The spycraft element of the movie is a bit ropey.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Royal Mail is having a ropey old year.
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Obviously as he went on, things got a little ropey at times.
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The male stars tend to be quite ropey-looking middle-aged men.
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Months later, two Bear Stearns hedge funds investing in ropey mortgage assets went bust.
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The cut scenes actually looks pretty ropey, all stiff limbs and oddly oversized heads.
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But labour productivity is a big problem across the region and infrastructure can be ropey.
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And the swordplay, the core combat, is pretty ropey, with hit boxes all over the place.
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The braid will begin to take on a ropey texture that looks the same from all sides.
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Exhibit B in the circumstantial case against the new laws is the ropey rationale for passing them.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Initial public offering bankers typically cite "market conditions" when ropey listings run into trouble.
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In fact, the ropey texture almost reminds us of the iconic whip that's her weapon of choice. Coincidence?
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Ropey bets on the price of oil will drive European airline M&A in 2019.
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There's nothing to confirm it at this point, but everything about those ropey, black strands screams one thing: Symbiote.
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When you're playing on single player, you're reliant on some pretty ropey AI partner to save the day when the going gets tough.
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Squelching through tunnels and underground passages, players use their flailing ropey appendages to pull levers and remove obstacles in their bid for freedom.
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Despite a somewhat ropey start to our chat, Avila is all class and thanks for my time before he leaves with the rest of the crew.
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Higher crime rates and ropey infrastructure pull some bigger cities like London, New York and Paris down the league table, despite their cultural and culinary attractions.
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Spend more time talking to your computerScreenshot: MicrosoftVoice dictation features have been improved in the April 2018 Update (the existing options were pretty ropey to be honest).
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China is leapfrogging from ropey logistics to supercharged supply chains, just as it did with e-commerce and mobile payments, in which it went from laggard to world-beater.
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If I'm still feeling ropey later on in the day a huge plate of warm bucatini carbonara sorts me out—the pepper really helps pick you up off the floor!
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REGINA IPMember of Hong Kong's Legislative Council Ropey rupee recall* You provided a balanced analysis of the decision by India to withdraw 86% of banknotes from circulation ("Short-changed", November 26th).
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For all of France's notorious linguistic nationalism, it is telling that François Hollande, the outgoing president, was mocked on Le Petit Journal, a news and entertainment show, for his ropey English.
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Aliens (1986) was just as good as the original Alien (1979), but Alien 3 (1992) was a little ropey and Alien: Resurrection (1997) may as well have been from a totally different universe, though it was fun.
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While the first commercial 5G projects will launch in the United States in 2018, many users in emerging markets are still awaiting 4G and are likely to have to grapple with ropey 13G connections for years more.
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The ropey muscles of the neck that pull my head forward, the tight muscles around my hips, mid-back, and sacroiliac joints (in an X-ray you can see the erosion)—they all seem to loosen at last.
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He took a brand that had gone from disaster under John Major to sheer irrelevance under the ghoulish trio of Hague, IDS, and Howard, and reformatted it into something that was like a slightly ropey photocopy of Blairism's election–winning machine.
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As we step into 2016, there appears to be no way back from a world of increasingly nasty drugs which, despite the packaging and whacky names, are actually colored bags of toxic dust churned out by ropey Chinese chemical factories.
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Collision detection feels a little ropey, too, but that'll soon be updated in a patch, one that's also going to enhance enemy AI, as right now it's too easy to pick off certain enemies—spiders, mainly—without them reacting to your ranged attacks.
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Once home, I tap the mussels so they close, rinse them, tug the ropey beards, then steam them with some leftover salsa I made the other day and some cucumber from the kebab my girlfriend bought after she discovered I'd be making "ethical food" for dinner.
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In the years after "The Lineman" Albright developed his characteristic treatment of the body: the paintings "Flesh" (2111) and "And Man Created God in His Own Image" (25-31) are rife with discolored, lumpy flesh, the texture of which — grey, whorled and ropey — almost approaches that of a cloudscape or whirling, dirty water.
