Macron's full response is somewhat obnoxious and ham-handed, but it's actually not as obnoxious and ham-handed as it originally sounded.
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Technology itself has been famously ham-handed at dealing with race.
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But some have viewed Trump's efforts thus far as ham-handed.
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This is not some ham-handed satire or lurid dystopian novel.
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Perhaps he'd have been appalled by Mr. Sachs's ham-handed bricolage.
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The towering swordswoman rebuffs his ham-handed flirtations with barely concealed disgust.
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Yet from another perspective, the rebranding efforts feel ham-handed and egotistical.
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Jill Soloway is done watching ham-handed representations of sexual assault in media.
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The government's ham-handed attempts at culture pushed toward foreign influences, especially American.
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A bad movie will approach it in an overly simplified and ham-handed way.
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There is an undeniable pattern of ham-handed efforts by Russia in this area.
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This is so ham-handed and hypocritical that it simply diminishes American standing further.
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And it means that Nunes's ham-handed attempts to scuttle things often end up backfiring.
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However, it takes a rather ham-handed approach, and it's unlikely to ever become law.
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In our view, this is a ham-handed approach to compensating resilience and reliability services.
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Last year, the Trump administration attempted a ham-handed bailout of the US coal industry.
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Some of them were really ham-handed attempts to give voice to a feminist perspective.
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Governor Chen had taken a ham-handed approach to ruling the Taiwanese, Mr. Hsieh said.
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The political story lines are weaker and a lot of the exposition is ham-handed.
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China's influence push may be ham-handed compared with Russia's, but it is well funded.
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The difference between pristine and spider web shards is one ham-handed fumble above the pavement.
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Sure he was a little ham-handed, but Peter was about to execute the perfect blindside.
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The ham-handed rollout of the travel and refugee ban resulted in widespread confusion and fear.
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Several early organizers have quit over the larger organizing committee's ham-handed handling of these issues.
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He regularly berated Spicer for his ham-handed performances, often giving his full attention to them.
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The fact they put that in a report just shows the ham-handed process they use.
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Instead of Mr. Trump's ham-handed approach to manufacturing, we should be pursuing more sophisticated remedies.
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He hasn't changed the narrative on that and, in fact, the response has been very ham-handed.
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In typically ham-handed fashion, Trump has given his adversaries the very means to destroy him politically.
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Introducing the tax would be a delicate task for a government prone to ham-handed policy changes.
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Equifax's public response to the breach — "ham-handed" and "unacceptable," in Mr. Walden's words — drew heavy condemnation.
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Michael Cohen Cohen is facing the most serious legal jeopardy for his ham-handed representation of Trump.
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Given the context, though, using such imagery appeared to be a stunningly ham-handed lapse in judgment.
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Instead of building on them, DOE has delivered a ham-handed blow to well-functioning energy markets.
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She was a good friend to Monse, and was always nice to Ruby despite his ham-handed advances.
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American Idiot, Green Day's ham-handed rock opera about... being a punk during the George W. Bush administration?
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The Trump Administration's ham-handed approach to moving its agenda through Congress shows no signs of letting up.
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Suddenly, this was no longer a story about below-the-waist photographs — it was about ham-handed extortion.
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Ham-handed defenses of the trade agenda from those who conceal their true aims don't help the case.
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The reference "Blunt ham-handed; stupid, careless handling" is of Richard Nixon's firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox.
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Then there's the government's effort itself, which many women in the industry describe as ham-handed at best.
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Wells Fargo's ham-handed use of the system has renewed these criticisms lately, but it's hardly a recent phenomenon.
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However, "it does leave me with the feeling that they are being a little ham-handed here," he added.
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Of course, this being SVU, it went about this transition in an over-the-top, occasionally ham-handed way.
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Instead of a ham-handed cover-up, Trump's anger-management and impulse-control problems probably motivated the Comey firing.
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In fact, Petrillo may well be groaning at Cohen's ham-handed approach to the federal prosecutors and the President.
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You can still inflict a fair bit of damage on the opposing side with some ham-handed controller slamming.
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The technology-lobbying body has already issued a statement excoriating the Department of Justice for its ham-handed approach.
