Without that refracting gaze, "The Mother" would feel tediously familiar indeed.
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In a better world, the statement would have been tediously obvious.
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Tediously translating his messages and then my responses, we began to talk.
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You'll also have to tediously log into them all once you sign up.
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In previous Civilization games, players had to tediously task workers to build roads.
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And Mr. Pita gives Ms. Osipova (and other characters) a tediously small vocabulary.
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That leaves us with another full hour of tediously sorting through the ashes.
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Still, there's no obvious reason why these episodes should be so painfully, tediously unfunny.
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There's no sense of loss, because you never experienced anything except tediously dull decay.
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It's too bad the book is marred by Boyle's tediously stereotypical portrayal of women.
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But instead of tediously clicking Block, what if you could just avoid the notifications altogether?
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It doesn't need to be tediously explained, it can just be an enjoyable, subversive factor.
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This means law-making can be tediously slow and often ends in a woolly compromise.
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One of the foreign advisers is tediously eager to promote his new book ("Big Bang Growth").
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It's a useful way of finding what's popular, without having to tediously scroll through your Twitter Timeline.
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No more limitations, no more tediously bypassing the rules by screenshotting an image or editing its metadata.
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Mr. Everson tests your patience with an opening that initially registers as a tediously obvious formalist gesture.
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There's no need to waste your time tediously going through menus to figure out how everything works.
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Apart from anything else, fans of both would probably be propelled into a tediously predictable state of ire.
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But in the end, they're not doing much: Most of us just tediously click "yes" and move on.
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There are still a lot of brand shilling and the usual tediously overextended fights, ka-pow and ka-boom.
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In long and tediously animated exposition, Princess Diana's mother Hippolyta narrates the backstory of the all-female island of Amazons.
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Meantime, one's social sphere isn't yet fractured with professional fault lines and infused, sometimes electrically but usually tediously, with omnidirectional antipathy.
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Blister packs help, too, because pills must be pushed out tediously one by one, allowing a would-be suicide time to reconsider.
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The shortcut will set off all of these actions for you, in order, so you don't have to switch tediously between apps.
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There's a pure, innocent beauty in that kind of obliviousness, and it's that magic we're trying to remember and tediously rank today.
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You find the usual mix of funny memos and audio logs describing the tediously horrific daily life of the Bureau of Control.
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The word "internship" is often short for tediously making thousands of photocopies on a printer or buying everyone in the office coffee.
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Using a companion app, you just drag and drop different actions to control the robot, rather than having to tediously code in commands.
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To find them, scientists must freeze whole batches caught in the usual traps and tediously hand-sort them with tweezers under a microscope.
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Or at least, that's a decent paraphrase of their first conversation, in which they tediously explain their motivations, character traits, and relationship to date.
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Now, instead of tediously entering the data by hand, it will be automatically tracked and submitted by the Fitbits, which retail for about $150.
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Are we not, in fact, being tediously and modishly moralistic, and in fact doing precisely what we might have condemned 19th-century critics for doing?
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While they're an excellent test of skill, if you haven't absolutely mastered the game, the trial-and-error process of solving them becomes tediously repetitive.
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Uncle Pat is the most long-winded of the family raconteurs, with daily events inspiring detailed accounts of tediously similar happenings of years gone by.
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"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," they chanted — the tediously malign, thinly veiled call to end Israel as a Jewish state.
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To give an example of a book I found overrated, Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" was both conceptually unsound and tediously executed.
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The breaking of conventions (addressing the camera, graphic sexual references, sleeping with a priest) was tediously conventional; the sentimentality, particularly about a pet hamster, was cloying….
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In " Three Continents " (1987), a novel about American naïfs caught up in a Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh-style cult, the characters get crushed under a tediously overextended plot.
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This intuitive interface makes it a wonderful option for those starting out with grooveboxes who don't want to sacrifice features or tediously memorize a glut of navigation options.
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From tediously dead-eyed and peeved, to vocal chord-fraying window-smasher, Sandler is like no one else when it comes to channeling an undercurrent of atavistic anger.
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Unlike other speaker systems where you have to tediously create groups for speakers, AirPlay 2 just works (assuming you've set up the speaker with the appropriate room identifier).
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But "Sylvia," despite being one of Mr. Gurney's more popular plays — the woman-plays-dog conceit probably helps — feels tediously overextended and repetitive at two hours and two acts.
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Ruth Negga, as Tulip, projects escalating exasperation and isolation through the series, as Jesse's pointless obsession with God and with his own power steadily, tediously takes over his life.
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Eighteenth-century British painting can be tediously formulaic, but Wright of Derby was unusual in combining formidable technical skill with a fascination in the Enlightenment's spirit of scientific inquiry.
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The scoring system is tediously technical, and surprisingly what you see in the blots counts less toward your result than the technicalities of how you perceive form and movement.
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Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning 2013 novel, a doorstop at nearly 800 pages, meanders (somewhat tediously, for my taste) through the youth and early adulthood of a boy named Theo.
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That was a joy: a campus big enough to deploy her battered golf-cart, and freedom to pick colleagues properly mixed by race, gender and sexuality, not tediously white male.
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After a tediously slow count, Pakistan election officials Friday announced Khan&aposs Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won 109 of the 269 seats being contested in the National Assembly.
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Religion might be a life-lie, but so might a certain kind of politics, the art of diplomacy, a pointless job, an aimless love affair, a tediously bright dinner party.
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Though these individuals are highly (and expensively) trained, much of their day-to-day work involves tediously counting the people, objects, and activities that are picked up by drone cameras.
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This feature should come in handy for folks who often play with their friends online, but hate having to click out of their game and tediously navigate through a labyrinthine menu.
