It's an unchallenging movie, but as far as unchallenging kids movies go, the actors ensure this one doesn't fall into soullessness.
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Victoria's Secret is all about a placating, unchallenging brand of sexy.
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The escapism I sought needed to be unchallenging, soft, and assured.
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But in China, the Communist Party prefers entertainment to be unchallenging.
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They're comforting, unchallenging things we can reach for in times of need.
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"Britt-Marie Was Here" is a relatively unchallenging yet ultimately pleasant watch.
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Over the years, it has come to describe anything that is bland, unchallenging and ordinary.
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And that makes Men In Black: International feel safe and unchallenging at almost every moment.
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If they had their way, the ingredients of any dish would be predictable, unchallenging, missionary.
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CARYN GANZ Summertime calls for smooth, good-natured grooves and unchallenging thoughts about dancing and romancing, right?
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It was lazy, but enjoyable; unchallenging, but rewarding, giving me time to unwind in the evening and think about nothing.
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Cruise is perfectly fine in an unchallenging role, but there isn't enough time to make Nick into even a generic loveable rogue.
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Something about Mr. Buffett's mellow, unchallenging persona seems to make parents feel O.K. about tying one on with their children in tow.
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They are two deeply unchallenging shows that manage to fulfill my very specific need for something that's basically " Entourage, but less toxic".
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The crowd of Iowans—who were, let's face it, there to see a high-energy but intellectually unchallenging rendition of "Tik Tok"—booed.
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Some might find that to be a good thing, but generally I prefer my household chores to by as physically unchallenging as possible.
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If they return to it at all it is usually much later, and then mostly to badly paid and unchallenging part-time jobs.
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The public's taste for soft, unchallenging white bread overtook that of traditional flavour and texture, making sourdough's current popularity something of a renaissance.
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Forecasts might be unchallenging, but early-stage companies like Fevertree are inherently riskier investments than more established companies with a longer earnings history.
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Some critics dismiss Tunick's work as unchallenging––it's not hard to get people to pay attention to art when it's picture of naked ladies.
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Our Legacy's baseline styles are unchallenging — variations on button-down shirts, wide-legged trousers, bomber jackets and peacoats — but jolted into interest with unusual fabrics.
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So while the group has managed to deliver improving like-for-like growth in its stores this quarter, this was achieved against a pretty unchallenging comparative period.
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It was still difficult to chew, so his meals were bland and unchallenging, but at least that was better than consuming all his nutrients through a tube.
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"We thought it would be challenging, and it wasn't unchallenging, but the good thing was that many manufacturers were already starting to think about this," Ali said.
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This was about as unchallenging an interview as Biden could expect and he could have prepared and delivered clear, definitive answers that didn't involve litigating Senate procedure.
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In short, they didn't want to alienate mainstream family audiences from their African tale, so they veiled its harsh milieu with a bland heroine and an unchallenging structure.
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The score by Mr. Apple, who also wrote the book, is so unchallenging that almost all the actors take it upon themselves to embellish it with gratuitous vocal stylings.
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Faith-based films provide the service of being safe for their audience: scrupulously clean and family-friendly in their content, unchallenging in their storytelling, and feel-good in their arcs.
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At 30, Veblen still surfs from one unchallenging administrative job to the next, conserving her real energy for her translation work for something called the Norwegian Diaspora Project in Oslo.
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You know these products are meant to be purchased for and by women because their rambunctious messages are paired with pleasing, unchallenging, traditionally feminine aesthetics, creating a cheeky sense of dissonance.
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Altogether, the visit offers Trump a fairly unchallenging first assignment as a world leader, though his paucity of diplomatic and political experience means his demeanor and stagecraft will still be closely watched.
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It quickly donned on me that it wasn&apost the act of exercising that I dreaded but rather the boredom I experienced as I went through the same uninspired and unchallenging movements.
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"La La Land" is poised to become another "The Artist"; a cute, fluffy, unchallenging homage to a bygone era of Hollywood that wins big at the Oscars only to be forgotten afterward.
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What would it look like for creative teams to be aware of what they owe to their fans, without feeling pressured to make mediocre and unchallenging work in an attempt to satisfy everyone?
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This is especially true of chicken, which is generally comforting, unchallenging and amenable to many different pairings — including ketchup, the skeleton key for getting children to eat whatever you put in front of them.
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This is correct on its face, but it's unchallenging to link the trigger of her campaign's demise to groups that circulated viral cop jokes; history is not set in motion by a singular event.
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With its Cheddar tang and unchallenging pleasure spread across a buttery Town House cracker, cold-pack cheese was a muse to Brett Kell, who wrote about his first taste in the magazine Edible Milwaukee.
