It's very churlish to complain about exits constrained in 2016.
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It would be churlish not to spot a pattern somewhere in all this.
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Those victims deserve care as well, and not churlish, moralistic, "means-tested" care.
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America's pretty churlish when it comes to Brussels sprouts, those leafy buds of wonder.
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Will the company also bring its homogenous workforce and churlish corporate culture across the bay?
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This is why the Singapore summit was preceded by the absurd, churlish G-7 kerfuffle.
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It seems churlish to suggest that we can all surf the web except for judges.
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Nobody with his churlish disregard for the old (and often stuffy) conventions of pro tennis.
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This behavior is churlish, it denigrates the office of the president and it's simply un-American.
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Smartphone cameras are so good these days it can seem almost churlish to yearn for improvements.
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While I don't condone Razek's churlish, poorly spoken comments, there's something blisteringly honest about his thinking.
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His jokes are flat, and his arrogance is more detestable than Stark's brand of churlish roguishness.
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Over all, it would be churlish to let these small negatives outweigh a generally terrific achievement.
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That's a churlish thing to say, but I mean it in the most reassuring way possible.
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The continuity is very real, but on another level the Trump critics are being too churlish.
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It might seem churlish to criticise China for lending to poor countries, but loans are not gifts.
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The churlish tone erased any presumption that the couple had managed to reconcile with other family members.
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It may seem a bit churlish to turn up to a birthday party and spit on the cake.
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There would be months of churlish resentment on AM radio, oaths to never root for the team again.
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The story takes place mostly during a single workday, one that's full of trials, tribulations and churlish patrons.
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And any criticism of them often comes long after the ribbon-cutting, and even then it can seem churlish.
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I mean, not really, things will probably get worse, but it'd be churlish to start out expecting the worst.
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Given how much the senator has on the line, it seems churlish to argue that he is not brave enough.
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Once one person looks at their phone, other people feel compelled to do the same, starting a churlish chain reaction.
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It may seem churlish to moan about how the beleaguered euro zone found its way, at last, back to growth.
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Yet if Trump's Achilles' heel proves to be not his oafish policies but rather his churlish manner, so be it.
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Mr. Trump's churlish behavior toward women is well documented, including in a 4,700-word investigation by The New York Times.
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Valedictions are few, and after a long and brilliant career, it is surely churlish to begrudge the need for one.
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There's a way to write a story, present a story, and it can be tough and aggressive but not churlish.
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At the same time, it would be churlish to deny that Ferlinghetti has given the popular canon many indelible lines.
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Although "Mascots" is neither as funny nor as satirically acute as its forerunner, it would be churlish to complain too loudly.
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Playing "Crying" in that scene was a bit on the nose, as they say, though it feels churlish to note it.
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Last week, House Democrats released a damning report filled with internal communications that spotlighted bank leaders' churlish responses to regulators demands.
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Thiem also made 44 unforced errors but it would be churlish to criticise that tally when he was playing such risky tennis.
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It'd be churlish, and destructive, to pretend that the closure-epidemic is one restricted entirely to the nation's less than glorious capital.
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It would be churlish to deny that a Germany distracted by domestic politics for a number of months is bad news for Europe.
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At a time of trauma, it can seem facile, churlish, even immoral to talk of anything other than the source of that trauma.
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Given the way the news has been heading in America, it seems churlish to complain of how cartoonish Mr. Robot's worldview can get.
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Many viewed Sanders's response as churlish and dismissive, and his campaign responded by changing his message significantly to foreground issues of racial justice.
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Her evening would be ruined, Donald's churlish mood would darken her dinner, and he would probably leave after the main course, without apology.
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It seems churlish in the extreme to complain about the high-quality role-playing games that have come out in 2017 so far.
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In the grand debate over whether New Yorkers are inherently charming or churlish, Airbnb seems to be placing its bets on the former.
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They had just watched the greatest regular season college basketball game anyone had ever witnessed, and any response but gratitude would be churlish.
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But faced with a single rival with clearly distinct ideas and experience and a staunchly unflappable attitude, he seemed rude, ignorant, volatile and churlish.
