"I find the internet actually keeps people unfocused," he said.
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If you're unfocused, you can't focus on pleasure or sex.
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Where once he sounded unfocused, he now sometimes sounds befuddled.
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It was quite hard to get a blurry, unfocused shot.
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An unfocused mind While you sleep, your brain is busy.
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Her unfocused response was not what they were looking for.
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Afterward at dinner with friends, he seemed agitated and unfocused.
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She took the pills and began to feel unfocused, unsteady.
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Appetizers and other dishes are appealing, if a little unfocused.
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Try to be focused, and then try to be unfocused.
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The energy, at least at first, feels scattered and unfocused.
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The resulting "scapes" are unfocused and blurry but easily shareable.
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But a lot of it is new, and untrained, and unfocused.
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I didn't get to sleep immediately, so I'm lethargic and unfocused.
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The initial pushback to the Rabid Puppies was unfocused and confused.
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His responses were incongruously sharp in tone, yet unfocused in content.
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It makes sense, given how startups especially are notoriously unfocused on security.
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The clothing is just barely visible, the photos purposely grainy and unfocused.
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If you've been feeling unfocused lately, this will be the cure, Sagittarius.
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And if I let my gaze go empty, unfocused, my eyes tear.
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But it also felt unfocused and tentative, and the pace was halting.
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Those MPs determined to stop no-deal have been divided and unfocused.
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The show's satire can be so brutal to point of being unfocused.
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Littlefinger does not lack drive, but his purpose is unfocused and unclear.
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Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days — which inevitably create a successful life — in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life.
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The mezzo-soprano Violeta Urmana was occasionally touching but often unfocused as Santuzza.
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Hive's wide range of channels of unfocused communication could feel noisy and unnecessary.
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The film's internal logic is too ill-conceived, its overall direction too unfocused.
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Trump himself is singularly lazy, unfocused, and ignorant of how the government functions.
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Yet winning a presidential campaign involves more than simply whipping up unfocused outrage.
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"Its structure makes for an unfocused thesis," wrote Jeannette Catsoulis in The Times.
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On one hand, the experience is exactly what you might think: Frenetic. Unfocused.
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That could make his offering more palatable than Labour's unfocused approach to spending.
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He can be as unfocused, long-winded and prone to misstatement as ever.
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He can be as unfocused, long-winded and prone to misstatement as ever.
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In March Mr Brzezinski called Mr Trump's handling of foreign affairs "chaotic, unclear, unfocused".
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His delivery at a primary debate in September, for instance, was rambling and unfocused.
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You've been feeling unfocused, but now you're zoning into what you need to do.
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His questions were unfocused, like a student trying to learn about a new subject.
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Given these complexities, that he chose to portray our work as unfocused was irresponsible.
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So in spring training, Sanchez told Bohling he felt too unfocused and easily distracted.
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NBC's coordination of Wednesday's Democratic debate in Las Vegas was unfocused and largely inept.
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Conventional wisdom holds that protest in the internet age has become unfocused and ineffectual.
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The more spent I am, the more unfocused and scattered and unproductive I become.
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If you're in a relationship, you might feel unfocused, as if you're on uneven ground.
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One line sums up what could only be generously characterized as an uneven, unfocused speech.
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This is a huge ask, and as a consequence, the series initially feels incredibly unfocused.
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Unlike Yeezus, it won't top many 2016 lists—it's too blatantly imperfect, too flagrantly unfocused.
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But he does put down his six areas of focus for the famously unfocused company.
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At school, he says he was very unfocused, talked a lot, and got bored easily.
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Despite its size, the military had become "flabby" and "unfocused", according to one Western diplomat.
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This could lead to a bigger march, but it could also make that march unfocused.
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Why was Donald Trump so frequently unfocused and rambling during the first general election debate?
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"Over a period of time, Aryzta's strategy became unfocused," Toland said on a call with reporters.
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Some put dark blotches in your field of vision while others make things blurry and unfocused.
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Fear is an emotion directed at a specific threat, but anxiety is an unfocused corrosive uneasiness.
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Though Inquisition had been active as early 1992, the band's early material was messy and unfocused.
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If raw, unfocused youth poses a danger to society, it also poses a threat to art.
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Then you remember what it feels like to daydream and to be in an unfocused state.
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That feeling passed but honestly, I could have done without the sleepless nights and unfocused frustration.
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"The 4th Awakens" is all over the place, both geographically and in its confused, unfocused storytelling.
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The exam came after a new best-selling book portrayed Trump, 71, as unfocused and childlike.
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By the later 1990s, however, his performances could be erratic — sometimes dramatically unfocused, sometimes vocally patchy.
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He looks at the people in the dining room, though his gaze is middle-distance unfocused.
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Compared to the others onstage, especially Harris, his answers were unfocused and his tone was tentative.
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Why is religion such a focus for these movies, but in such an unfocused and generalized way?
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Overall, both sides are "maintaining interest in dialogue, however hampered and unfocused it has been," he added.
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After sounding restless and unfocused on his debut LP, Teenage Emotions, Lil Yachty is having fun again.
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The tariffs are unfocused and inadequate and unlikely to re-create the golden age of American manufacturing.
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Zekes3DGlasses, the Reddit user who criticized Google for its "unfocused" development cadence, is hoping for the best.
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Like the first two episodes of The Assassination of Gianni Versace, this one felt unfocused and overcrowded.
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His voice tight, his eyes narrowed, the President seemed at first unfocused and low energy — perhaps overwhelmed.
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During a long and unfocused speech on Saturday night, Mr. Trump appeared aware of the personal stakes.
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But a senior administration official said the project was shelved because it was too expensive and unfocused.
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They were still heckling the TV people in the media pen, but it felt unfocused, pro forma.
