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"slickness" Definitions
  1. (sometimes disapproving) the fact of being clever and efficient but in a way that does not seem to be sincere or that lacks important ideas
  2. (sometimes disapproving) the ability to speak very easily and smoothly but in a way that does not seem sincere
  3. the ability to do something quickly and smoothly synonym skill (1)
  4. the fact of being smooth and difficult to hold or move on

132 Sentences With "slickness"

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The absence of slickness has been mostly for the good.
Mr Cameron's referendum decision was the product of cowardice and slickness.
Waste picking is still some way short of Silicon Valley slickness.
However, Canelo's slickness, accuracy and pure punching power overawed the Brit.
Slickness and skill certainly aren't all we want in a new musical.
Or are they regular-slickness legs with some streaks of white paint?
Try incorporating massage oils or a massage candle to add some slickness.
They can easily underestimate the slickness of rocks and the flow of water.
In his absence, some of the old speed and slickness came rushing back.
At the same time, the slickness of the music blunts some of the impact.
But the slickness of his presentation often distracted from the blandness of his substance.
The other lawyer was corporate slickness personified, with immaculate suits and full-paragraph oratory.
They lacked the slickness of Mr. Chen's dispatches, which were often subtitled and tightly edited.
Yet while the production of unicorns gathered pace and slickness, their disposal did not keep up.
But this Frankenstein of a song is seductive and convincing, flaunting its odd intentions with slickness and pride.
Today, Cole's sometimes labored efforts bespeak a sincerity that stands up well against the slickness of his followers.
Compared to the country-club slickness of Romney's cocaine conservatism, Trump's meth-head politics are at least more honest.
"The Catch" is defined merely by slickness, and it might have made a decent "Ocean's Eleven"-style caper movie.
And beyond its slickness and deft puzzle-story twists, this series is a perceptive study of the collateral damage.
He didn't hate the movie, but he was irked by what he saw as its overprocessed, profit-seeking slickness.
It shows with the slickness and speed of the Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps that are built into Google Drive.
Since it took him seasons to acquire, that's disconcerting, as is the new slickness of his manner in several roles.
He hasn't shown any slickness at all yet; he is the most loving and affectionate cat I have ever met!
In the 1990s, Diesel's Lexington Avenue location was an amusement park of European slickness, moto kitsch and soft fashion aspiration.
Driving gets trickier, though, when traffic packs snow to concrete hardness and parking spots get burnished to skating-rink slickness.
There's still a certain slickness in how he presents his story, and some will find his serious interludes too self-pitying.
The speed and slickness of the procedure, often yielding blurred, unpredictable results, can be likened to photography, which Degas used and understood.
Played by the bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen with verve and a black suit, Nick offers big-city slickness to the naïve Tom.
Her Instagram feed also features goofy, "relatable" images, but they're staged with the slickness and extreme self-awareness of a sophisticated #branding exercise.
Most good/bad artists are either more good or more bad, but Marra straddles the line between slickness and sloppiness with keen agility.
In a medium associated with consumer advertisement, such design maximalism seems a way of avoiding the logo-istic slickness of much corporate branding.
Booming startups like the RealReal, Tradesy, ThredUp, and Poshmark have brought a certain slickness to the resale market, which is edging toward $41 billion.
The enhanced detail and slickness really shone in the adventures of Lara Croft, as I ducked and weaved through ancient ruins and falling scorpions.
Slickness was no longer glamorous but gross; very few Americans had an appetite for captains of industry slurping down midday martinis at the Capital Grille.
In a world where slickness, ambition and greed have destroyed the spirit of amateurism, here is the great and utterly hopeless amateur filling Carnegie Hall.
" South shows a comedic slickness with language, as when she parodies chat forums for TV fans: "Laptops toasty on top of our tummies, we comment.
The journalistic avidity that fills this novel with captivating stories and tellingly observed details can also become an invented slickness that might be called novelism.
The backup camera has poor resolution, the gauge cluster looks tacky, and Cadillac's infotainment system can't compare with the slickness or user-friendliness of, say, BMW's.
On radio and television, their sly routines had none of the conventional show-business slickness, and they played to each other more than to the crowd.
"He's the Republican Bill Clinton," the strategist said, referring to the slickness with which Rubio shifts shapes and the confidence with which he straddles ideological divides.
