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But Preston Max Allen's meandering show squanders a promising concept.

The messiness of "Altered Carbon" largely squanders its good supporting cast.

If Trump squanders this opportunity, the dangers facing America are very real.

It would not surprise me one iota if Trump squanders this opportunity.

The narrative structure of "See What I Have Done" squanders that tension.

"Working through this squanders the most precious resource, which is time," he said.

The script also squanders its main actor, David Harbour who plays the titular hero.

But Tarantino strangely squanders his cameo by mostly just using him for unnecessary exposition.

A common estimate is that flood-irrigation squanders 393% of the water it releases.

That would imply the US squanders about $3.5 billion on excessive lighting each year.

They are unaccepting of a governing status quo that squanders their national resources and corrupts politics.

As Trump squanders our alliances, he is also recklessly ramping up the American military presence globally.

Critics will argue that a universal child benefit squanders money on parents who don't need it.

Brian Presley's film squanders the dramatic ingredients of the early-20th-century sledding adventure it's based on.

The move squanders Washington's leverage on President Sisi's regime and undermines those fighting for freedom in Egypt.

Sending Americans as infantry among foreign populations squanders America's advantages in air power, intelligence-gathering and special forces.

And as it is with many entrepreneurial families, it is the third generation that squanders the family fortune.

Every night, Kirsten swears that she won't devote another minute to Lucy, and every day she squanders hours.

Season 2 also woefully squanders good ideas like having Hera's many-eyed servant Argus become the god of surveillance.

Trump is spending down his limited foreign policy credibility as a gambler squanders his last chips at the roulette wheel.

The other is about an arrogant liar and sex addict who squanders his chance at redemption after a nationwide humiliation.

"Swan Lake" is about a man who finds purpose and love and then squanders it, yet this rendition is passionless.

But Blais squanders what sympathy we might have, the way those noisy spinning extractors force the water out of swimsuits.

The adaptation squanders the talents of both Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey and the goodwill of fans by lumpily repackaging the plot.

The audit issue is symbolic of an entrenched culture of waste at the Pentagon that squanders billions of taxpayer dollars every year.

"Car parking squanders space that can be used for the public good—bike lanes, larger sidewalks, retail, cafes, more housing," Pontis said.

Yet I knew from experience that this sort of frightful perseverating about potential — but not inevitable — decision-making squanders spirit and time.

"It's a blunderbuss effort that promotes sprawl and squanders money that would be far better spent in low-income communities," Mr. Brown said.

Failing to take action leaves cities like Logan with limited options for clean power and squanders our nation's vast untapped small hydropower resources.

What ensues from there, though, is mostly a mess, one that largely squanders topnotch actors (Helen Mirren, Richard E. Grant) hidden under flamboyant costumes.

And to spend it instead on a rote list of people I think squanders a rare if not impossible opportunity that you'll never get again.

XXXTentacion "had reached the point in his life where he had realized this is his life and that's not something that he squanders," Bogenschutz argues.

We took a deep dive into Mr. McConnell's tactics in Wednesday's newsletter — the majority leader is a shrewd political operator who rarely squanders an advantage.

Also misbegotten: All That We Destroy, which squanders a truly nifty premise about a geneticist who creates human clones for her sociopathic son to slaughter.

For a maverick like Kyrgios, who regularly squanders points on botched 'tweeners and other trick shots, the threat of embarrassment is unlikely to be a deterrent.

Meanwhile, proponents of closer relations with the EU in her own party and the Labour opposition say the deal squanders the advantages of membership for little gain.

Juggling too many threads, the film delivers strong and twisty moments -- and a feminist hook -- but largely squanders its impressive array of talent, headed by Viola Davis.

The film's faults aren't glaring missteps so much as missed opportunities, and its biggest missed opportunity is that for large parts of the movie, it squanders Blanchett.

But dumbing down race to "noise" squanders a pivotal opportunity to say there's a lot more to race, especially in terms of Owens's impact at the Berlin Olympics.

LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - The parable of the prodigal son tells the story of a young wastrel who squanders his inheritance only to beg forgiveness from a beneficent father.

Any stage production is inherently in 3-D, no glasses required, but "Toruk" can't achieve the more magnificent effects of the film and squanders too much energy trying.

The colonel is a little lazy and suspiciously aristocratic, he squanders time over insignificant things, likes sweets a little too much and takes naps a little too often.

Not only does inhibiting a woman from treatment harm both fetus and mother, they say, it also squanders a rare opportunity to intervene constructively in a woman's addiction.

The National Academy of Medicine estimated in 2012 that the United States squanders more than a quarter of what it spends on health care — about $765 billion a year.

The foundation, called LIFt, purports to empower women as its staff squanders countless hours and resources brainstorming acronyms and catering to the whims of their celebrity boss, Leora Infinitas.

After an opening sequence set in Cuba that mostly squanders that locale, the gruff automaton Dom (Vin Diesel) encounters Cipher, who finds a way to coerce him into assisting her.

The story's general sloppiness squanders a promising supporting cast that includes Djimon Hounsou, "Game of Thrones'" Aidan Gillen and Law, who previously teamed with Ritchie on the Sherlock Holmes films.

NIGERIA'S previous attempt to reduce the vast sums it squanders on fuel subsidies did not go well: protesters poured onto the streets after the price of fuel doubled in 2012.

Critics say Egypt squanders much of the military aid it receives, splurging on expensive tanks and warplanes rather than on less glamorous, but more useful, counterinsurgency training for its army.

Mr. Trump squanders this hope at the peril of the United States' ability to shape institutions, even flawed ones, and uphold values that are the world's only bulwark against tyranny.

A talented rapper named Price, one of Mr. Rainey's creative collaborators and a drug user and alcoholic, squanders his promise and his friend's good will as he fights his habit.

Instead of chasing boys in high school and college, Julia Greenfield, the narrator of Emma Rathbone's wise and witty novel, "Losing It," squanders those years trying to become an Olympic swimmer.

I can't even praise the game's commitment to that dreary impersonal atmosphere or tone, because it even squanders the potential to make swarms of rotting carcasses and rats feel anything but rote.

Boccaccio might have had medieval audiences rolling in the aisles, but Mr. Baena squanders an R rating and a roster of household names while managing to raise little more than a smile.

The movie squanders its A-list cast with awkward, purple dialogue that would've made even Fitzgerald himself puke in his mouth a little bit, and hides their acting chops inside overstuffed, busy sets.