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But this level of ambition can leave a story unfocused, or worse, focused in the wrong direction.
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A lot of Season 4 is relatively dreary and unfocused compared to the rest of the series.
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Miscommunications abound when Mercury in Cancer challenges Uranus on July 11: People are feeling unfocused and flustered.
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It felt unfocused, without a clear major threat, and with new characters that felt unrealized and half-baked.
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"Management appears complacent about the status quo and unfocused on the lack of user growth," the analyst wrote.
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He has written off any further cooperation with Democrats while the impeachment inquiry proceeds, claiming they are unfocused.
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In our disease-free future, being simply tired, or unfocused, might be seen as a major health issue.
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But we find our minds unfocused from lesbianism when we face the problem of procreation and child care.
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Songs like "Coffee's Gone Cold" and "I'm Not Good Enough" deliver first-person narratives decidedly unfocused on punchlines.
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For "Thousand Yard Stare" (2015), Ms. Lang takes her title from the unfocused gaze of a traumatized soldier.
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Edwards said those domestic problems boiled over on the job and Kelley would come in depressed and unfocused.
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Her eyes, most often closed or unfocused, occasionally snap open as if she were waking from a coma.
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The combination has potential, but the execution, while offering glimpses into a fascinating subculture, is sluggish and unfocused.
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The menu was somewhat unfocused, with an effort at Italian-Asian fusion, and comfort was not a priority.
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In one image, a family photograph turns unfocused and blurry, with the patriarch staring off outside the frame.
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If you've been feeling unfocused as of late, you're about to be given a new sense of direction.
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Negatives destroyed in the developing stage, wildly overexposed, a shutter too slow, a lens too close, or unfocused.
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"We can be as productive and creative in 6 focused hours as in 8 unfocused hours," writes Grant.
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Some people are so energetic that they're hyperactive and unfocused and constantly bouncing from one thing to another.
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They had recurring nightmares that kept them from sleeping, and all-day anxiety that made them unfocused and unproductive.
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One thing that was missing—perhaps the reason why the rally felt so unfocused and unmoored—was a foil.
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Both will inspire an exhausted, unmotivated, unfocused, negative, and just general "blegh" feeling—to use a super technical term.
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First, sit comfortably with your eyes closed or unfocused and breathe in and exhale slowly, focusing on your breath.
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Without that guiding light, Flex became unfocused and began to spiral into an unremarkable, me-too luxury watch brand.
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It offers glimpses into a fascinating subculture, our critic says, but the series is sluggish and unfocused (streaming, Hulu).
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Mr. Kelley was so emotionally unstable and unfocused, Ms. Edwards said, that he often would not do his work.
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She's terrible — unfocused, chronic rambler, paces herself like a restless bachelor party — but god, I think I love her.
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The entire segment is brought to life in the slightly unfocused shine of a TV set from the 80s.
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It's not just that a lot of it feels familiar now; some of it is also unfocused and busy.
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"I find for some founders — especially when it's going really well — every founder gets distracted and unfocused," she said.
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In professional situations, such as a job interview, it can steer things off course and make you appear unfocused.
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In fact, it's already broken a world record for the amount of solar energy it can create from unfocused sunlight.
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And all of that could partially explain why his unhinged and completely unfocused tweets come rapid fire, changing topics frequently.
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But Mr Biden's speech was rambling and unfocused, more a laundry list of mainstream Democratic positions than a coherent narrative.
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With each sip of a drink, the screen becomes unfocused and whirly as your character gets more and more blasted.
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But Season 22's break from that limitation results in a story that is bigger, but more diluted and unfocused.
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Gritty's terrifying grin, fiery fur, and unfocused eyeballs will grace Kirn's body forever — or until he gets it lasered off.
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Frequent job-hopping used to be a red flag, suggesting to prospective employers that a candidate was unfocused and disloyal.
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"Allowing this kind of unbalanced, unfocused and unsustainable growth is leaving many Londoners feeling excluded and left behind," he said.
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With too little glucose, you feel tired, unfocused and slow; too much glucose leaves you jittery and unable to concentrate.
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More often than not, they were muddled with obscure album tracks and lackluster sing-alongs from an increasingly unfocused crowd.
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Her speeches can sometimes seem muddled and unfocused, but Clinton allies say she delivers her best speeches in key moments.
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"Simone has this great ability to focus when necessary, and the rest of the time, she's completely unfocused," she said.
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Readers familiar with the material will be frustrated by the unfocused scholarship, not to mention the jagged contrasts in tone.
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Just think of this as a celebration, however unfocused, of QC's year which was, by any measure, a huge success.
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If Marcus Lemonis can't get these unfocused owners to make some radical changes to their culture, their company will capsize.
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Even the reliably excellent Met chorus sounded a little unfocused and underpowered, which dampened the charms of Mr. Morris's production.
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Trump's year-end interview with The New York Times featured a series of rambling, unfocused assertions at odds with reality.
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The disclaimer notwithstanding, The Goop Lab still feels like a sunny, unfocused infomercial that's resolutely pretending not to be one.
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The first iteration of the script was somewhat episodic and unfocused — it was centered around our father and his boss.
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Each piece overwhelms the structure so that the show as a whole feels unfocused, almost scattershot, but still intensely moving.
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But we've also had the soulless Ghost Recon: Wildlands, the disappointing Shadow of War, and the unfocused Agents of Mayhem.
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His slothful and unfocused approach to the job, however, makes running the federal government not just difficult but completely impossible.
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Directed by Noah Hawley, who created shows like Fargo and Legion, Lucy in the Sky feels unfocused, distracted, and tonally uncertain.
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"It was unfocused, and went down the E.D.M. dance-routine thing, and I thought she already made that record," he said.
