Wanting protagonists to be likable signals a lack of sophistication.
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RIVERA: George W. Bush was charming sometimes in his lack of sophistication.
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His lack of sophistication is letting Asian countries take advantage of the United States.
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With his colourful language and seeming lack of sophistication, he told it like it was.
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But she benefited from her family's lack of sophistication about the odds against her success.
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Analysts have long bemoaned the lack of sophistication among Chinese investors for the gyrations in the country's financial markets.
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Turning lack of sophistication into a virtue is a skill that the filmmaking hyphenate Matt Johnson has in abundance.
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"That's all based on things we found and things we didn't find and sophistication and lack of sophistication," he said.
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In a grander sense, Siri has felt stagnant for years and is often the butt of jokes regarding AI's lack of sophistication.
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The only problem is that almost everyone in the business is unhappy about the lack of sophistication of today's most commonly used metrics.
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The lack of sophistication may bolster those cybersecurity researchers who say they have found evidence that could link North Korea to the attack.
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Russian pundits are talking increasingly openly about Mr Trump's personal shortcomings, such as his lack of sophistication in international affairs and his mercurial character.
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The government claimed that the perpetrators, who died in the collision, were Uighur extremists, though the attack's lack of sophistication called this into question.
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This lack of "sophistication" was used to explain Clinton's lack of knowledge that she was breaking the law and hence an absence of intent.
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The crimes of Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen are notable not just for how blatant they were but also for their lack of sophistication.
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Will he feel insecure, you wonder, about his lack of sophistication, his middling literary ideas, his friends who work at renaissance faires and not Ralph Lauren?
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Maybe it's fine if you're an art person, but let's say you are just a museum tourist like I am — they convey a lack of sophistication.
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In the early phases of the bout, 'El Pantera' was absolutely breathtaking, but as the contest wore on his lack of sophistication with his hands became evident.
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If it catches on, the company will have a community-driven head start that will make any quips about the lack of sophistication in the typical "bot" tech stack inconsequential.
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James Stavridis, who was a contender to be Clinton's running mate, on Tuesday mocked the Manhattan businessman for demonstrating a lack of sophistication and knowledge befitting a commander in chief.
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Although lawyers for the LIA argued that Goldman Sachs had taken advantage of the fund's lack of sophistication, Judge Rose said the LIA had greatly exaggerated the naivety of its staff.
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While critics mistake this for a lack of sophistication, in actuality it shows her hunger to strike at the heart of the issue before the court with minimal pretension or delay.
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With a lush gospel choir providing backing vocals, it was not only a classical reinterpretation of modern music, but audibly confronted the stereotypes that associate a lack of sophistication with contemporary genres.
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In her statement, she said she felt "Goldman Sachs had unfairly taken advantage of the LIA's lack of sophistication ... and sold the LIA $1 billion worth of derivatives products the LIA could not understand".
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Extreme volatility in everything from stocks to property and commodity futures in recent years have been blamed on a lack of sophistication and herd mentality among retail investors, who have been hurt by painful corrections.
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John Bruton, Irish prime minister from 1994 to 1997, expressed disappointment at "the lack of sophistication in the British debate" and said an earlier generation of politicians had a much stronger grasp on Irish issues.
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John Bruton, Irish prime minister from 1994 to 1997, expressed disappointment at "the lack of sophistication in the British debate" and said an earlier generation of politicians had a much stronger grasp on Irish issues.
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But the incident has renewed scrutiny of Germany's cybersecurity following a series of serious cyberattacks, particularly due to the lack of sophistication this suspect claims to have had when he cracked the password to politicians' accounts.
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This lack of sophistication points to a person, or persons, operating with limited resources but some guidance as to how to assemble an explosive similar to the kind used by militant groups such as Islamic State, the experts said.
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In Wolf, her lack of sophistication was signified through the thickness of her accent, her general attraction to DiCaprio's character, and her body, which was tanned and oiled in nude scenes to look like that of a Playboy Bunny.
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It's not expected that we're going to see a rise of criminals creating moulds of people's fingerprints, but Chaikin did the demonstration to highlight the lack of sophistication in today's biometric solutions, not just on iPhones, but on other devices too.
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I'm always wary of becoming the out-of-town daughter/cousin/sister who used her working class Midwestern work ethic to get a good job on the east coast, then comes back haughty and dripping condescension at her family's perceived lack of sophistication.
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"When we're younger and coming of age sexually, when there's a lack of sophistication about what it means, number one, to be a man, and number two to be a good lover, the thing that men can see and point to and certainly think about is really the penis," he says.
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Where ALEC takes advantage of the lack of resources available to state legislators—not only handing them prefab legislation, but wining and dining them—groups on the left are put off by the relative lack of sophistication in state policymaking, skeptical that real progress can be made at that level.
