In each case, the expected awfulness is the product of the probability of election versus the awfulness if elected, i.e.
|
|
It has always been Mr. Lucas's gift to reveal the awfulness behind things that look charming and to make that awfulness compelling.
|
|
Or have you personally experienced the awfulness of Ted Cruz?
|
|
So what's your explanation for the awfulness of the boomers?
|
|
There's been a lot of awfulness for a long time.
|
|
We should have seen The Emoji Movie's utter awfulness coming.
|
|
Keep Pokémon in its own world, away from our awfulness.
|
|
We're going to talk about the awfulness of Google now.
|
|
But honestly, here Steve gives us a masterclass in awfulness.
|
|
Halena grabbed my arm, and I braced myself for awfulness.
|
|
Yet for all this awfulness, today's debate in Parliament was surprising.
|
|
Then he uses it, the social media, to amplify that awfulness.
|
|
The awfulness is still sizzling and bright on the skillet surface.
|
|
Iran is in a class by itself in the awfulness department.
|
|
Awfulness somewhat, but only somewhat, redeemed by his last-minute vote.
|
|
The first, of course, is the awfulness of the Trump presidency.
|
|
Blythe, despite her awfulness, is the golden child of the MFA program.
|
|
The second factor is the awfulness of the most recent BNP government.
|
|
I'm not giving them the responsibility of preventing every awfulness of humanity.
|
|
Our authoritative list of on-the-record quotes about Cruz's awfulness is here.
|
|
Yet even a tie couldn't entirely escape the general awfulness of this season.
|
|
But before all that awfulness, let us at least savour this weekend's action.
|
|
Bad lighting plus the general awfulness of the DMV equals you looking dumpy.
|
|
But Sanders set a benchmark for awfulness that was a thing to behold.
|
|
Only Trump's flamboyant awfulness stands in the way of his party's power grab.
|
|
Since then, he's cycled through flashes of mediocrity, solidity, flat-out awfulness and brilliance.
|
|
When you read Twitter itself, it's just a monotonous drumbeat of awfulness these days.
|
|
It's that despite all the awfulness he's seen, he still wants to be one.
|
|
Cruz had a decent debate in the middle, but it was bookended by awfulness.
|
|
It is hard to exaggerate the sheer awfulness of what emerges from the report.
|
|
Part of the answer, I'd argue, is that voters don't fully appreciate his awfulness.
|
|
The possibilities for awfulness in human experience are far beyond what we're used to.
|
|
Indeed, its very awfulness is part of its appeal, encouraging legions of hate-follows.
|
|
The spread of fearful confusion seems to be the point of all this awfulness.
|
|
Reality, meanwhile, inspires these dire visions and competes with them for sheer relentless awfulness.
|
|
Regarding the awfulness of the current Republican Party, it isn't just deep; it's bottomless.
|
|
But can we take a moment to consider the awfulness of Senator John McCain?
|
|
But shouldn't some subjects, like the awfulness of slavery, be too serious for literary gamesmanship?
|
|
Other general awfulness recognized includes Allegiant, Suicide Squad and the entire cast of Collateral Beauty.
|
|
All we can do is hope he sticks to his less dangerous form of awfulness.
|
|
I'll get to Pompeo below, but dwell for a moment on the awfulness of Tillerson.
|
|
But even in this context, the awfulness of a debt ceiling crisis should galvanize us.
|
|
Sometimes, it's even necessary to help us manage the pain that comes with the awfulness.
|
|
And the third potential selling point is the awfulness of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton themselves.
|
|
Yet despite all of the awfulness, there is a message of hope within the disturbing teaser.
|
|
There are exceptions to this parade of awfulness: The Facebook Live election debate, hosted by News.com.
|
|
It's not just a mordant joke or a grim chuckle, but several minutes of hilarious awfulness.
|
|
So many best games, but so very few genuinely terrible ones positively reveling in their awfulness.
|
|
In that odd way, it's taken this level of awfulness to un-racist their team name.
|
|
I think that at least Jonah has his own world of awfulness that can be entertaining.
|
|
When you do that, you are left with no illusions about the awfulness of his presidency.
|
|
The awfulness of the Trump protectors may just drive a few principled Republicans off the team.
|
|
At the age of ten, Gregor was dispatched to a boarding school of truly Dickensian awfulness.
|
|
This year's primary debates broke ratings records, and they broke all records for god-awfulness, too.
|
|
So Royole hurriedly threw the FlexPai together and let the world gawk at its wondrous, foldable awfulness.
|
|
Luckily, the New York Attorney General's Office knows what's up and just called out the company's awfulness.
|
|
The effects of going off benzos cold turkey (as opposed to tapering) are legendary in their awfulness.
|
|
More specifically, Trump's very awfulness means that if he falls, the whole party will fall with him.
|
|
Awful things happen so quickly with the Trump administration that we tend to forget the earlier awfulness.
|
|
Finkelstein said he allowed the viewing of the letters to show the continued "awfulness" of the case.
|
|
Shouldn't a presidential campaign have a mission statement that goes beyond the singular awfulness of the incumbent?