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Nothing is new to tell you about, but even people being reminded of anniversaries in very ham-handed ways.
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The cronies are featured in ham-handed vignettes of co-optation, each featuring Mr. Mister or his wife, Mrs.
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Judging from Mr. Giuliani's contrived and ham-handed delivery, it seems likely that this was a highly coordinated affair.
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It's all a bit ham-handed — and that's before we even get to the plot to assassinate President Roosevelt.
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Trump has been pandering to coal miners in his typical ham-handed way, promising to bring mines and jobs back.
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According to the Times, Democrats are not content to merely oppose Republicans' ham-handed efforts to overturn or fix Obamacare.
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The takeaway: Trump's ham-handed handling of his relationships with Republicans in Congress continues with his two tweets this morning.
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Trump was similarly ham-handed in his termination of Preet Bharara, the former US attorney for New York's Southern District.
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Maguire feared that the new "assignment" Richter was offering might be a ham-handed setup for questioning by the FBI.
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"I considered it a ham-handed effort to intimidate," French said when asked if he thought it was a threat.
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Trump's motivation, along with his ham-handed means, could easily be viewed as having a political rather than obstructive purpose.
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Everyone can see what she's up to here and this kind of ham-handed cynical political calculation absolutely disgusts voters.
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Painted with feverish, ham-handed bravura, Mr. Fischl's images are like snapshots censored from an otherwise wholesome family photo album.
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There was sloppy passing, crooked shooting, ham-handed dribbling, questionable decision-making and, over all, a general air of indifference.
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Reid apologizes, saying her "insensitive, tone deaf" comments were a "ham-handed way...to call out potential hypocrisy" from Crist.
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The government helped with a series of ham-handed responses to the protests, which started in earnest on April 373.
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The best travel writing doesn't take a ham-handed look at the world, nor does it try to escape it.
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It would also spare Capitol Hill Republicans from media interrogations about the White House's ham-handed unveiling of the original order.
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Although treating college athletes like children and taking away their stuff seems like a rather ham-handed way of doing things.
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As a Catholic, I think that Pope Francis' ham-handed comments about Donald Trump's Christian credentials helped him clinch the nomination.
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The president's actions here, no matter how much one might judge them ham-handed or inappropriate, were not against the law.
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"There was this ham-handed effort to make women at the show say Jeff was a wonderful person," one producer said.
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Or are a little ham-handed in their language in a way they wouldn't be in the pages of The Times.
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And there's several other small and medium-range efforts that vary from cheap photo ops to ham-handed attempts to pander.
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It has always seemed like amateur, ham-handed behavior by some of the world's most privileged and in-the-know people.
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Ham-handed though they may have been, the posters did make a valid point: Airbnb can help generate needed local tax revenue.
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So we potentially have a case of "attempted collusion," coupled with a ham-handed attempt to lie about it to the public.
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"In the Cold War, the Soviet efforts in this regard were ham-handed and could be countered with relative ease," he said.
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Instead, in the most transparent and ham-handed way, they saw no evil and heard no evil, unless it involved Mr. Cohen.
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DarthPutinKGB, a ham-handed parody of Vladimir Putin, was suspended today along with other accounts ridiculing Russian leaders like Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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Because of the ham-handed way it was done, it's obvious these agencies are being reined in specifically with regard to climate change.
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It's just ... It's reminiscent of the Amazon Washington Post, the ham-handed attack from Trump, where he basically undercut legitimate concerns about Amazon.
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Kelly's ham-handed handling of the Rob Porter debacle and the resultant news coverage clearly knocked him down several pegs in Trump's eyes.
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Discovery, though occasionally ham-handed about it, considers the difficulty of utopia, the idea that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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At the Department of Energy, Rick Perry tried and failed to engineer a ham-handed intervention into energy markets to boost coal and nuclear.
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"In a real ham-handed way, I was trying to acknowledge that [Amy] has the lion's share of responsibility in this campaign," O'Rourke said.
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"Usually, the Russians are not ham-handed," said Jim Lewis, a cyber security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
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The Republicans were once the party of global free trade, a system with major flaws but one that requires reform, not ham-handed overthrow.