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" Gerald Kellman, a Chicago community organizer, who was Obama's mentor when Obama worked on the far South Side in the nineteen-eighties, has been active in the same neighborhoods as Pfleger for thirty years, and he considers his embrace of Farrakhan to be a "moral mistake," a reflection of "a tremendous lack of sophistication.
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Chapter IV. Currawong. Wilkes, G. A. 1987. A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms. Fontana. Similar slang expressions in English include 'the boondocks'; 'the tall rhubarbs'; 'the sticks'; all implying remoteness and lack of sophistication.
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A critic from the Deccan Herald mentioned that "the experience of seeing the film is simply thrilling", mentioning that the success comes from "the naivete, the simplicity, the absolute lack of sophistication, and from the delightful hero (Vijay)".
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He also saw the cultural and intellectual gap between them as an aid in this plan. A more sophisticated woman, he wrote Modest, would possibly have been less accommodating. He convinced himself that he could control Antonina because of her lack of sophistication. Things changed when Tchaikovsky returned to Moscow from Kamenka.
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Kate reaches around Jack to get the gun, and they try to shoot the rope suspending them in the air. Jack succeeds. Now free, Jack and Kate continue to march through the jungle, through a heavy rain. Jack asks Kate to explain her earlier comment about the lack of sophistication in the net.
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Having no classical repertoire she sang the simple songs she had learned as a child. Despite this lack of sophistication, her vocal potential was immediately apparent. The Director, Glazunov, and Natalya Iretskaya (the most important Russian singing tutor and herself a pupil of Pauline Viardot) accepted her and awarded her a scholarship for nine years' study.
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Two things trouble John. One is Ladislaw (Victor Varconi), the handsome Russian deposed prince and doorman who seems too interested in Stephanie. The other is the memory of Sophie (Claire Dodd), the snobbish, conceited girlfriend he left behind after a quarrel over his lack of sophistication and polish. When Aunt Minnie dies unexpectedly without leaving a will, John inherits the shop.
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Carvel's commercials stood out and raised brand awareness primarily through their lack of sophistication. Carvel had a distinctive "gravelly" voice, lacking the "slick" sound of most professional voice-over artists, and all his narration was unrehearsed. His wording was conversational, with commercials frequently ending with the words "Thank You". Television commercials, aired primarily in the "tri-state area" of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, began in 1971.
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Gigaom wrote that the production was a "slickly-produced spy comedy", that suffered from a lack of sophistication in its over-repeated use of jokes based upon the plot use of acronyms. They offered that animations within the project "played really well", and made special note of strong acting by Kassem Gharaibeh as a bitter teacher, and how Arden Cho "stands out as a performer in her own right".
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Guarantees, insurance, standby letters of credit and performance bonds. The terms Simple can often be misleading, as often the transactions which fall within this category are often complicated. They are termed simple not because of the lack of sophistication but because the transactions do not address the credit exposure of the protection buyer. Rather, as with a guarantee, the protection buyer simply takes the risk of protection seller.
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Harrington's prose is marred by what his modern editor, J. G. A. Pocock, described as an undisciplined work habit and a conspicuous "lack of sophistication." He "wrote hastily, in a baroque and periodic style in which he more than once lost his way," thereby becoming "...productive of confusion." He certainly never attained the level of "a great literary stylist."this and the preceding two paragraphs are adapted from Pocock, "Intro," p. xv.
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Wednesday, December 06, 1905; Page: 6 However, the trust donated the entire site to Douglas Corporation which then redeveloped the site as an entertainment venue. Upon completion the venue was opened by the Lieutenant Governor, Lord Raglan, on 19 July 1913. The original name of the venue was the Villa Marina Kursaal. In part this was seen as an attempt by the Corporation to address the town's perceived lack of sophistication and to raise the town's profile to visitors.
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There was a 1956 stage version written by Norman Rosten and starring, among others, Robert Earl Jones. The 1985 Indian film Massey Sahib starring Raghubir Yadav and Arundhati Roy is based on this novel. In the film the colony is changed to British India and the protagonist is changed to an Indian convert to Christianity who marries a tribal girl and, due to his sheer lack of sophistication and corrupt nature, ends up in suspension and finally gets hanged for a murder.
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The barbs directed at Ford generated more donations to his campaign, as did a deliberate lack of sophistication in style. According to Kouvalis "our polling said, don't put him in a $2,000 suit". The revelation of Ford's DUI conviction in Florida, and his subsequent public apology, led to an increase in support for Ford. In June 2010, Ford and fellow councillors criticized retiring Councillor Kyle Rae for holding a retirement party at the Rosewater Club and billing the $12,000 cost to his office budget.
