It's crass, ham-fisted, and often completely at odds with itself.
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It refuses to insist itself upon the viewers with ham-fisted truisms.
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He waged a sometimes ham-fisted battle against prejudice, misunderstanding, and evil.
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They are ham-fisted recitations of standard Republican talking points: Taxes bad!
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Anthem's ham-fisted plot is littered with questionably motivated characters and unearned twists.
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I hope this is not a negotiation ploy, because it&aposs rather ham-fisted.
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At times, the dialogue can feel ham-fisted in its portrayal of feminine power.
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I will die in a mawkish and disconnected and ham-fisted and overacted fashion.
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But what we have learned is that again, Damon's optics are faulty and ham-fisted.
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Which is good; the movie could have wandered off too easily into ham-fisted territory.
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"The people of Libya deserve better than this sort of ham-fisted obstructionism," he said.
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Schnabel's ham-fisted style has its strengths, even when he's just going through the motions.
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It's publishers' ham-fisted way of saying how the fuck are you doing, fellow kids?
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It can hardly be taken as a ham-fisted attempt to sock it to foreign competitors.
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Yet because he and his staff are ham-fisted with Congress, that chance is now gone.
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Both have been widely reported as historically inaccurate at best, and ham-fisted propaganda at worst.
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For all his ham-fisted interventions, Trump has evolved through the health care process, aides believe.
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But employers don't need to be ham-fisted in their efforts to block talk of salary.
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The Trump administration has been characterized by a series of ham-fisted and vindictive trade policies.
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If that's the strategy, it's so obvious and ham-fisted it may only embolden potential candidates.
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U.S. policymakers should be careful not follow the EU's ham-fisted approach to regulating the technology.
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"Using air power in this late phase of a counterinsurgency is ham-fisted," Mr. Page said.
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The country's capital account is not fully open, and regulation of financial markets remains ham-fisted.
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The move was so transparently ham-fisted you could glaze it with honey and call it dinner.
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Doubts about the industry's commitment to social justice were deepened by ham-fisted attempts at power moves.
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Something about babies, Alec Baldwin, and a ham-fisted premise made The Boss Baby an internet favorite.
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Its ham-fisted solutions to her persistent issues, allowed an ongoing PR debacle to decay ever further.
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Voice is a great interface for myriad different tasks, but it's often a pretty ham-fisted approach.
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I think it's probably more generous to interpret it as a ham-fisted attempt at expressing empathy.
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Unfortunately, Radio Commander can be pretty ham-fisted and overly influenced by Hollywood's vision of the war.
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A ham-fisted attempt in July suspended work on the bill, but did not formally withdraw it.
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"When I try to shoehorn my life into a song, it gets really ham-fisted," he said.
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It remains, as it was meant to, a reproach to all ham-fisted intellects and deskbound brooders.
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But this also sure feels like a ham-fisted, backdoor method to force Google Assistant into more homes.
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What sounds easy and ham-fisted is earned by its sheer unexpectedness, like a guarded friend opening up.
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In a phone interview, Weinberg told CNN he felt the university was "ham-fisted" about the Coulter speech.
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Carr's book, with its rollicking whimsy and ham-fisted caricature, doesn't successfully execute the promise of that strategy.
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It has likely left at least half the planet outraged at the ham-fisted belligerence of the process.
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Why make these ham-fisted attempts at plot if you're not going to turn the humans into real characters?
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One of the most ham-fisted attempts to do this came from the Democratic National Committee right before Thanksgiving.
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Walled gardens often limit free speech, as Facebook's sometimes ham-fisted attempts to police its social network have shown.
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Was the ham-fisted build up to the Brexit referendum really just former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron's fault?
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It's a more fined take on the original Pixels ham-fisted design that's kind of attractive in its simplicity.
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However ham-fisted his filmmaking, Mr. Rossen — the son of a Lower East Side rabbi — was a serious man.
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"The crackdown has been very ham-fisted and heavy-handed," said Ahmed Rasheed, a foreign policy analyst and author.
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This ham-fisted tête-à-tête between the two men undoes much of the conceptual marketing behind the exhibition.
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But the ham-fisted dialogue saps the energy from the images, drawing attention to the thinness of archetypal characters.
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But ham-fisted efforts to shut down elections should trouble all Americans, no matter how justified they may be.
