And sometimes real people are unlikeable, or they do unlikeable things.
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Trump just made it harder by finding a way to be more unpopular and more unlikeable than the most unpopular and unlikeable Democratic nominee in modern history.
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Google "Ted Cruz unlikeable" and legions of articles pop up.
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All of these characters might be unlikeable, but they're not unsympathetic.
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And likewise, tales of flawed, unlikeable characters don't usually hold up
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People say to me: Emma's a bitch, or Emma's really unlikeable.
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Is Phil Collins one of the most oddly unlikeable figures in pop culture?
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Chris Elliott's town mayor Roland was unlikeable because of his seemingly creepy personality.
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You see us—the audience—pretending that a character is unlikeable, but it's very brave to actually, genuinely make her a little bit unlikeable, because then you're like, 'Well, I can kind of see where people are coming from here.
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Unreal's writers have seemingly decided this season to make every character even more unlikeable.
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While Kaine was badgering, programmed and unlikeable, Pence was folksy, humble, authentic and solid.
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While Howard was judged as terrifically competent, Heidi was judged as unlikeable, Rivers explained.
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This New Unlikeable character is one that emerged in its most current form on HBO's Girls, a show about a group of friends who were unlikeable in a way that was more difficult to articulate than the broader sociopathy of, say Seinfeld.
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If television is about escaping reality, the New Unlikeable is about plowing right through it.
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The unlikeable lead has become a hallmark of contemporary millennial-centered TV shows and movies.
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His desire to be on the attack at all times made him unattractive and unlikeable.
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That night, Corinne bursts forth from her villain chrysalis and emerges as a fully unlikeable butterfly.
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She's derided by critics as shrill and unlikeable, and applauded by supporters as principled and uncompromising.
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It's gotten to an unlikeable point, where we're now eating at places that are pretty obnoxious.
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But most of the characters are so unlikeable that following the series can be borderline masochistic.
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Burdened by an unlikeable protagonist and problematic concept, the show may never be able to achieve greatness.
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They're complicated, messy, even unlikeable — and it's impossible not to root for them, because they feel real.
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Davina Potratz is none of those things, but she is still a shit disturber and very unlikeable.
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And when a female character is inherently unlikeable, like Cersei from Game of Thrones, she is generally reviled.
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Yet Mr Rockwell, never afraid of being unlikeable, fails to hit a false note and is riveting throughout.
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While plenty of great stories star unlikeable characters who are difficult to sympathize with, Arky remains generally uninteresting.
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New Unlikeable characters force an air of superiority to mask insecurities, be they romantic, career-related, or both.
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Even the smallest acts of remorse or kindness in an unlikeable person can feel like a massive shift.
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Did her strong show of boldness, as when she confronted Vice President Biden on race, make her unlikeable?
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While the insensitive jokes are uncomfortable aspects of the story itself, Sierra's character moves from complex to generally unlikeable.
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Strike words like "unlikeable" and "uncharismatic" from your vocabulary — chances are you would only apply them to a woman.
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Cersei Lannister, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, Lady Mean and Unlikeable.
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This show always gives me anxiety because all the characters are so unlikeable, but I just can't stop watching.
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She says she's making difficult, unlikeable music that she herself doesn't enjoy, but feels compelled to keep making it.
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That I find him so unlikeable, in case you're wondering, won't drive me into the arms of the Democrats.
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With Dawson's Creek, the characters were at their most interesting, even if often unlikeable, when they were in high school.
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While fans of Grossman's novels often consider primary protagonist Quentin Coldwater particularly unlikeable, Gamble and McNamara view that as a strength.
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Watch Dogs was a lacklustre revenge story with a dour, unlikeable protagonist and fell woefully short of what hacktivism really is.
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Like its mad scientist protagonist, at times it feels like Rick and Morty does everything in its power to remain unlikeable.
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Cruz is now trying to continue his outsider campaign while fending off the "unlikeable" attacks from Trump, the ultimate non-politician.
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More difficult to articulate than the sociopathy of 'Seinfeld' In recent years, there's been a proliferation of unlikeable characters on television.
