He also repeatedly touted his own credentials, which soon wears thin.
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The monarchical conceit wears thin—but the wider observations are acute.
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Murtagh may be implicitly loyal to Jamie but his patience wears thin.
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These are moments of pure propaganda where the veneer of cultish religiosity wears thin.
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But his patience with frivolity wears thin on the eve of his 65th birthday.
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Brewis and Hayes sigh, saying the joke wears thin very soon after being told.
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And the novelty of seeing celebrities try to pull it off wears thin pretty fast.
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"In South Dakota, patience wears thin as tariffs hit home" by Dana Ferguson and Jeremy Fugleberg.
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Characters repeat corporate sales pitches and slogans so reflexively that the premise's goofy charm wears thin quickly.
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Pro: Inexpensive, multiple color options and sizesCon: Seams can tear, fabric wears thin after a few washes
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The unceasing cleverness in conversation wears thin, and the exchange of polished aperçus often sounds like ersatz Oscar Wilde.
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But they are not discouraging the idea, either, as their patience with Mr. Trump's erratic and offensive behavior wears thin.
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The fun wears thin when someone locks them in and ceases altogether when they realize one of them is missing.
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Ottawa Senators Coach Guy Boucher could pass for a college professor when he wears thin-rimmed glasses and gives erudite soliloquies.
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The excellent cast and the director Colette Robert handle the material deftly, but it also wears thin and can verge on caricature.
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There are only so many times that Peter can proclaim "that's awesome!" before it wears thin, and his banter with Ned often feels forced.
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Peace talks are set to resume this week in Geneva, while patience wears thin in Greece as new E.U. rules try to stem migration.
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It's been fascinating every step of the way, but my patience wears thin, especially because Candy/Eileen (Maggie Gyllenhaal) also desperately wants to make pornography.
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But as the sidewinding digestion occurs, tape grows just a bit ragged, investors start to pick apart all the economic data releases and patience wears thin.
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You can technically do all these things, but I want to stress that the novelty of doing them on a feature phone wears thin really quickly.
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If not ... well, the constant stream of Gamby and Russell screaming, "Let's take the bitch down" — not to mention horrifying real-world consequences — wears thin, and quickly.
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The house itself is probably one of the best things about the game, and it's telling that the game's horror wears thin once you are free of its confines.
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Lee, the apparent protagonist, is an icy, unforgiving professional who repeatedly pronoun-shames anyone who calls Morgan "she" instead of "it," and Mara's unwavering performance wears thin early on.
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The Uganda shilling is seen weakening over the coming days, with banks scrambling to build positions as confidence in the local currency wears thin after crossing the psychological level of 3,800.
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But after the seemingly millionth brutal sexual assault that served no purpose for the plot, even superfans began to realize that when shock value wears thin, viewers are just being emotionally drained.
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The gag wears thin as the body count rises There are plenty of crime movies about comically incompetent bunglers, but the gag starts to wear thin if there's a body count, involved.
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But the act wears thin -- and shallow -- in her latest HBO documentary, "Outside the Bubble: On the Road With Alexandra Pelosi," in which the filmmaker engages Trump supporters on a variety of issues.
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And here our suspension of disbelief wears thin, for, rake though the Marquis may be, he is portrayed as a scruffy sort, and what he lacks in sartorial finesse he also lacks in charm.
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At one point, just two hours before curtain time, her patience wears thin when stagehands explain that applying a nonslip solution to the dance floor for Ms. Dorrance's piece will take too long to dry.
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Along with an exotic magnetism that quickly wears thin and a Knight fellowship in "experimental storytelling, immersive journalism and interactive design," Maryam can out-nerd even Dan with the cascade of facts at her fingertips.
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And the big question of what happened to moody, preoccupied Charlie, reiterated in the absence of much else for a large swath, wears thin before the answer is finally provided in a somewhat hasty denouement.
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Or are they just another fad that sounds cool in practice but wears thin after one summer, like Pokemon Go or that invite-only social network Ello that everyone freaked out about for two months in 2014.
