The film also skimps on providing any broader political context.
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Image: PolarThat's not to say the Ignite skimps on features.
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LeBlanc's Random Family, it skimps on statistics and analysis, instead
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But he says he never skimps on the sauce itself.
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B skimps on her medicine, allowing her blood sugar to rise to worrisome levels.
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Here, while full of heart, the writing skimps on the meat of the story.
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Walmart has periodically struggled against the perception that it skimps on health care benefits.
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With weariness more than anger, she said that the government skimps on public safety for black families like hers.
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When a state skimps on individual income, it needs to collect revenue from other sources, including levies on property.
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"Though flavorful, this meal skimps on protein and may leave her feeling a bit hungry through the night," Moore says.
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A plan that results in higher taxes but skimps on cutting-edge medicine may seem unfair — and may well be unpopular.
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Usually, getting a small phone has meant getting a phone that skimps on power or on the camera (or, most likely, both).
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" She Never Skimps On Her Routine "When she travels, she takes a good skin care regimen with her [including] alpha hydroxys or antioxidants.
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Walmart, the nation's largest private-sector employer, has long been the target of community advocates, who say it skimps on wages and benefits.
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She smashes her piggy bank, skimps on name brand groceries, and takes on a night shift working as a janitor at her local Congresswoman's office.
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For some residents who said the city too often skimps on police resources in the Bronx, the mobile command post offered a measure of assurance.
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In a show that skimps on splash and sizzle, Kia is taking aim at the German car market and the svelte BMW 4 Series of the world.
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But where LoftOpera skimps on expensive venues and elaborate sets, it invests in artists, paying everyone a competitive rate and providing paid opportunities for performers when lucrative gigs are rare.
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But he skimps on the adult characters' inner lives, and, once the narrative weight shifts to the Lodges, he never finds the tone that balances the movie's sincerity with its nihilism.
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In the rush to cram in so many details and characters, the show skimps on the thing that would hold all of these people together as they jump from body to body: their relationships.
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Of the several ingredients necessary to the making of a holiday classic — artistry with a sprinkling of magic, familiarity balanced with adventure — Cirque skimps on the requisite warmth, which the reindeer (embodied by human performers) radiate.
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Even nostalgia goes down better when it's laced with a healthy dose of the unexpected, and while it hardly skimps on callbacks and fan favorites, The Last Jedi has a flowing moment-to-moment unpredictability that rises, on occasion, to genuinely thrilling peaks of surprise.
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And despite recent critiques that the new wave of true crime content skimps on structural questions about how that system works, these reconsiderations of the women's stories offer critical — or at least skeptical — looks at the protocols of the justice system, particularly the behavior of prosecutors.
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He blasts the screenplay and the direction of the film. He wrote: "Though Dearden gets the surface right – the movie looks sleek – he skimps on characterization... [and] Dearden's script fails to provide the raw material that would let him go beyond the stereotype... Dearden merely walks the cast through a gauntlet of film noir cliches."Travers, Peter. Rolling Stone, film review, 1991.
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Newcomers can certainly start here - and this is by far Disher's best yet in the series - but there's no denying that having come this far with Challis and Co adds a lot to the experience. But taken as a whole, this instalment puts Disher up on the world stage among the best in the business at this style of crime fiction.""Chain of Evidence" by Jeff Glorfeld, The Age, 16 March 2007 In The Sydney Morning Herald Sue Tunbull is impressed with the work: "Multilayered and multistranded, Chain of Evidence is written in vivid and uncompromising prose. A writer of both literary fiction and prize-winning children's books, Disher never skimps on his craft.
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They felt Thurber was "out of his depth" with the Chabon novel, and were amazed that "Like some act of reverse alchemy, Thurber has taken movie-friendly gold and turned it into dull metal." Reviewer Martin Morrow felt that the film "cuts, combines or perversely twists the book's characters, drops some of the best scenes, skimps on the sex and – unbelievably – substitutes Thurber's leaden writing for Chabon's wit", where the original novel was "just as camera-ready" as Wonder Boys, which had been adapted into a film in 2000. Morrow was also critical of Thurber's "timid" take on Art's sexual revelation, and Foster's acting. He described Cleveland as a "perfect role" for Sarsgaard, and was praising of Sarsgaard's acting, but felt the character's humour was missing.
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