DEBORAH M. JOHNSON Chief Executive North Carolina Pork Council Raleigh, N.C. To the Editor: Animal agriculture squanders vast quantities of scarce resources, including water and fossil fuels, to produce meat, milk and eggs.

Whatever pleasures it gains from propulsive plotting (which shouldn't be written off) it squanders on long sections where the main character catalogs endless lists of pop culture references with which he is familiar.

It not only wears away and squanders the country's reputation, but it also allows China to see more clearly the face of the Trump administration, one that is rude, unreasonable, selfish and headstrong.

Her appointment squanders an opportunity to advance public education research, experimentation and standards, to objectively compare traditional public school, charter school and voucher models in search of better options for public school students.

Most recently, Depp's former managers filed a countersuit against the star — after he sued them for $25 million — alleging Depp squanders $2 million a month on things like wine, yachts, wait staffs, and art.

The United States squanders outstanding health care resources—excellent providers, clinics and hospitals, medical research and technology—on a broken system that makes it difficult for many people to get the care they need.

It traces a decades-long obsession with Greece: its language (both modern and ancient), literature, mythologies, people, places, food and monuments — all with an absorption that never falters and never squanders the reader's attention.

But much like the first two Terminator movies, particularly the second, Dark Fate ultimately squanders its radical potential to say something new about gender, creation, and power — letting down Sarah Connor in the process.

Hellboy then becomes nothing more than a tensionless goop that squanders its star, a story that might be better served as a montage in a future Hellboy sequel, should some unfortunate mind create another one of these.

Kaitlyn Booth, BleedingCool This is surely the most infantile of recent superhero yarns - a film that squanders the talents of an impressive ensemble cast and eschews any meaningful characterisation in favour of ever more overblown special effects.

Congressional Republicans are feeling the heat from donors, who could sit out what is likely to be a bloodbath election in 2018 if the GOP squanders the opportunity to provide a windfall for them and their businesses.

Instead of telling an immediate, straightforward story well, it tells a broader, more convoluted story poorly, and in the process squanders much of the charm of the original that made the gory demon-killing feel so vital.

Transforming a profoundly personal and painful decision into a springboard for slapsticklike setups and predictable dysfunction, the director, Joel David Moore (working from Andrew Eisen's screenplay), squanders the opportunity to explore our need to die with dignity.

In the process, director Steven Soderbergh mostly squanders a cast toplined by Meryl Streep, in a Netflix film that plays like a darkly satiric connection of vignettes that lost something -- mostly, a coherent narrative -- in the rinse cycle.

Taking a sweeping but personal view of contemporary Brazilian politics, filmmaker Petra Costa traces what happens when a country finally embraces democracy after years of military dictatorship — and then squanders its progress as it moves toward far-right authoritarianism.

In the process, the series largely squanders Haddish by shackling her with a classic girlfriend role, even if her casting coming off the theatrical hit "Girls Trip" -- coupled with Peele serving as co-creator -- certainly counts as fortuitous timing.

The end of the film squanders the strength of the rest of the film, extending both the black humor and the symbolism past the breaking point, and holding on like a shaggy-dog story that doesn't know when to quit.

The idea of confronting an unknown second self is full of rich, uncanny potential — there's a literary tradition going back at least to Edgar Allan Poe — but "Gemini Man" squanders it, along with what might have been two interesting performances.

Taking a sweeping but personal view of contemporary Brazilian politics, filmmaker Petra Costa shows what it looks like when a country finally embraces democracy after years of military dictatorship — and then squanders its progress as it moves toward far-right authoritarianism.

What ultimately pulls girls' scores down, though, is their tendency to be conscientious, to overanalyze and to recheck answers on tests, which squanders crucial seconds; they are also more apt to skip a question if they aren't sure, whereas boys take a stab.

In her review for The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis wrote, "Boccaccio might have had medieval audiences rolling in the aisles, but Mr. Baena squanders an R rating and a roster of household names while managing to raise little more than a smile."

Based on William Hogarth's 224th-century, eight-painting series about the son of a rich merchant who squanders all his money and ends up in Bedlam, the opera was composed by none other than Igor Stravinsky, with a libretto by poet W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

While he ably and enthusiastically breaks down the mechanics of black English throughout the book, McWhorter squanders many opportunities to forcefully challenge the racist norms and structures that encouraged a hated people to take what they could of the king's English and make their own tongue.

But months before they are set to receive the money, Leo, the eldest, squanders a majority of the sum after a car accident; the ensuing family drama of "first-world problems proves to be an enjoyable comedy of manners as Sweeney artfully skewers family dynamics," our reviewer, Patricia Park, wrote.

They include: Stop draining wetlands to grow biofuels; reduce demand for beef and strengthen regulations to prevent deforestation in critical areas like the Amazon; cut food waste, which now squanders one-third of consumable food; reduce excessive fertilizer use; and improve cropping systems to turn croplands from heavy greenhouse-gas emitters to carbon sinks.

Brat's efforts and echoed some of the same concerns: Every minute and penny the VA squanders on torturing puppies in outdated and wasteful experiments — and on trying to defend them — means less help that can be provided to veterans and wounded warriors who are suffering and dying because they can't receive basic care and services from the agency.

Unfortunately, Marías squanders most of his firepower by circling the mystery of Van Vechten's crime and shaking it down for meaning: how it ties, say, to Spanish national guilt, the sexual revolution after Franco's death when "almost no one slept in Madrid," the era before divorce was legalized and what it means to punish a friend.

"Our coalition members would be disappointed if Washington squanders this once-in-a-generation opportunity by abandoning real reform to instead enact a temporary rate cut or some other half-measure that fails to fix what is really broken in our tax code," said the American Made Coalition, a group of businesses that includes Boeing, General Electric and Pfizer.

While there's nothing wrong with using a connection to get a head start, she squanders the incredible opportunity: when she finally gets in the room, she's been too busy searching for her lucky outfit to actually come up with fresh pitches, and has nothing to offer the editors, who took time out of their clearly insane schedules to sit with her.

It's not hard to find architects, clients, builders, public officials and others familiar with the city's capital construction program ready to unleash symphonic tirades about New York's crazy procurement rules, about the petty, internecine squabbles among city agencies, about the city-required shotgun marriages between architects and contractors, the costly and onerous liability regulations, notoriously late payments and a vast, sclerotic bureaucracy that squanders millions of tax dollars by causing needless, yearslong delays in the name of value engineering, then scapegoats architects.

