Sometimes that calculation misfires and airlines have to bump passengers.
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This show rarely misfires with the meat of its storylines.
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He can avoid accidental missteps, mixed messages, misunderstandings and misfires.
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Analysts chalked up another group of misfires to franchise fatigue.
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Other investigative techniques can help weed out misfires, they said.
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Toxins disrupt our brains' processing, leading to misfires and bad data.
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The CareCoach logs from those months chronicle a series of communication misfires.
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The misfires were elevated over the plate a majority of the time.
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Prince rebounded from a handful of 21970s misfires with his biggest hit.
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Communication misfires run the gamut from simple disagreements to deeper structural problems.
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Until now, the work has amounted to little more than D.I.Y. misfires.
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These kinds of misfires keep Mary Poppins Returns from truly fulfilling its potential.
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There were a few misfires but the majority of dishes were very good.
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Still, even its misfires serve to make Cerebus more distinct as a work.
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That means misfires — like the ones Amazon pointed to — can and do happen.
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Sometimes there were misfires, curiosities, experiments — and then, an absolute masterpiece would emerge.
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The 2010s have delivered plenty of box-office hits and some terrible misfires.
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Lionsgate's marketing department turned each of those potential misfires into a major hit.
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So basically, you can't become a legend without a few misfires along the way.
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The movies he titanically struggled to make all along included a couple of misfires.
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The top end of the car auction market also had some misfires in Paris.
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Either that, or it'll just make you relive your texting misfires all over again.
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Edwards had made all 10 of his foul shots before the two key misfires.
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A few high-end misfires have raised our hopes, only to knock them down.
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Haiti's decision to postpone the election follows a trail of electoral misfires and controversies.
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Every Monday, people upload their photographic misfires: Selfies from the discard pile, passport photos, etc.
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When they don't — and there are some misfires here — the results are strident and ponderous.
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At most major red carpet events, choices like these would be referred to as misfires.
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Still, the writing here has enough psychological depth and lovely passages to sustain its misfires.
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I also find that both the images of Dread Scott and Zachary Fabri are misfires.
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I think there's going to be a lot of misfires and a lot of fumbling.
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But then, that would be the least of the misfires in this strained, self-amused production.
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In the six episodes made available for review, for example, there are a few peculiar misfires.
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And after weeks of misfires that exposed his inexperience in wooing Congress, he got his win.
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Tumblr has already begun flagging adult material via an algorithm, leading to some pretty hilarious misfires.
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Reflect on what was happening during both misfires that brought pain and victories that brought joy.
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Still, TV misfires like the recent "The Inhumans" suggest even the comic-book kingpin isn't invulnerable.
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She also starred in critical misfires like "The Huntsman: Winter's War" (2016) and "Gulliver's Travels" (2010).
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Some of his buildings were misfires, loathed by the people who work or live in them.
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After 30 years of failed attempts, misfires and plain, old dust-collecting, Voltron is ready to return.
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They are both pressured to attract readers and blamed spectacularly when a Facebook post or tweet misfires.
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The brain is a terrifically complex instrument, and its misfires are not like diagnosing a busted carburetor.
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He misfires several times, ultimately failing big-time and being swept all the way to the ground.
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What's more, no one's yet been able to develop clear safety standards around what misfires are acceptable.
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He minimized the low-and-left misfires and hit tight windows downfield, especially on back-shoulder throws.
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With O.C.D., the brain misfires, causing it to malfunction and react to disturbing thoughts, images and ruminations.
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You can blame the number of high-level misfires on a poor vetting process within the administration.
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Even those who haven't directly experienced anorexia will feel their hackles raise at these well-intentioned misfires.
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Pulse of the People The polling industry has been hit hard by high-profile misfires in recent years.
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But even the most devoted Apple fans have continued to have gripes, from stuck keys to random misfires.
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"The first is in case the auto-injector misfires, either by user error or manufacturing error," she says.
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Without substantial restructuring of our regulatory agencies, we will continue to have more misfires like the fiduciary fiasco.
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Marvel has enjoyed so much success in the movie business that its TV misfires have been somewhat obscured.
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Once in power, he ordered the works collected, and he may have destroyed some of the worst misfires.
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If Perry's next tune is a carefree summer bop that catches fire, she'll move on quickly from recent misfires.
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Hillary Clinton is doing damage control after a double whammy of misfires by supporters Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright.
