And the reasons that the White House gave were wholly unconvincing and uncompelling.
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Benjamin and Sontag are not arguing that fascist art is aesthetically bad or uncompelling.
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This equally uncompelling piece of 'Zuckerlogic' sums to: 'Don't regulate our privacy hostile shit — or China will get to do worse shit before we can!
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All it took was two headed goals and two strong saves for England to produce a competent, uncomplicated and sometimes uncompelling 21-21 victory over Sweden.
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The opera presents opposing arguments about science and religion but doesn't take a stance on either, concluding instead with a vague and uncompelling musing on the afterlife.
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"The outlook for U.S. assets remains relatively uncompelling and investors should be shopping for value elsewhere," said Hans Redeker, global head of currency strategy at Morgan Stanley in London.
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The problem is that the production, based on a more conventional one that Mr. Spacey performed at the Old Vic in London in 2014 and 2015, is itself uncompelling.
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" —Carl De Torres, then art director "For a long time, WIRED didn't cover much health care or medicine—it was either too pedestrian and uncompelling, or just too far out and fanciful.
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Legal experts on the left and the right believe the arguments being made by Republican-led states are, on their face, uncompelling and unlikely to succeed in overturning the Affordable Care Act.
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"Given legitimate concerns regarding the conduct of the process, a seemingly uncompelling valuation, and a strong standalone case, a vote AGAINST the transaction is warranted under the proposed terms," the ISS note said.
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Arbus is possibly the closest thing America has to Kafka, a profound ironist who simply did not see the world in conventional terms and was — when you strip away the nice-making, the wheedling for money or support and the expressions of garden-variety depression — incapable of saying anything uncompelling.
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Travers also found the detectivework to be uncompelling. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter found Parker's performance to have had its moments.
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The book received a generally positive reception, with reviews also criticizing the confusing and uncompelling narrator. The book was widely reviewed, garnering reviews from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, New Orleans Review, The A.V. Club, Kirkus Reviews, The Independent, and The Seattle Times, among others. The book won a 2006 American Book Award.
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Costambeys, 156, attributes this thesis to Karl Schmid. > "Zur Ablösung der Langobardenherrschaft durch den Franken", Quellen und > Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 52 (1972) 1–36. > Nevertheless, Costambeys finds the thesis of "ethnic tension", which did > from time to time find expression, uncompelling and can discern no "Frankish > sympathy on the part of Farfa's abbots".
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Retrieved on 2011-01-07. Pitchfork Media stated that "Relatively, he's won Round 3 by making his third straight album that's better than it has any right to be-- but the fact that the Game can make perfectly uncompelling competence sound like victory is proof that he's a master thespian of hip-hop theater."Cohen, Ian. Review: LAX .
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The Crystal Empire was a finalist for the 1987 Prometheus Award. Kirkus Reviews found it to be "impressively imagined but overambitious" and "(c)urious but uncompelling", faulting Smith for his "clotted writing" and "hard-to-visualize exposition."The Crystal Empire, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published September 22, 1986; retrieved August 19, 2018 The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction called it "somewhat confused".Neal Tringham and John Clute.
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The film received mixed reviews. The film currently holds a rating of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 125 reviews with an average rating of 5.51/10 with the site's consensus stating that "Robert Zemeckis is unable to salvage an uncompelling and unoriginal film." The film received a score of 51 on Metacritic based on 35 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
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" He continued, "While the subject matter certainly seems rife with dramatic potential, the film handles it in sputtering, uncompelling fashion." The reviewer noted that Denton and Pollack's contributions "elevated the material". The New York Times Andy Webster wrote that it "feels like a religious tract more than a movie." Kenneth R. Morefield of Christianity Today gave the film two stars out of four: "It's not that Grace Unplugged has a bad message: it just doesn't happen to be a great movie.
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Hund finds Comaroff and Roberts' flexibility thesis of a 'repertoire of norms' from which litigants and adjudicator choose in the process of negotiating solutions between them uncompelling. He is therefore concerned with disproving what he calls "rule scepticism" on their part. He notes that the concept of custom generally denotes convergent behaviour, but not all customs have the force of law. Hund therefore draws from Hart's analysis distinguishing social rules, which have internal and external aspects, from habits, which have only external aspects.
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In a review in the Chicago Sun-Times, science fiction and fantasy writer Roland J. Green called Rusalka "one of 1989's better fantasies". While he was critical of Cherryh's "occasional lapses of narrative technique", he said that she excelled in her "characterization, command of the language, world-building, and background in anthropology, linguistics and folklore". A reviewer in Kirkus Reviews said that Rusalka's plot was "pretty good", but complained about it being "plodding, uncompelling, and ... overlong", and that it lacked "atmosphere, tension, chills and thrills".
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Stuck Mojo's first European tour followed, and they were named the best live band by MTV Europe. Their second studio album, Pigwalk, was released on October 8, 1996. Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "Pigwalk captures the pummelling power of the band's intense live shows, yet the group doesn't yet have the ability to construct a memorable riff or hook, leaving Pigwalk as an entertaining, but uncompelling, cross of Rage Against the Machine and Pantera." On March 3, 1998, Stuck Mojo released their third studio album, Rising.