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In his unfocused state, it's not certain whose he's referring to, so, just in case, Gran shouts: TEN CENTS A LICK!
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Their fourth and fifth albums consisted of unfocused and overblown ideas that threatened to negate the brilliance of everything before them.
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Unfortunately, many job candidates make that mistake, offering a lengthy, unfocused summary of their resume — effectively wasting the hiring manager's time.
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What's more, it's not really clear where he has his best chance — something reflected in Mr. Trump's unfocused pre-election push.
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Opportunity costs are real, and that's particularly true in a White House as unfocused, understaffed, and ill-managed as this one.
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Protests have never been easier to organize, and, as a consequence, have never been more unfocused, disorganized, and prone to failure.
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It is too long, too unfocused and perhaps too democratic, with nearly every character receiving his or her spoken-word aria.
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Another group section, acting out and abstracting the shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police, is equally striking, unfocused and underdeveloped.
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Another group section, acting out and abstracting the shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police, is equally striking, unfocused and underdeveloped.
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This sort of unfocused experience has nothing to do with efficiency or squeezing the last drop of productivity from each minute.
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Gentry fumed about the Pelicans' performance, but he was more upset that his players seemed unfocused and even cavalier throughout the game.
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Their eyes may be closed, or glassy and unfocused, and the head is often tilted backward, with hair plastered across their forehead.
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He is the author of several books, most recently "Stokely: A Life" The views expressed here are his own. (CNN)Unfocused. Misdirected.
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Richard Nixon, pale and recovering from the flu, shifted his eyes, looking unfocused as he addressed the questioners rather than the viewers.
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Some simply layer copies of the same image, but are shifted slightly, so galleries appear as unfocused spaces or artworks appear mirrored.
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They say he leaves no stone unturned in pursuit of American foreign policy, even if his efforts are sometimes misguided and unfocused.
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So when the question has arisen in conversation my attempts at answering have been rambling, unfocused, and at times damn near stuporific.
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It might take a couple days for your body to adjust, and you'll have to sit through meetings feeling tired and unfocused.
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In the present day, we see Lynch sitting alone at home, often staring into the dark with eyes unfocused beneath the quiff.
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In February, when the label's internal creative team produced a sloppy, unfocused collection, it seemed a portent of more mess to come.
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No, not the unfocused, ineffective backup who seemed to be "Office Space"-ing his way through a final year in San Francisco.
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At the forum, Sanders benefited from following Biden, who was as rambling and unfocused as he has been this whole campaign season.
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With a divided, unfocused, and undermined command structure, the First Order begins the final chapter of the series at a potential disadvantage.
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A fluorescent light bathes the room with a warm red-orange glow, while the images on the monitors are blurry and unfocused.
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Ljung was seen as reluctant to be honest with the team, and unfocused as he partied around the world like a rock star.
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People are in the mood to say no today, but they also have their heads in the clouds and are totally unfocused. Annoying!
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The camera movement is shaky and unfocused, wavering from part of his face to the suspect to the ground as he walks closer.
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"The Under Armour brand is still unfocused and confusing for customers, especially on the product side," said Neil Saunders, GlobalData Retail managing director.
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Still unfocused with a lack of ideas, I chose the toxic prioritization of thinness in perceptions of eating disorders as my thesis topic.
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His eyes were unfocused as he slammed into her, his slippery fingers rubbing her clit so hard she couldn't make sense of anything.
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The arrangements for her band, led by her musical director, Joshua Stephen Kartes, on piano, were reasonably inventive but often unfocused and amorphous.
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Rather than using bounties as a gentle way to guide players to different locations, Destiny 2 just provides a big, unfocused task list.
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To determine the quality of a company, Mr. Arnhold instructed him to study the faces of its representatives: Were they bored, exhausted, unfocused?
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But the actual effect was a strange, bloated, disjointed, unfocused parade of people introducing each other for three and a half hours straight.
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With the imagery unfocused and the subjects untamed, the wild animals Flint paints evoke a calming beauty and a sense of wondrous mystery.
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General Magic's unfocused hyper-ambitiousness was financially disastrous, but it created a wealth of quirky hardware and software footage for the film to explore.
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Mario 64 immediately feels like a natural fit for online play, and the unfocused nature of its assorted activities only adds to the appeal.
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After the game, Kerr said his players had been careless and unfocused on offense and had not followed the team's game plan on defense.
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Wolff's book, "Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House," portrays Trump as unfocused, unprepared and petty while presiding over a chaotic White House.
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The result is a bit haphazard and unfocused, with the film randomly broken into chapters to give a feeling of structure where none exists.
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And second, that that audience's interest — driven by serious concerns that the unfocused debate only glancingly addressed — has been a boon for TV news.
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It's telling that he prefers to broadcast unfocused, typo-ridden thoughts on Twitter — a reactive medium that demands little in the way of contemplation.
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As a "film," it feels messy and sometimes unfocused, but as a theatrical performance it's strong, mostly because Wilkerson's anger and brokenness is palpable.
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But it's too unfocused, too patchwork in the later stages and too much of a step away from the things that make Far Cry great.
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Those conflicting views are adding to the frustration from other Capitol Hill Republicans at the White House's unfocused effort to guide the party through impeachment.
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"Investors are just as likely to criticize or punish companies for unfocused acquisitions where they have overpaid for unproven, non-earnings accretive benefits," she said.
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Trump's speech was exactly what you would expect from him, which is to say that it was rambling, unfocused, and unconventional, to say the least.
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The Obama operation turned unfocused online passion into a data-driven, on-the-ground, get-out-the-vote operation whose effectiveness surprised longtime political observers.
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The muddled exposition to the huge lot of information viewers needed also made it "frantic," unfocused, and ultimately a failure, the Guardian concluded in 2013.