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Perhaps most interesting are the polling misfires that turned Montana and West Virginia into far closer races than expected.
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Welcome to Wellness Lies, our list of the most pervasive misfires in the effort to feel and look better.
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The Misandrists misfires not because it lampoons grave subject matter, but in how lazily and unevenly it does so.
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The Miami Heat took advantage of the Pacers' misfires to score a 963-93 overtime win at AmericanAirlines Arena.
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Undaunted by their past misfires, congressional Democrats now think they have found Willy Wonka's golden ticket with Trump-Ukraine.
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Fans have opined about the merits and misfires of their team's uniforms since the middle of the 19th century.
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After a pair of misfires on the consumer front, Lytro's light-field camera technology may have reached its full potential.
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Tumblr relied on a machine algorithm that flagged posts at a rapid clip, resulting in frustrating and sometimes hilarious misfires.
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With the exception of a few high-profile misfires, Goldman Sachs for one, earnings are off to a good start.
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There are misfires (the toilet bowl, he rhapsodizes, is the "swan of the bath chamber") but fewer than you'd expect.
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Its misfires raise new questions about how the party hopes to compete with the Trump campaign in the presidential election.
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His film career stalled in the mid-1980s with several misfires and he was never again a leading movie star.
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Several of his smaller acquisitions, among them the video-focused Maker Studios and Playdom, an online game company, have been misfires.
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"(Twins catcher Jason) Castro saw something just mechanically that I was doing that was helping with the misfires there," Gibson said.
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The test will demonstrate the abort system that would carry Crew Dragon and its passengers to safety if a rocket misfires.
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The program itself seems to have fallen into a natural rhythm as well, the organizers having learned from early blunders and misfires.
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Before the game-changing misfires, the Cardinal moved the ball effectively with quarterback Davis Mills, playing in place of injured K.J. Costello.
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Lopez's musical career has not been without its misfires, but she has remained tenaciously committed to it as a necessary creative outlet.
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So instead of a serious conversation about long-term Middle Eastern stability and American security, we're discussing would-be misfires on Jeopardy!
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Wells Fargo said there have been "too many misfires," and that the company needs a new CFO and to issue long-term guidance.
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The newer prototypes being worked on now will be a closed-loop system: Sensing misfires among neurons, and sending corrective charges when needed.
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After so many misfires with my old keyboard, it was almost as if my tiniest digit grew afraid of that broken control key.
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Having selective authorization on household guns could cut down on dangerous or fatal misfires when guns are handled by inexperienced people or children.
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Sounds like AR and 'AE' might be the real deal after a couple misfires here and there over the past year (sorry, 21).
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It took nearly 30 years of misfires, false starts and tragedy, including Pratchett's death in 2015, for "Good Omens" to reach the screen.
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In 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America filed 261 lawsuits against pirates for allegedly sharing songs over P2P networks—with some misfires.
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Though not entirely devoid of the verbal misfires and rambling syntax that have plagued him, it was the strongest of his 10 debates.
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The Tar Heels missed three shots on their next possession and had two more misfires on their next trip to the offensive end.
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Despite those previous misfires, US officials are confident that the focus of the US-effort, Danab, will stay loyal to the central government.
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The network still takes wild swings that sometimes pay off and sometimes result in wild misfires; at the very least, they're always interesting.
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Earlier this month, an Ottawa County, Michigan, dispatcher told a local outlet that his staff gets about ten Apple-related emergency misfires a week.
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But Samsung is a company with deep resources and renewed determination, and its past misfires aren't a reason to write off its latest initiatives.
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And Donald Trump has misfires but she's actually very good at delivering hits in the way Donald Trump delivers them, in her own way.
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The song's notable in that it addresses his creative shortcomings not as a series of one-off misfires, but as a constant, Sisyphean slog.
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But the misfires have added up for studios, most of which have been spending more on individual films as they search for global hits.
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Clinton's reliance on Mr. Trump's misfires, rather than the strength or resonance of her own message, is an inherently risky strategy, Mr. Dowd said.
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Conspicuous misfires were two duets with Kyle Barisich, a onetime "Phantom of the Opera" with a coarse vocal texture and a wide, wobbly vibrato.
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Honestly, the big news here for many is probably the updated keyboard, doing away with a couple of generations of misfires on that front.
