Sentences with phrase «few false notes»

There are a few false notes in the story, to my ear, and one stands out: Joel Klein's departure from the New York City Department of Education.

Gifted offer a reasonably appealing and thoughtful character study with nice acting and only a few false notes.

There is one crazy man in a tinfoil helmet on the street raving about the planet, one of the movie's few false notes (crazy or not, does anyone seriously wear tinfoil hats?).

One of the few false notes is struck by Benedict Cumberbatch, oddly miscast as Bulger's younger brother Billy, who was a Democratic Senator and long - standing President of the Massachusetts State Senate.

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He calls the story of massive switching by iPhone fans every year a «false narrative,» noting that the fourth quarter — when Apple's new phones typically are on sale — accounted for just 26 % of customer defections the past few years.

The movie features a few contrived situations, yet rarely hits a false note.

This system generally worked well, although I noted a few false warnings.

You set up false dilemmas (fight denialists OR effect change) to make it look like we can't do more than one thing at a time, then apply spin and misrepresentations («[denialists] are of a very insignificant nature» (note who's listening to them) «more effort is being expended now on a few denalists than warranted» (note: unsubstantiated assertion), «Is the question about a few snakes biting a few people or doing far more» (shorter: «a few snake bites are OK!»)-RRB-

Note: After a few false starts, I'm finding Twitter to be a good forum to say things that are off - topic or too short for this blog, and to communicate with an interesting and growing group of people there.

We also note that fraudsters have unfortunately defrauded few prospective customers by luring them with false promises.