Sanders eschews relationships and deal making to a fault, while Biden fetishizes them to a fault.
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In both melody and arrangement, it's tasteful to a fault.
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We already know that Murphy is intentional to a fault.
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Personally, I have always been very thin — to a fault.
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How to Be Single follows these archetypes to a fault.
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It turns out that was true almost to a fault.
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The Vietnam War humanizes the conflict almost to a fault.
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Janeway was a brilliant polymath and loyal to a fault.
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Unlike Guardiola, he does not emphasize possession, to a fault.
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She's as loyal as it gets — sometimes to a fault.
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Hers, however, can come off as unsparing to a fault.
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She was often too proud and generous to a fault.
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But one man has beaten the odds, perhaps to a fault.
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I'll be the first to admit: I'm punctual to a fault.
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The game revels in this disorienting effect, sometimes to a fault.
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Other countries are, to a fault, intent on demonstrating their strength.
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As an investor, Tata is long-term almost to a fault.
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Gus is nice — or thinks he's nice — almost to a fault.
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He is an unfailing gentleman and is courteous to a fault.
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They were soft to a fault and broke apart very easily.
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And others just seemed more easily persuadable, trusting to a fault.
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Forthright to a fault on Tuesday, Woods wasn't buying that theory.
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What results is visually minimalist and low-key to a fault.
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But his playing here was refined and intimate to a fault.
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He's as calm as it gets, really, to a fault sometimes.
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Sanders is uncompromising to a fault and his plans are unrealistic.
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Kind to a fault—that is, if he had a fault.
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He enjoyed his wealth and was generous to a fault, say friends.
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At $65 billion including debt, Bayer's offer is generous to a fault.
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But the sleek design of the device is almost to a fault.
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Second, the current national park fee system is generous to a fault.
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I believe it with all my heart and soul, to a fault.
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Most of the novel, however, focuses on Cooper, sometimes to a fault.
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Coolidge is remembered today mainly as Silent Cal, taciturn to a fault.
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Sometimes, Jeff is a mature adult, if straight-arrow to a fault.
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Contrast that with Ronald Reagan, who was maybe optimistic to a fault.
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But I'm a bit of a pessimist and cautious to a fault.
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The mode is epistolary, poetic, occasionally honest to a fault … and moral.
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" He added, "Generous to a fault, sadly leaving the fam with some debt.
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Besides, at the time I was also very idealistic—almost to a fault.
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When it comes to the music I love, I'm possessive to a fault.
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UI-wise, we're talking basic The Saga's UI is simple to a fault.
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Frances's husband, Robert (Thomas Haden Church), seems incapable of crisis, to a fault.
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Former aides have described him as demanding and particular, sometimes to a fault.
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"She's very naïve and kind and open, but to a fault," she said.
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I think I can be forgiving to a fault, if that makes sense.
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A keen sense of self-awareness, almost to a fault, permeates each essay.
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My mother is incisively bright, supportive, loyal, deeply loving, and steadfast to a fault.
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Newsom's report calls for changing liability for wildfire damage to a fault-based system.
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Lattimore was considered the most textually accurate of modern translators, perhaps to a fault.
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"My personality is that I'm a straight shooter — almost to a fault," says Perry.
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His approach today can still be characterized as unsentimental and rational to a fault.
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Holey Moley is manic to a fault, and probably about 25 percent too much.
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Williams, fired after last season, was detail-oriented and regimented perhaps to a fault.
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In fact, the record commits to Turner's sleazy old man persona to a fault.
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That philosophy, while sometimes necessary, has been deployed to a fault in the Yaris.
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These stories generally don't make Greenspan look bad, just politically astute to a fault.
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Leave it to Steve to be loyal to a fault, even as an outlaw.
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Acura took a rational and practical approach to premium sportiness, perhaps to a fault.
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That sequence is "Fleabag" in a nutshell: irreverent, lewd and upfront to a fault.
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But when debt is really cheap, borrowers load up on it, to a fault.
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Through it all, the count is unfailingly suave, urbane, and charming to a fault.
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"He's a deeply loyal guy, maybe to a fault," one GOP source said of Trump.
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We were both known for being incredibly dedicated to our work, sometimes to a fault.
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You're not alone if you think padded headbands and scrunchies feel... youthful to a fault.
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The recall is due to a fault with the cars' air bags, the agency said.
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He was a man of simple tastes, and he was a loyal to a fault.
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Speaking of nostalgia, Stranger Things' first season relied heavily on it, almost to a fault.
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It was a surprising performance from a politician routinely labeled as safe to a fault.
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Known for being extremely bright, he was also frank and outspoken, sometimes to a fault.
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""He had his family&aposs, friends&apos and teammates&apos backs even to a fault.
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They are earnest to a fault; you'll find no melodrama here (or even much drama).
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And as Claire rises in importance, the series embraces that idea, almost to a fault.
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He's just really … And I can totally be myself with him, sometimes maybe to a fault.
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And when you consider that even they are distilled to a fault, that's saying a lot.
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I'm transparent to a fault, sometimes — I write from my experience and the people around me.
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Financial advisors are well versed in helping their clients understand their finances — sometimes to a fault.
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In response to Trump, Clinton has presented herself as an all-inclusive candidate—to a fault.
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She's self-reliant and individualistic to a fault, sneering at all those who try to help.
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Every outfit seamlessly and subtly (almost to a fault) defines each character, further elevating their personalities.
