Sentences with phrase «make botched»

The cross-country segment lacks the intimacy and intensity of the Portland sequences, in which Ray and Del make botched macho attempts to mentor the trusting Charley.

First, the run on the Northern Rock bank sent a clear signal to voters about the approaching recession, then he made a botch of dampening speculation about the chances of him calling an early election.

Not exact matches

That's why some customers were annoyed when the popular autumn drink suffered a botched rollout this year, with stores making it available on different dates.

In contrast, the retailer's online sales plunged 12.5 % because of a botched site relaunch, making it one of the rare chains to see its digital business shrivel in this day and age.

Not wanting a repeat of Facebook's botched IPO, Twitter reportedly plans to list itself on the New York Stock Exchange when it makes its market debut.

Apple has made a fortune making hardware, but it has botched some online services in the past, like Ping, Apple's short - lived social network for finding music.

After acquiring his interest in Blockbuster, Icahn began giving interviews to the press and writing letters to shareholders (and to me) claiming that we'd botched the acquisition, that we'd spent too much money on our online business, that we shouldn't have ended late fees, and that the CEO (that would be me) was making too much money.

Nationalized in 1947, Air India has failed to make money since its 2007 botched merger with Indian Airlines.

Podcasts have been around for more than a decade, but it was the NPR audio thriller Serial, which unpacked the murder of teenager Hae Min Lee and subsequent botched investigation by the Baltimore Police Department, that arguably made podcasting take off.

Made this tonight, definitely botched the laying of the vegetable slices, but omg was it ever delicious!

I love roasted red peppers and red pepper sauce and have made both with success, but I have to say when I tried making cavatelli, I totally botched it up and never got the hang of it.

I botched my over the stove caramel and made this in a quick fix.

And * also * thinking this is something I might actually be able to make without totally botching it.

The Dodgers were capable of making the difficult plays, but they were also capable of botching the easy ones.

EPL referees will botch it up anyway so it is always sfe to assume that they will make mistakes during the game.

My thing with Ressler is that naming Bud POBO was a botched decision (understandable given the circumstances, but not wise)... and generally being skeptical of the Hawks decision - making.

Asuka did as good as possible to make it look like she kicked Sasha in the air; if she had not done the «kick maneuver» Sasha would have actually landed on Asuka (but angle of camera was such, that we saw an «obviously missed kick» and we talking now about a «botch») plus Sasha right away put her arms out in a way to land safely than make it look like a «harsh hit on the floor» with the small roll BUT at same time she did hit the top rope with her feet so either it was a not intentional slow down (most likely) or she was so good that she intentionally used top rope to slow herself down (unlikely but still possible)

Because of the opportunities that KSU both created and botched, it's easy for this result to take on an «Auburn was lucky» or «KSU handed the Tigers the game» tone, and while that's true to a certain degree, let's not lose focus of the simple fact that Auburn didn't make the crippling mistakes KSU made and that, for the game as a whole, Auburn's offense was more steady and successful than Kansas State's.

Heinz - Harald Frentzen was a threat in the other Williams until a botched pit stop and brake failure ended his chances, and when Michael Schumacher had to make a late second pit stop the pressure was off Coulthard to win for McLaren - the team's first since 1993.

But for a kid like Isaac Nauta or Caleb Kelly or David Long, I don't think the botched punt makes much of a difference.

For enthusiasm and effort coupled with skill, the only player last night who came close to Mesut was Rambo — altho he does occasionally make me wonder why he makes the impossible look easy, and the easy he tends to botch.

Yes, a «botched» episiotomy causes more morbidity to mom... it's just that most NCB / homebirthers are 100 % focused on «interventions» that cause increased morbidity to mom... so they make choices that cause increased mortality to baby.

Also «the baby was fine therefore the procedure was not botched» doesn't make sense to me.

John McArdle, who served as spokesman for Joe Bruno when the then - Senate majority leader was the target of Spitzer's botched political hit job, made the connection during his appearance on the «Insiders» segment of last night's CapTon.

Cuomo said that there was a «human toll» that made Katrina a different story, especially after the federal, state and city government's botched response to the aftermath.

