Word: flaws
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...hammer dulcimer and synthesizer. After a couple of minutes, the song has the same effect as sitting in a lecture hall without A/C on a hot and humid day. It’s stifling and sleep-inducing. “Hold Time” has one other significant flaw: M. Ward loves to record his vocals with reverb. On songs like “Stars of Leo,” everything he sings echoes two or three times. Without a doubt, there are instances where such recording techniques are appropriate; atop the rollicking surf...
Sloan: I frankly think there is nothing that science can do that can contribute to religion, and I think it's a fatal flaw to think that you can use the methods of science to learn something meaningful about religion...
...guess my biggest flaw would be my brutal honesty...
...script, which this non-Luc Godard wrote with Robert Mark Kamen, quickly sketches Bryan as your standard-issue CIA superman with a pathetic flaw. He calls himself a "preventer." ("What do you prevent?" "Bad things from happening.") And like most other action heroes, he's an all-or-nothing-at-all fellow. An indifferent husband to Lenore (Famke Janssen, this time looking less than her usual obscenely fabulous), who's remarried and can't stand him, Bryan is trying to redeem himself as a family man by paying extra attention to his daughter...
...ultimate flaw in Bush’s ocean policy is the belief that the oceans can be protected piecemeal—an approach that stems from terrestrial conservation. On land, protecting sites in patches can be successful. For example, cutting down trees around Yellowstone will not immediately harm the trees within Yellowstone. The oceans, however, are different because water and life move freely without the same geographic restraints as on land—illustrated by the fact that ocean currents bring in thousands of pounds of garbage from nearby islands into the protected Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Regardless of well...