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He has published three collections: To A Fault (2005), On Purpose (2007), and Go Giants (2013).
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A thorough account of the former Fed chairman's rise depicts him as political to a fault.
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The music is gently perfumed and unhurried — perhaps, at 40 nearly stationary minutes, to a fault.
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But it is clear now that Wells Fargo has become hyper-sensitive, perhaps to a fault.
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Warren pays close attention to knocks against her and responds to them, potentially to a fault.
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Fours, like me, are thought to be sensitive to a fault, like Cancers of the zodiac.
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Trump on Twitter By its nature, and perhaps to a fault, modern political reporting thrives on narrative.
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But some of us grow up to be prolific liars, while others are honest to a fault.
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The mode is epistolary, poetic, occasionally honest to a fault (the Youngstown remark, for example) and moral.
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He always looked the part, and his campaigns were efficient and drama-free -- to a fault sometimes.
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That's why I know I'm good at my job — I used to be empathetic to a fault.
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The recall is due to a fault in the safety belt mechanism of back seats, the agency said.
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He enjoyed his wealth and was generous to a fault, friends said, and he was smitten by Meza.
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I [recently] took a personality test [which revealed that] I'm the most logical, pragmatic person to a fault.
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In person, Cook is friendly, funny, warm and relatively open (though he can be practiced to a fault).
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Petersen's version of Das Boot was punishing in its pacing, Hulu's version is fleet almost to a fault.
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Casey is also comically demonstrative, almost to a fault, stomping and clapping in the direction of opposing players.
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The eponymous lead of the '90s teen drama Dawson's Creek is notoriously sincere and sentimental to a fault.
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"There's one theory that the most effective leaders are adversarial, and tough almost to a fault," he said.
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Yusuke is cripplingly shy, humble to a fault, and completely inexperienced when it comes to the opposite sex.
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If Bloomberg's case against Sanders is overly aggressive, Warren's is characterized by being subtle almost to a fault.
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Dohrn: We also wanted the song to show what a positive attitude Poppy has, maybe to a fault.
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The painting style can look loose to a fault, flabby, but it can also point, bracingly, toward de Kooning.
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In April 2015, a similar incident occurred, with Russia attributing the failure to a fault with the Soyuz rocket.
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WATTERS: And the president, as Kennedy mentioned, has been burned by being such a loyal person to a fault.
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"You were expected to be competitive to a fault," he continued, noting that he looked up to his father.
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Toronto is mysterious and yet completely transparent; self-conscious to a fault but absolutely extra when the mood strikes.
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He is always well dressed and generous to a fault with his time, greeting you with a friendly handshake.
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No matter how responsibly or irresponsibly we've been consuming it, millennials loved beer in 2016, sometimes to a fault.
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I don't think it's held me back as of now, but I could have been picky to a fault.
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But despite the value of "show, don't tell" for any writer, this author loves using examples to a fault.
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Blunk documents all of this dispassionately, letting the facts of Wright's life speak for themselves — sometimes to a fault.
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They've been anything but fast and aggressive when it comes to removing accommodation (to a fault, many have argued).
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No I am way too, maybe to a fault, but I'm way too receptive to that kind of stuff.
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I continue to read the accolades pouring forth for him: Generous to a fault, kind, best man to work with.
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So the stereotypes that we're selfish little balls of emotions, incorrigible narcissists, and independent to a fault aren't really true.
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GoPro attributed the problem to a fault in the design of the latch that holds the drone's battery in place.
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Mr Mansoor typically focuses on content over style, choosing to pack his films with social criticism, sometimes to a fault.
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"He has the backing of many Democratic senators who feel that he has been patient to a fault," he said.
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With the moon in honest-to-a-fault Sagittarius from Tuesday to Thursday, we'll all feel pumped to express ourselves.
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"He has the backing of many Democratic senators who feel that he has been patient to a fault," said Sen.
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The company is mainstream to a fault, and nothing in the company's line comes anywhere near those smartwatches' insane bulk.
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These federal agencies have been patient and cautious to a fault in their prosecution of the Bundys and their accomplices.
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But "Bitter Wheat," bilious to a fault, also feels scattershot and lazy, problems exacerbated by Mr. Mamet's surprisingly slack direction.
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Chatty to a fault, these gangsters rarely kill without preamble, declaiming everything from philosophy to Fauvism and Buddhism to Brexit.
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EST on 31 January, Portland Aluminium smelter lost power to both potlines due to a fault external to the plant.
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They provide a platform for everyday people to voice their views and connect with one another — sometimes to a fault.
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The show is homogenous to a fault — this year, The Bachelor featured three separate blonde Laurens and one Lauren of color.
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The products just work well with one another to a fault — and once you're locked in, it's hard to get out.
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Sedaris looks psychotically at pieces of meat, too: her food photos act, almost to a fault, as extremely effective appetite suppressants.
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You know he could tear your throat out, but he's loyal to a fault and you just want to hug him.
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Loyal almost to a fault, Holohan would go out of his way to cater to my ever need during fight weeks.
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For Clinton, this is consistent with the campaign as a whole since it began: Packaged, prepared, homogenized, scripted to a fault.
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To a fault, we search for conflict and entertainment, which much of the time, tend to be one in the same.
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It was during those serene moments that his playing was at its most inward, almost (but not quite) to a fault.
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"My father was not a fame seeker; he was humble almost to a fault," Dina Pearlman said in a telephone interview.
