Mr. Martínez sang love songs off-key while the others laughed.
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I've performed entire songs off-key, oblivious to the real notes.
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We ran out of sympathy, went off-key, something went wrong.
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Trumpets and saxophones don't age as well as off-key relationship whining.
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Trump cut off key payments to insurers known as cost-sharing reductions.
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Any other off-key notes that you listen for when you're interviewing?
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His touch was a little heavy, his passes just slightly off key.
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Jeb Bush's answer was off-key; he praised Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's response.
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The show has attempted to maintain tension by periodically killing off key characters.
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They're singing somber songs from the Chinese revolution, painfully and endearingly off-key.
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Last year, the big day off Key Largo turned out to be Aug.
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Yes. Off-key and maybe inching a little too close to cultural stereotype?
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Beijing continues to fence off key sectors of its economy to foreign investment.
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Finally, White gives us "Humoresque," a lullaby sung slightly off-key, and says goodnight.
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Most of us are tone deaf anyway, and the world can be off-key.
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He ruthlessly kills off key characters and prevents the narrative from becoming too predictable.
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Before Tuesday, the only wild population survived on a remote island off Key West.
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Here's what else is happening: Unfortunately, Mother Nature seems to be slightly off key.
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It's an off-key opening, considering that feminist arguments are currently upending the culture.
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Between the loud off key notes I would let out these pathetic, hormone-driven, wails.
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The tune is as flat and off key as the rest of the Democratic message.
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I wouldn't be doing it if I was legitimately out here like off-key crooning.
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The reverberation from a helicopter both off-key and very low overhead caught his attention.
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In 224 he found his first submarine, the U.S.S. R-2400, off Key West, Fla.
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Say yes the process is flawed and you piss off key voters in early states.
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Williams regularly escaped to Ballast Key, a private island Mr. Wolkowsky owned off Key West.
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A recording of an off-key voice earnestly singing was playing loudly on a loop.
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Off-key, but strangely hypnotic, the language both complicated and pure, reverberating around our house.
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Despite being off-key against Thiem, he said he was now fully fit as Paris looms.
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Trump last week cut off key federal payments to insurers, which will trigger higher Obamacare premiums.
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But really, writes our critic-at-large Wesley Morris, it's off key about so many things.
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They can also sound off key, by making the same kind of mistakes as a singer does.
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But there were numerous displays of gaps between the leaders and other off-key notes, as well.
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During this time, GE has been forced to consolidate and sell off key parts of its company.
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Graham said her frequent singing was often off-key, which prompted a laugh from the memorial attendees.
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The Australian dollar bounced off key chart support on Thursday but stayed trapped in a narrow band.
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Watch above, and bask in its brilliance, its dedication to singing off-key, its finger-clicking suspense.
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Ping was meant to be the next big social network, but it was a little off-key.
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President Eisenhower used it to permanently protect an area off Key Largo, Florida in 1960, for example.
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The rally was banned and heavily armed security forces and large police trucks blocked off key streets.
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It appears to have spread from corals off Key West in Florida to parts of the Caribbean.
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Instead, he was noodling around in Auto-Tune, often off-key, making songs that sometimes barely even cohered.
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Simon Helberg, portraying her pianist, really makes the movie with his understated reactions to her off-key howls.
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The assistant coach giggled as he passed the story onto Montgomery, knowing just how off-key this was.
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It gave Werner just enough room to sing against himself, alternating between off-key howls and indecipherable shouts.
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Could any title, with the possible exception of "The Harvey Weinstein Massage Manual," sound more off-key now?
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Off key An ice shelf in Antarctica seems to be singing, and the whole thing is downright scary.
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The Trump administration last week decided to cut off key payments to insurers, known as cost-sharing reductions.
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Dogs howl the birthday song off-key, and puffer fish are warned not to take a big breath.
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Attacking one of the few Republicans likely to break ranks feels disturbingly off-key, some Obamacare backers argued.
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"The expansion of palm oil plantations is fragmenting the forest and cutting off key elephant migration corridors," he posted.
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But whether he was over-rehearsed or under-prepared, Rubio was off-key as he responded to the attacks.
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He could tell the merging companies to sell off key assets, which would be less palatable to AT&T.
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Last month, it cut off key subsidy payments to insurers used to bring down deductibles for low-income people.
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That seems like an off-key message for Obama and Jewell to be sending just as leasing reforms get underway.
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They were almost always off-key, sometimes quite painfully, like cats in an alley – which could be construed as honest.
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He's not a talented melodist, but he's extremely enthusiastic and loves to sing along with our off-key shower songs.