According to Lt. Huffman, the incident was not deemed "dire," but due to the recent rainstorms and slickness of the canal's slopes, the situation was concerning.
EVEN fans of the Five Star Movement, an Italian political group often described as populist, maverick and anti-establishment, would never have credited it with slickness.
"Wilderness," with its self-aware slickness, is largely bland and feels particularly out of place at the Kitchen, where some facet of risk-taking is expected.
A company's brand identity can emanate from its origin story, which in Basecamp's case might suggest simplicity and efficiency, perhaps a brand with a certain modern slickness.
Jeezy's trap-honed nasal tones hold down the album's final track, "Right Back," and bring a refreshingly abrasive touch to the overall slickness of Quality Street Music 2.
The choice of materials boiled down to whatever was at hand, and any attempt at slickness would have struck most of the practitioners as some kind of joke.
In an online report Sunday, several pitchers told Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci that the slickness of the World Series balls has kept them from throwing their best sliders.
"Heart of Glass" used its slickness to frame its fragility — the shattering love of the lyrics — and opened up a new direction for musicians to travel following punk's decline.
A word of caution however: It's currently better suited to developer teams and tech startups than it is to, say, corporate environments that will prefer the slickness of Slack.
The star's final No. 1 song (and her only No. 1 in Britain), this duet with George Michael transcended its slickness with a tune that let both singers shine.
Forgoing the all-too-familiar slickness of computer-generated imagery, Stardust instead showcases old-school practical effects, bringing imaginative glee to her colorful conjuring with every line and image.
On "Castro," from Yo Gotti's upcoming album, he has a lot of competition: Kanye West's tossed off lines are amusing, and Big Sean and Quavo mask cleverness with slickness.
It won't blow you away with speed or slickness, but it's a marathon workhorse that will go from dusk til dawn, which, again, is the entire point of the KeyOne.
These songs still qualify as songs, with discernible, repeated melodies and such, but the slickness saps them of focus, leaving only a soft, blurry rendition of Beauty in the abstract.
At Helmut Lang, Mark Thomas and Thomas Cawson went faithfully back to founder-era silhouettes and styles: skinny pants unzipped at the ankle; layers of sheer and straps; utilitarian slickness.
It at first tells us what to make of Harris, then slowly, with a subtle slickness, steps back, asking the viewer if what they see is actually what they believe.
As mere sound, chiptune posits a mechanized robotic future that's friendly and reliable but not efficient enough for inhuman slickness, inhabiting an aesthetic closer to R2-D2 than an iPad.
It wasn't enough of an annoyance to stop wearing them, especially in the summer when constant shaving and the slickness of lotion and sweat can make skin-to-skin contact uncomfortable.
We have glommed super-high-tech glitz and slickness onto a 24/7 media blitz of entertainment and salesmanship that relies almost exclusively on the mass of its readers suspending disbelief.
The fact that he keeps backing up his sentiments with stellar servings of slickness have now made him undeniable in terms of his aspirations for the world's biggest mixed martial arts stage.
Then LCD Soundsystem played a set moist with mud and emotion, the slickness of the sprawlng band at odds with Murphy's pained off-kilter peans for a life slipping through his fingers.
Their delectable relationship takes them and the movie to places you might not imagine, while advancing an argument about gender, desire, erotica and pornography that is more complex than the movie's slickness suggests.
Narcos Setting aside the "Goodfellas" narration, the earliest episodes of "Narcos" were distinguished by a meat-and-potatoes approach to the crime genre that rebuffed the slickness that usually comes with the territory.
Those voices, sweet and pained… the extra vibrato wobbles at the beginning… the sheer naivety of it all—this lo-fi Indian interpretation got me good, more than the original song's slickness ever did.
Houston&aposs Brent Strom and the Dodgers&apos Rick Honeycutt, the World Series pitching coaches, both were quoted by Sports Illustrated on Sunday as saying the slickness of the ball made throwing sliders difficult.
But not what we expected: When you hear that the toilets represent the slickness of the iPhones, you expect a proprietary design, not the kind of outsourced design that, say, Samsung could effectively employ.
Individuals, maybe with a few assistants, post on their own accounts, which are seen as more intimate and authentic precisely because they lack the size and corporate slickness of a Condé-style media empire.