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They sat me down, interrogated me, asking what I had seen with eyes closed, and I said: the honoraria of sadness, nugget-bright, ores ropey molten in the encased seam, and messages, or messengers, their in-between blood filamentals criss-crossing pain-clear soothingly swift, at rest in unassessable velocities across chiasms chasmic in their embassies.
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Even though he found the opening scene quite "shocking", the acting a bit "ropey", and the effects "dated", he admitted the film "grabs you from the start".Friel, Eoin. "'The Exterminator' (1980) Review", www.theactionelite.com, published 07-25-2012.
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In a small town, a rope seller named Ropey regularly instigates the local mob into hanging every culprit for even the smallest of offenses - a method Lucky Luke decides to put to an end. Lucky Luke barely saves a drunk from hanging, wrongly accused of stealing a horse.
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Norwegian newspaper Glåmdalen wrote in their review of the Get Ready! album, that the song "with all its electronics [is] quite interesting." James Hamilton from Record Mirror said it is "'Start-Rite' techno for young "wannabe" ravers". Tom Doyle from Smash Hits stated that "the insufferable duo return with another ropey techno effort".
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Phil Hoad of The Guardian rated The Weekend 3/5 stars and compared it to On the Buses, calling it "likable, freewheeling, a bit ropey". In also rating it 3/5 stars, Stephen Puddicombe of Total Film wrote that "the jokes frequently land", but the film does not focus enough on character development.
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Gollumiellinae are unique in that they hook their eggs onto the plants and connect a ropey secretion to them, which stand erect. This acts as an attraction mechanism for Paratrechina ants. Gollumiellinae larvae burrow into the hosts' thoraces and feed there. The rest of its life cycle is similar to the aforementioned life cycle of eucharitids.
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The Blueprint website review of the film stated, "This brain numbing 80 minutes of constant noise, cheap effects, background music that never once stops and ropey acting will test the patience of even the most hardened B-movie aficionado...Almighty Thor was just one giant headache of a film."Skeates, Andrew, (July 22, 2011). Almighty Thor. Blueprint. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
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Where there is little water movement, the colonies may dangle in ropey masses from hard substrates, such as cables, docks, and the hulls of vessels. These stringy formations have led to it being colloquially referred to as "Sea Cheese" in Canada. In places with stronger currents, they cover the surface of rocks, boulders, pebbles, gravel, and oysterbeds in a thin, encrusting layer.
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The corpses are entwined with a veiny, blueish growth that is reminiscent of a root system. The exposed muscle and bone of the man's lower body exhibits a fresh growth of this ropey-material, suggesting he is becoming one of them. The original 1994 cover art was simply a close-up of the skinless ribcage and musculature of that man's midsection.
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In their natural forms, Rutans resemble large green jellyfish, glowing blobs of biomatter with long ropey tentacles. They are amphibious and can cling to sheer vertical surfaces, with considerable mobility out of the water despite their shape. Rutans can also generate lethal bioelectrical shocks, and seem to be able to absorb electrical energy directly for sustenance. They reproduce by a process similar to binary fission.
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Thankfully, no deaths or injuries were recorded. Storm chasers would go on to nickname the tornado the "Wizard of Oz" tornado because of its unusual ropey shape, which was very resemblant to the twister in the aforementioned movie. In fact, the tornado had no prominent curve at the top as its funnel – much like the Wizard of Oz tornado – as it neared its decaying stage.
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TV Cream: The Ultimate Guide To 70's and 80's Pop Culture (aka TV Cream: Nostalgia Book of the 70's And 80's) () was published by Virgin Books in June 2005. TV Cream's Anatomy of Cinema () was published by The Friday Project Ltd. in April 2007. The Independent praised it for telling the truth about the often ropey quality of British cinema.
