Sentences with phrase «for lack of an edit»

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I used to blame lack of space but I realize I'd rather have a small but tightly edited collection of books, rather than an exhaustive one of all the books I'd probably enjoy (and many here) that it just wasn't the right time for me to buy.

The pamphlet, edited by Labour MP for Dagenham Jon Cruddas and academic Jonathan Rutherford, argues that Cameron's approach is full of contradictory ideas, lacks a coherent economic analysis, and will «inevitably create more insecurity and inequality».

In a book scheduled for publication in October that was edited by Lee, 27 experts offer their views of what Lee calls «Trump's mental symptoms,» including his impulsivity, «extreme present focus,» pathological levels of narcissism, and an apparent lack of trust that is a sign of deep paranoia.

For all of the excess and lack of editing, Tarantino does showcase some excellent filmmaking.

Despite the lack of awards from the Academy (it only received one for Sound Editing), Zero Dark Thirty will go down as one of the definitive films of the 2010s (and missing out on Best Picture is almost a confirmation...

The lack of a multi-cultural and multi-national storyline might forestall a nomination for the Babel editing duo.

With a notably better movie just simple steps away — one with better editing (anything other than that dreadful flash - back / flash - forward), a lack of inexplicably useless alterations to Zamp's true tale and some actual storytelling prowess — Unbroken is an undeniable failure, most of all for its wasted potential.

The shaky camera syndrome continues, as does the bad editing, all trying to make up for Giglio's awful «out of a computer program» screenplay's lack of original ideas or just about anything else.

Operating in the vein of Gary P. Cohen's do - it - yourself VHS snuff series Video Violence, the F2K crew have a preternatural understanding for how these kinds of movies work and furthermore how they're marketed — and they aren't about to let a complete lack of talent or sophisticated editing equipment discourage them.

This has saddled Arnold, who lacks the range to likewise dabble in other genres, with strictly «B» filmmakers — including End of Days» Peter Hyams and The 6th Day's Roger Spottiswoode, late of Turner & Hooch (although Spottiswoode used to edit for the brilliant Sam Peckinpah, evidently he didn't learn a lot)-- and robbed him of an AK - 47 when he needs it the most.

If you lack knowledge and experience with publishing, the promise to edit, design, produce, and distribute is a legitimate and valuable offering, but it begs a question: if some expert is willing to invest in your book in exchange for a share of the profits, wouldn't you you be smarter to invest in it yourself?

And for self - publishing authors, if you still need persuading, look no further than book reviews on sites like Amazon and Goodreads, where one of the top complaints about self - published books is the lack of professional editing.

Because they did little if any screening of manuscripts, much less editing or proofreading, these companies (and the books they printed) garnered a reputation for a severe lack of quality.

Perhaps because of a lack of time, financial resources, or knowledge of the editorial process, perhaps because of fear of loss of control or originality, or for other misguided reasons, some authors feel it's fine to dispense with the editing step of the publication cycle.

Because they did little if any screening of manuscripts, much less editing or proofreading, these companies (and the books they printed) garnered a reputation for a severe lack of -LSB-...]

I often think what appears to us at TED as hurry is really only the author's lack of familiarity with the process (they may ask for copy editing when they first need line editing, for instance, or expect to be able to «hire» an agent), and that's on us.

With Polaris Office, business executives can easily view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with an excellent option to view PDF files too but the lack of a physical keyboard might make things a bit tricky at first for those who are used to fast typing speeds on their BlackBerry QWERTY keyboards.

So that's good news for people who had purchased the webOS tablet as the lack of a feature as basic as text editing is a glaring omission from a full fledged tablet device and was the subject of some harsh criticism.

There are a few things about the Sony PRS - 650 that could use improving, mainly the same things that are listed on the PRS - 350 review: the lack of styling options, such as changing line - spacing, margins, font type, etc, all of which requires adding fonts and editing the CSS file of an ebook to change styling; the fact that landscape mode breaks pages into two sections for ebooks, showing duplicate sentences; and other minor annoyances like having to go through multiple menu selections for certain features and settings.

Add in an overall lack of knowledge about marketing books, designing covers, formatting, and most of all, editing, and you'll simply find that much of the slush that has traditionally piled up on agents» and editors» desks is now being e-pubbed for your reading «pleasure.»

It's things like shabby editing and lack of knowledge of the publishing industry keeps the business parts of their new writing careers looking unprofessional as they search for agents, publishers, or publish their own work.

Thus, if you don't feel confident with your English or simply lack time, you should turn to a professional term paper editing service online and ask for help of professional editors!

As long as all the books I put out are well - written, well - edited, well - formatted, and have great covers, there's really no difference at all between my indie books and my NY books... except for the price, and the lack of DRM;)

The book provided lots of information, but I lacked confidence since I haven't done SEO writing before and have never done freelance writing (outside of writing and editing things for friends).

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«explains» is not a synonym for «exonerates» — the high percentage of non-native english speakers seems like a likely explanation and makes one imagine that the lack of professionalism (i.e. reasonable editing, publishing bulls ** t articles etc) indicates a very low - rent operation, among other things...

While editing isn't as powerful as it would be on a laptop, the convenience factor offsets the lack of power, and one can make notes for a final cleanup on our computers before we reply.

The current version of Office for Android is fairly bare bones: it doesn't work on tablets at all and lacks any kind of local storage — so you wouldn't be able to edit a document on a plane that has no internet service, for instance.

The new product represents a doubling - down on that belief, as it aims to remove the many obstacles that would - be podcasters face, from hosting fees, to the needs for special editing software, and the lack of insight into how well podcasts are being received by listeners, among other things.

The lack of processing - intensive photo and video editing apps makes it a difficult sell for professional creatives.