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There is an almost Wordsworthian earnestness in Goldsworthy's quest to connect with nature, which is awe-inspiring almost to a fault.
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Mr. Williams is deliberate to a fault, and his stint as Twitter's chief executive in 2008 was not a managerial success.
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" It was sometimes naive to a fault, Sandberg conceded to NPR, adding, "We did not think enough about the abuse cases.
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For he has made a special that works hard to not condescend or speak down to children, sometimes to a fault.
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While their neighbors to the north are humble to a fault, artists in the US are convinced of their own genius.
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And Nick is loyal — to Schmidt, and even to Jess — but it comes at the price of being stubborn to a fault.
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Sadly, Caps' tendency for self-examination can hinder their feelings of satisfaction — and their responsible-to-a-fault attitude doesn't help matters.
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But Rob and Sharon are always honest with each other, often to a fault; neither of them knows how to be otherwise.
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Part of me thinks this feeling is pretty singular to Taylor as a character: a young prodigy who's empathetic to a fault.
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She writes: I continue to read the accolades pouring forth for him: Generous to a fault, kind, best man to work with.
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And the WikiLeaks email dump revealed what insiders have long known: Clinton's inner circle and campaign team are cautious to a fault.
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He speaks with Gregg's same Virginian dialect, commands attention, and is honest to a fault—a source of his stupidly innocent humor.
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" Soon after Sanders became press secretary, her father told reporters, "I know that she is going to be loyal to a fault.
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Because Apple has its sticky software ecosystem and diversity of lock-in hardware accessories, most iPhone users are loyal to a fault.
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This documentary show, created to teach young audiences about the experiences of refugees, focuses on optimism and hope, perhaps to a fault.
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But Hawley has conceived him as noble but flawed, a loyal and trustworthy partner to Emmit, but also devoted to a fault.
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Phillips, the author of the acclaimed novel "Prague," is at pains to remind us of the superiority of Asia, sometimes to a fault.
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"I have quite a big mouth, and I'm honest to a fault, which, in print, can get you in trouble," Pompeo told Kimmel.
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When it comes to enjoying an adult beverage outside the confines of a specially licensed facility, the US is puritanical to a fault.
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" Added Hill, Cohen's former boyfriend and best friend: "Here's what: Andy is the most loving person I know — and loyal to a fault.
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The narration is conversational and witty to a fault, teeming with celebrity anecdotes, childhood stories and the overall ridiculousness of being a person.
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President Obama could be deliberative, reticent and cautious to a fault, which spurred an appetite for a more impulsive, visceral, hurly-burly successor.
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" And as he writes each letter, it's clear where he got the word from: Stefani's catchy-to-a-fault 2004 song "Hollaback Girl.
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The phone is almost minimalist to a fault, but it's done in a way that makes other the design of other handsets look busy.
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The more you look at the way networks are using revivals this fall, the more it seems like they're being cautious to a fault.
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They operate with sometimes excruciatingly small circles of advisers, none of whom they seem to trust as much as themselves, often to a fault.
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However, its parent company Facebook is more permissive – perhaps to a fault – favoring the side of free speech first and foremost, over user protections.
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Twitter has relied on ad revenue to a fault and must diversify its portfolio much like Facebook has done in the past few years.
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Moana is respectful to the world it's evoking — sometimes to a fault, given how carefully calculated and celebratory it is when addressing those cultures.
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"I have quite a big mouth and I'm honest to a fault, which in print can get you in trouble sometimes," she told Kimmel.
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And it should be old hat for Mr. Mattos, whose cooking at Isa a few years back was at times interesting to a fault.
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He thrives on that energy, and I think as a result of that, he's been honest to his credit, but maybe to a fault.
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Most of my students, practical to a fault, thought about this like prosecutors and defense attorneys: How could I sell this to a jury?
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That makes it sound grim to a fault, but look at that idea another way, and you'll also see how bleakly funny it is.
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But the most challenging part for Ms. Watt, who describes herself as "organized to a fault," has been deciding how to handle the money.
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His style is languorous, though, and while the movie is peppered with raw humor, he's serious to a fault in depicting his couple's predicament.
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Warren has been the steadiest candidate in this race -- on message to a fault, comfortable in her own skin, charismatic -- for the last several months.
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I developed layers of thick skin there, cultivated an open mind, a loving heart, work ethic, and above all, loyalty -- even if to a fault.
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Black voters have been Obama's most loyal constituency, sometimes to a fault, turning an extraordinary 2008 turnout into historic levels of participation four years later.
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Bain, 33, was a popular and controversial voice in games media, always being very up front about his beliefs and opinions, sometimes to a fault.
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The CW's resident telenovela is lovable to a fault, with characters and storylines bursting with sincerity and care that's rare in most writing and production.
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When I'm on set as an actor, I think I'm so much more aware of making the director's life easier now—maybe to a fault.
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The Olympics can be a showcase, teaching the world just what's being wasted by the Kings, to whom Cousins has been loyal to a fault.
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Brody Jenner was gracious to a fault Friday, clearly wanting to re-set his relationship with the Kardashians ... and his half sister Kylie in particular.
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When he was a competitive candidate, he seemed open-minded to a fault — allegedly prone to adopting the opinion of whomever he'd spoken to last.
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For eight years, we've had a president whose rhetoric, almost to a fault, always emphasized unity and endorsed the middle path between two competing extremes.
