" Representative Gerry Connolly called it "sophomoric and utterly unconvincing.
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What's that particularly sophomoric phrase we learned in junior high?
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The tweets themselves were sophomoric and of no real consequence.
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I think he was finally undone by the sophomoric jokes.
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I can have sophomoric humor sometimes, but my daughter knows me.
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I'm afraid to say it is sophomoric in its satirical obviousness.
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Or is it sophomoric theater at the expense of fellow students?
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The result was a wave of violent, profane, sometimes sophomoric series.
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That sophomoric act on the bench now makes all those quotes empty.
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But giving him the silent treatment would have been sophomoric and counterproductive.
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Beneatha, headstrong and sophomoric, questions Christianity and the existence of God. Mrs.
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" Kudlow called Trudeau's press conference a "sophomoric, political stunt for domestic consumption.
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"One sophomoric response does not deserve another," Graham said in a statement.
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"One sophomoric response does not deserve another," said Republican South Carolina Sen.
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But in A Bad Moms Christmas, it's sophomoric, and a little offensive.
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Compared with these, Mr. Bader's gesture feels like sophomoric sonic carpet-bombing.
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It's easy to come up with what I consider to be sophomoric answers.
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Self-aware and just sophomoric enough to be believable — you remember puberty, right?
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Neither Benjamin Millepied's derivative "Neverwhere" nor Nicolas Blanc's sophomoric "Mothership" warrant repeated viewings.
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Not only did the Turkish strongman return Donald Trump's sophomoric letter of Oct.
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It's unfiltered, every bit as sophomoric and occasionally vulgar as his rallies and tweets.
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There is nothing funny about wasting sausage to satisfy some sophomoric desire for validation.
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Retired general: Trump plan 'sophomoric' Sessions maintained that a Trump administration would defeat ISIS.
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What happened between us after that is pretty sophomoric, but our friendship was kaput.
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"We had these kind of sophomoric growing pains for a while," Ms. Nichols said.
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"One sophomoric response does not deserve another," Republican Senator Lindsey Graham wrote on Twitter.
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Murray cracked a smile at Chase's sophomoric bit, then both of them started to laugh.
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Sophomoric and immature antics of a sexual nature have no place in Naval aviation today.
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There are never moments when Preger's account of Cunningham or peers devolves into sophomoric gossip.
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Like their author, the tweets were, by turns, sophomoric and self-important, flippant and destructive.
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But the sophomoric approach to government that Trump has adopted will impact all of those things.
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This is my sophomore effort for The Times — whether it's sophomoric, I'll leave to the solvers.
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But the pairing ends abruptly and the final movement, a sophomoric return to the beginning, is deflating.
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"This is a kind of sophomoric joke that's kind of just gotten out of control," Soto claimed.
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Fist Fight may be all about feuding faculty members, but the jokes are downright sophomoric… and sparse.
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Each springs nakedly from the ashes of publicly capsized relationships, from the depths of newfound sophomoric passion.
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There seems to be a sophomoric idea that machines can somehow replace creativity, desire, drive, or talent.
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"The Tom Green Show," which ran sporadically on MTV, was a platform for his sophomoric humor — e.g.
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Krauss, with his disconcertingly boyish looks and his sophomoric attempts to seem thoughtful, is a callow sociopath.
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It would be nice to be able to ignore this sophomoric behavior at this point in this presidency.
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"Sophomoric and immature antics of a sexual nature have no place in Naval aviation today," the statement reads.
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Kang's description of baseball's having "a racially coded obsession with tradition" is as shameful as it is sophomoric.
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From bones breaking to accidental bodily excitement to first dates, it's creatively sophomoric in all the right ways.
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That may indicate that older audiences are not turned off by the prospect of a sophomoric Spider-Man.
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"American Housewife," an awful attempt to transplant "Roseanne" into the age of economic inequality, mistakes sophomoric for subversive.
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Every time this show almost does something good it just veers off for the lazy sophomoric treatise instead.
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"One sophomoric response does not deserve another," Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said in a statement.