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It's only in its final moments that Beautiful Day gives us a ham-fisted acknowledgment that, yes, it is.
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The Australian accent is difficult to master, and attempts to handle it by international actors have been pretty ham-fisted.
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They're mostly ham-fisted experiments from developers that wanted to make use of the extra button on the Galaxy S8.
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The new episodes feel like an obnoxious, ham-fisted parable about what happens when kids are told they're singularly special.
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The failure of Dean's testimony to capture attention is a rebuke of the Democrats' halting strategy and ham-fisted theatrics.
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But no, Google doesn't want the U.S. government seizing telecom industry assets in a ham-fisted attempt at cyber-security.
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Reality in 2018 can be ham-fisted, to be sure; the writers of history seem to have jumped the shark.
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The building has gone through ham-fisted additions, hostile restorations, lousy paint jobs and too many bad imitations to count.
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In reality, this proposal is nothing short of a ham-fisted attempt to greenwash the administration's unpopular "energy dominance" agenda.
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Editorial Federal energy regulators will soon vote on a ham-fisted Trump administration proposal to subsidize coal-fired power plants.
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Far Cry 5's ham-fisted appeal to "diversity" via dumping black characters onto the screen is not offensive, per se.
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Yet through them, Vautier's ham-fisted handwriting is theorized to be virtually projected everywhere, spread across every available object and surface.
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It's a a ham-fisted way to move the plot ahead, but this show's writers love to do that exactly that.
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The sensates hatch a ham-fisted plan to get inside the Palugio rione, a mob-held villa with very tight security.
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It's no longer a ham-fisted metaphor for the SAT or a beat-for-beat repetition of YA sci-fi cliches.
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Yet it offers rigorous scrutiny of the sometimes ham-fisted laws that are thrown its way by MPs in the Commons.
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Its messy tangle of fear, anger, relief, and anguish lays bare Henry's simple sad-to-happy arc as ham-fisted kitsch.
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It's easy to wish "Green Book" itself wasn't quite so ham-fisted at times, or on-the-nose with its dialogue.
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Counted too weird, too blunt, too ham-fisted, too trinkle-tinkle, too spacey, too nutty, Monk was a melodist of genius.
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And if the administration continues to take a ham-fisted approach to sensitive intelligence relationships, erosion of intelligence relationships will eventually begin.
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Mr Kim has been sharply criticised for his ham-fisted reforms of the institution, prompting an unprecedented rebuke from its staff association.
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Characters and plot exist only in service of its ham-fisted message: Every problem can be solved by admitting racism is bad.
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The danger to the free press isn't a ham-fisted totalitarian crackdown—it's a culture that treats the media with increasing disrespect.
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But they don't like M.B.S.'s foreign policy — Yemen most of all, but also the ham-fisted interventions in Lebanon and Qatar.
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Predictive texting keeps growing in sophistication, with the latest varieties using neighboring words to more accurately estimate the ham-fisted typist's intended meaning.
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The three most-nominated films among them have all divided critics; they're also the ones that seem the most pointed, even ham-fisted.
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Some have seen a silver lining in Trump's ham-fisted approach to the issue, namely that Congress could actually codify DACA in law.
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Eovaldi is emblematic of something truly lazy: the ham-fisted attempt to hype a pitcher in the absence of truly hype-worthy players.
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While overflowing with sentimentality, Life is Strange 2 also mostly avoids the ham-fisted cheesiness that undercut the previous game's more emotional moments.
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His efforts at outreach often seemed ham-fisted or contrived, and they left a series of insults and mini-scandals in their wake.
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But if he uses that discretion to implement a ham-fisted deal, he should be ready for Democrats and hopefully Republicans to push back.
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Former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's high-profile and ham-fisted efforts to roll back environmental regulations have fared poorly under judicial scrutiny, for example.
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"Viper Club" falters with mawkish flashbacks of the mother and son, and with its ham-fisted, repeated emphasis on the smarm of government officials.
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After quickly consulting with HR, he told her the situation and apologized to her for letting her know in such a ham-fisted way.
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Trump has made some ham-fisted attempts to engage these schools, and the schools themselves have gotten some pushback for engaging with the administration.
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Bringing this back to how her campaign started, which was seemingly on a fumble, on a ham-fisted attempt to deal with Trump's Pocahontas claim.