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"'The 4th Awakens' is all over the place, both geographically and in its confused and unfocused storytelling," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The New York Times.
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Darting from micro to macro and back again, squashing obscene consumption against child beauty pageants and ruinous debt, its structure makes for an unfocused thesis.
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"This amendment affirms what President Trump knows and believes: unfocused, unconstitutional, unending wars in the Middle East make America weaker, not stronger," Mr. Gaetz said.
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That is great to cook that way when you're a little jumpy and unfocused, working on a kind of autopilot, improvising as you go along.
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So instead, it alternates between interviews with acquaintances who spin hearsay about him, unfocused courtroom footage, and often poignant jail cell voiceovers from Hernandez himself.
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But business associates testified during the trial that Mr. Gilbert seemed uninterested and unfocused during his short stint at the family business, Wainscott Capital Partners.
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Clients regularly come into my office overwhelmed with feeling like they need to be everywhere, doing all the things, which leaves them distracted and unfocused.
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Despite its unfocused nature, Pullman is still an excellent storyteller, and La Belle Sauvage is certainly worth the nearly two decades that we've waited for it.
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Vivendi is clearly moving from a pretty unfocused ownership strategy to becoming more of an integrated media company across France and Southern Europe — and increasingly internationally.
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According to Pillay, taking some time to allow yourself to be unfocused can not only boost self-awareness and creativity, but also lead to better decisions.
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"I was able to see Jorgeson's eyes — a final flash of glorious azure before they faded into the unfocused and glazed gray of death," he wrote.
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"The combination has potential, but the execution, while offering glimpses into a fascinating subculture, is sluggish and unfocused," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
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On a night when the restaurant was at full capacity, the Taiwanese pork noodles were monotonously sweet, and the dan dan noodles were an unfocused blur.
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"I am grateful that the president is not eager to lurch into another Middle Eastern regime change, in an endless, unfocused, unconstitutional way," he told reporters.
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Amazon on Wednesday announced five new Alexa-powered Echo devices in a dizzying product rollout that comes across as either impressively ambitious or insane and unfocused.
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Still, it's hard to imagine that a show as frenetic and unfocused as "Mytho?" could bring about any sense of relaxation, let alone a heightened one.
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Horizontal SaaS applications, on the other hand, have big, messy data that is unfocused and therefore not as useful in creating tailored insights for these vertical businesses.
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Our body politic seems to suffer from a similar ailment: crouched defensively against threats real and imagined, yet unfocused by the endless distractions of the news cycle.
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After that, the band became an intermittent affair; a 2005 album titled Ominosity was strong, but felt slightly unfocused and untethered in an entirely different cultural atmosphere.
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The sprawling and unfocused Clinton campaign apparatus was constantly leaking to the press, ensuring that every decision she made was greeted by a chorus of second-guessing.
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It is just one of the countless times this irresponsibly fanciful mother puts her own unfocused quest for happiness ahead of her son's stability and well-being.
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In professional situations, such as a job interview, dropping formalities and seeming too laid back can steer things off course and make you appear unfocused, she says.
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Rather than letting the leading women carry the story, the filmmakers filled it with a barrage of cameos from the original cast, making the whole project seem unfocused.
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Often they have met with skepticism from ecologists and other biologists who complained that the projects sometimes seemed unfocused or that they locked investigators into awkward, counterproductive collaborations.
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This kind of diversion underscores Washington's lack of progress with North Korea, reinforcing the view that Washington is unfocused and unreliable and that Seoul must take the lead.
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I think often when one wants to "look great" or "look confident", he or she will over dress and come off looking unfocused and not strong at all.
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In the first debate four years ago between President Obama and Mitt Romney, Obama was listless and unfocused and Romney was energetic and on target, winning the night.
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Cannavale plays Richie Finestra, a record label executive who finds himself feeling bored with the unfocused slate of artists that American Century, the label he works for, represents.
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It has a 52 percent "fresh rating" on Rotten Tomotoes, with the site's critical consensus saying the film "suffered from an unfocused narrative and an overabundance of characters".
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"This amendment affirms what President Trump knows and believes: unfocused, unconstitutional, unending wars in the Middle East make America weaker, not stronger," Gaetz said in his own statement.
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In European Union offices, there is a general but unfocused hope that somehow Britain will reverse itself and remain in the European fold, presumably through a second referendum.
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In "Killing Commendatore," the narrator's dreaminess mainly feels unfocused, and a story that might have been engaging at 300 or 400 pages is drawn out to almost 700.
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Sanders's messaging against Biden grew unfocused during the impeachment trial and stayed muddled in the run-up to South Carolina, which allowed Biden to get off the mat.
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Still, that outreach has to date not included any Democrats and has been unfocused, leaving it unlikely the effort could muster the votes it would need to pass.
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Trapped in a jail cell, she begins to show signs of a panic attack—heavy breathing, sweating, and unfocused eyes—as Laurie (Jean Smart), rattles off her offenses.
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That said, Clinton's recent onslaught against Sanders has an unfocused, over-the-top quality that doesn't paint a coherent negative portrait of the man standing across the stage.
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The 80-year-old senator from Arizona appeared confused during a meandering and unfocused series of questions that appeared to leave Comey as perplexed as it left TV viewers.
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We've watched as our bumbling governor Pat McCrory has feebly tried to defend the bill in unfocused (literally) and embarrassing interviews, tanking North Carolina's reputation along with its economy.
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In fact it brings forth not a little pain, for this work teems with a passion that is all reflex, and an anger that is unfocused and almost cynical.
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"Live by Night" is a messy, unfocused movie about ambition, lost ideals, corrupt men and a thief whose idea of life on his own terms means pulling the trigger.