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Mark Sanford of South Carolina said there was a "sophomoric element" to Trump's repeated interruptions of Clinton onstage. Rep.
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The crude and sophomoric language of Advice Animals just can't compete with the offbeat and irreverent memes of today.
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His sophomoric speaking style is far below the level of what presidents are supposed to be able to employ.
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It is a grindingly sophomoric exercise that sits undigested under this novel's skin, like an armchair inside a snake.
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The lesson can feel profound or sophomoric, depending on how much patience you have for this kind of thing.
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In another court, judges determined that a Sicilian man's groping was an example of sophomoric humor, not sexual intent.
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Otherwise, almost any sophomoric prank can be transformed into a felony offense if it involves impersonating a federal worker.
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The amateurish and sophomoric behavior of last week needs to end, and demonstrations of responsible leadership need to begin.
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"He settled for a sophomoric exchange of insults on Twitter, far below the dignity of the office," Schumer said.
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They would also send in postcards and letters with inspired entries that ranged from the esoteric to the painfully sophomoric.
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The two leading Republican presidential candidates engaged last week in a crude, sophomoric tiff involving insults of each other's spouses.
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The idea is to profit from our society's inability to have public, non-sophomoric discussions about the vagina and vulva.
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Sometimes, the subjects were sophomoric ("censorship" of the talent show), but often they were serious (inequality, racism, South African divestment).
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Rather than grow more thoughtful and cinematic, television was colonized by the sophomoric trends that have dominated multiplexes for years.
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Scott and Khloé have a plan to sell her sophomoric Pinterest-inspired paintings to the public, so Scott gets them appraised.
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America is in need of a leader, not a puerile, sophomoric sniveler who is too easily baited and grossly ill-behaved.
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For its time, the old Ghostbusters was a high-water mark for combining cutting-edge effects and sophomoric, smart-ass humor.
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The site started out hosting funny images the teens collected, and then quickly shifted into a forum for all things sophomoric.
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I just went with the flow, and oh, the places they took me — from sophomoric sunniness to the shadows of mortality.
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The outcome is pure exhibitionism, relying on homonormative tropes to drive a sophomoric message of uniform emotion antithetical to the queer community.
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The humor and political commentary are crude and sophomoric, settling for easy jokes about national stereotypes like the arrogance of English speakers.
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To be clear, Sanders has defended his remarks by arguing Clinton started it — a sophomoric line of thinking befitting the Republican ticket.
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Before their "sophomoric slump," Ma and his development partner, Matthew Davis, took a few months off; it'd been a busy few years.
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But the trial's depiction of the way that Albany operates — with bullying, back-room deals and sophomoric nicknames, has not been flattering.
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"While I have a good sense of humor, jokes that degrade people just for their disabilities are sophomoric and stupid," Paterson said.
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Growing up in rural Arkansas, he enjoyed the downhome clowning of Jerry Clower and Ray Stevens, but also liked Adam Sandler's sophomoric ditties.
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His rhetoric is divisive, his platform is sophomoric, and his failure to articulate any substantive policy agenda is incompatible with a dignified presidency.
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We went through a period of a 'sophomoric slump' where we were a bit paralyzed figuring out what game to work on next.
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Unfortunately, at this point in the game, calling what Trump and Pelosi are doing "sophomoric" may be paying them too high a compliment.
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But it defined itself by what it was not, rather than what it was, and its election ads were widely seen as sophomoric.
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It was an unflattering portrait of Albany, with state officials and lobbyists trading in clubby lunches and dinners, fishing trips and sophomoric nicknames.
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"I'm interesting in joining your GOP, but I'm afraid my computer skills are sophomoric at best," Mr. Broeksmit emailed the Guardians of Peace.
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Venture into the offices of many young tech companies and you'll notice a certain aesthetic—scrappy yet stark, with an undertone of sophomoric bemusement.
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As usual, the magazine is filled with indiscriminate lampooning of all religions, sophomoric shots at various taboos, and sharp criticism of various political figures.
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" On Sunday morning, Trump's chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on CNN's "State of the Union" that Trudeau's remarks were a "sophomoric political stunt.