Eventually Caroline abandons de Granville and takes up with an impoverished young man, who squanders her property.

In 2018, Amar a muerte was launched. In it, Angelique works alongside Michel Brown and Alexis Ayala and plays "Lucía", a character who has his side dark and squanders sensuality.

Rajeev Masand of IBNLive.com says that "Table No. 21 squanders its potential. The film's ending is bold, but little else is consistent or gripping". Table No.21 Review – IBNLive.com. Ibnlive.in.

A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love.

Review: Teflon Don. Slant magazine. Retrieved on July 24, 2010. OC Weekly writer Nate Jackson gave the album a C+ rating and stated "Ross squanders opportunities to expand the content of his verses beyond the digits of his bankroll".

Maxwell-Conover debuted as a film actress as "Mrs. Layton du Roc" in Just Sylvia (1918). She supported Elaine Hammerstein in The Daughter Pays (1920). Hammerstein played a woman who strives to maintain her family's finances despite having a mother who squanders money.

"Quarrington was true renaissance man". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, January 22, 2010. Quarrington acknowledged that the novel was his most explicitly semi-autobiographical work. "It's about a writer who squanders his talents in television, drinks too much, screws around and ruins his marriage," Quarrington said.

Matrimony is not only a good thing, but also a good financial deal: Lawyer Dick Tyler (Conrad Nagel) makes his merger bid for artist Doris (Marguerite De La Motte) as his partner Jim Knight (Lewis Stone) squanders the firm's asset on gold-digger Evelyn (Paulette Duval).

John Fischer, engraved by Allen Robert Branston "The Spectre-Barber" is set in sixteenth century Bremen. A wealthy merchant named Melchior dies suddenly and his son Francis inherits his father's wealth. Francis foolishly squanders his inheritance. Francis spies a neighbour's daughter, a spinner named Meta, and falls in love with her.

The track also received a fairly neutral review from Aidan Williamson in his review of In Silico for Strangeglue, who described the track as "quite odd... but cleverly constructed" and noted that it "squanders the interesting intro with an unimposing mid section".Williamson, Aidan. Pendulum: In Silico. Strangeglue. Retrieved 23 July 2008.

Brownlow agrees not to send him to prison, on the condition that he make financial restitution and reveal all to Oliver and Rose Fleming. At a family meeting arranged by Brownlow, Monks does so. He emigrates to America, but soon squanders his money, becomes involved in crime again and is imprisoned. He dies in prison.

Peg smoked cigarettes in early episodes but then quit. Her favorite TV shows are Oprah and Donahue, but she also enjoys watching the Shop at Home Network. Peg continually squanders what little money Al makes on extravagant spending sprees: everything from expensive clothes to useless trinkets, even stealing from her children to get extra cash.

Richard von Busack was of similar opinion regarding Lee's acting, noting that "Almost useless as either erotica or therapy, Bliss squanders Lee. As good as she is as a vengeful girl, she's still awfully soppy as a weeper."Richard von Busack, "Hit or 'Bliss'", Metroactive.com, 26 June 1997. URL accessed on 3 May 2015.

Ninì and Mimi are two friends, itinerant players, who can not make a penny. It is performed at night, in various places, arousing only the laughter of the public, until Mimi is delivered the conspicuous legacy of his uncle. Ninì immediately takes the opportunity to re- launch the duo in nightclubs, but squanders all the money in goliardic parties.

We know that we can take it. Just because we have been through it > and suffered from it, we know how terrible war is. It wastes materials, but > worse than that, it squanders human idealism, energy, wealth and life. Still > worse, those of us who are trying to build a socialist society are diverted > and preoccupied by war.

Vasu and Chacko then get Sreekandan killed. The in-fighting, the criminal cases and the business pressures begin to take a toll on Vasu. Chacko in the meantime starts to like the rich life and squanders his wealth. Vasu always finds solace in Kunjappan, another Abkari contractor who wants the liquor business to be conducted in an ethical manner.

Even a wise man perishes by teaching a fool, contact with evil woman and by resorting to the company of the wicked. 45\. Save wealth for difficult times; how can the wealthy have difficulties? If one squanders wealth, one will eventually lose all the accumulated wealth. 46\. One's physical body, wealth and other resources are transitory.

Lakshmi doesn't help with her overacting. Parthiban is subdued and barring a few occasional wordplays, doesn't display much of the talkative persona he usually adopts in movies. The twist in the middle is obvious from early on but does perk up interest in the proceedings. Unfortunately Vasu squanders this with lame characterizations and obvious attempts at setting the stage for later proceedings.

In a negative review, Dread Central wrote, "Despite a promising beginning with potentially interesting characters and a creepy, intimidating concept (a sinister road train), Road Kill squanders its potential by hurling itself off the rails, descending into rank absurdity." The Australian was more positive, comparing it to an early Steven Spielberg film, Duel, and noting the promise of the filmmakers.

John Fischer, engraved by Allen Robert Branston "The Spectre-Barber" is set in sixteenth century Bremen. A wealthy merchant named Melchior dies suddenly and his son Franz (called François in Eyriès' translation, and Francis in Utterson's) inherits his father's wealth. Franz foolishly squanders his inheritance. Franz spies a neighbour's daughter, a spinner named Meta, and falls in love with her.

The film received generally negative reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 13% score, based on 144 critics, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The site's consensus states: "A bland comedy that squanders a talented cast." On Metacritic, the film holds a 33 out of 100 rating, based on 36 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Raja, though he is righteous, honest, tough, a daredevil and educated, was an unemployed young man. With no work on hand, he squanders his time with his four friends. This naturally upsets his family members: his dadi and elder brothers Amar and Ravi, who care for and worry about him. Constantly troubled by a lack of money, the family has many problems.

A young man squanders his inheritance until he has nothing left but a few shillings, a pair of slippers, and an old dressing-gown. A friend sends him a trunk with directions to pack up and be off. Having nothing to pack, he gets into the trunk himself. The trunk is enchanted and carries him to the land of the Turks.

Paramu and Johnny frame Unnithan for a murder of a Govt. Official committed by the latter. They manage to do so with corrupt policeman's help, steal businessman Unnithan's black money, trap Malayil Thomas, another businessman, and become successful. Paramu squanders the money and chooses to work as a henchman for an Anglo-Indian businessman named McPherson and Johnny builds himself up as a businessman with the money.