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With Netflix's resounding success in forging — and, so far, dominating — the global market for streaming video, it may seem churlish to harbor any misgivings.
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It seems almost churlish to compare a speech by President Donald J. Trump in 2020 to one by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1940.
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It would be churlish to fault the performers, though, who included the bass-baritone André Courville as Don Alvar and Robert Getchell as Damon.
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Exhibitions of colonial Latin American art are so rare in the United States that it would be churlish to wish this one were larger.
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These sequences are efficiently assembled, if never exactly exciting, and it may seem churlish to complain when there are so few female heroines in blockbusters.
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But that could be in jeopardy: Though Iraq War veteran Maura Sullivan handily out-fundraised her opponents, the race remains wide open (and increasingly churlish).
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Politicians are often faulted for not keeping their promises, so it's churlish to criticize one for doing what he said he was going to do.
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Fees aren't appropriate everywhere, and it would be churlish to ask each of the 418 national park sites across the country to be self-sufficient.
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The issues presented in "When Two Worlds Collide" are so crucial that it feels churlish to characterize it as a dutiful, and ultimately pedestrian, documentary.
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It would be churlish to review them like any other production or to complain about slip-ups (not that they were many in either performance).
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Last February, after the Super Bowl, I wrote a column taking Newton to task for his churlish sulking after his team lost to the Broncos.
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Books of The Times Complaining that there's too much good art and entertainment being made at the moment seems churlish — how could that be a problem?
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In person, Lawrence could be as churlish and base as any bitter genius, but his particular appetite for insult seems to have been activated around stationery.
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But pointing out that it's nonsense would, I am quite sure, seem churlish after the Romney administration mailed a bottle of champagne to every household in America.
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Yet despite the crudity of their treatment in the press it would be churlish to pretend that chaos and violence didn't shadow the group's origins and rise.
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But executives had a lingering concern: Would viewers be put off by the show's harsh climax, in which a churlish Manhattan titan dismisses a wide-eyed aspirant?
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America watched a churlish child stand among serious leaders, corporate leaders and scientific ones, trying to appear in command, but continuously exposing himself as small and shallow.
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There is the transparent goodness of possible golden retriever Chris Evans, who only calls Trump "Biff"; the churlish wit of Vince Staples; and Big Boi's wonderfully dadlike punning.
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He found V. S. Naipaul a snob, Roald Dahl churlish and anti-Semitic, Alfred A. Knopf a bit of a spoiled baby given to tantrums, Mr. Rushdie entitled.
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The president's churlish mood had not lightened by the time he boarded Air Force One for the rally in West Virginia, and learned the details of his plea.
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I'll admit it: I've often been the first to roll my eyes at the way millennials talk about "adulting," and the churlish way it's covered in the media.
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Peter ChristopherGabriola Island, British Columbia To the Editor: Nicholas Kristof's column about the virtues of Canada was most kind, and it would be un-Canadianly churlish to quibble.
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His infinite tolerance of Russia's interference in U.S. politics and its well-documented online "malign influence" campaign stands in weird contrast to his churlish behavior toward America's actual friends.
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In the past, lawmakers were uneasy about skipping the ovations for fear of being caught on camera not applauding some patriotic or uplifting moment and seeming disrespectful or churlish.
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A week later I speak to Igari, a churlish man with a dosimeter badge—a device that measures a person's cumulative radiation exposure—hanging on a lanyard around his neck.
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Even if there were compliance issues, the government has at best handled them in a churlish and unprofessional manner -- you don't just order an organization to close without due process.
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Todd: Yeah, I feel a bit churlish complaining about an episode I liked much more than last week's on the whole, because I wasn't wild about how it wrapped up.
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The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index returned 9 percent through June, churning out gains so regularly that it may seem churlish to note that clouds are appearing on the horizon.
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Nicolas Cage has been surviving on professional gruel for so long now that it seems churlish to ponder performances that, much like the movies around them, have bordered on cartoonish.
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It always seems churlish to argue that falling unemployment sometimes is not a good thing, especially in this cycle, which saw the headline rate peaking at a horrendous 10.0 percent.