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You can't build a track record such as Buffett's without your share of misfires, and the Oncor deal is not alone in that distinction.
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And after more than a dozen misfires, they finally found a local Kenyan cheesemaker to make perfect queso fresco and queso Oaxaca from scratch.
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That means farmers are stuck waiting for a John Deere technician to swap a tiny sensor when it misfires and shuts down the entire tractor.
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For all the talk of a polling crisis and a handful of prominent misfires, they did an outstanding job of predicting these supposedly unthinkable events.
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But if it misfires, the firm could be saddled with losses and punished for piling in to credit at this late point in the cycle.
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Most of the time, the camera misfires, capturing not critters but other, more mundane but still ghostly movement — usually branches bobbing in a silent wind.
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Harris drained his fourth 3-pointer of the night with 28.2 seconds left, snapping the 76ers' string of five straight misfires from beyond the arc.
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Or how retailers secretly use face recognition to spot shoplifters, even though the technology misfires more often when trying to identify African-Americans and women.
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Just how many of their supporters actually vote could decide key states, along with whether the polls face another wave of misfires in high-profile elections.
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But Otellini's misfires included an early push for underpowered ultrabooks and a failure to extend Intel's dominance of personal computers and servers to the smartphone industry.
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The Apple Watch got the most attention of any of Apple's hardware this year, and after several misfires, it seems that Apple is finally zeroing in.
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Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky brushed aside worries about out-of-stock items at Whole Foods and misfires in the company's Fresh grocery delivery product.
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"The biggest thing we worked on was learning why the ball does what it does and correcting your misfires within a couple of pitches," Wakefield said.
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But only a few of the bigger misfires come with the sort of concept, cast or creative pedigree that would raise expectations, only to dash them.
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But then his career took a wrong turn, with conspicuous misfires "The Village" and "Lady in the Water," and has careened along somewhat unevenly ever since.
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You can tell how good Hutchinson is because his poems are full of misfires, phrases chosen by somebody with a hyperkinetic ear and no off switch.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment, bedeviled in recent years by movie misfires, a devastating cyberattack and executive ejections, on Thursday named Tony Vinciquerra its chairman and chief executive.
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The roster was filled with minor leaguers, former major leaguers and baseball misfires, all of them Americans with enough Jewish heritage to play for Team Israel.
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There are only a few misfires, as when Catherine cracks the password for Rachel's cell, packed with texts to a secret boyfriend, by punching in 1234.
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But after some hits and misfires, the upcoming launch of Disney+ suggests the company is about to lift its TV game to a higher power as well.
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I snarf as much of the samples the chef cooked up of the pre-fix dinner and take bites of random food the kitchen misfires between tables.
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From failed attempts at reviving long gone franchises to big actors starring in complete misfires no one asked for, here's what disappointed us the most at theaters.
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Misfires include the social media-focused game maker Playdom, purchased for $563 million in 2010, and the online video network Maker, bought for $500 million in 2014.
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Despite some high-profile misfires, including the recent "Solo: A Star Wars Story," the North American box office has bounced back from an alarming downturn last summer.
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Though Ostapenko would have plenty of wobbles and misfires in the taut moments to come, she never gave the impression that she was out of her element.
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What starts in violence ends in viciousness, and then some, in "Vincent N Roxxy," a movie whose ambition makes up for quite a few of its misfires.
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The NTSB issued a series of recommendations, including requiring Boeing to factor in the effect of multiple alerts on pilots' ability to handle misfires on the aircraft.
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However, Giorgi cut out the misfires and dialed in her groundstrokes in the second set, striking a forehand winner in the tie-break to level the match.
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The American Research Group has an unusually lengthy record of high-profile misfires, including for almost all of the 143 Democratic primaries and in the 2012 general election.
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His movie company, troubled by executive departures and box-office misfires, had neither the money nor the manpower needed to sustain an awards campaign, Hollywood conventional wisdom held.
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After receiving reports about autothrottle misfires that did not lead to accidents, a Boeing review board determined that if a malfunction occurred, pilots would recognize it and intervene.
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On top of those strategic misfires, big-name executives such as former Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes and ex-HBO chief Richard Plepler have departed on Stankey's watch.
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It's a history lined with breakthroughs and misfires, and, in the case of he loosely fitting skin of 2000's Hasbro collaboration, a nightmarish descent into the uncanny valley.