Last week, Harry Styles, the member of One Direction with the most discernible personality, released his self-titled solo debut album, a motley collection of 1960s and 1970s-influenced rock delivered with modern pop slickness.
Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said he was also concerned by the slickness of the marketing around IQOS, and that the devices seem to be designed to specifically target young people.
For Vernon to have grown uncomfortable with his previous album's slickness is unsurprising, as beauty and purity are stifling, conservative ideals, and so is earnest expression once one parses its implications about authenticity and the internal self.
He insists on beauty and backs away from the art world's slickness by making and exhibiting work that appears not quite finished, work that incorporates materials — cardboard, colored pencils, blood — which relay a similar message of undoing.
There are no gargantuan nipples or smoking mouths here; rather, these pieces have an undone feel that's at odds with the slickness of his later and better-known works — albeit with familiar flashes of vivid, ad-world color.
Largely built around the aesthetics of lowrider culture, coupled with the slickness of modern pop, her long line of self-directed videos are colourful and hyper-feminine, with syrupy-sweet vocals that wrap around the production like honey.
"This kind of app—in all of its slickness and all its 'what could possibly be wrong with it?' mentality—is making us forget what we really know about what makes older people feel sustained," she says: caring, interpersonal relationships.
But when broken down to moment-to-moment play, slickness and style, to what football really feels like, PES edged it then—and arguably has since, even going into 2018 editions of the annual franchises, looking across the various previews.
As ever, Sälen's drum machine and breathy vocals lend the song a certain detached slickness, until you tune into the lyrics and realise Ellie is basically mugging someone off because they're not worth her time, in her typically understated way.
The gathering maintains the aesthetics of liberation but runs with an operational slickness that is both impressive and unnerving: While waiting in line for Indian food, I saw a small surveillance camera in the folds of a dangling tetragonal lantern.
The Fire TV has been around for a while now, in one form or another, and while the interface doesn't quite match up to the slickness of tvOS or Android TV in our eyes, it does the job as well as it needs to.
Ray struts across the stage in north London venue the Jazz Cafe, dressed in a knit crop top and denim with heart-shaped patches sewn onto the jeans, swinging her box braids with all the slickness her bumping set of uncensored R&B merits.
Splitting the difference between commercial slickness and graphic-novel solemnity, this Trek offers PG-13 violence, audience-pandering exposition dumps, cliffhanger endings, Game of Thrones–style pomp, and a touch of Lost's mystery-box plotting, but also poker-faced musings on quantum science, moral relativism, logic vs.
About 30 minutes in, you start to realize that he's the exact opposite of that and I wanted to try and employ that device where you sell people on what the slickness of Bad Boy is but you start to show people on a human level.
The collection of brass and wood lariat necklaces and cuffs, glossed in shades of shell pink, evergreen and Mediterranean blue, represent a ''reflection of nature's primeval beauty,'' says Van Gend, who was inspired by the architecture of the natural world: the sheer edge of a cliff, the slickness of wet rocks.
Paglen has long explored the ways in which technology helps keep liberty suppressed, and his presentation of the AI visuals seems to want to warn us of our impending doom, but the elegance and slickness of his aesthetics and the tastefully tony gallery hang (no text on the walls, please!) subsume any lingering didacticism.
Still on their own label and still on their own terms, the band offers fat production worthy of that one good Foo Fighters song, session-worthy playing and singing (still without any suspicious slickness), and sharp songwriting that rages equally against "the nightmare of history," murderous Kissinger realpolitik, and singer Tina Halladay's late father.
On Gmail for mobile, you get some but not all of the slickness of Inbox: You can swipe away conversations to archive them, but this action can only be customized in the Android app; and whether you're on Android or iOS, snoozing emails takes three taps rather than a single swipe as it does in Inbox.
Just as at Cavalli, the British designer Paul Surridge, making his women's wear debut after a career spent in men's wear, picked up a lot of the cues of the brand — animal prints, energy, a certain luxurious slickness (see: caramel crocodile jeans) — but missed its just-this-side-of-kitsch rock 'n' roll sense of fun.
This feels like Final Fantasy VII filtered, not just through modern sensibilities, but through the modern aesthetics of Final Fantasy itself, a game series that relied upon a sense of contemporary slickness to build a new identity for itself as its place in the vanguard of Japanese role-playing games fell away in the past two console generations.