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Privately, many senior White House aides have become infuriated with the E.P.A. chief and exasperated with his ethical lapses, believing that it is only a matter of time before his special standing with the president wears thin.
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More problematic is Galfard's frequent use of the second person — no doubt to provide a stronger sense of immediacy for the reader — which wears thin rather quickly and adds a whiff of condescension to the overall tone.
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Mr. Wulp — whose oddball charmer of a musical "Red Eye of Love" got a New York revival a few seasons back — is making a kind of bookish joke here, yet there are stretches where it wears thin.
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But the I-don't-see-what-you-see shtick, and interaction with snooty beauty queens, wears thin in places, in part because a slim conceit that should have run a crisp 90 minutes or so drags on close to two hours.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May faces another trial by parliament next week when she must tell lawmakers what progress she has made in talks with the European Union, as patience in her party wears thin and the risk of a disorderly Brexit rises.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May faces another trial by parliament this week when she must tell lawmakers what progress she has made in talks with the European Union, as patience in her party wears thin and the risk of a disorderly Brexit rises.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May faces another trial by parliament this month when she must tell lawmakers what progress she has made in talks with the European Union, as patience in her party wears thin and the risk of a disorderly Brexit rises.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May faces another trial by parliament this week when she must tell members of parliament (MPs) what progress she has made in talks with the European Union, as patience in her party wears thin and the risk of a disorderly Brexit rises.
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Meeting guys is not difficult per se, but the novelty wears thin quick, even more so when you realize that the guy you are with has no idea what you are talking about half of the time, or that they hold no interest in picking up a book or learning anything new outside of their comfort zone.
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The story of Emerald City is much too busy, without any characters nearly as memorable as those in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Even Vincent D'Onofrio's take on the Wizard — which is truly, gloriously off the wall — wears thin after a while, and many of the other actors seem to be coping by competing to see who can pout the most ripely.
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Katie Baker, "Phil Mushnick's schtick wears thin quick" from Mediaite.com, 23 September 2009.
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He said the album "wears thin quickly" and that most of the songs are "just plain shameless".
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Richard's patience wears thin and they eventually have a fight that comes to blows. After they apologise to one another, he invites her to have dinner. She accepts. At dinner, the former lovers fondly recall their younger and wilder days.
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Both are nervous; Doc wears an unaccustomed necktie, while Suzy tries to act like a lady, but her polish wears thin at times. ("All At Once You Love Her"). At the end of the meal, they decide to continue the evening on a secluded sand dune.
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Other methods include placing a thin strip of soft metal in a groove, such that when exposed (due to wear) the brakes squeal audibly. A soft metal wear tab can also be embedded in the pad material that closes an electric circuit when the brake pad wears thin, lighting a dashboard warning light.
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Janet Maslin of The New York Times reviewed the 1981 re-release as a "nutty and appealing . . . curiosity. . . . [T]hough it periodically wears thin, American Success is a buoyant and enterprising movie more often than not, and what it lacks in coherence it makes up in dash."Maslin, Janet. "MOVIE REVIEW: RICHERT'S 'AMERICAN SUCCESS'," New York Times (January 5, 1982).
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Instead, Johnson plunges off the deep end, risking ridicule by shaping this spellbinder with grit and gravitas." Stephen Holden of The New York Times commented, "Mr. Haas and Mr. Gordon-Levitt at least succeed in evoking the outlines of their characters. But the film's ham-handed reliance on period argot not only wears thin; it keeps the characters, such as they are, at a chilly distance.
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Laverne then cries out in pain, having gone into labour early. In spite Laverne's reassurances she'll be all right, a worried Winnie suddenly gives her mother a hug. Left alone for the afternoon, Kevin, Josh and Tiffany approach Winnie with exaggerated kindness. Kevin explains that they will look after her until her neighbour can collect her, but his patience swiftly wears thin when he discovers there is no lunch.
