The only offense is that Barr was too quick to release the report and too quick to entertain unserious questions from unserious people.
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It's sharp and witty and clever — but not unserious.
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Trump, they're also completely unserious about policy, making ridiculous claims
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Unserious internet content and serious horror are tightly linked now.
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Much more damning: he is unscrupulous, unserious and poorly organised.
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Others have dismissed the Democrats' efforts as unserious publicity stunts.
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He is unserious, unfocussed, and, at times, it seems, unhinged.
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Now, many view him as out of touch or unserious.
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It was perhaps not wrong to be unserious about MTV.
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One of the many ways that you can discern how unserious
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Yet the SD continue to back a number of unserious policies.
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Yet as with his later diplomacy, his journalism was fundamentally unserious.
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Treating them as serious arguments reveals how unserious his protectors are.
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Trump is unserious and incoherent; Sanders is neither of those things.
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The ideas many Democrats have suggested are either unserious or unpopular.
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" He called the president an unserious man surrounded by "terrible people.
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It also reveals that he is fundamentally unserious about negotiating one.
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Democrats are sure to dismiss Tuesday's report as unserious and desperate.
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This was an unserious summit, cobbled together in haste by an unserious man, and summed up by the video fantasy of a glorious shared future, shown by the Trump administration in Singapore just after the meeting.
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The intent was to portray her as unserious and unworthy of office.
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Like the great Franz West, Smith can be willfully and astutely unserious.
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First, that he's an unserious creep who's temperamentally unsuited for the presidency.
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My tongue is obviously in cheek here — but I'm not entirely unserious.
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" He added that if the NAFTA negotiations "become unserious, I will terminate.
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" He added that if the NAFTA negotiations "become unserious, I will terminate.
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called Trump "an unserious, unstable, narcissistic egomaniac" last September.
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The extent of the waivers further clarifying just how deadly unserious Trump was.
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We joke that I analyze everything and talk seriously about very unserious things.
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But we have an unserious Congress that is not coming to the table.
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Equally unserious is the whole "Unplug the NSA" campaign, recently advocated in Time.
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The language and images cast his "celebrity" as slight, unserious — and, unsubtly, feminine.
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It carries a surprising amount of emotional weight, despite its very unserious subject.
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It feels intellectually unserious to concern himself with fictional people marrying one another.
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Finally, Trump's tweet reflects how profoundly unserious he is about the climate crisis.
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This is not because the VoteCastr effort is unserious or doomed to fail.
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He portrayed Mr. Trump as an unserious insult artist not fit for high office.
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This is an unserious and inhumane approach to the horrors of exploitation and persecution.
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Roy is suggesting that the claim that people will die is either false or unserious.
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To some of us, Trump is a fundamentally unserious person, and thus a dangerous one.
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It is what makes him both an unserious man and an all-too-serious candidate.
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America has collapsed the space between entertainment and news, reality and unreality, serious and unserious.
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" Star Wars GIF in response, adding: "On Merrick Garland for FBI head, this seems...unserious.
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Refusal to acknowledge that they might have had an impact on saving lives is unserious.
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Still, they can't back Warren; Sanders is an unserious option; Biden has perhaps lost it.
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He is a frequently insincere and unserious person, placed in the most serious of positions.
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And I think the stigma over the idea of science fiction being "unserious" is mostly over.
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It sounded then like something to avoid: contrived whimsy, quirk for quirk's sake, unserious and unimportant.
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Or the news alerts that seem to make the very idea of jokes unserious or unseemly?
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Trump's speech was unserious, intellectually lazy, fact-free, hyperbolic, full of fear mongering and immigrant scapegoating.
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It shows he's flippant about the one thing no president can afford to be unserious about.
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After the austerity of early 2010s minimalism, aesthetics have swung back toward the expressive and unserious.
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However, Williamson often made it a point to combat descriptions of her as an unserious candidate.
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How did the party of Lincoln become a group of people who are sarcastic and unserious?
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"It was a serious allegation that was handled in a fundamentally unserious manner," Fitzpatrick told CNN.
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Trump's United States of America has become an unserious country, the offender of the free world.
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The unserious manner in which most members of our political class have treated this question is disquieting.
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When the company announced Gmail, it was on April 1 with a conversational, unserious-sounding press release.
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"It starts to feel fundamentally unserious if you're not hiring a full-time C.E.O.," Mr. Garthwaite said.
