underwhelmed by the game, saying that it plays very smoothly but suffers from a lack of imagination in the enemies and the backgrounds.
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Kissinger in an interview with Theo Sommer defended the bombing, saying: > People usually refer to the bombing of Cambodia as if it had been > unprovoked, secretive U.S. action. The fact is that we were bombing North > Vietnamese troops that had invaded Cambodia, that were killing many > Americans from these sanctuaries, and we were doing it with the acquiescence > of the Cambodian government, which never once protested against it, and > which, indeed, encouraged us to do it. I may have a lack of imagination, but > I fail to see the moral issue...Shawcross, p.395 The simultaneous rise of the Khmer Rouge and the increase in area and intensity of U.S. bombing between 1969 and 1973 has incited speculation as to the relationship between the two events.
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" Weinstein, Perjury (1978), pp. 353–54. Hiss drafted a memorandum arguing against Stalin's proposal (made at Dumbarton Oaks) to give one vote to each of the sixteen Soviet republics in the United Nations General Assembly. Fearing isolation, Stalin hoped thus to counterbalance the votes of the many countries of the British Empire, who he anticipated would vote with Britain, and those of Latin America, who could be expected to vote in lockstep with the United States.Historian Fraser J. Harbutt recounts that at Dumbarton Oaks, "The consternation aroused by this Soviet demand (Stettinius recalled that it burst upon the British and Americans 'like a bombshell') is a telling illustration of the State Department's lack of imagination and foresight in this area.
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This album was also an unsuccessful venture, failing to enter the country albums charts and producing only a number 70-peaking cover of Marty Robbins' "Singing the Blues". In order to promote the album, Richard suggested that the label send free copies to smaller-market radio stations, where the band's fanbase was still strong. He also considered the album's original songs as the strongest that the band had ever written. Brian Wahlert of Country Standard Time magazine wrote that it "may be the band's best album ever;" Thom Owens gave the album two-and-a-half stars in his Allmusic review, where he wrote that the band "show[ed] a lack of imagination" and "sound[ed] considerably less energetic and exciting" than on the first two albums.
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In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek stated, "It is fully a jazz album, and a completely funky soul-jazz disc as well ... Smith plays both piano and electric keyboards and keeps his compositions on the jazzy side -- breezy, open, and full of groove playing that occasionally falls over to the funk side of the fence ... Summery and loose in feel, airy and free with its in-the-cut beats and stellar piano fills, Expansions prefigures a number of the "smooth jazz" greats here, without the studio slickness and turgid lack of imagination. ... The music on Expansions is timeless soul-jazz, perfect in every era. Of all the fusion records of this type released in the mid-'70s, Expansions provided smoother jazzers and electronica's sampling wizards with more material that Smith could ever have anticipated".
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Keyes became Chief of Staff to Vice-Admiral Sackville Carden, commander of the Royal Navy squadron off the Dardanelles, in February 1915 and was heavily involved in the organisation of the Dardanelles Campaign. After slow progress, the bombardment of the Turkish defences was called off due to low ammunition stocks and fears of a newly laid Turkish minefield. Writing to his wife, Keyes expressed frustration at the lack of imagination of his new superior, Vice-Admiral John de Robeck, arguing that "We must have a clear channel through the minefield for the ships to close to decisive range to hammer the forts and then land men to destroy the guns."Carlyon, p. 82 Keyes took charge in an operation in March 1915 when six trawlers and the cruiser attempted to clear the Kephez minefield.
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Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times wrote that The Three Doctors "may not be the greatest story ever told" but it ended the Doctor's exile on Earth and brought back Troughton, though unfortunately Hartnell was not able to do much. The A.V. Club reviewer Christopher Bahn summarised that the serial "has some good ideas in it, but they're treated with such an unambitious lack of imagination that there's not enough actually happening here for the story to be offensively bad—just boring". He felt the "most enjoyable part" was the "comic squabbling" between Pertwee and Troughton, and also called the Brigadier a "saving grace". DVD Talk's Ian Jane gave the serial three out of five stars, noting that it was "slightly silly" and the production designs and special effects were "definitely not the best that the series has had to offer".
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He suggested that the film was engaging in "stealth" attempts at social commentary and compared this unfavorably to the films of Don Siegel, George A. Romero and Steven Spielberg, saying, "Where those filmmakers all had something meaningful to say about the state of the world and [...] human nature, Abrams doesn't have much to say about anything". Manohla Dargis in the New York Times called the allusions "tacky", saying, "[The images] may make you think of the attack, and you may curse the filmmakers for their vulgarity, insensitivity or lack of imagination", but that "the film is too dumb to offend anything except your intelligence". She concludes that the film "works as a showcase for impressively realistic- looking special effects, a realism that fails to extend to the scurrying humans whose fates are meant to invoke pity and fear but instead inspire yawns and contempt". Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.
