By contrast, why does every one else seem so mealy-mouthed?
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She said "Nothing to do with me" a mealy mouthed reply.
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But Federighi was doing so in a trolling, mealy-mouthed way.
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What about when your foe is just mealy-mouthed Neville Chamberlain?
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Nixon still espoused a mealy-mouthed fealty to those pseudo-Rockwellian virtues.
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And once again, some leading Republicans are proving more mealy-mouthed than others.
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The same mealy-mouthed old boys in bad toupees were still calling the shots.
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The league did itself no favors by coming up with a mealy-mouthed policy.
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Their latest, mostly mealy-mouthed critiques, are simply a day late and a dollar short.
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Clinton's mealy-mouthed response to that or do I want Donald Trump's hard-ass response?
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Politicians who honor the boundaries of decency and public safety are not mealy-mouthed pleasers.
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For Democrats and human rights advocates, it was a laudatory but ultimately mealy-mouthed response.
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He was inspired instead by President Donald Trump's mealy-mouthed comments about white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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It's all just a little bit too smug and a little bit too mealy mouthed to land.
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Instead, they were mealy-mouthed cover-ups of activity in the years leading up to the crisis.
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We don't need any more mealy-mouthed statements from the leader of the Labour Party, we need actions.
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Schumer herself offered a mealy-mouthed disavowal of Metzger, rather than a full-throated rejection of his incendiary comments.
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I'll be looking out into the mealy-mouthed winter of New York circa 2020 and thinking about my grill.
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Once you've used a clicky keyboard, however, you probably won't go back to a soft, mealy-mouthed clacker ever again.
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The apology is mealy-mouthed at best, because Flaxman and HP insist that making a functional product dysfunctional is ok.
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Justice, equality, freedom, solidarity, socialism—those ideals all resonated—but democracy struck me as mealy-mouthed, hollowed out, and corrupted.
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CNN's Fareed Zakaria blasted the nation's elite on Sunday for a "mealy mouthed" reaction to President Trump's remarks on Charlottesville.
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When compared to Mr. Maas's strong rhetoric in Bucharest, the sound emanating from German foreign policy circles today is rather mealy-mouthed.
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When the vocals came in, Shevchuk sounded like a snarling dog, a far cry from the mealy-mouthed delivery of Lifetime's Ari Katz.
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A mealy-mouthed response about how the eavesdropping is done in a secure facility without an Apple ID attached is not good enough.
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This results in statements that follow major incidents in where the leaders of a city, candidates, and others in power are mealy-mouthed.
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True, the party's presidential candidates used to be mealy-mouthed about rejecting facts and endorsing conspiracy theories, rather than being full-throated crazy.
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Instead, he opts for mealy-mouthed cliché, writing soaring but vague prose about the need to protect democracy from tribalism and other threats.
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It's going to end catastrophically, in November or beyond, with the party infrastructure in tatters, with every mealy mouthed pseudo-Trump accommodationist permanently stained.
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There's a several-days-long cycle of them being called out and then they issue a mealy-mouthed apology, if at all, and move on.
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But it's preferable to mealy-mouthed both-sides-ism, and in any case the goal here isn't really to get you to vote for these people.
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Dorsey did offer a mealy-mouthed tweetstorm immediately after the election, that users quickly noted had no actual solutions for people already abused on the service.
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She offered a timid, mealy-mouthed disapproval of the ad without stepping up and demanding action, which would involve removing the ludicrous spot from the airwaves.
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In Mr. Trump's worldview and his convention's, mealy-mouthed P.C. Democrats refused to call things the way they saw them and name dangers for what they are.
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In one of her three recent mealy-mouthed apologies, Ms Park specifically denied one rumour: that shamanistic rituals had been held at the Blue House, the presidential office.
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Wednesday's remarkable episode, "Hope," pulled off both about as well as you could imagine: It was funny but heartbreaking, nuanced but not mealy-mouthed, blunt but not despairing.
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In times of strife, it's common for chief executives to release mealy-mouthed statements full of corporate nothingspeak—and this is nothing if not a time of strife.
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Well, those mealy-mouthed experts and armchair gladiators must have missed old Samart's knock out contribution to that well-worn debate, the side teep. Speed. Power. Timing. Movement.