Freewheeling through references in his voracious desire to render his subjects truly visible, he retools Degas's existential mixture of boredom and desire in "La Coiffure" (circa 1896) so that a bored homey can get his braids freshened ("Gettin it Done," 2016), and borrows some of Barkley  L. Hendricks's graphic flair and advertorial slickness for his portrait of the ice-cool drummer/rapper—and his fellow Oxnard native—Anderson .
And then all at once she felt it, a slippage, a slickness, and even though it wasn't taking place within her own body, she could see the slow and uncontrollable dilation downward and outward, into a vast sun-bright plain full of golden grasses swaying as though brushed by a great hand, and a horizon that didn't stop in the vagueness that came at the end of sight, but pressed on into the palest and most fragmented of blues.
Tones and matte surfaces effectively differentiate his portraits from the easy slickness of fashion photography.
The album received fairly positive reviews from critics, with AllMusic awarding it 3.5 stars, saying "There's a slickness suitable to Chenoweth's flawless voice. Though its slickness is suited to the material, As I Am can also seem to flutter inside its own perfect globe, untouched by the elements and radiant as Chenoweth's golden hair." The album received an extremely positive review from Christian website Crosswalk.com. Mixed reviews from The Ledger and The Buffalo News both praised the "Taylor, the Latte Boy" as a standout track.
The Slickness is the first solo studio album by Prince Po, one half of American hip hop duo Organized Konfusion. It was released on Lex Records in 2004. It peaked at number 53 on the CMJ Top 200 chart.
Was decided to instead maintain the laid-back blues sound Raitt had developed earlier in her career. According to Raitt: "There's less production, less slickness. Basically, it's a return to my roots." Before Raitt signed with Capitol Records, she and Was had recorded some early demos at Was's home studio.
Prince Po has formed Organized Konfusion with Pharaohe Monch. In the 1990s, the duo released three studio albums: Organized Konfusion (1991), Stress: The Extinction Agenda (1994), and The Equinox (1997). In 2004, he released his debut solo studio album, The Slickness, on Lex Records. The follow-up solo studio album, Prettyblack, was released in 2006.
OK partner Prince Po joined Pharoahe for an appearance on the track "God Send". Other album guests included Canibus, M.O.P., Busta Rhymes, Apani B, Common, Talib Kweli, Redman, Method Man, Lady Luck and Shabaam Sahdeeq. Prince Po released his solo debut The Slickness in 2004 on Lex Records. The album almost completely missed the radar, but received fair reviews.
He was renowned for the slickness of his stumpings of batsmen. When Tom Hearne was stumped off a leg-shooter he exclaimed: "I don't call that stumping; I call it shovelling of 'em in!" He is believed to have been the first keeper to dispense with a long-stop, during a North v. South match in the mid or late 1870s.
As a gangster language, Tsotsitaal originally was a male-only language. The same applies to Iscamtho. A female speaker would then be identified as either a gangster's girlfriend or a prostitute. For male speakers however, the language quickly acquired a meaning of city-slickness and street-wisdom, and mastering it was the proof that one knew the urban environment well enough to cope and not be threatened.
Olawale O. "Ola" Afolabi (born 15 March 1980) is a British professional boxer. He is a two-time former WBO interim cruiserweight champion, as well as a two- time former IBO cruiserweight champion. Nicknamed "Kryptonite", Afolabi was known in the ring for his slickness, counterpunching skills and durability. Born to Nigerian parents, Afolabi resides in California, where he also trained for the majority of his career.
Although he admitted that there are moments of accuracy and truth in the film, he found these "excruciating", and discerned a "pictorial slickness" in the production's use of the CinemaScope process and its filming in the widescreen format, a slickness he declared was at odds with the realism of Ray's directing. Crowther was not impressed by James Dean's acting, and cited the various mannerisms he believed Dean copied from Marlon Brando, asserting that "Never have we seen a performer so clearly follow another's style" and calling Dean's interpretation of the Jim Stark role a "clumsy display". Reviewer Jack Moffitt of The Hollywood Reporter, who correctly thought the film would be a money maker, wrote a less critical, more laudatory review. He found the acting of James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo to be "extraordinarily good", and the direction by Nicholas Ray to be "outstanding".