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Instead, she plans to spend her large sum of horse-racing winnings on one last night of fun with Wayne and then say a "fond farewell" forever. While riding the roller coaster, Margy also meets a new companion, a reporter for the Des Moines Register named Pat Gilbert. Pat is experienced and widely traveled, having worked in a number of cities and had previous girlfriends; yet, he is attracted to Margy despite her relative lack of sophistication. Margy finds him more exciting than the predictable Harry Ware.
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Kay did not have a background in journalism but instead had made a career as a producer of game shows. The other new-kid-on- the-block is Corky Sherwood (Faith Ford), who replaced Murphy during her stint in rehab. A former Miss America from the (fictional) town of Neebo, Louisiana, Corky is the bane of the other journalists with her perky, relentlessly sunny personality—and dumbfounding lack of sophistication. Due to overwhelming audience reaction, management decides to retain Corky's services after Murphy's return, usually assigning her to lifestyle pieces or lightweight celebrity profiles.
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They happily shared their stupidity; one slave character said that to get to China, one had only to go up in a balloon and wait for the world to rotate below.. Highly musical and unable to sit still, they constantly contorted their bodies wildly while singing. Tambo and Bones's simple-mindedness and lack of sophistication were highlighted by pairing them with a straight man master of ceremonies called the interlocutor. This character, although usually in blackface,, note 63. spoke in aristocratic English and used a much larger vocabulary.
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The message of the plot is that a lack of sophistication is the key to success, even at a fashion magazine that attracts readers through sexy exhibitionism. The movie would have shown some daring savvy if it had played more with the role-playing aspect of fashion spreads. Instead it is content to eat its retro snack cake and have it, too." Andrea Gronvall of the Chicago Reader wrote that "The formula works, thanks in large part to star Jennifer Garner, who's so radiant theaters should be stocking sunblock.
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The family learns that Aunt Shirley has willed the siblings her estate on the condition that they all come back home to run it. Despite Dwight's enthusiasm in inheriting it, Fannie and Jeb are unwilling to move back in due to the lack of sophistication farm life offers, but agree to stay for a couple of days. Dwight also bonds with Cammy, courts local farmer Esther (Nora Kirkpatrick), and later surveys the farm with his siblings. Todd Packer (David Koechner) visits the office and announces that he wants to make amends for his past behavior.
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The scandal, described as the largest in French winemaking in recent years, was a public relations "nightmare" that hurt the credibility of the Red Bicyclette brand, and of French wine production generally, at least in the United States. Pinot noir had gained some recognition and popularity among American consumers, in large part due to a conceit in the 2004 independent film Sideways that it was superior to Merlot wine. As a result, consumers had been willing to pay more for the supposedly superior grape. The British press used the occasion to scoff at American consumers for their supposed lack of sophistication in wine.
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Little of the core system's technology was demonstrated and the new file system that had been shown a year earlier was absent. There was one way to actually use the new operating system, by signing up for time in the developer labs. This did not go well: Several people at the show complained about the microkernel's lack of sophistication, notably the lack of symmetric multiprocessing, a feature that would be exceedingly difficult to add to a system due to ship in a few months. After that, Amelio came back on stage and announced that they would be adding that to the feature list.
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Concerned about an alleged lack of sophistication in Torah study and what they believed was an excessive reliance on mysticism and kabbalah, it was the desire of the group to create a journal that would inspire the community toward what they considered a higher level of Torah study and analysis. The early volumes of Hakirah relied mainly on articles by members of their original study group, Asher Benzion Buchman, David Guttmann, Sheldon Epstein, Yonah Wilamowsky and Heshey Zelcer. From about the third volume, however, Hakirah began to attract international attention whereupon Hakirah redefined its mission to include not just the Flatbush community but those who identified with the Flatbush Orthodox community.
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When Brister was selected, comparisons were almost immediately made between him and Steelers great Terry Bradshaw, who is also from Louisiana. Over the years, Pittsburgh sports writers and Steelers fans frequently made jokes about Brister's thick Southern accent and perceived lack of sophistication, traits that were similarly mocked in Bradshaw. In a similar vein, his name was often misspoken. In a 1999 Sports Illustrated article, Brister cited "Bubba Brewster" and "Bobby Blister" as common manglings. Brister spent two years as the backup to Bradshaw's immediate successor, Mark Malone, starting two games as a rookie in 1986 and appearing briefly in relief in two games in 1987.