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Rae Sremmurd, "By Chance" I have room in my life for more dead-eyed, off-key party music in 2016.
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I could hear my voice and—not that I was off key—I just felt my voice wasn't as convincing.
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But even in the crowd, not everyone was benevolent, and Mr. Macron's assessment of the Benalla affair was off key.
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As off-key as this comes across in public, this way of thinking is perfectly normal for a fantasy writer.
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After the Charlottesville tragedy, he did look depressed while Trump blathered an off-key defense of the Nazi-friendly marchers.
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"Crude oil prices bounced off key support levels as investors piled back into the energy sector," ANZ bank said on Tuesday.
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That may be one reason why his historical analogies often come across as off key or at odds with the facts.
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But it's also true that the President has shown a consistent pattern of controversial or off key remarks about the military.
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In between casual conversation, poking around in the patient and stitching up, they sing snatches of "Somebody Told Me" off-key.
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Mac loves Nina Simone's voice — finds endless new expressive possibilities in it — precisely because of the way she veers off key.
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How far removed are we really from our off-key driving singalongs being repurposed to pick up our voices in public?
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Whether by death, design or disputes, television shows are adept at losing or killing off key characters and carrying on without them.
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Since the embargo cut off key shipping routes in the region, Hamad has forged new ones with Malaysia, China, India and Greece.
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"A bakery would never try to market something called Fentanyl Cake, and the name Crack Pie feels offensively off-key," she wrote.
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This seems within the realm of possibility, especially given that the show has been prone to off key characters at critical moments.
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And there's no person on the other end to help gauge if a response is striking a chord, or horribly off-key.
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He sounded similarly off-key last autumn when he talked about how he "loved" Puerto Rico when he visited after Hurricane Maria.
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The comments came as the White House announced late Thursday that Trump would cut off key payments to insurers selling ObamaCare coverage.
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"I wanted some naturally aged and worn pieces to keep things a bit off-key," Lucrezia Bonaccorsi, the bar's creative director, said.
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Aluminium smelters were included in a proposal to switch off key industrial sectors over the winter months to alleviate Beijing's choking smog.
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The Democrats push to abolish I.C.E and it&aposs as off key as the entertainment of some of their rallies over the weekend.
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With all that potential comes a pretty big learning curve, as hitting a key a little off can produce unintended, "off-key" sounds.
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After her performance of "Rhiannon" with Nicks at the 2010 Grammy Awards, Swift faced a barrage of criticism for her off-key vocals.
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It's not just that it's upsettingly misogynistic in a really specific and sick way, it's also really off-key and shitty sounding too.
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Large parts of central Paris were in lockdown as thousands of police cordoned off key areas around the presidential palace and government buildings.
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And in one of its more strategic weapons, Beijing could use its dominance to cut off key parts of the global supply chain.
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And since they don't have a clear idea of the path forward, they often put off key tasks — something all of us do.
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Occasionally, as when he tossed rolls of paper towels to storm victims in Puerto Rico last October, he has gone badly off-key.
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Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and GitHub have similarly slashed access in the country, cutting off key infrastructure for web hosting and development.
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An easing of trade tensions between China and the United States is expected to help take some of the pressure off key economies.
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Actors were clearly singing without much energy and off-key, and perhaps worst of all, the sound seemed to be very badly mixed.
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I'd like to think that he and Katy are out there somewhere singing an off key rendition of 'Danny Boy' and sharing a pint.
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He went to church with us sometimes, and came home singing his favorite gospel song, "Jesus is Love," (off-key) while fixing nail pops.
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You couldn't tell it from his performance, which features Trump shambling from side to side in an arrhythmic fashion and talk-singing off-key.
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After years of warnings and several delays, Twitter finally made good today on its promise to kill off key features of popular streaming apps.
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All the voices were his own, undeviatingly raspy and off-key; at least he got the words right, as far as we could tell.
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In the album liner notes, Austin Wiggin talks about the band's unique approach to music and the poetic reasoning behind their off-key confusion.
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Every county had at least one insurer selling Obamacare coverage last year, even as Trump sowed uncertainty and cut off key payments to insurers.
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Singing off-key while a group of ten pre-pubescent girls watches on, without chiming in on a single, solitary note, is really shitty.
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When he left NPR, Mr. Bennet was given a farewell party that featured staff members doing impressions of him and some off-key singing.
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I brought along a friend, and after my third Miller High Life, we sang "Jesse's Girl," off-key and screeching on the high notes.
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My mother liked a loud (and, given our family, distinctly off-key) rendition of the hymn "We Gather Together" to kick off Thanksgiving dinner.