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Zwayer attempted to send the man off the pitch, but Schmidt's mealy-mouthed, punchable face decided to challenge the decision for so long that Zwayer took a hike.
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"We can't have mealy-mouthed language about more facts have to come in," said Adam Green, a founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal advocacy group.
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Mealy-mouthed statements about the difficult balance of free speech is only a way of avoiding an admission that these platforms have too much power to control what speech is allowed.
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But Grant's primary interest, and pleasure, is in bad people being awful to one another, and the picture gleefully revels in their terrible behavior (and their mealy-mouthed excuses for it).
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For the Democrats who raised money, canvassed, and voted for Northam and Jones, it was surely disheartening that the men turned so mealy-mouthed even before taking the oath of office.
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Many Trump supporters will shrug at the strategy's mealy-mouthed promise not to impose America's democratic values on others, or its assertion that allies are of value because they "magnify US power".
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Never harsh in his judgments, but not mealy-mouthed either, he frequently succeeded in redirecting the discussion to support the work at hand by embracing student intentions and placing them in context.
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Through mealy-mouthed "the people just want to get to know you better" buttering up, he managed to bring these topics up with the president, and then just let him off the hook.
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With future offenses seemingly inevitable, Republicans will time and again have to offer their mealy-mouthed condemnations, while Democrats, the press, and moderate conservatives will keep demanding that more forceful steps be taken.
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In response to accusations from Republicans that the Times story was a publicity stunt, Bolton, his agent, and his publisher issued a mealy-mouthed statement denying that they had been behind the leak.
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Not only would that attract some voter attention if it were done right and without the usual mealy mouthed approach, but it might also win Hillary even more fans and donors from Silicon Valley.
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Several chided Mr Ryan for rebuking Mr Trump, seeing their congressman's criticisms as evidence that he is just another mealy-mouthed, calculating elitist, who has seemingly forgotten that in the real world "everybody makes mistakes".
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As for "Tommy No 1," he's not only impressive in his flow, but that famously mealy-mouthed Bane/Mad Max timbre makes for a great rap voice, even when he's putting on theatrical Cockney accents.
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He also won the support of House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who have been comically mealy-mouthed amid the latest revelations about Trump's conversations with then-FBI Director James Comey.
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Hitching her campaign to Mr. Trump's has appeared — to adapt a phrase from the presidential nominee — to unshackle Ms. Long from the mainstream Republican principles she said she once embraced, "mealy-mouthed" rhetoric and all.
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For some special-operations troops, though, it was a mealy-mouthed missive that&aposs out of step with what they&aposve been asked to do and the conditions under which they have to do it.
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On Sunday, as reporters gathered in the lobby of their suburban New Jersey press hotel, a White House official -- who asked to remain nameless -- dictated a statement looking to clean up the President's mealy-mouthed statement.
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"The delayed, qualified and often mealy mouthed reaction of many in America's leadership class tell a disturbing story about the country's elites and the reason we are living in an age of populist rebellion," Zakaria said.
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For example, she issued a mealy- mouthed statement on Bolivia in which she failed to call the military coup a coup referring instead to "interim leadership" even as that interim leadership was murdering protesters in the street.
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On Saturday night he managed a mealy-mouthed condemnation of "hatred, bigotry and violence—on many sides, on many sides", even though only one side appears to have paraded with heavy weaponry and murdered one of its opponents.
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At a time when even the most awkward and mealy-mouthed fighters are trying and failing to follow in Rousey and Conor McGregor's sass-mouthed footsteps to earn fights on spectacle, there's something refreshingly old school about her approach.
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In Brandenburg, as in Trump-world, there's plenty of political energy against globalized, mealy-mouthed, quinoa-loving, inequality-fostering, immigrant-embracing elites with their gender spectra, climate doomsdays, multilateral organizations, mainstream parties and smug no-alternatives views of existence.
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Stone might argue he did not intend the post as a threat -- his mealy-mouthed, heavily lawyered, passive-voiced "Notice of Apology" lamely makes that argument -- but any rational person sees an image of cross hairs as a threat.
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Because the G20 can only act with complete consensus the new and mealy-mouthed words about trade simply tells us what we already know: that the Trump administration has unconventional views about it, and about how "fair" trade can be advanced.
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For all his usual mealy-mouthed and weak positioning, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seems clearer than ever about his determination to invoke the so-called "nuclear option" to overturn any Democrat filibuster with a simple up or down vote on Gorsuch.