Monks flees to the United States, where he quickly squanders the money and dies in prison. Rose Maylie is revealed to be Agnes Fleming's younger sister, who was adopted by the Maylies after her parents died. Therefore, Rose is Oliver's aunt and is able to marry Harry Maylie. Oliver collects his inheritance and is adopted by Brownlow, for the conventional happy ending to the novel.

Meanwhile, Old Jolyon realising that June will soon be lost to him as a companion wishes to renew his relationship with Young Jolyon. He pays his son and Hélène a visit. Meanwhile, the Darties seem to be living a luxurious and happy life. (They now have another child, a son, Val.) Unbeknown to Winifred, Dartie frequently squanders her money on gambling and failed business ventures.

Pretending to be Amy's cousin, she asks Michael about the things that Amy did to him. Amy, according to him, was abusive, vindictive, and unfaithful. She is escorted out of Michael's office by his assistant, Jamie, who takes pity on the shabby-looking Mary and invites her to live with him. Jamie is extremely wealthy, and he squanders his wealth largely on drugs and alcohol.

For such a philosophy, there could be no better historical background than the Germany of 1848 and after, and Problematische Naturen with its sequel Durch Nacht zum Licht (1862), — although it squanders material for half a dozen novels, idealizes Teutonic morbidity, and forsakes art for tendency, — tells with remarkable vividness the story of the men and women who lived and thought and fought for freedom in Germany's day of hope.

Johnson Family Vacation was heavily panned by critics. It received a 6% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 90 reviews, with an average rating of 3.28/10. The critical consensus says, "The poorly crafted Johnson Family Vacation squanders its talented cast in a bland family road comedy that draws unfavorable comparisons to Chevy Chase's Vacation movies." The film has a 29/100 rating on Metacritic based on 24 reviews.

Later, Terry buys the local grocery store, 'The First Til Last', and runs it with Irene. However, Terry often squanders the profits on mundane ventures and gambling and Irene soon tires of Terry's incapability to understand her. Around this time, Troy Harvey (Jamie Jarvis), a college friend of Tony's, lodges at the Raymonds'. Troy has a penchant for older women and it isn't long before he and Irene begin an affair.

She said, "Modern Family strives to be realistic and, well "modern," and that fight is something that could very realistically happen. It was an honest moment between Jay and Mitchell confronting something that was uncomfortable for them". However, Jordan Adler of We Got This Covered was less enthusiastic about the episode. He stated, "Average would be a perfect word to describe 'Message Received', an episode that squanders its interesting plots with contrived story beats".

Neelakandan is the spoiled heir to the rich and well-known Mangalassery family. He squanders away his father's largess, wealth and good name who served as a judge, but is loved by the people who know him well, mainly Warrier, his elderly right-hand man . He has been the arch-rival of Shekaran Nambiar of the Mundakkal family since childhood. During a minor ruckus, one of Neelakandan's aides accidentally kills Shekaran's uncle.

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 33% based on 43 reviews, and an average rating of 5.09/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "3 Generations squanders a worthy premise on a thinly written story that focuses on dramatic signposts at the expense of genuine character development." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 47 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 15% based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 3.66/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Dumb, dated, desperate, and downright disappointing, Desperados squanders Nasim Pedrad's talents on gross-out gags that all too rarely land." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 43 out of 100, based on eight reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

In the meantime, Prakash with his wife reaches Shanti's father's house and in an altercation, Prakash pushes Shanti's father and since he was frail, he subsequently dies. Shanti's elder sister also falls ill and Shanti gives her brother-in-law her gold bangles to get medicine but Prakash squanders the money on liquor. Ramesh has no income and Chanchal suggests to Shanti that she pick up a job. Shanti gets employed in a theatre.

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 41% based on 118 reviews, with an average rating of 4.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Despite a promising turn by newcomer Yara Shahidi, Imagine That is another pedestrian family comedy that squanders Eddie Murphy's comedic talents." At Metacritic, the film received a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Carleton alienated the sympathies of many Catholic Irishmen by his accusations of gang violence, sectarian violence, and alcoholism among the Irish tenant class. He was in his own words the "historian of their habits and manners, their feelings, their prejudices, their superstitions and their crimes" (Preface to Tales of Ireland). Some of his later stories, The Squanders of Castle Squander (1852) for instance, are spoiled by the mass of political matter in them.

After the birth of her children, a rural mother becomes so devoted to them that she completely neglects her ill-tempered husband. When her baby becomes ill, she even tries to commit suicide, fortunately the baby recovers. Her husband, who works for a wealthy man, is blamed and fired after the man's son squanders twenty thousand dollars. He sulkily returns home, beats up his naughty son, and accidentally drinks himself to death with the wrong type of alcohol.

Tragedy strikes, however, when Marty suffers a miscarriage after being pushed down a flight of stairs by a mystery assailant, who is later revealed to be Eli Clarke. Shortly after, John leaves Marty for Natalie. Several months later, Cole is led to believe that Eli Clarke has murdered Starr and their daughter Hope, which results in Cole shooting Eli, killing him. Marty tries to take the blame, but Natalie soon squanders that plan and Cole is sent to prison.

Born with the plain name Gencho Gunchev and with the soul of an adventurer, he cannot settle with the daily grind of a clerk. Using his charm, Gunchev begins relationships with rich women and after that disappears with their money. Pretending to be the famous freelance architect Yastrebovski, he wrings a huge amount of money out of a group of naïve people. The swindling is caught in a bar where he squanders the money of those people.

Ali Shar () is a character from Ali Shar and Zumurrud who inherits a large fortune on the death of his father but very quickly squanders it all. He goes hungry for many months until he sees Zumurrud on sale in a slave market. Zumurrud gives Ali the money to buy her and the two live together and fall in love. A year later Zumurrud is kidnapped by a Christian and Ali spends the rest of the story finding her.

The reviews were generally negative. The film has a 28% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 25 reviews with the consensus: "Handsomely produced and dramatically inert, Havana squanders its convincing recreation of pre-revolution Cuba by using it as a disconnected backdrop to a turgid romance." On a budget of $40 million, Havana made only $9 million in the United States, making it a box office bomb. The musical score received Golden Globe, Oscar, and Grammy nominations.

Frank's father, Malachy Sr., is unable to keep a job, and squanders the family's money on alcohol. He is too proud to beg or to collect much needed coal from the streets. Angela, Frank's mother is forced to go to charitable organisations to beg for furniture whilst Malachy Sr. signs up for the dole. The McCourt family lives in a small house where the entire street shares one lavatory that just happens to be outside the McCourts front door.