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Closing the border crossings chokes off key trading routes for landlocked Afghanistan, although it also has trade ties with other neighbors, such as Iran.
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In the car together, we sing loud and off-key, messing up the lyrics to whatever Top 40 song is popular at the moment.
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There's an unfortunate body-shaming joke, a slew of off-key pop culture references, a (still) incredibly white cast and, of course, that controversial ending.
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Even as Seoul's basements are refitted for other purposes, South Koreans and their guests will continue to come up with off-key renditions of Queen.■
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Trump also took the step of cutting off key payments to insurance companies, something expected to drive up costs and hurt stability in the market.
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The severing of air, sea and land transport links has closed off key import routes for Qatar and its population of around 2.7 million people.
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The Russian efforts were sometimes crude or off-key, with a trial-and-error feel, and many of the suspect posts were not widely shared.
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And it is an assault: the pipes vociferously toot and caw off-key, almost in protest, like a cartoon tugboat with a painful sore throat.
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After the Trump administration cut off key Obamacare subsidies, many health insurers made up the difference by jacking up premiums just on their silver plans.
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Democrats this year have pointed to actions from the Trump administration, like cutting off key ObamaCare payments, as increasing uncertainty for insurers and destabilizing markets.
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His apparent fascination with the size of storms and their destructive potential, which fits his often-hyperbolic view of the world, can sound off-key.
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This one might be a little hard to get a candle on, but you can still have everyone sing off-key when you bring it out.
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Don't let Anna Kendrick's resting pitch face get you off key ... use your super spy skills to spot the differences between these two nearly perfect pics?
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But there is a time and place for everything and the national anthem is literally off limits to everything but off-key singing or lip synching.
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Unlike much of the Russian disinformation, which often has been crude and off-key — remember the Facebook ad promoting Mr. Sanders as a gay-rights superhero?
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President Trump has also threatened to cut off key payments to insurers in a bid to make ObamaCare "implode," though he has not done so yet.
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As Michael's image filled the screen behind her, she went further and further off-key until she finally aborted the performance and demanded to restart the number.
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You only want to ... You want to be great together, but you can't be afraid of talking about, like, "You're off-key," and that kind of thing.
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There's an O. Henry-ish dimension to Clinton's strategy, though: By targeting one voting bloc—well-off Republicans—she's turned off key cogs of the Obama coalition.
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The criticism comes as Mr. Trump is under fire for offering what Democrats and Republicans have called an off-key response to the massacre in Orlando, Fla.
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Continued uncertainty in Obamacare markets, and the Trump administration's threats and eventual decision to cut off key payments to insurers are fueling the higher prices, Avalere said.
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For Mr. Ray, sculptural invention takes the form of an excessive perfectionism, in which new scanning and casting technologies permit thrillingly off-key riffs on ancient forebears.
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Carson Palmer looked mighty good during the regular season at Arizona, but he was off-key in the postseason versus Green Bay and cover-your-eyes at Carolina.
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The first explanation that popped into my head was policy: The Trump administration cut off key Obamacare subsidies in 2017, causing premiums on the insurance marketplaces to skyrocket.
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As in, literally: Gypsy, with her new teeth, sings an off-key rendition of "I'll Be There," almost as an apology for being so defiant with her mother.
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Despite the relatively low turnout, large parts of central Paris were in lockdown as thousands of police cordoned off key areas around the presidential palace and government buildings.
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For a variety of reasons — the cost of proper maintenance, the lack of repair know-how and overuse of the instruments — the melodies are often horribly off key.
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And over a nearly 50-year career in national politics, Biden has cast many votes and made countless public statements that sound off-key in a 2020 context.
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By imploring candidates to offer plans "rooted in reality" to avoid turning off key swaths of the electorate, Obama was trying to nudge the conversation toward the middle.
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Analysts, but also a few FN top officials and allies have said its protectionist, anti-euro policy, was partly to blame for this by putting off key older voters.
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No one laughed at his mocking remarks and, perhaps recognizing that Americans watching on TV detected he had struck an off-key note, he scrambled to cover it up.
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We'd like to imagine that many of history's great (or at least significant) figures would appreciate the release of a quick bout of off-key singing with one's pals.
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Occasionally the listeners pick up things Echo owners likely would rather stay private: a woman singing badly off key in the shower, say, or a child screaming for help.
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Take the distant, tinny bag pipes that meander in and out of opener "A Minor Life," offset by warm woodwind, all slightly off-key but never less than whole.
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Protect Our Care points to administration actions like cutting the outreach budget for ObamaCare enrollment and cutting off key payments to insurers as evidence of "sabotage" of the law.