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Favorite answer: GROW UP, whose original clue, "Response to a playground insult," appropriately aged into "Response to a sophomoric joke" en route to publication.
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"May You Live in Interesting Times" is a sophomoric example of the art world's failure to grasp the real impact of the post-truth era.
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Mr. Trump has been whipsawing between trying to appear presidential, and lashing out in his usual sophomoric fashion, both on the trail and on Twitter.
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He responds similarly to the tiresome and sophomoric criticism of him by Meryl Streep, with the claim that Ms. Streep is an "over-rated" actress.
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Mr. Trump has polarized the electorate with doom-laden harangues that veer between xenophobic attacks on Muslims and Mexicans and sophomoric rebukes to his critics.
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It was just sophomoric: a trite exercise in cynicism about how to win grants and ingratiate yourself with followers by performing predictable and unalarming work.
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The jollity often has a desperate quality to it, and the raunchiness, of which there is plenty, tends to be either sophomoric or overly crass.
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Their conversation, too, has a sophomoric ring, as they debate the right word for big breasts, like the pair on one of Wheeler's co-workers.
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In Sicily, a court cleared a man of sexual harassment charges, determining that sophomoric humor, rather than sexual intent, had motivated his groping of colleagues.
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" A spokesperson for Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said that he was "definitively not the author," adding that Acosta " does not play these sophomoric Washington games.
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Ron White also says he'd pass on emceeing the dinner, but for a different reason ... he thinks roasting Trump is just sophomoric comedy for 3rd graders.
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Sadly, there's seemingly no desire on the screenplay's part to explore Efron or The Rock's comedic chemistry beyond having them spout sophomoric insults at each other.
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Some might argue, based on the sophomoric premise that "more speech is always better," that the current state of chaos is what the First Amendment intended.
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I was anxious about all the people and still clinging to that sophomoric intuition that a revelation would come only if none of them were there.
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I don&apost know why the White House would have leaked it as has been suggested because it shows a really a sophomoric view of the law.
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Set to music by Vladimir Martynov, this exploration of stillness, in which tension is used in gestural, largely unison choreography, was as overlong and sophomoric as ever.
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It also gave Adam Sandler a template for the sophomoric material that, over the next two decades, would eventually become (wait for it) par for the course.
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A lot of the chat was sophomoric, some of it was offensive, but enough was so funny and well-timed that I kept coming back for more.
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Though Mr. Schulte's former co-workers said the office was focused on the national security mission, it was also a breeding ground for sophomoric pranks and fights.
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Seery's sophomoric appearance in the UFC was on that famous night in Dublin which saw the Emerald Isle burst onto the worldwide MMA scene for the first time.
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Seth Rogen's profane animated feature Sausage Party is a decent (if excessively sophomoric) example of this, and so is Richard Linklater's excellent and lovingly languid Everybody Wants Some!!
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 3): 6%What critics said: "Every time this show almost does something good it just veers off for the lazy sophomoric treatise instead.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 3): 12%What critics said: "Every time this show almost does something good it just veers off for the lazy sophomoric treatise instead.
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I support Musk's First Amendment right to be sophomoric, but asking single moms in Wichita to subsidize his sense of humor, along with his cars, adds insult to injury.
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LeBlanc and Evans never developed the same sort of on-screen chemistry as their predecessors and there's frankly no compulsion to return to the old level of sophomoric humor either.
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However, it's clear the gimmick of tag team grappling and the undoubted big names in Wanderlei Silva and Kazushi Sakuraba is what will be used to sell Rizin's sophomoric effort.
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Mr. Garland's "Return" (1999) was a loose collage of sophomoric romps in which dancers show us some of the fun to be had from by doing ballet to rock music.
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It is uncomfortable to read the study's authors praising labs for their careful work when they get things right, but offering sophomoric excuses for them when they get things wrong.
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Tillerson is also now in the impossible position of dealing with foreign leaders after Trump publicly cut his legs out from under him with two sophomoric tweets on North Korea.