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Can you be honest to a fault, and does that fault lure you not merely into wild indiscretion but right to the brink of ferocity?
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The question of how her noble-to-a-fault lover Jon Snow (Kit Harington), secretly the true Targaryen heir, would deal with her shocking transformation loomed.
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They may consider how long it takes you to respond, your intonation and body language, and whether you're being vague, evasive, or honest to a fault.
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And Mackenzie Davis' titular Tully, an overnight baby nurse whose services are provided to Marlo by her wealthier brother, is optimistic and earnest to a fault.
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Seriously, he can repair most things, is loyal to a fault, sports the greatest crossbow of all time, but most importantly, offers one hell of hug.
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" According to Dowd, "President Obama could be deliberative, reticent and cautious to a fault, which spurred an appetite for a more impulsive, visceral, hurly-burly successor.
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Sorry, Merlex 'shippers, but I'm 100% cool with keeping these two loyal-to-a-fault friends without seeing what would happen if the wound up together.
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Tech philanthropists, often to a fault, like to start their own charitable efforts rather than funding preexisting things with proven track records, like the Gates Foundation.
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That was due to a fault with a part of the launch system called the "ground hydraulics accumulator," according to ULA CEO Tory Bruno on Twitter.
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This formidable film is sometimes zealous to a fault: The credits cite more than 200 sources of archival material, from The Washington Post to YouTube channels.
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The polite-to-a-fault Tom responds in kind, telling his favorite lackey that, well, y'know, it's just not great how Greg is making him feel.
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In fact, Jack and Flash Gordon share a number of similarities as well, both honorable to a fault and plunged into strange lands far from home.
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Upheaval in the 1960s spurred this on, as conservatives portrayed Democrats as libertine hedonists, permissive to a fault and at odds with Middle America's clean-cut values.
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"Dawn will always be remembered by us as a gentle soul who was generous to a fault," they said in a statement released by London's Metropolitan Police.
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While Mr. Sergel's adaptation is meticulously faithful to the original story — almost to a fault, some theater critics have complained — Mr. Sorkin plans to take more liberties.
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But it feels polished to a fault, packed with straight-faced sincerity instead of Will Smith's smarmy self-satisfaction or Tommy Lee Jones' crisp, brutally insensitive professionalism.
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Omarosa was loyal "to a fault" when it comes to standing by President Trump, which is exactly like standing by alleged rapist Bill Cosby ... according to her.
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Part of Human Revolution's charm was how decidedly unmodern it was, a janky but earnest cyberpunk game that worshiped at Deus Ex's feet—perhaps to a fault.
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Zootopia might have boiled down a whole bunch of issues relating to prejudice and discrimination into its overarching "predators versus prey" dynamic, oversimplifying itself to a fault.
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Bob: I think one of the things that makes Catherine such a good songwriter is her ability to empathize with other people—almost to a fault sometimes.
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Doreen was once frugal and practical to a fault, owning her own successful business and managing her family's finances at a time when few women did so.
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"thinking of u bb" Trust loyal-to-a-fault Jorah Mormont to still be tracking his Khaleesi's abandoned jewelry through to the edges of Westeros and beyond.
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Comey, conscientious to a fault, is an American patriot who understands that the law and defense of the Constitution stand at the core of the nation's being.
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Generous to a fault, he was loving and kind and had an enormous belly-chuckle that would shake his entire body and dissolve us all into laughter.
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In hindsight, every relationship I've pursued, every opportunity I've seized in the years since I first saw it, has been heavy with honesty, sometimes to a fault.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Most of Kenya suffered a blackout on Saturday due to a fault on a major transmission line serving the capital Nairobi, electricity distributor Kenya Power said.
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I find the Pixel 22's photos to be way sharper than the iPhone 22 and the Note 22 — almost to a fault in a couple of cases.
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Shlesinger, an outspoken feminist almost to a fault, hosts her Girls Night In show somewhat regularly — at every show, a portion of the proceeds go to Planned Parenthood.
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He's been meticulously hands-on with Warped Tour for the last 22 years, perhaps to a fault, and lately it's taking its toll on the 543-year-old.
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Barack Obama's intellectual curiosity and cosmopolitanism was an obvious rebuke to Bush, and Trump is the anti-Obama: rude, belligerent, unwilling to apologize, and assertive to a fault.
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Sleek, highly produced and catchy almost to a fault, tracks like "Heart to Break" and "I Don't Want It at All" push the form to its saccharine extremes.
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Loyal to a fault, Mnuchin offered no public comment last year when the President announced there were "fine people" among the neo-Nazis who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Trump's victory didn't change the numbers, it simply showed that the demographic surges Democrats counted on in 2016 -- perhaps to a fault -- are still a little ways away.
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Six feet six inches tall, with a shock of sand-colored hair, chivalrous to a fault, athletic and handsome, Mr. Givenchy was the epitome of a French aristocrat.
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We were talking about writing stories or being strictly autobiographical before, and this is sort of autobiographical to a fault, where I'm saying everything exactly how it was.
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Hansberry's "Raisin," while radically daring in the Eisenhower era for putting a tale of contemporary black characters on Broadway, is conventional almost to a fault in its dramaturgy.
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Then there's Margaret White, the mother of Carrie, and Norma Bates, the mother of Norman, two obsessive, sexually obsessed Christian parents who smother their children to a fault.
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Olli is humble, nearly to a fault, as perhaps befits a fighter known as the Baker of Kokkola, a moniker as attractively down-to-earth as this film.