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Even though the characters are all little more than ciphers, Mary Jane in particular is the classic "unlikeable" Diablo Cody protagonist.
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There were also many who argued that the show's central characters were just unlikeable, which made the show difficult to watch.
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But unlike some loveable bad boys (see: Veronica Mars' Logan Echolls), Campbell somehow becomes more unbearable and unlikeable as the season progresses.
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They can still be badass and sexy, but they can also be really tortured and wrong, and unlikeable, and a little difficult.
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Now, Netflix can boast another huge TV name, one who will bring plenty of deliciously unlikeable women to the streaming service: Marti Noxon.
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It reminds me the rivalry between Taylor, a psychologist who thought she was really put together, and Corrine, last season's unlikeable crazy person.
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Mr Stempel, who was also coached by a co-producer, acted the unlikeable robot, dabbing his sweaty brow in the torrid isolation booth.
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If you've been itching to push the limits of the unlikeable female protagonist to a new level, grab this novel and dive in.
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But her critics will doubtless go on describing her in terms that tend to be reserved for female politicians, like "shrill" and "unlikeable."
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That's not altogether surprising — many women fear that asking for a higher salary or a better title makes them appear aggressive and unlikeable.
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Julie and Billy are rarely given the space to change, because it's difficult to change a history of being unlikeable in 30 minutes.
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The 1932 movie The Phantom President has a similar premise, though in that version, the presidential candidate is simply unlikeable with a terrible personality.
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It leans into her public perception, with Ms Hathaway playing a sorely unlikeable character who earns our respect over the course of the film.
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She is often seen as cold or unlikeable, though her intimates and many who have worked closely with her say that's not the case.
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Horror protagonists are often unlikeable, at least in the kinds of stories where viewers are meant to find their deaths more exciting than tragic.
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Daniel Wylie plays her chief political rival, Minister for Defense Mal Paxton, who consistently comes across as weak and unlikeable, even when he's right.
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In Emery's research, she has found that people are seen as unlikeable if they are extra gushy about their relationship in their Facebook posts.
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Now, along with You're the Worst, Hulu's Difficult People and Netflix's Bojack Horseman are the current triumvirate experimenting with iterations of the New Unlikeable.
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Stephen Falk's comedy about dysfunctional couple Jimmy (Chris Geere) and Gretchen (Aya Cash) did the impossible: make us care about two fairly unlikeable characters.
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And yes, this is even the case for Neiers, whose opiate addiction and dysfunctional upbringing certainly preceded her criminal behavior, however unlikeable she may be.
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The Korean company had hired a distinctly unlikeable actor to demonstrate all the various features of its new phone in a series of video skits.
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What the New Unlikeable gives us as viewers is permission to recognize the worst parts of ourselves, and take pleasure in small, generally unimpressive changes.
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Clinton sparked backlash on Tuesday after she told The Hollywood Reporter that she thinks Sanders, a rival in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary, is unlikeable.
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But tracking polls based on party affiliation alone have become a problem in a race between two of the most unlikeable and polarizing candidates ever recorded.
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For all the criticism of the characters on Girls being selfish, narcissistic, and unlikeable, the series itself has always been marked by generosity to its audience.
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At one point in "Unlikeable," Mr. Klein has her putting her feet up on her desk, swigging a Michelob Ultra and doing impersonations of world leaders.
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There is no honor in concealing the president's true nature from the voting public on the basis of how awful and unlikeable and destabilizing it is.
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No matter how boring my life actually is, I adore moving through the world being as unlikeable and brash as I like, wearing whatever I like.
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This is a portrait of two complex, perhaps unlikeable women who are unapologetic in their ambition, but willfully blind as to what their ambitions truly aim for.
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Early in the novel, its extremely unlikeable central character, Howard Roark, is expelled from his college architecture department, because he just wants to be an individual, man!
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Lasting just one season, "Girlboss" wasn't a hit with critics — many felt the show didn't have a point of view and felt the main character was unlikeable.
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"In the most recent election you had two very unlikeable candidates, and one could argue that one voted for the lesser of two evils," said Solis Doyle.