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There is John Kasich, the mealy-mouthed "other option" who won only one state — his own — and whose primary pitch is that he is not the front-runner or Cruz and therefore stands the greatest chance of beating the eventual Democratic nominee.
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J.P. Well-written and well-intentioned, Joyner Lucas's "I'm Not Racist" is nowhere near the mealy-mouthed mess that was "Accidental Racist," the shortsighted 2013 duet between Brad Paisley and LL Cool J that tried to solve racism over a coffee counter.
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Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dodged just about every attempt to pin him down as a supporter for any number of consumer privacy bills being tossed around at the federal level, and the company is being just as mealy-mouthed with the California bill.
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Though former executive editor Tommy Craggs gave it a pretty decent shot in a tweet on Thursday afternoon: One argument for Gawker is that all those alums writing all those mealy-mouthed "to be sure"s never wrote like that when they were there.
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So Israel's government could reasonably have been expected to condemn the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, which featured neo-Nazis chanting "Jews will not replace us", and to criticise the mealy-mouthed response by President Donald Trump, who has energised the white-supremacist movement in America.
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Gambling is an accepted part of the world, is totally accessible to any American who wants to partake, and mealy-mouthed moralists (by the way, I'm not calling S.F. one of these...he or she just asked a question) who claim to be shocked—shocked!
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" In "The Good Fight," a 1973 book that suffers from none of the mealy-mouthed evasions so typical of political memoirs, she says she was very aware that her "candidacy had no chance," and that "the movers and shakers wished only that I would go away.
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A MINUS AD the Voice: Maxi-Single (Statik Entertainment) AD is Schenectady-born, Rhinebeck-based, African-American attorney Antonio Delgado, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York's 19th district, where the mealy-mouthed Republican incumbent has gone after him for this hip-hop EP he recorded in 2007.
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Rather than forcefully calling out his targeted assassination as a violation of international law that puts the country at risk of another war in the Middle East, most Democrats have issued gutless, mealy-mouthed statements that bolster the administration's central claim: that Soleimani was a baddie who had it coming.
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Indeed, it is arguable that Trump, of all people, was the one who convinced his soul mate, the autocratic Recep Tayyib Erdogan, to accept a rather mealy-mouthed NATO endorsement of the Turkish leader's claim that the Kurds are terrorists and to lift his hold on NATO's approval of the Baltic defense plan.
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One mealy-mouthed display, siloed off toward the end of the exhibition, framed the totality of aggressive coverage of the agency as "FBI TACTICS UNDER FIRE" and discussed NBC journalist Carl Stern's scoop on COINTELPRO, the secret and illegal program that targeted, surveilled, and infiltrated civil rights groups, among others, in the 20th century.
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Which, again, is mealy-mouthed, knee-jerk liberal posturing, because in reality, his 71 years of experience here, his own adaptation to his environment, will see him through what's next, as will this border, which has lived through wars and political mood swings and buffoons and bloviates before, without the help of el Feisbuk, or people like me.
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Instead, we should retrain our gaze on the issues at hand: A loose-lipped President who is obstructing justice; a hostile foreign power interfering with our democratic system; and a craven, mealy mouthed majority party in Congress doing absolutely nothing because, hey, their guy won, and that seems to matter more than the integrity and security of the United States.
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And as Granger herself eventually admitted—in about as mealy-mouthed a fashion as possible—Executive Order 28 is not a directive signing over all power to the executive but the periodic, legally required updating and reauthorization of a bill dating from the Truman administration that enables the president to coordinate resources and supplies in the case of a national emergency.
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It takes a lot of hubris for a mealy-mouthed technocrat like Bloomberg sees the populist rise of Bernie SandersBernie Sanders2900 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 220006 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides The Memo: Democrats confront prospect of long primary MORE, Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenWarren goes local in race to build 2202 movement 2628 Democrats make play for veterans' votes 28500 Dems put focus on stemming veteran suicides MORE, and Donald Trump and think that his brand of centrism is poised to catch on.
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"The response from the majority of elected Republican leaders in Washington was a series of mealy-mouthed statements, from President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE down to both male and female senators condemning the alleged actions but leaving a huge carve-out 'if they are proven true,' " Psaki writes.
