Sentences with phrase «morally dubious»

It's the ideal streamer for PC gamers who also want to play those games in their living room, for media hoarders who want to build a cheap a Plex server, for cord - cutters in search of over-the-air DVR solutions, for Kodi enthusiasts with that media center's morally dubious plug - ins, for 4K HDR TV owners who have an aversion to Roku, or for people who just want as much computing power as they can get.

The other group — unpleasant as this might be for Amazon — consists of folks who see the Fire TV as an inexpensive way to sideload Android apps such as Kodi, and all the morally dubious add - ons that it enables.

In this morally dubious category of firms, Nevada - based VirnetX is unquestionably one of the most prolific: It won a $ 200 million verdict against Microsoft in 2010, and turned its attention to Apple that same year.

Or pursuing a lawful but morally dubious claim.

Authorities in Germany have also clamped down on legal tax avoidance, where the outcome, when benefitting the richest most of all, is morally dubious.

But taking it upon yourself to shut down a major power plant is pretty ballsy, some would say morally dubious and dangerous stuff.

Her films are attempts at weaving together portraits of morally dubious characters or events, and her sculptural practice employs a language of minimalism and abstraction to reformulate familiar objects into a state of ambiguity, navigating between negation and seduction.

The public tends to view all lobbying as morally dubious.

The game emphasizes both the bright and the dark side of power, allowing you to choose your own path of achieving your goals and to decide between doing the right thing and using morally dubious methods.

In just the scant few years since TranStar took over, the station has been used as the testing ground for some morally dubious experiments, with people on board serving as subjects — people like Morgan Yu.

If you're feeling a bit... morally dubious, then there's another easy way to fill your park — start a level, scan your Olimar or Pikmin amiibo, and then quit the level.

Now perhaps I have less to criticize him over — he isn't boasting about risk free retroactive profits, or being a significant player in life settlements, two things I find morally dubious at best.

Enter stage left a motley crew of possibly legal, but morally dubious fake poetry and fiction writing competitions to lure gullible writers.

This moment segues into a credit sequence set to Paul Hipp's pointedly disenfranchised cover of «America the Beautiful,» which is soon accompanied by images of 100 - dollar bills and banking institutions, the latter of which are framed at contemptuously canted angles that literalize the concept of the United States as a morally dubious land in which money talks and everything but bullshit walks.

The discovery made by Thomas Vinterberg with «Dear Wendy» and by Lars von Trier with «Nymphomaniac» that Bell's childish face might provoke more interest when accompanied by vicious, morally dubious behavior, seems to have gone unnoticed when he was cast to play a good - guy role in Snowpiercer.

In honour of our morally dubious cover stars, we thought we'd round up a list of our favourite movie characters: the guys and gals of cinema who have proved really good at being bad.

«Professorial, intense and intimidating, Dr. Campbell has a morally dubious mission yet to be revealed,» according to Deadline.

Matthew Heineman's documentary might be brave and shocking but some of its editing decisions feel ethically and morally dubious.

In some ways its flaws are reminiscent of Thank You for Smoking — there's never really any doubt if the morally dubious main character's going to lose confidence in themselves.

In noir, morally dubious characters and double - crosses are pretty much par for the course.

It's great to see Liane Balaban (from a little - seen favourite of mine, New Waterford Girl) finally making her way into something big, and Kevin Kline is outstanding as the morally dubious randy old professor Hampton Roth.

The grand tradition of French thrillers favors dark humor, morally dubious characters, and twisted plot developments.

A solid character piece that deftly probes the complicity of both sides in a morally dubious relationship.

The objective of the hack, according to reports, is to «blackmail the site into shutting down,» primarily because of their «morally dubious business model.»

Suddenly, for Americans, journalism was more than a morally dubious way to earn a living.

With the threat of financial meltdown just hours away, and the only hope of rescue resting on a morally dubious deal with the Foreign Minister of Kumranistan, the stage is set for a riotous comedy of sex, scandal and scheming.

So, this is 2017: A few days after issuing an incompetently executed, morally dubious, and in many ways misguided executive order on immigrants and refugees, the president nominated an outstanding and unassailable jurist to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia.

If their god is morally dubious, so will their prayer be.

Now, morally dubious measures are necessary for the good of the Church, in order to put that scandal behind us.

Not exact matches

Many great films are morally and / or ideologically dubious, but none that fudge or hedge on what they're about (which has aesthetic implications as well as ethical ones).

His uncompromising love for dubious and morally ambiguous characters is present, sparked with some female sensuality and a good serving of slasher film flavor.

It would be cartoonish if not so morally bankrupt and tasteless: even the pill - assisted suicide of Reggies wife Frances is recreated here for our dubious titillation.

Not only is this a logically dubious notion, it is a morally repugnant one too.

It is not a properly thought through idea, and is dubious morally and practically.