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Conservative columnist and author Mona Charen, who was booed at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), is bemoaning the tone of "sophomoric clownishness" she says has crept into conservatism.
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In a statement released this afternoon, Carson called for a meeting of all five GOP candidates before the next debate on Thursday to discuss the "sophomoric attacks" now dominating the race.
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There came a point during Tuesday's performance of Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri" at the Metropolitan Opera when I vowed I would stop laughing at the sophomoric spectacle in front of me.
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Quippy and confessional essays can be sophomoric: That burning desire we felt for this or that person fades; opinions I used to have on appropriation now feel too stringent and reactionary.
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The title of the 2016 documentary Weiner cheekily nods to the sophomoric giggles induced by the surname of its subject, disgraced former Congress member/failed mayoral candidate/living object lesson Anthony Weiner.
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Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, lashed out at Trudeau as "amateurish" and "sophomoric" for a news conference the prime minister gave after Trump left the G7 summit on Saturday.
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When she mediates a sophomoric conflict between two Axe employees (a brash trader called "Dollar Bill" and the firm's persnickety head of compliance, Ari Spyros), she realizes how familiar the feud feels.
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But though there are moments of brightness, the movie's a slog, with a central conceit that feels more like a sophomoric film school exercise than the work of an established writer-director.
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It wasn't because it said "fuck," it's just because like Fuckin A is… You know, the point of that record is that it's the sophomore record, we were trying to make something sophomoric.
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Named for the tourist complex Keen owns, he said the Uranus Examiner was shunned by local advertisers because he used to own a strip club and uses sophomoric jokes to promote his businesses.
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To imagine Sandler today is to imagine Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, a man who gained the world but lost his soul, albeit through less sophomoric humor and unnecessary onscreen screaming at grandmas.
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"I was scared, mortified and frankly I thought a lot of his come-ons were high schoolish, college-like, sophomoric, and I thought I could just make it to the end," she said.
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He continued on with his mission in 2002 with Eight Crazy Nights, his equally misanthropic and sophomoric cartoon about one screw-up's attempts to scrape his life back together during the holiday season.
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The bottom line: Compared with the $14.7 million that was spent on a sophomoric painting by the American artist KAWS early this year, $12.2 million for the Banksy looks like a veritable bargain.
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Zuckerberg's speech will surely anger those who seek to push Facebook to censor more speech, but overall—despite his sophomoric understanding of his own company's role as arbiter—his positions were fairly measured.
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The best thing about Gizmodo has been that it has served as the sophomoric swamp from which a thousand wonderful dumb idiot bloggers have bloomed, and their influence has leached far outside of tech writing.
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It's busy — "Gêmeos" has no substantial theatrical arc — but far more sophomoric is Jean Emile's "In & Out," a hectic, shapeless work exploring, perhaps, the chaos of urban life with constantly changing music, costumes and lights.
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The cast members first met through the drama club at Trinity College in Dublin, and they retain a shared sophomoric affection for bad puns, mangled cultural references and illogical logic stretched to the vanishing point.
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There are the sophomoric jokes about gay sex by comedians (Jimmy Kimmel, who recently called Sean Hannity "a bottom" on Twitter, and Chelsea Handler, who said the same of Jeff Sessions; Mr. Kimmel later apologized).
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This is said to be why he doesn't smack her as gleefully as he does other prominent Democrats and why he hasn't settled on a sophomoric nickname for her like Cryin' Chuck or Crooked Hillary.
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The Johnson fight aside, Dariush has beat the likes of Jim Miller and Daron Cruickshank in that run which started after a shock KO loss to Ramsey Nijem in his sophomoric appearance in the UFC's Octagon.
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Both Aszure Barton's "Awáa," a disjointed excerpt from an evening-length work, and Grupo Corpo's "Suíte Branca," a sophomoric display of suspended movements, were meandering, a characteristic that bled into the festival's third program on Friday.
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"They got in this hilarious, sophomoric cage fight in the tabloids and Trump reveled in it, but it wasn't what he should have been doing because he lost the deal and almost went bankrupt," O'Brien said.