In the film, he played the role of Shankaranna, who owns a movie theater and the employer of Nikhil, the lead character of the film, played by Sathish Ninasam. The performance won him the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. In Hejjegalu (2013), Kumar played Kodanda, a gambling addict who squanders money taken on loan, being tried to reform by his young daughter. The performance won him the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Published: Saturday, 28 October 1758 This entry begins with responses to two earlier instalments. Timothy Mushroom tells how he was determined to avoid announcing his marriage in the papers (see No 12), but was pressured into it by his bride's family. Next, Mrs Treacle, the wife of the shopkeeper in No 14, writes to tell her side of the story. Her husband bought his shop with her dowry, goes to the alehouse at every opportunity and squanders his money playing ninepins.

Both sons set off for jobs in the city, and the mother is left behind with the second daughter-in-law. The eldest son wants to send money home but is stopped by his stern wife. He gives the money to his brother to send home, but the second son squanders all the money on a lascivious woman. With no income to pay the rent, the mother and the second daughter-in-law have to seek shelter with her eldest daughter.

Episode 2: Cox and Montyn accidentally discover a plot within the squanders scene of Antwerp and Amsterdam that leads to plans of an attack during the coronation of the Dutch princess Beatrix. The detectives stumbles upon criminal conspiracy that seems part of an even bigger plan. Judd is unsure if he can trust Tonny when it becomes unclear on which side he is on. Episode 3: It’s only been days after Cox lost his partner, but there is no time to recover.

BB's older partner and mentor, Moe Adamson, is hospitalized with a serious heart condition. Tilley has a gambling problem and squanders what little money he makes betting on horse races, causing a rift with Nora. He's in debt to various creditors and the IRS, who begin confiscating his possessions for unpaid property taxes. Exhausted by their rivalry, the two men decide to play a game of pool to decide who should get Nora in order to end to their personal war.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 26% based on 241 reviews and an average rating of 4.64/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Noisy, overproduced, and thinly written, Green Lantern squanders an impressive budget and decades of comics mythology." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 39 out of 100 based on 39 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Billy's most notable claim is that he is "in the zone", a state of mind in which nothing can distract him. Sidney is pleased with the outcome, yet he cannot help mocking Billy about his inability to slam dunk. Billy insists that he can indeed dunk, and after Sidney clearly disagrees, Billy offers to bet his share of the $5,000 on his ability to dunk. Sidney gives him three chances, telling him "white men can't jump," but Billy fails and squanders his share.

Sharpe is proved correct, but eventually manages to steal the letters (and make the acquaintance of Blazquez) with the assistance of Patrick Harper and his trusted riflemen. Then a joint Spanish- British army is transported by boat south of the city to attack Victor's forces from the rear and lift the siege. Because the Spanish provide more troops, timid Spanish General Lapena is given command, rather than British General Thomas Graham. Lapena squanders opportunity after opportunity, leading his men toward disaster and Victor's trap.

In an alternative version, the son squanders the money he makes from his silver and is forced to make more silver with the cloth, which disappoints his father seeing that his son is greedy and lazy. Eventually his cloth falls into a fire and he loses his wealth. Desperate to recover his wealth, he goes back to the woods looking for the spirit in the bottle to replace his cloth, only this time the spirit tricks the boy into taking his place in the bottle.

Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments. Devushkin's, for example, is merely a portioned-off section of the kitchen, and he lives with several other tenants, such as the Gorshkovs, whose son groans in agonizing hunger almost the entire story. Devushkin and Dobroselova exchange letters attesting to their terrible living conditions and the former frequently squanders his money on gifts for her. The reader progressively learns their history.

At the top of the U, equilibrium is restored. A classic example of a U-shaped plot in the Bible is the Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-24. The parable opens at the top of the U with a stable condition but turns downward after the son asks the father for his inheritance and sets out for a “distant country” (Luke 15:13). Disaster strikes: the son squanders his inheritance and famine in the land increases his dissolution (Luke 15:13-16).

In April 2018 the theatre was renamed as Kiln Theatre. Artistic director Indhu Rubasingham said that the new name helped strengthen the venue's association with the Kilburn area and that kilns also have a relationship with all cultures around the world, and are symbols of creativity and culture. Following this, a public petition was launched arguing that the name change was "unnecessary, costly and squanders the established reputation of The Tricycle". As of July 2018 the petition was reported to have received over 2,000 signatures.

On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, the film has an approval rating of 12% based on 119 reviews and an average rating of 3.73/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Seventh Son squanders an excellent cast and some strange storyline ingredients, leaving audiences with one disappointingly dull fantasy adventure." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 30 out of 100 based 32 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.

Still from the movie Romantic drama of manners. Lina, graceful schoolgirl, argues against the will of his father, Don Bernardo, a romance with Alvaro, a young bohemian who squanders his fortune. They decide to escape from parental supervision, but in the train station a beggar hurt Lina warns about the serious error being committed. He bandages the wound with a tissue in which are inscribed his initials and she gratefully gives him her jewels and in turn tells her boyfriend's decision not to pursue this adventure.

It's a thrilling conclusion to an episode filled with a lot of talking and stunted inaction. Over the back half of this season, I've gone from wanting this show to succeed while feeling frustrated at how it squanders potential, into largely enjoying everything with a few reservations. That trepidation was more pronounced tonight that it has been the past two weeks, but still, I'm very pleased with the progress." Nick McHatton from TV Fanatic, gave a 4.8 star rating out of 5, stating: "'Leave It To Beavers' is the episode we've all been waiting for.

Armitage later comes into money but squanders it all away. Years pass and Giovanni's daughter Elisa grows up and becomes involved with a young artist named Paul Winston, who hires her as a model. Giovanni finds out where Kirkham lives, and plans to kidnap Norma and hold her for ransom, but his kidnap plan is foiled. Kirkham suffers a heart attack when he sees Giovanni appear at a party in his home, and when Giovanni sees his daughter Elisa dancing at the party, he loses his sanity and jumps off the roof to his death.

The first is in anecdotal form, told by the narrator after the pranksters associated with Julia Mikaylovna pay a visit to the scene of a suicide. Entrusted with a large sum of money by his family, a hitherto quiet and responsible young man deliberately squanders it all on riotous living over a period of several days. Returning to his hotel, he calmly and politely orders a meal and some wine, writes a short note, and shoots himself through the heart. The first plot-related suicide is that of Kirillov.