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Daniel Sturridge and Dele Alli scored to give the new England manager Gareth Southgate an unchallenging victory in his first match, a 303-230 win over visiting Malta in a qualifying match for the 210 World Cup.
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Covering the walls of the ground-floor gallery at Perrotin for this Japanese pop artist's solo show "Heads↔Heads," the large canvases filled with smiling (and occasionally crying), brightly colored flowers are relentlessly cheerful and unchallenging.
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After so many years, it'd be easy for the festival's main curator Walter Hoeijmakers to rest on his laurels and book unimaginative or unchallenging acts while capitalizing on the rich history he's cultivated—but that wouldn't be Roadburn.
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For a certain kind of person, for a lot of people in fact, Jamiroquai's unchanging and unchallenging approach to pop-funk is a reminder of all their dearly-held memories of summers that were and never will be again.
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The better question is whether movies shot in a post-Weinstein, post-#MeToo world would use the same dress — and whether they would seek out a dress that projects the same sort of unchallenging femininity in the first place.
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In fact, other than The 1975's Matty Healy—who read from a piece written by the Guardian's Laura Snapes, citing the double standard in the perception of male and female musical genius —t was all fairly unchallenging, surface level stuff.
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The distinction between publicly and privately funded theater is still stark in France (the Molière Awards have different categories for the two), and domestic comedies — the playwright's favored genre — are perceived as too crowd-pleasing and unchallenging for state-funded institutions.
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But I'd have preferred either a smart, sharp social allegory that fully committed to its socially tinged premise, or else a purely scary, fun, and deliberately unchallenging haunted house romp built around a cursed book and a lot of classic horror tropes.
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It exemplifies several features of 21st-century culture: the porous boundaries between the pop industrial complex and the amateur homespun; a globalized circulation of songs based as much on memes as on music; the popularity of unchallenging dance "challenges"; the hegemony of Drake.
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" The house itself "screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town" — Nick grew up in the town — and is the kind of house they both hate: "generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would — and did — detest.
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So as Trump declares that Tiger will receive the Medal of Freedom for his achievement, perhaps a language has been found to talk about Tiger, but it's an unchallenging, uncomplicated, almost disappointing one that doesn't ask much of fans or pundits, a language of gentle nostalgia that lets bygones be bygones and brings Tiger back into a rarified fold as something once again phenomenal, even more so now because of all that he has dealt with and overcome.
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How the establishment tries to put us all asleep, anesthetizing us with cheap alcoholic beverages (the famous "Cuca", a beer cheaper than bottled water in a country the lacks it), with unchallenging education (a sector were quantity is prioritized over quality and where corruption also prospers.) It documents, from my point of view, the Regime repression—in the songs "Mount Sumi" and "Tyranny" (a song where I purposely embraced the character of someone that benefits from the lack of democracy in the country and that fanatically praises our repressive leaders)—and the last track, "Oligarch's Son," a more personal take on the people whose luxurious lives are indirectly linked to the disgrace of the rest of the population.
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Some wrote that it may be fun for shooter novices, but more experienced players would find it unchallenging. The music also received mixed comments. Leadbetter concluded that "MUSHA is a smooth playable blast, but it's a shame it's so unoriginal and unchallenging" Retrospective reviews for the re-release of MUSHA on the Wii's Virtual Console in 2009 were much more positive. Both Lucas M. Thomas of IGN and Damien McFarren of Nintendo Life praised the title's detailed graphics, fast-paced soundtrack, and tough difficulty.
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Tracking can be associated with giving students in low-track classes less resources, fewer experienced teachers, low expectations, and unchallenging curricula.Brewer, D., & Rees, D. (1995). Detracking America's Schools: The Reform without Cost? Phi Delta Kappan, 77.
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Games in Asia rated the game 6.1/10, noting a strong storyline, well-done anime-style character designs and impressive graphics, but noted a lack of dungeons, repetitiveness, and unchallenging gameplay as weak points of the game.
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Montefiore noted that Stalin's favoured types were "young, malleable teenagers or buxom peasant women", who would be supportive and unchallenging toward him. According to Service, Stalin "regarded women as a resource for sexual gratification and domestic comfort". Stalin married twice and had several offspring. Stalin married his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, in 1906.
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Peck was known as a simple, unchallenging writer with easy to understand poems that flowed easily. Between 1886 and 1925, he published seven volumes of poetry in addition to various poems published in newspapers like the Boston Transcript. Among his most famous poems is "The Grapevine Swing" (1892), which was frequently recited by schoolchildren.Going, p.
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Thongori was educated at Kahuhia Girlls' High School. She graduated from the law school at the University of Nairobi and began an unchallenging job at the Attorney general's office. She left there to join Lee Muthoga and Associates where she felt purposed. She started to build up a private practice and a reputation as an advocate in company law.