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All these misfires create opportunities for the Democrats to show that they are committed to generating jobs and to protecting people from the harshest forces of the global market.
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Just as we accept the risk of misfires in kinetic warfare, we must allow cyber and messaging teams the freedom to learn by doing and morph as ISIS does.
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Walt Disney Animation, struggling after years of cost-cutting and box office misfires like "Treasure Planet," paid $7.4 billion for Pixar in 2006, or $9.4 billion in today's money.
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Deep cost cutting comes back to haunt Kraft Heinz The Kraft Heinz disaster demonstrates how piling on tons of debt can be problematic when a management team's strategy misfires.
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"Everyone's upset when you have things that happen that cause these kinds of -- you have misfires and controversies, of course you don't want to see that stuff happen," he said.
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In the past, the man behind Watchmen, 300, and Sucker Punch has let style suffocate substance, but even his misfires have always had a welcome kink or spark to them.
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Apple has, of course, had a few famous software misfires, like the MobileMe and iTunes Ping cloud services, and the first iterations of Apple Maps (which has gotten vastly better).
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Apple has, of course, had a few famous software misfires, like the MobileMe and iTunes Ping cloud services and the first iterations of Apple Maps (which has gotten vastly better).
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There have been several misfires, but now he woos and wins Louisa Fletcher, the daughter of an Indianapolis banking family, a graduate of Smith College, and ten years his junior.
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Source: Forbes (2017)Sandler's Netflix movies have been major critical misfires, but that didn't stop the streamer from signing him for four more movies in 2017 after his initial deal.
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And some amateur internet sleuths have been doxxing the Charlottesville marchers, crowdsourcing the identities of suspected white nationalists from online videos and photos, but it's risky, and sometimes misfires badly.
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But Ferrari lost its advantage many times through strategic misfires — sending drivers out at the wrong time and on the wrong tires in qualifying, or choosing poor pit-stop strategies.
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Son is expected to yet again defend his investing prowess Wednesday when SoftBank releases quarterly earnings, but it's becoming harder for him to explain away his company's biggest tech misfires.
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When something is this steeped in the language and aesthetic of a universe, even the smallest misfires stand out, and the best compliment can simply be that nothing ever seems amiss.
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If it didn't work, it didn't work; but even those misfires, like the jaunty-for-its-own-sake "Streets" video, represent an impulse acted on, a marker driven into the ground.
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It can't hold a candle to his Oscar-winning toons, but it was easily the most entertaining, touching and happy-making blockbuster in a summer that was mostly filled with misfires.
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"Blade Runner 2049" misfires at the box office The sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic took the top spot at the box office, but it still failed to meet expectations.
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After a litany of missteps and misfires, announcements and backtracking, and what seems like a lot of unforced errors, the final form of the 2019 Oscars finally seems to be settled.
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Both Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry have been in their fair share of misfires (Along Came Polly and Serving Sara, respectively) but this has to rank among the worst for them.
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Foremost among the misfires was a recurring gag featuring Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph that fell woefully flat -- like one of those sketches that "SNL" reserves for the last 15 minutes.
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Misfires of an automated flight-control feature called MCAS on the Boeing plane led to the nosedive of the Lion Air jet and a similar crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight.
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While some of Trump's antics and culture war battles are misfires that turn off even voters who might be sympathetic to his policy agenda, overall, he does better during the Trump Show.
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At their most paranoid and byzantine, these pattern-matching misfires are called conspiracy theories: unfounded, deeply held alternative explanations for how things are—often invoking some shadowy, malevolent force masterminding the coverup.
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Coming up empty on those red-zone possessions doomed the Beavers, as the misfires came amid a stretch of two Darnold touchdown passes and a 4-yard Ronald Jones II rushing score.
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Jackson attributes many entrepreneurial misfires to a lack of critical stress testing — burgeoning entrepreneurs need to poke holes in their concept and go to great lengths to consider every possible competitive threat.
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Washington (CNN)After a year of doubts, recriminations and special election misfires, Democrats finally got the big victories Tuesday they'd so desperately craved in the year since Donald Trump won the presidency.
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Shell, which experienced a number of disastrous misfires in 2012 and 2015 — including the grounding and a near-grounding of its drill rig and drill ship — has abandoned leases in those seas.
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But party insiders and foreign experts said misgivings about Mr. Xi's hard-line policies appeared to be building among intellectuals, liberal-minded former officials and middle-class people after the recent misfires.
