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In a comment on the WUWT article about the abject failure of the United Kingdom Weather Office (UKMO) weather forecasts, Doug Huffman wrote, «Each forecast must be accompanied by the appropriate retro - cast record of previous casts» (January 6, 2013 at 7:06 am).
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As Raimi regular Bruce Campbell, who starred in the movie — and also has a small role in Hudsucker — described it: «Crimewave was a lesson about abject failure — no matter how you slice it, the film was a dog.»
He said, «The President will not, in the guise of «marketing» the country, refrain from telling Nigerians and the world, the emerging truths about the abject state in which years of plundering by a PDP leadership has left the Nigerian treasury and economy.
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You don't know what theories are in a scientific context, you make an argument equivalent to «people can't take strides greater than ten feet, therefore it's impossible to run a marathon,» and you think that the lack of a full understanding about a particular hypothetical explanation is some kind of demonstration that science is an abject failure.
So when news broke today about Target's abject and utter failure to expand into Canada, I began to think this morning about how church planters to Canada (or even within Canada) can learn from the Target failure.
In the Word God speaks about someone; the person sees himself in his abject need and his utter vanity.
Its easier to worry about what all this will mean for our domestic politics and Mediterranean time shares, than to enter into the abject, diabolical situations which force a mother to commit her daughter into the hands of an unscrupulous stranger in the hope that she will be better off.
This game contained, in brute list form: a remarkable opening goal from David Beckham (that has been almost completely forgotten by history, which says a lot about what was to follow); a spawny equaliser; Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira; a (correctly) disallowed Nicolas Anelka goal that was (wonderfully) celebrated for fully a minute and a half; Jaap Stam and Tony Adams; a (deserved) red card that involved the referee actively pursuing Keane, the better to take (onanistic) pleasure in the act of dismissal; extra-time; Arsenal pressure; a (hopelessly abject) foul from Phil Neville to concede a penalty; a surprisingly tepid missed penalty from Dennis Bergkamp; Peter Schmeichel saving; Peter Schmeichel barking; an unusually sleepy pass from Vieira; and then, that run, that finish, that goal, that winner, that completely stupid slalom through a stupified defence.
The former Sunderland man has been abject in his first season at Anfield and excuses about his age simply serve to mask his obvious deficiencies, namely passing.
If you want to say he's a quality baller because an abject Villa gave him 15 yards to float one over to Theo who was in about 20 yards of space then be my guest.
Lets assume his attacking flair has been neutered by wenger abject tactics, what about his defending, he cant be bothered to move his ass to defend even when he loses the ball.
That is not the whole story either, as the manner of our loss to Liverpool was so abject that most Arsenal fans are feeling anything but positive about the new season.
On the heels of yet another abject loss to Aston Villa, it's time to pay attention to some rumours about the status of the Leeds United Director of Football, Victor Orta.
He further explained that about 16 out of them were later recalled and reinstated while others were left to languish in abject poverty, as they continued to struggle and agitate for justice.
Moreover, regarding Mr. Cuomo, his father's «abject poor of Essex County» speech in San Francisco (to urban Dems who regard Rural Upstate New Yorkers as backward)... was about her constituents.
The only thing that gets me through my abject misery about the end of summer is the NFL, specifically the Eagles.
About Blog «What threatens from the outside only threatens insofar as it is already within... it is not that the abject has got inside us; the abject turns us inside out, as well as outside in.»
While the movie's tone never dips too, too deep into abject misery, there are enough moments of solemnity that when a joke about T'Challa's dad sandals pops up, you're not really prepared to laugh quite that hard.
The most powerful message that comes through, however, is of abject pessimism about the chance of conciliation.
And there's something unsavoury about simply being a viewer who makes it all the way to the end - credits scroll, having consumed so much abject horror as an evening's entertainment.
This week I witness abject horror at a Michael Shannon performance that must have been done to pay some back taxes or a Superbowl bet gone bad, we hunt us some Nazis, get animated about a girl trying to save her family, try to play nice with the ex-boyfriend, realize how much money we don't have, and go on a dark road trip with our brother.
Reinforcing the sense that Cincinnati teenagers are the target audience is Bertolucci and Adair's almost abject reliance on every American cliche about the French they can summon up — all the way down to the pseudotriumphant use of Edith Piaf's «Non, je ne regrette rien» (with its irrelevant lyrics) over the final credits — and their systematic elimination of all the atmospheric allusions in the novel to Left Bank locations.
sequel, and will not be involved in the second LEGO movie, but something about Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill must have made them come back for one more round of abject silliness.
Lord and Miller already walked away from a Meatballs sequel, and will not be involved in the second LEGO movie, but something about Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill must have made them come back for one more round of abject silliness.
It is a story about total abject tragedy and how love can still find a way.
He patronizes Michael Powell and Humphrey Jennings (accorded one measly clip each); fails to mention Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, or Richard Lester (presumably regarding all three as American interlopers); reduces Ken Russell and Mike Leigh to the worst single clips imaginable (and has nothing to say about the TV work of either); limits John Boorman, Bill Douglas, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Isaac Julien, and Sally Potter to one fleeting movie poster apiece; and omits virtually the entire English documentary movement (though he includes a disparaging nod to Night Mail), along with the cycle of Hammer horror movies — while paying abject obeisance to the Academy Awards and every crumb they've offered British cinema (special points to Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, and Four Weddings and a Funeral).
Noe gives us an unnamed French butcher in his early 50s (craggy Philippe Nahon) rather than an American cabbie in his mid-20s (lanky Robert De Niro), a series of offscreen gunshots and plucked notes to replace a swanky Bernard Herrmann score, and an exceptionally grisly urban plot about unemployment, abject violence, and incestuous delirium to replace Paul Schrader's rhapsody about existential and excremental urban anguish.
What I'm fighting is the 350 lb orangutan about to enter the oval office's bullying, lying and abject 4th grade rhetoric in his vain attempt to make America 1950's early 60's Great Again..
The difference I see with reality TV is that so much of it seems to be about humiliation, about showing people at their smallest and meanest, their lowest and most abject.
We see and feel the abject poverty of a young woman about to give birth in a dark, sparsely furnished room she shares with her sister.
Aren't you so glad you can come here to read about my mistakes and abject failures?
You've also said that your work is «always psychological» with the shapes «troubled in a way» or «abject» — can you talk about this a bit?
That Frankensteinian dialectic that pits idealized form against the material limits of the abject body is consistently complicated, in Ruby's work, by bodies that have become as changeable as our ideas about them.
The cool thing about West's work is how he is always vacillating between art and design: the casual and the intentional, the abject and the crafted.
As such, it is hard to underestimate their importance as we cast about today for subject matter that moves beyond our contemporary doctrine of the ironic, abject and just plain superficial.
Asked about his fascination with objects from public spaces like parks, he said it was about «hope» and finding «the beauty in the abject».
About the installation, Buggenhout says, «Materials I work with are very abject.
About Blog «What threatens from the outside only threatens insofar as it is already within... it is not that the abject has got inside us; the abject turns us inside out, as well as outside in.»
About Blog «What threatens from the outside only threatens insofar as it is already within... it is not that the abject has got inside us; the abject turns us inside out, as well as outside in.»
My comment about RECO and REBBA 2002 were more tongue in cheek than abject....
How can we be angry and miserable and grumbling about things in our country when there are so many millions living in abject poverty?