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The idea of imposing a week-long deadline on an investigation before it begins seems arbitrary and unserious.
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As most Fish know, these descriptors are often used to brush Pisces off as an unserious, naive sign.
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He was smart, charming, articulate, energetic and young, but his campaign looked and felt unserious from the start.
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Women's subjectivity is not for serious literary fiction, after all; it's for unserious, uninteresting, unpaid-for online writing.
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Back then, photography was a "new tech" that was viewed by many as an unserious and passing fad.
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Why play into the kawaii schoolgirl image when her work already stands in danger of being deemed unserious?
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The movie is an apt, and not at all unserious, example of queer cinema at its most playful.
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These are not unserious people who run the Royals media relations department, given to silly whims about insects.
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It is not a reliable way to distinguish who is Serious from who is Unserious about climate change.
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When she declares she's taking the year off to focus on ending corruption in politics, it's treated as unserious.
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This Hamlet Act is at least a step up from President Obama's dismissal of legalization advocacy as deeply unserious.
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"It was a fundamentally unserious effort," said Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the panel.
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The rejection by Pence's office is unsurprising given his spokeswoman called the original request for documents unserious and partisan.
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This is a woman who gets furious when she's told that she's unserious and not prepared to run. pic.twitter.
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It might even one day seem ridiculous that a figure as unserious as Mr Trump could have seemed so threatening.
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" Unserious, he suggested, was Trump's warning that November's election could be rigged against him: He mocked the assertion as "ridiculous.
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Brian Schatz (D-HI) put the objection in GIF form: On Merrick Garland for FBI head, this seems...unserious. pic.twitter.
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Clinton pilloried Mr. Trump for his "Twitter rants and conspiracy theories" and called his approach to national security entirely unserious.
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To betray them, or to be unserious in their defense is a betrayal of the fundamental obligations of American leadership.
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To betray them or to be unserious in their defense is a betrayal of the fundamental obligations of American leadership.
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The letter also accused Republicans of asking unserious questions during the interview and cutting him off before he could respond.
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Over time, he grew into an unlikely, disorienting and insistently unserious political identity: He became YouTube's very own populist reactionary.
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In the pre-digital age, I had thought of audiobooks as fussy and unserious, the equivalent of plastic-covered furniture.
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"I would never be unserious about the ethical importance of responsible public exploit disclosure," he told me in an online chat.
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Before that, I started writing seriously (I wrote 5 or 6 very unserious books in my 30s) when I was 42.
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Rather, expectations of high inflation reflect candid assessments of government policy: people anticipate high inflation when politicians are unserious about reform.
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By forgoing something as simple as declaring June as Pride Month, Trump has shown how unserious he was about his promises.
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The few dissenters in Gershwin's lifetime included composers such as Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions, who unfairly deemed his music unserious.
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But Trump's first-year track record of repeated, but ultimately unserious, flirtations with bipartisanship has left Democrats skeptical of Trump's motives.
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Further adding to millennials' missing adult memory of "serious" communism is the media's unserious coverage of it during most of their adulthood.
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The company releases videos and presents itself in a way that's completely unserious, and for the most part is actually genuinely funny.
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A genre that mostly features shiny, shirtless men on its covers and sells ebooks for 99 cents a pop might seem unserious.
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This is an allegation that you've seen, without any real substantiation, in some of the more unserious corners of the conservative press.
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The Globes are seen as the most unserious stop on the road to the Oscars, which will take place on Feb. 24.
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You can find yourself feeling sympathetic toward him, because of an intimation of vulnerability and a sense that he is fundamentally unserious.
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And the core of her argument -- that many bold ideas with broad support among progressives are unserious -- might not motivate many voters.
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He accuses Clinton of running an "unserious" campaign even though his own is perhaps the least serious major party campaign in American history.
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The Marlins cannot afford to be unserious; they cannot be the Sandler film that reveals itself to in fact be a Sandler film.
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But while Noonan is about as unserious as a newspaper columnist can get—which is saying something—her win isn't a total shock.
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But with these empty legislative gestures, Democratic Party elders have shown that their fabled adherence to realism and pragmatism is itself deeply unserious.
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But Trump is showing signs he's willing to wield his popularity against the popular former governor, casting him as unserious about bipartisan cooperation.
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His betrayal about the seriousness of the issue and the unserious response is the most clarifying, and it is not just metaphorically dangerous.