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The other IPOs misfires are worth noting, but they may be less a sign of public market trouble than a warning about private market exuberance or desperate needs for a cash exit.
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Rest assured, there are plenty of proper twists to follow, none more unexpected than the fact that Shyamalan himself has managed to get his groove back after a slew of increasingly atrocious misfires.
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In a summer when studios suffered more misfires than ever, many of them supersized, Hollywood is scratching for answers, and some longtime movie executives are pointing toward a nuanced shift in consumer behavior.
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Whether they'll turn out as seamless experiences like Biohazard: The Real, or partial misfires like Halloween Ghost Hunt remains to be seen—but either way, Asia remains on the bleeding edge of Halloween.
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"We had some misfires, like we found a place in Park Slope that we loved, but it fell through," said Ms. Nonko, a real estate writer in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Aspects of the news business certainly have something to do with misfires like fluff profiles of violent racists — at the very least, they create an environment where this kind of thing is possible.
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There have been other in-house misfires for Amazon, like the peer-to-peer payment platform Amazon WebPay and the high-profile failure of the company's Fire phone just a year after its launch.
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Sure, misfires like Suicide Squad and Green Lantern hovered around or under the two-hour mark – but so did recent hits like Deadpool (108 minutes) and the first Guardians of the Galaxy (121 minutes).
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And that's what's being celebrated here — the collective miracle of a blissfully silken sound forged out of clashing egos, many misfires and life-wrecking hard work into numbers that keep playing in our memories.
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During an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden broke down exactly how difficult it was to organise the recent Airpool Karaoke episode – and how many misfires it took before the whole thing came together.
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In fact, Couric's Tumblr page is an embodiment of all the misfires at Yahoo right now: excessive spending, a lack of proper identity, and the inability to understand what its users and customers actually want.
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EditorsNote: fixes to "17th" in final note Manning, Broncos drive past Steelers DENVER — Through the misfires, miscues and dropped passes, Peyton Manning stayed the course until it finally came all together for the Denver Broncos.
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But as the company has grown into one of the largest technology forces on the planet, the strategy for fixing the inevitable misfires can't keep up with the thousands of complaints it receives every day.
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YouTube's process for mechanically pulling ads from videos is particularly concerning, because it takes aim at whole topics of conversation that could be perceived as potentially offensive to advertisers, and because it so often misfires.
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The misfires, the taciturn Armstrong notes in a rare display of emotion, serve a purpose -- "We need to fail down here so we don't fail up there" -- which doesn't make the casualties any less devastating.
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Mr. Damon has been on a box office cold streak — his last two films were "Suburbicon" and "The Great Wall," both misfires — and made comments about sexual harassment while promoting "Downsizing" that prompted a backlash.
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You'd think that characterization might not irk your average Apple fanboy — another Merriam-Webster term — these days if not for the the company's rather peculiar product mishaps and design misfires over the last couple of years.
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The fish-out-of-water clash at the firm is absorbing enough, but the movie misfires when it appoints Roman as a sort of an angelic figure (or, as his last name may signal, a prophet).
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Boeing is working on updates to the plane's software in an effort to avert future misfires of the MCAS system, which have prompted regulators around the world to ground the 737 Max until the issues are corrected.
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Exhibiting rare vulnerability, Walt Disney Studios released two big-budget misfires — "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Solo: A Star Wars Story" — and forced out its longtime animation chief, John Lasseter, after employees complained about inappropriate workplace behavior.
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But things happen; for instance a thruster misfires or another maneuver goes wrong, and suddenly a satellite that was going to pass within a safe distance of another one is actually going to get much, much closer.
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Price's division also had some expensive misfires, such as Spike Lee's 2015 film "Chi-Raq" and a disastrous five-year movie deal with Woody Allen, who's now suing Amazon Studios in a $68 million breach-of-contract lawsuit.
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The announcement also follows a long list of devastating financial misfires, including but not limited to: a class-action suit against the company by investors, failed attempts at debt restructuring, and a recent all-time low stock pricing.
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This random searching for the right combination of words to trigger further surveillance measures is itself an imprecise science, and one National Security Agency blogger estimated that reading all of America's email generates 10,000 misfires for every hit.
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In their race to get ahead of Mr. Mueller with news that will please much of the electorate while also driving clicks and ratings, however, journalists throughout the media have produced their share of misfires and unforced errors.