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"MOTHER!" begins in a creaky old lodge in the middle of a forest: a setting so tediously generic that it's easy to imagine finding it as the stock photograph for "scary house".
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Everything seemed quieter somehow and, looking back, the first season was indeed muted (The Economist, summarising in September 2000, opined that "Britons like their reality to be depressingly, and sometimes tediously, real").
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Defense attorneys, who tediously went through each of those calls, argue that they prove Constand was untruthful when she told investigators that she had little contact with Cosby after the alleged assault.
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From throwing away half-full water bottles to tediously unlacing sneakers, most flyers would agree that passing through the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint is one of the more arduous aspects of traveling.
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Researchers at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO) in Oslo, Norway spend each year tediously compiling the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases humanity expels into the planet's atmosphere.
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An Anglican parable based on a Japanese Noh play, it could be tediously precious, stilted, all the emotion in its story (a Madwoman searches for her son) suffocated under layers of stylization.
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Before such engines were applied to the task, creating high-quality renderings required computers to crunch tediously through the calculations needed to simulate how light rays bounce around rooms and interact with objects.
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Vote counting in an election marred by allegations of fraud and militant violence has been tediously slow, yet from the outset cricket star Imran Khan and his party have maintained a commanding lead.
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Chris Bryd, followed by a number of mandatory defenses that composed of the Ukrainian giant pawing his opponent for about 4 rounds before knocking out or tediously dominating someone we've never heard of.
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Throughout an hourlong Skype interview, in which comments are tediously ferried back and forth through an interpreter, his energy and enthusiasm never flag, and his answers grow more expressive and thoughtful with each question.
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When somebody challenges a gas-meter reading or asks to move an old phone number to a new SIM card, many databases must be updated, often by tediously cutting and pasting from one to another.
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The task is quickly (and tediously) complicated, however, when he's assigned his ex-wife, Kelly Grayson (Adrianne Palicki), as his first officer, after she broke his heart by cheating on him with an alien species.
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You'll have a fire going daily for burnable waste, and will tediously wash and bleach all un-burnable wrappers and trash to rid them of any smells that might entice a black bear into your camp.
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Instead of spending ten minutes crying over your cutting board as you tediously chop a whole onion by hand, you could just pop open the lid and add onion bits to whatever you're making in seconds.
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" By Tuesday, many news outlets again began asking the same tediously familiar questions: Was the president just being an unhinged racist when he tweeted that four American citizens should "go back" to where they "came from?
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Ostensibly a noir thriller about a man who may or may not have killed his wife, it plods along tediously, sometimes telegraphing its twists and sometimes burying them for no reason other than to manufacture tension.
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Though she's a bit of a drop-out, she's a drop-out in the way that only very privileged people can be: she runs a (tediously wacky) café and turns up to work when she wants to.
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It's tediously difficult because, even with a sharp mind, your thoughts still take you away to other places or you want to react to the pain in your body that comes from sitting cross-legged all day.
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Both pride and prejudice still play their parts, but now in service to one tediously repeated joke: the sight of a gentleman or a lady, together or alone, playing cards or ballroom dancing, fatally swarmed by devouring zombies.
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"Savior" explores the unhealthiness of mutual projection through a funny S&M parable involving nurses and nuns and our tediously prosaic concepts of kink: "You put me in a teacher's little denim skirt," Clark moans on the song.
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Arch, the half-feral twin brother of "The Scattering: A Story in Three Parts," is a tediously cocky and pugnacious teenager, one who licks blood off his fingers because "everybody had to know how much he didn't" care.
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Yet for every erotic episode he witnesses he is also privy to hundreds of mundane moments representing the ordinary daily human routine—people channel-surfing, snoring, urinating, primping, and doing other things too tediously real for reality television.
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After two days of tediously slow vote counting, Khan&aposs Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won 109 of 269 seats being contested in the National Assembly with his nearest rival, Shahbaz Sharif&aposs Pakistan Muslim League, winning 63 seats.
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Up to that point, "The Member of the Wedding" had been, a bit tediously, "The Frankie Addams Show," which is probably how you remember it if you saw the 1952 film of McCullers's play, which she adapted from her 1946 novel.
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Political figures of all stripes who make bold promises and fail to deliver; arrogant celebrities and sports figures who tediously lecture the rest of us on our ostensible shortcomings; journalists and media players who delight in sowing polarization and division.
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Sure, they crashed sometimes, but losing a little unsaved work or having to restart occasionally seemed like a small price to pay for not having to tediously spell out every little piece of a program in the language of a formal logical system.
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The Honorable Stephen Wilson, in explaining the case, tells the fortyish prospective jurors that Elon Musk "posted a series of tweets on his Twitter" very sincerely, a statement that had been tediously ironed out with both sets of lawyers the day before.
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But "Nightflyers" -- a series based on a 1980s Martin novella -- proves a tediously generic haunted-house-in-space odyssey, one that Syfy is either (charitably) experimenting with or (more likely) rapidly exhausting by making all 10 episodes available simultaneously with its linear-TV debut.
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We see the young Beatles at their most menial: unpacking, tediously answering questions from reporters on the phone, pouring another drink when they realize Fidel Castro's voice is all they can hear on TV and radio (the witty sound design is by Jane Shaw).
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Between promoting her son-in-law's band and tediously freeze-framing Anne's amateur snapshots, Ms. Coppola (best known for her riveting 1991 documentary about the making of "Apocalypse Now") never realizes Anne as more than a bland accessory who lets men tell her what to eat.
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The Max still displays all of these things in cards that you have to tediously swipe through to see, even though its larger screen is more conducive to providing all of that info at one time and without requiring any interaction from me to see it.
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Eat It probably doesn't seem likely, but there's a season for the little tins of oil-packed fish that I collect all year, and it starts around now, when the days in New York are hot and long and the air-conditioner balanced in my caged window rattles away tediously.