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Yet when the latter electronic blurts become normal and the former oratory is uncharacteristic, Trump descends into the unserious territory of Silvio Berlusconi.
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The Istanbul governor's office dismissed the German warning, saying people should not pay attention to "sensational and unserious news and rumors" of questionable aims.
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The Istanbul governor's office dismissed the German warning, saying people should not pay attention to "sensational and unserious news and rumours" of questionable aims.
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Tanya Taylor, a Canadian designer whose vibrant print dresses are available on Bitmoji, said she had initial concerns about appearing too youthful or unserious.
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"Telling the California political set that you've got a million dollars is a little bit unserious when it comes to ballot measures," Galen said.
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C., in his own tweet accused his Democratic counterparts of "extremely poor form, and another instance of an unfair and unserious process" against Trump.
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Summertime gives you license to ease up, with colors and patterns that tell the world you're off the clock and content to be unserious.
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Poroshenko, 53, attacked Zelenskiy as fundamentally unserious, a reckless choice at a time when the country still faces a conflict against Russian-backed separatists.
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Jeb Bush, in an interview with CNN's Jamie Gangel, wouldn't say whether he'd support Trump, but described him as unserious and ill-prepared for president.
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So, that&aposs the most important thing to me is how unserious the Democrats in the House have been about uncovering all of the facts.
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A defense lawyer and a former Ukrainian prosecutor characterized the investigation as unserious and politically motivated, and the inquiry closed without charges against Mr. Kilimnik.
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Artists were given the freedom to translate the thesis of their art practice into something humorous and unserious, unburdened by the expectations of traditional art marketplace.
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Superhero movies take a fundamentally unserious, dumb stance on what violence looks like and what it means, regardless of whether superheroes actually choose to kill people.
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Candidates who don't propose ways to comprehensively pay for their ideas shouldn't be considered fiscally unserious and progressive candidates shouldn't indulge the idea that they are.
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Trump was widely mocked on social media Wednesday for bungling the African nation's name during his first major foreign policy speech, which Cruz dismissed as unserious.
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The culprits blamed for the genre's decline ranged from the death of mid-budget movies to the genre's reputation for being "unserious" to, uh, Katherine Heigl.
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The chief ingredients are suspense and resolution, and we tend to regard both forms, exceptions notwithstanding, as unserious entertainments, no matter how well engineered they are.
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In the abbreviated Conservative leadership race she stood out as the only grown-up; few Tories regret plumping for her over the unprepared and unserious other contenders.
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When people talk about Trump as a reality TV personality, then, they're trying to ride him down, to suggest he's unserious or simply there for entertainment value.
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On Wednesday, ZOA's president Mort Klein issued a report accusing McMaster of being hostile towards Israel and unserious about the threats of Iran and radical Islamic terrorism.
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When a caller objected to Pillsbury's unserious approach to critical national security concerns, he said she shouldn't believe him now because he could change his mind again.
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These artists are not endorsing conspiracy theories (at least, I hope not!), but using them to sketch a vision of America: weird, unserious and tilting into madness.
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"Pete Buttigieg last night asked us all to take him very seriously, and unfortunately, it was revealed that he is a fundamentally unserious candidate," Enjeti said Friday.
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It will be Trump, the celebrity businessman who was mocked as unserious when he entered the campaign and whose demise was repeatedly predicted by the political press.
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He was handsome in an irrefutable and yet somehow unserious fashion, like a life-size Ken doll or a proof-of-concept for an Aryan eugenic ideal.
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For Johnson—for any third-party challenger—the narrative he has to overcome is that he's unserious, better about dreaming vague dreams than the actual business of governing.
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The regime The regime delegation headed by Ja'fari was keen to cast itself as eager to negotiate, in contrast with an opposition it says it divided and unserious.
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He singles out "pink hats" for disdain, and his lack of any descriptors to characterize them makes his logic clear: It goes without saying that pink is unserious.
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Many of these are unserious and relatively unremarkable, the sort of thing that might happen to a human driver and that an insurance company would never hear about.
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Murray's assertion in the podcast that we are only a few years away from a thorough understanding of IQ at the level of individual genes is scientifically unserious.
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These works were often seen as unserious because of their appeal to emotion and their focus on the domestic sphere, and yet they could move people to act.
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Such utterances, combined with Trump's "locked and loaded" Armageddon outbursts this summer directed at Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, suggest the Trump administration is fundamentally unserious.