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As with many impulsive and ham-handed decisions by this administration, it is simply a means to an end without consideration of collateral consequences.
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What's justified or necessary from a historical standpoint, though, can get monotonous in dramatic terms when it's presented in ham-handed and obvious ways.
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Congressional interference would look ham-handed, overly partisan and could disrupt the federal investigation, the GOP leaders believe, according to sources close to them.
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His administration is more ham-handed and flagrant about it, but the antipathy it expresses toward federal regulation falls firmly within the GOP mainstream.
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Her challenges also include the chauvinistic attitudes of the Australian police department where she works, although those scenes unfold in a rather ham-handed manner.
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It's hard to avoid wondering if Facebook's rebranding exercise isn't some ham-handed effort at convincing government lawyers that the three apps are already fused.
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Then the Liberals, with an anxious eye on their construction deadline, used a ham-handed parliamentary procedure to shut down debate and force a vote.
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As part of its ham-handed response to public outrage, China resorted to blaming the "black hand" of other countries, led by the United States.
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Few other Republican officials have been so dogged, if often ham-handed, in their work to shield the President from his enemies -- real and imagined.
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Perhaps it really was just a ham-handed attempt by Trump to prevent a narrative he genuinely believes to be fake news from advancing further.
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The ham-handed nature of my interrogation is worth recounting, because it points to the nature of racial profiling, and its widespread use at our borders.
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"We're going to disclose this political intrusion into government, this ham-handed political tactic, that once again hurts New Yorkers to make their political point," Gov.
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Deputy Director Smith's opinion piece should have been an apology to Congress and the American public not a ham-handed justification for the administration's reckless actions.
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Ben backs off from the ham-handed offer, noting that he wants to stave off the "physical parts" and "get to know her" because he is #TheMostEligibleMan.
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Is it the census case, with its ham-handed lies by the secretary of commerce and the late-breaking revelation of a Republican operative's real game plan?
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Experts say it led to a ham-handed effort that confused customers, frustrated regulators and continued to generate headlines both in the United States and at home.
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Things turn dark and irrevocably ham-handed when a couple of men from an oath-supporting citizens group — a kind of paramilitary organization in disguise — show up.
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Sometimes these are relatively minor errors — a ham-handed rendering of an author's prose, the sort of thing a book reviewer might skewer with an acid pen.
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So it is with surprise that I see Mr. Kelly, in his new role as secretary of Homeland Security, presiding over a ham-handed crackdown on immigrants.
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The on-stage demonstration Apple pioneered has since produced all manner of theatrics, some brilliant and some ham-handed, and all in their own ways not exactly real.
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It seems more likely that AT&T will annoy customers with ham-handed efforts to promote alternatives to these products than that they'll provide real value for consumers.
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And if these ham-handed, grammatically challenged posts are really impacting American politics, i don't think the really hard questions are for Facebook or Congress, they're for us.
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The Yankees have come this far with him, enduring his ham-handed lawsuits and nauseating posturing in 2013, after Major League Baseball had exposed his latest cheating escapade.
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It trains its eye on a group of bumbling government types (played by Steve Buscemi and Simon Russell Beale, aong others) in a ham-handed struggle for power.
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" The editorial board of The New York Post describes President Trump's latest troubles as a function of poor communication (both public and private) and "ham-handed presidential actions.
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Indifferent to negotiating with Democrats and ham-handed in dealing with Republicans, he's getting rolled on the major promises of his campaign — health care, infrastructure, taxes and jobs.
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The intent was well meaning then, even if it seems especially ham-handed now: Apache Chief (Native American), Samurai (Japanese), El Dorado (Mexican) and Black Vulcan (one guess).
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There was a nasty Democratic primary fight that the national party actively engaged in with a ham-handed release of opposition research on the progressive candidate Laura Moser.
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When the federal government takes a ham-handed approach to national security, it is almost inevitable that somebody who is completely innocent will get harmed in the process.
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Talk about what they're doing and then we can discuss what they're ... I know what they're trying to get to, but it seems ham-handed in lots of ways.