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While close decisions are usually tediously polarizing when it comes to championship bouts, everybody pretty much agreed that Lawler's toil and effort over his 14-year career had made him deserving of his spot at the top of the 170 lbs pile after his split decision victory over Johny Hendricks.
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The process was messy, physically draining and relentless; it included scattering rice seedlings onto mud-soaked soil, working them into the earth with bare feet, and then threshing after harvest, which required tediously removing rice from hulls, pounding the rice repeatedly and then separating the hulls from the rice in handmade winnowing baskets.
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Gustavo Dudamel, meanwhile, makes two visits, first with the Vienna Philharmonic in a tediously cast series, enlivened only with a rather surprising performance of Ives's Second Symphony, and then with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which is always a less interesting orchestra on tour than at home — Beethoven's Ninth is on the bill.
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While most of Ghost in the Shell's best scenes (the violent, slow-motion ballet that kicks off the film; an eerie raid on the villain's headquarters midway through) are wordless, you also have to make it through annoying moments when characters talk tediously on and on about grand abstractions like Humanity and The Soul.
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If your motives are, shall we say, less than ideal, you probably need more time to heal or perhaps you're not meant to continue your relationship Now that you've taken the necessary time, tediously self-reflected on your motivations, and feel that you're ready to see your ex again—what should you actually do?
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After being inundated by images and live streams from runway shows, from awards shows where the items are worn mere days after they appear on the runway, and from ad campaigns (and the making of ad campaigns), by the time these customers see the clothes in stores, the dresses and skirts and suits seem tediously familiar. Old. Over.
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You tediously remove small chunks from your paycheck, lamely put them away in some snooze-ass mutual fund, watch it all slowly appreciate over a period of many, many years, and then, finally, after you've inched close enough to death to smell it, you finally stupidly take it all out and spend it on some new toy for your nephew.
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It's certainly an odd situation that iPhone owners in France, say, can pick from a wide range of keyboard apps — from mainstream names to superficial bling-focused glitter and/or neon LED keyboard skins or indeed emoji and GIF-obsessed keyboards — but if they want to use locally developed pro-privacy search engine Qwant on their phone's native browser they have to tediously surf to the company's webpage every time they want to look something up.
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Russian Doll immediately frees itself of the constraints of that structure; in the first episode alone, Nadia lives two drastically different versions of her night that assure concerned viewers we won't be bored and that there's no need as yet to be annoyed with Nilsson Schmilsson's "Gotta Get Up." In doing this, the show makes it clear right away that Nadia isn't looping through her birthday to fix one detail at a time and tediously retool her reality.
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Forget about tediously winding a long string of lights around your Christmas tree: With the ingenious Star Shower Tree Dazzler, all you need to do is slip the ring over the top of your 6- to 7.5-foot Christmas tree, tuck the eight attached vertical strings of lights down and around your tree's branches, plug into your nearest electrical outlet, and then choose one of the 31 possible colorful displays, which include steady, wave, scroll, fade, and spin in several different colors.
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" The film did receive a number of negative reviews. Chuck Bowen of Slate wrote that "Nightingale is tediously literal-minded and anal- retentively 'worked out.
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The director intended to make a horror movie, but failed to create that effect: According to Time Out magazine, it turns out to be "just tediously violent".
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However, Innocent XI backed down after thrice failing to achieve the support of the majority of his cardinals for a bull banning nepotism,Chadwick, 1981, p. 304. which had been tediously composed between 1677 and 1686.
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Ruadhan Mac Cormaic, legal affairs correspondent for the Times, reported that many lawyers were privately sceptical that the court would reduce the backlog, and that if its cases were perceived tediously technical it might struggle to recruit high-quality judges.
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A contemporary review, reviewing a 102-minute version of the film in the Monthly Film Bulletin noted that the "script is so tediously predictable that interest fades well before the halfway mark" stating that "some very obvious cuts [...] may be partly to blame".
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The last decade of his life was spent preparing the printed version of his lectures. He also became interested in politics, and joined the Constitutional Democratic Party. Maxim Gorky records the following dictum by Leo Tolstoy: > Karamzin wrote for the tsar, Solovyov wrote lengthily and tediously, and > Klyuchevsky wrote for his own pleasure.
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Dealing with Dragons is a young adult fantasy novel written by Patricia C. Wrede, and is the first book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles series. The novel chronicles the adventures of the princess Cimorene, who escapes her tediously ordinary family to become a dragon's princess. It received the 1991 Minnesota Book Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction.
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The plot was unusually weak, merely loose as usual, or better managed. The style was careless as ever, or purer and more elegant. The presentation of the northern isles was vivid, or it was tediously minute. A third of the reviews were almost entirely enthusiastic, a smaller number were dismissive, and the rest came up with 'middle rank' verdicts.
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Macworld wrote that The X-Files Games "excellent use of QuickTime video is offset by tediously slow sections." The X-Files Game was a finalist for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' 1999 "Adventure Game of the Year" and "Outstanding Achievement in Character or Story Development" awards, although it lost these prizes to Grim Fandango and Pokémon Red and Blue, respectively.
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Arguing that the beginning of the film was "tediously padded", they thought that the subplot based around Mimmick and Flannigan was unnecessary, and that the actual Great Land of Small - while envisioned as a place like the Land of Oz or The Neverending Story's Fantasia - was "a distinct disappointment" due to its "embarrassingly low-budget production design, and cheap editing tricks".
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There have been many attempts to replace saffron with a cheaper dye. Saffron's usual substitutes in food--turmeric and safflower, among others--yield a garishly bright yellow that could hardly be confused with that of saffron. Saffron's main colourant is the carotenoid crocin; it has been discovered in the less tediously harvested--and hence less costly--gardenia fruit. Research in China is ongoing.