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The documents released so far don't corroborate the Barr accusation, for example, and Hyde's surveillance claims are being described by Parnas and others as an odd, unserious boast.
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"Like birds flying south, a couple of times a decade someone makes an unserious proposal to abolish this elected citywide office and it goes nowhere," Mr. Green said.
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When Heartland dismisses you as unserious ... well, to fully appreciate that, let's take a closer look at what's going on the in the world of climate denial these days.
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This relegated astrology to unserious mumbo jumbo for the first time in our history, which is interesting considering how recent The Enlightenment was in the grand scheme of things.
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Wilson, whose private university opted out of campus carry, says the Cocks Not Glocks movement's "aura of being unserious" won't necessarily help organizers' goal of getting guns off campus.
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It's the apex of rock being taken as an unserious goof by two guys who had to put all their seriousness into their increasingly tenuous fame-making primary vocations.
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It's the Washington Post's, which since its debut this spring has amassed a quarter-million followers and a legion of superfans who praise its goofy premises and unserious tone.
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The book presents Mr. Trump as an ill-informed and thoroughly unserious candidate and president, engaged mainly in satisfying his own ego and presiding over a dysfunctional White House.
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It's like trying to climb a ladder covered in trash, especially when the one person you could most use help from is dodging a bunch of unserious advice requests.
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Unserious about the country's tradition of global engagement, this generation has squandered the prestige of Britain's place in the postwar international order, all for petty party advantage and pandering.
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Earnestness without sentimentalism is what's called for in these electrifying and precarious times, I guess, which makes it a bit tough to talk about something so unserious as this.
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So these are the sorts of people I interacted with — and say what you will of their beliefs and their research, they can't be dismissed as unserious or ignorant.
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Faith Holland is a consistently rewarding new media artist who deals with memes, GIFs, and the general ephemera of the digital vernacular in ways that are humorous without being unserious.
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After the Rio de Janeiro athlete's village was criticised as "unliveable" by the Australian Olympic Committee, the city's major has taken a decidedly unserious route by cracking a kangaroo joke.
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And in fact, one slowly discovers the novel to be both a subtle critique of snobbery in general and a particular snobbery that claims to distinguish "serious" fiction from unserious.
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It's critical to work with our allies and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to establish a clear baseline to forcefully counter Mr. Putin's unserious denials of culpability.
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The House aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, were also quick to slam Trump's first legal submission Saturday as an unserious document that reads more like a campaign fundraising email.
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Pence's office called Democrats' documents request on Friday unserious, and Pompeo raised a myriad of issues with committees' demands for testimony from current and former State officials earlier this week.
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This would be a pro forma request, as only an unserious observer of Russian affairs would believe that Putin would hand over members of the FSB for prosecution in America.
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The spectacle of unserious MPs trying and failing to remove her suits the prime minister's aides, who like to portray her as a serious woman getting on with a difficult job.
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She was treated like an unserious, hippie-dippie type by her other friends, leading to arguments between her and the grown-'n'-sexy protagonist Joan Clayton (played by Tracee Ellis Ross).
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We spoke with Jakobsson about his rise in the realms of lo-fi house, being a serious producer with an unserious name, and the heartbreak that built the foundation of Time.
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ZOA's president Mort Klein, who is close to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, has accused McMaster of being soft on Israel and unserious about the threat of radical Islamic terrorism.
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It's harder for women to traffic in anger without being punished, because we're conditioned to avoid being publicly angry, and we're told from birth that anger makes us unlikable and unserious.
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But the real kicker is that "Get Out," written and directed by Jordan Peele, belongs to a genre that has long been seen in Hollywood as a cinematically unserious money grab.
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Multiple White House officials have said the complications with Kushner's security clearance have only exacerbated his frustration with Kelly, who has privately disregarded Kushner and Ivanka Trump as unserious and meddling.
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McConnell doesn't necessarily care if Trump recants his positions or abandons unserious lines of thinking, so long as he doesn't talk about them out loud or couches them in less-offensive terms.
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Rubin said the secret tape, released on Wednesday, is just another political embarrassment for Ryan, adding that the Speaker has left "unserious" and "irresponsible" Nunes as head of the House Intelligence Committee.
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What is being sold sounds great but that is because it is unrealistic, unserious, and distracts from the gains we have already made in protecting our environment and modernizing our energy markets.