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But his attacks, as far as Trump attacks go, were lackluster, devoid of any references to "Lyin' Ted," or the fact that the Texas senator is generally unlikeable.
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For a movie featuring so many supposed "bad guys," it's telling that we're never asked to like anybody unlikeable or accept any moral compromises resulting from their actions.
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It's a style that seems so unlikely and unlikeable but also, somehow, so desirable that I keep hearing about how it's selling out again and again and again.
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On the eve of Landline's release, we caught up with the director to ask what makes Jenny Slate her muse, unlikeable female characters, and her advice for aspiring filmmakers.
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The tone is wildly off throughout the movie, sticking you with unlikeable adults and cardboard cutouts of vulgar children in some perverse Mighty Ducks-esque form of community service.
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It's the sort of movie—prickly, outwardly unlikeable, and more than a little mean in ways endearing and less so—that would go out of its way to mention that.
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It's full of ridiculously unlikeable cardboard characters, overly dramatic camera shots, bad special effects, and exactly as much nudity and fake gore as you'd expect from the films it's spoofing.
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This was a hero who underwent significant modernization in the 80s—thanks to the books of Frank Miller—speaking more to a hero who was deeply flawed, and somewhat unlikeable.
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"Amer also claims that Trump branded Hillary Clinton as "crooked and so unlikeable" and admitted that his father "played this thing like a mad genius and that's how he got elected.
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The businessman told Wolff that he's currently reading a book about the Democratic frontrunner by author Ed Klein – likely his most recent on Clinton, 2015's Unlikeable: The Problem with Hillary.
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The captain, who is more and more unlikeable, belays the command, informing Jamie that he and Captain Leonard already had a heart to heart, and Claire will meet them in Jamaica.
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I spent years wanting and trying to make friends but I felt so worried they would see the truth of me, which was that I was obviously an unlikeable, difficult person.
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It also bashes Cruz as "one of the most unlikeable politicians in Washington" and suggests he wants to "pick the lock on your bedroom door" on social issues among other criticisms.
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" Strong's verdict is similar: "I hear from a lot of people how unlikeable these characters are, and I find that so interesting, as if a character is either likable or unlikable.
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If Transparent was guided by irony rather than empathy, the lone heterosexual cisgender man in the Pfefferman family would be the most unlikeable member, the character most corroded by entitlement and privilege.
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While front-runner Donald Trump has tried to paint Cruz as unlikeable and persona non grata in Washington, that's exactly the reputation Cruz has carefully crafted to appeal to his tea party base.
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Its cringe-tacular take on the ins and outs of running a show – Shandling mined his Tonight Show appearances for material – offered awkward silences, a relatively unlikeable main character and deliberately uncomfortable scenes.
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It's the sympathy that allows us to keep watching week after week Part of the reason why the New Unlikeable might be appealing is because the characters have a greater potential for redemption.
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Because the first Watch Dogs presented a dour world with a truly unlikeable protagonist and troubling connotations—likely, not the ones the game even set out to make—about security, rights, and justice.
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Like: Because I'm angry, because I don't get it, because Jimmy Fallon seems objectively unlikeable to me and because I'm supposed to write one or more articles a day or else I get fired!
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Still, the serialized thread regarding Chris' awakening, Sylvere's unexpected willingness to play along and Dick's inscrutable nature generally pulls the viewer along -- despite how unlikeable they generally are -- thanks largely to the key performances.
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Lena Dunham's narcissistic Hannah in Girls or Krysten Ritter's self-centered party girl in the underrated sitcom Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 are able to play lead roles despite being resolutely unlikeable.
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We're used to seeing unlikeable men on screen, but it's still a little startling to see stories about women who are unabashedly messed up, then realize those stories won't simply write these women off.
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He's a guy who battled image problems for most of his baseball career, who, no matter what he did, seemed unable to shake the fact most people found him to be an unlikeable guy.
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This is an important and difficult topic that Sierra Burgess tries to dissect but completely fumbles because of its unlikeable main character, insensitive jokes, and the obvious disregard for consent we see throughout the story.
