I really did immediately find the male voice more (gratingly) authoritative.
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My beleaguered parents begged me to take up something less gratingly high-pitched.
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" Somebody gratingly replied, "Your candidate didn't win so watching the country burn is ok?
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The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters.
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The Zenfone Zone isn't gratingly slow and the skin that Asus smacks on Lollipop isn't offensive.
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At first, it seems that this will be a predictable, gratingly cute tale of heartache and betrayal.
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Much of the commentary, thus, focuses on the play's insistence that white supremacy blasts gratingly in the everyday.
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Get bogged down in technical terms like diatonic interval and chromatic diesis and you risk sounding gratingly wonkish.
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Would I feel the magic of living in a small town that is somehow both charming and gratingly annoying?
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Schwartz loved to get meta, a tactic that can be genuinely funny at best and gratingly self-satisfied at worst.
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One was gratingly aggressive, inaccurate and insulting -- and with November midterms looming, seemingly intended as an appeal to the President's political base.
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Hardware, software and online services are meant to be bundled into a single product to create what the firm gratingly calls an "experience".
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He called the owner up and asked them about the car in a gratingly nasal voice just inches from being an obvious joke.
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And keep an eye on the gratingly negative self-talk, which — if you're like most of us — unconsciously peppers your inner monologue throughout the day.
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The first 40 minutes of Mara Nelson-Greenberg's "Do You Feel Anger?" felt so gratingly forced, it was hard to see where the story could go.
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It's incredibly symbolic that Beerbongs and Bentleys, by the relatively harmless but at times gratingly all-American Post Malone, is the album in danger of being displaced here.
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She fashions an eerie third-person voice for him, neither antiquated nor gratingly modern, rather than using the first person, so that her Cromwell is above all an observer.
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James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual, released the same year, assembled cheap MIDI presets, the Skype login sound, and other bits of pointedly contemporary digital detritus into a gratingly cheery faux-muzak orchestra.
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The only person involved in the making of "Youth in Oregon" — a gratingly awful family drama about assisted suicide — who seems to grasp the movie's thematic potential is its cinematographer, Ross Riege.
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To get you started, here are ten boring as hell, gratingly monotonous or just plain slumber-inducing videos ranked in order of how well they will make you go the fuck to sleep.
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It helped that the Utah-born Mr. Fairchild was at home with the spoken twang of a show that defeated English cast members like Belinda Lang, in gratingly shrill voice as Aunt Eller.
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But what could have been gratingly bad instead became a long-running cult hit, on the air for 10 seasons, first on a single UHF station in Minneapolis in 1988 and eventually on Comedy Central.
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Mr. Voges's show, which takes its name from Google's former slogan, invites the audience to reflect on the uses and abuses of communications technology, but this garishly lit and gratingly loud spectacle leaves virtually no room for contemplation.
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It felt as though we were fully back in June's head, feeling her legs go numb and bruised from kneeling so long, listening to the beeping and hearing "Heaven Is a Place On Earth" intertwine gratingly with the sound.
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As the seasons continued, she was revealed to be lazy, gratingly tactless and increasingly embittered, as her relationship with Mark rose and fell through the highs of consummation, a plateau of toleration born of mutual desperation and eventually to the post-divorce lows of recriminatory co-parenting.
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The only real difference between San Francisco Pride and every other gratingly packed, overly expensive, heavily corporatized street festival I've ever attended, in fact, was the presence of a young, single, nude man in the middle of the crowds, his flaccid phallus swinging in the breeze, gawked at by no one.
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Blueface was the starting quarterback, and talented — "Not only could he throw the ball, he could run the ball as well," Coan said — and also easy to coach: After the team worked out in the weight room, Blueface would blast the gratingly saccharine "Clean Up," from the Barney children's series, from his phone.
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Not everyone thinks it's worth the trouble; the book has been called "an overwrought, overwritten epic of gratingly obvious, self-congratulatory, show-off erudition that, with its overstuffed symbolism and leaden attempts at humor, is bearable only by terminal graduate students who demand we validate the time they've wasted reading it" — and much worse.
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Mike Wass of Idolator was complimentary of the song describing it as a "killer single". He did label Pitbull's lyrics "questionable" but are overlooked as he "injects enough humor into the song". Steve Adams of the Winnipeg Free Press gave the song a lukewarm review, giving it two and half stars. He wrote that, compared to "Timber", "Wild Wild Love" was not "nearly as gratingly awful, but it's not anything amazing either".
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But those techniques only highlight the film's artificiality, making you gratingly aware of how much has been left out and how much of the drama is based on secondhand assumptions rather than genuine insight." Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "It's not about love. It's not about money. It's not even about sex, although the transaction of cold, love-starved sexual business propels the daisy-chain encounters that make up Love in the Time of Money.
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Rick Bentley of The Charlotte Observer said: "Both actors (Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale) are very good, but they get blown off the screen by Melissa Leo, who plays their mother, Alice Ward. Leo's Oscar-worthy portrayal of Alice as a master manipulator goes beyond acting to a total transformation." Roger Ebert referred to it as a "teeth-gratingly brilliant performance." Leo and several of the film's actors including her co-star Amy Adams and Bale were nominated.
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The site's consensus states, "The humor is gratingly dumb, and Kangaroo Jack contains too much violence and sexual innuendo for a family movie." On Metacritic, the film holds a 16 out of 100 based 25 reviews, meaning “overwhelming dislike”. Joe McGovern in the Village Voice described Kangaroo Jack as "witless" and stated "The colorless script...seems to have written itself from a patchwork of Wile E. Coyote cartoons, camel farts, and every high-pitched Aussie cliché to have echoed on these shores".Joe McGovern, "Kangaroo Jack".
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" On NPR, Mike Katzif wrote, "Outside of that ambitious closing piece ["Petrichor"], Big Boat feels less musically adventurous than many previous Phish records. But its simpler songcraft is purposeful in the way it provides a glimpse inside the heads of Anastasio, McConnell, Gordon and Fishman. After years of revealing itself through flurries of notes, hypnotic grooves and exploratory improvisations that often masked deeper meaning, Phish now seems most engaged when singing from the heart." On Pitchfork, Sam Sodomsky wrote, "Big Boat is at times overwrought and half-assed, gratingly silly and embarrassingly self-serious, both tedious and underwhelming. In other words, it’s a new Phish album.
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A contrary opinion is expressed by Joel Pearce from DVD Verdict, who says the series is "occasionally clever and funny," but that "much of it is gratingly obnoxious". Many reviewers express displeasure with middle and later episodes, saying they were "more of the same," that they had stale humor, that they were tiresome, or even painfully unfunny. Episodes fourteen through sixteen, starring the Ropponmatsus, bear the brunt of this criticism, but several reviewers consider episode seventeen, Animation USA, to be one of the best. Reviewers also agree that the series suffers from too much filler in its later episodes, with Crandol describing the show as spinning its wheels.
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Michael Davidson contributed to the Madonna movie Who's That Girl with the track "Turn it up" in (1987) (produced by Stock Aitken Waterman and Phil Harding) for Sire Records, which became a huge dance hit in the worldwide charts. Unlike the movie, the soundtrack to Who's That Girl became a big international success spending many weeks in the Top Ten Album Chart in the United States, Europe and Asia. Released on July 21, 1987 the album sold almost 5 million copies worldwide, of which 1 million in the US (Platinum). The Washington Post described the song as "gratingly banal" and its singer as "one of Madonna's photogenic protegés"Brown, Joe.
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