Awarding it only ✦✧✧✧ (1 star), Slant grappled with the film's "insufficient imaginativeness" and forced "theme of duality". Maitland McDonagh, a critic specialist in horror films, wrote that Tamara "panders to horror buffs" and "squanders the efforts of a competent cast", calling it a "rehash of Carrie", and awarding it ✦✦✧✧✧ (2 stars). Jessica Reeves of the Chicago Tribune was even more critical, panning the film with a harsh grocery list of descriptions: "dismal, depressing, embarrassing and utterly lacking in any artistic or social worth". Some reviewers were slightly more magnanimous.

Despite its well- established director and cast, Twisted received almost universally negative reviews, with a rating of 1% on Rotten Tomatoes based on reviews from 136 critics with an average score of 2.9 out of 10. The website's critical consensus states: "An implausible, overheated potboiler that squanders a stellar cast, Twisted is a clichéd, risible whodunit." The film is one of the lowest-rated on the site. William Thomas writing for Empire magazine described the role-reversal of the film as "contrived", while allowing that the film "may dole out a few guilty pleasures".

Rotten Tomatoes reported that 22% of critics gave Planet 51 positive reviews based on 108 reviews with an average score of 4.2/10. The site's consensus reads: "Planet 51 squanders an interesting premise with an overly familiar storyline, stock characters, and humor that alternates between curious and potentially offensive." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave it a metascore of 39, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews" , based on 21 reviews. Adam Markovitz of Entertainment Weekly graded the film a B, as it "delivers a few pleasant surprises, including a smart story".

The poor performance of first- generation microkernels, such as Mach, led a number of developers to re- examine the entire microkernel concept in the mid-1990s. The asynchronous in- kernel-buffering process communication concept used in Mach turned out to be one of the main reasons for its poor performance. This induced developers of Mach-based operating systems to move some time-critical components, like file systems or drivers, back inside the kernel. While this somewhat ameliorated the performance issues, it plainly violates the minimality concept of a true microkernel (and squanders their major advantages).

Mr Brownlow has a picture of Agnes and had begun making inquiries when he noticed a marked resemblance between her and Oliver. Monks had hunted his brother to destroy him, to gain all in their father's will. Meeting with Monks and the Bumbles in Oliver's native town, Brownlow asks Oliver to give half his inheritance to Monks to give him a second chance; Oliver is more than happy to comply. Monks moves to "the new world", where he squanders his money, reverts to crime, and dies in prison.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 20% based on 81 reviews, and has an average rating of 3.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The House squanders a decent premise and a talented cast on thin characterizations and a shortage of comic momentum." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a weighted average score of 30 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

Maugham uses a third-person- limited point of view in this story, where Kitty Garstin is the focal character. Garstin, a pretty upper-middle class debutante, squanders her early youth amusing herself by living a social high life, during which her domineering mother attempts to arrange a "brilliant match" for her. By age 25, Kitty has flirted with and declined marriage proposals from dozens of prospective husbands. Her mother, convinced that her eldest daughter has "missed her market", urges Kitty to settle for the rather “odd” Walter Fane, a bacteriologist and physician, who declares his love for Kitty.

Kommalapati Chiranjeevulu (Jagapathi Babu) is introduced as the tenth pass village landlord who is happy with his farmer's lifestyle despite his riches. He marries the city-bred Neelima who soon squanders all his wealth in flop business ventures initiated by her rich friends. Amidst this, they have a son Vishwanath (Master Atulith) who adores Chiranjeevulu and prefers to stay with him when Neelima walks out on Chiranjeevulu for a better future in the city. Soon, father and son land up in Hyderabad as Chiranjeevulu decides to educate his son in a top English medium school so that he doesn't end up like him.

The Last Airbender was panned by critics, fans of the animated series, and general audiences. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 5%, based on 191 reviews with an average rating of 2.96/10, making it the lowest-rated film produced by Nickelodeon Movies, as well as Shyamalan's worst-reviewed film to date. The site's critical consensus reads, "The Last Airbender squanders its popular source material with incomprehensible plotting, horrible acting, and detached joyless direction." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 20 out of 100, based on 33 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Stuk (Stucco, 1887) recounts a young man's love affair that is fading away without any real explanation, against the background of the "Gründerzeit" of Copenhagen and its superficial modernization and economic speculation. In Ludvigsbakke (1896) a young nurse squanders her love on a spineless childhood friend, who eventually deserts her, in order to save his estate by marrying a rich heiress. Some of his books, including Tina and Katinka (English titles), have been translated into many languages and filmed. Bang's 1902 novel Mikaël, based on the life of Auguste Rodin,Mark Nash, Dreyer BFI Publishing (October 1977). p.

For the same newspaper, Karthik Subramaniam wrote, "One can only wonder just how much better Thuppakki would have been if it had done away with the song-and-dance-and-romance and such trappings." Haricharan Pudipeddi of The New Indian Express said, "Most of the characters are made to look dumb as Vijay steals all the attention. Kajal's role as a boxer, which she squanders with her clichéd performance, is definitely a turn off in the film. Jayaram and Sathyan, who're supposed to make us laugh, fail miserably in the process" and concluded, "In essence, "Thuppakki" has the energy of Vijay and intellect of A.R. Murugadoss".

Hyun-joon, a university professor and a best-selling novelist, who is the father of a six-year-old daughter, lived with his two roommates who are his friend and ex-brother-in-law, Han In-pyo. Han In-pyo is a loafer who frequently hangs out with his girlfriends and squanders away his time at home on music, movies, and calling girlfriends. He came to live in Choi's house immediately after his water supply was cut off while washing his face. In-pyo's water supply and electricity were cut off for he had owed the electrical supply board a large sum of unpaid fees.

In his junior year, he was kicked off the men's basketball team for several months, for attempting to sell stolen laptop computers along with teammate A. J. Price. Williams averaged 12.3 points, 8.6 assists, and shot 86% from the free throw line. In a game against Notre Dame, he recorded the sixth triple-double in UConn history with 18 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds.UConn squanders 19-point lead as Irish rally to force OT In the 2006 NCAA tourney, he averaged 20 points, 8.8 assists, while shooting 52% from the field, 56% from three-point range, and 96% from the free throw line.