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Lab testing is necessary for definitive diagnosis, but a good field test is to touch a dead larva with a toothpick or twig. It will be sticky and "ropey" (drawn out). Foulbrood also has a characteristic odor, and experienced beekeepers with a good sense of smell can often detect the disease upon opening a hive. However, this odour may not be noticeable until the disease is in an advanced stage.
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GamesRadar's Ashley Reed called the environments better-looking, but found the characters "oddly doll-like" and noted graphical limitations carried over from the original. She found less of these problems in X-2. Digital Spy's Mark Langshaw praised the upgrade, but noted framerate dips and "ropey" animations. He also noted that the character models in X-2 were updated better than those in X. Reviewing the PS3 version, VideoGamer.
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In a 1990 issue of Melody Maker, a review of the band's live show at Glasgow stated: "The ropey new single, "Save Me", even comes with a touch of the vitriol more commonly reserved for the asset stripping Southern vultures who haunt Big Country's lowland industrial anthems." Mark Liddell of Riff Raff described the song as "catchy enough" in a review of the band's 1990 concert at the Hammersmith Odeon.
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The Championship Course along which the Boat Race is contested Cambridge were considered to be pre-race favourites. Oxford won the toss and elected to start from the Middlesex station. After a poor start, which Oxford's cox Chick referred to as "a bit ropey", Cambridge took an early lead and were five seconds ahead at the Mile Post. They extended their advantage to eight seconds by Hammersmith Bridge and sixteen by Chiswick Steps.
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AllMusic's Ted Mills gave it three and a half stars, saying "the band is mostly tight, though the drumming gets a bit ropey in places, but perfection was never the Fall's reason for being". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide describes it as an "excellent live album".Brackett, Nathan & Hoard, Christian (2004) The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, Simon & Schuster Ltd, , p. 294 In the view of writers for Trouser Press, "recording quality, execution and song selection are superb".
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Terrorizer published its first issue in October 1993 with Sepultura on the cover and a price of £1.95. "Sure, the layout was a bit ropey, with several 'cut out'-style pictures in the live section and some horribly lo-fi video stills in the Pestilence feature, but what a line-up of bands! Sepultura, Morgoth, Entombed, Morbid Angel, At the Gates, Coroner, Dismember, Sinister, Death...it was a veritable smorgasbord of brutality.""The Age of Extremity", Terrorizer #100.
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Palaver sauce or palava sauce or plasas is a type of stew widely eaten in West Africa, including Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. The word palaver comes from the Portuguese language and means a talk, lengthy debate or quarrel. It is unclear how this led to the name of the stew. One theory is that when the stew was first made, with long, ropey greens, people would start quarrels by slapping each other with the greens from their stew.
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Populations in Victoria and South Australia appear to be abundant; however, the Australian Koala Foundation argues that the exclusion of Victorian populations from protective measures is based on a misconception that the total koala population is 200,000, whereas they believe it is probably less than 100,000. Koalas were hunted for food by Aboriginals. A common technique used to capture the animals was to attach a loop of ropey bark to the end of a long, thin pole, so as to form a noose.
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Two types of lava are named according to the surface texture: Aa (pronounced ) and pāhoehoe (), both Hawaiian words. Aa is characterized by a rough, clinkery surface and is the typical texture of viscous lava flows. However, even basaltic or mafic flows can be erupted as aa flows, particularly if the eruption rate is high and the slope is steep. Pāhoehoe is characterized by its smooth and often ropey or wrinkly surface and is generally formed from more fluid lava flows.
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Leadbetter proclaimed that "the renowned Tim Follin comes up trumps yet again with some brilliant atmospheric scores", and both he and Glancey, along with Rignall, considered the soundtrack to be some of the best they had heard on the NES. Regan described the game's soundtrack as "moody and atmospheric", and Semrad called the music "fantastic". Wyles, however, described the sound effects as "ropey" and the in-game background music as "mediocre". The title theme in particular became one of Follin's best-known tracks in retrospect.