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His attempts to play that role backfired — his ham-handed attempts to manage Trump alienated the president, who has reportedly complained about his "totally establishment" views on foreign policy.
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Like his previous attempts to improve relations with Putin, Trump's latest diplomatic effort was so ham-handed that it will likely make international cooperation more fraught, even for Russia.
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Samsung even brought on, in its own, ham-handed way, an editor from one of those sites in order to steal some of the panache from the Swiss brands.
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But the subsequent sequels built the world out and doubled down on the ham-handed political commentary about jingoism, and that's when the series really came into its own.
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After Dr. Blasey's courageous testimony, many saw the callous and ham-handed approach of Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the committee's chairman, as a replay of the Thomas hearings.
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" He also acknowledged that he had made "ham-handed" statements about his wife, Amy O'Rourke, like when he joked that she was raising their children, "sometimes with my help.
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That reflection gave us a bit of welcome, if overdue, insight into the two Bayer-Boatwright kids whose ham-handed arcs have frustrated me for most of the season.
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Portrait mode is fun, and sometimes you can get really amazing results, but to me, on all three of these phones, I still feel like this mode is ham-handed.
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But that doesn't negate or make up for the ham-handed use of lazy minority stereotypes — which is not only unnecessary but counterproductive, if Schumer's mission is as she stated.
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Here we've got a middle-aged Midwestern couple trying to find common ground with a young person from the East Coast, and yes, doing so in a ham-handed way.
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" Not for the N.F.L., which, in its ham-handed, Kremlin-like way, went so far as to scrub from the event's official transcripts nearly every mention of "Trump" or "president.
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The president was angered with Mr. Dowd's handling of the episode, telling people that it was ham-handed and that Mr. Dowd should not have backed off his initial statement.
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His attempts to play that role backfired, and his ham-handed attempts to manage Trump alienated the president, who has reportedly complained about Tillerson's "totally establishment" views on foreign policy.
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"We've gone from excluding women and female animals to this ham-handed implementation of sex as biological variable," said Ann Fink, a feminist neuroscientist and gender scholar at Lehigh University.
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When federal policy is absent, ham-handed, or hopelessly captured by industry, local governments can act as testing grounds for new ideas, providing proof that the status quo can change.
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I don't particularly care for Kimberly M. Becoat's collages that refer to the Hottentot Venus — likening her body to a candy confection for consumption seems both obvious and ham-handed.
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Just as many world affairs professionals are appalled by the Trump family approach to foreign policy, serious politicians would find her brother's drift into birtherism a sign of ham-handed heedlessness.
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Given the near-incessant stream of corporate gaffes we're seeing lately, it's easy to assume that clueless PR teams are behind the ham-handed responses—or more aggravating, the radio silences.
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But the Clinton campaign says it doesn't have anything to do with the #ManEnough4Hillary ad, which websites The Daily Caller and Daily Wire treated as a legitimate — if ham-handed — campaign.
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"It was just really ham-handed and insensitive at the minimum — and possibly worse," said Nina Perales, the voting rights legal director at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
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Yemen war In 2015, MBS had launched a ham-handed war against Iran-backed rebels in neighboring Yemen which the UN said has precipitated the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world.
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Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden said Equifax's "ham-handed" response to the breach "makes me wonder" whether the company had a plan in place to deal with such an incident.
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The VoteCastr model's approach is defensible, if ham-handed: If it believes that 500 voters in a precinct will vote, it will assume that the 500 likeliest voters have turned out.
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It has a worthwhile message about having the courage to grant young people their freedom, but it's delivered in a ham-handed way that limits its relevance, beyond the most obvious ideas.
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This is a somewhat ham-handed way to compute results, and it gives some very weird results; like instant-runoff voting, it doesn't always elect the candidate who'd beat all the others.
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It recommended to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that it intervene in markets in the most crude and ham-handed way, dumping windfall profits on the owners of big, uncompetitive power plants.
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The constructive engagement between the pushy 4.7 percent shareholder and PulteGroup management is in stark contrast to the founder William Pulte's ham-handed campaign against the soon-to-depart chief executive, Richard Dugas.
