Sentences with phrase «bad at the premise»

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At best such references evade the issue and give Hartshorne's doctrine of actuality an illusory air of plausibility; at worst they implicitly trade on ideas foreign to Hartshorne's own premiseAt best such references evade the issue and give Hartshorne's doctrine of actuality an illusory air of plausibility; at worst they implicitly trade on ideas foreign to Hartshorne's own premiseat worst they implicitly trade on ideas foreign to Hartshorne's own premises.

I'm not saying spending on the OL is a bad idea, or that you are wrong at all, because I do agree with your basic premise.

This whimsical story illustrates the unexpected outcomes of one little girl's bad mood, and Lemony Snicket's presentation at the BBF is guaranteed to banish any bad moods from the premises!

The game is honestly quite boring, despite its bizarre premise, and the attempts at humour are ham - fisted at best and excruciating at worst.

Don't be duped, if this premise sounds at all appealing, for Delta Farce is easily one of the worst films released this year.

It was a middling effort — not a bad premise, decent cast, pleasant enough to look at.

With the body - swap premise — something made even more ridiculous by the fact that Cage and Travolta looked absolutely nothing like one another — both Cage and Travolta got a good crack at playing Castor Troy, the movie's delectably over-the-top bad guy.

It is a blood fest bore in very bad taste which tries at some points to bring sentiment to its dull premise.

I have definitely dropped that money on worse production before, but this one has so much star power and a fun premise (or at least it sounded that way) that I feel this was one of the least risky choices I've made as far as going into a movie I know very little (or nothing) about.

The writing is always very good at worst — and brilliant at best — there are new developments for every regular [and major recurring] character; the most mundane events take on unexpected significance, while major events, no matter how seemingly over the top they might be, are so well grounded in the reality of the show's premise that they feel completely natural.

The first Bad Moms managed to greatly exceed box office expectations last year, and despite its cookie - cutter premise and execution it turned out to still be an enjoyable time at the movies.

When revealed, the intriguing premise of the actual City of a Thousand Planets serves only a small purpose in the scheme of things and the film is not above (bad) slapstick at times.

, it comes out that Con Air screenwriter Scott Rosenberg, who just might be worse than George Lucas at making up names (one of the two main cops in Gone in Sixty Seconds is christened Detective Drycoff), begged onto the project after getting wind of the premise, though no one so much as alludes to the Halicki film.

«Millennials versus Gen - X» was an idea that sounded bad in theory and worse when the season started with Jeff Probst straining at every turn to use the thinnest premises to contrast the generations.

It's not hard to see the appeal of a movie like this — again, the premise is a slam - dunk as far as high - concept comedies go — but the execution is, at best, lacking, and at worst, baffling (why, for example, does this movie have more false endings than

Based on the novel by Richard Bachman at a time when many (including the filmmakers) didn't know that Bachman was a pseudonym for Stephen King, this Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle is a particular kitschy piece of 80s Arnie action, with a great premise and some potent underlying themes badly handled by scripter Steven E. de Souza and especially director Paul Michael Glaser.

At first glance, it would seem like an amusing premise for a satire, yet for large stretches the film takes itself seriously on the one hand, then completely goes for bad over-the-top theatrics and schlock in the other.

It's too bad, then, that so much was squandered on dumb gore effects, dumber creature effects, and a premise that only works as a metaphor — a clumsy one, at that.

The premise is that super-villains come together to form a team and try to save the day for once (One has to assume that every superhero came down with a bad case of food poisoning at the meeting to set up their own team).

Filling in the air time of this wacky premise are nonstop vulgarities (worse than Superbad, pervasive drug use (not as bad as Half - Baked) and some of the most infantile attempts at humor not seen since the misunderstood Freddy Got Fingered.

Simple premise, two funny leads with a proven chemistry between them, and lead by BAD TEACHER director Jake Kasdan, son of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK scribe, Lawrence Kasdan, this should be something worth few chuckles at least.

This would apply to «persistent offenders» at non-domestic premises activated by proven malfunctioning or badly installed equipment.

Our sympathies go out to the victims of the Woodlake Apartments fire, and we note that it could have been much worse — because the fire happened in the middle of the afternoon, many residents were at work or otherwise off the premises so at this time there appears to have been no loss of life.

It's kinder to your dog, as it stops him from having bad behavior reinforced (passersby will continue to pass by when he barks and rushes at them, which makes him think that he's responsible for their leaving the immediate premises), and will result in a calmer, quieter, less keyed - up Jack Russell.