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Initial reviews toward "Some Kind of Bliss" were mixed. Writing for NME in November 1997, Ben Willmott called it "supremely irritating" and stated "Kylie belts out the lyrics like she's reading from an autocue. Any soul is lost in a slurry of bought-in brass and a ropey guitar solo that's be more at home on a Shakin' Stevens record." John Magnan from The Age said while the song was a stand out to the album, it "is actually one of the album's clunkier tracks".
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In Nature, science journalist Tim Radford praises both Lovelock's career and the book, stating that Novacene and Lovelock's other books are "written persuasively". Radford reserves judgement on whether Lovelock's predictions will come true. In The Guardian, author Steven Poole also praises the writing style, but believes that despite Lovelock's "speculation" there may remain "reasonable cause for alarm" in the event of an AI takeover. He also dismisses Lovelock's "ropey" criticism of logical reasoning, but overall considers Lovelock's "infectious, almost absurdist optimism" a welcome relief from environmental techno-pessimism.
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Russian customs officials questioned the purpose of a fiberglass-and-polyurethane throne used on the show when the singer's entourage brought it into the country. Gheorghe's choreography and graphics were inspired by the Ieles, feminine creatures in Romanian mythology. About the preparations, the singer said in an interview with EuroVisionary: Her performance began with "a cloud of smoke", from which the singer's background dancers emerged in "ropey hair extensions, ronseal tans and shredded mermaid frocks". They rotated what appeared to be a boulder, revealing Ghorghe sitting on a stone-looking throne.
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Simple Box Construction, based in Michigan, composed a manipulated chipboard gatefold sleeve and ropey cherry veneer with each cover and veneer cut by hand, fitted and held together with black charcoal paper. The text inside was typeset and hand stamped on each half of the cover with cedar wood construct insert and postcard set of 88 copies. The high intensity physical composition and content of "Sons of Alpha Centauri/A Death Cinematic" were both very well received by critics, with many heavily citing early Tangerine Dream as a reference point for the single.
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Initial, deeper-water volcanic eruptions are characterized by pillow lava, so named for their shape, while shallow-water eruptions tend to be composed mainly of volcanic ash. Once the volcano is high enough so as to eliminate interference from water, its lava flows become those of ropey pāhoehoe and blocky ʻAʻā lava. Our current understanding of the process of evolution originates from the first half of the 20th century. The understanding of the process was advanced by frequent observation of volcanic eruptions, study of contrasting rock types, and reconnaissance mapping.
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Illustrated with period photographs and drawings, it has been used as reading for Oregon schoolchildren in courses about the settlement of the American West and Oregon history. In 2014, poet Jana Harris published You Haven't Asked About My Wedding or What I Wore, a book of poems based on writings by American pioneer women. One of her poems, "The Stove", was based on Masterson's diary and includes these lines: :If we found graves, we'd read their inscriptions. :If wolves had broken in :we'd look for the ropey yellow braids :of young girls like ourselves.
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Film critic James Benefield of Little White Lies magazine regarded Mesrine as "a pretty ropey, half-baked biopic", inferior to the later 2008 film starring Vincent Cassel. Benefield criticized Génovès' "bland direction" and "lack of imagination", likening the film to a television production rather than a cinematic release, and noted that "the film fails to come to terms with Mesrine’s controversial glamour and celebrity". The Blood wrote a song about Mesrine which preceded both the 1984, and 2008 movies. The song featured on the 1983 album False Gestures For A Devious Public.
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These features are readily noted along the eastern faces of the ridges, which often present mural precipices, or vertical escarpments. Similar features can also be seen in the Palisades Sill, although these were formed within the Earth's crust. Additionally, the Watchungs feature not only blocky aa lava, but also ropey and billowing pahoehoe flows. Water flows over a trap rock surface in the Watchungs The magma which generated the Watchungs and the Palisades also formed the intrusive igneous Sourland Mountain in Central New Jersey, as well as a series of smaller outlying volcanic ridges in the region.
