Amateur actors deliver it woodenly, reading from cue cards. Stupid?
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Mr Xi visited Vietnam in November and woodenly intoned about fraternal solidarity.
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" He then preceded to move woodenly around the stage while declaring himself "very presidential.
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Vikar is merely a blank slate for Hollywood to inscribe, a zealot woodenly parroting others' opinions.
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Mr. Spicer opened his second White House presser with a mea culpa, sort of, joking woodenly about his first appearance.
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I chuckled woodenly along with them for a bit, exchanged a few more words, and went back to my lounger.
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Her face is dejected, a gray mask; her arm rests woodenly on the table before her, as if paralyzed or wounded.
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As videos of the bloodied man quickly went viral, Oscar Munoz, the carrier's boss, woodenly apologised for having to "re-accommodate" customers.
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Several journalists, sitting in chairs, relate details of the case so woodenly that it sometimes sounds as if they were reading cue cards.
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As videos of the bloodied man quickly went viral, Oscar Munoz, the carrier's boss, woodenly apologised for having to "re-accommodate" customers and blamed the flyer for not co-operating.
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While his argument can feel a bit academic at times, as when he woodenly observes that political struggle always occurs in "a location, a geographical space, an environment," for the most part his urban focus yields a refreshingly vibrant narrative.
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In the video, the elder Mr. Di Maio, sitting at a desk with a fax machine, calculator and yellow Post-it Notes, woodenly reads a statement in which he begs forgiveness and describes himself as a small-business man who, "like every father," did what he could to provide for his family.
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So without further ado: we give you a grown woman rapping about how trans kids are the result of abuse, and how animals are extremely good at gender: The video starts with a woman—let's call her, say, "Helena" (although she goes by MH Wiebe)—in a pink hoodie woodenly swaying to a beat ripped straight out of 1992.
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Variety stated "'Bloodline' is bloodless. With a plot that becomes more ludicrous the more one thinks about it, this Geria production for Par release plays woodenly.""Film Reviews: Bloodline". Variety.
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As psychiatrist R.C. Murphy wrote, "All this advertising is vindicated as it were, by a strict cleaving to the side of part truth," and referred to the work and the quoted material as "implausible and woodenly pious".
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However, it makes things uncomfortable around the boarding house. Terry's landing of the plum part breaks Kay's heart. The inexperienced Terry is so woodenly bad during rehearsals that Powell tries to get out of his contract with Sims. On opening night, after she learns from Jean that Kay has committed suicide, Terry decides she cannot go on.
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The characters of Hurree Singh and Bob Cherry were seen as particularly poorly realised, with both woodenly parroting their familiar catch-phrases without the slightest expression. The low budget of the production also attracted adverse comment, with reviewers noting a "certain emptiness of the sets" and the fact that the school seemed deserted apart from the principal characters.Lofts & Adley p.150 The show did not lose its popularity over its nine years on the air.
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He undertook a lengthy comparison of the elements of the two offenses, separately codified, and concluded that differences in the wording were significant enough that bank larceny could not be a lesser included charge to bank robbery.Carter, at 261–274, Thomas, J. In dissent, Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized Thomas's opinion as a "woodenly literal construction" of the statutes that ignored the underlying common law and gave prosecutors too much power at the expense of juries.Carter, 275–89, Ginsburg, J., dissenting.
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This Latin text of 3 Esdras, found in later medieval Vulgate manuscripts and the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, is however a completely different (and likely earlier) translation of Greek Esdras A from that found in the Old Latin, as witnessed in the Codex Colbertinus. Where the Vulgate text of 3 Esdras is woodenly literal in its rendering of the Greek, the Old Latin text of 'First Esdras' tends towards free paraphrase.The Latin Versions of First Esdras, Harry Clinton York, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Jul., 1910), pp.
