Sentences with phrase «of hatchet jobs»

While awards season keeps the previous year's prestige films lingering in January like a hangover, Sundance arrives like a magic tonic every year to provide an occasion for optimism amidst a sea of hatchet jobs against worthy films.

A bit of a hatchet job on Alexis but I'm sure we can all recognise the failings mentioned.

It has all the signs of a hatchet job.

Long joins last year's inaugural winner of the Hatchet Job prize, Adam Mars - Jones, who took the award for his excoriating dismissal of Michael Cunningham's novel By Nightfall in the Observer.

The one I read had the feel of a hatchet job, the hatchet was used to make chopped liver of the work in order to give substance to a strawman was my take on it.

Not exact matches

Its hatchet job on Fr Tim Finigan was a disgrace, and now the author of that piece, Ms Curti, has written an ill - judged assessment of the new Archbishop of Westminster at precisely the moment he needs our support.

While I think that us Arsenal fans should not let the hatchet job written by Paul Scholes about our beloved club, it is hardly a surprise that he has done it and that the article appears in The Independent just a few short days before the Gunners head to Old Trafford to try and knock his own beloved club Manchester United out of the FA cup.

Unfortunately, the NYSP has a long history of doing political hatchet jobs for the puppet - masters in the governor's mansion.

General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has fired a sharp riposte at the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for claiming Justice Yaw Apau was appointed to the Supreme Court because he did a «hatchet» job for the government on Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo.

The Council's WFP cadre turned out for a press conference this week to denounce the «political hatchet job» on one of its beloved members, Councilmember Debi Rose of Staten Island.

The fired director of the Queens Public Library, Thomas Galante, is suing his former employer for more than $ 2 million, claiming his ouster over wild misspending was a political hatchet job.

Our protest was based on his track record of doing hatchet jobs in such auspicious gatherings.

This wasn't the hatchet job of his recent Newsnight appearance, but even when the Prince of Darkness is on his best behaviour he can't help sounding as if he is damning the Labour leader with faint praise.

The fired director of the Queens Public Library is suing his former employer for more than $ 2 million, claiming his ouster over wild misspending was a political hatchet job.

«It is funny that the EFCC, in the bid to carry out its usual hatchet job against Governor Fayose, failed to take into cognisance the subsisting court order, which forbids any official of the Ekiti State government from being arrested by the EFCC.

Jeff Nelson from VegSource has tried to do a hatchet job on nuts & weight loss in favor of a Mc Dougall bias.

Same old predictable, thoughtless hatchet job against saturated fat via misguided preoccupation with nuance - free readings of cholesterol markers.

In this new day of viral marketing, any publicity is good publicity, including this Newsweek hatchet job article.

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It's not quite the hatchet job many had predicted, but you're left at times unsatisfied with minor plot points: Post plane crash, Gerry and his bodyguard are the only survivors... Whilst fleeing zombies at Camp Humphreys, out of seven people he's the only one to survive... Much of the happenstance seems to be too unbelievable to work or be credible.

There are any number of minefields into which «Goodbye Christopher Robin» might easily have wandered — it's a fall - release biopic set in England between the wars, about the creation of a beloved classic of children's literature — but the film emerges mostly unscathed as neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job on A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh.

Do you believe this story or does it reek of a fanboy hatchet job?

It took a really fun and cool book and turned it into absolute garbage, the result of director Timur Bekmambetov's ability to render any story incoherent and a hatchet job in editing.

In the seven years since the launch of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has done such a good job of besmirching his own name that no hatchet job could ever be as effective as the truth: Julian Assange comes across as an unempathetic self - aggrandising egotist.

The production was besieged by distraction and calamity, all of it captured in Julie Salamon's The Devil's Candy in what, after watching the movie again for the first time since its release, seems too measured a hatchet job.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Mile - High Sitcom Stars George Clooney as Peripatetic Hatchet Man Ryan Bingham's (George Clooney) services have been very much in demand during these dire economic times marked by downsizing and the outsourcing of jobs overseas.

