Word: drawbacking
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...drawback, it seems to me, is that it will be incredibly crowded," said Maryann Cockerill...
...West. This means, however, that in the long present novel they spend many, many chapters not maturing: Gus mooning for his lost Clara, and Woodrow being cold to Maggie, his son's mother. When they turn sideways on stage, they are seen to be band-sawed from plywood, a drawback that at last seems to matter...
...drawback, of course, is that The Midnight Special requires some degree of literacy, as opposed to the tributes to the other two series...
...page, "you realize that if this place disappeared, it would not be reinvented. That imparts a sense of stewardship." The upside of this sense of mission is that it makes the paper careful in its judgments, scrupulous about corrections, conscious that its words can instantly become conventional wisdom. The drawback is that it can discourage innovative journalism...
...that we all do. But it makes it all the more easy for me to use them as an excuse to avoid the run I had intended to go on, the story I wanted to write, the book I wanted to read. The presence of people has the unfortunate drawback of being a convenient distraction away from myself...