The obsession with production, coupled with a surprising shoddiness in composition, permeates the entire album.
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NIDA's past research on cannabis had been criticized for shoddiness, moldy product, and hostility to studying pot's potential benefits.
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But the forensic report from her hospital exam confirmed elements of her story, and experts testified about the shoddiness of the investigation.
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The report is a damning document on the brutality of the C.I.A.'s practices, the shoddiness of its management, and the mendacity of its leaders.
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This may work for smartphone apps, which are easy to update, but not for most other products, where a reputation for shoddiness may be impossible to shake off.
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That doesn't mean these populist narratives are entirely fact free — just that their analytical shoddiness puts them a semitone from truth, superficially close, but completely dissonant with it.
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The Fukushima accident demonstrated extraordinary shoddiness in Japan's reactor operations, for example, in failing to place emergency electrical generators at elevation to keep plant operations going in the event of flooding.
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"I learned nothing I didn't know, except some more details of the investigators' cluelessness and shoddiness," the author Kurt Andersen, one of the trustees who resigned, said of the inspector general's findings.
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The most stunning thing about Pokémon Go, Nintendo's implausibly successful attempt at resuscitating itself, isn't its popularity—instead, it's the wide gulf between the fun factor of the game and the shoddiness of the app.
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Ben Affleck's Bruce Wayne tinkers over state-of-the-art gadgetry with his manservant Alfred (Jeremy Irons), while Deadpool and his roommate — a blind black woman (Leslie Uggams) — trade insults and commiserate over the shoddiness of Ikea furniture.
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Even worse than the result of the case was the shoddiness of Roberts's opinion, which notably failed to advance any remotely coherent justification to undermine Congress's unambiguous authority to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment's prohibition on race discrimination in voting.
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And the failure to make restrictions on changes clear in the booking-confirmation email, as well as the false information provided on the website, amount to shoddiness unworthy of a flag-carrier, and one that owes its dominant position at Heathrow Airport more to an accident of history than open competition.
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By 1970 the shoddiness of the workmanship and materials used was revealed by the cracks which had already started appearing in the internal walls. It is joined to the main building on the ground floor by the Paton Library.
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Despite the beauty of the singing by Dorothy Sarnoff and Elaine Milbin, there is no way of avoiding the fact that the music and the libretto have nothing in common, except, perhaps, a certain shoddiness of style.”New York Times, Tuesday, October 28, 1952, p. 36.
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Rhine's lab never demonstrated that Pearce > could not have cheated in the ways proposed by Hansel. Hansel did not have > to prove anything. The burden of proving that cheating was impossible rested > with Rhine and Pratt, not Hansel. Hansel succeeded brilliantly in exposing > the shoddiness of the experimental procedures of Rhine's laboratory.
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The café and shelter were designed while Arup worked as the architect, engineer and contractor to the London firm Christiani & Nielsen. He noted that his "place was in the office" during the project, and in retrospect deplored the cheapness and shoddiness of the materials and workmanship implemented by the firm.Jones, 2006. (p. 54). The building had been designed in 1932 for the tourists visiting the fast-growing island resort.
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Hansel's book received positive reviews from scientists and sceptics. The physicist Victor J. Stenger noted that "Hansel succeeded brilliantly in exposing the shoddiness of the experimental procedures of Rhine's laboratory." Robert Sheaffer stated that Hansel's criticisms were devastating to the claims of ESP and the book was a serious challenge to parapsychology. Philosopher Antony Flew also gave a positive review, highlighting the failure of parapsychology to provide repeatable experiments.
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Goldsmith told the DOJ OIG he drafted a resignation letter at around the same time as Comey. According to his contemporaneous notes, Goldsmith cited the "shoddiness" of the prior OLC legal review, the "over-secrecy" of the PSP, and the "shameful" incident at the hospital as among his grievances. At approximately 1:30 a.m. on March 12, 2004, FBI Director Mueller drafted by hand a letter to withdraw the FBI from participation in the program.