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It's still a painly chintzy and woodenly delivered little affair, but if you happen to be a fan of the novel, Part 2 is the one you'd probably dig the 'most'." Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central described the film as "A joyless exercise." J. P. Harris, in his 2001 book Time Capsule: Reviews of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films and TV Shows from 1987-1991, stated "While a marked improvement over Watchers, Watchers II is hardly more faithful to the wonderful novel; 'improvements' by scripter Dominic include several plot flaws. But the kernel of both films and book are still there.
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Eden (Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1472–1553) The meaning to be derived from the Genesis creation narrative will depend on the reader's understanding of its genre, the literary "type" to which it belongs (e.g., scientific cosmology, creation myth, or historical saga). According to Biblical scholar Francis Andersen, misunderstanding the genre of the text—meaning the intention of the author(s) and the culture within which they wrote—will result in a misreading. Reformed evangelical scholar Bruce Waltke cautions against one such misreading: the "woodenly literal" approach, which leads to "creation science," but also such "implausible interpretations" as the "gap theory," the presumption of a "young earth," and the denial of evolution.
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" Others, particularly Variety, attacked the film's writing, suggesting that the violence and gore detract from any development of the characters, making them "uninteresting", resulting in a loss of impact. Variety wrote: "Dawn pummels the viewer with a series of ever-more-grisly events — shootings, knifings, flesh tearings - that make Romero's special effects man, Tom Savini, the real "star" of the film—the actors are as woodenly uninteresting as the characters they play." Pauline Kael wrote that, in contrast to the "truly frightening" Night of the Living Dead, "you begin to laugh with relief that you're not being emotionally challenged or even affected; [Dawn of the Dead is] just a gross-out." Leslie Halliwell of Halliwell's Film Guide stated the film was "occasionally laughable, otherwise sickening or boring.
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And the songs, which are woodenly delivered by Miss Shore, Mr. Young and Robert Merrill, who plays the city rascal, are hard to remember as far as the door." Variety was lukewarm, reporting: "The bucolic humor presented is of a mild brand, the music score that has been added to the original play is fair, and while the performances are competent its chances in the general market are spotty." Harrison's Reports wrote that it should give "fairly good satisfaction to the general run of audiences, although it will probably find its best reception in the smaller towns and cities." John McCarten of The New Yorker wrote: "Every cliché of musical barnyard drama is included here, and the song lyrics run to such idiocies as 'Purt Nigh but Not Plumb.
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Previously rehearsed with Rita in the apartment, where Rita feeds her lines woodenly, the scene is "dreck" and "hollow; every line unworthy of a genuine actress's commitment", and Betty plays it in rehearsal as poorly as it is written. Nervous but plucky as ever at the audition, Betty enters the cramped room, but when pitted inches from her audition partner (Chad Everett), she turns it into a scene of powerful sexual tension that she fully controls and draws in every person in the room. The sexuality erodes immediately as the scene ends and she stands before them shyly waiting for their approval. One film analyst asserts that Betty's previously unknown ability steals the show, specifically, taking the dark mystery away from Rita and assigning it to herself, and by Lynch's use of this scene illustrates his use of deception in his characters.
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"Talent Talk" Billboard October 22, 1977: 54 The first album was re-released on the new label in October 1977. Rolling Stone's review of the debut album observed the eclectic nature of the group's music, comparing it to Phil Spector and the Who, and commented that the album's two strengths were Richard Gottehrer's production and the persona of Debbie Harry. The publication said she performed with "utter aplomb and involvement throughout: even when she's portraying a character consummately obnoxious and spaced-out, there is a wink of awareness that is comforting and amusing yet never condescending." It also noted that Harry was the "possessor of a bombshell zombie's voice that can sound dreamily seductive and woodenly Mansonite within the same song". Debbie Harry performing with Blondie in Toronto, 1977 The band's first commercial success occurred in Australia in 1977, when the music television program Countdown mistakenly played their video "In the Flesh", which was the B-side of their then current single "X-Offender".
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