|
|
The thing that changed was not the degree of their awfulness, it was that people stood up.
|
|
There is no way that Pence can, in good faith, separate himself from the awfulness of Donald Trump.
|
|
Really, though, the awfulness and grandeur that "American Honey" discovers is the product of Star's restless Emersonian consciousness.
|
|
It has conceptual hints of Godard's "Alphaville" and a chilly through-line concerning the banality of human awfulness.
|
|
The universal physical awfulness of age is scrutinized, as above, with the cold eye of a Jonathan Swift.
|
|
The awfulness of my phone is the only thing that prevents me from staring at it 24/7.
|
|
What all this tells us is that the problem facing America runs much deeper than Trump's personal awfulness.
|
|
But the bill unveiled this week is worse than even the cynics expected; its awfulness is almost surreal.
|
|
Not much attention was paid to what cataclysmic awfulness he could purvey with a simple telephone handset receiver.
|
|
Like most mainstream "gayborhoods," West Hollywood is a black hole of awfulness that should be avoided at all costs.
|
|
The full awfulness of human beings and their circumstances is on vivid display: venality, vanity, deception and outright cruelty.
|
|
Perhaps our respondents have decided that Ross, for all his awfulness, also is too inept to pose much trouble.
|
|
Anyone following Milo's improbable career might be wondering what changed to make his brand of brazen awfulness suddenly toxic.
|
|
It was testimony to the awfulness of the government of Najib Razak that the opposition was even in contention.
|
|
And despite all of the awfulness, it's common for victims to continue to love the people who abuse them.
|
|
You've seen it essentially become full of awfulness and all about attacking the left and not about actual principles.
|
|
When white Americans burrow into their group identity, the switch that Painter described often flips, from nothingness to awfulness.
|
|
But to the audience, it's yet more awfulness for Clark to have to endure, a sort of last straw.
|
|
Glad to see this but cannot overstate the awfulness felt by seeing the public debate your validity as a woman.
|
|
LGBT Like most mainstream "gayborhoods," West Hollywood is a black hole of awfulness that should be avoided at all costs.
|
|
Rooting for the film's designated good guys means rooting for economic collapse, and you feel the awfulness of this contradiction.
|
|
All of that would just be guff, of course, if Ms Eilish's music were no more than cleverly packaged awfulness.
|
|
The pure awfulness of the world drives forward a compelling story about trying to escape tainted roots and start anew.
|
|
We both had separate but parallel awfulness in our lives, but that doesn't mean I wanted what happened to happen.
|
|
There were fewer episodes exploring mundane, creeping horror — the everyday awfulness just under the surface of the good ol' USA.
|
|
The twins couldn't lean any further into the stereotypes of millennial awfulness without falling over and that's the entire point.
|
|
Is that something you struggle with or is it just a rational emotional response to the awfulness of the world?
|
|
Would any of this awfulness have surfaced if Team Moonves had not challenged controlling shareholder Shari Redstone six months ago?
|
|
You ever watch something that makes you believe that maybe, just maybe, humanity isn't a giant dumpster fire of awfulness?
|
|
But all of this will probably take time; the consequences of the new regime's awfulness won't be apparent right away.
|
|
How do we respond when greatness and awfulness coexist, or when talent is used as an alibi for gross misbehavior?
|
|
There is little doubt that economic data in the weeks to come will obliterate all modern records in their awfulness.
|
|
I think his candidacy has brought out this wave of awfulness, of things that people would otherwise have kept hidden.
|
|
When you churn out a disgrace a minute and no one expects anything nobler, you're inoculated by your own awfulness.
|
|
While The Lewandowski Show was striking in its awfulness, it also suffered from more mundane problems common to such hearings.
|
|
We spoke about the Hyperloop of Elon Musk, and the American election, and the awfulness of Swedish trains in winter.
|
|
The book's satire is trained on the awfulness of affluent tech society, which turns out to be Bernadette's Achilles' heel.
|
|
Luckily for me, she's the most kind-hearted, caring person I've ever met, and we remained friends despite my general awfulness.
|
|
So far, Hillary herself has favored depicting him as a "loose cannon," but that really doesn't seem to encompass his awfulness.
|
|
This clearly needs its own section, in order of awfulness: Our premium subscription service continues to churn out some great pieces.
|
|
Yet many people, like Milanović, have fond memories of bygone years, and wonder if reports of their awfulness have been exaggerated.
|
|
This clearly needs its own section, in order of awfulness: Our premium subscription service has been off to a great start.
|
|
If you were to choose just one issue that best captured the awfulness of Donald Trump, it would probably be immigration.
|
|
But she sells herself short by not giving the mother-son conflict a bit of a sharper edge beyond Lolo's awfulness.
|
|
This clearly needs its own section, in order of awfulness: Our premium subscription service had another week of interesting deep dives.
|
|
The reward for this awfulness was the No. 295 pick in the draft, which turned out to be Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.
|
|
Some people seem startled both by the awfulness of Mr. Ryan's plan and by the raw dishonesty of his sales pitch.
|
|
Those outside of hacker culture may think that it's an ironic cult hit, enjoyed much like The Room for its awfulness.