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Following a hip-hop twist on her show's theme song — performed live by Saweetie — Bee monologued about Jared Kushner's hollow bird bones and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' fixation on Civil War generals; sang about the erotic power of a good piece of investigative journalism ("I wanna be a notch on the Washington Post"); sang again about the mealy-mouthed habit the mainstream media has of describing racist behavior in euphemistic terms (a riff on My Fair Lady's "The Rain in Spain"); shouted-out her dad in the crowd; excoriated Sanders some more ("Her looks are the best thing about her … but on the inside it's as hideous as a pinworm in an anus," a reference to a controversial WHCD joke last year about Sanders' eye-liner); and addressed President Trump directly, in case he happened to be watching.
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The ignorant self-opinionated sod-minded suet-brained ham-faced mealy-mouthed streptococcus-ridden gang of natural gobdaws!
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In protest against the use of the word "gunmen" by the BBC, the journalist Mobashar Jawed "M.J." Akbar refused to take part in an interview after the Mumbai attacks and criticised the BBC's reportage of the incident. The British parliamentarian Stephen Pound has supported the claims by referring to the BBC's whitewashing of the terror attacks as "the worst sort of mealy mouthed posturing. It is desperation to avoid causing offence which ultimately causes more offence to everyone".
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In 2008, the BBC was criticised by some for referring to the terrorists who carried out the November 2008 Mumbai attacks as "gunmen".Mealy- mouthed BBC The response to this added to prior criticism from some Indian commentators suggesting that the BBC may have an Indophobic bias. In March 2015, the BBC was criticised for airing a documentary interviewing one of the rapists in India. In spite of a ban ordered by the Indian High court, the BBC still aired the documentary.
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When their five-year-old son Johnny was hit by a car and died while in Frank's care, he was devastated. Partly using that as an excuse to cover up his insecurity, Frank has been reduced to a suicidal alcoholic. Mealy-mouthed to the director's face, Frank is actually a demanding alcoholic who is totally dependent on his wife. Bernie mistakenly blames her for everything that happens during rehearsals, including Elgin's requests for a dresser and a run-of-the-show contract.
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He also branded him "honest, decent, intelligent and sexless". Shales felt that Ted deserved to suffer, adding "Lowell gives such a mousy, mealy-mouthed performance that it's hard to feel any sympathy for poor sad Ted. He conveys emotions with all the subtlety of a circus parade, his eyeballs sometimes darting about wildly like the dots in one of those early video pong games." Ted Cox of the Daily Herald said that he is "the mousy accountant who is afraid of contact and favors, instead, gay porn".
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Although some doubts remain on the validity of these two species, most authors currently retain them as separate species. Both species in the genus are referred to by the name "right whale dolphin", a name derived from the right whales (Eubalaena) which also lack a dorsal fin. Other common names for the southern right whale dolphin include: whitebellied right whale dolphin, southern right whale porpoise, mealy-mouthed porpoise, tunina (=tonina) sin aleta (Spanish), delfin (=delphin) liso austral (Spanish), minami semi-iruka (Japanese), dauphin de Peron (French), yuzhnyi kitovidnyi delfin (Russian), Südlicher Glattdelfin (German), and zuidelijke gladde dolfijn (Dutch).
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Mike Pearson from the Rocky Mountain News said that Ted is an "aforementioned mild-mannered accountant". Steve Johnson and Sid Smith writing for the Chicago Tribune named Ted "the repressed, self-loathing accountant" and "a sad-sack accountant with a lot invested in his career". The Multichannel News's Linda Haugsted opined that Ted "wants a stable relationship but can't face the fact he may be too old to attract the hattie of his dreams." All of the show's characters irritated The Washington Post critic Tom Shales, especially Ted because he is a "the mealy-mouthed little mole".
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When he dumps her, she returns to her native Glasgow with her moaning mum and mealy-mouthed friend. Going stir crazy..she works out a ruse to smooth a return to Ginger's penthouse and wreak horrid revenge.' Ash is a different lead character for Morin, older and more vulnerable than her previous heroines, bringing a new dimension for Morin, but Penniless In Park Lane also has many of the same ingredients that readers responded to in Morin's earlier books, some vivid memories of childhood and a constant stream of one liners. Mark Stanton, writing in the Glasgow HeraldStanton, Mark.