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Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews rated the film a score B-, calling it "A gimmicky B horror-western, that soon wears thin". Dave Sindelar of Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings called it " the most successful merging of the western and horror genres", while also criticizing the film's soundtrack, and some of the performances. TV Guide awarded the film one out of four stars, calling the film "mediocre".
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He also labeled it as "all-gooks-are- baddies propaganda". On AMC's movie guide, Jeremy Beday of Rovi described the film as a "crass, dopey Rambo-esque film that ultimately fails to connect with anything interesting in the realm of fact or fiction" and that its "chop- socky, shoot-em-up, explosion-a-minute action quickly wears thin". Steve Crum of Video-Reviewmaster.com wrote that MIA was "Chuck Norris' best film, and that isn't saying much".
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" Jeong will "occasionally speak in high-pitched Japanese, thus rendering Furry Vengeance both eco-friendly and vaguely racist," wrote Robert Wilonsky. Mark Jenkins of NPR explained, "Furry Vengeance is poorly written, clumsily directed and sluggishly paced, but its essential problem is that it budgets 90 minutes on a gag that works better in 30-second spots." He also addressed, "For fans of anthropomorphized animals, the cartoonish combat has its moments. But the CGI technique wears thin, and doesn't always work.
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Andrew refuses, quite content to be angry at Dave. Dave hates away his anger several times as Andrew rebuffs and outright insults him, but his patience finally wears thin, leading Dave to hate away one of Andrew's possessions. Andrew retaliates by hating away one of Dave's possessions, and the situation escalates until everything including the house is hated away. Dave walks away, assuming the argument is finished, but falls over suddenly as his feet begin to disappear; Andrew is hating them away.
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Critical response to the film was generally positive. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 60% approval rating based on 5 reviews. John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a slight, but amiable buddy comedy" as well as saying that it "offers a certain mild slacker charm". Michelle Orange of The Village Voice also gave a positive review of the film saying that it "cultivates a sweet, shucksy tone that wears thin in some of the early scenes, but ultimately deepens into genuine heart".
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The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #129 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4½ out of 5 stars. In a capsule review for STart, Clayton Walnum said California Games "isn't a bad package, especially since it comes free with the Lynx." He found the BMX and surfing events great fun but deemed the skateboarding event frustrating and said the foot-bag event is pleasant but quickly wears thin.
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Moody Beach is a Canadian drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 1990.Paul De Lean, "Mood wears thin in Quebec-made 'Beach'". Montreal Gazette, October 6, 1990. The film stars Michel Côté as Simon, a man in the throes of a midlife crisis who quits his job and undertakes a road trip to the United States after inheriting a beach house from his late mother, only to find Laurence (Claire Nebout), a young woman from France, squatting on the property.
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The film received generally poor reviews, scoring 49/100 on Metacritic, and 33% on Rotten Tomatoes, the site's consensus saying it "starts off well enough but quickly wears thin with too many plot holes and conventional action sequences." The BBC review described it as being "as compelling as watching the ink dry on a superfluous UN treaty".The Sentinel: Review from BBC News, 29 August 2006, retrieved 22 May 2015 Some other reviewers, such as Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times, enjoyed the film. Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars.
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" He highlighted the "otherwordly sound" of Enigk's vocals as "immers[ing] the listener". Mark Athitakis of New Times Broward-Palm Beach Giordano understood the group's dynamic, turning Goldsmith's drumkit sound like "cannonballs fir[ing] in a cathedral", and Enikg's "high-pitched voice into a truly melodic instrument rather than a banshee wail." Orlando Weekly said it was the group's "finest work to date", coming across as "both anthemic and bombastic while still managing to be mysterious and off-kilter." SonicNet Jon Vena said Enigk's "wailing yelp is smoother here", though by the album's end his "high vocal timbre wears thin.