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McAvennie played one game for Irish League club Cliftonville in 1992, scoring in a County Antrim Shield semi-final. McAvennie was then offered a contract with Hong-Kong side South China. Despite being well received by the local fans and management, he found the standard of football to be unchallenging and he returned to the United Kingdom.
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The Revenge of Shinobi received mixed to negative reviews from critics. GameRankings gave it a score of 48.04%, while Metacritic gave it 51 out of 100. GameSpot writer Frank Provo focused on the monotonous, unchallenging nature of the gameplay. He also noted that although Shinobi has many abilities at his arsenal, there is not much need to use them.
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They do not always all know each other, but are nevertheless connected by the plots and sub-plots running in parallel. The action mostly centres on love affairs great and small, often with elements of the comedy of mistaken identity. The films are generally unchallenging in terms of the contemporary socio-political issues and environment (for some rare exceptions see below).
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GameSpot awarded the game only 4.5 out of 10,Review at GameSpot criticising the unresponsive controls, unchallenging nature of the fish themselves, graphical quirks and inappropriate force feedback. However the pleasant music and inclusion of a wide variety of fishing equipment were highlighted as good features. IGN awarded the game 3.0 out of 10Review at IGN with similar criticisms, describing the gameplay as "nearly broken".
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Considerable attention was given to the fact that several top names on the PGA Tour decided to skip the event.Speedway Golf Sponsors Angry Among the reasons cited was the low purse, and the overall unchallenging nature of the course. In 1964 the tournament was held from Wednesday, May 27 through Friday, May 29, then concluded Sunday May 31. The Indianapolis 500 was held Saturday May 30.
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Around the same time, Simon O'Dwyer and Trent Parke were gaining experience, also as staff photographers, at The Age and The Australian, respectively. In 2015, however, Picone revealed that the SMH job became "repetitive and unchallenging", leading him to enthusiastically indicate his interest in the role of Gulf War photojournalist in 1991 when the opening was announced by one of the SMH photo editors.
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Father Tim Farley is highly popular with his parishioners due to his charm, wit, easy-going manner, and entertaining (but unchallenging) sermons. One Sunday, seminarian Mark Dolson interrupts Farley's sermon to challenge his stance on the ordination of women. The pastor is outraged yet intrigued by the young man, and asks to have him assigned to work with him. Dolson is a firebrand eager to change the Church.
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He worked briefly as a lineman on the Alaska pipeline, but considered the job unchallenging, despite the 40 below zero temperatures and hazardous conditions. He joined the Army, when they promised to give him a challenge whenever he wanted one. Frostbite graduated from transportation school at Fort Eustis and armored school at Fort Knox. He is a qualified expert in the M-16, M-1911A1, M-2 50 cal.
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The Hill District went on to become the setting of numerous plays in the famous Pittsburgh Cycle. His experiences growing up there with a strong matriarch shaped the way his plays would be written. In 1959, Wilson was one of 14 African-American students at Central Catholic High School, from which he dropped out after one year. He then attended Connelley Vocational High School, but found the curriculum unchallenging.
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Standards call for a solid black roan coat, a wedge-shaped head, and a lithe body of solid weight without excessive bulk. Lykoi are said to be friendly and unchallenging in their behavior. They display a high level of affection for their owners. A unique characteristic of the cat breed is that the Lykoi sheds a lot when older, but regrows its hair later in life depending on the season.
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Rahway was an older industrial town, and the Sagans were among its few Jewish families. Sagan was a straight-A student but was bored due to unchallenging classes and uninspiring teachers. His teachers realized this and tried to convince his parents to send him to a private school, the administrator telling them, "This kid ought to go to a school for gifted children, he has something really remarkable." However, his parents could not afford it.
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Chris Wasser from the Irish Independent said the song "drowns slowly under cloggy production and a lyrical theme that for all of its close connection with the trials and tribulations Spears has had to deal with, weren't even penned by the singer who could have very easily recorded her fairly unchallenging input on Blackout in less than a week." The song was later included in Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of 2007 at number fifteen.
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Police Constable Ruby Buxton was born and bred in Canley. Always popular and bright at school, she left at the age of 18 choosing to go out into the world and earn some money, rather than go on to further education. Her first job was at the local store, but she soon found it mundane and unchallenging. She was then attracted to the police by the Met's recruitment drive package – £26,000 after paid training and free travel too.
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Reviewers of Zzap!64 criticised the overall gameplay, stating that the puzzles were poor, unchallenging and often gave them the sense of "deja-vu" with its similarities to its predecessors. One reviewer of the same magazine considered the game to be a poor attempt at an arcade-adventure game, stating that the ideas were poorly implemented. Hetherington concluded that Blackwyche was a disappointment for an Ultimate game, considering previous titles such as Atic Atac and Knight Lore.