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Nearly three years into his Bachelor-franchise tenure, and on the eve of his big moment, a case can be made that Nick Viall is still unlikeable as ever, but that he's molted his snake-skin.
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The characters are inherently unlikeable to the point that it's startling to realize you've come to care about what happens to them, largely because the line between laughing with and laughing at them becomes so tenuous.
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We're supposed to be along for the ride with this guy, or so it seems—he's neither so unlikeable as to have a temperature, nor likable enough we hope he turns out OK in the end.
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As it happens, her working definition of feminism — intersectional, interested in how power perpetuates itself through systems, unapologetic in its embrace of femininity, with plenty of room for complicated and unlikeable women — is extremely fashionable right now.
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It would be a symbol for our country in this moment when we are mostly known for one of the most contentious, controversial, scandal-ridden, hateful, xenophobic, jingoistic, and just generally unlikeable presidential elections in recent memory.
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Thompson dives into Katherine's most unlikeable characteristics with gleeful zest, and it's refreshing to see a woman in power not pander to the men around her, even if that means completely overlooking a colleague's tragic premature death.
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TIM MILLER: --one thing that helps us, that makes it reconcilable, at least in the short term--it's not a long-term solution--is that Hillary is so unpopular and so unlikeable, and her potential legal issues.
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TV seemed to discover in the 2010s that women can be unlikeable, too, and it offered layered, complicated portrayals of such women in numerous shows across the decade (several of the others also appear on this list).
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Cruz as a strident and unlikeable figure lacking the skills to negotiate and lead on behalf of the United States, soon after a new CNN/ORC poll showed the real-estate magnate with a commanding lead in Iowa.
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Hillary Clinton was an unlikeable, aloof, entitled candidate who lacked her husband's political skills and flubbed the handling of her private email server and the Clinton Foundation's acceptance for foreign donations during her term as secretary of State.
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She's unlikeable, untrustworthy, too shrill, too loud; no wait now, she's speaking too softly and we can't hear her - it's like a parody, and there is an academic study to support the bias in nearly every point of attack.
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The newly-bearded Danny is noticeably not the same unlikeable, judgemental monster he became in season 4, which was a transformation that seemingly only happened to manage his portrayer Chris Messina's move from a starring role to a recurring one.
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It centers its story on a goofy, lovable white man who learns to be less racist after spending time with a black man who, though he's aloof and unlikeable at first, becomes more "sympathetic" after he's beaten up a few times.
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The unforgettable tale of the journey of a small, abandoned child taken in by her miserable uncle, 'The Secret Garden' takes miserable and thoroughly unlikeable characters and spins a story of growth, redemption and the ever-restorative effects of nature.
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The few times Butler has tried to rely on his own charm—smaller-budget films like Playing for Keeps, P.S. I Love You, and A Family Man—has resulted in many critics criticizing his performances as uninspiring, dull, or unlikeable.
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Bloomberg's immense personal wealth, which is approximately 33 times that of Steyer, might have allowed him to match Steyer's standing in the polls had he not waited until November to jump in—and were he not deeply unlikeable and disliked.
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A University of Massachusetts study found that managers were willing to accept an auditor's argument with no supporting evidence if he or she was likeable, and Jack Zenger found that just 1 in 2000 unlikeable leaders were considered effective by their colleagues.
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If Girls faced criticism as its seasons wore on, it was often because the characters were seen as too entitled, too selfish, too unlikeable to fit neatly into the tradition of shows about single girls in the city—a tradition, ultimately, of uplift.
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Jackson's lawyers were able to poke holes in the family's testimonies, and were also able to convince the jury, who already found Janet unlikeable, that she was a "con artist" who had made her children lie on the stand, according to Global News.
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And, much like how Duchamp deliberately chose an obvious piece of craftsmanship and an ostensibly base and unlikeable object—something that people literally piss on—for his work, Kimbo Slice vs Dada 5000 traded in the similarly unsavory roots of its art.