|
|
I've read similar thoughts from other critics, because Ramsay's awfulness was just so severe that Jon's victory seemed all but preordained.
|
|
And in all this awfulness, the way capitalism sometimes feels like our invisible bedfellow turns it into ripe material for rock music.
|
|
But it's entirely something else to continue such a campaign in a clearly close election in which one candidate's awfulness is unprecedented.
|
|
I wasn't attracted by the awfulness there, of course, but it was an introduction in general to start looking in that direction.
|
|
Only later would I think on the awfulness of that "we," humiliation hitting in waves that never seemed to lose their force.
|
|
For the left, it is a reminder of the awfulness of war and the importance of the pacifist provisions in the constitution.
|
|
But Schumer hasn't let Trump's general awfulness stop him in the past, even though he has gotten little to nothing in return.
|
|
That is why the best diaries are written by awful people who are narcissistic enough to put all their awfulness on display.
|
|
The supernatural nastiness embodied by Pennywise is abetted and to some extent camouflaged by the ordinary human awfulness that also afflicts Derry.
|
|
Most of these moderators live in the Philippines, and many work under terrible conditions and are traumatized by the awfulness they encounter.
|
|
It's easy to groan about the awfulness of "these kids today," but getting to know them personally reveals another, more hopeful story.
|
|
One of the best things to come out of the awfulness that was 2016 was the sheer joy of watching Netflix's Stranger Things.
|
|
But if it's truly a panic attack, you should know that these aren't dangerous beyond, you know, the awfulness of the attack itself.
|
|
What is novel in A Planet for Rent, at least for American readers, is the outrage, sheer pain, and awfulness of the future.
|
|
This clearly needs its own section, in order of awfulness: Extra Crunch Our premium subscription service had another week of interesting deep dives.
|
|
The 49ers went 2-14 last year—only second worst to the Cleveland Browns—thanks to inconsistent quarterback play, and general god-awfulness.
|
|
Even at a time of year when movie companies typically unload their dross, the sheer awfulness of Dito Montiel's "The Clapper" stands out.
|
|
But those of us who are appalled by these acts sometimes fail to see the full scope of the awfulness we are witnessing.
|
|
It was more like an avalanche of awfulness — with stories of police brutality, pussy-grabbing and terrorist attacks breaking seemingly every hour, without cease.
|
|
The film's "giant twist" has already become the stuff of pop culture legend, encouraging people to see it just to marvel at its awfulness.
|
|
I can see why people stick with it, even through all the awfulness of its internal culture and the boorish behavior of its CEO.
|
|
She can only recognize the awfulness with which he treated her when she envisions someone else in her place, and she still blames herself.
|
|
"There's always comedy in the middle of the awfulness a lot in the world and it's about choosing to find this moment," she explains.
|
|
There are directors who test the audience's tolerance for discomfort, rubbing our noses in ordinary human awfulness — and then there is Alex Ross Perry.
|
|
"I see Milo as this embodiment of the awfulness you see over the past few years with the general tilt of millennial conservatism," she said.
|
|
Crystal Palace might be in genuine relegation trouble at this point, were it not for the true awfulness of the teams in the bottom three.
|
|
It was Bevin's awfulness that was supposed to convince the world that Republicans would vote for anybody, as long as he was tied to Trump.
|
|
"Torch Song" has its moments of pure sitcom — there's a protracted scene about the awfulness of Ed's cooking — which you can only grin and bear.
|
|
Paul Krugman Everyone in the world of opinion spends a lot of time talking about the awfulness of Donald Trump — and with plenty of reason.
|
|
Trump's fiercest critics on social media simply invoke his generic awfulness and claim he has no right to anything and isn't really the president anyway.
|
|
The book's dreamy musings and vague scenes are laden with metaphors so mixed it can require several reads just to take in their true awfulness.
|
|
For a real window into the true awfulness that people can achieve, there are the company's self-reported statistics around removing child pornography and graphic violence.
|
|
It's important to keep Donald Trump's awfulness in perspective, to distinguish between what is the result of broader historical forces and what is unique to him.
|
|
"I see Milo as this embodiment of the awfulness you see over the past few years with the general tilt of millennial conservatism," said the teen.
|
|
Hence the Clinton campaign's attempt to project a softer image—and of a politician whose every thought does not revolve around the awfulness of her opponent.
|
|
There's something unseemly about how consistently she complains about the awfulness of her childhood — her mother was cold, she claims, and mistreated her physically and emotionally.
|
|
The day before, Weld had told the Boston Globe that Trump now has his "full attention," owing to the singular awfulness of his foreign-policy positions.
|
|
Let's list them in order of awfulness: The tiny banner ads on your phone: Does anyone really think you can read the brand name on these?
|
|
Once you take the abject awfulness of prison into account, reducing incarceration starts to look like a great way to save hundreds of thousands of DALYs.
|
|
The other day he turned to the bounteous trove of the English language for a pejorative worthy of his critics' awfulness, at least as he sees it.
|
|
Despite, or rather because of, its awfulness the film contributed to the passage of the snappily named President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.