The industrialist takes him under his wing, only to commit suicide when he squanders his last savings. Nino is constrained to find shelter with a group of clandestine Neapolitans living in a chicken coop, together with the same chickens they tend to in order to survive. Charmed by the idyllic vision of a group of young blonde Swisses, having a bath in a river, he decides to dye his hair and pass himself off as a local. In a bar, when rooting for the Italian national football team during the broadcast of a match, he is found out after celebrating a goal scored by Fabio Capello.

The Snowman was panned by critics, who derided what they saw as the film's scattered and incomprehensible plot line, as well as a lack of direction for its main cast members. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 7%, based on 188 reviews, with an average rating of 3.04/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A mystery that feels as mashed together and perishable as its title, The Snowman squanders its bestselling source material as well as a top-notch ensemble cast." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 23 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Yet another theory seeks to extend the saying beyond its earliest use in the 16th century with reference to the Latin proverb , the goat that is said to kick over the pail after being milked (920 in Erasmus' Adagia). Thus a promising beginning is followed by a bad ending or, as Andrea Alciato phrased it in the Latin poem accompanying the drawing in his Emblemata (1524), "Because you have spoilt your fine beginnings with a shameful end and turned your service into harm, you have done what the she-goat does when she kicks the bucket that holds her milk and with her hoof squanders her own riches."Emblem 160. Here it is the death of one's reputation that is in question.

Years go by as Scar squanders the kingdom's resources and allows his army of hyenas to wreak havoc upon the Pride Lands, which turn barren. Meanwhile, an alive and adult Simba is visited by Mufasa's ghost, who encourages him to return to the Pride Lands and take his rightful place as king. Aided by his friends Nala, Timon and Pumbaa, Simba arrives at Pride Rock and witnesses Scar striking his mother Sarabi and confronts Scar, who demands that Simba admit to the pride that he killed Mufasa. As he prepares to throw Simba off Pride Rock and have him meet a similar fate to that of his father, Scar whispers that he was the one who killed Mufasa, confident that the secret would die along with him.

Uncle Scrooge catches sight of his two loafer nephews, Donald Duck and Gladstone Gander, from his Money Bin. Although he feels his fortune is secure in the hands of his chosen heirs, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, he feels he should do something for his other nephews, and decides to put them through a test to see what kind of business they would be good at. He calls Donald and Gladstone to his room, passes five thousand dollars to both, and tells them to return in twenty-four hours to report how they've invested it. Donald tries his wings in the restaurant and industry businesses and with inventions, but his enthusiasm exceeds his common sense, and he quickly squanders his money in failed enterprises.

In The Ant and the Grasshopper, a grasshopper squanders the spring and summer months on singing while the ants put food away for the winter; when winter comes, the hungry grasshopper begs the ants for food, but the ants turn him away. Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft hit on the notion that the grasshopper could just take the food.Pixar Animation Studios, official website, feature films, A Bugs Life, The inspiration After Stanton had completed a draft of the script, he came to doubt one of the story's main pillars – that the Circus Bugs that had come to the colony to cheat the ants would instead stay and fight. He thought the Circus Bugs were unlikable characters as liars and that it was unrealistic for them to undergo a complete personality change.

In "Don Giovanni de la Fortuna", Don Giovanni is not a soldier; he squandered the fortune his father left him and met the devil while begging. The time limit is three years, three months, and three days, and in that time, he buys a house and his fame spreads; the king asks him to lend him money, and that is how the promise to marry is brought about. The sisters, though they die, are not explicitly taken by the devil. The "Devil's Breeches" is close to "Don Giovanni de la Fortuna", but while the hero also squanders his money, he attempts to support himself by working as a servant, an attempt that fails because all his masters' wives or sisters fall in love with him, and he has to leave every job.

It shies away from delving deep into the theme, but you may appreciate its documentary-like feel." Raja Sen of NDTV gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5 and said that, "It is very difficult to take the highly cheesy Begum Jaan seriously, and the film squanders the talent of Vidya Balan". Namrata Joshi of The Hindu criticized the film saying that, "Each scene feels consciously staged than unprompted and the flow from one sequence to the next is perennially jerky leading to way too much chaos on- screen." Rajeev Masand of News18 gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5 saying that, "The film has an interesting premise and Vidya is commanding as the feared brothel owner who lords over her home.

In his love for a young lady of the Traversari family, Nastagio degli Onesti squanders his wealth without being loved in return. He is entreated by his friends to leave the city, and goes away to Chiassi, where he sees a female ghost cursed to be hunted down and killed by a horseman and devoured by a pack of hounds every week. He finds out that the cursed horseman was in a similar situation to his own, and committed suicide while the woman died afterwards unrepentant for her role in his death. Nastagio then invites his kinfolk and the lady he loves to a banquet at this same place, so the ghost woman is torn to pieces before the eyes of his beloved, who, fearing a similar fate, accepts Nastagio as her husband.

Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of four, commenting "Wright combines his two genres into a stylish exercise that perversely includes some sentiment and insight". Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian, on the other hand, gave the film two stars out of five, stating "With its wicked-witch performance from Cate Blanchett, its derivative premise, its bland Europudding location work and some frankly outrageous boredom, this will test everyone's patience." Kenneth Turan, of the Los Angeles Times, stated that the film "starts off like a house afire but soon burns itself out", adding that even though the film is "[b]lessed with considerable virtues, including a clever concept, crackling filmmaking and a charismatic star, it ultimately squanders all of them, undone by an unfortunate lack of subtlety and restraint".

The first three kinds are heading for unhappiness (in this world or the next). They are: # The destructive-wife (vadhaka or vadhakabhariya: alternate translations include “troublesome-wife” and “slayer-wife”) – she is described as pitiless, fond of other men and neglectful, even contemptuous, of her husband; # The thievish-wife (chorisama or corabhariya: an alternate translation is “robber-wife”) – she squanders the family wealth and is dishonest with her husband, especially as regards money; # The mistress-wife (ayyasama or ayyabhariya or "swamibhariya": alternate translations include “lordly-wife”, “master-wife” and “tyrant-wife”) – she is shrewish, rude and coarsely-spoken when it suits her, lazy and domineering. The Buddha then states that the following four types are heading for happiness – in this world or the next. A common feature of each of these wives is that they are also imbued with “long term self-control”.