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But as I saw the couple making kissy noises to the shepherd through his kennel door, I realized I had relied on dogs for this to a fault.
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She has toed the line down the middle of the middle ground to a fault, and it has served her well for a decade, but these are different times.
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My father was an archetypal baby boomer Korean man: stubborn, rigid, proud to a fault, and driven by a bootstrapping mentality to be the master of his own destiny.
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Then you have the empaths, folks who came out of that crucible who are empathetic to a fault, eager not to displease for fear of trolling or online attacks.
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In Spock, he created the prototypical Vulcan, logical and detached to a fault, but also full of deep and complex emotion — particularly toward his friend, Captain James T. Kirk.
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I think I learned a lot in a sense that I can be generous to a fault and that it was time to focus and apply time to myself.
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Bauer said he recognizes, intellectually, that he should not talk back on Twitter and elsewhere, but he would rather be authentic — even to a fault — than simply spew clichés.
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In the wake of terrorism, Mr. Obama usually projected calm and restraint — to a fault, even some supporters said — and always distinguished violent jihadists from Islam and its adherents.
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At certain moments in the trial, though, his belief that he could diminish a racist practice by saving the life of a white supremacist appeared idealistic to a fault.
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Meticulous to a fault, he said, she was late handing in final revisions on her last edition, having labored over the text correcting even misplaced bullet points or commas.
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In practice, the country's spearheading of the urban Latin movement has been systematically downplayed or otherwise ignored in lieu of a narrative that favors Puerto Rico to a fault.
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The chain, which sold underpriced solid color cotton blend basics as well as a line of ambitious-to-a-fault original designs, had women my age in its crosshairs.
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He was fond, to a fault, of the phenomenological idea of "the percept"—the flash point in the mind where perceptions take form, an instant short of full consciousness.
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Although Caracas has fared far better than Maracaibo, a major outage hit the capital city on Tuesday morning for around two hours due to a fault at a substation.
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To be Obama — to be black, but also have white heritage, but also participate in power structures still primarily designed for white men — is to tread carefully to a fault.
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The answer is simple: Because longer films tend to feel more important, and if there's one thing we can agree on, the Oscars love important movies, almost to a fault.
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I call Winston the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man, because he's improvisational almost to a fault, which leads to unexpected brilliance but also bouts of head-clutching madness.
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"The people who run ESPN, to a fault, pay way too much attention to what I think are insignificant bloggers making irrelevant statements about what happens on ESPN," he said.
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The small team appears capable and hardworking almost to a fault, but given the scale of the problem, they might as well be sifting grains of sand from a toxic beach.
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Image: Voat logoThree years ago, a website was created as a refuge for the communities deemed too hateful or toxic to exist on the lenient-to-a-fault social aggregator Reddit.
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You'd have to love the way you sound on TV. You'd have to be ambitious to a fault and have the absolute dedicated knowledge that YOU know better than everyone else.
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Some of Denise's choices — venturing into the room at the apothecarium on her own, opening the car door to try and claim a can of soda — were nonsensical to a fault.
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Fire hopping is a trick that's exclusive to MK8, and some players involved in the online community are glad to see it leave because it has become pervasive to a fault.
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She remains an enigmatic figure to many in the game: clearly a potential No. 1 with her blend of defensive prowess and baseline power but passive to a fault on occasion.
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She's almost 6 feet tall, strong and stoic to a fault, a classic Sam Spade detective who doesn't quite understand why the rest of the world won't treat her as such.
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Their friendship has grown so close that Williams will be one of Turner's maids of honors at her actual wedding to Joe Jonas, but their connection is sometimes strong to a fault.
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It's too early to say, reports volcanologist Erik Klemetti in Discover magazine: There could be the chance that the previous earthquake added more stress to a fault that was close to rupture.
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I like to think of myself as an obvious Capricorn: I'm dry-witted, responsible to a fault, and I've had a deep concentration wrinkle between my eyebrows since the age of 19.
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While Will Byers is back home, it's clear that, just like the internet, Hawkins has not forgotten about Barb, who is described as being "loyal to a fault" to her friend Nancy.
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" The 32-year-old, who claimed he's "loyal to a fault," said he understands that his relationship with the 19-year-old might turn some heads – what he calls a "natural reaction.
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They described Mr. Farag as a lighthearted man who was often teased by friends for not having married, while Mr. Ouda cut a more taciturn figure and was polite to a fault.
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It's simplistic to a fault, and the high praise surrounding it only serves to highlight the absence of any good shooters for the Rift (or many good games of any kind, period).
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Carefully curated and stylish to a fault, TriBeCa's Independent tends to feel more like a biennial than a trade show, with nearly a third of its exhibitors from outside the United States.
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Though they looked loyal to their antecedents almost to a fault (both house and historical time period), the heaviness had been leeched out of the garments by the skills of the atelier.
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The lovely, loyal-to-a-fault relationship between Rory and Lorelai, rapid-fire dialogue, and, of course, the perfect Emily Gilmore are as present as ever in Netflix's A Year In The Life.
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Rich people are mean snobs; Charity is supportive to a fault; the circus performers are brave and badass; Barnum is a visionary genius, with a vague vision for a world that could be.
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When I sat down with her for a one-on-one interview for the radio show Making Space, it became clear that she is an ideologue and party loyalist, almost to a fault.