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Today, with the next presidential election less than a year away, pollsters are closely studying the findings of that document and others like it, looking for adjustments they can make in 2020 to avoid the misfires of 2016.
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And yet, it's those creatives who often face the direct repercussions of missed sales expectations or other misfires, which then result in a studio deciding to perform layoffs, sell itself off, or, in extreme situations, shut down completely.
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N.L." cast member Rob Schneider portrayed Gillis as a victim of political correctness, calling him a casualty of an era when "comedic misfires are subject to the intolerable inquisition of those who never risked bombing on stage themselves.
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Righting misfires like the Touch Bar and flat keyboard on the MacBook Pro are two easy wins, but the most exciting new feature for this year's Macs could be something people will never see at all: a co-processor.
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The challenge is that when comic material comes that fast and furious -- and needs to stay relatively clean, barring the occasional foray into bathroom humor -- the misfires tend to mount, making the frenetic pacing feel more enervating than inspired.
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Samsung's misfires may be something the company could recover from over time, perhaps, but there's a new spoiler arriving on the scene just in time to make matters much harder for the Galaxy line, and that's Google's Pixel phone.
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China joins the U.S. and Russia now as the three global powers with proven ability to launch rockets into space from sea, which is a competitive advantage when it comes to launch cots and potential incidental damage from misfires.
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But the misfires were few in Ms. Hannigan's festival, which began on Thursday with Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" (sleepy but solid) and ended on Sunday evening with an exhilarating suite of Gershwin songs both conducted and sung by her.
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One more's on tap for The Times, two ran in The Wall Street Journal, several in The Orange County Register, one in the American Values Club... and a couple of misfires currently kick around the crossword dead-letter office.
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Shows like "Better Call Saul" and "The Last Tycoon" also helped the sales performance in its Sony Pictures Entertainment division, which has sought to move past a series of film misfires and a high-profile cyberattack in recent years.
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The Weinstein Company, already struggling in recent years because of box office misfires, has been imploding since investigations by The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed sexual harassment and rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein going back decades.
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Even if it some of the blame can be put on the distributors Amazon Studios partners with to release its films in theaters, the streaming giant had it share of box office misfires in its first full year of existence.
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If an average of a large number of polls misfires in a given state, it's probably because they under- or over-sampled some slice of voters—a mistake that surveys elsewhere in the country are likely to have made as well.
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When I was trying to figure out whether this missed landing would matter to the company, I pulled those numbers because I remembered they showed how thin SpaceX's margins were and how devastating those 2015 misfires were to the business.
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Despite the franchise's star falling thanks to a host of misfires and failures in the 2000s, the original film remains one of the finest movies to come out of the heady, tech-addled days of the late 20th century pop culture.
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Given the many snafus, misfires, and gaffes of President Donald Trump's first 100 plus days in office, journalists, cable news pundits, late night comedians, and Democratic politicians are flummoxed as to why his popularity continues to remain strong among his supporters.
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Anthony's usage is right in line with where it was the past two seasons, but his True Shooting is down, thanks to a dramatic dip in trips to the free-throw line and a whole bunch of misfires beyond the arc.
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So are misfires, which on Tuesday included the frame of the Beatles song "Don't Let Me Down" and some bizarre overacting by Heather Litteer, amid more affecting stories of an architect in Kabul, Afghanistan, and of a Palestinian dancer in Syria.
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But an examination of the plans and progress of projects included in the Buffalo Billion reveals a far more uneven return on investment to date: a mix of street-level successes, expensive brick-and-mortar gambles and ill-conceived misfires.
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Physical switches have to hit a metallic contact to send a signal to your PC, and that signal is inherently slower and sometimes more prone to accidental misfires due to the fact that they bounce several times when you press them.
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Randle's miss marked the first of four straight misfires by the Knicks, a span in which Tatum hit 1-of-2 free throws and Walker and Tatum sank 3-pointers on consecutive possessions to extend the Celtics' lead to 104-95.
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That will include an in-flight test of its emergency abort system, which will see the Crew Dragon launch atop a rocket then break off from the rocket and conduct an emergency landing to simulate a situation in which a rocket misfires.
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If MCAS misfires, forcing the nose down in a maneuver similar to a condition that pilots know as runaway trim, pilots are supposed to hit two cut-out switches at the plane's center console to turn off power to the electric trim system.