I'm talking about Michael Winerip who, to the best of my knowledge, is the single worst education reporter in America, infamous for biased hatchet jobs on NCLB, Bloomberg and Klein's reforms, and anything else associated with genuine reform (if anyone is aware of someone worse at a major publication, please let me know — maybe I'll start a Reporter Hall of Shame...)

The intimidating Frank Sinatra has been the subject of several biographies, most famously Kitty Kelley's 1986 hatchet job.

Regardless of the factual content of this article, there's an ethical concern with writing an article that comes off as a hatchet job, about a company producing a very similar (in function) device to your own.

Others have done a better job with the Hatchette hatchet job attempt on Amazon (and damn, unless they're aiming for authors and readers they're really doing a shitty job of it).

A slew of posts have hit the blogsphere following more of the anti-Amazon campaign coming out of the NY traditional media (which reached orgiastic levels this weekend with a Patterson ad and a NYT hatchet job), and volleyed by Amazon calling on indie authors to email Hachette's CEO in an emailed missive I first suspected might be a practical joke.

I looked for evidence of a track record, but found only the BusinessWeek hatchet job from a few years back:

Perhaps the strangest reporting I've seen only touches on the Smithsonian / USFWS paper — using it as further justification for a hatchet job (the sort of irresponsible work that brings to mind, with almost a wistfulness — if only for a moment — Mitt Romney's plan to cut PBS funding altogether) on cat advocates in general, and L.A.'s Stray Cat Alliance in particular — as Los Angeles pushes to become the country's largest «no - kill» city.

I can think of few portraits in which a painter's absolute dislike of her subject is made more apparent than in the hatchet job she did on the great poet, curator and critic Frank O'Hara, whose liver - spotted bald head, bared teeth, and mad staring eyes are visible in no other portrait or photo of him I know.

To the «hatchet job» inference (# 177), I listened with my ears and nobody else's to the May 6th «Fresh Air» interview, when Gore moved from an ethanol / food price debate, to his joke about some minister's absurd believe that Katrina was New Orleans» punishment for a gay pride parade, to his clear inference that Myanmar and, previously, Bangladesh, are part of an emerging consensus that the trend towards more Category 5 and stronger storms appears to be linked to AGW, specifically the heating of the upper oceans, driving convection energy, etc..

Gavin, I can understand why you might not decide to publish this first paragraph — it would be embarrassing for you — but for you to accuse me of taking my cues from a BMI «hatchet job» (I don't know what BMI is, by the way) is so unfair I almost don't know how to respond.

However, the critic presented no depth of contemplation that should be inherrent to the subjects and claims Nussbaum made, so I am pretty sure it was a hatchet job.

As I suggested on another blog, this Trenberth et al hatchet job will be used by the «defenders of the faith of AGW» to spread the smear liberally around, with no evidence given — like, ahem, links to the papers with those mistakes?

That the programme makers felt it necessary to carry out what was essentially a hatchet job suggests to me a fundamental lack of confidence on their part.

In an era of mounting health threats associated with climate change, Congress needs to see the budget for what it really is: a hatchet job on behalf of Trump's polluter allies.

Also, the time that the Economics Committee allowed between their Call for Evidence and the just - issued report was only six months, which from what I can tell makes it a bit of a hurry - up hatchet job.

It seemed beyond Jones» genius to notice that at least two of the few programmes he could find which seemingly gave a voice to «deniers» — Meet the Climate Sceptics, and Paul Nurse's Horizon episode — were polemic hatchet jobs.

I know there are big differences in the objectives of the authors; one is a general survey of IPCC climate science from a major publishing house and the other a focussed «hatchet job».

Or is it better, as social media does its gruesome hatchet job, to recognize the apparent hopelessness of the situation, no matter what the facts are, to accept defeat and slink away in silence, as so many of those who are accused seem to do even if the allegations don't seem particularly credible?

To put it bluntly, this booklet is a «hatchet job» that, quite unfairly, paints the Report as a dishonest piece of work that no self - respecting person would have anything to do with.