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Gerry Connolly, who just emerged from a briefing on Iran from top Trump administrations officials, called it "sophomoric and utterly unconvincing" adding that he remained "utterly unpersuaded" that the strike on Qasem Soleimani was justified. pic.twitter.
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Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, lashed out at Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau as "amateurish" and "sophomoric" for a news conference he gave after Trump left the Group of Seven summit on Saturday.
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Still, under all these sophomoric attempts at masking their talents, Rozwell Kid makes perfectly constructed rock jams that are catchy as all hell, and Precious Art is now their most cohesive body of work to showcase them.
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He can begin by ordering the attorney general to withdraw an opinion issued recently by the Office of Legal Counsel that provided a sophomoric, politically ignorant, constitutionally suspect justification for departments and agencies to ignore congressional inquiries.
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Your sophomoric and offensive post today made the world worse for both Trump and everyone in America -- a country that is now a little less safe for women than it was before you hit the retweet button.
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And so the fact that Prince worshipped The Hissing of Summer Lawns counts for a hell of a lot more than [the fact] that there are, you know, a million sophomoric girls who dream of being Joni.
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Still, under all these sophomoric attempts at masking their talents, Rozwell Kid makes perfectly constructed rock jams that are catchy as all hell, and Precious Art is now their most cohesive body of work to showcase them.
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There are bank notes from the Seychelles onto which an engraver with a sophomoric sense of humour managed to sneak on the words "sex" and "scum", caricatures of kings and tyrants, and still more penises and fart jokes.
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Speaking on the Michael Smerconish show on Sirius XM on Monday, diGenova also said Mueller would be guilty of "outrageous, sophomoric" and "juvenile" behavior if he asked what Trump was thinking when he fired FBI Director James Comey.
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Almodóvar's movies, proudly sophomoric and raunchy, were part of a boisterous artistic and musical movement called La Movida, which was taking hold in Madrid, much of it in Malasaña, a barrio of run-down warehouses and dingy clubs.
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Ms. Molnar's Jimi Hendrix-inspired "To this day" (2018) is a tepid rendering of the blues, its dancers attired in Kate Burrows's colorful tops and pants as they grappled with sophomoric themes of the individual versus the group.
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The product of a Swedish company that serves a side dish of sophomoric attitude with its bags, The Backpack is intended to be your do-everything, go-everywhere workhorse bag, and it succeeds at that lofty challenge with aplomb.
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Allen Adamson, the former chairman of the brand consulting firm Landor Associates, said the fraternity house imagery and sophomoric humor that long defined many beer campaigns has come "under siege," led by millennials who are more conscientious about male chauvinism.
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In some corners of TikTok, there's flirtatious lip-synching, sophomoric pranks, confessionals and in some cases -- such as Lil Nas X, whose star first rose after his song "Old Town Road" was featured on the app -- the possibility of fame.
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Yet while he was admitting that his early work is offensive and sophomoric, a big reason why his trash trilogy is still passed around and discussed by so many film buffs is because there's an obvious intelligence and creativity behind them.
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"One sophomoric response does not deserve another," remarked Senator Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin GrahamTwo-thirds of Republicans support 'red flag' gun laws: NPR poll Red flag laws won't stop mass shootings — ending gun-free zones will Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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I know this view won't endear me to some of our readers, but I see her as the left-wing answer to Trump, minus the ethnic bigotry and sophomoric narcissism: railing against a "rigged" system and making promises she can't deliver.
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Set at the tail end of 1987 and shot entirely on VHS and Betamax tape — a gimmick your eyeballs are unlikely to appreciate — this rough, at times sophomoric comedy from Jack Henry Robbins shoots for satire and lands mostly on inanity.
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Without him, Mr. Robot seems a lot more clear-eyed about how destructive fsociety's mission is — and how sophomoric its philosophy can be — and part of that comes from giving Trenton and Mobley the room to realize exactly what they've done.
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"I am confident that the five remaining candidates can rise above the sophomoric attacks of past encounters and have a serious discussion about substantive issues and how we will lead our nation forward toward a more prosperous and secure future," he said.