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Though some critics accused him of showboating and unfocused singing, especially early in his career, he had been winning more than his share of rave reviews in recent years.
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Although Ms. Saylor brings some personality to her turbulent, unfocused character, you have the queasy sense that somebody decided the movie needed a pretty woman to give it some juice.
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Candid and empathetic, the movie's segments can feel rushed and unfocused; yet they have a ragged intimacy that argues implicitly for an individual's right to choose, without interference or condemnation.
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"I am grateful that the president is not eager to lurch into another Middle Eastern regime change, in an endless, unfocused, unconstitutional way," said Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida.
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He announced the news in a Friday press conference that was late, unfocused, and confusing to follow—in other words, thoroughly in keeping with the administration's response to the pandemic.
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But that plan met opposition from activist investors like the hedge funds Trian Partners and Third Point, which argued that the new companies would each be too large and unfocused.
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She had a life so golden it made me feel a dull, unfocused sadness about how much higher Taylor's highs were than the best things that ever happened to me.
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" The White House is assiduously stoking their fears, grievances and prejudices, and selling photo-ops as accomplishments in order to portray an undisciplined, unfocused president as "President Action, President Impact.
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Throughout this unfocused staging, the ensemble dancing that would ideally take precedent — you know, the thing you're here to see, dancing cats — is frequently happening way off in the background.
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But we've already gotten a pretty strong sense of what kind of president he'd be, even on the most important matters to rise to his attention — a lazy, unfocused one.
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She's walking down a path, seemingly unfocused on what's coming around a slight bend: a rosy-cheeked boy on one knee with a pink flower at the ready for wooing her.
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And honestly, at this stage it feels a bit unfocused – and likely difficult to judge, giving the subjectivity of attempting to compare projects with entirely different goals in completely different fields.
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In one long shot after another, we find the women and men from Scot-Pep filmed in rear-view profiles, unfocused in mirrors from the neck down, and, outside, under umbrellas.
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Castor questioned Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, and his unfocused line of inquiry became the butt of internet jokes.
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" In a statement, Clinton spokeswoman Christina Reynolds described the speech as "rambling, unfocused, full of conspiracy theories and attacks on the media, and lacking in any real answers for American families.
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As an unfocused, unremarkable young college student, he read Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff," a nonfiction classic on why anyone in his right mind would submit to the dangers of spaceflight.
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Trump sends mixed messages As Iran made steady headway in the Iraqi government and military, the US' objective in Iraq has changed so many times that it's become muddy and unfocused.
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The 230, an exceptional vintage for aligoté, was fresh, linear and tangy, while the '225, a vintage in which aligoté can seem a little unfocused, was nonetheless lively, chalky and refreshing.
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If that book is any example, the Dark Tower film franchise might still recover from this unfocused introduction, and rely on its strongest elements to build the basis for a cinematic universe.
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Dancers come and go, with frequent pauses between the exits and entrances; there is little talking, the pace is slow, and the middle section is meandering, low on energy and surprisingly unfocused.
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It seems clear that she probably didn't know exactly what she was thinking; she spent much of Sunday in an unfocused rage, which perhaps shed some light on her recent decision-making.
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Chief Justice Roberts, by contrast, was called on to address unfocused remarks from Mr. Trump lashing out against the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, based in San Francisco.
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"If I simply noted and accepted I was in an inhale stage rather than beating myself up over being so unfocused, I might have made progress and met my goals more quickly."
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Plenty of true-crime shows, under the guise of serious truth-telling and justice-seeking, are actually calibrated to fuel exactly these kinds of voyeuristic, half-informed, unfocused conversations among their audiences.
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Once in the session, it can tell if you start veering off the rails into an unfocused state, and it can tell when you drop in to a deeper level of calm focus.
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The second season of 13 Reasons Why is plotless and unfocused, with very little happening from episode to episode until the season finale, about two minutes after Clay's tearful conversation with Hannah's mother.
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The Trump administration's unfocused foreign policy is the result of "amateurs" at the head of the executive branch and State Department, said Dan Caldwell, a distinguished professor of political science at Pepperdine University.
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A sudden, if unfocused, epiphany came after a summer working as receptionist and occasional fit model for the company that made Nik Nik, the brightly patterned polyester shirts popular during the disco years.
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In doing, he has reminded Republicans what they feared a Trump presidency would be like — unconstitutional, unfocused, scandal-plagued, and damaging to both America's standing in the world and the GOP's brand at home.
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These stories included the firing of Michael Flynn, who was caught talking to Russia about U.S. sanctions a month before Trump's inauguration, and reports about how chaotic and unfocused his White House has been.
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For most of the film, Smurf was scary but on the sideline, and Ms. Weaver used her piercing eyes, steely one moment and unfocused the next, to suggest the depravity she was capable of.
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It's supposed to be a critique of both dubstep (remember dubstep?) and of US media noise but the unfocused lyrics basically turn it into a rewrite of The Smiths' "Panic," minus the unintentional racism.
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The catalogue for Delacroix, presenting both the paintings on exhibition and many of his other works, is an unfocused, bookish summary of the literature; the lighter, cheaper Devotion to Drawing catalogue is mercifully brief.
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The incomparable body of work by Emil Bisttram in the AMWA archive suggests that his diverse talents were not at the whim of other artists, and were not the result of an unfocused pursuit.
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Villa Mondriaan — the painter dropped the second "a" to become more international — provides a sense of the young artist as somewhat distracted and unfocused in school, but determined and gifted, especially as a draughtsman.
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Sometimes it even engenders heated debate, as in the case of Chris Dave & the Drumhedz, whose late show at the Bowery Ballroom on Friday was a soup of fleeting rhythmic genius and unfocused meandering.