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Even if the concept falls flat, though, T.I. vs. T.I.P. still warrants a listen, if only because T.I. seems constitutionally incapable of releasing an album full of uncompelling music. As a rapper, he's still a dominant voice; his slurry, guttural drawl is a great instrument, and always keeps it deep in the track's pocket, occasionally whipping out tricky double-time patterns or murmuring singsong melodies. The album is perhaps best heard in chunks; only a few of these songs wouldn't sound great on shuffle.
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Oscar Dahl of BuddyTV had difficulty taking Widmore seriously, as seeing Dale made him think of Dale's role in The O.C., and he did not find the reveal that Widmore sent the freighter to be a shock. Tim Goodman from the San Francisco Chronicle was also not surprised by the reveal and found it uncompelling. James Poniewozik from Time was hopeful of a more interesting dynamic between Ben and Widmore following the reveal, as Widmore's quest for the island seemed disappointing. Dan Kois and Lane Brown of New York magazine were unsure how they felt about Widmore and Ben's meeting in "The Shape of Things to Come".
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Jorge Fidalgo from CineDivergente.com praised the film, comparing it to Ingmar Bergman's Persona, writing, "Iván Zulueta, as did Berman with Persona, moves away from the thematic and technical assumptions of conventional cinema, and chooses to play freely with the elements of audiovisual language, making Arrebato a challenge for film exegesis and a quasi-lysergic experience for the spectators." Time Out gave the film a positive review, calling it "A hallucinatory, claustrophobic examination of the secret potency of film itself". Annie Choi from The Bleeding Skull gave the film a mostly positive review, praising the film's cinematography, mood, and director Zulueta's building of tension, while criticizing the film's uncompelling characters, "taxing" narration, and "inscrutable" plot.
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Through the 1980s and 1990s, NASA was often criticized for having relatively unimpressive and uncompelling long-term plans for human spaceflight, although the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, and servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope programs were notable engineering and management achievements. At the same time, NASA's science programs – especially, the space sciences – were widely regarded as successful examples of long-range planning and execution: the robotic Mars and outer Solar System missions, as well as the space astronomy programs. As a consequence, NASA Administrator Goldin, working with Agency senior leadership, created the Decadal Planning Team of about a dozen senior scientists, engineers, astronauts, and managers from its headquarters and all its centers. The activity was led from the start by Dr. James B. Garvin and Ms. Lisa Guerra.
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Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called Cage "one of the few American actors who gets more interesting from film to film", adding that he "comes close to kidnapping the picture as Little Junior, a pumped-up but asthmatic thug who, like King Kong, is a gorilla with a wistful air about him."Kiss of Death – Kenneth Turan review Writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert found the film uncompelling, awarding it only 2 out of 4 stars. Though he also considered the character of Little Junior "overwritten", Ebert did praise Nicolas Cage's performance, calling Cage a "real movie actor" who "plays the role with style and bravado."Kiss of Death review of Roger Ebert The Washington Post wrote that Cage "dominates the camera, stealing scenes by the sheer intensity of his inimitable strangeness" and makes the film "worth seeing".
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"Umbrella" received critical acclaim from music critics. Andy Kellman of AllMusic commented: "'Umbrella' is [Rihanna's best song] to date, delivering mammoth if spacious drums, a towering backdrop during the chorus, and vocals that are somehow totally convincing without sounding all that impassioned – an ideal spot between trying too hard and boredom, like she might've been on her 20th take." Alex Macpherson of British newspaper The Guardian, "Umbrella" is "evidence" that Rihanna's "strict work ethic is paying off", adding that she "delivers [in the song] an impassioned declaration of us-against-the-world devotion". Tom Breihan of Pitchfork, though he complimented the production, dismissed Rihanna's voice which "takes on an unpleasant icepick edge when she tries to fill the space between the slow- tempo beats", adding that the song is "uncompelling as event-pop, particularly because of the disconnect between Rihanna's cold, clinical delivery and the comforting warmth of the lyrics".
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" Scott Weinberg of DVD Talk gave it a positive review, and described the film as "truly an 'old-fashioned' war movie...based on, and adhering very closely to, actual events that occurred in early 1945[.] The Great Raid is not a hyper-kinetic flash-banger like Pearl Harbor, nor it is a cerebral rumination like The Thin Red Line; it's just a well-hewn and efficient re-telling of true story that's worthy of remembrance." He opined that the film was delayed not because it was bad, but because its old- fashioned style is a "tough sell...in today's marketplace." Mike Clark of USA Today said, "Just about any golden age Hollywood hack could have made a zestier drama about one of the greatest rescue missions in U.S. military history," and criticized "Franco's droning voice-over" for spelling out "every sliver of historical context", and also said "a huge chunk of time is given to an uncompelling romance between a major...and a widowed nurse.
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