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The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 37% based on 35 reviews, with a weighted average of 5.41/10. The critical consensus reads, "Close puts a welcome female-fronted spin on the prototypical action thriller; unfortunately, the rest of the movie's ingredients are tediously predictable." Metacritic rated it 51/100 based on eight reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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Under Defeat HD also has improved shadowing and textures. Because the textures were originally created in high resolution, the team used those to replace the lossy versions used in the original though some pixel art needed to be tediously enlarged. The team also needed to manually reproduce the deferred background polygon rendering, a process handled by PowerVR technology in the original arcade and Dreamcast hardware.
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It would be in their work, in which they tediously pored through a dictionary, that a list of roughly 18,000 words was created. This was then condensed to just 4500 words and used to described personality traits. This list of words was reduced down to 35 terms by researcher Raymond Cattell. After allowing other researchers to rate the list, he performed a factor analysis, which produced 12 factors.
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Gopher has a very plain personality; he is rarely seen outside of his burrow so not much is known about him socially. He is generally a hard-worker, especially in his mine shafts (tunnels) and spends most of his time tediously working on them. Despite his low social life, Gopher is not a silent character; while talking to the other animals, he has a habit of whistling out his sibilant consonants.
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However, each actually began "as office boy out the back, tediously filing admission receipt dockets until they learnt to carve their own niche". They were employed in Amalgamated Theatres from when they left school in the late 1950s.Michael Moodabe, Peanuts and Pictures: The life and times of MJ Moodabe, Michael Moodabe, Auckland, 2000, p. 76. On the retirement of their father and uncle, Royce became managing director and Joseph and Michael had management roles.
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Metacritic, a review aggregator, rated the film 36/100 based on four reviews. Joe Weissberg of Variety wrote, "Future art historians may use Joe Swanberg's latest to illustrate the paucity of ideas and means in the 2010s." Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called the premise "tediously obvious". Michelle Orange of The Village Voice complimented the lighting and mood, which she said don't make up for the lack of story or character development.
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This would require a thick client and might be characterised by a long delay to start and stop (while a whole complex drawing was transferred), but quick to edit. Conversely, a thin client could download just the visible parts of the drawing at the beginning and send each change back to the server to update the drawing. This might be characterised by a short start-up time, but a tediously slow editing process.
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Shishkov's design for the scene in Marina's Boudoir (1870) Scene 1: The Boudoir of Marina Mniszech in Sandomierz [Poland] (1604) Maidens sing a delicate, sentimental song ("On the blue Vistula") to entertain Marina as her chambermaid dresses her hair. Marina declares her preference for heroic songs of chivalry. She dismisses everyone. Alone, she sings of her boredom ("How tediously and sluggishly"), of Dmitriy, and of her thirst for adventure, power, and glory.
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Paw Oo Thet himself differentiated between his commercial work, often executed tortuously and tediously, and his serious painting, inspired by deeper creative impulses, which flowed freely and unconsciously. He regarded himself as an expressionist painter. And it is in this third genre that his most serious work was done, usually in oil. But it is very difficult to describe this work with an ism, for once the inspiration began, the outcome of the painting was fairly unpredictable.
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Walkure Romanzes story revolves around Takahiro Mizuno, a student studying at an academy with jousting as the main focus for sport. Takahiro acts as an advisor to the riders of the sport. Takahiro goes through each day tediously until the time of the annual competition draws near. Due to some odd circumstances, his childhood friend Mio Kisaki is challenged to a duel and she is forced to participate even though she has never even ridden a horse before.
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Disregarding the Speaker's instructions is considered a breach of the rules of the House and may result in the suspension of the offender from the House. In the case of grave disorder, the Speaker may adjourn the House without taking a vote. The Standing Orders of the House of Commons do not establish any formal time limits for debates. The Speaker may, however, order a member who persists in making a tediously repetitive or irrelevant speech to stop speaking.
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All five (5) Positive Prints have critical problems on color decay and focus problems that heavily affected the image. The film elements have emulsion and base damages that have caused severe line scratches in the picture. Reconstruction for the best copies that were used for each reel was tediously performed to achieve the best quality for digital restoration. The most drastically affected reels are R3, being the only copy available and R5 due to the advanced chemical decay and focus problems.
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As the fog lifted, they realized that they had not climbed the main peak; instead the highest point appeared to the northeast as a broad rocky summit. Finally, crossing the icy South Arête they reached the Great Möseler after two and a half more hours at 12.30 pm. As the weather cleared, Tuckett now realized that even the tediously conquered Großer Möseler was not the highest mountain in the Zillertal Alps. To the west, an icy summit towered even higher above them.
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These grains were capable of being used for soups (speltiods) or tediously ground into simple flours and baked goods. During the second phase an Emmer wheat was produced that was an alloquadraploid species and this contained more gluten, making baking more efficient. This also spread during the neolithization but in places such cultivars were a minority. One variant of emmer wheat is called durum wheat and is the source of semolina flour, used in making pastas and other food pastes.
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" Metacritic gives the film a weighted average rating of 30 out of 100, based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a "C" on an A+ to F scale. Although Tobin Bell's character was killed in Saw III, his Jigsaw persona sustains a crucial part in every sequel. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly said that "Saw VI is the thinnest, draggiest, and most tediously preachy of the Saw films.
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St.Game in 1984 criticized Universe for the Atari's slow performance, stating that "a lethargic running speed and endless disk swaps make it very, very slow going ... slow graphics routines tediously draw pictures that have no bearing on the game". The magazine concluded that "The concept, imagination, and detail behind Universe are superb. Were it not for the slow speed, it would be a perfect game", but the slow speed made it unplayable. Computer Gaming World in 1984 published two reviews of Universe.