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"I am confident that the five remaining candidates can rise above the sophomoric attacks of past encounters and have a serious discussion about substantive issues and how we will lead our nation forward toward a more prosperous and secure future," he continued.
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Still, the efforts to distance himself from the Percoco verdict are understandable, considering the often unflattering portrait of his administration's inner workings — including written disparagement of staff, angry outbursts by Mr. Cuomo, and Mafia-like codes and sophomoric nicknames — revealed during the trial.
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As dominant as he was on the field, Gronkowski was equally larger than life off it, frequently standing out among the businesslike Patriots, led by Coach Bill Belichick, with his love of partying and his frequent sophomoric humor, delivered with an exaggerated wink.
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Daron Cruickshank cruises to submission win over Andy Souwer Dutch K20 champion and kickboxing figurehead Andy Souwer was making his sophomoric MMA appearance after knocking out Yuichiro Nagashima in his debut at Rizin in New Year's Eve, taking on former UFC lightweight Daron Cruickshank.
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Art prankster Cattelan, just back after a bogus, self-imposed retirement and sporting red boxing shorts, sneakers, and glasses in the French flag colors at the vernissage, is the sophomoric alpha dog here, and the art direction of TP–RAMA is consistent with his oeuvre.
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"Without commenting on content, my reaction to this briefing was it was sophomoric and utterly unconvincing and I believe that more than ever the Congress needs to act to protect that constitutional provisions about war and peace," Connolly told reporters as he left the briefing.
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He is clearly one of the most technically competent filmmakers of our time — probably of all time — but his storytelling frequently strikes me as sophomoric and smug, sometimes interested in taunting the audience for their love of violence and sometimes too seemingly pleased with its own cleverness.
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But I also think that it&aposs sophomoric of us to avoid the fact that a lot of the hatred directed at President Trump, some of it is self-inflicted, and I can talk about that if you want, but a lot it also is the fear.
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Compare and contrast this grand opera of Rossini's with his breakout comedy hit, "L'Italiana in Algeri," which still draws big laughs in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's sophomoric but irresistible production from 1973 with an energized James Levine conducting and a delightfully unhinged Ildar Abdrazakov as the pasha.
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Compare and contrast this grand opera of Rossini's with his breakout comedy hit, "L'Italiana in Algeri," which still draws big laughs in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's sophomoric but irresistible production from 1973 (with an energized James Levine conducting and a delightfully unhinged Ildar Abdrazakov as the pasha).
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But the disparity between serious questions about historical and contemporary injustices—and possible remedies—and Republicans crowing with sophomoric glee about how, actually, the Democrats used to be the racist party, only points to how difficult it will be to move forward on the question of reparations.
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"This report is fundamentally dishonest in its arguments, void of credible evidence in support of its views and sophomoric in its rhetoric," said Rick Porteus, the graduate president of the Fly Club, adding that he did not think the recommendation posed a threat to the club.
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"Love" wasn't meant to be funny, but some audiences snickered at its more sophomoric sex scenes, in particular a threesome with an innocent blond next-door neighbor, a porn convention so on the nose, wocka-wocka guitar and all, it had to be a spoof, right?
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So, one must ask, if Stone is his own worst enemy — and clearly has a constitutional right to hurt himself by prejudicing his case with sophomoric acts such as his Nixonian victory sign after his arraignment and otherwise self-defeating bravado — why should the judge stand in his way?
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Many of Lysenko's views were either preposterous or simply irrelevant, and Ings includes a great scene when Western delegates to a conference in the Soviet Union burst into hysterics after hearing Lysenko's sophomoric theories on how sexual reproduction was a mixture of cells eating one another and belching.
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The trouble is that, as thesis statements go, the message of "Smithereens" is both redundant and a little weak; it ultimately feels like a sophomoric, slippery slope argument, with little nuance beyond "social media is bad," unlikely to edify anyone who's been following news of the tech world lately.
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Pageant contestants' jobs may depend on Trump's view of their attractiveness, but Mika Brzezinski's doesn't — and certainly women who have spent decades in and around government, like Hillary Clinton, have gotten used to sophomoric barbs about their looks and care little whether Donald Trump thinks they are sexy.