|
|
The only highlights (pun intended) to this awfulness are the women music producers who are having a laugh on Twitter at the expense of this ridiculous thing.
|
|
Bundy even seemed to get a little teary-eyed when faced with the awfulness of his words, to the point that he gave me a slight apology.
|
|
Or possibly this show is playing some long game I just can't see yet, and I'll see in the end that Gus's awfulness was all be design.
|
|
There's a very narrow line to tow between Deacon's innate humanity and his general awfulness, and Witwer miraculously manages to find that line and stick to it.
|
|
Towering over all, in all his egregious awfulness, is the horribly memorable Kenneth Widmerpool, whose self-promoting machinations are among the forces that drive the novel sequence.
|
|
There's plenty of awfulness to blame on the government right now, but I feel like the South By kerfuffle was just an easy excuse for fucking up.
|
|
And so Mr. Pomeroy, reflecting in his first extensive interview on the mass shooting that took place inside his church, can only imagine the awfulness of it.
|
|
The awfulness of Ted Kennedy, at Chappaquiddick and after hours in D.C., can be acknowledged only now that he's no longer a liberal lion in the Senate.
|
|
That's what happens when awfulness isn't poetic or funny or touching but tedious, as is the case with the three adult children of Mary Frances (Lois Smith).
|
|
This false symmetry — downplaying the awfulness of some candidates, vastly exaggerating the flaws of their opponents — isn't the only reason America is in the mess it's in.
|
|
Moreover, he applies his talents most attentively to everything awful about the genre, magnifying their awfulness, so that all his theoretically good qualities are actually net negatives.
|
|
If you're superstitious about the awfulness of 423 (see Bowie, Prince, Cohen and Trump), one Australian state's end-of-days weather over the weekend will only seem appropriate.
|
|
Instead of recognizing his own disgusting behavior, Paul blames Jo for their marital failures with a myriad of reasons: her upbringing, her instability, her drinking, her inherent awfulness.
|
|
Despite Gibson's obvious awfulness, Hacksaw Ridge is a very fine film, largely due to Garfield's pure-hearted portrayal of conscientious objector and lifesaving WWII medic Desmond T. Doss.
|
|
"She has an aura," he said of Suu Kyi, adding that maybe her stellar international reputation "masked the true awfulness" of abuses over many years of the Rohingya.
|
|
Is there something inherent to sex education that just makes for a bad video — or are there other factors that contribute to the overwhelming awfulness of this genre?
|
|
All of that awfulness changed in season 1's "Three Sentences," when the Hollywood hunk reconnected with the apparent love of his life, ex-wife Sophie (Alexandra Breckenridge).
|
|
Across eight features in 27 years, the awfulness of our species — in particular its North American, suburban varieties — has served Mr. Solondz as both premise and punch line.
|
|
It is in that resolution where we find the source of the disparagement of holiday films, and the source of their proclivity towards awfulness: their relationship to sentimentality.
|
|
Of course, we know why the great majority of Republican politicians supported Mr. Trump despite his evident awfulness: They feared retribution from the party's base if they didn't.
|
|
Mr. Mendelsohn, who looks and speaks as if he were perpetually sucking on a cough drop, makes no overt gestures either in the direction of likability or awfulness.
|
|
I know well that the very real obstacles to removal injure the psyche of those worn thin by the relentless onslaught of awfulness erupting from this White House.
|
|
She spoke, too, of the damage done by hurricanes in the Caribbean, and the "sheer awfulness" of the Grenfell Tower fire in London in June that killed 71.
|
|
To be fair, there's a story at least once a week where someone types in something into Google and the predictive search gives them all sorts of awfulness.
|
|
So asking subsidy experts to rank them by awfulness is like asking them to say which of their children they find the most annoying on a long car ride.
|
|
The band's profile has risen over its decade of existence, but the black, bleak awfulness that fueled those earliest demos remains, as does their creator's desire to retain control.
|
|
In my own experience, the disease does so much to convince you of your awfulness, that you start viewing your absence from friends and events as a deformed favor.
|
|
One of the worst things about despair is the boredom, the way that you already know what sort of awfulness is around the corner without even having to look.
|
|
Indeed, pointing out the awfulness of the West Bank model in no way absolves the Palestinians of responsibility for their refusal to make any kind of peace with Israel.
|
|
Current events are way too much for text, but obviously acknowledge goes to that awfulness, X." Around the same time, Feldsher texted Weinstein: "I think she's full of shit.
|
|
I did a column last week about Paul Ryan firing the House of Representatives chaplain, which I saw as another lesson in the overall awfulness of our current speaker.
|
|
In a perverse way, Trump's sheer awfulness offers him some political protection: His supporters aren't ready, at least so far, to admit that they made that big a mistake.
|
|
Given Trump's long record of personal and political awfulness, it's difficult to feel bad when he may be the target of an unfair accusation — such as sexually harassing Sen.
|
|
British audiences laughed at Sophie's awfulness throughout "Peep Show," but when Mark tried to leave her on their wedding day, our hearts bled for her and we despised him.
