Sentences with phrase «looks ineffectual»

It also runs the risk of making Cuomo look ineffectual, ala David Paterson.

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As my colleague Rick Newman pointed out, Warren and the committee didn't have authority to administer any real punishment, which made Warren look like an ineffectual grandstander at first.

, Warren and the committee didn't have authority to administer any real punishment, which made Warren look like an ineffectual grandstander at first.

The gospel's sweetness, for example, is suspect; it looks too much like its caricatures: irresolution and readiness to compromise — often profitably — with the established disorders; the kind of popularity that easily camouflages betrayal; a certain interior, narcissistic complacency — the secret self - vindication of the ineffectual weakling.

Yes DC looked pretty ineffectual and didn't score, neither did Remy, or Falcao, or Kane, or Lukaku, or Benteke, or Rooney, or Bony, or Aguero, or Berahino — but we should make a special case for OG not scoring — simply unacceptable.

IT»S GOOD TO BE Apart from when some dullards moan that he's ineffectual, flatters to deceive and looks lazily uninterested, Arsenal's German playmaker doesn't so much receive rave reviews as love letters, great drooling odes to his languid, elegant, aesthetically pleasing, creative magnificence — sorry, we're getting carried away here!

After looking sharp in his brief cameo at Old Trafford he was back to languid and ineffectual.

And when pushed, each has a different story about the thinking behind this most ineffectual, cynical - looking political bargain.

If ineffectual practices can be avoided, environmental leaders will undoubtedly look back on this marine - mega-park era as one of the most important periods in the history of ocean conservation.

Any colors with a light pigment will look lightweight and ineffectual against your natural coloring.

Alas, look is everything here and storytelling and characters are next to nothing, so what emerges is oddly ineffectual and uninvolving — visually striking set pieces set loose in a void.

But this creates an opportunity for assorted kooky and ineffectual bit players to steal the spotlight: Christopher Meloni as the clueless adventurer who volunteers to be Linda and Emily's guide in the Colombian jungle; Randall Park as Emily's boyfriend; and especially Bashir Salahuddin, a veteran late - night comedy writer who previously played Malik on HBO's Looking, as the blasé State Department functionary forced to field Linda, Emily, and Jeffrey's panicked phone calls.

A recent BBC report provides a good review of the details, and — to my mind — a convincing picture of bitter citizens and ineffectual local officials looking in the wrong place for wrongdoing.

LORD BARKER - Ineffectual «Puppy - Dog» policies that were designed to make the party look good at the important talks in Paris last year.

Indeed, they are looking more and more like bumbling, ineffectual whiners.