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Early in his career, fueled by his association with Martin Kippenberger and other Junge Wilde artists, he employed a sardonic and deliberately ham-fisted figuration.
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It is a cretinous, bullying, dead-simple strategy that Trump deployed with remorseless (if sometimes ham-fisted) cunning all the way to the White House.
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Determined to figure out whether Marianne is what she appears to be, he concocts a series of increasingly ham-fisted tests to find her out.
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Of the two solutions, this is the better one, but it still feels like a ham-fisted solution to a problem that its huge screen creates.
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That has its perils: a few years ago ham-fisted efforts to tinker with Hong Kong's curriculum caused a backlash that presaged the more recent unrest.
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For much of the same reason that it is tricky to use Lytro's Illum, controlling the Yi M1 feels a bit ham-fisted to experienced photographers.
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Economic policymakers in Beijing have regained some of their standing, which had been dented by a stockmarket crash and a ham-fisted currency devaluation in 2015.
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But even though Conway had a tendency to be ham-fisted with Danvers, he did touch on aspects of Danvers's life as a career-oriented woman.
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Companies like Apple have also long attempted to monopolize repair to fatten their revenues, engaging in ham-fisted legal attacks on small third-party repair shops.
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The first episode of the miniseries makes several ham-fisted mentions of September 11th, which makes sense; September 11th led to much more widespread government spying.
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He started making a new kind of video—not political punditry, per se, but a bunch of ham-fisted attempts to contribute to the culture war.
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But incumbent Tom Garrett was ham-fisted in his response to the violence in Charlottesville and it later emerged that he met with the rally's organizers.
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It is this very question, which Amazon apparently hopes you're too stupid to ponder, that is posed by the latest ham-fisted attempt to improve Alexa.
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I typically get my brows tidied up about every four weeks and make a daily ham-fisted attempt to fill them in properly with a brow pencil.
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They got a tab showing only their interactions with other verified users — a ham-fisted way of dealing with the abuse that celebrities received from regular accounts.
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For one idiotic useless scene, what was once a hand-crafted, surprising, and often-times painful show turned into a ham-fisted Ed Sheeran showcase his voice.
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" US District Judge Michael J. McShane called the federal restriction "a ham-fisted approach to health policy" and said it "prevents doctors from behaving like informed professionals.
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It's also clearly written by Americans who have a superficial knowledge of the rest of the world, and make ham-fisted attempts at accurately representing different cultures.
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There is little appetite for "boots on the ground," perhaps in recognition of the moral and strategic blunders of previous ham-fisted attempts to shape global affairs.
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Past its cheerful colors and wackily exaggerated shapes, there is an implied anticipation of ham-fisted disaster, comedic violence, or at the very least, a benign chaos.
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That ham-fisted attempt at Ted couture revealed something to me — the deep pleasure of creation, of taking disparate ingredients and transforming them into something else, something better.
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Though often sloppy or ham-fisted, 13 Reasons Why Season 3 is, at the very least, less offensive and irresponsible than I've come to expect from the show.
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Hannah's writing is "funny," though the sentence he reads feels overwrought and a bit ham-fisted, and so she should be turning her energies towards things that matter.
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Theo's season finale gesture of throwing out her prized gloves—capable of subduing her clairvoyance and preventing her emotional connection with other characters—is a little ham-fisted.
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It doesn't offer any interesting insights on human nature or mystery or even mustaches; Poirot kind of learns a lesson by the end about justice, but it's ham-fisted.
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It's more that it feels rushed and inorganic, a ham-fisted attempt to inject some romance into a series that doesn't have a lot to offer on that front.
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The violence was over the top, the delivery was awful, and Negan's ham-fisted introduction sent the entire show into a narrative and ratings tailspin it's never recovered from.
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The campy teen series proved it was borderline incapable of handling sensitive material throughout its first season and its ham-fisted approach to sexuality based narratives was no exception.
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In the absence of black paint on her palette, what appears instead is a smeary landscape of pale abstraction reminiscent of the exigent decades of masculine, ham-fisted expressionism.
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Most publicly, and perhaps by accident, the hackers have disrupted hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in a ham-fisted effort to hold valuable data for ransom.