|
|
There was apparently a sizable subgroup of fans pulling for Sansa and Margaery to get together, after bonding over Joffrey's awfulness, though season six of the show quashed that hope.
|
|
This clearly needs its own section, in order of awfulness: Our premium subscription service continues to churn out some awesome long-reads as a channel for our staff's niche obsessions.
|
|
The internet of 2015, like the internet you're reading this on today, carried all the same awfulness and injustice that persists offline, except instantly searchable and pinging you 24/7.
|
|
When the platform was dominated by random videos of people's everyday lives; instead of movie trailers, commercials, clickbait, and lots of awfulness all vying for a place in your queue?
|
|
But the kind allegedly routinely practiced (on a spectrum of degrees of awfulness) by men like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes, and Leon Wieseltier is.
|
|
This clearly needs its own section, in order of awfulness: NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images NOAH BERGER/AFP/Getty Images Our premium subscription service had another week of interesting deep dives.
|
|
What Hsu and Wieseltier are both expressing, in their different ways, is a desire not to forget the singular awfulness of Trump and the absurdity of him occupying the Oval Office.
|
|
Ross: Yes, but it's the nature of politics that you defeat hate not just by wringing your hands and bemoaning its awfulness but by offering an alternative that seems more attractive.
|
|
My point to my Democratic friends (no, really: I have a few) is that those subjects have to be first-and-foremost, not secondary points after lengthy declamations about Trump's awfulness.
|
|
Our present moment bristles with an extra-special awfulness, which may explain not only the existence of this new generation of ugly painters, but the particularly freaky flavor of their work.
|
|
It's simply going to be very hard for Clinton to open up the kind of stable lead that her supporters think Trump's awfulness deserves while she herself is so little-liked.
|
|
That this is the same fundamental human awfulness that also curdles our culture and injects pure poison into our politics doesn't excuse it, but it does at least put it in context.
|
|
Rather than being taken as objective confirmation of the awfulness of the Soviet Union and Russia, the book might have been interpreted as an expression of the views of one particular writer.
|
|
What makes watching the film such a strange, surreal experience for LGBTQ viewers is the relief that comes once you realize that its love story doesn't contain any punishment or human awfulness.
|
|
Still, there seems to me to be an extra dimension of awfulness to the whole situation once you realize that all this betrayal serves no real purpose, not even a bad one.
|
|
Soon, though, the individual scattered titters and excited murmurings began to shift and to harmonize as skeptics and true believers alike became as one, joined by the display of so much awfulness.
|
|
As far as the presidential race in 2020, the Democrats seem to be repeating the mistake that Hillary Clinton made: counting on the awfulness of Trump to do their work for them.
|
|
Her character is lucid in her awfulness, and she almost never shuts up, relating endless anecdotes that don't just force her family to face awful truths, but rub their noses in them.
|
|
Waldman has written through the post-2016 protests, marches and resistance, amid losses to the poetry world — including several of her friends — to uncover paths of possibility under all of the awfulness.
|
|
To add injury to insult, in both of those scenes he ends up unintentionally belting her across the face, a sequence of such awfulness that the very experience of watching it feels masochistic.
|
|
The Nottingham duo excel at capturing the minutiae, banality, dread, toxicity and awfulness of life, then sync it to a grinding beat that twitches between gristly post-punk and electronic-leaning hip-hop.
|
|
Ten days after the landings, the awfulness of all the death he was witnessing in the "thousands of little skirmishes" in the hedgerow country of Normandy was carving away at his mental state.
|
|
Whatever the precise motivations, this is a teachable moment, one that reveals not only another layer of Trump's personal awfulness but what Republicans really mean when they pretend to care about fiscal responsibility.
|
|
Tying together the episode's triangle of plotlines is a cynical sense of humor that's laugh-out-loud funny throughout, the way "Mad Men" used to make you guffaw at its characters' avaricious awfulness.
|
|
That self-awareness has kept the character from falling completely into awfulness, but the more the show leans on it, the more the viewer is inclined to wonder why he's still hanging around.
|
|
Reviews were bad—Roger Ebert called Dreamcatcher "a monster movie of stunning awfulness"—but a semi-flattering consensus soon formed that Dreamcatcher was destined for a certain type of greatness, or at least infamy.
|
|
But there are ways that we can make it less awful or there are ways that we can find meaning in the awfulness, that we can plant flowers [in] the ashes, so to speak.
|
|
This aspect of season 6 has always been total hokum, especially since Locke's bald metaphysical awfulness made him seem more and more like an America's Got Talent contestant impersonating Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.
|
|
DNC chairman Tom Perez said in a recent meeting with other strategists that the move was to "make it about [Trump's] performance as president, not his bigotry or awfulness," a source said to Axios.
|
|
Ms. Jackson, in a lilac dressing gown and a marcelled silver wig, digs deep into that contradiction, producing huge laughs from the grim idea that awfulness is a damn good habit as death hovers.
|
|
Despite the fact that when W left office he had a 34 percent approval rating, the overwhelming awfulness of Donald Trump has—perhaps understandably—made the American people feel wistful for the Bush era.
