Word: amateurish
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Congressional Democrats, appearing also on the morning news programs, called Reagan's approval of secret overtures to Iran an "amateurish" foreign policy that makes him appear willing to trade arms for hostages while eroding U.S. credibility with its allies...
...seems to have been operated out of the basement of the White House...the State Department cut out, the Defense Department cut out, almost in an amateurish way," said Sen. Patrick Leahy...
Oddly enough, King's unsettling plots rarely work on film, perhaps because occult scenarios are best played in the Skull Cinema. On a real screen his lethally gifted children often turn out to be amateurish performers; the floodlighted hotel is about as frightening as the set of a Fred Astaire musical; and the rabid Saint Bernard seems only a benign cartoon of the Hound of the Baskervilles. King professes to be satisfied with many of the movie adaptations, except for The Shining ("Stanley Kubrick's stated purpose was to make a horror picture, and I don't think he understood...
Suspicion immediately fell upon members of the Irish Republican Army, which has staged numerous similar kidnapings. The somewhat amateurish nature of the crime, however, could suggest the work of common criminals. By week's end no word had been heard from the abductors...
...disturbance began during a question and answer session when one apparently Russian man called the film "amateurish" and said it "did not produce the whole truth...