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The NFL flap may look "stupid and ham-handed to a lot of Beltway consultant types," Mair said, but remember: It could work for him because millions of Americans agree with his position.
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Despite the flailing of the Trump administration — which is currently contemplating a ham-handed coal bailout premised on "national security" — coal is on the way out in the US, for a million reasons.
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It's an ambitious, occasionally moving effort, more successful in its zeitgeist-y family narrative than HBO's "Here and Now," the ham-handed 2018 attempt to make domestic melodrama out of the Trump era.
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The company has said it's aware of many of these problems: that automatically flagging curse words is too ham-handed, and that users intent on abusing others can create new accounts too easily.
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Such attacks have often been ham-handed, but the fact pattern he and his surrogates have laid out painting Hillary Clinton as "crooked" has the benefit of being not only damning, but true.
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In about a month, Trump's ham-handed defense of white nationalists and white supremacists rallying in Charlottesville would prompt most of the chief executives serving on White House advisory councils to quit in protest.
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Eventually, it figured, the federal government's ham-handed but consistent push to get states to prioritize their lowest-achieving students (under No Child Left Behind and other efforts) was likely to have some effect.
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So why, between them, couldn't they come up with something better than a ham-handed parody of macho arm-twisting and submissive toadying in the manner of third-rate David Mamet or Harold Pinter?
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After all, cultural signifiers aren't the main reason this chart happened: Rather, it was because he used a ham-handed anecdote to argue that social and cultural barriers matter more than the policy-driven ones.
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Further, it allows TRON to fill its war chest with solid businesses even as its own efforts end laughably with ham-handed announcements about non-existent partnerships and failed pumping by the idiosyncratic John McAfee.
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Candy's film, "Red Hot," is coming together well enough to attract some buzz and get her thinking about her next project, but there are signs that ham-handed mobsters will have their way with it.
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Democratic officials have been especially troubled as their ostensible allies have responded with ham-handed scare tactics of their own and demanded that their candidates reject any policies that carry even the whiff of Trumpism.
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I expected that he would be innocent, but I never expected him to be framed in such a ham-handed way, and that I would discovered it through documents I had FOIAed from my own government.
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"Investors are increasingly spooked by the president's wrong-headed attacks on the Fed and the Treasury Secretary's ham-handed efforts to convince everyone Trump doesn't mean it and that everything is fine," he told The Hill.
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The ham-handed Republican attempts to dismantle the health care system—the "socialism" warnings, the appeals to the selfishness of privileged white folks—have only reinforced the public's support for government taking care of its citizens.
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One of them, Werner Büttner, arrived in New York in 1983, showing at Metro Pictures with his compatriots Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Markus Oehlen; their ham-handed, irreverent canvases skewered painting and German Neo-Expressionism.
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And the number of men who served indicates that, while the South Vietnamese often chafed under the ham-handed rule of their government, there was a deep reservoir of military support for a non-Communist nationalism.
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As with many Soviet films of the 1920s, a central influence for Kalatozov, "I Am Cuba" requires viewers to swallow a deluge of ham-handed and frequently troubling propaganda as the price for its formal brilliance.
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"The IOC response has been fairly ham-handed, to say the least," Peter Donnelly, director of the Center for Sport Policy Studies at the University of Toronto, told VICE News as the Games were kicking off.
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I can almost hear him howling at Packer from the grave, berating him for the brutal passages and then, after realizing how brilliant and brilliantly he has been portrayed, pouring on his flattery and ham-handed charm.
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ELAINE EDELMANEAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. To the Editor: Re "The N.F.L. Kneels to Trump" (editorial, May 24): I agree that the N.F.L.'s ham-handed policy to fine teams whose players kneel during the national anthem is silly.
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The episode was among the first of multiple ham-handed efforts by the president to carry out a dual strategy: publicly casting the Russia story as an overblown hoax and privately trying to contain the investigation's reach.
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Its eight episodes comprise a centerless, ham-handed kludge of a season, one that keeps beating you over the head with music and ACTING and plot twists to try to convince you everything that's happening is Important.
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Uber: 24% ScrewedWe don't possibly have the time to mention everything Uber fucked up this year, so here are the highlights, ordered from January onwards: Travis Kalanick's ham-handed response to Trump's "Muslim ban," which led to #DeleteUber.