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There's something resolutely unserious about Viti: His dolls are dolls, not collectors' items — even a prized, original 1959 Barbie, with a five figure price-tag, that Viti flew to Stockholm to purchase.
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Which is where my agitation began, but not where it ended, as I began to reread the original message and wonder: Had I used too many exclamation points, making me sound unserious?
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Republicans rightly pilloried its deeply unserious elements — including plans to retrofit every single structure in the U.S. and guaranteed "economic security" to those "unable or unwilling to work" (why is this green?).
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But there was an unmistakable sense of shock among his allies that he would link himself to a candidate many mainstream Republicans consider unserious if not a menace to the party and country.
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They do a disservice to the truth when they are willing to call a woman a liar because her choice of platform seems unsavory or unserious, despite its careful vetting of the facts.
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This is precisely what the conservative politicians and talking heads who immediately blasted Ocasio-Cortez as dangerous and unserious will not tell you because then they would show who they really work for.
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Further, the whole campaign to portray Trump as an unserious candidate with zero chance of winning was actually a disinformation campaign conceived by the Trump-Putin conspiracy team, which includes retired Lt. Gen.
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Multiple White House officials have said the complications with Kushner's security clearance have only exacerbated his frustration with Kelly, who has privately disregarded Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, as unserious and meddling.
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To betray them or to be unserious in their defense is a betrayal of the fundamental obligations of American leadership and to behave as if they don't matter is simply not who we are.
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To betray them or to be unserious in their defense is a betrayal of the fundamental obligations of American leadership, and to behave as if they don't matter is simply not who we are.
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But it is not uncommon in the literary world for unkind comments to be made about a female author with a striking jacket photo, as if it might be proof of an unserious mind.
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Over hours and hours of playing, from Luigi Nono's meditative "La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura" on Thursday to Gyorgy Ligeti's riotous Violin Concerto on Sunday, nothing Ms. Kopatchinskaja did was insincere, flighty or unserious.
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Long seen as the most unserious stop on Hollywood's awards circuit, the Golden Globes are handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of mostly freelance journalists, only 19733 of whom vote.
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" Le Guin was a staunch champion of the intellectual strength of science fiction and fantasy at a time when they were often relegated without a thought to the realm of the unserious "genre ghetto.
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His supporters championed him as a refreshing break from politicians with carefully-calculated agendas and voting records to back him up, while his detractors argued this was a sign of wildly unprepared and unserious candidate.
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" Any attempt to bring together the string of decisions made by the president under the umbrella of "America First," Mr. Brands writes, misunderstands the "fundamentally unserious approach to some of the most serious geopolitical issues.
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The race has become a cause celebre for the anti-Trump resistance, and both parties are noticing: Already, the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC has pumped $2.2 million into ads attacking Ossoff as inexperienced and unserious.
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I kept longing for the arrival of the '60s and a new kind of intellectual, someone like the young Susan Sontag with her love of rock and roll and of the ostensibly unserious culture of camp.
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If there are conservatives arguing that Clinton is either unserious or incapable of achieving her stated goal, those trumpeting—and trumping up—Trump's shortcomings have drowned them out—helping Clinton in effect, if not in intent.
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It's true that upon repetition it falls a little flatter, and flatter still, but the imprint of how cheeky and unserious Brewis and Hayes are about this very serious, spectacular endeavour lasts a little while longer.
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He opened the White House door wide to unmoored and unserious people, most recently Anthony Scaramucci, who, during his nanosecond as communications director, disparaged Bannon as someone engaged primarily in a limber act of self-gratification.
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For many on the left and in the establishment press, this is an unsavory cast of characters -- a group of unserious instigators and ne'er do wells whom the President of the United States should not be elevating.
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Savvily, the actresses who invited protesters to the red carpet were able to both push the #MeToo conversation forward and to present themselves to the world as serious, politically minded professionals rather than unserious, objectifiable romantic objects.
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If Mr. Mueller is not able to prove collusion with Russia, the stated reason for his appointment, then Democrats, who have talked about little else for the past 18 months, will be left looking unserious or worse.
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Traditionally, male stars who appeal to this demographic find themselves coded as feminine and unserious, and if they want to have a career with longevity, they have to dump the fan base and disown their old personas.
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A month after Cruz (R-Texas), who is running for president, said that he wanted to "carpet bomb ISIS [the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria] into oblivion," Obama on Friday dismissed the promise as unserious bluster.