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Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini published a short summary of their book in New Scientist. The philosopher Mary Midgley wrote that What Darwin Got Wrong "strikes an outsider as an overdue and valuable onslaught on neo-Darwinist simplicities". The journalist Oliver Burkeman wrote an article entitled "Why everything you've been told about evolution is wrong" in The Guardian but concludes "It would be jawdroppingly surprising, to say the least, were Fodor to be right. A safer, if mealy- mouthed, conclusion to draw is that his work acts as an important warning to those of us who think we understand natural selection".
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In mid November 2017, Dutton rejected an offer by the newly-elected New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to resettle 150 asylum seekers from the Manus Island detention centre in New Zealand and warned that it would have repercussions for the two countries' bilateral relations. He also claimed that New Zealand's offer would encourage people smugglers. Dutton also criticised a New Zealand offer to provide $3 million for services for asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru as a "waste of money" that could be spend elsewhere, such as displaced people in Indonesia. In addition, Dutton criticised Australia's Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's call for Australia to accept the New Zealand offer as an attempt to appease the Labor Left with "cheap political stunts and mealy-mouthed words".
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The FR sought to tap custom not only from Blaenau Ffestiniog itself, but also its wider connections. It co-operated with the LNWR whose permanent northern terminus was an underarm stone's throw away on the opposite side of North Western Road. Timetabling was sympathetic; in 1910, for example, three of the FR's four non-workmen's trains from arrived between 27 and 42 minutes before an LNWR train headed north, giving a traveller from (say) a good chance of getting to even if his first train was 15 minutes late. Bradshaw may have been mealy-mouthed about the proximity of the FR station, but the LNW station boasted a very large station nameboard proclaiming "BLAENAU FESTINIOG CHANGE HERE FOR NARROW GAUGE LINE TO MINFFORD AND PORTMADOC".
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I Cry When I Laugh received mixed reviews from music critics. On Metacritic, which assigns a rated mean out of 100 from mainstream critics, it currently holds a score of 53, based on six reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The Independent writer Andy Gill found that Glynne's "recent chart-topper "Hold My Hand" provides a fairly accurate template for her debut album, as regards both methods and themes. It’s a record of heartbreak cauterised by hope, so alongside the routine tears and recrimination is a recurrent element of recovery and optimism that sets it apart from most other soul-diva offerings." John Aizlewood from Evening Standard wrote that "it’s a relentless listen, probably best served in single exhilarating portions rather than as a whole, but the kitchen sink production on "Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself" is a windswept delight and bold is always more fun than mealy-mouthed".
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The Bowdler name took on a life of its own soon after the publication of the 1818 second edition: by the mid 1820s, around the time of Thomas Bowdler's death, it had already become a verb, "to bowdlerize", meaning to remove sensitive or inappropriate material from a text. However, at this time it was not yet a byword for literary censorship; rather, it was more of a genre of books edited to be appropriate for young readers or for families, and a very popular and successful genre at that. The tides began to change for the Bowdler name in 1916, when the writer Richard Whiteing decried the sanitized edition in an article for The English Review entitled "Bowdler Bowdlerised". In the scathing and oft-sarcastic piece, Whiteing utterly denounces Bowdler and his expurgations, calling the changes "inconsistent" and scorning the prefaces to the more difficult-to-edit plays as "mealy-mouthed attempts to right himself".
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He refuted the insinuation that there was a problem with Islamic extremism at UCL, and accused some anonymous below the line contributors to the Telegraph of "Islamophobia". Subsequently, the CSC issued a press briefing listing a number of alleged Islamist extremists who had recently spoken on the UCL campus after being officially invited by UCL's Islamic groups.,How UCL authorities ignored Islamic extremismCSC later absorbed into the Henry Jackson Society, and one of the CSC committee members Ruth Dudley Edwards criticised Grant's response, writing: "Rather than producing mealy-mouthed defensive statements... Provost Grant should seriously reconsider his position."British universities: seats of learning – and loathing By Ruth Dudley Edwards 10:30AM GMT 2 January 2010 On the other hand, Professor John Sutherland, writing in the Guardian, defended the university's response of constructive engagement, which recommended "debate with extremists" and the promotion of an Islamic Awareness Week: "My own, partisan, view is that UCL's openness is morally justified.... But there are clear risks".
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