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Even the company's good faith attempts to secure its platform feel ham-handed and oblivious, like last November when Facebook asked users in Australia to upload their nude photos to Facebook for employee review to combat revenge porn.
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Trump's fiery words and ham-handed attempts at diplomacy have significantly increased the probability of a bloody war on the Korean Peninsula while doing little to slow the progress of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's nuclear program.
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The drip, drip, drip against Hillary Clinton actually started with the ham-handed effort by the Clintons to fire the good folks at the White House Travel Office, who among other things helped book trips for the press.
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But that lens conveniently obscures the fact that the most independent among them routinely — and publicly, and loudly — disagree with any heavy-handed policing and ham-handed ownership decisions that trouble them as the league's self-perceived conscience.
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India under them fulfills, to a startling degree, the American president's irascible fantasy of what the United States should be: a country cravenly surrendering its traditions of law and decency before a perpetually inflamed and ham-handed autocrat.
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Precisely because the danger of backlash is so high, it's unlikely that Zuckerberg will ever be so ham-handed as to explicitly censor or promote content on an ideological basis — or to try to directly manipulate an election.
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It would be ham-handed to impose a feminist message on her life, but the misogynistic culture she lived in (of which Manson's extremism was an offshoot) is as good a key as any for considering her inner life.
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In an interview with CNET ahead of I/O last week, Google ad chief Prabhakar Raghavan resisted the notion that the company should turn its more significant privacy tools on by default, saying the approach would be "ham-handed."
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For instance, Bannon was accused (by anonymous "inside" sources) of playing a key role in sinking the health care bill produced by House leadership with ham-handed and counter-productive threats to Freedom Caucus members and other recalcitrant legislators.
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Trump "could not have done it in a more ham-handed fashion, even if you are among those who believe Comey merited dismissal," said John "Mac" Stipanovich, a veteran GOP operative in Florida and a long-standing Trump critic.
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But the project fails, mostly because the repression and censorship that Ma Daode carries out as a ham-handed functionary constantly triggers flashbacks to violence he suffered through — and participated in — as a young man during the Cultural Revolution.
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A more anodyne post offered a ham-handed attempt to find common ground between China and the United States, pointing to the basketball player Yao Ming, pandas and American students making dumplings as examples of the countries' close relationship.
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When their placeman, the temporary incumbent Luther Strange, lost by more than nine percentage points on Tuesday to Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, their ham-handed interventions were exposed as flagrant political malpractice.
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Or, as demonstrated by Julia (Gabrielle Union) in Daddy's Little Girls (2007), it seems successful, career-oriented women can only prosper when men like Monty (Idris Elba) are present and able to engage in awkward, ham-handed dialogue (see below).
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The controversial activist declined to answer repeated questions regarding the Moore story, but later released a highly edited video of the encounter that happens to cut out all the awkward silences: These tactics, while ham-handed, aren't new for O'Keefe.
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Perhaps the left soured on him because he is a singularly ham-handed politician, who possesses all the native charm of a Howard Schultz, the billionaire Starbucks founder who is trying to win the presidency one sanctimonious tweet at a time.
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By far the bigger issue is that even as Mr. Trump made a ham-handed (and cheapskate) effort to exploit Louisiana's latest disaster for political gain, he continued to stake out a policy position that will make such disasters increasingly frequent.
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Accidentally benefiting from ham-handed malfeasance does not mean there was no malfeasance, but the president's repetitive and stentorian insistence that there was "no collusion" now seems to have been pretty well calculated: Maybe I stole, but I sure didn't cheat!
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On "The Daily Show," Trevor Noah showed a ham-handed edit of what he called "83 Years a Voluntary Slave," where the correspondent Roy Wood Jr. extolled slavery between cuts of the actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong'o looking miserable.
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Grevenius's script, with its clichéd melodramatic flourishes and ham-handed habit of signifying that malevolence via backward spelling (one character's surname is "Natas," oy vey), proves intractable to Bergman's mastery, which looks instead like super-competence with this hackneyed material.