At their worst, they can cause havoc in a household whose owners have failed to dog - proof the premises beforehand.

However, while the premise and design hints at a deep game, instead we have a game that encapsulates the worst elements of old school adventure titles.

The game's premise is certainly not a bad story at all, especially when you consider platformers are not known for their riveting storylines.

To an extent, I'm willing to accept the premise that many of these beasties are grunts for big bad Bowser, particularly the ones throwing hammers or boomerangs directly at the plumber's head, but I just can't bring myself to attack the Wigglers.

The premise sounds pretty interesting and engrossing at first, but Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace has more in store — for better or worse.

If you study the conservative approach to climate change policy long enough, the implication that they are trying to participate in a scientific conversation starts to fade away and you realize the underlying logic they are using actually starts from the conclusion that regulation and government intervention are bad and proceeds to the premise that there is no real problem with climate change, at which point, they pick around for snippets to support their premise.

a) they don't believe the premise of man - made climate change: they don't think scientific data collected to date is adequate to prove conclusively that any type of man - made event can result in either the recent fluxuations in climate or the anticipated kinds of drastic climate change, therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem b) they don't believe CO2 alone is responsible: they think other variables are as or more likely to be the catalysts or causes for the scientific data collected to date on climate change therefore CO2 control would be ineffective at solving the problem c) they believe government efforts to curb CO2 emissions will fail resulting in an unprecedented waste of money and worse economic conditions.

Manacker writes: «AGW skeptics should be happy to see their skepticism has been validated, while those who supported the IPCC premise should be relieved that the «C» has been taken out of CAGW and that the failure to agree on global mitigation actions at Doha may not have been such a bad thing, after all.»

Herman Alexander Pope's model — too qualitative M.A.Vukcevic — too obscure Fred H. Haynie — bad premise Oliver K. Manuel — whacko Harry Dale Huffman — double whacko Girma Orssengo — trendology does not make a model Tony (climatereason) Brown — reliance on anecdotal info David Postma — bad physics Arno Arrack — bad writing makes it inscrutable Nasif Nahle — bad experimentation Chief Hydrologist — appeal to authority model Joachim Seifert — if I have to pay for it, it's not worth looking at Stephen Wilde — a lawyer's model Nicola Scafetta — use enough variables and one can fit anything Alexander Biggs — a half - way - there model The SkyDragons — say no more «Joe's World» LaLonde — an idea written with crayons Stefan «TheDenier» Mikitch — a crazed Chewbacca Defense model David Wojick — some sort of anti-model that teaches «controversy» Doug Cotton — a SkyDragon acolyte Paul Vaughn — Pay him some money please so he can work his ideas out

Most attempts at suppression rest on a denial of the fundamental premise of democracy: that the ordinary individual, by exercising critical judgment, will select the good and reject the bad.

This means that if the lawyers were unable to get onto their premises, eg as a result of fire or flood, then access to systems and documents would, at best, be limited, and at worst, work would have to cease altogether.

Let's start with the premise that our industry is notoriously bad at Intake.

Personal Injury Car Accidents Truck Accidents Wrongful Death Motorcycle Accidents Dog Bites / Attacks Bicycle Accidents Child Injury — Day Care Injury — School Accidents — Sex Abuse — Clergy Abuse — Foster Home / DSHS Slip and Fall / Trip and Fall Workplace Injuries Pedestrian and Crosswalk Nursing Home Injuries Construction accidents Drunk Driving Accidents Medical Malpractice Maritime Accidents / Injuries At Sea Products Liability Negligence Insurance Claims Insurance Bad Faith Unpaid Wages Disability Insurance Disputes Sexual Harassment Employment Discrimination Age Discrimination Premises Liability / Store & Department Stores

I have seen a fair amount of recent liberal legal scholarship that really does seem to recapitulate, in its unthinking doctrinairism and unquestioning use of contestable premises, everything the Crits wrote about and against, while operating at a fairly high level of either bad faith and denial, or amnesia.

Our sympathies go out to the victims of the Woodlake Apartments fire, and we note that it could have been much worse — because the fire happened in the middle of the afternoon, many residents were at work or otherwise off the premises so at this time there appears to have been no loss of life.

If a non-relative visitor to your home gets injured while on the rental premises (from a slip and fall, a bad cut, etc.), it is quite possible you may be looking at a liability situation.