Waterfront Records With the release of Before We Start, the band gained some international presence. DIE SHELLSUIT, DIE! Magazine, UK noted "The “sound” to The Open Season is a big honking major label style slickness.....“Blinded By Tradition” could break the UK Top 40 if it had the right backing. It's that certain amount of mass appeal mixed with an underground edge to it that could make it a winner".
M. Brenson, "Going Beyond Slickness: Sculptors Get Back to Basics." The New York Times, March 3, 1989 It featured work by women who used the human figure to shape feelings of fear, loss, and pain and was inspired by Unger's own struggle with cancer. In this show, she tried to focus on a more naked and physical reality and the search for experience that is shared and elemental.
Variety was critical of the script and pacing, stating that it "suffers from punching too hard, too directly and too repetitiously. The story elements are developed without plausibility, serving only as an obvious peg for several long sermons which are used as a substitute for dramatic situations. General production values also suffer paradoxically from a slickness which lessens the impression of sincerity". Prejudice was later said to be the "most popular" film released by the PFC.
The pilot was shot on October 17, 1974, and starred Willie Nelson. (B.W. Stevenson was actually taped the night before, but the recording was deemed unusable.) The deliberate lack of production slickness plus attention to audio detail pleased even the notoriously TV-shy Nelson. Lead Marketer Ken Waggoner, and ACL creator Bill Arhos pitched the pilot to PBS as part of its 1975 pledge drive. The show's success as a fundraiser was enough for Arhos to get ACL green-lighted as a series.
Magazine described the single as an "electro-tinged tune" and an "addictive pop anthem". Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian mentioned that the song was "high-quality pop" and "a delicious moment" on Chasing Lights. Jon O'Brein of Allmusic said that "Up" was a "robotic disco-pop song" with "infectious quality". Johnny Dee from Virgin Media said that "Up" along with "If This Is Love" were the only "truly inspired pop moments" on Chasing Lights and that it "hints at Girls Aloud-style twisted pop slickness".
Upon release, Billboard included the album as one of their "Recommended LPs" in June 1983. They wrote: "Farrow doesn't pose any chart threat, but his tough urban blues reflect much of the new music heard on the street though lacking the cute slickness of commercial contenders. Synthesizer and saxophone join forces to drive Farrow's hypnotic excursions, combining the drone and the danceable on "Don't Ask Why," "Heartbreaking Affair" and "Touched."" Cash Box listed the album as one of their "feature picks" during August 1986.
Thereafter, Towa sent Kier and Dmitry a bedroom DJ tape he had made and they realised he, like them, also enjoyed a fusion of funk and techno. Towa and Dmitry began jointly programming the band's computer. Although Towa did not play any instruments or play them any songs he had written, he was an avid record collector and added a slickness to their process by adding in samples. They invited him to join the group in 1988 and together the three produced their first album.
Author Lisa A. Lewis said that this event emphasized the effect Madonna had on different kind of audiences due to the popularity and response to the contest. MTV selected ten finalists based mainly on a standard of popularity rather than slickness of production or concept creativity. The concepts used in the videos were wide- ranging and included a number of different ideas to interpret the lyrical meaning of the song. The final three entries selected, portrayed a fifties- style production referring to the thematic content of the song.
The exhibition stressed the need to make spontaneous and personal recordings of observed entities and human behavior' as opposed to the slickness of commercial work. Since 1960-65 Potts has owned and operated his own studio in Sydney and has continued to live in Sydney working on his own photograph, however, Potts has been inactive in the professional industry of photography. Potts became well known in London for photographing cat shows and Israel. Some of Potts' most famous work were of Judges of Cat Shows and in Cyprus.
Vig's first high-profile production work was in 1991, when he produced albums by two bands, The Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Nirvana's Nevermind. Vig incorporated overdubs and vocal double tracking, whereas Nirvana's previous album, Bleach (produced by Jack Endino) had a more "lo-fi" sound. Kurt Cobain originally refused to double-track his vocals and guitars but Vig reportedly got him to comply by saying "John Lennon double-tracked". Cobain would later criticize Vig for the album's slickness, although this might be due to Andy Wallace's mixing of the album.
Sea glass begins as normal shards of broken glass that are then persistently tumbled and ground until the sharp edges are smoothed and rounded. In this process, the glass loses its slick surface but gains a frosted appearance over many years. Naturally produced sea glass ("genuine sea glass") originates as pieces of glass from broken bottles, broken tableware, or even shipwrecks, which are rolled and tumbled in the ocean for years until all of their edges are rounded off, and the slickness of the glass has been worn to a frosted appearance.