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He sometimes went about this in a remarkably ham-handed way — for instance, getting a tip about "unmasking" from White House staffers, and then announcing it publicly before telling his committee members while denying it came from the White House.
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It's a beautiful game, and if it eventually suffers from the ham-handed sensibilities of Hideo Kojima, it gets out of its own way long enough to let you inhabit its sparse, bleak landscape and form your own relationship to it.
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There's only been a ham-handed investigation, further inflaming tensions with their own players and the NFLPA, and further proof that in its attempt to be the law, Roger Goodell and Co. have acted like keystone cops imbued with too much power.
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Their actions have been given a boost by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's ham-handed attempt last week to increase the number of Hispanic and black students, and reduce the percentage of Asian Americans, in the city's eight competitive elite high schools.
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It all amounts to a ham-handed effort to try to force a variety of key players in the Arab world to toe the Saudi line, and so far, all it has yielded is a wave of anti-Saudi sentiment across the region.
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Some sections of "Carlyle" tend to meander, and the satire can become ham-handed, as when Janice's father, at first appalled to learn that his daughter has married a black man, and Carlyle's father bond by pulling out and comparing their firearms.
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One could certainly argue that Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky was ham-handed and ill-advised — but to claim it's illegal and thus warrants a fast-tracked impeachment seems like wishful thinking, and is an enormous political gamble.
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The worst example is in the ham-handed (and ham-titled) episode "Me and My Baby," which revisits Verdon's youth, including her teen-age marriage to a man who raped her, and her choice to leave her first child to be raised by her parents.
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It is possible, the sources said, that a series of interactions, each of which the source said could have been considered a "ham-handed misstep," might be seen differently by the former FBI Director with the benefit of hindsight, not to mention his own firing.
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It might be a ham-handed approach at combatting my social anxiety, but the fact that I am using the premise of my own clown character coming out of retirement and performing for the first time in 50 years is really intriguing to me.
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Opinion In just two weeks in office, President Trump has embarked on a foreign policy that is literally all over the map: insulting the Australian prime minister, threatening a trade war with Mexico and imposing a ham-handed refugee ban that has drawn global condemnation.
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"Notwithstanding good intentions, the road to a solution was inherently paved with flawed results, meaning perfectly legal naturalized Americans were burdened with what the Court finds to be ham-handed and threatening correspondence from the state," Judge Biery said in a ruling on Wednesday.
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It's been amply foreshadowed across several seasons of the TV show (though season eight's execution of it has been rather ham-handed), and based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels, it seems to be what Martin planned all along.
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That's also why President Trump's incorrect tweet warning of hurricane risk to Alabama — and the apparently hand-altered map he later displayed to justify it, and his administration's ham-handed attempt to undermine correct weather forecasts by government scientists — cannot be written off as mere Twitter slapstick gone haywire.
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This comprehensively reported history traces the government's covert and often ham-handed attempts to insure information security through the decades, from the development of a computer virus to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, in the late aughts (it ultimately spiralled out of control), to North Korea's 2014 attack on Sony.
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The Fate of the Furious looks, sounds, and acts like a Fast & Furious movie should in 2017, which is to say it's chock full of reality-defying action set pieces, ham-handed but sincere sentiment, and goofy, self-aware humor that helps sell its over-the-top approach.
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Each is interrupted by the next at a salient moment, and each is strong enough that readers can forgive the omnibus ending, whose breathless melodrama feels out of sync with the rest of the novel, and whose struggle to highlight parallels and links between the stories becomes a bit ham-handed.
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There are plotlines involving possibly criminal adult-child attraction, accused (and knowingly unfounded) statutory sexual assault, awkward at best racial commentary thanks to Dixie Sinclair (Irene Choi, playing an unhinged teen adopted as a baby from China by an unhinged white woman), some ham-handed gay coding, and, of course, rampant body negativity.
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In other words, while each episode could be seen as a "ham-handed misstep," the sum of the actions -- capped by the Comey firing -- could become something much more serious, especially after the President told NBC that he was thinking of the Russia investigation when he made the decision to dismiss Comey.