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The review also stated that players are unlikely to experience motion sickness despite the frequent rotating of the game screen. GameSpot scored the PC version 7.5 out of 10, stating that while the rotation mechanic "wears thin toward the end of the game," "the increasingly exotic level design manages to keep the good times rolling until the end." Justin Haywald of 1UP.com stated that "even when I felt I had to guess which direction I was supposed to go, the levels are set up well enough that the way forward is always easy to figure out".
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On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, The Oregonian holds an approval rating of 44%, based on 9 reviews, and an average rating of 4.94/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 46 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Michael Nordine from Slant Magazine rated the film one and a half out of four stars, calling the film "a jumbled mess that can’t make its deliberate incoherence interesting". Dennis Harvey of Variety offered the film similar criticism, writing, "Reeder shows a knack for unsettling audiovisual textures, but once it’s clear The Oregonian will offer no real storyline or explanations, viewer patience wears thin".
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Gil begins to ruin their holiday. However, Marge continually allows him to stay out of guilt, due to a childhood memory when Patty and Selma stuffed her in her own dollhouse when she refused to hide their cigarettes. Homer's patience wears thin after Marge's inability to say "no" causes Gil to walk in on Homer and Marge's “snuggling” on Valentine's Day, and bring his friends to sing and drink on St. Patrick's Day. After eleven months, Marge finally agrees to say no to Gil and kick him out, only to learn from Bart and Lisa that Gil got a job in a suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona, packed up his things and left that morning.
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A Publishers Weekly review says, "It's easy to imagine these precocious quips becoming part of a vocabulary ("That's a lack of pies!" a baker tells Pinocchio), and aficionados of this quiz would do well to read Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit, another boonerific spook."Publishers Weekly; 3/13/2006, Vol. 253 Issue 11, p66–66, 1/3p A Kirkus Reviews review says, "His humor in these 28 examples is sometimes crude (see title, which answers, "What did the cowboy say to the rocket scientist?"), and, as in Shel Silverstein's Runny Babbit (2005), the joke definitely wears thin — but readers of the target mentality may be tempted to rake the tall and bun with it."Kirkus Reviews; 2006-03-01, Vol.
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" His review concluded "I'll grudgingly admit, while it is an absolutely dreadful film by nearly every objective measure, Nukie probably isn't the worst E.T. knockoff ever made. However, it is definitely the worst one you can watch with your lights on, the volume up, and your door unlocked." Reviewer Matt Caracappa was more lenient on the film, highlighting the uniqueness of the film's premise. However, he notes that the film is "incredibly annoying... as in, painful and grating to see and hear," and that ultimately "once the novelty of the insanity wears thin, you're left with an exceedingly boring movie that plods along worse than a one-legged duck who just barely survived a big fire.
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A Smile in the Mind: Witty thinking in graphic design is a 1996 graphic design book written by Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart. It was first published in hardback in May 1996 through Phaidon Press and was later revised and updated in 2016. The book includes work from over 300 designers in the United States, Britain, Europe and Japan, and a series of interviews with designers such as Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, and Alan Fletcher. The RSA Journal gave A Smile in the Mind an overall favorable review, stating that there were places where the "wit wears thin" but that "these interludes are few and far between" and praised the work for its images and examples.
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In a joint review of The Art of Falling Apart and Berlin's Pleasure Victim, Michael Goldberg of Record remarked that while the opening tracks "Forever the Same" and "Where the Heart Is" are decent, Marc Almond's monotonal vocal style quickly wears thin, and David Ball's use of the same synthesizer stylistics on every track similarly "[makes] the whole album sound like variations on one theme." He particularly derided the synth-pop renditions of Jimi Hendrix songs, saying "Just that concept ought to elicit a chuckle. Suffice to say that Soft Cell are not able to do for the Hendrix songs what they did for Gloria Jones' 'Tainted Love'." The album was ranked at number 4 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1983 by NME.