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The ham-fisted way this piece was run, then updated, then un-updated, pinned on Rearick, and pulled suggests a serious blunder by the online magazine, Facebook, or both.
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ISPs have supported rules prohibiting the outright blocking of websites, knowing full well that the PR backlash for such ham-fisted anti-competitive behavior would make such efforts counterproductive.
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But I think they've either been ham-fisted because they've felt the need to be super obvious or tamed for the sake of ease of use and user accessibility.
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"Judge McShane got it exactly right when he called the new Title X rule a 'ham-fisted' approach to health care," AMA President Barbara McAneny said in a statement.
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What happens when men play God is always an interesting philosophical question, the substance of which gets somewhat lost in the ham-fisted dialogue by Colin Treverrow and Dylan Connolly.
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Paulson's comments come as China's policymakers have faced sharp criticism after what appeared to be a ham-fisted approach to managing recent months' volatility in its currency and stock markets.
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Canada's decision to refuse visas to African AI researchers seems ham-fisted, given that the country's tech industry has been the beneficiary, in recent years, of America's move toward isolationism.
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No. Much of the PTSD angle is ham-fisted, but it does set up a core quandary, and the reason Ellis is here in the woods in the first place.
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The "Roseanne" reboot is transgressive not because it is a pro-Trump show — it isn't — but because it's devoid of the ham-fisted agenda politics of so many other shows.
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Unfortunately, these lawmakers and programmers didn't predict the inevitable outcome: someday a user would need to get around their ham-fisted censorship system, and its architects would all be gone.
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T-Mobile executives have also come under fire for ramping up their patronage of Trump's hotel in DC, in what's widely seen as a ham-fisted attempt to curry favor.
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Because Apple provides detailed instructions on how to actually build a secure device, the review process should prevent major security mix-ups long term from inexperienced or ham-fisted device makers.
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The entire film was to have a very ham-fisted political bent, drawing lines between the eugenics programs of the Nazis to the abortion and contraception advocates that were to come.
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With good reason: It looks somewhat ham-fisted now, but it's a brilliant piece, full of twisted witchcraft themes and an electric color palette that's still eye-catching four decades later.
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Later in life, I began to grasp the dangerous playfulness of Czech, the wit and charm it inspires in the light-fingered, and the boorishness it draws from the ham-fisted.
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Reclaiming our Time, of course, references the viral video of California congresswoman Maxine Waters refusing to play along with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's vividly ham-fisted attempt to sidestep her questioning.
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For Michael Jackson, an American venture capitalist who has spent more than a decade living in Europe, such plans epitomize the region's ham-fisted tactics to help the local digital economy.
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It's a ham-fisted metaphor for her life right now but Price knows what he's doing when he tells her she's right and lets her win the battle over a TV appearance.
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This week's edition of the dollar dance was particularly ham-fisted and sketchy, sure, but the Rays' actions are only a symptom of a bigger problem, and Snell merely the latest victim.
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Moreover, since China's ham-fisted devaluation earlier that year, it has often sought the IMF's advice on managing the transition to a more flexible yuan and communicating its policy to the markets.
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As the economy stutters and regulators scramble to contain wild moves in the yuan and stocks, analysts are calling out what appears to be a ham-fisted approach to managing market volatility.
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The appearance featured a rather ham-fisted Sex and the City skit featuring Armytage as Carrie, and fellow hosts Edwina Bartholomew as Samantha and a red wig-wearing Natalie Barr as Miranda.
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In "The Queen," the 19673 movie based on Morgan's script, it was the death of Princess Diana and the royal family's ham-fisted efforts to manage the public's hysterical outpouring of grief.
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Rather than being greeted as an honest attempt to reach out to a voting group that overwhelmingly dislikes him, the taco bowl post was widely mocked as an obvious, ham-fisted pander.
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The benefit is that in an all-wheel drive, heavy SUV that I drove like a ham-fisted maniac, I still couldn't get the fuel-economy average to drop below 2000 mpg.
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A canny right-wing response to the production could have praised it for embedding conservative and even Trump-supporting ideas inside the more obvious, arguably even ham-fisted depiction of the president.
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It's just such a stupid and ham-fisted way to force users into taking certain actions; like Samsung not letting you do anything with the Bixby Button but launch its also-ran assistant.