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Cramer's penchant for off-key remarks was part of why Republicans spent part of 2017 searching for an alternative Senate candidate before settling on him as their best option.
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Yet the message always sounds off-key to me because there is no expanded conversation on how to help the women who struggle most gain a little more ground.
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Paramount debuted "Florence Foster Jenkins," a comedy about an off-key opera singer and heiress (Meryl Streep) who rents out Carnegie Hall for a public performance, in 1,528 locations.
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Mark Carney made forward guidance his signature tune when he took over as governor at the Bank of England in the summer of 2013, but it soon went off-key.
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Say what you will about Ant-Man and/or the Wasp, but their vaguely comedic capers might seem a bit off-key coming so soon after such a gutting ending.
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The guest list is thought to include the former judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson; Kelly Clarkson and previous champs; and the off-key audience favorite William Hung.
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Thinking she's swooning thanks to his slightly off-key song, Andrew pulled — and we really mean pulled — Cheryl over for a kiss, even though she's not into it at all.
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Amanda Carpenter, a Republican strategist who has been critical of Mr. Trump, said the administration's gleeful reaction to Mr. Schneiderman's resignation on Monday had been off key and politically myopic.
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California health insurers that sell ObamaCare plans say they could have double-digit premium increases for some plans next year if the Trump administration cuts off key payments to insurers.
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"They have a J Crew-style provision in the documents that allows the company to siphon off key assets through unrestricted subsidiaries," one investor said at the early stages of marketing.
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Whenever something loud happened (which, between the squealing and off-key singing, was most of the time), it sounded like someone had pulled the emergency brake on an antique subway train.
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Not that everything is answered in the end — but it manages to explore the Groundhog Day-like conceit inside and out and close off key emotional arcs in eight quick episodes.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The chairman of Vedanta Resources Plc, who is also Anglo American's biggest shareholder, said on Monday he had convinced Anglo not to sell off key assets in South Africa.
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Without the President in attendance to make jokes and take jabs at the press, having a comedian there to roast the President felt off-key to some members of the association.
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But many are equally worried about Trump's divisive rhetoric that could turn off key voting blocs like Hispanics and suburban women, believing that would do lasting harm to the Republican Party.
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Favreau's decision to include that song, and an awkwardly off-key version of "Bare Necessities" sung by Murray and Sethi, don't work as anything but open concessions to the nostalgia crowd.
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In addition, health insurers are already complaining about the uncertainty created by Congress's health care talks and the Trump administration's threats to cut off key Obamacare subsidies paid to insurance companies.
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In an alleyway between the boutique hotel and the wall, partygoers sat on a long table decorated with tattered and singed Union Jack flags while off-key music played through loudspeakers.
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In person, she is more blunt, introspective and interesting than she is on the show, willing to express mild irritation that might seem off-key in front of a national audience.
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And on the swirling seafloor off Key West, Florida, I ran my hands through the sand and held the tiny glass trade beads used to barter for African people 300 years ago.
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As if those red flags weren't enough, Nick drew a sketch of Christy with a horse's body — and sang an off-key song on the guitar to try to romance her again.
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The slightly off-key chorus and the backing singers singing a half step off paired with the acoustic guitar makes it feel homegrown, but those samples are inspired by fancy studio beats.
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One of the subjects, Jonathan Russell, a 20-year-old music prodigy who lives in New York, described how startled he gets when the chimes on the subway are slightly off key.
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If the seizures of both Quebec and the Maritimes went well, it would cut off Canada from the Atlantic and block off key entry points for a counter-invasion from another country.
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As Frances and Robert drive to their friend Diane's birthday party, Robert hums along to Coldplay's "Paradise" (perfectly ironic song choice) completely off-key until an irritated Frances turns off the radio.
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The series has obviously earned a reputation for killing off key characters -- death is a fact of life in this post-apocalyptic world -- but there have been few major departures this season.
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It sounded strangely off-key, however, given the circumstances of his own downfall - the outcome of a failed gamble that Britons, given the choice, would choose to stay in the European Union.
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I tasted more than 40 individually wrapped bars, bought with cash from the noisy, off-key ice cream trucks that circle my block, as well as the bodegas in my Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Yet such a decision would also write off key U.S. interests: defeating al Qaeda, rolling back Iran, securing a critical maritime (and commercial) choke point, and preventing Yemen from destabilizing the region.
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O.T. Genasis' hilariously off-key cover of Keyshia Cole's "Love" ballad is a viral sensation ... so he's determined to find out who got it yanked from YouTube ... and put 'em on blast.
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But the expansion of Palm Oil plantations is fragmenting the #forest and cutting off key elephant migratory corridors, making it more difficult for elephant families to find adequate sources of food and water.