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"Robert Christgau Consumer Guide Some reviews are average, mixed or negative: Yahoo! Music UK gave it a score of six stars out of ten and said, "Adams can undoubtedly pen this classic rawk stuff with his ears closed and, as a result, the 15 tracks here lack heart." No Ripcord also gave it a score of six stars out of ten and said, "No matter how clichéd and predictable this record gets, there are always some undeniable hooks to lure you back in before your patience wears thin."No Ripcord review Playlouder gave it a score of three stars out of five and said, "There are tunes galore, and ideas that some groups would do someone in for, it’s just a shame he decided to do an approximation of all his favourite bands, and didn’t try something a bit more progressive than 'Rock‘n’Roll'.
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Chapter II, which continues the same hip-hop soul theme as her self-titled debut, is the equivalent of a good beach read: It's easy, breezy listening that doesn't require much brainpower." Billboard wrote that Chapter II "doesn't stray too far from its predecessor" and complimented the autobiographical songs on the album. Ernest Hardy from Rolling Stone found that the "album is filled with the same beat-driven, slickly produced midtempo tracks and ballads that made up her debut [and] the disc's best moments have a decidedly old-school feel to them [...] Still, dullard schoolgirl insights into love and heartache dominate the album; add some boring between-song skits about 'haters,' and Chapter II wears thin long before its halfway mark." While he complimented Ashanti for her writing credits on the album, Entertainment Weekly journalist Tom Sinclair felt that "Chapter II is too mired in tired R&B; conventions to achieve true magnificence.
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The album may be good, but a cookie cutter rapper like Rich Boy is going to have less shelf live than his album will." AllMusic's Andy Kellman commended Rich's unique vocalization and the production, highlighting Brian Kidd's contribution on "Get to Poppin'", but concluded that the album wears thin with stagnant beats and "uninspired variations on the rampant materialism done so effectively on "Throw Some D's."" Steve 'Flash' Juon of RapReviews criticized Rich's "monotonous thuggery delivered with an excessively thick accent" and Polow's production having a "night and day" unevenness throughout the record. PopMatters contributor Gentry Boeckel felt that Polow and Brian Kidd overshadow Rich throughout the album with their contributions instead of helping him craft a unique image, concluding that, "Both as an artist and a persona, Rich Boy lives up to his name, with the best thing one can say about him is that he has a certain get-rich-quick innocence, a certain naive hunger to succeed.
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38-39 Jeff Kitts, reviewing the PlayStation version in GameSpot, called the game "mildly entertaining" and said "It's good enough for a weekend rental, but not much more."Jeff Kitts, Street Racer Review, GameSpot, 1 December 1996, Accessed 26 September 2009 In Electronic Gaming Monthly, Todd Mowatt applauded the dramatic improvements seen in the PlayStation version, the selection of tracks, the weapons, and the eight-player feature, while Joe Rybicki argued that the tracks are "uninteresting and sometimes even tedious", and that the amusement offered by the weapons quickly wears thin. Gideon of GamePro agreed that the abundance of options and features are countered by the short and cluttered track designs and difficult-to-follow split-screen display. However, he also praised the cartoon-like graphics and responsive controls, and deemed it a solid substitute for Mario Kart on the PlayStation, though he recommended gamers rent it before deciding whether to buy.
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Chris Welch of Melody Maker praised the musicianship of the band and Anderson's flute playing, writing also that "the joke at the expense of a local newspaper wears thin rather rapidly, but should not detract from the obvious amount of thought and work that has gone into the production of Thick"; he described the music as a creative effort where "the ideas flow in super abundance" but that "needs time to absorb" and "heard out of context of their highly visual stage act ... does not have such immediate appeal". Tony Tyler in his review for New Musical Express generally appreciated the construction of the suites and the arrangements, but he had doubts about the album's possible success. He called Thick as a Brick "Jethro Tull's own stand-or-fall epic after the lines of Tommy" and "an assault on the mediocrity and harshness of lower-middle-class existence in '70s Britain". Ben Gerson in Rolling Stone magazine called Thick as a Brick "one of rock's most sophisticated and ground-breaking products".
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