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In contrast to the way in which we flit through social posts, websites and apps in our always-on mobile existence — often twitchy and unfocused — to use VR is to engage mindfully in an experience.
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" Take a nap, darling: "Because the data also tell us that being 'always on' and always available means being unfocused, distracted, reactive, and always stressed and burnt out, and as a result, often acting out.
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We have also been harshly critical of the unfocused Nevertrump movement, believing that you can't beat something with nothing, and that the proper competition for Trump is a superior candidate, not a complicated voting strategy.
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In 2017, while working frequently with Diplo or Kevin Parker of Tame Impala, Ronson, who was "a mess personally," felt unfocused, uninterested and a bit lost when it came to his own music, he said.
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Still, this realization isn't particularly heartening, and An Inconvenient Sequel is still not a great movie — unfocused, a bit suspect in its methods, and (not entirely through its own fault) kind of a major bummer.
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But experts agree these surges are too unfocused and too brief to make a long-term dent in crime — and the federal government doesn't have the resources or will to sustain a surge for very long.
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Hickenlooper was unfocused in many of his answers, from saying "there is a way of looking at trade that is therapeutic," to mumbling something about "big, you know, noisy hangars" when discussing American military foreign policy.
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Dr. Srini Pillay, CEO of NeuroBusiness Group and author of "Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlocking the Power of the Unfocused Mind, " suggests that entrepreneurs periodically schedule time for "conscious daydreaming" to promote mental health and focus.
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But the staging feels needlessly unfocused — the libretto is more literal-minded than you would have known by seeing this presentation — and doesn't give enough assistance to a work that, while intriguing and accomplished, needs it.
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There was so much going on: In most designers' hands, a cocktail involving (and not limited to) giant paillettes; polka dots; thick, textural knits; lace; floral prints; fluid silk, and leather could be an unfocused disaster.
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The Democratic presidential primary is illustrative of this failure, where the discussion of climate change at recent debates was superficial and unfocused, and the Democratic National Committee has resisted widespread calls for a climate change debate.
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A skit in which Rachel Bloom portrays a loopy pseudoscience conspiracist falls flat, as do most of the show's purely comedic segments, because within the show's structure they often feel superimposed, unfocused, and frankly mean-spirited.
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During an unfocused and mostly unremarkable show, the Emmy voters showed they were ahead of the Television Academy and Fox when it came to understanding the new world of TV. For a few years now — three?
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With a plot as unfocused as its freshly graduated characters, the shaggy "Pitch Perfect 3" gets by on karaoke logic: What makes for a good time isn't the song you sing, but the company you keep.
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When it came time for it, Royals third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert's father posed the same question many fathers pose to unfocused sons: What do you want to do with your life: care for chickens, or play baseball?
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The outcomes we're seeing look like what you'd expect from an inexperienced, unfocused president who's more interested in tweeting out cable news commentary than learning about the government he runs and the policies he wants to change.
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I'm a Harvard Medical School neuroscientist who firmly believes in the power of the unfocused mind, and my goal is to have every business on Earth — including your employer — embrace naps as a vital part of the workday.
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The shakeup would cap off Spicer's tumultuous six-month tenure at the White House podium, which made him not only one of the administration's most prominent personalities, but also the face of the White House's unfocused messaging strategy.
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Subplots stutter and stall; episodes are frequently unfocused; the unrelenting extremity eradicates any trace of plausibility; and Custer's parishioners frequently act out of character, as when a hitherto meek organist casually feeds her nudnik boyfriend to a vampire.
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Sara Mearns, the try-everything New York City Ballet star, struggled valiantly to discover the Cunningham principle of stillness in motion; unfocused at first, she seemed to find a new center deeper within herself each time she reappeared.
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But the problem with this is that to make this sort of claim, the episodes needed to be really good, and though individual sketches were frequently very funny, the episodes as a whole occasionally felt listless and unfocused.
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And as the Ukraine scandal rapidly unspooled during Trump's visit to New York in September for the yearly United Nations meetings -- eventually prompting the formal impeachment inquiry -- the President appeared distracted and unfocused during conversations, according to advisers.
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U.S. involvement has degenerated into a series of spasmodic and at best tactical moves and at worst unfocused rage against notional threats even as we resolutely fail to deal with the actual threats to our position and influence.
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Partners should be supportive of each other — and from what we've seen, Khloé has no problem cheering her man on from the sidelines — but they shouldn't have to absorb responsibility when men start slacking at work or become unfocused.
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Trump may have been running on fumes after the debate, hitting the morning talk shows and greeting potential voters at a surprise visit to a diner in the morning, as his stump speech appeared unfocused even by his standards.
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We all struggle with how to deal with our shortcomings, but few of us seem as comfortably wrapped in the question's delicious, pig-in-a-blanket anxiety as Knapp, whose perpetual handwringing serves as the book's unfocused narrative spine.
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But this is also like the third or fourth time I will have come back to Rome 2, and every time the sheer unfocused scale of the game ends up sabotaging whatever new ambitions or approaches are driving it.
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But the unfocused attempt at satire through the stage design only amplified the main problem with Everything Now as a whole; it regurgitates the budding dystopia of 2017 back at its audience, with barely any commentary, insight, or—importantly—solutions.
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And I do think that some of the anger is directed in a way that's unfocused, but also these choices that you're making are affecting all of us and a lot of them shouldn't be on your plate to begin with.
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"I would say the great news is (AT&T is) going to be further unfocused than they are now and the upside opportunity to continue to acquire businesses in the space for us is tremendous," T-Mobile CEO John Legere said.
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Other nitpicking complaints: It was difficult to enter the arena Monday because of heavy security and speakers that evening did not appear to be held to strict time limits, causing the program to run late and seem unfocused at times.