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Another factor is Jones' conservative-minded attitude, as opposed to the liberal-minded Ibsen. Jones' comedies such as The Liars and Joseph Entangled have a slack construction, both tediously drawn out from a premise whereby a non-adulterous couple is caught in a compromising situation. In contrast, his dramas such as The Hypocrites, The Lie, and Mrs Dane's Defence have a tight construction with some striking scenes. The action in either style mostly represents ordinary people in conflict over amorous relations.
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Finally, Iran surrendered its right to annul the agreement, and settled on a complex and tediously elaborate arbitration process to settle any disagreements that would arise. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company continued its large Persian operations although it changed its name to the AIOC in 1935. By 1950 Abadan had become the world's largest refinery. In spite of diversification the AIOC still relied heavily on its Iranian oil fields for three-quarters of its supplies, and controlled all oil in Iran.
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Since programs were tediously input with punched cards, the compiler had a high tolerance for error, attempting to bypass or even correct problem sections of code. Students could submit a program by 5 PM which would be compiled or run overnight, with results available the next morning. It was initially run on the Burroughs 220 and later extended to the Control Data Corporation CDC 1604. In 1966 it was superseded by CUPL, a batch compiler for teaching which ran on the IBM System/360.
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The episode was written and directed by series co-creator Trey Parker, and was rated TV-MA L in the United States. The episode's title, and main plot, refers to the 2009 film The Human Centipede (First Sequence). This episode parodies reports about tracking software built into Apple's iPads and iPhones, and also the tediously long end-user license agreements. The making of the episode was the subject of the TV special, 6 Days to Air, which aired on Comedy Central on October 9, 2011.
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The film was widely panned by MormonThe Book of Mormon Movie, Deseret News and non-Mormon critics.The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey Variety described it as "[w]ell meaning but often as tediously earnest as a Sunday sermon".The Book of Mormon Movie Volume 1: The Journey In the Bloggernacle, A Motley Vision gave it a grade of C–.Review: The Book of Mormon Movie (C-) Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes scored 17% of 6 critics giving the film a positive review.
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It's the role of Grant's life, and he performs it even more brilliantly than he did Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2." The Sunday Times stated, "It's become tediously predictable to praise this drama but, as Thorpe, Hugh Grant really has proved he's getting better as he's getting older". The Guardian called him "utterly captivating", and the Boston Globe wrote, "Grant is a revelation". The New Yorker stated, "Hugh Grant gives a brilliant performance as Thorpe, whose arrogance, charm, and profoundly evasive nature he captures with subtlety.
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Sasha seems to think so, as she leaves Rosita behind and storms into the Saviors compound on a suicide mission." Some critics noted Rosita's lack of development, but felt the episode was serviceable on improving this. Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handlen felt that "Rosita’s become something of a drag of late, as her rage and self-loathing have made her tediously one note. Her interactions with Sasha, in which she never bothers to hide her resentment over Abraham, have been the worst of it.
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Gunday is all slow-motion and swagger, with nods to Deewaar, Sholay, Kaala Patthar, Kabhie Kabhie and sprinkles of John Woo's doves and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." On the contrary to the positive reviews, Rajeev Masand gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5, terming it "derivative and tediously boring" and writing, "For a while, the film succeeds in grabbing your attention too with its striking period detail and some nicely mounted scenes. But rolling out at 2 hours and 34 minutes, it can't help feeling like a slog.
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Whaleboats were substituted for landing craft, resulting in tediously slow landings and the drowning of men and equipment. 697 men from the 2nd Battalion of the 160th Rifle Regiment landed at Cape Khroni by 0630 hours on 26 December and many drowned in the waves or were incapacitated by hypothermia. Another rifle battalion landed at Khroni later that day with a platoon of T-26 tanks and light artillery pieces. At Cape Zyuk, 290 troops got ashore in six hours but a few vessels foundered on the rocky beach.
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Simon and the Bimichi paintings (2009): (left to right) Simon with his painting Bimichi I; Simon working on Bimichi II. Simon paints primarily with acrylics on canvas, twill fabric, or paper. He builds contrasts and depth into his paintings by applying thin layers of acrylic, one on top of the other, "very gently and very tediously". In the late 1990s he started to experiment with the use of gesso in order to create texture and three-dimensional patterns of relief in his paintings. Conceptually, Simon deployed an intuitive approach to his paintings.
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In Brazil, the movie was released as A Noiva era El The film played Grauman's Chinese Theatre for two weeks starting August 19, 1949. Its New York premiere was on August 26, 1949, at the Roxy Theatre. The opening was originally scheduled for Radio City Music Hall, but filming delays placed the opening in conflict with the Music Hall's schedule. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote a generally positive review, finding that a "tediously long time" was spent setting up the plot but that the film's best scenes were "convulsingly zany stuff".
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Al Michaels was criticized by the New York Post for not broadcasting the game and seeming uninterested in the NBA in general. Barry Horn of The Dallas Morning News said that Michaels was simply "not a basketball guy". Meanwhile, Bill Simmons said during the 2005 Finals that Michaels "shows up for these games, does his job, then drives home thinking, ‘Only five weeks to the [NFL] Hall of Fame Game, I'm almost there!’" Another criticism that Michaels received was that he too often found himself making tediously long-winded explanations.
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It was by then a much reduced service, restricted essentially to the remains of the old oxys dromos. In the west, it survived under the Ostrogoths in Italy, as Cassiodorus reports Theodoric the Great's correspondence.The post (Cursus Publicus) is evidently an institution of great public utility, tending to the rapid promulgation of our decrees. Care must therefore be taken that the horses are not allowed to get out of condition, lest they break down under their work, and lest the journey, which should be rapid, become tediously slow.