For example the main character in the first tale, Griselidis, achieves goodness through the blessing of God although she is not of noble birth; the moral is that through her ordeals she becomes worthy to be wife to a nobleman. "Les Souhaits", on the other hand, probably written to shock the sensibilities of his aristocratic audience, is about a common woodcutter who neither knows what to do with the gift of three wishes nor deserves the heavenly gift—because of his low birth and stupidity he squanders the wishes. Perrault was influenced by Church writers such as Jean-Pierre Camus and Tertullian, and the Fall of Man is a pervasive theme in his stories. Anne Duggan writes about the stories in "Women Subdued: The Abdication and Purification of Female Characters in Perrault's Tales" that the men are passionate whereas women's passions are punished.

Less forgivable is how Dahl squanders tension for an hour and a half cutting between the suffering prisoners and resistance intrigues in Manila and the long march of the Rangers, and a fictionalized romance story that might have made a nice little movie by itself." James Plath of Movie Metropolis wrote, "In many ways, The Great Raid adheres to the genre right down to the character types and before-battle thoughts, but it's also a curious combination of modern war tale in the manner of Saving Private Ryan and the kind of patriotic films that were made in the waning years of the war and in the fifties. It has both a realistic sheen, and an element of idealistic flag- waving. The Great Raid isn't a perfect film, but it's an engaging one, and, at times, a powerful one.

She becomes a more prominent character in the Jeonju edition and Sin Jae-hyo edition, and Sim Cheong's father also becomes more important in the plot. This has led some scholars to argue that Sim Cheong's father becomes a main character in the Jeonju edition version, while Sim Cheong is the sole main character in earlier versions of Sim Cheong- jeon. On the way to the feast for the blind that Sim Cheong hosts as an empress, Bbaengdeok's mother falls in love with Blind Hwang and runs away with him, leaving Sim Cheong's father behind. In relation to the appearance of Bbaengdeok's mother, the yangban culture is often discussed as an important aspect shown through Sim Cheong's father, who is depicted as a foolish man who becomes infatuated with a woman and squanders his fortune away.

K. G. Saur Verlag, Munich. Retrieved May 25, 2010 communicates goings-on in the concentration camp, 3\. whoever keeps prohibited items, tools, batons and knives in his room or in straw sacksPrisoner bedding consisted of sacks filled with straw. §9 Will be punished with 21 days of severe time Whoever carts off government-owned items, of whatever sort, from said location to another, deliberately damages, destroys, squanders, alters or uses for any other than purpose than prescribed; apart from the penalty, according to circumstances, is liable to some or all of the prisoners for any losses incurred. §10 Will be punished with 42 days of severe time or lengthy detention in solitary confinement: 1\. Whoever accumulates sums of money in the camp, finances prohibited efforts in or outside of the camp, or brings fellow prisoners to heel or binds them to secrecy through money, 2\.

For Calvin, violations of this commandment are not confined to money, or merchandise, or lands, but extend to every kind of right. We defraud our neighbors to their hurt if we decline any of the duties which we are bound to perform towards them. God's wrath is incurred if an agent or an indolent steward wastes the substance of his employer, or does not give due heed to the management of his property; if he unjustly squanders or luxuriously wastes the means entrusted to him; if a servant holds his master in derision, divulges his secrets, or in any way is treacherous to his life or his goods. Likewise, a master incurs God's wrath if he cruelly torments his household, because he is guilty of theft before God; along will all who fail to deliver what he owes to others, keeps back, or makes away with what does not belong to him.

Music noticed that Coyle's "budget didn't stretch as far as cutting edge production" but ultimately described the album as "a consistent, strutting and reasonably on the button pop record". Charlotte Heathcote from Daily Express wrote that Insatiable "holds its own [...] but its pop-by-numbers approach lacks the individuality to stand out in a marketplace saturated with expensively produced pop" and noticed that "it squanders [Coyle's] killer ingredient: that belter of a voice". Lucy Jones of The Daily Telegraph gave the album a mixed review, saying that "once you sweep away William Orbit's glittering production and the hyper-stylised image of the Derry-born pop princess, there’s few outstanding songs here to leave the listener satisfied". Ian Gittins from Virgin Media wrote that Coyle "fails to use her deadliest weapon – her voice – to full effect on this proficient but somewhat personality-free album, preferring to warble gently over generic pop/R&B; cuts".

An aging, former world heavyweight champion, Patrick "Lights" Leary is an extremely proud, good-hearted Irish American who is struggling to find his identity after retiring from his beloved boxing. After years of wear and tear in the ring, he is diagnosed with pugilistic dementia (a neurological disorder that affects boxers who suffered too many hits to the head, gradually causing memory loss and constant headaches). Now, Lights is struggling to support his family (a wife and three daughters) and their comfortably secure lifestyle in Bayonne, New Jersey, after his amoral and incompetent brother/business manager squanders Lights' life savings. Running out of ways—and time—to earn enough money to re-secure his family's future, Leary must decide whether to either: accept the brutal and demeaning job of debt collector for a local racketeer; or, launch a long shot, health- risking, comeback for the huge payday that would result from becoming "the champ" once again.

George Osborne, his father (a merchant, of considerably superior social status to Dobbin's grocer father, albeit self made, and ironically a mere corporal in the City Light Horse regiment of which Dobbin senior, by this time an alderman and a knight, is colonel), and his two sisters are close to the Sedley family until Mr. Sedley (the father of Jos and Amelia, and George Osborne's godfather, from whom the latter takes his middle name of 'Sedley') goes bankrupt following some ill-advised speculation. Since George and Amelia were raised in close company and were childhood sweethearts, George defies his father to marry Amelia. Before father and son can be reconciled, George is killed at the battle of Waterloo, leaving the pregnant Amelia to carry on as well as she can. Raised to be a selfish, vain, profligate spender, handsome and self-obsessed, George squanders the last of the money he receives from his father and sets nothing aside to help support Amelia.

IGN critic Terri Schwartz gave the film a score of 5.5/10, writing: "The Girl on the Train has a talented cast, but ultimately squanders it for the sake of a hollow, ponderous plot. Alternately overly convoluted and predictable, the film relies too heavily on its twists while offering little in the way of character development, leaving its three central women as unrelatable and unlikable stereotypes." Rolling Stones Peter Travers gave the film a positive review, commenting that: "[T]he movie gives away the game faster than the novel, but Emily Blunt digs so deep into the role of a blackout drunk and maybe murderer that she raises Girl to the level of spellbinder." Chicago Sun-Times' Richard Roeper gave 2 stars out 4, and said that the film is "shiny trash that begins with promise but quickly gets tripped up by its own screenplay and grows increasingly ludicrous and melodramatic, to the point where I was barely able to suppress a chuckle at some of the final scenes".