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Immediately after recording of the album the entire Magic Band quit – as biographer Mike Barnes has stated, "[Beefheart] was in effect sacked by his own group." They had become increasingly disenchanted with the lack of financial success, having subsisted on food stamps and donations from their parents, and with Beefheart's tyrannical control over the group. In the words of guitarist Bill Harkleroad "we had had enough of him treating us like punching bags." The album's lackluster and unchallenging music was the last straw.
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He also said the game was too linear, with overly simple puzzles and a plotline with "so many recycled concepts in this game, players will feel like they've seen it all before". Other reviews were more negative. GameSpot writer Jeff Sengstack said the expensive budget and long production history "do not necessarily translate into high quality gaming". He complimented the graphics and music, but considered "[the game] generally unchallenging, the characters weak, the violence over-the-top, and the script just lame".
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Russell is introduced into the series as a port authority officer, a work that she's been performing from two years previous. She took the job because she needed the pay to support her two young children after her husband abandoned them; before her appointment, she worked collecting tolls, though it didn't represent a decent income. Russell's parents often help her with the kids. She found the job unchallenging and spent most of her time patrolling the docks and checking shipping manifests.
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Out of gratitude, they named the baby after the saint to whom they credited the miracle of her birth.Ty Mam Duw Monastery "St Colette's life" She was affectionately called Nicolette by her parents, which soon came to be shorted to Colette, by which name she is known. After her parents died in 1399, Colette joined the Beguines but found their manner of life unchallenging. Joining a Benedictine order as a lay sister, most likely to avoid an arranged marriage, she again became dissatisfied.
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Starting from Langley Park, accessible from the A691 Durham to Consett road. Around seven miles long the walk will take approximately three hours to complete and is reasonably unchallenging except for a steep climb towards the beginning. The full route may be found on the Esh Parish website posted in the extended links below. Whilst ordnance survey maps covering the area include the Landranger scale 1 :50,000 No.88 and the Pathfinder maps scale 1 :25,000 No's 571 Lanchester and 572 Durham.
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He believes that the Inhumans have grown weak and dull with their luxurious, unchallenging lifestyle, and that by losing the Terrigen Mists they will grow strong again through adversity. Black Bolt punishes Videmus by forbidding him to ever make mental contact with another being ever again and forcing him to live in solitary confinement. Leaving Callisto behind for Pietro and the other mutants to take to a hospital, Magneto takes his leave. Callisto is diagnosed as having taken a DNA altering drug.
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What we've got here is your average run of the mill free to play building game. Timers are everywhere, we hit our first pay wall about nine minutes in, and come across an array of other time (and money) sinks." Dave Gilmore of The Baltimore Sun praised the game and rated it 4 out of 4. Website Slide to Play wrote, "As much as we dislike this unchallenging gameplay design, we still can't help but enjoy the pleasant visuals and audio.
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The game was criticised for its simplistic gameplay and lack of innovation. Gifford noted that the game's "biggest problem" was its unchallenging gameplay, stating that it was "repetitive"; he compared it to gameplay of the 16-bit era. Game Revolution stated that the gameplay appeared "interesting" at first, but grew tiresome the longer the game is played, despite its short length. Jennings noted that the gameplay was not "groundbreaking" and similarly stated that the game relied heavily on "what is practically 16-bit gameplay".
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Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum () on February 2, 1905, to a Russian-Jewish bourgeois family living in Saint Petersburg.. She was the eldest of three daughters of Zinovy Zakharovich Rosenbaum and Anna Borisovna (née Kaplan). Her father was an upwardly mobile pharmacist and her mother was socially ambitious and religiously observant.; ; . Rand later said she found school unchallenging and began writing screenplays at the age of eight and novels at the age of ten.. At the prestigious , her closest friend was Vladimir Nabokov's younger sister, Olga.
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After three years in Cardiff, he returned to London as a general- assignment reporter for the Evening News. Finding the work unchallenging, he eventually left journalism for publishing and became, by the late 1970s, deputy managing director of the small London publisher Everest Books. He also began writing fiction during evenings and weekends as a hobby. Later, he said, he began writing books when he needed extra money to fix his car, and the publishers' advance a fellow journalist had been paid for a thriller was the sum required for the repairs.
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" The Village Voice gave the album a positive review and stated, "If the choice of songs and beat and instrumentation were sometimes restrictive, still the piano and the voice endured." Blender gave it three-and-a-half stars out of five and said that its mood was "more or less the same, if slight friskier." Other reviews are average, mixed or negative: Uncut gave the album three stars out of five and stated that, "Yes, it's an unchallenging and even deeply conservative record. But its class is positively aristocratic.
