Word: detractors
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...approval rating falling to new lows of 38%, and pollsters are attributing the decline to voters' spying a vulgarity in their president incompatible with their standards for the office. Apparently, Sarkozy isn't getting the message. On the weekend jaws dropped anew as he publicly insulted an anonymous detractor as a "poor a**hole...
...stories are often told in first-person narrative and lack diversity," agrees Matsuda. But that hasn't been a problem with consumers yet. "Why don't you write a novel and move me?" read one angry schoolgirl's recent online post, in response to a vehement keitai shosetsu detractor. So far, Japan's literary establishment hasn't come up with an answer...
...pantheon of inept directors." His follow-up film BloodRayne, another video game adaptation, was equally panned, and left critics declaring that he was "fast becoming one of the worst directors on the planet." Just this week in fact, TIME?s book critic wrote a pained reflection about a detractor who had dubbed him "the Uwe Boll of the book reviewing world...
...always, Sorkin proves he can make dialogue skip rope. When a detractor calls Matt and Danny "Barbra Streisand--loving," Matt asks, "Was she calling us Hollywood liberals, or was she calling us gay?" Danny: "It's a fine distinction." Perry and Whitford have fantastic chemistry; squabbling but loyal, Matt and Danny are like a long-married couple but with more passion. (The women characters are much weaker: Harriet is a pretty billboard who serves as the token religious voice, while Peet drifts through with weird detachment, as if she were playing the princess of a small country.) And some details...
...tinder. We’ll see if we reach the same conclusions.Some seniors wonder why Harvard needs another $10 after extracting $160,000 from their parents. In truth, however, these seniors’ qualms with the Gift campaign extend much deeper than money alone. Indeed, the first point that detractors and proponents of the Gift campaign determine is that the amount of money donated via Senior Gift doesn’t really matter. In fact, it does. A $250 donation can—no surprises here—buy more Erlenmayer flasks than the minimum $10 donation. If a wealthier...