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For the people who don't take Rae Sremmurd seriously — who shrug them off as some churlish combination of Kriss Kross and the Partridge Family — SremmLife 2 might not be terribly convincing.
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But unlike Biden, Bloomberg did not, in fact, have a close relationship with Obama — delivering only a very late, churlish endorsement of his reelection campaign in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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That occupant's weekend series of racist, churlish, and childish comments drew a variety of stunning rebukes and actions, which suggests jocks may finally be realizing that apathy won't cut it anymore.
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We exist in a world where millions of people grew up in nightclubs, and perhaps it's childish and churlish to think that there's an upper-age-limit when it comes to clubbing.
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Nevertheless, as you review so many other books I do enjoy and as so many other readers find poetry enriching, it would be churlish of me to be critical of your decision.
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When key Republicans refused earlier this month to schedule hearings with the White House budget director on the president's new budget, the move was widely and correctly seen as churlish and childish.
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But at the same time, the parts are so inventive, so stylish, and so fun that I feel churlish pointing out how they don't quite cohere into anything more in the end.
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On the other hand, the idea of a flight around the moon to create great art is something that is so compelling, so wonderful, that expressing skepticism seems to be positively churlish.
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But it would be churlish for Britain, as it negotiates its new ties with the EU, to block the idea; and the EU should still aim for close defence co-operation with Britain.
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It may seem churlish to question Berger's most famous achievement in the days after his passing, but it is done out of appreciation for the deeper, grittier, stranger corners of his vast career.
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Back in May, there was a sudden outburst of enthusiasm about Trump's nuclear diplomacy with Iran, complete with media scolding of churlish liberals who refused to give credit where due for a breakthrough.
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It would be churlish, not at all in keeping with the holiday spirit, to compare the measured yet uplifting rhetoric of FDR and Churchill to the rude, bullet-nosed presidential tweets of today.
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If Call of Duty's recreation of World War II ends up churlish—many in the games media, sadly perhaps, are inevitably anticipating exactly that—it will hopefully serve, at least, as a gesture.
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Ms. Light, known for her incisive portraits of sharp-tongued women, here delivers a not entirely fitting study in self-effacing goodness, which makes Thérèse's anger toward her mother-in-law seem especially churlish.
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"It is perhaps a little churlish to be too negative, but it remains something of a habit that is hard to shake given the last few years," Wilson wrote in a note to investors.
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To Giants fans, Manning, a popular, esteemed player, who after being smacked to the ground hundreds of times got back up to start 210 consecutive regular-season games, was besmirched by his churlish bosses.
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But first and foremost, it is a marvelous piece of sculpture, so dazzling that it would be churlish to point out that no one goes to a natural-history museum to see a car.
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Johnson, after all, was a churlish, reactionary Democrat, who had only been included on President Lincoln's national unity ticket because he was one of the most prominent Southern politicians to remain loyal to the Union.
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Bugdaycay and Catalan talk a lot about the ineffable qualities of their jewelry, and I was at first skeptical, even though they are both so radiant and kind that feeling any doubt seemed churlish, somehow.
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As they reminisce, their pet pig and their early boyfriends and the churlish "rebby boys" who tormented them seem to take shape in the living room, among the dainty teacups, lace doilies and knitted afghans.
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Shashi Tharoor, a politician from Kerala belonging to the opposition Congress party, wrote that it was "churlish and irresponsible" to turn down foreign aid when Kerala's needs "vastly exceed anything that the central government can provide".
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Still others, anti-anti-Trumpers — which only meant they were smart enough to see the president for what he is and churlish enough to be angry at those who wouldn't join them in capitulating to it.
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It seems churlish to find fault with the women's English when they recently completed a tour of France with a French version of the same program, and when their lineup includes songs in Swahili and Finnish.
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That isn't to say Napoli were nothing before El Diego arrived, but it would be churlish to suggest that anyone other than Maradona was responsible for their rise, or that anyone else could have done it.
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So when Sarah Louise Delany, known as Sadie, and Dr. Annie Elizabeth Delany, called Bessie, tell you that they want to be described as maiden ladies who are colored , it would be churlish to disregard their wishes.
