On Monday, Mr. Davis read Mr. McCain's final, pull-no-punches remarks to reporters.
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We expect them to pull no punches in their opinions, so they wouldn't be pro-Swift just to be polite.
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"We will pull no punches next year in getting clarity and certainty for natural carbon markets," she added in a tweet.
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On "You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River," he's searching for the Veedon Fleece, his fictional version of the Holy Grail.
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Joe Budden has found new fame as the co-host of Everyday Struggle, becoming infamous for his pull-no-punches critiques of younger rappers like Migos and Lil Yachty.
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Mr. Castro can help with that, especially should he become the vice-presidential nominee, a job for which the main qualification is being a pull-no-punches attack dog.
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If you've been to a Code Commerce event, you know what to expect: Unscripted, pull-no-punches interviews, and plenty of time to network with some of your smartest peers.
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Playlist: "Into the Mystic" / "Full Force Gale" / "In the Garden" / "You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River" / "Dweller on the Threshold" / "Listen to the Lion" / "Enlightenment" / "When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God"
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He's as blunt as his pull-no-punches songwriting suggests, coupling every matter-of-fact quote about maybe wanting to quit the band or dry jokes about going on a bender with a thoughtfulness that makes him extremely easy to be around.
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WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, pushed back on Thursday against suggestions that a visit to the United States by Russian intelligence chiefs had contributed to the Trump administration's delay in imposing fresh sanctions on Moscow, saying in a letter that American officials "pull no punches" when sitting down with their Russian counterparts.
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The band's most recent release, A Thorn, A Blight is a gorgeous album, and one that is fiercely political—lyrics like, "Every time you turned your guns on civil rights / Every time you told a rape victim she lied / Every single pig, every single time / Is the guardian of privilege / And an enemy of mine" pull no punches and take no prisoners.
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"You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River" is a nine-minute song by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It appears on the album Veedon Fleece, released in 1974.
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Retrieved August 31, 2016. He performed for the Boston Dialogue on Race in 1996Yostifon, David G. (February 26, 1998). "Activists Pull No Punches in Boston Dialogue on Race." Bay State Banner. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
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"You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push The River" is often considered to be one of Morrison's most accomplished compositions, as biographer Johnny Rogan confirms in 2006: "Morrison's most accomplished composition to date, an experimental peak which took a step beyond even his most ambitious work."Rogan. No Surrender, pp.299–300 In The Uncut Ultimate Music Guide: Van Morrison Jason Anderson describes "You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push The River" as "the mesmerising nine-minute centrepiece" of Veedon Fleece.
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299–300 The song has also been played regularly in concert since 2002 by Morrison. From 2003 to 2009 it was played in a medley with "You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River".
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Williams, p. 188. His on-air commentary has caused controversy. As a commentator, Boycott has renewed his 'pull-no-punches' style in contrast to most of his fellow commentators. In particular he is known for criticising players, often in a caustic and strident style.
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283 as drummer Dahaud Shaar observes: > 'You Don't Pull No Punches' is a pretty long track. [When] that happened, it > was just acoustic guitar, bass, drums and piano, and that was the track, and > it went the whole distance. It was like a nice sine wave. [Jef Labes later] > built the string arrangement around that from the parts that were already > played.Heylin.
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Of those seven, only "You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River" and "Streets of Arklow" have been played more than twenty times live. "Fair Play" was performed for the first time live in June 2009. After Veedon Fleece, most of Morrison's albums would chart higher in the UK than in the United States, partly due to his move back to Europe several years afterward.Hinton, Celtic Crossroads, p.
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" Morgan also felt that the comparisons to Wynette in her singing style and song choices were helpful in making her music appeal to female fans. Nash has also described Morgan as "plainspoken", referring to "What Part of No" as a song that "showcases her pull-no-punches style." Writing for The Times of Northwest Indiana, Jim Patterson stated that "Like Wynette, Morgan is tough but vulnerable, scarred by tragedy and dogged by the tabloids.
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"You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River" was written on Morrison's three-week trip to Ireland in October 1973, along with seven other songs that featured on Veedon Fleece.Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, pp.277–278 According to Morrison's biographer Johnny Rogan, the song begins as a love song celebrating a young girl's childhood and then goes into a journey along the west coast of Ireland and then suddenly goes into a mythological search for an object he calls the "Veedon Fleece".
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" They also made comparisons with Portnoy's Complaint for its sexual nature and with David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross for its depiction of a confidence game.Death in Love review Screen Daily. 24 January 2008 The film was praised by Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times "Yakin and his intrepid cast pull no punches portraying the film's many carnal encounters, filling the movie with a host of startling and powerful images." Goldstein continued to describe the film as "always riveting" and "one endurance test that's worth the effort.