|
|
This clearly needs its own section, in order of awfulness: Image via Getty Images / Feodora Chiosea Image via Getty Images / Feodora Chiosea Extra Crunch Our premium subscription service had another week of interesting deep dives.
|
|
The sign, which depicted a man hanging over the edge of a bathroom stall to watch the woman on the other side as she did her business, was swiftly criticized for its all-around awfulness.
|
|
The movie takes pains to show that some (not all, but definitely some) of his blatant bigotry and general awfulness comes from his upbringing, particularly his mother (Sandy Martin), who denigrates him at every turn.
|
|
The awfulness of that war and the international desire to never again allow megalomaniacs to hold complete global sway is part of what makes the meeting of world leaders at the G20 today so important.
|
|
And despite all the awfulness of the past few months from the perspective of criminal justice reformers, who can't help but fear what the Trump administration has planned for the Justice Department, down he went.
|
|
In combining Buddhist philosophy with Western psychiatry, Epstein argues that denying the reality of your suffering only creates more suffering, so the healthiest course of action is to just go ahead and face its awfulness.
|
|
If Javier's delusions supply the inspiration, some of the awfulness is suggested by the fate of Angelica (Joana Ribeiro), an innkeeper's daughter who first encountered Toby and his camera when she was just a teenager.
|
|
In the play, this change seems to come out of nowhere, at least partly because Ms. Garofalo is such a brilliant underplayer that I could hardly tell the difference between Lee's awfulness and her kindness.
|
|
Ginny is perpetually on the edge of a nervous breakdown, partly because of Humpty's general awfulness and partly because she harbors guilt from breaking up her previous marriage to Richie's father by having an affair.
|
|
I really, really like how fantasy these days is tackling the awfulness of the world in very stark terms, unlike, say, Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, whose greatest character flaw's being excessively earnest.
|
|
Natural fluctuations in team strength can be wildly exacerbated by the league's rotating divisional-matchup schedule; when weak divisions are matched up against strong ones, we get historic achievements in awfulness, like the 2014 NFC South.
|
|
She's been so consumed with focusing on this child that I don't think she's truly sat with the realization that she's been part of this greater beast that is Gilead, which contributes to so much awfulness.
|
|
There are brief bits about the awfulness of YouTube commenters and the spreading of bad news on Reddit, as well as a subplot in which the mayor's office falsely declares them to be liars and imposters.
|
|
While the company's algorithms and internal moderators have become exceedingly good at tracking myriad violations before they're reported to the company, hate speech, online bullying, harassment and the nuances of interpersonal awfulness still have the company flummoxed.
|
|
This was the reality of polar travel: more ordinary in its awfulness than the gothic horrors conjured up by novelists; more wretched, desperate, and deadly than the stories circulated by the British Admiralty and its publicity machine.
|
|
At a meeting last week with about 20 Democratic operatives and strategists, Perez said the plan is to "make it about [Trump's] performance as president, not his bigotry or awfulness," according to one source in the room.
|
|
Instead of mocking that film's near-radical awfulness, The Disaster Artist celebrates the two men's cuckoo dedication to making art, even if it's the kind of art that includes all sorts of continuity errors and unexplained plot-asides.
|
|
I'm your typical American citizen in the month of November in the year 2016, trying to hang on as this awful presidential election—historic by all measures of irredeemable awfulness—sucks out every ounce of my contaminated soul.
|
|
A lot of online outrage and fury — the majority, I'd estimate, though not all — is caused not by its targets' inherent awfulness but by an absence, on both sides, of context, nuance, and above all, empathy and compassion.
|
|
If I can shove aside anxiety about my job, family, and relationships to instead focus on the absurd level of awfulness that Breaking Bad's Walter White and Jesse Pinkman experience throughout the show's five seasons, that's a win.
|
|
Then again, at some point Trump's awfulness is bound to catch up with him, and maybe conservatives will begin to understand that he's a danger to them politically as much as he is to the country and the world.
|
|
So when we watch a roaring mountainside fire and listen to an unseen inmate enthuse about her firefighting job, we can immediately sense the awfulness of a life where being surrounded by flames feels like a kind of freedom.
|
|
This scene is played for comedy, but it's sickening — not only for its inherent awfulness, but also for the message it sends to male survivors who have been told that their assaults are laughable, hardly to be considered assaults at all.
|
|
On the one hand, the former marine implied that he, too, through the awfulness of his experience, as a commander who had sent men to their deaths, and as the father of a soldier killed in Afghanistan, was unimpeachable by journalists.
|
|
In this terrible Trump time, lorded over by rampaging white men, as teeth-clenching awfulness emanates from Washington no longer on a daily, but an hourly, and even minute by minute basis, Moyer's paintings explore a robust and decidedly alternative consciousness.
|
|
With WWE's television at genuinely unprecedented levels of awfulness and some of the worst ratings in its history, the promotion is going to do what most big corporations do, which is try to strangle competition in the crib rather than improve.
|
|
The sheer awfulness of health care repeal—which has not been helped by the fact that Republicans have insisted on coupling repeal with massive tax cuts for the wealthy—has doomed every effort to pass legislation over the past year.