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Larry Kart of the Chicago Tribune gave the film zero stars out of four and wrote that "the shoddiness of the product is beyond belief. Lines are blown left and right, cuts within scenes don't match, and the performances would be unacceptable in a home movie ... If you've ever wondered what it's like at the bottom of the barrel, this film will take you on a guided tour."Kart, Larry (March 23, 1981). "'Dirty Tricks' hits bottom".
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In a contemporary review, Richard Combs of The Monthly Film Bulletin described Blue Blood as a series of "cheap, coarsely-filmed charades" and criticised the film's direction: "... once Sinclair gets down to working out his theme (black-blooded butler usurps degenerate, blue-blooded employer), the skimpiness of his material and the shoddiness of this TV-sketch technique become painfully evident." He added that Reed's performance made the character Tom "one of the most physically repellent of screen villains".
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Feb 12, 2008. Literary critic Diana Trilling criticized Ginsberg along with his audience by suggesting that Howl and other Ginsberg works presented an immature view of the modern society. To Trilling, the audience and Ginsberg shared a relationship that had little to do with literature, and she writes that the "Shoddiness" of the poems attested to the fact that they were created to relate to cynical popular culture rather than provide an artistic statement.Trilling, Diana. qtd.
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Its root meaning is in fact, "to love." > Modern society – driven largely by corporate values – has increasingly > twisted it so you automatically associate amateurism with shoddiness. I > write this because John Howard is, now, effectively an "amateur" – he makes > his music at home, at his own pace and releases it on his own label. Having > once been bound by the requirements of an unappreciative label, he now has > only himself to blame if any of his new songs fail to be released.
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" Franklin called it too "inconsistent," Hartlaub who opined "the character design leans more toward disturbing than cute," and Total Film who was turned off by the "shoddiness" of the art style. The voice cast was heavily praised, being called "stellar," "top-notch," and a "quirky highlight" in reviews. According to one journalist, "this is one cast that consistently had me laughing across the board." Some reviewers found the underlying concepts to be clever, such as a Wired review that opined the film had a "clever premise," "outrageous characters, some artsy scenery, and some cool laboratories.
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A housing shortage existed throughout the Eastern Bloc, especially after a severe cutback in state resources available for housing starting in 1975. Cities became filled with large system-built apartment blocks Western visitors from places like West Germany expressed surprise at the perceived shoddiness of new, box-like concrete structures across the border in East Germany, along with a relative greyness of the physical environment and the often joyless appearance of people on the street or in stores. Housing construction policy suffered from considerable organisational problems. Moreover, completed houses possessed noticeably poor quality finishes.
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Chouan is a romantic hero who, with a small band of devoted followers living in the forest, stage courageous raids against a hated regime. How much of this is romantic legend and how much is historically factual will probably always be open to debate, but, in either case, the shoddiness of the history of this "hero" embarrasses many historians. The tales, true or not, have proved to be a rich source of literary inspiration. Most notably, Honoré de Balzac drew from this history in writing the last of his series of novels, La Comédie humaine—a work called "The Chouans".
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" Dan McQuade, writing in the online version of Philadelphia Magazine, referencing the film's use of Philadelphia as a setting, after panning the film itself wrote, "The message of Mannequin, clumsy as it is, is that the greatest place and time in recorded history is 1980s Philadelphia ... Truly, this is the most uplifting film ever made about the city." David Cornelius of DVD Talk wrote: it "Mannequin is one of the stupidest movies ever conceived, and one of the worst. Which makes it, in its own lousy way, mesmerizing. To watch it is to get sucked in by its hypnotic ways; its very off-the-wall shoddiness is astounding.
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Litvinenko -- who was directly involved in the dissertation, allegedly helped [Putin] choose the topic and was more or less the advisor for the dissertation -- is himself a member of the higher accreditation commission, which is the government-appointed body to be the watchdog over standards about degree-granting, dissertations and quality control for higher education in Russia. So it’s extra scandalous that he would be involved in this case of, at minimum, shoddiness and plagiarism, possibly something worse, which would be the literal purchase, either by money or political influence, of a dissertation by someone who didn’t actually do the work. That second point is not clear. I don’t have proof about that.
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