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Though easily mocked and at times critically derided for its deeply earnest "sophomoric musical exercises" (as McDonald himself puts it), the genre's distilled R&B and unapologetic tenderness has endured beyond the naysayers, embraced by everyone from Thundercat to Solange and embedded in the sound of rising acts like Khalid.
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IT'S A WONDERFUL THING, AND HE AND I HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER MANY YEARS, INTERVIEWED HIM ON RADIO AND TV, WAS IN THE CAMPAIGN HELPING OUT, I KNOW HIM, YOU KNOW, REASONABLY WELL, AND IT WAS JUST A TERRIFIC EXPERIENCE I DON'T WANT TO SOUND SOPHOMORIC, BUT IT WAS JUST A REALLY GOOD THING.
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The unfortunate truth of the matter, however, is that most men are not good at the Tattle, and it usually ends up blowing up in their faces, due in large part to frustrated Bachelorettes who would much prefer to spend their time getting to know their suitors than having to play referee to a bunch of squabbling sophomoric dudes.
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If you -- if you look at the animus in those e-mails, and the -- and the bias, and then, see what they didn&apost do how they conducted this week ineffective sophomoric investigation that did not use a grand jury, that didn&apost do hard-hitting investigations, and was conducted by people at a much too high level.
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Like its removed political oversights, Infinite's deliberations over the nature of games and the passivity or impassivity of writer and player feel largely self-interested—its two central preoccupations, simplistic moralizing and prodding at narrative form, leave you convinced that rather than moral, social, or human issues, Infinite is interested in sophomoric debates about video games.
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It's not just that many of Ms. Sittenfeld's characters often seem more like the Kardashians (if the Kardashians lived in Cincinnati) than Austen heroines, but that the entire tone of this novel feels off: The layered satire and irony in "Pride and Prejudice" have been replaced here with high-decibel mockery, just as Austen's sense of irony has been supplanted by sophomoric jokes.
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I swear to God, I wish we could make Donald Trump president of Cleveland—for a number of really good reasons, like, say: "if he's got to be President, let him run that landfill on the shores of the Erie"—just so these two could get into an increasingly sophomoric war of words over how many games it will take the Cavaliers to beat the Raptors.
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Had Trump used his fame and fortune to make it harder for people like Scott to be exploited, had he any history of helping drug-ravished rural neighborhoods full of the blue-collar workers flocking to his rallies, had he in any way showed that he cared about the already-vulnerable as much as gold-plated toilets, his sophomoric campaigning style could be excused.
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The Naval Academy said its investigation included a review of video footage, more than two dozen interviews, and background checks by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the F.B.I. The investigation concluded that two fourth class midshipmen were "participating in a sophomoric game, commonly known as 'the circle game,'" with West Point cadets during the pregame broadcast, the Naval Academy said in a statement.
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However, Pelosi seemed to be intent on mocking President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy Yang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' MORE from behind his back with sophomoric facial grimaces and head shaking, culminating in her ripping up a copy of his address.
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The Matthew Vaughn-helmed comic book franchise-cum-action film franchise has never been one for subtlety—the first installment, 2014's Kingsman: the Secret Service, literally ended with a sophomoric image of a woman's butt—and if you think Kingsman: the Golden Circle will show some signs of maturity, consider that it features one of the most, um, invasive tracking-device sequences seen in an American film this year.
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Judge Andrew Napolitano blasted President 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's legal team during an appearance on Fox News Monday, arguing it was showing a "sophomoric view of the law" and that it was not serving the president well.
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In recent seasons, Mr. Kane has gone down something of a sex rabbit hole, a focus that veered into the sophomoric, but here it was subtle enough (Just ignore the "sexual cannibalism" T-shirt featuring a pair of preying mantises; the "Foreplay" sweats with two cheetahs) to provide an additive frisson to deconstructed lace boning that suggested skeletal structures as much as corsetry, jutting power shoulders and gray sweater dressing handcuffed in Swarovski.
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