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Tree of Learning provoked the most opposition from professors, seen as a "boring and unchallenging" reproduction of a barren or burnt dead tree. Judson Newbern, associate vice chancellor of the college, admitted the tree looks dead, and requested Wyatt weld leaves and buds onto his work. Newbern did defend the program overall, and noted that the student artists are diverse in ethnicity and gender. A committee of professors was not created to approve this project as the vice chancellor did not want the project to be a missed opportunity if obstacles came up.
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Davies and Red's founder Nicola Shindler took the project to the BBC, who quickly turned it down; it found a home on ITV, a channel that had gained a reputation for producing mainstream, unchallenging, "middle-of- the-road" drama in recent years.Davies relates the story of the route to production of The Second Coming on the commentary track included on the DVD release. Carlton DVD 3711504783. Screened over two successive evenings in prime time on Sunday and Monday, 9–10 February 2003, The Second Coming gained viewing figures of over six million.
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" Matthew Horton from Virgin Media wrote that "It's all light as air, of course, and corny as hell but Mraz isn't here to kick James any statues. If you're after unchallenging whimsy with the odd sparky arrangement he'll continue to do just fine." Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian complimented "his words with a variety of genres that show him to be a cracking musician." She also wrote that "this is pure, undemanding pleasure: his voice has a natural affinity with elegant lounge-jazz and introspective folk-blues, as well as the delicately hewn soft rock that made his name.
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Decent box office returns seem likely." Tasha Robinson of The A.V. Club gave the film a C, calling it a "Mild-mannered CGI animated film that consists largely of broad conflicts, broadly resolved. It’s unchallenging fun for a younger crowd, but adults might feel like they’re staring down a colorful 24-piece board puzzle, trying to figure out how such a simple activity could be drawn out over 90 minutes." Mack Rawden of Cinema Blend gave the film one star out of five, saying, "Every single facet of the film is at best, slightly below average and at worst, downright terrible.
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The reviewer adds that "Nayantara's outfits get smaller and smaller, while the actress herself has nothing more to do than dance in transparent saris and high-heels. Sometimes she looks amused, at others, irritated and bored", comparing her unchallenging roles to previous roles in Sathyam and Kuselan. It criticizes Piaa Bajpai claiming she "hams it to glory", and "makes you want to watch Amrita Rao's naivety in the original", however, it praises Navdeep citing he is "far more natural, but you pity the fact that his role is so small". Rediff also criticized Suman and Sriman labelling their portrayals as "pathetic".
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Michael Hubbard of musicOMH wrote that "Xs 13 tracks do what Kylie songs always do—crank up a beat and get energetic around unchallenging lyrics about dancing, sexing and little else. Together they've made an expensive-sounding album pitched squarely at Kylie's existing audience base", but concluded that the album is "more filler than killer". Robert Christgau gave X a one-star honorable mention () and called it "[a]n especially happy birthday to the Aussie ex-ingenue, who just turned 40 and can still credibly sing, 'Boy, you got it got it, you got me feeling crazy 'bout my body'".
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On the third encounter, mean fixation duration was higher for both groups (437 ms) but by a barely significant amount, thus mildly supporting York's earlier finding. The smallness of these changes might be explained by the unchallenging reading conditions in the trials. The tempo of MM120 suggested at the start of each of Goolsby's trials appears to be slow for tackling the given melodies, which contained many semibreves and minims, and there may have simply been insufficient pressure to produce significant results. A more likely explanation is that the participants played the stimuli at faster tempos as they grew more familiar with them through the three readings.
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Spin magazine's Jordan Sargent said the songs sounded at once overly elaborate and unfinished, along with similar but less momentous themes in comparison to Watch the Throne. Jesse Cataldo from Slant Magazine deemed it a self-important album marred by shallow name- dropping, while accusing Jay-Z of becoming disinterested creatively because of his increased success. Evan Rytlewski of The A.V. Club felt the rapper had exhausted the end of his rags to riches narrative and was unable to reinvent himself beyond gloating superficially about his riches. The Daily Telegraphs Helen Brown found his boastful references heavy-handed and the album unchallenging, albeit enjoyable for "the lazy listener".
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On the night of the final Ferry performed 17th in the running order, following Monaco and preceding Yugoslavia. France had rarely taken the Eurovision route of uptempo, bouncy and lyrically unchallenging pop songs, but had done so with "Un, deux, trois". Prior to the contest most observers noted that the 1976 contest was the easiest for many years to predict, with "Un, deux, trois" and the United Kingdom's "Save Your Kisses for Me" as the only possible winners. The predictions proved accurate as the two quickly surged well ahead of the field in the voting, and after half the national juries had given their votes France held the lead by 82 points to the United Kingdom's 77.