BCC, "Fortitude Valley Conservation Study", pp. 10–11'Fortitude Valley Centenary Supplement', The Courier Mail, 24 March 1949. In the early 1950s the Valley underwent a facelift, with investment of more than £1 million in expanding and modernising buildings in order to compete with "uptown" Queen Street, bringing a "modern slickness" to the area. Old shopfronts were replaced with stainless steel and plate glass, dozens of shops were renovated inside and out, and larger stores were constructed, with new features such as escalators proving very popular with customers.
Although "Change the World" is best known by Eric Clapton's unplugged acoustic version, an electric performance of the song was featured on Babyface's 1997 live album, MTV Unplugged NYC 1997, released on November 25 the same year, with Clapton on co-lead vocals and electric guitar. Babyface also served as the song's producer for the electric guitar take. This interpretation of the hit song has a seven minute and 33 second duration. AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine said the duo "deliver[s the tune] with a smooth authority that borders on slickness".
Clark begins work as a reporter at the Daily Star newspaper and soon makes his debut as the world's first superhero, Superman. The earliest Superman stories were written by Siegel, and drawn by Shuster in a style heavily influenced by comic strip artist Roy Crane. According to Jules Feiffer, "Shuster represented the best of old-style comic book drawing. His work was direct, unprettied - crude and vigorous; as easy to read as a diagram.... Slickness, thank God, was beyond his means" (Feiffer,The Great Comic Book Heroes, 1965).
Like their previous two albums done with Thomas, X features a slickness and polish in its production, a quality that would be removed during production of their next album (Welcome to Wherever You Are) and subsequent albums. It would also be the group's last studio album produced by Thomas. Their next collaboration would take place four years later on the recording of both "The Strangest Party (These Are the Times)" and "Deliver Me", which were two new songs that appeared on the band's Greatest Hits compilation released in 1994.
Writing in 1936, George Orwell disagreed with the opinion of an Observer critic who felt that Gaudy Night had put Miss Sayers "definitely among the great writers". Orwell concluded, to the contrary, that "her slickness in writing has blinded many readers to the fact that her stories, considered as detective stories, are very bad ones. They lack the minimum of probability that even a detective story ought to have, and the crime is always committed in a way that is incredibly tortuous and quite uninteresting". The review was originally published in The New English Weekly, 23 January 1936.
Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four and wrote, "It has its heart in the right place, I suppose, but its key situations are so unbelievable and its dialog so awkward that nothing helps." Lawrence Van Gelder of The New York Times wrote, "'A Piece of the Action' is firmly on the side of the angels. It is possible to criticize its lack of originality and its transparent slickness; but these are flaws that must be balanced against its evident craftsmanship, its entertainment and its social conscience."Van Gelder, Lawrence (October 8, 1977).
The Lofficiers thought that the 1966 version "gained in slickness" but became less atmospheric, awarding it two out of five. Biographer Benoît Peeters thought The Black Island to be "a pure detective story", describing it as "Remarkably well constructed" and highlighting that it contrasted the modern world of counterfeiters, airplanes, and television, with the mysteries of superstition and the historic castle. He described it as "an adventure full of twists and turns", with the characters Thompson and Thomson being "on top form". He nevertheless considered the 1966 version to be "shorter on charm" than the earlier versions.
Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express rated the film 3 stars, saying: "This is a fill it-shut it-forget it film, whose big budget slickness never overpowers it, and which holds you while it lasts." Film journalist Sreedhar Pillai, in an interview with IBN Live said, "I think it [Vishwaroopam] is Kamal's best film as a director." and called it "a well made commercial entertainer". In contrast, Baradwaj Rangan of The Hindu said, "The surprise about Vishwaroopam is how straightforward it is, given Kamal Haasan’s track record. (It’s basically a big, dumb action movie, but with smarts.)" Shailesh K Nadar of CinemaSpice.
Today, the distinction between Iscamtho and urban Zulu or urban Sotho in Soweto tends to be thinner as hundreds of thousands of youths actually speak Iscamtho as a first language. In addition, a post-apartheid evolution has been the adoption of Iscamtho and other tsotsitaals by many female speakers. Especially, many girls in deep Soweto now have Iscamtho as (one of) their native language(s). Iscamtho as a symbol of youth, city-slickness and the multilingualism of the South African democracy (each language is represented in Iscamtho) has become a language proper for both male and female speakers despite some remaining conservative behaviours and considerations towards female speakers.
