But to me, the tedious insipidity of many processed wines is just as much a flaw.
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Like the rest of the second-tier candidates, she was ill-served by an overcrowded debate format that couldn't have crafted more insipidity if that was its aim.
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Scott Aukerman, who wrote the screenplay and directed, displays a keen sense of self-awareness, sends up some formal conventions, and seems on his way to really knifing the insipidity of contemporary network talk shows.
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This product is even VAE modified latex, characterized by inocuity, insipidity, high drying speed, strong viscidity and firm adhibiting.
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The church is built in a Gothic revival style of dressed stone with ashlar dressings. It has a central tower. The church has four five-light windows described by Pevsner as being 'of great merit, in the style of the 13th century and in glowing colour, nothing yet of Victorian insipidity'.
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133 The cast was unchanged. As at Monte Carlo, the performance had what Hell describes as a triumphant reception.Hell, p. 28 The critics were mostly enthusiastic, with the exceptions of Adolphe Boschot, who thought it a caricature, Emile Vuillermoz, who thought the music monotonous, and Olin Downes, for The New York Times, who declared the piece "pretentious and artificial" and the music "the last word in insipidity".
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The Times complained of the "flatness and insipidity" of Burnand's text and of his vulgarising the original."Gaiety Theatre", The Times, 9 October 1883, p. 9 The Observer was less censorious, finding the piece moderately amusing, and correctly predicting that it would run successfully until it had to make way for the annual Gaiety pantomime at Christmas."At the Play", The Observer, 14 October 1883, p.
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Portrait of Philippe de Courcillon by Hyacinthe RigaudPhilippe de Courcillon, Marquis de Dangeau (21 September 1638 – 9 September 1720) was a French officer and author. Born in Dangeau, he is most remembered for keeping a diary from 1684 until the year of his death. These Memoirs, which, as Saint-Simon said "of an insipidity to make you sick", contain many facts about the reign of Louis XIV.
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A scholar notes of The Age We Live In (1809) and Runnemede (1825) (and by implication of the others) that they are didactic novels aimed at younger female readers, for it was, in Stanhope's words, "requisite to pamper the insatiate palate of romance- readers; else would the page be cast aside, and the poor author stigmatized with dullness and insipidity." Her characters maintain a balance of feminine delicacy and strength of mind.Dawn Davis: "An Essay on the Work of Louisa Sidney Stanhope" Retrieved 7 November 2012.
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Critics have varied widely, even wildly, in their responses to the play. Many have recognised the play's power, but have complained about the play's extremity and artificiality. (People who dislike aspects of Beaumont and Fletcher's work will find those dislikes amply represented, even crystallised, in this play.) John Glassner once wrote that to display "the insipidity of the plot, its execrable motivation or the want of it, and the tastelessness of many of the lines one would have to reprint the play."Terence P. Logan and Denzell S. Smith, eds.
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" Vladimir Nabokov, who had also admired Ulysses, described Finnegans Wake as "nothing but a formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book, a persistent snore in the next room [...] and only the infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations redeem it from utter insipidity." In response to such criticisms, Transition published essays throughout the late 1920s, defending and explaining Joyce's work. In 1929, these essays (along with a few others written for the occasion) were collected under the title Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress and published by Shakespeare and Company. This collection featured Samuel Beckett's first commissioned work, the essay "Dante... Bruno.
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143 Two Wild Wiggler dances, Weird Wiggle and Hop on Pops, can be seen on YouTube. The Wigglers performed on the Saturday morning television show, No. 73, where they met The Stranglers, who booked them as a support act. This led to appearances in Wembley Arena, Oxford Apollo, Brighton Centre and Zenith Paris. J King in the Morning Star wondered 'whether or not all that hilarious jumping and swaying with feet tied together really qualifies as dance....It was certainly movement of a highly entertaining kind, to be remembered with gratitude by a critic so often threatened with drowning in a sea of self- indulgence, pretentiousness and insipidity.
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The hero and heroine are quite bored with each other's insipidity: Herbert, the good, noble, pure and bland hero of the novel (who is a beer swilling, womanising, music hall frequenting young rover outside it), hates Rockalda in the novel but is in love with Rockalda outside it, while Alice Grey, the pure, virginal heroine, who hates Ruthven in the novel, is confident, aggressive, independent and in love with Sir Ruthven outside it. In life, Alice hates Herbert and Herbert hates Alice. While they are in the novel, the characters are all miserable. Only during the few hours they get each night, free from the constraints of the authors' will, can they find even a little happiness.
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Widows, unlike unmarried women, were able to move freely in society, and for the first time in her life, Mrs Pendarves was able to pursue her own interests without the oversight of any man. Perhaps because of her own unhappy marriage, she was not satisfied with the options available to women in the 18th century. She wrote, Mrs Pendarves was a very perceptive woman, "She judged everything and everybody for herself; and, while ridiculing all empty-headed or vain insipidity, whether fashionable or eccentric, was always ready to applaud the unusual, if sincere and worthy. She was eager in the acquisition of knowledge of all kinds to the end of her life..."Johnson, R. Brimley. Mrs.