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There is no discussion on how this regular visiting of the sick fits in with Cooney's portrait of a power-hungry Renaissance-style prelate. Behind his formidable exterior the Archbishop was an extremely shy man who was ill at ease at social functions. In 1963 after the first session of the Vatican Council, Dr McQuaid set up a secret all-priests Public Image Committee "to examine what is now called the public image of the Church in the Dublin Diocese". The Archbishop insisted that the committee members should pull no punches and they obliged.
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His first book, Spirit of America, was published in 1971. Bill Neely's best-known work was published in 1973, Stand on It by Stroker Ace, co-written by Bob Ottum. The novel, based in part on Neely's own experiences as a professional auto racer and on his experiences in the racing world with Goodyear and in part on NASCAR legend Curtis Turner, became quite popular for its gritty humor and its pull-no-punches depictions of the world of professional stock car racing. The novel was made into a 1983 motion picture, Stroker Ace, starring Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson.
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The opening lines of the song: "And as we walked through the streets of Arklow, oh the colours of the day warm, and our heads were filled with poetry, in the morning coming onto dawn" were said to "contain the thematic seeds of the whole album: nature, poetry, god, innocence re-found and love lost" by PopMatters critic John Kennedy. "You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River" is frequently regarded as one of Morrison's most accomplished compositions. He revealed that the song owed a considerable debt to his readings in Gestalt therapy.Rogan, No Surrender, pp.
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Several authors have commented on the mysterious object, "Veedon Fleece" as it appears in the album title and in the lyrics of the song "You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River". Scott Thomas states in his review: "The Morrison-conceived Veedon Fleece is the symbol of everything yearned for in the preceding songs; spiritual enlightenment, wisdom, community, artistic vision and love." Steve Turner concludes: "The Veedon Fleece...appears to be Van's Irish equivalent of the Holy Grail a religious relic that would answer his questions if he could track it down on his quest around the west coast of Ireland."Turner, Too Late to Stop Now, p.
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Richard MacFarlane of Mess+Noise felt "the sounds within are meticulous, and here craftsmanship does not equal engaging listening... because of a naff sort of 90s Britpop-esque that's so mixed to down to the middle that it's almost basking in its own solidness – a knowledge of lightweight rock conventions and how to pull no punches." MediaSearchs Chris Brady opined that "[it] is the sound of a band hinting at great potential. At their best, this Brisbane foursome successfully channel the spirit of sixties psychedelia, with Pepper- esque horns and soaring Pet Sounds harmonies." In that year they toured the East Coast of Australia three times and performed at the Adelaide Fuse Festival and BigSound conferences.
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Though it attracted scant initial attention, its critical stature grew markedly over the years—with Veedon Fleece now often considered to be one of Morrison's most impressive and poetic works.Rogan (2006), page 301. In a 2008 Rolling Stone review, Andy Greene writes that when released in late 1974: "it was greeted by a collective shrug by the rock critical establishment" and concludes: "He's released many wonderful albums since, but he's never again hit the majestic heights of this one." "You Don't Pull No Punches, but You Don't Push the River", one of the album's side closers, exemplifies the long, hypnotic, cryptic Morrison with its references to visionary poet William Blake and to the seemingly Grail-like Veedon Fleece object.
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See also David Miller, "Long-term funding still needed by TTC", Toronto Star, May 6, 2002, A21. He later suggested that Toronto's building revenues could be put toward priority spending rather than being stored in reserve accounts, arguing that the city's real estate boom would allow council to defer transit hikes and provide programs for children and the homeless.Paul Moloney, "Council's left wing eyes untapped taxes", Toronto Star, February 21, 2002, B03. He was also a leading voice in exposing Toronto's MFP computer leasing scandal in 2001 and 2002, bringing to light several questionable lobbying practices at city hall.Jack Lakey, "Council to probe lease deal", Toronto Star, January 16, 2002, A01; Royson James, "Reports pull no punches in MFP mess", Toronto Star, December 21, 2001, B01; Laurie Monsebraaten, "Council to try again on MFP deal", Toronto Star, January 3, 2002, B01l; John Barber, "Safest prediction for mayor's race is free-for-all", The Globe and Mail, August 24, 2002, A18; "City inquiry pays off", Toronto Star, October 4, 2002, A22; Don Wanagas, "Nightmare on Front St.", National Post, January 31, 2003, A13.
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