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While these "last-straw" experiences can be superficial or deep, minor misfires or major betrayals, it seems to me the reason they take on so much power and meaning in estrangement narratives is that they signify something much bigger than one particular conflict.
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If MCAS misfires, forcing the nose down in a manoeuvre similar to a condition that pilots know as runaway trim, pilots are supposed to hit two cut-out switches at the plane's centre console to turn off power to the electric trim system.
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Misfires included a reboot of George A. Romero's horror series "Tales From the Darkside," which never made it past the pilot stage after Hill wrote several scripts, and two adaptations of "Locke & Key," a comic Hill did with the artist Gabriel Rodríguez.
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The career renaissance Matthew McConaughey enjoyed several years ago with "Dallas Buyers Club" and "True Detective" stalled with recent misfires like "Gold" and "The Dark Tower," but the compelling trailers for two new dramas indicate he might be getting back on track.
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The Trump team's response has been the subject of steady criticism in recent weeks amid its struggles to ramp up testing and rhetorical misfires from the president, who spent weeks downplaying the economic and public health threats posed by the virus' spread.
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Its last major testing milestone before the spacecraft can fly crew could be next month: Crew Dragon will demonstrate its emergency abort system, which would eject the capsule and its passengers away from a rocket if it misfires on the way to space.
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Board sources say the political misfires were a problem for a "good chunk" of the board, who argued along with former USHCC officials that it was important for Palomarez to serve as an effective liaison between Hispanic businesses, Capitol Hill, and the White House.
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My test period has led to some preposterous misfires, but I've also traded my usual battered canvas totes for a couple of nice leather handbags, and have become attached to a pleated skirt and a pair of patterned pants that are wildly beyond my means.
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No moment seemed to better encapsulate her early misfires than an improbable and audacious line of attack from Mr. Trump, who has openly lied about President Obama's place of birth and brazenly told black Americans that their communities, schools and job opportunities are uniformly awful.
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Finally seeing his most famous story onscreen, after decades of starts, stops and misfires, brought a sense of bifurcation, he said, as he separated his author self from his viewer one in an effort to assess the series's chances in an overstuffed TV universe.
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It ends with an awkward section of spoken text and flat jokes about misfires in the artistic conversation: This too-clever segue into the customary panel discussion belies the absence of awkwardness already revealed, the rare warmth of the bond forged across disciplines and generations.
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But despite Brandeis's occasional misfires, his philosophies, as Mr. Rosen convincingly argues, speak powerfully to our times — in his views on the threat that technology poses to privacy, on the importance of pluralism and equality in the Middle East and, perhaps most of all, on economic matters.
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Regardless of any musical misfires, all was forgotten when the star of the night showed up, carried onto the stage by three talented chefs from a restaurant called Taikochaya, its scales glistening under the light of the disco ball, eyes watery in anticipation of its impending beheading.
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And then there are back-half gems like "Made Men" and the thunderous Cardo production "Open It Up." Culture II is not a perfect record; even if you concede whatever allowances you normally give a double album, there's fat to be trimmed, a couple of outright misfires.
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Misfires from earlier in the year included "Dark Phoenix," the latest in the threadbare "X-Men" series; Ang Lee's ill-advised "Gemini Man," starring Will Smith; "UglyDolls," an animated clunker based on a toy line; and a pop-feminist reboot of "Charlie's Angels," with Kristen Stewart.
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Simply put, a movie's release pattern shouldn't be the most interesting thing about it, and the stunt again invites the question -- especially after the service's creative dud "Bright" -- what aligning itself with expensive sci-fi misfires does to burnish the Netflix brand over the long haul.
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Trump's 100 days: Trump's victories dimmed by misfires Today Trump will order a review of national monuments created over the past 20 years with an aim toward rescinding or resizing some of them - part of a broader push to reopen areas to drilling, mining and other development.
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Struggling to find success with forgotten misfires Valkyrie and Jack the Giant Slayer, Singer returned to the mutants for Days of Future Past, and although a new generation of actors has taken over the iconic roles, the filmmaker seems to understand the material's underlying anguish in his bones.
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While that produces its share of misfires, in this case it yields a show without a particularly high concept or big-name stars (Alyssa Milano plays a supporting role as Bob's wife, who, not surprisingly, has her own secret crush) that delivers simply by virtue of its execution.