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Lerman stated that the film's message is "that you can be any age and make a difference". Hoot began filming in July 2005 in South Florida, opened on May 5, 2006, and won him a third Young Artist Award, this time for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actor (2007). The Washington Post's reviewer commented that "Lerman shows some life as Roy", though his role was "an anomaly in a sea of insipidity", while the San Francisco Chronicle's reviewer disliked Lerman's performance. Lerman on the set of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters in Vancouver, May 2012 In 2007, Lerman appeared in the thriller The Number 23, in which he played the son of Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey), a man who becomes obsessed with numerology.
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How popular, and at the same time profound, Hunolt's expositions are, is best proved by the fact that numerous excerpts are included in all anthologies and textbooks of religious rhetoric as standard. A competent critic (Kraus) has eulogized Hunolt's sermons in the following words: "At a time when German pulpit oratory had degenerated into utter bad taste and brainless insipidity, these sermons are distinguished by noble simplicity, pure Christian sentiment, and genuine apostolic ideas no less than by the felicitous use of Holy Writ, abundance of thought and pregnant language." And finally, we must call attention to the cultural value of Hunolt's work especially for the district of Trier, inasmuch as we may gather therefrom a fairly correct picture of life in the Trier of his day.
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Burroughs' opinions, manifested through the narrative voice in the stories, reflect common attitudes in his time, which in a 21st-century context would be considered racist and sexist. However Thomas F. Bertonneau writes: Edgar Rice Burroughs and Masculine Narrative by Thomas F. Bertonneau > [Burroughs'] conception of the feminine that elevates the woman to the same > level as the man and thatin such characters as Dian of the Pellucidar novels > or Dejah Thoris of the Barsoom novelsfigures forth a female type who > corresponds neither to desperate housewife, full-lipped prom-date, middle- > level careerist office-manager, nor frowning ideological feminist-professor, > but who exceeds all these by bounds in her realized humanity and in so doing > suggests their insipidity. The author is not especially mean-spirited in his attitudes. His heroes do not engage in violence against women or in racially motivated violence.
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Aujourd'hui, jour de > Pâques en l'Année sainte, Ici, dans l'insigne Basilique de Notre-Dame de > France, nous clamons la mort du Christ-Dieu pour qu'enfin vive l'Homme. > Today, Easter day of the Holy Year, Here, under the emblem of Notre-Dame of > Paris, I accuse the universal Catholic Church of the lethal diversion of our > living strength toward an empty heaven, I accuse the Catholic Church of > swindling, I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with its > funereal morality, Of being the running sore on the decomposed body of the > West. Verily I say unto you: God is dead, We vomit the agonizing insipidity > of your prayers, For your prayers have been the greasy smoke over the > battlefields of our Europe. Go forth then into the tragic and exalting > desert of a world where God is dead, And till this earth anew with your bare > hands, With your PROUD hands, With your unpraying hands.
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He returns then to the theme of the staid insipidity of the city-state, observing the unsettling cleanliness of the physical environment and the self-policing of the populace. In detailing Singaporean technological advancement and aspirations as an information economy, Gibson casts doubt on the resilience of their controlled and conservative nature in the face of impending mass exposure to digital culture – "the wilds of X-rated cyberspace". "Perhaps", he speculates, "Singapore's destiny will be to become nothing more than a smug, neo-Swiss enclave of order and prosperity, amid a sea of unthinkable ... weirdness." Toward the end of the essay, Gibson briefly covers two applications of the death penalty by the Singaporean justice system; he excerpts a report from The Straits Times about , a Malay man sentenced to death for attempting to smuggle a kilogram of cannabis into the city-state, and follows this with a description of the case of Johannes van Damme, a Dutch engineer found with significant quantities of heroin with the same consequence.
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Radamès (Giuseppe Fancelli) and Aida (Teresa Stolz) in act 4, scene 2 of the 1872 La Scala European première (drawing by Leopoldo Metlicovitz) Verdi originally chose to write a brief orchestral prelude instead of a full overture for the opera. He then composed an overture of the "potpourri" variety to replace the original prelude. However, in the end he decided not to have the overture performed because of its—his own words—"pretentious insipidity". This overture, never used today, was given a rare broadcast performance by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra on 30 March 1940, but was never commercially issued. Aida met with great acclaim when it finally opened in Cairo on 24 December 1871. The costumes and accessories for the premiere were designed by Auguste Mariette, who also oversaw the design and construction of the sets, which were made in Paris by the Opéra's scene painters Auguste-Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 1 and 4) and Édouard Desplechin and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (acts 2 and 3), and shipped to Cairo.
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