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Besides an off-key joking introduction, which involves Hus' hypemen suggesting the police have also locked off tonight's date at the last minute and refunds will be issued, the show is a success.
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In his trademark ballcap and thick-framed glasses held on with a strap around the back of his head, he belted through his set with his high voice and off-key singing style.
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In the just-released Pitch Perfect 3 clip, the Bellas are a little off-key after graduating from Barden University, as they realize their lives aren't quite headed in the direction they'd intended.
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States that voted for President Trump in the 2016 presidential election will be most impacted by his decision to cut off key ObamaCare payments, according to an analysis conducted by The Associated Press.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Serena Williams remained tantalisingly one short of a record-equalling 24 Grand Slam singles titles as Simona Halep thrashed the off-key American in a one-sided Wimbledon final on Saturday.
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A pianist in the corner played "Over the Rainbow," as a slightly balding man in his mid-30s, wearing a short-sleeved shirt, got up off his stool to sing along off-key.
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By offering so much honest detail so early, she risks turning off key constituencies, alienating donors and muddying the gauzy visionary branding that is the fuel for so much early horse-race coverage.
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While it's one thing for my doorman to be pro-Trump, it absolutely struck me as off-key that he was calling Clinton "evil" in front of residents who may have different political views.
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Because, yes, like Aladdick, The Loin King is also full of song parodies that turn every wholesome tune from your childhood in a grating, off-key parody utilizing every conceivable slang word for penis.
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That makes it a strangely off-key read in an era where new revelations about Russian interference in the campaign and potential collusion (perhaps the true "devil's bargain") are erupting on a daily basis.
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In September, 220 paintings from the artist's 21960-270 Fn (Footnote) series went on view at Skarstedt, full of improvisatory abstract brushwork in off-key colors infiltrated by fragments of images from popular culture.
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He's making good money, his output is generally perfectly fine, and he's thinking more and more about riding things out until he can drop anchor off Key West and crack open a cold one.
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This is the version of Hanukkah that I grew up with: presents and chocolate gelt; latkes with sour cream and applesauce; a few somber, off-key songs that no one fully remembered, about Judah Maccabee.
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But their policy response is off-key, espousing progressive orthodoxy in the form of the Green New Deal, open borders, guaranteed wages, "Medicare for all," free college, higher taxes and reparations for descendants of slaves.
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When he finally does show up, in the guise of Clive Owen with a bad fake beard and a doleful expression, it's a deflating, off-key letdown that spoils the serviceable setup that came before.
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This Manhattan society matron had a voice so mewlingly, screechingly, ear-assaultingly off-key that, by the time of her death in 1944, she had become a kind of minor musical joke among the classical cognoscenti.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Serena Williams' wait for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam singles title goes on after Simona Halep stunned the off-key American 6-2 6-20183 in a one-sided Wimbledon final on Saturday.
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Mnuchin has had trials of his own, having received a tongue-lashing from House Republicans for an off-key presentation last week where he pressed them to raise the debt ceiling as a favor to him.
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It is hard to feel like you're going back to your home when there are official-looking people lined up in the same hallway where I used to sing off-key renditions of Top 100 pop songs.
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That announcement prompted criticism from Democrats, who worry that an independent, third candidate in the 2020 presidential race could effectively hand Trump a second term in office by siphoning off key votes from the eventual Democratic nominee.
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The trips are all active-focused and include hiking and kayaking in Yellowstone; biking in Zion and Bryce Canyon in Utah; hiking in Sequoia in California; and snorkeling and sailing in Dry Tortugas off Key West, Fla.
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In a jaw-dropping live television moment at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Adele stopped a commemorative performance for the late George Michael mid-song with an f-bomb after realizing that her vocals were off key.
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This often leads her to tonally off-key statements that put her at odds with her own party's base, many of whom have been shaped by the social activism of the civil rights, feminist, and LGBT rights movements.
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From the second floor, the strains of a solo karaoke singer can be heard, defiantly off-key, from one of several dimly lit Thai bars which are full of punters even in the middle of a weekday afternoon.
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With his off-key rejoinders, he demonstrated repeatedly how he sees everything -- people, properties, cities, and entire countries -- in terms of how they factor into his business and personal universe, which seem to be one and the same.
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During that time, we've witnessed her clothes become disheveled with alarming rapidity, heard a lifetime's worth of off-key renditions of Message in a Bottle and even learned how to make turtle soup (the obvious island go-to).
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The long recovery from Irma and the previous hurricane season has raised doubts with many, said Neil Curran, 45, a contractor and waiter who lost the 42-foot sailboat where he lived off Key West during last year's storm.