The Age of Miracles received mostly positive reviews from critics. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times hailed the book as a "clever mash-up of disaster epic with sensitive young-adult, coming-of-age story" despite noting its "made-for-Hollywood slickness" and some wayward plot developments. In Entertainment Weekly Melissa Maerz agreed with Kakutani on the book's strengths, giving it an "A-" and praising it as "lovely, because of its simple writing and quiet moments." NPR's Maureen Corrigan also enjoyed the book, writing: "The Age of Miracles is a pensive page-turner that meditates on loss and the fragility of both our planetary and personal ecosystems.".
As implied by the name, diamond-like carbon (DLC), the value of such coatings accrues from their ability to provide some of the properties of diamond to surfaces of almost any material. The primary desirable qualities are hardness, wear resistance, and slickness (DLC film friction coefficient against polished steel ranges from 0.05 to 0.20 ). DLC properties highly depends on plasma treatment deposition parameters, like effect of bias voltage, DLC coating thickness,Effect of Diamond like Carbon Coating Thickness on Stainless Steel Substrate by Abdul Wasy Zia et al, interlayer thickness, etc. Moreover, the heat treatment also change the coating properties such as hardness, toughness and wear rate.
Commonweal called it as “[a] superior novel, intricately worked out at several levels of human and spiritual quest...” The New York Times described it as “[a] reading experience of real emotional intensity.”The Devil's Advocate, Goodreads Some reviewers compared him favorably with Graham Greene. "Never a subtle writer, West makes his approach to timeless truths (and truisms) at a strictly popular level, includes some sex and much emotion, but has his elements of enigma and drama well in hand." (Kirkus Reviews)The Devil's Advocate, Kirkus Reviews > In spite of a style which is more frequently deft than distinguished, The > Devil's Advocate is a work of merit...As a novel it is a curious blend of > slickness and profundity.
The film was originally released in October 1987 at the Turin International Film Festival of Young Cinema in Italy, where it won a Special Jury Prize in the International Feature Film Competition for Hou Hsiao-hsien. When it screened in January 1988 at the AFI Fest, The Washington Post wrote, "Hou Hsiao-hsien has the slickness that gives Daughter of the Nile the most East-West crossover appeal. In September 1988 it screened at both the Toronto Festival of Festivals and the New York Film Festival. After the NYFF screening, Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote the film "...is not about alienation as much as it is an example of it.
The film received lukewarm reviews. Leigh Paatsch, writing in the Melbourne Herald-Sun, felt that the film's strongest point was the banter between the characters, which was funny and engaging, but Paatsch said that Lawson's central performance was marred at times by "an air of self-satisfied smarm" and the character's path to enlightenment was unfocused and unconvincing. He concluded, "And I sense that others who similarly fell hard for the soulful sincerity of The Castle and The Dish will feel a little quizzical about the comparative slickness of Any Questions for Ben? ". Tom Ryan in the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that the film was often very funny and singled out Rachael Taylor's performance for praise - "the camera loves her".
Al-Ma'unah is characterised as a sect by the Malaysian authorities and not as a rebel or terrorist group like Jemaah Islamiah. But for all the slickness of the two arms heists, the group's previous actions amounted to taking a few pot-shots at a Hindu temple at Batu Caves, breweries on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, and a power company's electric tower. The Al-Ma'unah case is regarded as an isolated episode in Malaysia. The leader of the group, Mohamed Amin, was a former army private but also arrested among the 26 in the Sauk siege included a Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) major, an analyst, an insurance agent, a Malaysia France Institute lecturer and an executive with Proton.
" On Rotten Tomatoes the film a has a 77% "Certified Fresh" approval rating based on 173 reviews, with an average rating of 6.71/10. The site's consensus reads: "A small movie elevated by superb performances." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 69 out of 100 based on 36 reviews, indicating "generally positive reviews". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said the film "has a strange way of being broad and twisted at the same time, so that while we surf the surface of the story, unexpected developments are stirring beneath ... This is a movie without gimmicks, hooks or flashy slickness ... The acting is on the money, the writing has substance, the direction knows when to evoke film noir and when ... to get fancy.