You are right to say that a deal could have been made in the past but Labour botched it.

But the Treasury enraged IDS by trying to pin the botched plan on his Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), which made the initial announcement last Friday.

Many worlds might have been botched and bungled throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out: much labour lost: many fruitless trials made: and a slow, but continued improvement carried on during infinite ages in the art of world - making.

Cuomo, in a series of cable news appearances, noted that the suspect in the botched bombing, Akayed Ullah, likely downloaded bomb - making information from the web, and said internet service providers may need to start sounding the alarm when people frequent such sites.

He therefore deemed it a botched strategy for one to make noise about the picking of forms.

But after Espada botched his first two attempts to distribute the funds, it looks like a majority of the money he scored last year — some $ 1.77 million — never made it anywhere but back to the state.

«The errors made by CBRE Buffalo are significant and they basically botched the entire process.

ALBANY, N.Y. — State lawmakers did not change the botched system of delivering school tax relief money that made many homeowners miss the deadline to pay their school tax bills last year.

«The Tories have form on this, from «Thatcher the Milk Snatcher» to the botched attempt to make it an early victim of the spending cuts.»

Pierre Curie's vital contribution and personality are rendered almost invisible, and Emling says little about the discovery of radioactivity by Henri Becquerel and the Curies in the 1890s — and botches the references she does make to the Curies» legendary preparation of radium between 1899 and 1902.

I've made this successfully MANY times (after one botched attempt when I forgot to whip the egg whites.

There's a Chris Rock joke I'll botch, but basically it makes fun of guys that get all cocky and say, «I take care of my kids.»

This is the second botched tale this month of young and restless Southern Californians desperate to make art.

Since Kittrick doesn't know of Claire's survival, he sees Hunt as the sole person to make it out of the botched operation, and that seems to brand him as the mole.

A botched job: the various relationships and personal histories of the characters are never made clear, the last act is glaringly disjointed, the writing and direction are all over the map.

This engrossing made - for - television feature examines the circumstances leading up to and the aftermath of the badly botched 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

With such a high - profile case, Chief Inspector Dreyfuss (Kline, The Emperor's Club) hatches a plan to make himself famous; he enlists the aid of the department's most inept bumbler, Clouseau, in order so that he might take over and become a national hero once the investigation is seen as botched.

The plan is botched, but an odd creature manages to make it through the portal, a demon child who is adopted as a son by one of the scientists who eye - witnesses the event.

Without giving anything away, Ray also botches the ending by putting a metaphorical hat on things, making it rest more on the character's over-verbosity than the gripping subtleties of the original.

Kevin Smith doesn't ever really commit to whether he thinks everything is a joke or not and gets mixed up with some French Canadian humor that falls flat on its face but it's the sharp juxtaposition between the botched attempts at humor and the barbaric visual horror onscreen that makes Smith's body transmogrification so fucking fucked up.

According to Bedford, back in 1899, eccentric scientist Joseph Cavor (Lionel Jeffries) and his prim and proper fiancee Kate Callender (Martha Hyer) took an impromptu trip to the moon after a botched attempt at making a pesky batch of «cavorite» (a Wells created anti-gravity «substance.»)

As Ray, the haunted hitman sent to cool his heels in Belgium along with his partner Ken (Brendan Gleeson) following a botched job, Farrell is truly terrific: hangdog, self - centered, irritating, explosive but with a kernel of rusty goodness inside him that makes his friendship with Ken and his inchoate hunger for some sort of redemption genuinely affecting.

His mother gave him that awesome mix before he was sucked out into space, and it's integral to his concept of himself in a way that makes us care about whether he dies in, say, a botched arrest as he lifts some kind of Indiana Jones knockoff artifact from deep space.

While in debt from three botched attempts at different grad schools, she's working to make ends meet with her best friend Gabe at the fancy hotel.

It has a lot of potential, a decent premise and a good cast, but decisively botches pretty much every single aspect that could have made it good and instead ends up being an unreal mess of jokes that are not funny and characters you want to punch in the face.