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On the night of the final Carle performed second in the running order, following Sweden and preceding France. "100% d'amour" was an unchallenging uptempo Euro- pop song, and in a relatively weak field had been tipped as a possible contender to bring Luxembourg a second consecutive victory. However Carle's vocal performance on the night was a disaster, weak and well off-key throughout the song - it is generally cited as one of the worst vocal performances ever heard in a Eurovision final and is invariably included in montages of the more glaringly out-of-tune moments in contest history. At the close of voting "100% d'amour" had picked up only 39 points, placing Luxembourg 10th of the 19 entries.
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Simon Price from Q Magazine stated Anyone expecting an album of unchallenging fodder is in for a shock. Like the voyage faced by its desperate, stateless subjects, I Tell A Fly is no easy ride. In a less enthusiastic review for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis said that Clementine clearly has things to say about some important topics, and it’s hard not to think they might reach a wider audience if they were a little less obliquely presented. Equally, there’s something laudable about an artist using their initial success not as a foundation for steady commercial growth but as leverage to get something like I Tell a Fly released and promoted by a major label.
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Henry Kelly of The Digital Fix comments that "The character models are quite basic and unimaginative - Jeremy has typically harsh features and the female characters are given skimpy outfits to show off their stereotyped fantasy physiques". X-ONE Magazine calls the game an "unashamed clone of Diablo", which borrows mechanics, naming conventions, and character archetypes from Diablo. The gameplay was considered by critics to be too easy, with a terrible enemy AI that made combat unchallenging, interspersed with what Henry Kelly called "painfully simple non-puzzles". Other components that faced criticism included the shallowness of the RPG elements, the lack of online co-op, and the dialogue, which was considered poorly written and occasionally poorly acted.
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Then, because of the Society of Physics Students at Spelman College, Hammond was introduced to Shirley Ann Jackson and Ronald McNair. She recalls that Jackson was, "the first black woman I ever met who was a physicist, and ... she went to MIT so that's how I pretty much decided that [MIT] was the only place I wanted to go." Following graduation, she attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a PhD program but left the course of study early in 1980, earning a master's degree in physics. Upon leaving academia, she began a five-year career as a software engineer, but found this to be unchallenging and returned to Harvard University.
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The Wednesday Play ran on BBC1 from 1964 to 1970 originated by Sydney Newman, by now the head of BBC Drama, with the policy of commissioned plays being "relevant to the lives of a mainstream popular audience." The goal was to find or commission work that "would be fast...telling an exciting narrative sparely" using material "that would more accurately reflect the experience of the audience." The series' producers, including James MacTaggart, hired "fresh new writers", whose new ideas led to the series gaining "the reputation for 'controversy' and 'outrage'."Wednesday Play, The He also wanted to get away from the BBC's reputation of producing very 'safe' and unchallenging drama programmes, to produce something with more bite and vigour.
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Many popular British situation comedies (sit-coms) were gentle, unchallenging comedies of middle-class life; typical examples were Terry and June and Sykes. However, the middle-class settings of The Good Life and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin contrasted with their anti-establishment theme of people rejecting traditional social norms. A harsher side of society was shown by comedy series like Porridge and Rising Damp, while sitcoms such as Mind Your Language, Love Thy Neighbour and Till Death Us Do Part reflected social unease brought about by post-war immigration. Spike Milligan's Q and the still- popular Monty Python's Flying Circus both used surreal comedy, originating from the 1950s The Goon Show.
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Nathan Grayson of Kotaku attributed the popularity of idle games to their ability to provide unchallenging distractions that fit easily into a person's daily routine, while using themes and aesthetics of more sophisticated games so as to be appealing to a "core gamer" audience. Grayson also noted that the genre allowed for a wide variety of game mechanics and themes, such as fantasy, sci-fi and erotica, to provide sufficient perceived depth to avoid boring players. IGN's Justin Davis describes the genre as being tuned for a never-ending sense of escalation, as expensive upgrades and items rapidly become available, only to become trivial and replaced by more. This leads to the player feeling powerful and weak at the same time in pursuit of exponential progress.
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The Hoher Prijakt ("High Prijakt", ) and Niederer Prijakt ("Low Prijakt", ) are a prominent double summit which, seen from the west and north, form one of the most attractively-shaped mountains of the Schober Group. The summit cross was placed on the lower Niederer Prijakt which is easier to see from the valley. The easiest route to the Hoher Prijakt takes about three hours from the Hochschober Hut heading for the Mirnitzscharte notch, later turning north and heading past the lake of Barrenlesee until just below the western Barreneckscharte notch and finally making its way along the unchallenging eastern arête to the summit. The route is waymarked and free of snow and ice in the summer, but does require sure-footedness.