|
|
By facing the awfulness done by Americans who came before us, identifying the behaviors and biases within us all that perpetuate the pain of those acts, and discussing how to remember and rise above that past, we can do better.
|
|
But the road to reinvention hits a brick wall with "Emerald City," an NBC series that seeks to transform the colorful story into a gritty, half-baked version of "Game of Thrones," yielding some visual splendor but mostly lots of sheer awfulness.
|
|
On the bright side, at such a stressful and divided time in the country, for a two-day interlude, Pepsi did manage to bring us together -- black, white, old, young -- in a united howl over the amazing awfulness of one muddle-headed commercial.
|
|
This complexity is portrayed uniquely in Hunter Gatherer: We see the awfulness of Ashley ignoring the good woman next to him while choosing to pursue a relationship that no longer exists, but we also see his naiveté and his desire to be sincere.
|
|
And we have to look out for each other — particularly those who can't look out for themselves or who are at the highest risk for the kinds of awfulness we've gotten just a small taste of so far these past couple of weeks.
|
|
This clearly needs its own section, in order of awfulness: (This week was admittedly a little light on the gaffes, but don't be too disappointed, that's good!) Horacio Villalobos//Corbis/Getty Images Horacio Villalobos//Corbis/Getty Images Our premium subscription service roars ahead.
|
|
Now, I'm not advocating we bury our heads in the sand and totally ignore very real world problems entirely, but let's face it: this shit is tiresome, and without joyful, personal experiences to offset societal awfulness, we can really get lost in misery.
|
|
The show also retains some of the wit and edge of the real Bourdain's voice, with story lines on the awfulness of brunch and how a kitchen is like a submarine, both pulled straight from the New Yorker piece that became the memoir.
|
|
Opinion Columnist Amid the unceasing awfulness of the Trump administration, I've lately found comfort in the Yale political scientist Stephen Skowronek's concept of "political time," which has in turn informed my thinking about the almost utopian ambitions of the Green New Deal.
|
|
But when you begin to take seriously what that interiority and what that experience [of violence] is like, it presents such a vision of skin crawlingly unbearable awfulness, that I wanted it to seem utterly un-endurable that this should happen anywhere in the world.
|
|
Coming out of the awfulness that was 2016's Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey sees Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn declaring emancipation from her former paramour (Jared Leto's... unique take on the Joker) and teaming up with a crew of female antiheroes of her own.
|
|
One need only recall classic science-fiction movies from the 1950s, or Youtube clips from Troll 2, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Showgirls, or any number of films that are revered for their campy, over-the-top awfulness to understand that bad films make great memes.
|
|
Rather, what you look for is just how committed players are to connecting with the audience through their craft, the skills that allow them to exhibit and illuminate the awfulness and the lushness of what it means to be a person in the world.
|
|
" Evergreen in its awfulness, too, is the 1963 cab ride in which Gay Talese explains to Saul Bellow, as Ms. Steinem sits between them, "You know how every year there's a pretty girl who comes to New York and pretends to be a writer?
|
|
The audience for her awfulness, in the first act anyway, consists of Ms. Metcalf as B, her fiftyish seen-it-all caretaker, and Ms. Pill as C, an uptight twentysomething emissary from her lawyer's office, trying to bring order to a chaos of unpaid bills.
|
|
"There's a lot to be fearful about during a worldwide pandemic, but I've also seen the best of human nature on display...love and kindness and generosity and ingenuity...and it's made me feel so oddly hopeful despite all the awfulness going on," said McGuire.
|
|
The uncouth conduct of the Roman soldiers at the foot of the cross, for instance, can be seen in no other light: Anyone thinking that Jesus could have done a bit more to avoid his fate is offered this lasting example of humanity's incurable awfulness.
|
|
This petition aims to prevent Donald Trump from making a state visit to the UK. It's awkwardly worded and calls for the visit to be canceled due to "embarrassment to the Queen" rather than "Trump's bigotry and general awfulness," but it already has more than 1,000,000 signatures.
|
|
While the rest of the immature adults I know are busy jerking off to the cynical, ugly awfulness of Game of Thrones, I'm over here watching a show about an optimistic eight-year-old butterball with a lisp who lives in a poor fictional town in Arizona.
|
|
We have an idea that when someone is dying, a new, honest, generous space opens up; that in the harrowing awfulness of dying there is a directness, an expansiveness, a loosening of inhibitions, the potential for things to be said that could not be said before.
|
|
And likewise today: Sure, there's part of the Resistance that's ready to link Kavanaugh to "The Handmaid's Tale" and show up in red dresses to protest him, but in general Democratic enthusiasm centers on Trump and his awfulness, not a conservative court and its potential works.
|
|
Much as she gave the in-laws a very particular kind of awfulness, Halpern crafts a gratifyingly unexpected, effective answer to the question of what happened between Kit and Cal, with outed secrets and surprising solutions that she plays for minimum melodrama and with realistic warmth.
|
|
I suppose it's "entitled" or whatever to look around and point out the awfulness of the economy millennials have inherited, but it's hard to ignore all the giant flashing red signs indicating that our work lives are on average a good bit worse than those of our predecessors.