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They decided to try to raise some money for charity and arranged a village fete to raise money for Dr Barnardos. The fete proved very popular and was repeated the following year to raise money for the then very ropey playing field in the village. Again it was a great success and the yearly fete has since gone on to become a very important part of the village's social calendar, known as "Horton fete and flower show" from 2006. The money raised In previous years has been used to build a replacement village hall at the north side of the village.
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Trevor-Roper explained that he had been given assurances that turned out to be false, about how the diaries had come into the possession of their "discoverer" and about the age of the paper and ink used in them and of their authenticity. Nonetheless, the incident prompted the satirical magazine Private Eye to nickname him Hugh Very-Ropey (Lord Lucre of Claptout), or more concisely Lord Facre. Despite the shadow this cast over his later career, he continued to write and publish and his work remained well received.Rowse and Trevor-Roper defined, Donald Adamson, Trevor-Roper was portrayed in the 1991 TV miniseries Selling Hitler by Alan Bennett.
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For the remainder of 1963, the group were playing almost every night. Reviews of the group's first single were, says Norman, lukewarm, but according to Easton, "Come On" sold 40,000 records, and he paid them £18 each in royalties and was incensed when they took the song off their live repertoire soon after. In mid-1963 they were given the as-yet-unreleased song "I Wanna Be Your Man" by the Beatles. It was to be the Stones' second single and was recorded at Regent Sound Studios on Denmark Street—described by a roadie as "tiny, ropey, and look[ing] like someone's front room"—overseen by Easton.
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His costar in the drama was friend Sarah Parish, with whom he had previously appeared in Blackpool and an episode of Doctor Who. She joked that "we're like George and Mildred – in 20 years' time we'll probably be doing a ropey old sitcom in a terraced house in Preston". Later that same year he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who costar, in the episodes "Human Nature", "The Family of Blood" and "The End of Time"), in which he played a Christian driving instructor who became the object of a student's affection. Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11 November 2007.
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Gibson would occasionally refer to the Poet's and Peasants' in his pieces for The Times. And on one notable occasion, having written in one of his articles that Betjeman had been right about Slough, the Mayor of Slough took umbrage and challenged Gibson's cricket club to a cricketing duel. The match was duly staged on a decidedly ropey wicket in Slough, where the Poet's and Peasants' were humiliated by the Mayor of Slough's XI who had several very able cricketers playing for them, including Ian Gould. The Poet's and Peasants' Cricket Club was a diverse collection of individuals; a fact amply demonstrated by the club's opening pair of batsmen who were from opposite ends of the social spectrum.
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" Writing for IndieWire, Liz Shannon Miller said, "An unlikeable character, no matter the circumstances, remains unlikeable, but an unlikeable character trumps a bland blonde man whose position of authority appears to be his only really interesting character trait, no matter how much voice-over he utters." The show received criticism for the quality of the Spanish spoken. Dr. Alister Ramírez-Márquez, a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, faulted the accents, pronunciation, intonation, and incorrect use of Paisa colloquialisms. Speaking of the show's reception in Colombia, Sibylla Brodzinsky of The Guardian stated, "audiences have been bemused by the stars’ ropey accents, irritated by its portrayal of the country's recent history, and – in some cases – simply bored by yet another narco-drama.
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Paste critic Mark Rozeman gave the episode a rating of 8.4 out of 10, commending Bruun's performance as Donnie and the "wonderful bit of Coen Brothers-esque dark comedy" provided by Alison's subplot. However, he criticised the predictability of the episode and opined that Kira's abduction by Rachel felt like a recycled plot point from the first season. Vlada Gelman gave the episode a mixed review for TVLine, writing that it was the first episode of the show's second season "that didn't quite work" and "it didn't have the momentum and progress you'd expect from a penultimate hour". Similarly, The New York Timess Adam W. Kepler opined that the episode displayed Orphan Black "finest qualities (strong characterisation, dark satire and shocking moments) and its worst (odd pacing and ropey plotting)".
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