Word: amateurish
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...watch about three YouTube videos a day when I'm at work. If they're four minutes long that means I've spent about 50 hours this year laughing, cringing and silently judging people I don't know based on their amateurish home videos. Luckily, if I write an article about them (like this one) it means that I'm not wasting time, I'm actually doing work. The rest of you have no excuse...
Just as embarrassing was the colossal ineptitude of the big car companies: Ugly, low-quality cars with shameful gas mileage. Layers of redundant management that relied on amateurish financial controls. Insular thinking reinforced by decades of outsize market share. It was as if Detroit had drawn a road map for Toyota and Honda. And the Japanese drove right in, decimating the U.S. companies. In 1979, GM's U.S. employment peaked at 618,365. Today it's at 75,000 and falling fast. GM's U.S. market share, once about 50%, has fallen to about 20%. True, the quality and efficiency...
...lanky, laconic figure who often sports a mohawk and downplays his experimentation as a part-time sideline to commercial TV work, the Ipoh-born Lee has been honing his craft for nearly a decade - moving beyond amateurish imitations of Jim Jarmusch where quirky characters seemed to inhabit a lot of dead, plotless space...
...publication run the usual gamut of topics, from coming out to first love to poking fun at social strictures ("What Do Gay People Eat?" by Brian Gomez is an effective evocation of parental anxieties). The editors might have employed a firmer hand in weeding out the overly chatty and amateurish fare that obscures some surprisingly well-crafted tales. Yet literary heft is not the issue here so much as bolstering the presence of Malaysia's gay and lesbian community, for whom the publication of Body 2 Body represents a courageous advance. (Read "Why Asia's Gays are Starting...
Intriguing mystery lies at the foundation of the film’s story, but the way it actually plays out is unimaginative and amateurish. Midway through the film, it is revealed that Clyde used to work for the government, devising killing methods that worked automatically, with no need for human interaction. This explains how he knows what particular species of pufferfish carries the poison he needs or the intricacies of rigging a cellphone to explode as soon as it is answered. What a remarkably convenient explanation for his inexplicable homicidal ability! The later revelation of who is actually helping Clyde...