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"The expansion of Palm Oil plantations is fragmenting the #forest and cutting off key elephant migratory corridors, making it more difficult for elephant families to find adequate sources of food and water," was the post that accompanied one photo.
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It later emerged that he had been shot and strangled by unknown persons who expertly dismembered him, packed him in pieces into a steel oil drum, and sank the oil drum in 50 feet of water off Key Biscayne.
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Among the slow-moving masses of people on a recent Saturday were buskers of varying age and musical ability, karaoke singers both in tune and off key, acrobats, dancers, magicians and human statues, many of them drawing large crowds.
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True to Martin's penchant for killing off key figures, the original story, about a team of scientists on a haunted spaceship trying to make contact with a mysterious alien race, had seven of eight characters dying in quick succession.
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As Sanders lobbed practiced lines like "You were not a fan of Bowles-Simpson?" and Biden feigned righteous indignation when Sanders attacked him for accepting donations from billionaires, the two candidates, both aging war horses, sounded equally off-key.
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It was about people from different walks of life thrown together by chance; it was about harmony and dissonance (that's what Mixed Company called it whenever we sang off key), and eventually, because it was a Broadway musical, resolution.
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The album opens with "The Phone Call That Changed My Life," which uses off-key Auto-Tune and dubstep drops not to induce pleasure, but to capture the body horror and anxiety she experienced when she found out she was carrying.
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Considering that Tisdale has been making red carpet appearances for over 20 years, it's not surprising to learn that she considers a few of her looks to be slightly off-key, as her High School Musical character Sharpay Evans would say.
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The HHS report did not refer to data that show that a significant fraction of the premium price hikes seen for 237 are due to concerns by insurers that the Trump administration would cut off key reimbursement payments to those insurers.
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Italian wine merchant Gianluca De Simone, who crisscrosses Paris on his scooter every day visiting restaurants and bars, said that before closing off key arteries, the city should improve buses and subways and make better use of the river for transport.
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There's something off-key when lawmakers — Republicans or Democrats, in connection with Trump or in other instances — describe the importance of an issue in accordance with its relevance to the people closest to them and its proximity to their doorstep.
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The radio station gets its name from the 2682-mile highway connecting Key West to the tip of Florida; Irma damaged the road so badly that portions weren't passable for days, cutting off Key West and other keys from the mainland.
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I want to hear the children sing off-key during the Lessons and Carols service, smell the musty air in the Russian Center, eat too many doughnuts in the common area with the people who are the church to me.
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Whatever the fate of the Republican bid to repeal and replace Obamacare, the most immediate threat to the law is President Donald Trump's ability to cut off key payments to insurance plans that reduce health care costs for millions of Americans.
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"Israel has to do business with China, of course, but there is no serious mechanism to make sure that we don't sell off key economic assets and valuable technological knowledge," says Efraim Halevy, a former head of Mossad, Israel's foreign-intelligence service.
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From winning praise for his hug of a struggling young man to getting criticized for his off-key comment about women leaving their kitchens to help him campaign, Kasich has seen the highs and lows of increasingly intense scrutiny in recent days.
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WASHINGTON — The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, strolled before the cameras on Thursday with defeat at her back once more, projecting a well-worn swagger — brash, defiant, more than a little off key — as she insisted that her moment had not passed.
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As Trump scores a win after the one on the economy, international relations and trade and now the second Supreme Court pick, the spirited Democrats are looking for hope somewhere so what did they do this weekend, other than listening to some off key performances?
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TENNIS-WIMBLEDON Wait goes on for Williams as inspired Halep wins Wimbledon LONDON - Serena Williams remained tantalisingly one short of a record-equalling 153 Grand Slam singles titles as Simona Halep thrashed the off-key American in a one-sided Wimbledon final on Saturday.
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A shrill blonde named Jillian Hall, working the angle of being a horrendously bad singer, screeched horribly off-key songs, and nobody bothered to explain why they dug up I.R.S., the early 90s midcarder who halfheartedly reenacted his shtick about taxes on his bids.
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Being awake in a culture so saturated with shameless, shitty come-ons means learning not to notice, and to hear Peyton Manning's off-key renditions of the Nationwide Insurance jingle as nothing more than a breeze running through the leaves of some foul-smelling tree.
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Viewers complained that the singing was off-key and the performances seemed phoned-in, like the actors were saving their energy for the real deal—which, honestly, makes a lot of sense, because they didn't think the dress rehearsal would be the real deal.