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Content is one of Clips' key selling points, along with its simple-to-a-fault UI, and Apple's promised to continue adding new stuff to the app, in order to keep things fresh.
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And Dev is patient to a fault about the whole deal, until the penultimate episode, when he tells Francesca that he's in love with her as they fly around Manhattan in a helicopter.
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When I arrived at Clarke's home on a leafy street in Park Slope, Brooklyn for an interview, I found an artist modest to a fault, given to self-deprecation and even self-doubt.
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I was reading countless magazine articles about "how to entice a man" or "how to keep a man," which left me emotionally needy, overly giving, and nice to a fault in my relationships.
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While the inventors themselves are invariably modest to a fault, the same can't be said for the EPO's president, Benoît Battistelli, recently referred to rather scathingly as "King Battistelli" by one tech website.
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Owner, Supporting StrategiesThe ways I've felt different: I am very direct, honest to a fault, the friend that tells you your jeans don't look good on you when you ask for my opinion.
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Daldry is usually tasteful to a fault, and his camera has a tendency to hold all of his characters at a literal physical remove that allows less of their humanity to peek through.
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If you're pals with the Marvel Chrises, that particularly honest-to-a-fault friend would be Chris Hemsworth, who recently edited an Instagram post to save his friend Anthony Hopkins from a little embarrassment.
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He is chiseled, fierce, and loyal to a fault (his loyalty is what killed him), which almost makes you feel bad for the younger Tarly who had the misfortune of being named, well, Dickon.
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" This isn't to say that Souvannarath was a death worshipping neo-Nazi in her regular life—instead, in court documents, her family described her as someone who would "obey rules to a fault sometimes.
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Going forward, Mr. Putin's legacy depends on which personality prevails: the genuine reformer of the last decade or the inward autocrat of this decade, aggressively provocative abroad and cautious to a fault at home.
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I now realize that what I viewed as our main strengths — complete candor, no subject off limits and a refusal to be politically correct to a fault — could be viewed by others as offensive.
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Voters tend to have short memories (often to a fault), as Democrats learned in 2010 when the electorate punished them badly for a severe recession that clearly started when George W. Bush was president.
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Whistle-blowers emerge as "prickly and doctrinaire"—under ordinary circumstances, stubborn to a fault—but this is what enables them to place conscience above institutional pressures, often at great personal cost, legal protections notwithstanding.
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The first recall of 2,309 cars was due to a headlights fault while the second recall of 772 autos related to a fault with the automatic control of lights and wipers, the agency said.
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King's novel never shied away from the sexual development of his young characters — sometimes to a fault — but it's hard to imagine how audiences would have felt seeing it play out on the big screen.
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They have guarded against a foreign-trade invasion to a fault: hundreds of its 1,598 pages cover national "reservations", protecting everything from the livelihoods of veterinary surgeons in Alberta to executive-search services in Slovenia.
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As it turned out, this ws a very Metal Mary thing to say ("She's humble, which I love, almost to a fault… which makes me a little crazy," says Penance drummer Mike Smail via email).
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Critics' rating: 80%Audience score: 95%Critics' consensus: "'Jojo Rabbit's' blend of irreverent humor and serious ideas definitely won't be to everyone's taste — but either way, this anti-hate satire is audacious to a fault."
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Where the playhouse opened in 2014 with a becalmed production of "The Duchess of Malfi" that dialed down the temperature of Webster's best-known play, this "White Devil" is aggressive and clamorous to a fault.
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No disrespect to my current coworkers—they're smart, generous people, and pun-tolerant to a fault—but the best job I ever had was at a slightly-above-average suburban video store in the mid-'90s.
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Stubborn to a fault, Trump is considering a tariffs war to fund the wall, but this money would be paid by American consumers in the form of higher prices for everything from cars to Mexican beer.
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"Madoff" is Mr. Dreyfuss's show, though, and while the charismatic character he puts on screen, generous and loyal to a fault, may not jibe with our impression of the real Mr. Madoff, he's fun to watch.
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" The story goes on, "He was loyal and honest to a fault, and had been a major supporter of Hillary's since the beginning of what had turned out to be a particularly tough year for her.
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CupcakKe doesn't only go through the typical hip-hop norm of proclaiming herself to be the greatest; she truly presents herself as other, honest to a fault and proud to call anyone else on their bluff.
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When Vice President Mike Pence went to see Hamilton, Miranda penned a spur-of-the-moment address for cast member Brandon Victor Dixon to deliver to Pence, and it was courteous and optimistic to a fault.
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If anything, Bergman suggests that Israel's honed aptitude for clandestine assassinations led the country to rely on them to a fault, approaching some complex strategic and political concerns as problems that an extrajudicial killing could fix.
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While Mr. Bolton has left plenty of bruises over the years and he was accused of politicizing intelligence before the Iraq war, an accusation he denied, many former colleagues said he was forthcoming to a fault.
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With "Anti" — on which Rihanna is free to experiment, and does, sometimes to a fault — we may be witnessing a pop star who's recognized these new economics, and is using them to test the perimeters of possibility.
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Ikea can be criticized for using cheap materials and veneers, but you have to admire its commitment to tasteful furniture design that has — to a fault — raised the baseline aesthetic of the average dorm and living room.
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Featuring Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who executed the remarkable 2009 water landing that became known as the "Miracle on the Hudson," Eastwood has delivered a no-frills affair, almost to a fault.
