Only instead of resorting to the chest-beating, lunkheaded aggressiveness of their forebearers, they opted for humor.
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Much of this is thanks to Pratt, who manages, almost effortlessly, to give Quill a sweethearted, lunkheaded, deeply appealing charm.
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Josie's had it with Carl, the lunkheaded, feckless father of her children, a good-looking dilettante who's vulgar and spineless and utterly undependable.
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When we meet Annie, she's ignored or belittled by everyone — a random yoga instructor, her dismissive boss, her lunkheaded kinda-sorta boyfriend and even her mother — for being fat.
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Clooney plays a lunkheaded Hollywood star who finds himself the subject of a kidnapping plot, while Josh Brolin is the guy who has to find a way out of the situation.
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In the director Paul Solet's endearingly lunkheaded thriller, three thieves, reeling from a partly botched heist, hide in a warehouse whose only other living occupant is a vicious, implacable Canary mastiff.
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" Indeed, Mr. Reed prides himself on bucking the tide of popularity, decreeing "The Shape of Water," which got a 93 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, "a loopy, lunkheaded load of drivel.
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The subgenre still exists to buck against the worst and most lunkheaded tendencies that hardcore has to offer, whether it be its chugga-chugga breakdowns, its fashion trend fixations, or its machismo-driven circle pits.
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Much digital ink has been spilled over The Chainsmokers' inability to come across as anything other than lunkheaded dipshits—some of the copy coming from the band themselves, most notoriously in a brilliant and extremely entertaining Billboard profile written by Chris Martins.
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Stylus Magazine noted that The Game "brought his personality—occasionally funny, disarmingly needy, a little lunkheaded—into the booth" and that despite Dr. Dre's absence, "the album sounds just as big-budget and lavishly appointed as The Documentary".Greene, Jayson (November 17, 2006). Doctor's Advocate . Stylus magazine.
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" Pitchfork critic Mark Richardson said the song is "one of [Young's] stranger creations, an affecting portrait of loneliness undercut with a clumsy, lunkheaded chorus refrain, the sincerity of which has never been quite clear." Young included "A Man Needs a Maid" on his 1977 triple album Decade. A live version of the original version of the song containing "Heart of Gold" was included on Live at Massey Hall 1971 Another live performance of this version was included on the 2000 bootleg album There's a World. The National Lampoon comedy troupe performed a song in the mid-70s "Old Maid (Southern California Brings Me Down)," which parodied "A Man Needs a Maid" with lyrics such as "I need someone to live with me, keep my bed warm...and sew patches on my jeans.
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