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The problem, of course, is that healthcare is the number one concern of Democratic voters and that her transition plan revealed just how unserious about it that she is, hence the massive drop in her poll numbers.
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Indeed, this ordeal has shown us that not only are Democrats unserious about solving illegal immigration, but that their primary interest is effectively fully open borders and the release and amnesty of all currently detained illegal immigrants.
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Because when Clinton tries to appear more feminine—like in an Lifetime interview where, according to Politico, she talked about "date night with Bill Clinton" and "girls night out with her friends"—she's discounted as a unserious politician.
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Clinton critiques Sanders in the book by name on many different issues, and she sometimes even goes out of her way to do it, reviving disputes from the campaign and portraying Sanders overall as hypocritical, disloyal, and unserious.
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Though it sounds kind of silly, all play really means is engaging in an activity you find pleasure in, something that is deliberately unserious that allows you to disengage from the stress of real life for a while.
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While pop culture also commonly makes fun of cargo shorts-wearing men for being unstylish, there's something more insidious in how women who subscribe to things deemed unserious and generic are considered to be trifling members of society.
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Yacoubian told me that Erdoğan may be engaged in a little saber-rattling here, but his rhetoric has been consistent and isn't unserious — it's not as if he hasn't followed through on his threats before, especially in Syria.
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The Associated Press reported that members of the Civil Human Rights Front, a Hong Kong-based human rights organization, rejected Lam's offer as an unserious attempt to end the protests, pointing out that the greater protest movement is leaderless.
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By the time of his unmasking, Anton was already ensconced as a spokesman in Trump's National Security Council, the task of making an unserious candidacy seem serious replaced by the task of making an unhinged presidency seem non-nuclear.
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The only thing standing in Joker's way — at least from the standpoint of industry insiders who vote on the Academy Awards — is that it's based on a comic book property, which still carries the whiff of "unserious" to some.
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But before he ran for office, Trump was the most fervent critic of the fact that President Barack Obama regularly hit the links with friends, aides and advisers, arguing that it showed the president was unserious about fixing America's problems.
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RELATED: As negative ads pile up in Iowa, Ted Cruz plots a bigger footprint On Monday, the super PAC backing Cruz released a new spot to paint Rubio, who has been dogged by questions about his Senate attendance record, as unserious.
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Recognizable examples of stan culture can be found in pop star idolatry online, and how queer men especially, as BuzzFeed reported, have reclaimed and legitimized their idolization, taking charge of a conversation that often deemed these celebrities and their fans unserious.
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It demonstrates how his concerns about the future resonate with many voters — even as much of the media has consistently marginalized, ignored or dismissed his campaign as unserious and, in a number of cases, quite literally erased or skipped over it.
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In an explosive interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Wednesday night, in which Parnas alleged that President Donald Trump and other top administration figures knew about the pressure campaign on Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, Parnas said he considered Hyde's threat unserious.
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Especially for newcomers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had no real say in her overnight transformation into a media darling, getting ensnared in too many Twitter beefs is an easy way to allow bad-faith critics to dismiss them as unserious politicians.
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At the workplace, "even short of getting fired, making inappropriate jokes or being seen as unserious can certainly prevent you from advancing," said Sean Joyce, a comedian and producer at Underground Comedy based in Washington D.C. Properly used humor serves many good purposes.
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The marginalization of violent racism may have become a victim of its own success; as with other surprising political developments of the past few years, it tends to be treated as fundamentally unserious, an approach whose lack of viability is immediately obvious.
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If this sounds like an unserious show that will drop on the deck and flop like a fish, Nickelodeon wants you to believe otherwise: as the theater's signage says, "The Broadway Musical for Everyone" — not just kids, or college students under the influence.
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Speaker Paul RyanPaul Davis RyanEmbattled Juul seeks allies in Washington Ex-Parkland students criticize Kellyanne Conway Latina leaders: 'It's a women's world more than anything' MORE (R-Wis.) and other Republicans targeted Obama's proposal, the costliest of his presidential budgets, as unserious.
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"One of the things I have observed among Republicans — and part of it is that they're just unserious about governing in the first place, but I certainly observed on health care that they had no actual legislative program once they got the gavels," Schatz said.
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Broadcast in 2002, the two-episode Fox TV special put pillow-sized gloves and headgear on unserious entertainers and a cast from the scandals of the 1990s (like Paula Jones and Tonya Harding), pitting them against one another in a boxing ring for three rounds.