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But regardless of what The Orville may have been trying to accomplish — likely "one of those Star Trek special episodes, except written by Seth MacFarlane" — the episode ultimately turned out hopelessly ham-fisted.
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President Donald Trump's ham-fisted response to the death of the counter-protester, in which he blamed "violence on many sides" outraged people across America as well as the rest of the world.
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But until you are part of Detroit, you really don't know what any of it means, and your attempts to make symbols out of a living reality will feel ham-fisted and obtuse.
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It felt a little ham-fisted to see the cat he was trying to save walked down the pet shelter's tunnel, surrounded by barking dogs, with limited time until death (JUST LIKE NAZ!!!).
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The aggrandizement of this statement sets the tone for the rest of the game, with its ham-fisted dialogue, questionable optics, and juvenile desperation to be taken as Serious Art About Social Commentary.
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On the off-chance Trump's decision to fire Comey is not a calamitously ham-fisted attempt to obstruct the Russia-Trump investigation, a few of the following things need to happen very quickly.
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" The film can be ham-fisted in its use of metaphor, perhaps most strikingly with the presence of Mr. Reeves, who Mr. Refn says, "represents a certain aura of the mythology of Hollywood.
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Yet this thinking leads to banning travel from countries believed to support radical Islam — a ham-fisted approach that fails to distinguish between America's friends and foes in each of the listed countries.
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Finally, the GOP's ham-fisted partisanship is likely to discredit the one legitimate reform in the tax bill — bringing U.S. corporate tax rates down to the levels of our main economic competitors abroad.
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Far more costly than the compensation BA will have to pay, says Andrew Charlton of Aviation Advocacy, a research firm, will be the damage its ham-fisted response has done to its own reputation.
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QL Score: +5 Nick Statt: I was beginning to feel that TWD had wandered back into its standard mid-season malaise, where ham-fisted "character development" is used to fill time between major deaths.
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In this light, Zuckerberg's goofy trips to diners and invocations of Beyoncè are a ham-fisted attempt to generate goodwill and political clout, both of which will be badly needed when the storm comes.
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The quality of the writing varies — and many efforts always seem to end up as ham-fisted erotica — but Radish books are proudly taking the mantle of snackable pulp fiction into the digital age.
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Over the last five years, influencer marketing has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry, with brands large and small coming to view the practice as a less ham-fisted way to hawk their products.
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There's also a ham-fisted plot in which Idris Elba's Macavity—a supervillain cat modeled on Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty—kidnaps the featured cats one by one in his own attempt to earn reincarnation.
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That's the gag: Amy Schumer is a white woman who is thoroughly tickled by her own ham-fisted attempts to engage with something she sees as opposite her, that exotic phenomenon known as Black art.
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The Galaxy Note 7 was bad enough in itself, forcing airlines to repeatedly warn passengers about the danger of Samsung handsets (and most were ham-fisted enough to just treat all Samsung devices as hazardous).
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It's a possibility Kirby seemed to dismiss Thursday, saying, "It would have been a pretty ham-fisted and sloppy approach to do it" because the transcript and other versions of the video were not altered.
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Paul Gauguin, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbet, Théodule Ribot, Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cézanne, even though smaller in scale, all outdo Schnabel's flabby, ham-fisted, white elephants — hands down.
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Sure, the monster of the week here is a little bit ham-fisted: it's a Jekyll and Hyde metaphor about how abusive relationships are bad — not the best thing episode writer Marti Noxon ever did.
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The world would be a healthier place and stupid porn regulations would not be (forgive the expression) ham-fisted into national legislation if there was a general acknowledgement that we are, one and all, horny scoundrels.
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Political analyst Yuri Krupnov told me that Katasonova first became popular during the crisis in Eastern Ukraine, when she was working as an aide to Evgeny Fedorov, the leader of the ham-fisted National Liberation Movement.
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Ham-fisted attempts at player and franchise discipline have undermined fans' faith in the fairness of the league, while a muddled rulebook and conflicting points of emphasis threaten the credibility of the officials and the results.
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Did President Donald Trump really obstruct justice, as many Democrats argue, or was he simply a neophyte politician with a ham-fisted approach to management who didn't understand that law enforcement is supposed to be independent?
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Moreover, the scene's surprising nature and follow-up character arc addresses the horror's realities with such ham-fisted clumsiness it's easy to wonder whether that explanation was an artistic motivator or an after-the-fact excuse.