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But Mr. Netanyahu's calls for an emergency unity government proved popular among Israeli voters, impatient for some national healing and loath to contemplate a fourth straight election, leaving Mr. Gantz seeming churlish if he continued to refuse.
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It would be churlish to criticize this man for taking an unspecified financial settlement and signing a nondisclosure agreement with the National Football League after he had accused the league's teams of colluding to keep him out.
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But his record of churlish behavior, which took center stage with the Los Angeles Dodgers during the playoffs this season, has left him with only three known suitors: the Chicago White Sox, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Yankees.
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It'd be churlish — and anti-romantic — to give away too much about the season finale of "Modern Love," which has a closing sequence that is worth watching, even if you skip around before you arrive at the end.
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It feels a little churlish to rank Netflix's animated sitcom — possibly the best TV show in production right now — so relatively "low" for a fifth season that was, ultimately, only a very slight step down from the show's superb fourth season.
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Now, the churlish thing to do would be to point out that these early springs are also harbingers of much more drastic changes to come — global warming, melting ice caps, flooded coastal cities, hellish heat waves, droughts, and much more.
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It's a pity that the audience at Lincoln Center won't hear the works paired with the symphonies performed this spring in England, including a new piece by Helen Grime and Tippett's "The Rose Lake," but it seems churlish to quibble.
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It feels a bit churlish to point this out, since the direction is crisp, the pacing is economical (we learn little, for instance, about anyone's personal life), and the subject matter urgently needs to be conveyed to the widest possible audience.
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It was also the first first-person shooter to feature a bathroom—an incredibly detailed bathroom where you could open and close the stall door, inspect your churlish face in the mirror, and invade the privacy of an alien trying to defecate.
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Mr. Bonneville; Ms. Wilton; Dan Stevens as Matthew; Lily James as Lady Rose; and, most memorably, Ms. Smith as the magnificently churlish Violet — we owe Mr. Fellowes and his team of producers our gratitude for putting us in that company for 52 weeks.
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Since taking over the C.I.A., Mr. Pompeo has gone out of his way to praise what he describes as Mr. Trump's open-minded approach to intelligence, recasting the president's churlish mocking of American intelligence agencies as the healthy skepticism of a smart leader.
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The Treasury is going to need to ask Congress to authorize more borrowing, and members of Congress — especially Democratic Party members who voted against the tax cuts that have done so much to make the borrowing necessary — are going to feel churlish about doing it.
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"I think he honestly believes it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else," Johnson's housemaster, Martin Hammond, wrote in the spring of 22016, when Johnson was seventeen.
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But this earnest desire to seek common ground between law enforcement and the communities they police simply can't compete with the cacophony of churlish voices who scream "Racism!" after every encounter — deadly or otherwise — between a police officer and a young man of color.
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The share of the adult population in the labor force ticked down, and average hourly earnings continued growing at only a moderate pace, up 3.1 percent over the last year — but it feels churlish to complain when the big-picture numbers are so good.
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But perhaps it is churlish to wish that more of his dramatic life (battles and treaties with Mapuche warriors, his relationship with a Chilean heiress nearly 40 years his junior, the exploits of his illegitimate son, Bernardo, the first post-independence leader of Chile) were featured.
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After a few hours of play you know that the necromancer is taking in all the new surroundings and is still pretty distrustful of other people, and that the Dalish elf is rather churlish with others but becomes begrudgingly open to awe, if exposed to enough wonders.
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"It was not Iran that prevented a churlish Saudi Arabia from opening an embassy in Baghdad for a decade after the fall of Saddam, nor was it Iran that insisted on war with Yemen or an embargo of Qatar," he wrote in the Atlantic this week.
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As heavyweight Cro Cop punctuated the fight with a signature head kick knockout at the Saitama Super Arena, you would be churlish to not respect Silva's losing efforts in fighting in much bigger men in the hope of carving out his own modern-day David vs.
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And though there were regrettably more than a few cheers at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Wednesday night when del Potro misfired on serves and ground strokes against Federer, who among us is really churlish enough to begrudge him this belated opportunity at another United States Open trophy?