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If a particularly strong section is off-key, "it can affect the entire system, and the whole orchestra sounds off," said Dr. Helen Mayberg, director of the Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics at Mt. Sinai's medical school; she has developed D.B.S. strategies for severe depression.
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Ms. Starr had had to sing arrangements written in a key too high for her, making her sound like a "jazzed-up Alfalfa," as she once put it — a self-mocking reference to the child actor known for his earnest but off-key singing.
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But France reeled off 22 of the game's final 29 points, capitalizing on six missed free throws by the Americans in the fourth quarter and an off-key Walker (10 points on 2-of-9 shooting) dominating the ball in crunchtime instead of Mitchell.
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I'm sure there are exceptions, but most of the stories go like this: Fergie gave the "Star Spangled Banner" a sexy spin, she sang a few or many notes off-key, some of the basketball players made faces, then everyone on Twitter slammed her for it.
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References to the original abound, from the very sweary first scene to the soundtrack (Wet Wet Wet's "Love is all around") and even a cameo by Andie MacDowell (Carrie in the original film), but it is all somehow off-key, with some vital element lost in translation.
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What distinguishes Snail Mail from many similar bands combining minimalist guitar-pop and wryly forlorn heart-songs is their deadpan musical stance: Lindsey Jordan's dazed, droning, mildly off-key voice, uttering every statement, whether happy or sad, self-mocking or defiant, in the same indifferent drawl.
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Prominent among these handwringers are such centrist-to-conservative New York Times columnists as David Brooks, who tells us that any and every piece of resistance to Trump and his party is off-key, unnuanced, and put forward by insular, lefty elites living in their own bubbles.
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The administration is also calling for cutting off key federal grants for sanctuary cities, empowering state and local governments to enforce immigration law and requiring employers to use E-Verify, a workplace verification system that checks whether an employee can work legally in the United States.
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" And she probably lost her Oscar spot to Ms. Negga or Meryl Streep, whose Golden Globes speech railing against Donald J. Trump doubtlessly won her enough academy votes to land a nomination — her 20th — for her performance as the off-key chanteuse in "Florence Foster Jenkins.
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The end of the pay-per-view struck a slightly off-key note in an otherwise nearly perfect show (nearly perfect because the matches outside the Rumbles were merely fine, but that is exactly the level they should've been given how exhaustingly good the main events were).
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Add Auto-Tune to such a voice, manifest not in the goofy bleeps and trills that correct off-key singing, but rather with a thin layer of electronic film coating the larynx of a trained professional with perfect pitch, and you'd make her unstoppable, a tank.
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Their work points to a fundamental security issue in the CAN protocol that car components use to communicate and send commands to one another within the car's network, one that would allow a hacker who accesses the car's internals to shut off key automated components, including safety mechanisms.
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The best bet might be the third — responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, a very conservative notion — but the White House has already taken steps, like cutting off key payments to health insurers that led to premium hikes and more costly federal subsidies, that increased Obamacare's cost to the taxpayer.
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Onscreen, Danny Kaye was singing, the blonde in her pink dress dancing, her great legs, and John hummed along, off key, the dog in the room, he could tell, the harness jangling though he couldn't see the dog, but someone else could take Zero out, one of the kids.
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The twin spectacles, headlined by Mulvaney and Conway, come after several off-key days for a president whose behavior is so troll-like that Americans have come to expect him to act more like an out-of-control Reddit commenter than a chief executive of the United States.
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Thanks to Carr's savvy editing, the juxtaposition of these images form a deeply surreal horror pastiche, assembled out of hundreds of painstakingly arranged moments in the media spotlight, like when a wheelchair-ridden Gypsy sings an off-key song to an audience of hundreds while onstage at a charity event.
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It would also become Ms. Lang's "Free Bird": the song she would seemingly have to play at the close of every show for the rest of her life, extending her microphone toward her audience, as that ritual dictates, so they could render its refrain back to her, ecstatically off key.
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Despite Senator Ted Cruz's complaint that this was simply one more "Obama abuse of power," the provision, though rarely used, goes back as far as President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who used it to protect the reefs off Key Largo, and has since been invoked by Democratic and Republican presidents alike.
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Trump's disavowal of the Iran deal capped off a whirlwind two days in Washington, during which is also struck twin blows to the Affordable Care Act, signing an executive order allowing more consumers to purchase insurance through association health plans and announcing that he would cut off key subsidies health insurance companies.
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Ms. Barr, 65, supported Mr. Trump in 2016, but she makes for an unlikely conservative standard-bearer: Aside from her support of same-sex marriage and abortion rights, she was once denounced by the elder President George Bush as "disgraceful" after delivering a lewd, off-key rendition of the national anthem at a 1990 baseball game.