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Hill's apology was only to ESPN and her colleagues, not to Trump, which suggests that she does, in fact, consider the President a white supremacist, for which he has tried a ham-fisted form of retaliation.
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"They're politically very astute in a whole bunch of areas but in issues management and parliamentary management they seem to be ham-fisted," said Andrew Graham, professor at the school of policy studies at Queen's University.
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From the grappling hook—constantly impressive given how the trilogy is built, so that you never actually have to set foot on the ground—to the line launcher, nothing has been ham-fisted or squeezed in.
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Editorial Though their ham-fisted attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed in September, Republican lawmakers and the Trump administration won't give up on efforts that would take away health care from millions of people.
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The government's wish to tackle these problems is laudable, but demonetization is a ham-fisted move that will put only a temporary dent in corruption, if even that, and is likely to rock the entire economy.
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"I view Biden's plan as a ham-fisted handing over of cannabis to the pharmaceutical industry," said Gavin Kogan, a California-based cannabis executive and attorney who chairs Grupo Flor, a large, vertically-integrated cannabis firm.
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A big focus of these lawsuits will be how the FCC ignored the rampant identity theft and fraud that occurred during the open comment period, an apparent ham-fisted attempt to undermine trust in the public feedback process.
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Chicagoans are used to such ham-fisted treatment, though: In 216, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley bulldozed a downtown runway in the middle of the night with no advance warning—closing the airport known as Meigs Field forever.
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This may have been a ham-fisted attempt on Trump's part to gain some leverage as he tries to renegotiate trade deals with China, abetted perhaps by advisers who are pushing him to pursue an anti-China policy.
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An exhaustive 2628-page report compiled for the state House Judiciary Committee outlined the salacious nature of that affair, Bentley's ham-fisted efforts to keep it quiet and his repeated use of state officials to cover it up.
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However, President Xi has so concentrated power and seems to shift responsibility for important things that have gone wrong, like the stock market slide and ham-fisted attempts last summer to stabilize to Premier Li and his supported.
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In fact, it's a battle that's only just heating up, and one that will always rage so long as incumbent ISPs continue their ham-fisted efforts to abuse a lack of competition for additional financial and anti-competitive gain.
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By the time Bob Hoskins appears as Ginger Spice in disguise mid-way through the film, Spice World has devolved into a hodgepodge doner-kebab of celebrity cameos, glued together with the meat and gristle of ham-fisted exposition.
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Meanwhile, consumer groups, Mozilla, and 23 state attorneys general have also sued the FCC, highlighting how agency head Ajit Pai ignored hard data, countless experts, and the public interest in the ham-fisted repeal of the popular consumer protections.
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They justify its flat, stilted voice acting, ponderous illustrated cutscenes, and ham-fisted exposition — characters routinely interrupt your game to repeat bizarrely obvious quest goals, even when they're marked prominently on a map — as campy homages instead of missteps.
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Further, his ham-fisted rhetoric about Puerto Rico "throwing our budget out of whack" and being an island "surrounded by big water" suggested that its inhabitants were abstractions (rather than U.S. citizens) – and pains-in-the-neck to boot.
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What a contrast that ham-fisted scene made with the dignified, professional appearance before the committee earlier in the day by Marie Yovanovitch, the nation's top envoy to Ukraine until President Trump yanked her back without explanation this spring.
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I mention all this stuff that occurs within the first 15 minutes and hardly matters because if you're like me, these glaring inconsistencies coupled with some perhaps necessary personality-establishing, ham-fisted lines, you may be inclined to stop watching. Don't.
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For all the ways the show mishandled these characters (why would sisters call each other "sluts" in a place where overt sexuality, incest, or bastardry aren't frowned upon?), it was clear these missteps were ham-fisted attempts to write fiery women.
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And despite Jon's own (increasingly) royal status, it now seems extremely unlikely that Dany will rule Westeros when you consider not only the theft of her army and plotline but the ham-fisted assassination of her character in the last episode.
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That's all underlined by the film's ham-fisted attempts to make us see that this story from the 1970s is really about America in 2018; the KKK members stop just short of donning red MAGA hats (they have white hoods instead).