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In the hands of anyone else that character would be extremely unlikable and grating because she's the quintessential unwanted guest, but he is so adept at getting into and playing these characters even if they're totally unlikeable that by the end you're rooting for them.
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Because no matter how unlikeable or uncharismatic she may have come across, she's a woman, and part of your intention with the book is to write this memoir about the first woman candidate, possible president, and the female press corps, it really had sort of flipped.
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It could not be that their unlikeable, untrustworthy, and inauthentic candidate, dogged by decades of scandals, who never bothered to campaign in Wisconsin had fairly and resoundingly lost to a man who connected with the forgotten men and women of this country with a clear and strong agenda.
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The tale of a formidable D.C. powerbroker who pulls out every trick in her arsenal to beat the nefarious "gun lobby" at its own game, this movie is a lesson in how to root for strong and "unlikeable" female characters — it's also a suspense thriller with a resonant moral takeaway.
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Calvin Harris isn't the only dance music star who is as famous as Sheeran, obviously, but gigantic acts like Skrillex, Diplo, or the Chainsmokers, still fail the pint-test; they are distant, unreachable, and, well, unlikeable, because for all their flashiness and theatricality, they lack a kind of basic humanity.
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They do so forgetting that Trump's radicalism deflects but does not diminish Pence's: He was once considered a politically incorrect conservative himself, and any other year would have been regarded as a risky choice for VP. So this debate reinforced the impression that while the Democrat ticket is weak and unlikeable, the Republican one is eccentric.
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Never in the modern era has any candidate entered a consequential debate in such a degraded position: Trump isn't merely facing an uphill climb (as John McCain did in 1) or the widespread perception he's not up to the job (Gerald Ford in 21970) or even that he was too unlikeable to get elected (Richard Nixon in 1960).
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But here, as many critics have noted, we see numerous elements of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), a film that also features unlikeable characters: a failed police detective, a secretary having an affair with a murderer, and the murderer himself (even the judge in Vertigo is quite despicable in his lecturing of Scottie after Madeline's supposed death).
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Likewise, Kidman as Nancy (almost comically striking in a blonde bouffant, French manicure and rhinestones) and Crowe as Marshall do some of their best work, taking on characters that could have been deeply unlikeable, and fleshing them out into human beings struggling against the constraints of their beliefs in order to extend compassion and understanding to a son they love.
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Amid his rise in polls, Sanders this week also faced criticism from former secretary of State and 85033 Democratic rival Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE, who called him unlikeable, sparking backlash.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE unloaded on Sanders this week, relitigating her grievances from the 2016 campaign and describing him as an unlikeable "career politician" whose supporters "got sucked into" backing him.
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"A tussle between Warren and Sanders has the potential to make both of them unlikeable while helping Biden, who has been conspicuously even-keeled and gaffe-free in the last few weeks," said Smikle, who served as the executive director of the New York state Democratic Party and is a former aide to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonCollins walks impeachment tightrope Hill.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonAcclaimed author Cheryl Strayed reveals Warren endorsement on Instagram Warren gets endorsements from 45 Michigan officeholders, activists Advocacy group launches tour to encourage religious voters to vote against Trump MORE set those tensions aflame this week in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, where she blasted Sanders, describing him as an unlikeable "career politician" whose supporters "got sucked into" backing him.
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In the book it made it seem like he was willing to put aside any personal issues that he might have had in order to just put himself into the mission, whereas I thought that throughout the miniseries he came across as very unlikeable, because of a lot of these decisions that he makes that end up causing problems in a way that he then has to deal with.
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Sociologists Nicole Rader and Gayle Rhineberger-Dunn conducted a content analysis comparing the 2003-'04 season of SVU with regular Law & Order, CSI, and Without a Trace and found that SVU was "the most likely to characterize victims as unlikeable but not culpable and least likely to characterize victims as manipulative" — in keeping with the show's attempt to show that even victims who are not "perfect" should be believed.
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Then, he ran in the general election against the most unlikeable, corrupt candidate in modern American history, Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE; her husband's character flaws matched his own so perfectly that Trump's character flaws were rendered politically meaningless.
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