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Louis Cousin painted mythological subjects and religious works and was also very appreciated as a portrait painter. The style of Cousin is situated halfway between the Italian and Flemish traditions and is a typical example of the lofty, somewhat tediously decorative style of the High Baroque. Guillermo Ramón Moncada visiting the King of Aragon possibly Charles Some of the altarpieces he painted between 1633 and 1657 for churches in Rome are still in situ (e.g. Virgin Presenting the Child to St Anthony of Padua, 1655, San Marco, Rome).
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Production capacity in Britain and the United States was improved by the invention of the modern cotton gin by the American Eli Whitney in 1793. Before the development of cotton gins, the cotton fibers had to be pulled from the seeds tediously by hand. By the late 1700s, a number of crude ginning machines had been developed. However, to produce a bale of cotton required over 600 hours of human labor, making large-scale production uneconomical in the United States, even with the use of humans as slave labor.
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The New York Times reviewer Manohla Dargis had a positive response to Suzan Crowley's acting and the scenes where the possessed is played by a contortionist, but considered that The Devil Inside was another foray into "a tediously exhausted subgenre that was already creatively tapped out when The Blair Witch Project spooked audiences more than a decade ago." The film's ending, in particular, came under heavy criticism. "Is it the worst movie ending of all time?" David Haglund asked in Slate, citing various negative audience reaction to that aspect of the film online.
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Andrew Sarris has called it "a tender love story in its silent passages...[but] crude, clumsy and tediously tongue-tied in its talkie passages." Charles Higham stated that although "its visual style, initially attractive, becomes a monotonous succession of busy shots, dissolving over each other in a perpetual flurry...[but] the films charm is real." Fejos's third Hollywood film was The Last Performance, another box office success for Universal Studios in 1929. The film starred Conrad Veidt as a stage magician who falls in love with his assistant and was another part sound, part silent film.
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In 1990 the St. Louis Shape-note Singers decided to reprint The Missouri Harmony for historical as well as musical reasons. Before the Internet and online auctions, only a few of the fragile books were known to exist outside of library collections. The group fervently desired to mine the tune book for musical gems, those special tunes that endear this style of singing to its participants. Initially, the group sang from photocopies of The Missouri Harmony, thanks to singer Jeanette Lowry, who tediously fed coins into a copy machine at the Library of Congress to obtain a complete set of its 240 pages.
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Those who are considered to have followed in her footsteps have been referred to as "Janet- come-lately's."While her vocal skills are at least as decent as Britney Spears and the other Janet-come-latelys, it's Jackson's skills as an entertainer—and commanding stage presence—that make her so deserving of the spotlight. Most disappointing was crunk princess Ciara. The Janet-come-lately and her octet of dance-floor acrobats moved with ferocious elegance to tracks like 'Goodies,' but the singer had glaring microphone problems when she spoke—tediously, about the 'importance' of her upcoming sophomore album.
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Hynes came up with the idea for Up the Women in 2009 after she read a piece about a suffragette plot to assassinate former Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Hynes thought it would make a good comedy film and sold that idea to the BBC. However, when she came to research it, she realised that the plot was quite dark and felt that she had written "a probably quite dull, tediously worthy drama", which the BBC passed on. Hynes found that she could not let go of the characters she had created and thought the BBC might want a comedy instead.
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I'd advise you to grab a DVD of 'Waking Ned' and have a fun time cuddled up before your television than waste almost three hours watching these bummer hare and tortoise tediously making it to the finishing line. It remains that even if trimmed down to half its original length, 'Aamayum Muyalum' will still be a strenuous film that will challenge your tolerance every now and then". Akhila Menon of Filmibeat.com rated 1.5/5 and call it as "A Half-baked Movie" and further said "The major drawback of the movie is the weak script which leaves the plot blank at some points.
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This power has been invoked on several occasions since it was conferred in 1902. In addition to maintaining discipline, the speakers must ensure that debate proceeds smoothly. If they finds that a member is making irrelevant remarks, is tediously repetitive, or is otherwise attempting to delay proceedings, they may order the member to end the speech. Before a debate begins in which "many members have expressed a wish to speak" or in which allotted Parliamentary time is short, the Speaker may ask honorable members for (in reality demand) Short Speeches, under which they set a time limit (at least eight minutes).
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" He further noted, "To its credit, the title delivers some fun new boards and mini-games, and the multiplayer experience is as robust and enjoyable as ever." He then went on to criticize the game's single-player mode: "But it in contrast dishes out a worthless single-player mode marred by tediously slow computer-controlled character interactions. And the overall presentation of the story, cut-scenes and real- time achievements is only passable." He called the game "a decent sequel to an aging franchise", noting, "the only people that should truly be interested in it are those dedicated to multiplayer parties.
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Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote in a mixed review, "Here is a staggering combination of cinema brilliance and sheer banality, of visual excitement and verbal boredom, of historical pretentiousness and sex." Crowther thought that even Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross "had nothing to match the horrendous and morbid spectacles of human brutality and destruction that Director Mervyn LeRoy has got in this. But within and around these visual triumph and rich imagistic displays is tediously twined a hackneyed romance that threatens to set your teeth on edge."Crowther, Bosley (November 9, 1951).
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Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News said that Michaels was simply "not a basketball guy". Meanwhile, Bill Simmons said during the 2005 Finals that Michaels "shows up for these games, does his job, then drives home thinking, 'Only five weeks to the [NFL] Hall of Fame Game, I'm almost there!'" Another criticism that Michaels received was that he too often found himself making tediously long-winded explanations. In return, he would tend to talk over two or three possessions in a row (which Michaels seemed to be better suited for football and baseball broadcasts, for which he's better known for).
