Sentences with phrase «but political gamesmanship»

This is nothing but political gamesmanship, and I've got no patients for it.

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It's a disgrace and Cuomo's wrong, there will be a lot of mud sticking to him as a result of this political gamesmanship he's engineering, but still attempting to avoid taking unwanted credit for in the State Senate.

Altman is less interested in emotion and psychology than in emotional and psychological gamesmanship — in mind - fucking that has a rich tradition in the more obsessive and political films of Luis Buñuel, Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, and Joseph Losey, to name but a few of Images's most significant influences.

Director John Curran also struggles to contain the film's tone as it veers from re-creation of a tragedy to political gamesmanship; there are laughs to be had in watching a team of people try to create a sympathetic version of Ted Kennedy, but with the memory of Mara's Mary Jo Kopechne so vivid, does he really deserve it?

«Whether its opening 100 schools total or 100 additional schools, we will not rest until we are able to provide a high - quality education not only to our current student population, but to the tens of the thousands of children on our waiting lists who have been banished to low - performing district schools due to nothing more than political gamesmanship,» he said.

What would happen if we used gamesmanship to decide our political future, if comic Internet memes took over the real world and if the values and vibes of sporting patriotism were infectious, but to a sinister degree?