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While he has long been known for making verbal gaffes and in some circles is almost beloved for them, Democrats desperate to unseat Trump worry that verbal misfires will make the 76-year-old seem too old to take on Trump, even though the two are close in age.
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Although a resurgence termed the "McConaissance" returned him to critical esteem at the top of the 22017s and culminated in a pivotal Oscar win in 22016, he's struggled to parlay his second coming into continued success, resulting in a string of misfires that Serenity and The Beach Bum have now broken.
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Plus its image recognition often misfires (for instance my cat was identified as, among other things, a dog, hamster, mouse and even a polar bear (!) — as well as a cat — so clearly the AI's eye isn't flawless, and variable environmental conditions around the user can produce some odd and funny results).
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The genius of Pixar's virtually unparalleled run of early hits -- before a few recent misfires and modest disappointments, like "Cars 3" and "The Good Dinosaur" -- relied on its ability to create complex children's stories, tapping into concerns associated with childhood in a manner that's as appealing to adults as kids.
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After enduring a few misfires, I thought I was Cirque'd out, but this outing is a bracing reminder that when the company is at the top of its game — and "Luzia" is very much peak Cirque — you understand how it has so successfully straddled art and business all these years.
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But when Grigson's costly misfires like first-round bust Bjoern Werner in 83, trading a first-round pick for Trent Richardson in 28 or loading up on a group of aging, high-priced free agents to make a Super Bowl run in 28 and an anxious fan base, Irsay had no choice.
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"Dear @ShaneMGillis as a former SNL cast member I am sorry that you had the misfortune of being a cast member during this era of culture unforgiveness where comedic misfires are subject to the intolerable inquisition of those who never risked bombing on stage themselves," Schneider, 2019, wrote on Twitter on Monday.
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" Interviewing dozens of colleagues, family and critics, "Spielberg" elicits some of its most illuminating observations from the director himself, who is remarkably forthcoming in discussing his childhood ("Everything scared me when I was a kid"), his parents' rather messy divorce and his sensitivity about misfires like the comedy flop "1941," which left him "devastated.
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All this may sound quite doom and gloom, but those shared hang-ups notwithstanding, VR has a much better shot at becoming an established platform than Kinect did—a number of the industry's major players are backing it, and the tech seems finally to be a match for VR's promise following the misfires of the 80s and 90s.
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The moviegoing masses in the United States and Canada spurned the sixth chapter in the science-fiction movie series over the weekend — the fifth and fourth installments were box-office misfires, too — calling into question the future of the 22009-year-old property, which has also been mined over the years for television shows and video games.
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The hesitations reflected the weaknesses of the candidates, who were exposed by 10 debates and four sometimes indecisive state caucuses and primaries, not to mention the prospect that the eventual winner will face the break-all-the-rules style of President Trump, who on Monday night in Charlotte, N.C., mercilessly taunted Joseph R. Biden Jr. for his age and verbal misfires.
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After a year of missteps and misfires, the House and Senate passed the final version of tax reform last week and sent it to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's desk.
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Booming through their screens was a vintage homophobic advertisement from former Republican Congressman Darrell IssaDarrell Edward IssaDesperate in Southern California: Darrell Issa's 'back to the future' primary campaign misfires Duncan Hunter to plead guilty to campaign finance violations Why the GOP march of mad hatters poses a threat to our Democracy MORE, who fled his 49th District Congressional seat north of San Diego in 2018 after sensing he wouldn't be reelected — and apparently has banked his current prospects in the neighboring 85033th District (Duncan HunterDuncan HunterDesperate in Southern California: Darrell Issa's 'back to the future' primary campaign misfires Democrats running to replace Duncan Hunter, Chris Collins vow to support ethics package California governor won't call special election for Duncan Hunter's seat MORE's old seat) on an ad "which prominently notes that his fellow Republican, Carl DeMaio, is gay," as if that were a disqualifying factor for public office, or frankly relevant at all.
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When his first movie, "12 Angry Men" (1957), opened, he was 32 and a seasoned theater and TV professional, having worked with Max Reinhardt, Walter Bernstein, Abraham Polonsky and Yul Brynner, then a CBS director who helped Mr. Lumet break into TV. Over a half-century, he directed more than 40 movies — or pictures, as he called them — including critical and popular triumphs as well as misfires that are largely ignored here.
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