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Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times panned the film, writing, "Darryl Zanuck must have had his back turned when Circumstantial Evidence slipped out the front gate of the Twentieth Century-Fox Studio. For a sillier and more tediously worked-out piece of crime melodrama than the picture which opened yesterday at the Rialto hasn't reached Broadway in a long, long time. Circumstantial Evidence is so full of hackneyed and incredible plot turns that one can never get even slightly interested in the involved set of circumstances which almost send a quite innocent, if belligerent, Michael O'Shea to the electric chair."Crowther, Bosley.
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Stylus Magazine's Ryan Foley shared similar views, describing it as "beyond infectious" and claiming that they fill "their three-minute, pop-punk ditties with melodic snarl, flouncing sass, and enough lusty sing-along parts to keep the punters busy". IGN's Chad Grischow gave the album an Outstanding rating in his review of the album saying it was "not the most refined album you will buy this year, but surely one you will not regret". Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine was less favourable, calling it "tediously misogynistic" and "instantly memorable but thankfully wordless". Costello Music was voted the fourth-worst Scottish album ever in a 2007 online poll of music fans.
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These provisions while appearing favourable, are widely agreed to have represented a squandered opportunity for the Iranian government. It extended the life of the D'Arcy concession by an additional thirty-two years, negligently allowed APOC to select the best , the minimum guaranteed royalty was far too modest, and in a fit of carelessness the company's operations were exempted from import or customs duties. Finally, Iran surrendered its right to annul the agreement, and settled on a complex and tediously elaborate arbitration process to settle any disagreements that should arise. Despite the resolution of the Iranian dispute with APOC, Teymourtash remained incarcerated in prison, and charges of minor embezzlement were leveled against him.
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The 2010 Under-19 Cricket World Cup was held in New Zealand in January 2010. The tournament was hosted in New Zealand after the ICC took it away from Kenya on the flimsiest of reasons which ridiculed its own mission to spread the game. Kenya were further kicked by the ICC as their side was not allowed to participate as it had not won the African qualifying event - a weakened side had been fielded as at the time, as hosts, they did not need to qualify. As it was, New Zealand did a decent job but crowds were dismal and the group stages were as tediously predictable as in the senior tournament, with the better-funded big nations dominating.
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Breen called three playoff games for the network in 2005, the most notable being Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals with Hubie Brown. Al Michaels was criticized by the New York Post for not broadcasting the game and seeming uninterested in the NBA in general. Barry Horn of The Dallas Morning News said that Michaels was simply "not a basketball guy". Meanwhile, Bill Simmons said during the 2005 Finals that Michaels "shows up for these games, does his job, then drives home thinking, ‘Only five weeks to the [NFL] Hall of Fame Game, I'm almost there!’" Another criticism that Michaels received was that he too often found himself making tediously long-winded explanations.
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In addition, Felix Cheong of Channel NewsAsia found the subplots involving the antagonists' families redundant, detracting from the main story and making the film "tediously long". However, Chan was praised for his decision to play a darker character in Rob-B-Hood. Andrew Sun of South China Morning Post stated that "one of the best things Chan can do for his flagging movie career is to play a heavy—a nasty, scum-of-the-earth antagonist, since you do not always have to play a hero to be a hero." Sun emphasised the need for Chan to show flexibility in his roles, citing a number of actors that have thrived by playing the occasional villain.
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Phil Hall of Film Threat calls it "far too entertaining to be considered as the very worst film ever made". Likewise, John Wirt of The Advocate goes as far as to call it "the ultimate cult flick", and Videohound's Complete Guide to Cult Flicks and Trash Pics states, "In fact, the film has become so famous for its own badness that it's now beyond criticism." Ian Berriman of SFX commented about the unintentional comedy, "Some things are best watched at 3 am, wrapped in the warm glow of drunkenness ... Plan 9 From Outer Space is one of them." The Radio Times Guide to Films described Plan 9 as "the worst film ever made" and "tediously depressing".
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I of the Dragon has some short-term appeal, but over time it makes you feel like a glorified exterminator, tediously eliminating an endless stream of generic monsters for no real reason." IGN gave it a 4.5 with also a statement: "All of this is really a shame, because I of the Dragon had some neat ideas that could have made for one great game. I mean, who wouldn't want to play as a dragon raining fire down on hordes of hopeless creatures while they cringe in fear of your greatness? Unfortunately the poor implementation just makes for one sloppy experience that's not even worth playing when there are so many great titles out this time of year.
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Nate Silver" case, see John Cassidy, "Brooks vs. Silver: The Limits of Forecasting Elections ", The New Yorker, October 24, 2012. After a post-election appearance by Silver on Joe Scarborough's Morning Joe, Scarborough published what he called a "(semi) apology", in which he concluded: Silver's nondisclosure of the details of his analytical model has resulted in some skepticism. Washington Post journalist Ezra Klein wrote: "There are good criticisms to make of Silver's model, not the least of which is that, while Silver is almost tediously detailed about what's going on in the model, he won't give out the code, and without the code, we can't say with certainty how the model works.
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The review argued that the book's contentions were "all perfectly to the point", and that the book was "well-argued", but due to its orthodox left-wing perspective omitted some potentially interesting lines of inquiry such as the possible influence of Hitchens's youthful bisexuality on his depictions of Gulf War soldiers. The book was forcefully denounced by Fred Inglis in The Independent, however, as "sectarian and mean-spirited". Colin Woodard of The Washington Post, meanwhile, described Seymour as an "over-zealous prosecutor" who "insists on advancing his argument from solid ground onto very thin ice." George Eaton of the New Statesman described the book as a "hatchet job," criticising its "embittered, polemical" and biased tone and its "tediously inflated" prose.