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At times, however, this sequel feels unfocused, the plot drifts and the tenor of that humor verges dangerously close to that of the sitcom, especially in the scenes between Sully and Rub, and those involving Charice's brother, Jerome, and Raymer.
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In a rally with Mr. Saccone days before the election, Mr. Trump delivered a heated and unfocused speech, railing about illegal drugs, the Senate confirmation process and news coverage of his administration, and reminiscing about his own victories in 2016.
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Although there is clearly value to unfocused activity — what Professor Lightman calls the free-grazing mind — to get unstuck, there is no evidence that for most people it makes sense to dedicate anything like half our waking hours to such musing.
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David Muhammad, a community organizer who worked on Ceasefire in Oakland — he now trains people in the practice with the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform — said that Oakland's earlier attempts were disorganized, unfocused and too reliant on law enforcement.
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Gore Vidal, a close friend who was interviewed in "West of Eden," said that she had been "somewhat unfocused, not terribly interested in the academic world" of Wellesley, and he took her to literary events where she would meet interesting people.
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Here's a small sample of how it read: Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook Installation/configuration of network equipment Terminating and troubleshooting twisted pair, coax, RJ45, fiber Don't get me wrong—what's here is impressive; however, it's also overwhelming and unfocused.
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Malone: To me, it's like one of those Magic Eye pictures, where I didn't notice the similarities until they were places side-by-side in a meme photo which I stared at, and my eyes unfocused and it suddenly all made sense.
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Since it's hard to argue that such a broad and unfocused law is justified by a compelling government interest, narrowly tailored, and the least restrictive means for achieving its goal, 2257's opponents are pretty confident that it's on its way out.
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What could have been a vague, meandering, aimless and unfocused wander through a weekend where fags replace oxygen and you start to sweat molasses thick drops of Guinness, is, instead, a rich, deeply detailed, charmingly personal account of a descent into bacchanalian madness.
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The president, in a feisty but unfocused mood, stood before a group of supporters, called himself "the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party" — a debunked claim — and took aim at his usual list of piñatas, boogeymen and political targets.
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After days filled with hours of repetition (lob-ster — lob-ster — lob-ster — lob-ster) my mind unfocused and I floated up, watching the skinny, pathetic girl in the sundress and tire-tread sandals trying so desperately to find a little grace.
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Lane crossing, particularly for a breaching artist, and even more so for one who is a woman of color, is a risk; a lot of the time, especially in a pop world gambit, it can feel like pandering, or something unfocused and watered down.
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Uncharitably you could say the goals and demands of the action were unfocused; more realistically, each group is attempting to chip away at a facet of the same problem, which to paraphrase a number of today's speakers, is a company favoring profit over morality.
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He comes off too often as the candidate of "Game of Thrones" America, a bombastic, misogynistic knight errant in an endlessly wandering, unfocused narrative; traversing a fantasy landscape composed of a thousand borrowed mythologies, warning endlessly of a dire apocalypse that never quite materializes.
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" Although I have always found Nin hypertrophied and boringly self-involved, my interest in her went up a bit on reading this, despite the fact that I disagree heartily with Moore's dismissal of Marilyn Monroe in the same review as "an exhibitionistic and unfocused talent.
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On the other hand, Nadler's broad-based approach left the political door swinging wide open for Trump and those around him to decry the investigation as an unfocused, over-broad "big fat fishing expedition" and, of course, to reprise the familiar "witch hunt" rallying cry.
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It's not the conspiracies, hypocrisy or even lack of conservative policy that has caused a split in the GOP but a profoundly unfocused and unprofessional Trump campaign that lurches from outrage to outrage, and crisis to crisis, with no sense of purpose or direction.
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President-elect Donald Trump's unfocused Twitterization of complex issues, coupled with the extremism of Vice President-elect Mike Pence, could result in the total abdication of the United States' leading role in global women's health and rights — abandoning millions of vulnerable women and families.
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In the run-up to the WeWork acquisition, however, Meetup became unfocused, spending energy on revising its supportive culture and getting rid of employees who didn't fall in line with a newly redesigned set of values, according to multiple former employees and internal documents obtained by Gizmodo.
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Steve Bullock, a popular Democratic governor of deep-red Montana, made a bid for the moderate lane should Mr Biden falter, though for someone with a strong CV, and who generated a fair amount of buzz in DC before his entry, he seemed oddly unfocused and underprepared.
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In 22017's live-action anime adaptation Death Note, Stanfield conveys the fragility of L, a genius private investigator with a traumatic history, through distinct physical mannerisms, an unfocused gaze, and a crouching posture, all while concealing his nose and mouth with a black mask and hoodie.
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It would have been tempting for his superiors to label him "absent-minded" or "unfocused" but, in retrospect, it was just another case of a young man intensely focused on something few people considered worthy of attention — another case of a young man in love with clouds.
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This longing to touch the flame and tame the dragon could have made for a fascinating thread in the familiar serial-killer narrative, but "Extremely Wicked" (the title comes from the judge's characterization of Bundy's crimes) is too unfocused and lacking in imagination to pick it up.
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Sitting Bull, for his part — little more than a dejected potato-planter before she shows up, according to Steven Knight's vague, unfocused script — needs only a pep talk from Catherine to put the light of resistance back in his eyes and the feathers back in his headdress.
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But Mr. Anaya's campaign has been burdened by corruption allegations, as well as by internal disorganization, analysts say, and a shifting, unfocused vision that underestimated both the electorate's anger at the political system and the popularity of Mr. López Obrador, commonly known by his initials, AMLO.
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Still, there was thought put into the transition and what would come next, including a draft of dozens of executive orders and recommendations for a communications plan to avoid "idle" time in the president-elect's schedule that the news media would use to describe him as unfocused.