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From its annual "NFL Women's Summit" that has been criticized as pandering, to tutorials on the fundamentals of the game nobody seemed to ask for, to its often erratic handling of players accused of partner violence, the league's approach can come across as ham-handed as a "Take my wife, please" joke setup.
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Whereas a fun IRC chat and a quick visit to MySpace was once enough to satiate the part of the brain that craved novelty, now we are like rats coming back for an angry fix and marketers and politicians are beginning to harness this power in ways that are at once ham-handed and frightening.
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While the first season of Iron Fist reportedly enjoyed the highest viewer numbers for the streaming service's Marvel franchise, the show was slammed by critics and viewers for its ham-handed approach to race and lackluster action scenes — a turnaround from the critical acclaim that its sibling shows Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage all earned.
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Activists and business leaders who've been meeting with Gary Cohn, Steven Mnuchin, Marc Short & Paul Teller from legislative affairs, and Sean Spicer (who's leading the comms strategy), all tell us the same thing: They're surprised about how much planning and organizing the White House has already done, given its ham-handed approach to the health care rollout.
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Last week, she teased her return with a pair of ten-second videos of a CGI snake, a ridiculously ham-handed foreshadowing that she was ready to play the villain and strike back at those who had wronged her, tossing the whole "haters gonna hate/shake it off" positivity bullshit she'd been leaning on out the window.
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" In the end, he said the process meant "perfectly legal naturalized Americans were burdened with what the Court finds to be ham-handed and threatening correspondence from the state which did not politely ask for information but rather exemplifies the power of government to strike fear and anxiety and to intimidate the least powerful among us.
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Then he lied about that effort to the FBI—a violation of 18 U.S.C., Section 1001, and one of the easiest traps for federal investigators to spring on targets who think that the FBI is less savvy than it is—and made ham-handed attempts to cover up those lies by deleting social media profiles and changing his telephone number.
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Trump, who for years now has blustered through ham-handed threats against Iran and then backed down from a direct confrontation, took the bait, blaming Tehran directly for the protests, congratulating himself for adding troops to the complex, and repelling the embassy demonstrators with tear gas—all while Iraq's most revered religious cleric bemoaned the nation's loss of its sovereignty to outside powers.
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Democratic governors at the National Governors Association meeting in New Mexico this weekend said the combination of Trump's roundly condemned handling of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, ongoing concerns among rural voters in Republican strongholds about a trade war and his ham-handed intervention in GOP primaries -- as well as local backlash over GOP policies like education funding -- has broadened the battleground map.
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What appeared at first to be a rather ham-handed attempt to dredge up an obscure feud with a former Miss Universe at the tail end of the first debate, Clinton instead knocked Trump completely off balance, sending him into a bizarre tirade against the former beauty queen and, for some reason, Rosie O'Donnell, who appears to be living rent free somewhere deep in Trump's subconscious.
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"Notwithstanding good intentions, the road to a solution was inherently paved with flawed results, meaning perfectly legal naturalized Americans were burdened with what the Court finds to be ham-handed and threatening correspondence from the state which did not politely ask for information but rather exemplifies the power of government to strike fear and anxiety and to intimidate the least powerful among us," Biery wrote.
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The disclosures suggest that President-elect Trump's decision to take a call from the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, was less a ham-handed diplomatic gaffe and more the result of a well-orchestrated plan by Taiwan to use the election of a new president to deepen its relationship with the United States — with an assist from a seasoned lobbyist well versed in the machinery of Washington.
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Whether it's Hillary Clinton's push to defend the US from Chinese cyberwarriors, Bernie Sanders' critique of labor practices in the age of Uber, Ted Cruz's proposals to balance privacy with government surveillance (don't get us started on Carly Fiorina's ham-handed suggestion that Silicon Valley needs to get in line with government requests for cooperation), or even Elon Musk warning us about the imminent rise of the machines, one thing is clear: The political landscape has shifted.
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My ham-handed attempt to try to highlight the fact that Amy has the lion's share of the burden in our family -- that she actually works but is the primary parent in our family, especially when I served in Congress, especially when I was on the campaign trail -- should have also been a moment for me to acknowledge that that is far too often the case, not just in politics, but just in life in general.
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