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In the end of his essay, Rowe transfers his approach to the shared sympathy of Le Corbusier and Palladio for the mathematical description of the ideal villa by discussing the Villa Savoye in comparison to Palladio's Villa Rotonda, which he sees as analogous. In his famous closing quote, Rowe gives his highest compliment to both Palladio and Le Corbusier together stating that Palladio and Le Corbusier had "become the source of innumerable pastiches and of tediously amusing exhibition techniques; but it is the magnificently realized quality of the originals which one rarely finds in the works of neo-Palladians and exponents of 'le style Corbu'". For Rowe, in the end these two master architects would have the more enduring word on the mathematics of the ideal villa than the majority of their followers.
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"The New York Times Justin Chang of Variety also allotted the film a positive review, writing, "Dormer is sympathetic enough in her double scream-queen roles, and Zada shows an occasional aptitude for generating suspense through framing, music and sound design, even if the beats he hits are often tediously familiar."Variety Slate's David Ehrlich said that the film's release date was the most significant indicator of its lack of quality. "Every year, during the first proper weekend of January, the studios' niche labels trot out the horror movies they know have nothing to contribute to society and leave them for dead in your local multiplex," he wrote. "[A]nybody with access to a calendar already knows that The Forest is bad; at this point, that's less of a presumption than it is a tradition.
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Ombra is under constant threat by the Adderhead's men, who have killed nearly every young adult male in the city and regularly kidnap children to work them in the mines. The only figure standing in their way is the romanticized "Bluejay", a thief created by Fenoglio in a series of songs that were inspired by Mo who is now "stuck" as the "Bluejay" and is in as much trouble as ever. Meanwhile, Orpheus, who has been tediously changing the story, succeeds in calling a meeting of the robber graveyard to get the Bluejay to bring Dustfinger back to life and die in the process. Mo agrees, and summons the White women, who bring him to the world of the dead for what turns out to be three days.
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" Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Nick Romano gave the episode a "B" grade. He felt the moment where Sasha sacrificed herself and told Rosita to flee was a bit "forced" and felt that, "By all accounts, she seemed like she wanted to live." He liked the bonding scene between Sasha and Rosita, and felt that, "A moment like this was needed for Rosita, who’s been frustrating to watch for some time as she makes reckless decision after reckless decision." Writing for The A.V. Club, Zack Handlen gave the episode a "B-" grade. He commented that the episode "manages something I thought was nearly impossible at this point: it made me care about Rosita and Sasha’s friendship. Rosita’s become something of a drag of late, as her rage and self-loathing have made her tediously one note.
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According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, modern historians of drama have generally considered Griffith's plays "undistinguished, often dramatically inept and tediously sententious" (175). Modern readers often feel uncomfortable with the conflicting relationship between women's ability and wifely duty and the general tone of subordination to men encompassed within the play. Though there remains very little scholarly work on Griffith's life and literature, her body of work represents both an interesting life and an illustration of the struggles of an ordinary woman of modest means attempting to make a career for herself in the 18th century. While not as well known to modern times as her contemporaries (like Susanna Centlivre), she was certainly a prolific writer in her own period and had made her name in the literary world by the time of her death.
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The result lacks bite—the one element that zombies and Austen should have in common." Helen O'Hara of The Daily Telegraph also gave two out of five stars, saying "If it had been more elegant in its storytelling, it could have been a fun genre crossover, but the best efforts of Steers and his cast can’t turn the overstuffed book into a film that makes any real sense." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review, saying "Both pride and prejudice still play their parts, but now in service to one tediously repeated joke: the sight of a gentleman or a lady, together or alone, playing cards or ballroom dancing, fatally swarmed by devouring zombies." Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com gave the film one and a half out of four stars, saying "Like the novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the movie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is predicated on a simple, single gimmick: It’s Pride and Prejudice … with zombies.
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Saravanan is one of the few Carnatic flautists in the world, who has tailor made his flutes ranging from the venu to the bansuri by himself, partly due to his skill in recognising the accuracy of the swaras, which are often difficult to achieve in flutes. By recreating the 7 hole bansuri flute in the bamboo (from Kerala) used by venu flutes, he has widened the avenue of Carnatic style Bansuri playing in Carnatic music which was pioneered by his famous guru. This is a tediously time-consuming process taking years to form in timbre and quality before reaching the concert platform. In using these heavier yet deep base flutes which often require heavy blowing techniques as in the venu flutes to achieve the tonal clarity of the bansuri flutes made of the Assam bamboo, he is able to bridge the worlds of both the bansuri and the venu into a single classical dimension by playing both North and South Indian ragas with ease.
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It required well-matched complementary transistors, of both npn and pnp types, that could not yet be implemented in a silicon integrated circuit. Contemporary junction isolation technology offered poor-performing p-n-p transistors, so integrated cicuit designers had to rely on n-p-n transistors alone. The Gilbert and Dolby circuits were easily integrated in silicon, but the Blackmer cell had do be assembled from tediously selected, precision-matched discrete transistors. To ensure isothermal operation, these metal-can transistors were firmly held together with a thermally conductive ceramic block and insulated from the environment with a steel can. The first hybrid integrated circuits of this type, the "black can" dbx202, were manufactured by Blackmer's company in 1973. Five years later Blackmer released the improved dbx202C "gold can" hybrid IC; total harmonic distortion decreased from 0.03% to 0.01%, gain control range increased from to . In 1980 Blackmer released a different version designed by Bob Adams, the dbx2001. Unlike earlier Blackmer cells that operated in lean class AB, the dbx2001 operated in pure class A. Distortion dropped to less than 0.001%, however, noise and dynamic range of dbx2001 were inferior to those of class AB circuits.
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