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Bill Goodykoontz of AZ Central praised the performances of the actors: "The performances are uniformly good" and concluded his review by saying that, "Better Watch Out is for fans of twisted, unhinged horror" and gave the film a rating of 3.5 stars out of 5. Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com was not impressed with the film and said that, "Better Watch Out is an infuriating sit because it requires you to invest in the programmatic bullying of a certain type of character, then cheer on that same stock type as he or she defies expectations and refuses to be pummeled into oblivion. [...] When the film ends, we've been traded one set of unchallenging cliches for another" and gave the film a rating of 1 star out of 4.
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The sketches proved very popular, largely because they reflected the image that Radio 1 had at the time. Much of the station's output was widely considered dull and unchallenging, and the average age of both listeners and presenters had risen above thirty, when it was intended to cater to a young audience. When Matthew Bannister arrived at Radio 1 in 1993 with a mission to rejuvenate the station, he referred directly to the characters in stating that his goal was to rid it of its "Smashie and Nicey" image. Whitehouse later expressed his unease after being congratulated by BBC Director-General John Birt for assisting this process stating that Birt was a greater menace than any of the DJs who were "harmless".
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The time when great scouts like Kit Carson, Daniel Boone, and Davy Crockett could explore and master the wild and uncharted Western territories was coming to a close. Contemporary scouts such as Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickok, and Texas Jack Omohundro, were leaving the old West to become entertainers, and they battled great Native American chiefs like Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, and Geronimo only in Wild West shows. In 1890 the United States Census Bureau formally closed the American frontier, ending the system under which land in the Western territories had been sold cheaply to pioneers. As a "soldier of fortune", as Richard Harding Davis later called him, Burnham began to look elsewhere for the next undeveloped frontier, feeling that the American West was becoming tame and unchallenging.
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Following the commercial success of her early novels such as Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937) and The Enchanted Wood (1939), Blyton went on to build a literary empire, sometimes producing fifty books a year in addition to her prolific magazine and newspaper contributions. Her writing was unplanned and sprang largely from her unconscious mind: she typed her stories as events unfolded before her. The sheer volume of her work and the speed with which it was produced led to rumours that Blyton employed an army of ghost writers, a charge she vigorously denied. Blyton's work became increasingly controversial among literary critics, teachers and parents from the 1950s onwards, because of the alleged unchallenging nature of her writing and the themes of her books, particularly the Noddy series.
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His devotion however, has caused him to overlook the growing discontent of members of his council who feel the city has remained stagnant for too long and who eventually conspire against him. Despite this inattention, he is a crafty and capable ruler (to a degree) who is willing to embrace uncomfortable and controversial policies when he knows there is little choice. Bishop Rus From is the Bishop of Artificers and one of the most senior members of the council and an old friend of Gratar. A highly talented, proficient, innovative and intelligent individual (Kosutic equates him to Leonardo da Vinci), From feels the stagnation of Diaspra worse than anyone else as he's forced to deal day after day with the unchallenging tasks of designing the works of the God of Water and "pumps, pumps and more pumps".
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In response, the development team created a co-operative mode which allowed one player to control Mario whilst the other controlled the pointer with the Wii Remote, therefore enabling lesser experienced players to enjoy themselves in the game. The development team wanted the game to be enjoyed from the ages of "5 to 95", so during early stages of development they took steps to ensure that the player would adjust to the game without difficulty. However, Miyamoto thought that it was too easy and lacked insensitivity, asserting that a game loses its excitement when it is made unchallenging. To balance out the difficulty, Koizumi suggested that Mario's health meter should have a maximum capacity of three instead of eight, but at the same time more 1-Up Mushrooms and checkpoints would be placed in the game.
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Although historically they shared the same format size, based on a sheet of 30 x 22 inch imperial paper, folded, British comics have moved away from this size, adopting a standard magazine size. Until that point, the British comic was also usually printed on newsprint, with black or a dark red used as the dark colour and the four colour process used on the cover. The Beano and The Dandy both switched to an all-colour format in 1993. Originally aimed at the semi-literate working class (in that it replaced the text-based stories of the story papers with picture-based stories, which were less challenging for a poorly educated readership), the comic gradually came to be seen as childish (in part because, due to gradual improvements in public education, children were eventually the only remaining market for a format designed to be unchallenging for the reader).
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The series was suggested to the BBC's Head of Drama, Sydney Newman, by the corporation's director of television Kenneth Adam after his cancellation of the two previous series of single plays.Oliver Wake "Wednesday Play, The (1964-70)", BFI screenonline Newman had been persuaded to join the BBC following the success of the similar programme Armchair Theatre, which he had produced while Head of Drama at ABC Television from 1958 to 1962. Armchair Theatre had tackled many difficult and socially relevant subjects in the then- popular 'kitchen sink' style, and still managed to gain a mass audience on the ITV network, and Newman wanted a programme that would be able to tackle similar issues with a broad appeal. Newman also wanted to get away from the BBC's reputation of producing safe and unchallenging drama programmes, to produce something with more bite and vigour, what Newman called "agitational contemporaneity".