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A subplot with Lockwood's granddaughter is bafflingly pointless, until it becomes clear that the character exists only to manufacture some third-act jeopardy, and to make a ham-fisted point about genetically engineered dinosaurs that will likely leave audience members shaking their heads.
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With Hitler now in power in Germany and the Reichskulturkammer (Reich Chamber of Culture) firmly entrenched as one of the leading propaganda organs of the Nazi party, the totally brutal and ham-fisted (and yes, stupid) reorganization of German cultural history began.
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But then came Bale, leaping to produce a jaw-dropping left-foot overhead volley from Marcelo's cross before trying his luck with a speculative long-range shot that defied Karius's ham-fisted attempt to keep it out and put the result beyond doubt.
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The EPA has overseen weakened regulations under other Republican administrations, but Pruitt stands out both because he's been so ham-fisted in making concessions to big business and because it's become harder and harder to ignore the visible effects of climate change.
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Tokenized data, in other words, could create a market mechanism to redistribute the balance of power in technology networks without resorting to ham fisted (even if well meaning) regulation like GDPR, or even worse, the sort of break-up proposed by Warren.
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I think it&aposs so ham-fisted and so unpredictable that sometimes you create a fire out of a smoke bomb, and the next thing you know, you have got a real conflagration going, and you don&apost know how to put it out.
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The Trump campaign didn't respond to WIRED's request for comment, but it's hard not to see the move as a ham-fisted way of obscuring the president's most controversial campaign promises, particularly his vow in a press release to ban Muslims from entering the country.
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There, men are allowed to fail over and over again with ill-performing, ham-fisted filmmaking, while women who are perhaps better directors (or could be, given the chance) must hit it out of the park on their very first try or they'll never get another shot.
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The elephant's tripped here and there — syncing problems dogged its early days and the company's ham-fisted attempts to turn users into paying customers threaten the user experience — but Evernote remains a key part of the mobile workday for a large chunk of the iPhone's power users.
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If I were to mount a defense of a new consumer good — and it's not often that I feel obliged to do so — I'd say they're ham-fisted and obnoxious, but at least what you're paying for them with is written right there on the box.
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But the ham-fisted way he tweeted about those intentions, and then later walked them back, has now landed him in a battle with the body responsible for enforcing those very regulations, the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is suing him and wants him removed as CEO of Tesla.
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The reboot's attempts at modernization also came in for particular loathing, including a ham-fisted take on meme culture, a gratuitous twerking scene, and the presence of demi-misogynist villain Manboy, a would-be lumberjack criticised by Slate's Eric Thurm as an overly obvious take on the men's rights movement.
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This impulse to situate oneself within country music's grand lineage using ol' Hank's ghost as a springboard is nothing new; his own friends name-checked him aplenty, and Hank's own son, Hank Williams Jr. (or Bocephus, if you're of a certain age) turned it into sort of ham-fisted art form.
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For a long time I thought — very naïvely, it turns out — that in certain ham-fisted ways, conservative evangelicals cared about the immigrants and the poor among their flock, condemned racism, and, if they could not understand why someone could be gay or trans, at least saw fit to leave well enough alone.
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The stories of the three women intersect perfectly — not in a ham-fisted, Love Actually kind of way, but in a way that rounds out the narrative to be not about one person in particular, but instead how the push and pull of each of their lives forms a family you'll definitely recognize.
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A presidency still stuck in Helsinki Trump's interview came on another day of head-spinning reversals, ambiguous statements and ham-fisted cleanup efforts by the White House that only fueled the mystery of what had gone on in his closed-door, one-on-one meeting with Putin in the Finnish capital on Monday.
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Whitney and Audrey having a conversation about the patriarchy on the plane, and how #MeToo is changing the status quo, is a bit ham-fisted but I felt so glad to see it because it was the only exchange in the episode that didn't feel like it came from an upside-down world.
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Unfortunately, though, instead of letting this stand as a charming glimpse into the previously closeted world of children's television, Sesame Street's parent company took to Twitter yesterday with a ham-fisted denial — not just of Bert and Ernie's romantic relationship, but of the very concept of, um, puppets having sexual orientations: This is patently ridiculous.
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In 21, he'd published a piece in New York called "A Different Kind of Donald Trump Story," which portrayed him not as a brilliant mogul but as a ham-fisted thug who had unsuccessfully tried to evict rent-controlled and rent-stabilized tenants from a building that he had bought on Central Park South.