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Al-Wathiq's reign, through unremarkable, was essentially a continuation of al-Mu'tasim's own, as the government continued to be led by the men al-Mu'tasim had raised to power: the Turks Itakh, Wasif, and Ashinas; the vizier Ibn al-Zayyat; and the chief qādī Ahmad ibn Abi Duwad. Al-Tabari describes al-Mu'tasim as having a relatively easygoing nature, being kind, agreeable and charitable. According to C. E. Bosworth the sources reveal little about al-Mu'tasim's character, other than his lack of sophistication compared with his half-brother. Nevertheless, Bosworth concludes, he was a proficient military commander who secured the caliphate both politically and militarily.
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Time Magazine Jan 2, 1984 Beirut: Serious Errors in Judgment - TIME Despite the lack of sophistication and wide availability of its component parts, a gas-enhanced device can be a lethal weapon. These devices were similar to fuel-air or thermobaric weapons, explaining the large blast and damage.Paul Rogers(2000)"Politics in the Next 50 Years: The Changing Nature of International Conflict" An after-action forensic investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) determined that the bomb was so powerful that it probably would have brought down the building even if the sentries had managed to stop the truck between the gate and the building.Geraghty, op. cit.
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GANJI > IDENTIFIED FALLAHIAN AS THE "MASTER KEY" IN CHAIN MURDERS Others more sympathetic to the reform movement, such as Iran Press Service, have described the conference as "a good idea that backfired." The Service complained that organizers Thomas Hartman, Mehdi Ja'fari-Gorzini, Bahman Nuroumand "were unaware of the weight, importance and complexities of the task," and lacked "any experience or skill for such a highly sensitive and touchy diplomatic performance." Visiting Iranians were "visibly shocked" at the un-Islamic irreverence and ridicule of the protestors, while the expatriates were "astounded by the low level of general knowledge, the lack of sophistication, low degree of education" of visiting Iranians, such as the newly elected MP Mrs. Jamileh Kadivar.
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Interest in the art of the mentally ill, along with that of children and the makers of "peasant art", was first demonstrated by "Der Blaue Reiter" group: Wassily Kandinsky, Auguste Macke, Franz Marc, Alexej Jawlensky, and others. What the artists perceived in the work of these groups was an expressive power born of their perceived lack of sophistication. Examples of this were reproduced in 1912 in the first and only issue of their publication, Der Blaue Reiter Almanac. During World War I, Macke was killed at Champagne in 1914 and Marc was killed at Verdun in 1916; the gap left by these deaths was to some extent filled by Paul Klee, who continued to draw inspiration from these 'primitives'.
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Mary Magdalene, for example, is envious of the disciples and their special relationship to Jesus, resentful at what she sees as their lack of sufficient respect for her, and contemptuous of what she considers their lack of sophistication. And Zaccheus, the man Jesus called down from the tree, is much more generous than he had been before his encounter with Jesus, but is also vain of the special favor shown to him. As Marcus learns more about the teaching of Jesus, or The Way, as the disciples call it, he becomes a believer, and longs to be a part of the Kingdom. But the Disciples, while quite willing to accept Marcus's assistance (financial and otherwise), are not yet ready to accept him into their circle, nor to interpret Jesus's commission to spread his gospel 'to all the world' as meaning acceptance of Gentiles into full Christian fellowship.
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"Flemish Primitives" is a traditional art-historical term borrowed from the French primitifs flamands that became popular after the famous exhibition in Bruges in 1902Deam (1998), 12–13 and remains in use today, especially in Dutch and German. In this context, "primitive" does not refer to a perceived lack of sophistication, but rather identifies the artists as originators of a new tradition in painting. Erwin Panofsky preferred the term ars nova ("new art"), which linked the movement with innovative composers of music such as Guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois, who were favoured by the Burgundian court over artists attached to the lavish French court.Panofsky (1969), 165 When the Burgundian dukes established centres of power in the Netherlands, they brought with them a more cosmopolitan outlook. According to Otto Pächt a simultaneous shift in art began sometime between 1406 and 1420 when a "revolution took place in painting"; a "new beauty" in art emerged, one that depicted the visible rather than the metaphysical world.
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Although experienced miners from Cornwall were encouraged to immigrate and were taken on particularly at the Sunrise Mine, much of the workforce was inexperienced and not fluent in English. This complicated communication of mine and industrial safety information. Due to their lack of sophistication it was possible to influence how the workers voted. Fraudulent voting of this nature was employed extensively by company operatives to accomplish various personal and company goals.Scamehorn, Chapter 2 "The Gould-Rockefeller Era, 1903-1913" page 35-36 Lamont M. Bowers, effectively the chief executive officer of CF&I;, in addition to his paternalistic concern regarding vices such as drinking, gambling, and prostitution which might affect the health of CF&I; workers, and also company profits, and his efforts to clean up the mining towns and support enactment of prohibition in Colorado, was strongly anti-union and refused to recognize or negotiate with the United Mine Workers during the period leading up to the major strike of 1913-14.
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