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And though there were fewer shows able to do that than ever before (where I typically have preliminary "best TV" lists of 40 or 50 before whittling them down, I struggled to get to 30 this year), I found it churlish to rank them against each other.
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What began as an insular, churlish fight among former associates/friends has now blossomed into business-threatening drama after a series of racist tweets were dug up from what were thought to be social media graveyards, followed by a series of apologies of varying degrees of perceived sincerity.
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Here, the restaurant's churlish owner, Albert (Michael Gambon), lectures the table about how to eat like a "gourmet," much to the annoyance of his actually-smart wife Georgina (Helen Mirren), who finds herself catching the eye of a potential new lover while snacking on a piece of asparagus. 9.
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Sandgren has been dealt a decent set of cards but it would be churlish to downplay the achievement of a lower-ranked battler more used to road trips across America for minor tour events than jetting across the globe to soak up the glamour of the grand slams.
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While it's hard to argue that the world — especially the little slice of it known as New York City — needs another Beethoven string quartet cycle, only the most churlish will be able to resist the draw of the one opening this week at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
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Those who haven't watched the Kentucky Derby in recent years might still picture an anachronistic sporting event in which jockeys push horses to their physical limits, men and women wear antebellum styles with churlish pride, and Southern millionaires pine for a time when the height of technology was the riverboat.
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That included raising the price of a drug used by AIDS patients by more than 5,000 percent, making a churlish appearance before a congressional committee, trolling various people with insulting social media posts and getting into a high-profile feud with a member of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
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Perhaps it's churlish to long for a bit more naturalism in a work so plainly proud of its obscurity as "The Last Hotel," whose American premiere is being presented at St. Ann's Warehouse, under the shared auspices of St. Ann's; Prototype, the annual festival of contemporary opera; and the Irish Arts Center.
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It would be churlish to dispute the assessment of Casey Stoney, the veteran England defender and now coach of Manchester United, that those figures prove "the appetite" of the public to watch women's soccer, but none in the sport are naïve enough to believe that it is the only factor at play.
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Whether it's churlish refusing to reiterate America's commitment to Article 5 of NATO after Trump's own staff briefed American media that he would do so, or firing FBI Director James Comey on a thin pretext that he contradicted days later in an interview with NBC News's Lester Holt, Trump has been impulsive and self-destructive.
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Going by what the show's creator, Matt Groening, said dismissively about the criticism of Apu — "I think it's a time in our culture where people love to pretend they're offended," he told USA Today — and the show's churlish reaction to Mr. Kondabolu's documentary on an episode earlier this month, Apu will probably remain ensconced in the Kwik-E-Mart.
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Pushed along by Jill Soloway, a showrunner whose force of personality helped make them a public figure, the show believed in itself strongly enough that it could seem churlish to ask what the plan was, say, for any of the characters other than the three (played by Jeffrey Tambor, Judith Light, and Gaby Hoffmann) on whom the show tended to focus most closely.
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A highlight reel of Mr. Gottlieb's juiciest revelations includes swipes at the Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul (a narcissist and "a snob"), the historian Barbara Tuchman ("her sense of entitlement was sometimes hard to deal with"), William Gaddis ("unrelentingly disgruntled"), John Updike ("I was disturbed that he wouldn't accept advances") and Roald Dahl (an "erratic and churlish" author who made "immoderate and provocative financial demands" and anti-Semitic remarks).
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No one, you'd hope, would be churlish as to let the banter boys sully the fine reputations of Europe's various budget airlines, but anyone who's ever trudged onto an 8pm flight from Stansted before a weekend where the most nutritious thing you're likely to ingest is a €20 bottle of lukewarm water in a club, will know that these are less bog standard flight, and more nightmare turned waking reality.
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GOP strategist Karl RoveKarl Christian RoveKarl Rove: Both parties are 'broken' The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by JUUL Labs - House to vote to condemn Trump tweet The most important pledge Democratic presidential candidates can make MORE says Democrats looked "churlish and small" during President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE's first address to a joint session of Congress.
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