Danger Mouse and MF DOOM had previously collaborated on "Social Distortion" from Prince Po's The Slickness, Danger Mouse's remix of Zero 7's "Somersault", and the track "November Has Come" from Gorillaz' second studio album, Demon Days. MF DOOM has stated that he hopes there would be a second DANGERDOOM album in which he would "rap from the perspective of the cartoons and in their voices, rather than simply create stories around them". Danger Mouse was also slated to reunite with MF DOOM in 2008,Danger Mouse + Beck = DangerBeck though this did not occur and nothing has been announced since. Much of DANGERDOOM's music has been filled with material from and endorsed by Adult Swim, a block of animated television shows airing on cable's Cartoon Network.
Kenneth Partridge, who wrote for both Billboard and The A.V. Club, stated that it has "a neo-psychedelic '60s vibe that wouldn't have sounded out of place on a Bangles record". He went on to discuss the lyrics as "a jaded Gwen gives some tough love to a girl dreaming of a white wedding" in the lines "You're just like my Ken and Barbie doll / Your name will never change". Mike Boehm, writing for the Los Angeles Times, stated that the "canny arrangement of Stefani's multitracked voice provide a poppy lift" while Dumont, Kanal, and Young "keep slickness at bay". An accompanying music video for "Hey You!" was never created, but a video using footage from Live in the Tragic Kingdom (1997) was released alongside the CD single.
In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek stated, "It is fully a jazz album, and a completely funky soul-jazz disc as well ... Smith plays both piano and electric keyboards and keeps his compositions on the jazzy side -- breezy, open, and full of groove playing that occasionally falls over to the funk side of the fence ... Summery and loose in feel, airy and free with its in-the-cut beats and stellar piano fills, Expansions prefigures a number of the "smooth jazz" greats here, without the studio slickness and turgid lack of imagination. ... The music on Expansions is timeless soul-jazz, perfect in every era. Of all the fusion records of this type released in the mid-'70s, Expansions provided smoother jazzers and electronica's sampling wizards with more material that Smith could ever have anticipated".
In Mi Novia, Luna employed an "ingratiating technique" that is predisposed to stifle the personality of the painter. The woman in Mi Novia is designed to appear similar to the "other ladies of distinction" portrayed by the other so-called Salon painters. It is designed to calculatingly seduce and easily capture the attention of the viewers using "glamorous clichés" such as the "girlish tilt of the head", the "dewy eyes", the "auburn curls" on the forehead, the lacy and ornamental "clots" of pigment of the garment, the slickness of the pictorial surface, the banal and sweet rosiness of the facial expression, and the presence of a "winy purple" background. The painting is full of "obvious" gimmickry that evokes an emotional response from the spectators. The natural, cute, and pretty face of the woman in the painted picture was set to make the onlookers’ imagination float or wander "in reverie".
White at the 2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony During 1985, White released a self titled solo album on Columbia. Robin Denselow of The Guardian called the album a "lush collection of self produced dance tracks, and the occasional ballad, with synths and drum programming immaculately in place, and the vocals as classy as ever". J.D. Considine of Musician also said the "Given his status as Earth, Wind & Fire's Shining Star, it comes as no surprise that White's first solo project sounds a lot like classic EW&F;: tight, focused and punchy. But while White remembers to sink a hook into every verse and chorus, the emphasis here is on subtlety and sophistication as he works his way from R&B; basics, from the studio mechanics of 'Switch on Your Radio' to the modified doo wop of 'Stand By Me', with a sense of craft that makes slickness irrelevant".
The production notes explain that the children felt more comfortable telling their stories directly to the camera than to an interviewer, but you still have an uneasy sense of being manipulated ... Having voiced these qualms, let me say that War/Dance, in spite of its slickness, is an honorable, sometimes inspiring exploration of the primal healing power of music and dance in an African tribal culture ... The film draws out the suspense as best it can until the inevitable African- style American Idol moment. If that finale is genuinely exhilarating, you are still uncomfortably aware that this ecstatic conclusion doesn't mean the end of the strife or the refugees' troubles. It is a blip of light on a dark canvas."The New York Times review Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "To make a memorable documentary ... that can't be forgotten once seen, you have to be more than gifted, you need an instinct for an unusual story and, frankly, you must have luck on your side.

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