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" Simon Eden of Cross Rhythms gave it a perfect ten writing that it is "a finely crafted album that builds on the band's previous self-titled album." However, Andrew Greer of Christianity Today gave it three stars criticizing that "the lyrics are middle-of-the-road" material, however believing that the band "possesses enough musical range, including Jenny Simmons' formidable vocals, to distinguish themselves from the rest of the pop/rock crowd." At Christian Broadcasting Network, Jennifer E. Jones gave it three out of five noting that "This album isn’t ground-breaking, but for what it's worth, you'll find a song or two that will make you smile." Nathaniel Schexnayder gave it three stars writing that it was and improvement over their first offering calling it "more seasoned" but believing that it is easy to "notice the group’s contemporary slide, and write off the album as an unoriginal, unchallenging pop project.
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For various reasons, as he accustomed himself to the life of an Oxford missionary among the noise and stench of Bermondsey, it came to seem all too congenial and curiously unchallenging. Accordingly, (dressed as a labourer, an identity he sometimes assumed in London's mean streets), Hankey sailed for Australia as a steerage passenger, seeking first of all hard manual work and also the chance eventually to establish a wholesome refuge for London's hopeless poor somewhere in the vast reaches of the sub-continent. Farm work, travel, and a series of articles on “Australian Life” for the Westminster Gazette occupied this interval. Returning to England and to Bermondsey in the winter of 1913, Hankey resumed his work with the Mission, looking ahead to a more constructive sojourn in Australia the next summer and throwing himself into the writing of a book on Jesus and the failings of the contemporary church.
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Tim helps himself to the cash and credit card Ivo left behind and flies to Seattle, hoping to find Isabel, but his guilt causes him to abandon that plan and he returns to the UK, where he settles into an unchallenging job in his hometown and lives alone in his parents' house. As there has been no word of a police inquiry and no report of the finding of Ivo's body, Tim seems to have committed the perfect crime, though he is increasingly haunted by what he has done, believing he sees Ivo everywhere. Then he begins to receive a series of anonymous letters, each of which describes the island ordeal—and rescue—of a castaway. Isabel's own brief memoir, in the form of a letter of sorts to Ivo, and a concluding letter to his wife by a schoolboy friend of Tim's who becomes Tim's solicitor, complete the book, which explores questions of sexual identity, fidelity, and guilt.
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After leaving Hollywood for New York City and appearing in the Group Theatre play Golden Boy, Frances learns, much to her chagrin, that the Group Theatre exploited her fame only to draw in more customers, replacing her with a wealthy actress for her family's needed financial backing for the play's London tour, and Odets ends their affair upon his wife's upcoming return from Europe. Her desperate attempts to restart her film career upon returning to Hollywood results in being cast in unchallenging roles in forgettable B-films. Her increased dependence on alcohol and amphetamines in the 1940s and the pressures brought on her by her wannabe mother, who becomes her legal guardian after her multiple legal problems, result in a complete nervous breakdown. After her first hospitalization at Kimball Sanitarium in La Crescenta where she was forced to undergo insulin shock therapy and hydrotherapy, she tells her mother that she doesn't want to return to Hollywood but instead wants to live alone in the countryside, assaulting and threatening Lillian in the resulting argument.
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Hou Muren (侯牧人 born Shanghai, 1952) is a Chinese rock musician.文汇报 侯牧人的平民音乐 2012-07-04 "侯牧人生于1952年，大崔健9岁，属于50年代生人。中国摇滚乐的第一波热潮，主要是60年代人的风光。侯牧人及其同代人的活动，让我们明白中国摇滚并不是从石头缝里蹦出来的，除了西方摇滚乐的引导，它确实还有自己的脉络，一个源远流长，在民间、民歌中一直在奔腾的河流——有时候显赫如黄河长江，茫茫九派，大浪滔滔，激起万众同声一呼；有时候晦暗不明，沉沉一线潜入地下，变成了暗河。"Der Lange Marsch des Rock 'n' Roll: Pop- und Rockmusik in der ... - Page 208 Andreas Steen - 1996 "Musikalisch begleitet von der Gruppe Xiandairen yuedui (Moderne Menschen) und mit einigen Sängern und Sängerinnen der ... Hou Muren, 1952 in Shanghai geboren, dürfte zur ältesten Rockmusiker- Generation der VR China gehören." Hou Muren is best known for album of rock covers of socialist standards, Red Rock (红色摇滚 Hongse yaogun) released in 1992. At the time Hou Muren and his band Xiandairen were an unchallenging alternative to the discontent shown by protest artists such as He Yong.
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