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"Jack Irish" isn't unserious — there are grisly deaths and beatings, and the incident in the first movie, "Bad Debts" (2012), that threw the high-flying lawyer Irish off the rails and into a life as a bagman and part-time private eye was unusually savage.
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They would have preferred almost any candidate to Donald J. Trump, whom they viewed as unserious and unwedded to any principle beyond self-advancement, and worked to promote a number of his competitors for the Republican nomination, including Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Gov.
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Lets also not forget her unserious proposal to ban plastic straws to combat climate change during the CNN Townhall, or her most recent groveling attempts to be Joe Biden's vice president when we were all concerned about Hunter Biden's seat on a Ukranian energy company.
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Even before Chi-Raq was released in 2015, it generated controversy for its title (a seemingly glib, jokey comparison of a major American city to a bombed-out war zone) and for what some perceived as an unserious, possibly sexist response to an actual urban crisis.
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But that's precisely what the Sanders camp argues is unserious about the proposal: A 10-year phase in is more than a two-term presidency, opening it to more political vulnerability, and it's not even preserving the employer-based health insurance that voters seem nervous about losing.
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But it's just as possible that having been told by someone she respected that these comments on gender were unserious, Kael simply accepted the premise and decided to go about the rest of her critical life with less of an eye to defending women as women.
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FAIRFAX, Va. — Michelle Obama on Friday issued a cutting critique of Donald J. Trump as an unserious and dangerously unprepared candidate for president, making a rare appearance on the campaign trail to plead with young voters to support Hillary Clinton and extend her husband's legacy. Mrs.
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But it's worth mentioning because I have always seen these three as spiritual kin: quirky regional rappers who were easy to dismiss as unserious lyricists because of their subject matter but who, in fact, perfected the craft in far more idiosyncratic ways than almost any MCs ever.
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If bigotry were truly an impotent force in Republican politics, other candidates would be leapfrogging each other to denounce the ad, not as "unserious," but as racist, and not just because racism is wrong, but because they want the national Republican Party to avoid the California party's fate.
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The truth could be as simple as advertised: Mr. Trump was enraged when Fox News executives issued a statement mocking him as unserious over his threats to bolt the debate unless the cable channel's anchor, Megyn Kelly – whom Mr. Trump has attacked for months – was removed as a moderator.
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In this falling-down season, that is the most dispiriting thing of all: not that we were so lazy or so unkind or so unserious as to have invited this stupid, stupid viciousness into our homes but that it was already there in the frame, indistinct, unmistakable, alien, us.
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Since then, other Storm copycat events have emerged, from an unserious proposal to Storm Loch Ness to find the notorious cryptid, to the possibly real protest Storm BlizzCon 2019, They Can't Censor Us All, targeting the video game company Activision Blizzard's censorship of a gamer who spoke in support of Hong Kong protesters.
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Mr. Trump, in an interview on Mr. O'Reilly's show that had been scheduled last week, repeatedly said he was forced to bypass the debate because of a "childish" statement by the network, mocking him as unserious in his approach to the presidency as he demanded it remove Megyn Kelly as a debate host.
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Men are allowed to be interested in all kinds of things which are patently unserious without it becoming a debate on whether or not their hobby is letting down their gender; fashion is an art form, and the red carpet is often where it gets the greatest amount of exposure to the masses.
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But instead of bowing down before "Lacthaters" ("the colleague who views the mom on your team as preoccupied and unserious") or just submitting to a Stenographucker (who "treats you like the office secretary, even when it's clear you're not"), Bennett offers clear Fight Club-strategies for women seeking to challenge sexism in the workplace.
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Ted PoeLloyd (Ted) Theodore PoeSenate Dem to reintroduce bill with new name after 'My Little Pony' confusion Texas New Members 2019 Cook shifts two House GOP seats closer to Dem column MORE (R-Texas), the author of the bill titled the ADA Education and Reform Act, said that current law leaves room for unserious lawsuits.
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It suggests that perhaps Sontag's urge to keep her personal body out of the body of her work—to withhold her cancerous body, her queer body, her frail and desiring and deeply human body—was not simply another attempt to kill off "Sue," the weak and needy inner child, but an attempt to replace an unserious "female" voice (personal, confessional, emotional) with the authority of a "male" one (impersonal, clinical, intellectual).
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