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Watson is an earnest young actress, sometimes to a fault; she hasn't quite shaken that Hermione-esque eagerness to please, which leaves her stranded in a film that hasn't figured out who she's supposed to be playing.
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The soundtrack, by the "La La Land" guys Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, is "populist to a fault, every song a Voltron-esque evocation of various current pop and rock stars," Rob Harvilla wrote in The Ringer.
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" She is generous, sometimes to a fault: After criticizing Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" for its "fierce but unconvincing satirical commentary" and "pedophobia," she forgives the novel its sins, calling it "astonishing, uneven and often very beautiful.
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Mr. Harrelson, who plays the part of an irascible loner who is blunt to a fault, said that he found it difficult to slip out of character while on the set, even after the cameras stopped rolling.
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George R.R. Martin's book series was concerned with the interplay between its characters and the kingdoms almost to a fault, but the books and show have both set up the game board for a complex and explosive conclusion.
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Confident in his experience to a fault, he was unwilling to shade his deeply held hawkish views, which he defended with a prickly personality that alienated colleagues — and ultimately President Trump himself, leading to his ouster last week.
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Yeah. One of the main reasons we made this movie was because it's about being optimistic to a fault, and thinking that no matter what you need to do to achieve something, as long as you achieve it you'll be forgiven.
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He would rely on his advisers to a fault — whereas Trump, as a terrifying thread from the New York Times' Maggie Haberman alleged Monday, will sometimes go against everything they say just to remind them he's the alpha in the room.
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The EP kicks off with the almost standard punk sounds of "Give It a Name" and "Honest to a Fault," songs that feel in place with other El Paso bands of the time like Sicteens, VBF, and Chinese Love Beads.
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If you have the chance to visit Tijuana, order a Caesar salad and taste the real essence of the city—the one that I always defended to a fault as a kid from the prejudices of gringos and Mexicans alike.
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Spielberg is an old hand with special effects, but here, the world looks artificial and shiny to a fault, and Sophie's interactions with it are reminiscent of the stiff integration of animation and live action in Disney's Bedknobs And Broomsticks.
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Both movies deal with outrageous conduct, and both come alive in the space of one long night, but Bonello, serene to a fault, pursues his characters—even as they plant explosives or brandish guns—with the prowling aplomb of a cat.
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The narrator of the novel, Natalia, is concise to a fault about everything that directly concerns herself—even her husband's death: Arriving in Rome, I breathed a sigh of relief believing that a happy period was about to begin for us.
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League is set in its ways almost to a fault, to the point that any true newcomers must have the courage to wade into an environment where players know the arcane ins and out of almost all of its 131 characters.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today: It's zany to a fault, though: The adventure leans hard into the campy Flash Gordon vibe and slapstick humor, so much so that when the third act save-the-world stuff comes, it doesn't feel completely earned.
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The series has always loved its characters, maybe even to a fault, and that love shines through in this episode, as the survivors gather to mourn their lost friend and colleague, then slowly find ways to patch up their own differences.
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Mario Maker, like so many other games these days, lives and dies by the people playing it, but contrary to the player-first mentality so many other companies adopt, even to a fault, Nintendo leaves its fans in the dark.
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Schamus is a great producer of independent cinema, having overseen—and sometimes co-written—the work of Ang Lee, but this is the first movie he has directed, and the rhythm of the storytelling feels careful and courteous to a fault.
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Lorelai might be stubborn to a fault, but it's refreshing to see her come to her mother and ask for money without shame when she decides she wants to expand the Dragonfly — and for Emily's conditions to be based on love, not blackmail.
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The culprit, it seemed, was the device's touch panel, designed to allow his Home Mini to activate Google Assistant without a verbal command; due to a fault, the device constantly experienced "phantom" touch events that turned the assistant on and began recording.
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This time round, content delivery network provider CloudFlare saw some of its servers go down at midnight UTC on New Year's Day thanks to a fault in some code that saw a number go "negative when it should always have been, at worst, zero".
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The stereotypes are true, in other words: Compared to Europe, we are naïve, bumbling hicks who are socially conservative to a fault, willing to believe pretty much every life lesson handed down by Michael Bay movies, and not really that much fun to be around.
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Clinton has followed the old media playbook by which presidential elections have always been won in the modern era: message discipline, if to a fault (given her severe allergy to news briefings); heavy television advertising; and classic door-to-door get-out-the-vote legwork.
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I felt like I was able to synthesize the early Lucero sound that was very raw, but very intense and honest, sometimes to a fault, and combine that with the things we learned on 1372 and Women & Work—the musical and production things I'd learned.
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Malcolm Francis's almost nonstop score is emphatic to a fault; interviewees extrapolate a "perfect storm" of concurrent catastrophes that could cripple the United States; there's no bright side, and scant hope, just 70 minutes of unrelenting bad news served with dollops of implicit audience-blaming.
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"The delegates themselves are likely to be polite to a fault and enthusiastic about the U.S. stock market performance, but will have difficulty concealing their anxiety about an erratic protection of American power in the world and his own psychological stability," Mr. Malloch-Brown said.
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Atypical chronicles both his and his family's experiences as he navigates the standard high school stories of dating and wanting to have sex for the first time while also being honest to a fault, taking things extremely literally, and indulging his fervent interest in penguins and Antarctica.
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"In a society sometimes fixated to a fault on results, I'm somebody who's a big believer in the importance of integrity of process, and that's part of how I am hoping to sort of steady the ship," Wray said in a speech before police officials in Philadelphia.