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Or, on the lighter side, what of Federer, Tommy Haas and Grigor Dimitrov releasing a clip on Friday via social media of "Hard to Say I'm Sorry," in which they did justice to the song, co-written by Haas's father-in-law, David Foster, after their entirely off-key performance of the same material in January?
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The image of the new President as a man of action was a sign that after a rocky first weekend, which included massive protests nationwide, his off-key speech at the CIA and a new media feud centering around the crowd size at Friday's inauguration, that the new White House was finding its feet and able to drive a coordinated political message.
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Both Glorias yowl along to pop songs in their cars, straying freely off key; both wear outsized spectacles; both attend classes in yoga and laughter therapy; both adopt, or are adopted by, a hairless cat; both go to bed with a man who, after weight-reduction surgery, wears a truss around his midriff; and both are taught to fire paintball guns.
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Everything about it is magnificent: the pitch-perfect choice of "Time of Your Life" (also known as the song performed on acoustic guitar in uni halls across the globe by white boys trying to finger girls), the dude's admirably off-key vocals, the roommate's consistently exasperated reaction, the fact that every time you know what's coming, but it somehow gets exponentially more funny?
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Fidgeting in a stiff wooden auditorium seat while plucky 10-year-olds sing "Over the Rainbow" off-key might not seem like crashing, but it—along with the several other free events I attended unannounced—was one of the best ways to feel alive in a New York and a world where we increasingly confine ourselves to the same bars, same neighborhoods, and same bubbles.
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His attacks are searing and personal, delivered with the humorous patter of a late-night insult comedian, more reminiscent of 19th-century Federalists denouncing Thomas Jefferson as the AntiChrist — or Confederates calling Lincoln a buffoon and a drunk — than the more conventional Barack Obama advertisement showing Mitt Romney singing an off-key "America the Beautiful" as headlines recounted how Mr. Romney had overseen the outsourcing of jobs to Mexico and China.
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But the substance and symbolism had to compete with off-key incidents: verbal clashes between Chinese security officials and White House staff members after Mr. Obama's arrival in Hangzhou; a dispute in China over the stairs that were to be rolled to Air Force One, which forced the president to exit the plane through a smaller doorway; and a profane outburst against Mr. Obama by the new president of the Philippines.
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") Tom, who is considering a wrongful-termination suit under the Civil Rights Act ("She has an unreasoned hatred of Dekes"), writes that the working conditions at Gilbert & Parsons "compared unfavorably with those of the Gulag" and included the mandatory singing each morning of the Gilbert & Parsons song ("More than just a single coat is what we ain't / 'Cause we're Gilbert & Parsons One-Coat Paint")—a requirement that he calls "demeaning, not to mention consistently off-key.
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But interviews with top advisers and confidants from then and now help explain how Mr. Biden came to see himself as presidential material in the first place, and suggest that the central tensions and vulnerabilities laid bare during Biden '19883 remain the most urgent questions at the core of Biden 21988: Can he credibly present himself as a man in step with the times without sounding off-key or stretching the truth, as he did while gilding his 217s-era biography?
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The Hill's 12:30 Report: Happening soon -- Trump speech on lran | President to decertify Iran deal | Trump cutting off key ObamaCare payments | Collins passes on run for governor | New winds threaten to fuel California fires | 'The Dress' color debate is back, but this time for shoes BREAKING -- from 'IRAN DEAL' to 'IRAN you're going to have to DEAL with us': President Trump is about to announce that he will decertify the Iran nuclear deal but not push Congress to reimpose sanctions on the country, top officials said ahead of his speech Friday.
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With the World's largest military the U.S. is also starting to project more non-lethal "soft power" repurposing its armed warriors by, for example, participating in a "Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking" in Africa, sending Army crews with high water vehicles to rescue people from Hurricane Harvey flooding, sending Marines to the U.S. Virgin Islands in the wake of Irma, stationing a Navy carrier off Key West and now post-Maria launching initial emergency supply aircraft and damage assessment flights over Puerto Rico while also providing C-130 Hercules aircraft to fight the wildfires in the West.
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He'd been surprised at how some of those essays were received in the world — that his Edith Wharton essay in The New Yorker that mentioned her self-consciousness about her looks could be misconstrued as sexist when she herself was so obsessed with appearances ("His depiction of Edith Wharton was so mean-spirited and off-key that I tossed and turned," Victoria Patterson wrote in The Los Angeles Review of Books), or that his New Yorker essay on threats to birds more immediate than global change — like the proliferation of glassy buildings that blindside birds in flight — had resulted in the vitriol it did.
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