|
|
Screenshot: TwitterLike approximately 126 million other people, I willingly plunge my brain into the sewer that is Twitter every morning, expecting varying levels of awfulness until I surface around 6 or 7 pm from a platform that's unwilling or unable to improve its user experience in any meaningful way.
|
|
After some scenes establishing the awfulness of the sister's family and friends, the premise clicks into place: The F.B.I. raids the house, the sister and her husband are carted away and Mickey finds herself in charge of their three children (two entitled teenagers and a goofy 7-year-old).
|
|
What emerged after those years of meticulous and intentional awfulness was something like the perfect contemporary baseball roster—deep and talented and anchored by veteran stars who stubbornly refused to decline, but primarily built around and upon young players the team drafted during its years at the bottom.
|
|
It just can't sustain the book's disjointed nightmarishness beyond June's original story, and the best dystopias aren't all about how everything is completely awful all the time, but about why large numbers of people find that awfulness acceptable — and implicitly why you, the viewer, might even be one of them.
|
|
While Ella takes steps to get away by trying to sell the old homestead, through a lawyer named Taylor (Andrew Rothenberg), Wesley can't imagine his life as anything other than what it is: he moves and speaks as if bewitched by the awfulness; his existence is a Daddy-dominated dream.
|
|
Somewhere way out there the Rodeo fire merged with the Chediski fire, and this seemed a salient metaphor for the god-awfulness of a summer in which nothing else seems to be coming together, and there seems to be no real catchphrase or dance song or thing you must have.
|
|
A few tweets from the conservative writer Ben Shapiro, which used phrases like "Western Civilization" and "Judeo-Christian" while lamenting the conflagration, prompted accusations that he was ignoring the awfulness of medieval-Catholic anti-Semitism, and also that his Western-civ language was just a dog-whistle for white nationalists.
|
|
If that's the case, then the Democrats are likely to be pushed inexorably toward precisely the place that Zingales warned them not to end up — toward an electoral battle in which the policy stakes seem to diminish, and the awfulness of Trump himself becomes once again central to their message.
|
|
The world is terrible, and you want to express that awfulness in the strongest way possible; the people around you are unbearable and stupid, and you want to tell them so; but the only really terrible words are the ones that reinforce what's making it all so awful in the first place.
|
|
Still, let us not gloss over the bad, which, as this show goes, is very bad: We get yet another episode of Buffy moping over terrible Parker, the introduction of the odious she-werewolf Veruca, and a very silly, very preachy story about the awfulness of college students drinking beer (oh, the horror).
|
|
In Rachel Kushner's new novel, the noticing is straightforward in its awfulness, in keeping with the protracted dehumanization of the woman at its center: Romy, a single mother who kills the war veteran who stalks her and is sentenced to spend the rest of her life at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility in California.
|
|
Part of what makes the film so powerful is that it captures the universal awfulness of that period of early adolescence while zoning in the struggles specific to Gen Z. A particularly poignant scene has Kayla scrolling through Instagram in bed, her acne lit up by images of perfect bodies blurred by flattering filters.
|
|
It's in the nature of hell that it affords ever deeper degrees of torment and dread; you think it can't get any worse, but you're only in some antechamber of limbo, some zone of moderate awfulness; and that was my position when Ferry and Elisabeth were removed from the school and put in an ordinary state school instead.
|
|
He also does this in Jesus' Son, too, when the narrator—Fuckhead as he's only known, or FH—punches his girlfriend in the gut and is later spying on a woman from outside her bathroom: Johnson's writing could contain such clear human awfulness and truth at the same time, and that's what made it so convincing and powerful.
|
|
The severed heads casually dumped in the gutters of Ernst's streets; the frantic-looking chap fleeing the scene with a severed limb strapped to his suitcase ("Open your bag, my good man," the caption reads); the bearded gent tucking into his soup, oblivious to the roof collapsing around him: Ernst's images rhyme with the moronic awfulness of our age.
|
|
They are quick to mention that the awfulness of these years was not necessarily Webber's fault, that there were others like him in the line of decrepit or defective or otherwise insufficient complementary stars brought in to be Iverson's second during the years when that was Philadelphia's team-building philosophy in its entirety, and then to execute the middling systems of coaches like Eddie Jordan and Doug Collins once Iverson left.
|
|
And so I missed out on Babe Ruth's lore; Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle; the significance of Jackie Robinson; Bobby Thomson's "shot heard round the world"; the abandonment of New York City by the Giants and the Dodgers; Yogi Berra's malaprops; the glorious awfulness of the early Mets and the Amazin' season of 1969; the lunacy of the Steinbrenner years and the so-called Bronx Zoo; the Bill Buckner game and the Mets' second championship; the Yankees' core four; the subway World Series of 2000.
|
|
Speaking of the possibility of a Trump Presidency, Stein made the stunning claim that Donald Trump, despite the unbridled awfulness of his agenda, would actually be the "less dangerous" choice for President compared to rival Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, because he doesn't know how to work the levers of government and would be held in check by Congress.
|
|