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"Mary is the definition of an empath," says her fellow 61c barista Jes Bogden, who also describes Bielich as being generous to a fault, the kind of friend you have to cut in front of in line at the movies so she won't pay for your ticket.
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Then, there are larger and more uneasy conundrums: You wonder how this film affects the cultural accusations that have long been levelled against Disney—that the products charm and infantilize one generation after another, offering a vision of life that is soluble and simplified to a fault.
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Skipping Johnson's party in Malibu — whether because it was simply "too far" or because she had other plans to go to Texas and hang out with George W. Bush — isn't DeGeneres being nice to a fault, but rather a display of DeGeneres's own priorities and personal leanings.
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At first, the storyline is about how Glenn, who's enthusiastic to a fault, keeps saying that America is the best country in the world as Mateo tries to celebrate his Filipino heritage — and when everyone challenges Glenn to back up that claim, he realizes he can't.
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The most prominent active fault on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, Palu Koro is akin to a "fault superhighway," according to Ian M. Watkinson, a seismologist who has studied the area, which is part of an earthquake-plagued arc along the Pacific Ocean called the Ring of Fire.
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Fadell couldn't be further apart from Google's CEO Sundar Pichai, who is widely reported to be humble and team-oriented to a fault, or from Alphabet CEO Larry Page, who often wanders through academic conferences and engages in tête-a-têtes with prominent scientists (without assuming they know who he is).
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"In a society sometimes fixated to a fault on results, I'm somebody who's a big believer in the importance of integrity of process, and that's part of how I am hoping to sort of steady the ship," the new FBI chief said in an address before police officials in Philadelphia.
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Billy Lynn is built to be small — the performances are tiny and subtle (though newcomer Joe Alwyn is tremendous as the title character), the script is nuanced, and Lee loves close-ups, almost to a fault — and to use that smallness to hint at the depth of its characters' emotions.
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For the overwhelming majority of his presidency, Obama was cool to a fault, the constitutional law professor to the core: The kind of person who'd much rather present your argument as one of two competing sides (and then trace a compromise between them) than mock you for the dumbest thing you said.
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Democrats are more inclined toward the first theory, especially since many believe that Obama took nonpartisanship to a fault by failing to respond when FBI Director James Comey upended the final days of the campaign by publicly reopening, and then closing, the dormant investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server.
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First, he acknowledged that the Dodd-Frank Act, which re-regulated Wall Street at length (and to a fault) in 2010, was a compromise among those lawmakers who wanted to break up the big banks in the wake of the financial crisis and those who wanted to leave the status quo in place.
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Which is not to say he wasn't arrogant, because his early years were very much a theater of egomania, often to a fault, but then again how could he not be, how could we not expect him to be: He was a goddamn Emerson poem, lyrical and profound and full of difficult meaning.
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You're patient, possibly to a fault: Atlanta Hawks, New York Knicks, Orlando Magic, Brooklyn Nets, Los Angeles Clippers, Chicago Bulls Even as each one of these organizations embarks on a rebuild with fresh ideas coming in from their front offices and coaching staffs (except Chicago), it's so hard to trust any of them (including Chicago).
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Clinton can be chalked up in part to Americans' struggles to adjust to changing gender roles at home, at work and in politics, her history of political combat has also left scar tissue that, in part, defines the candidate she is: wide-eyed about the realities of Washington, but cautious and wary to a fault.
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While these phones—the Finney by Sirin Labs and HTC's Exodus, both still in the works and aiming for an end-of-year release—claim to offer more security for digital coins than any other mobile device on the market, they may also put the onus on users to be responsible to a fault.
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Facebook's business has complete control of users by offering only a superficial layer of confusing and fiddly, ever-shifting controls that demand continued presence on the platform to use them, and ongoing effort to keep on top of settings changes (which are always, to a fault, privacy hostile), making managing your personal data a life-long chore.
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"Judge Kavanaugh's background as a partisan political operative seems exactly like the kind of man President Trump would want on the Supreme Court if legal issues from the Mueller probe arise, deferential to a fault to executive authority, and with a long track record of partisan politics," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday during floor remarks. Rep.
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Jones's account is evenhanded to a fault: He fails to emphasize the villainous role of Hoover as the chief reason that Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss and his two thuggish accomplices, Tommy Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry, were all old men before Baxley and Jones were able to put them behind bars in a series of three dramatic trials conducted in 1977, 2001 and 240.
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FX's comedy was one of the big critical sensations of the fall, and its star, creator, and sometimes director Donald Glover marked himself as a major creative voice to watch in the world of TV. But the show is also idiosyncratic to a fault, with whole episodes given over to a fake panel discussion program or supporting characters or whatever else it can think of.
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With Roosevelt, Shapiro has more to work with, stitching together a plausible narrative that questions the long-held perception of the first lady as someone who disdained food to a fault and offers instead a nuanced portrait of a woman struggling to seize control of her complicated life — and a woman who saw home economics as a serious and empowering science and did, eventually, find joy in culinary pleasures.
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The Obama administration has always been cautious to a fault, and while in 2012 the appearance of Cabinet officials at the convention wouldn't have necessarily looked like a conflict of interest, with Donald Trump attacking Clinton as a corrupt actor who abused her powers as secretary of state, the appearance that other Cabinet actors are abusing the status of their office by being at the convention might be more harmful this time around.
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