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Of Triple H's WWE World Heavyweight Championship win in the Rumble match, Hart said: "I didn't like the decision that Triple H, surprise, put the belt on himself again... it just showed a real lack of imagination if you ask me". Kyle Johnson of the Wrestling Observer specifically analyzed the merits of the Royal Rumble match: while not "one of the greatest", it achieved two "key things that any good Rumble should": firstly helping to "advance or create undercard storylines heading into Wrestlemania", secondly helping to "generate a handful of legitimate title contenders for the year to follow": Braun Strowman, Bray Wyatt, Kevin Owens and AJ Styles. For the negatives, Johnson highlighted storyline irregularities: Triple H winning cleanly without any "underhanded advantage"; Reigns "voluntarily" leaving a title match, returning later "not selling any injuries whatsoever", the League of Nations not eliminating Reigns; and no Lesnar rampage post-elimination.
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Garrison called him immensely experienced, with excellent judgment and common sense. Biddle said Millis educated him about the history of the labor movement, and called Millis cautious, thoughtful, wise, and cheerful.Gross, The Making of the National Labor Relations Board: A Study in Economics, Politics, and the Law, 1933-1937, 1974, p. 110. Millis was, Biddle said, "profoundly conscious of the injustices that had been done labor's attempt to organize, although at the same time aware of the dangerous weaknesses in a good deal of labor leadership: not only the racketeering and the feather-bedding, but the lack of imagination, the insistence on improved wages and hours as the sole end, the petty jurisdictional jealousies and squabbles..." Millis played a major role in maintaining the "first" NLRB's jurisdiction as well. On June 18, 1934, the National Labor Board asserted jurisdiction over a labor dispute at the Call-Bulletin, a newspaper in San Francisco, California.
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This rivalry was particularly intense when Pradon brought out his Phèdre et Hippolyte at the same time as Racine's Phèdre (the writers Donneau de Visé and Adrien- Thomas Perdou de Subligny both took Pradon's side), and throughout his life Pradon wrote several attacks on Boileau. He died in Paris. Pradon's plays have been largely denigrated by modern critics, both for his lack of imagination or historical awareness and his utter adherence to the three unities and the "bienséances": refusing to show a stepmother in love with her stepson, Pradon made Phèdre merely Theseus' fiancée and Pradon's character of Tamerlan (Timur) walks and acts like a gentleman of the 17th-century French court. During the quarrel between the "les anciens" and "les modernes", he had chosen the side of the first one; it is viewable notably through the fact that he deletes any parenty link between his Phèdre and his Hippolyte, because Thésée and Phèdre aren't married in his piece, by opposition with Euripide, Sénèque and Racine's versions.
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Rapoport, p. 269 He loathed the rhythmic character of Stravinsky's music and what he perceived as its brutality and lack of melodic qualities.Rapoport, p. 263 He viewed Stravinsky's neoclassicism as a sign of a lack of imagination. Dmitri Shostakovich and Gabriel Fauré are among the composers whom Sorabji initially condemned but later admired.Rapoport, pp. 269–270 The front cover, back cover and spine of the 1947 publication of Sorabji's book Mi contra fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician The bulk of Sorabji's music criticism is found in the books Around Music (1932; reissued 1979) and Mi contra fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician (1947; reissued 1986); both include revised versions of some of his essays and received mostly positive reviews, though Sorabji considered the latter book much better.Roberge (2020), pp. 193, 273 Readers commended his courage, expertise and intellectual incisiveness, but some felt that his verbose style and use of invectives and vitriol detracted from the solid foundation underlying the writings.Roberge (2020), pp.
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Variety gave a negative review of the film, stating that "characters and story are flimsy and seem intended as mere pegs on which to hang the musical numbers" and that "choreography generates a lot of energy, but its frantic tempo doesn't always compensate for lack of imagination." However, the review also complimented the film's technical aspects, particularly that, "David Gurfinkel's camera work profusely using every trick in the business, every filter and lighting device, to hold attention up at all times." The Monthly Film Bulletin described The Apple as a "cut-price extravaganza plummets to a new low in opportunistic inanity" and that the "sole saving grace is an enthusiastically camp performance by Vladek Skeybal." The Ottawa Citizen described The Apple (along with Golan's earlier film The Magician of Lublin) as "remarkable feats of ineptitude". On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 20% score based on 10 reviews, with an average rating of 3.99/10.
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This included the contemporary art establishment, whose perceived lack of imagination, corporatist logic, arcane traditions, star system, and speculative practices he lampooned in works like "The Artistic M2" (1977). For this project, Forest formed a certified real estate development company and placed ads in the national and international press announcing his plans to sell "artistic" square-meters of land—small plots of undeveloped land near the Franco-Swiss border. The ads prompted a police real estate fraud investigation and authorities intervened to halt the sale of the first square-meter plot at a public auction alongside a number of contemporary paintings and sculptures. At the last minute, Forest substituted the tiny plot of land with a square-meter piece of common cloth that had been trampled by the auction attendees as they crossed the threshold and this officially "non artistic" square meter of cloth fetched a usually high price of 6,500 Francs at the auction—thanks, no doubt, to the publicity Forest's action and the police investigation had attracted.
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