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An outsider who clung to memories of his father's building sites in New York's outer boroughs long after he made it in Manhattan, Mr Trump appears not merely to understand, but to share, the unfocused resentment of globalisation, and its hoity-toity champions, harboured by many working-class Americans.
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The crowd also saw Andre Iguodala aimlessly walking around the court, bricking unfocused jumpers while wearing a sleeveless hoodie, which in the context of the ultra-exciting, record-breaking, defending champion, best-show-in-town Warriors might be seen as a metaphor for Iguodala's funky, off-kilter game.
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The following books are also great resources if you want to start hacking your life and tapping into your creative self: In "Tinker, Dabble, Doodle, Try," Dr. Srini Pillay challenges the traditional ideas about productivity by sharing the positive benefits of adding unfocused time to your daily routine.
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All of this leaves season six of The Walking Dead in a place where individual episodes are occasionally just fine — particularly as they allow the show to try its hand at things like romance or even spiritual fulfillment — but the overall scope of the show feels a little listless and unfocused.
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Beyond the typical right-wing fare of Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, Sommers has appeared alongside anti-feminist Steven Crowder, and on at least two occasions, has shared a stage with Milo Yiannopoulos, a troll so utterly unfocused in his need to annoy opponents that he's become toxic even to his allies.
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As if to react to the dig that he's been too rambling and unfocused, he gave a quick and rousing address at a state party dinner, before declaring proudly as he left the stage that he had one minute and 22 seconds out of his allotted speaking time left on the clock.
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Jailing the presumptive Democratic nominee has been the one point of enthusiasm and consensus in a Republican convention that has otherwise been listless and unfocused, with primetime speakers frequently addressing a half-empty arena and party leaders delivering speeches that go out of their way to avoid much mention of their nominee, Donald Trump.
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Travel from one city to the next passes by in an unfocused blur; the various magical maguffins that Felicity and her friends must eventually acquire feel less like compelling goals in their own right and more like excuses for everyone to keep traveling together and be bantery and political at one another just a little while longer.
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Especially in our overstretched, and often unfocused, world of digital communication (and human to human interaction phobia I see among many job seekers), this book is filled with inspiring anecdotes, helpful insights and practical strategies to get you in the mindset and habit of constantly forming and developing connections that will serve you throughout your career.
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The bellicose and apocalyptic nature of some of the newer accelerationist channels is a disturbing development, especially when compared to the 83 far-right channels VICE News identified as cropping up in 28, which were, broadly speaking, characterized by general hate (an unfocused mix of racism, anti-Semitism and misogyny), shit-posting, and alt-right memes.
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"I think [Be Best] is well-intentioned, and it showcases how well the first lady does when she interacts with children, but I think it's too broad and unfocused," says Brower, who adds it was first lady Lady Bird Johnson who, as a modern first lady, set the bar at selecting one specific topic of interest; for Johnson, that was highway beautification.
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The dispersal of the sculptures around the room at first feels unfocused, even chaotic, thanks to their swings in size, shape, and materials — encrusted swells; painted planes; bundled slats; woven fabric — but the longer you take them in, the more they settle into correspondences across clear sight lines, most notably with four sculptures that represent large and small versions of two distinctive motifs.
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When Schreck brings out her friend Mike Iveson to discuss his experiences with gender-based shaming and homophobia as a queer man, Constitution starts to feel like it's vying for the tag of inclusivity at the expense of polished theater; his segment, though also an important personal anecdote, breaks up Schreck's narrative flow and feels more disconnected and unfocused than Schreck's personal accounts.
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The callous, ethically challenged Josef, whose sex addiction and infidelity killed his marriage, faces bankruptcy if a big business deal falls through; his sister, Charlie, lives in Los Angeles, where she works for a tantrum-prone movie star and pops antidepressants like Tic Tacs; and the sensitive Armie ("unmarried, unfocused, demoralized, penniless") still lives at home in his parents' basement.
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While Reilly admits that it will take time for TV storytellers to know what to do with the extra real estate — most TV fans can think of a favorite cable or streaming show that suffers from flabby, unfocused storytelling due to having too much time to play with — he likes tackling that problem, as opposed to trying to keep viewers hooked through ad after ad after ad.
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"Meet The Press" and MSNBC host Chuck Todd went off the deep end, comparing the crowd booing CNN to the deadly white supremacist attack in Charlottesville, Va. "And this kind of unfocused visceral anger at the other side of really neutral people like folks in the press corps, it can lead to this," he warned, before showing video of the attack that killed Heather Heyer in Chartlottesville.
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In a week with continued coverage of Brock Turner's six-month jail sentence for the rape of an unconscious woman on the Stanford campus, and of a guilty verdict in the retrial of Brandon Vandenburg, a former Vanderbilt University football player charged with aggravated rape and sexual battery, Kim Davies's "Stet," an absorbing if somewhat unfocused drama at Abingdon Theater Company, could hardly be more topical.
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The Good Huge living world • The trademark gameplay works great even without guns • Lots of potential for future exploration in this setting The Bad Unfocused story • Unpredictable animal kingdom feels muted compared to past games • Large disparity between moment-to-moment action and endgame challenges The Bottom Line 'Far Cry Primal' is an inventive push in a fresh direction for Ubisoft's series, but it too often misses the mark.
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Prior to Freed Lynch's suggestion taking effect, most conference contributors did not provide notes or drafts of their delivered talks ahead of time, making live transcription of their spontaneous orations difficult for Freed Lynch due to the ambient noise in the conferences rooms, the difficulties spelling unfamiliar terms, and the challenge of faithfully relaying information from speakers who had a tendency to ramble circuitously, speaking in unfocused feedback loops of dense interdisciplinary complexity.
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