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" As with most any political messaging rollout, there were halting moments: ham-fisted baseball banter, time-filling riffs about the weather and — to the delight of Republicans in Washington — a slogan that echoed both a tagline from Speaker Paul D. Ryan's "A Better Way" agenda and the Papa John's pizza creed, "Better Ingredients, Better Pizza.
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I should say, though, that for all the kind of ham-fisted attempts that they've made to discredit me — you know, they took out a full-page ad in the New York Times and the LA Times — they've done some things to people who were in the film, which is really quite malicious and pernicious.
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This Pretty Woman lightens the social commentary that helped make Garry Marshall's 1990 film so memorably self-aware in peddling its escapism; anchored by an insouciant lead performance from Samantha Barks (best known for playing Éponine onscreen in Les Misérables), it tends to abandon altogether the film's already ham-fisted portrayal of gritty LA street life.
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No tweak — particularly not a ham-fisted play for a perversion of inclusivity — could staunch the show's obvious wound: fans who had watched the game became the pool of players, bringing with them a perception of how reality-TV contestants should behave, what they should say, and what roles they needed to take for maximum screen time.
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A top Republican is now saying out loud what foreign leaders around the world have been saying privately about Trump's handling of the nuclear standoff with North Korea: It's been so ham-fisted and bellicose that it could trigger a catastrophic war that kills hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, including tens of thousands of Americans.
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Aside from the violent imagery of Kendrick Lamar's opening medley, Kesha's catharsis, and Camila Cabello's heartfelt support of DACA, (the several cracks at Trump throughout the night weren't noteworthy, and the less said about U2's well-meaning but ham-fisted symbolism, the better) the 1979th Grammy Awards were business as usual for the Recording Academy.
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This is not to say that the Kings would be smart to pay up for Rose, but couldn't you just see GM Vlade Divac and owner Vivek Ranadive—innovator of the disruptive 4-on-5 cherry-picking plan—splurging on Rose as a ham-fisted attempt to entice DeMarcus Cousins into signing the designated player extension this summer?
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The legislator's blunt reflections on Cuomo's appeal came to mind this week because the New York governor is closing out his primary campaign with a kind of caricature of ham-fisted machine politics: sending a mailer out to Jewish voters smearing his progressive rival as an anti-Semite, and rushing to open a bridge that wasn't quite ready to open.
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The singer has realized it pays to be woke, and has incorporated every last aspect of the recent #MeToo movement, protest culture, and Black Lives Matter into his music video, all of which would still seem ham-fisted even if Timberlake really did act as an advocate for women and people of color outside his music — which, he really doesn't!
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" P.S. Worthy of your time ... Elisabeth Donnelly, a writer and editor in New York, wrote a very interesting and detailed piece for BuzzFeed arguing that Matt Damon's slow reaction on the Weinstein revelations was the latest evidence that one of the highest-grossing stars of all time hasn't adapted to the social-media age: "Damon's optics are faulty and ham-fisted.
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The nautical-themed Hondells's "Sea Cruise" clip from 1965, for example, aims for light-hearted goofiness and wholesome, freckle-faced sexiness, then throws in a ham-fisted attempt at a plot: Wildly happy girls join a party on a yacht, dance a lot, and are serenaded by a dorky band in matching terrible outfits before they suddenly catch a lovely mermaid in a fishing net.
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I felt then and still feel now that Gale made some pretty valid points about the need for radical systemic disruption coming from outside the system, and seeing the ham-fisted way Collins not only exploded the ship (sorry) but made Gale himself the bearer of a needlessly ironic, overly Shakespearean moral about how violent protest is an inherently immoral slippery slope and "both sides made some bad points" was so deeply infuriating to me.
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" * Reached for comment on Duterte Communications Secretary Martin Andanar's remark, Phelim Kine of Human Rights Watch said: "Andanar's ham-fisted attempt to impugn the integrity of Human Rights Watch's on-the-ground, verified research of summary executions by Philippine police personnel and their agents in the Duterte 'drug war' is emblematic of the Philippine government's tactic of denial and distraction in a craven attempt to dodge accountability for what is nothing less than a policy of state slaughter of urban slum dwellers under the veneer of an anti-crime campaign.
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