Word: flaws
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...obvious inspiration for the change is Crystal Chronicles’ focus on multiplayer gameplay. A Game Boy Advance and special cable is required for each player to participate, making it the most expensive multiplayer gaming experience short of computer LAN parties. This is the game’s biggest flaw, skewing the single player campaign to such an extent that it feels like half, maybe three-quarters, of a game...
...With a little punctuation and some conjunctions, one high school’s AP review list of allusions and terms turns into a weird poem on current events: “A dramatic monologue: a soliloquy. Subjectivity, objectivity, and euphemism. Conceit: hyperbole. Inversion and irony… the tragic flaw. Protagonist or antihero? Point of view! Epic elements, oxymoronic furies, paradoxical fates. Icarus and Daedalus, or Tantalus and Sisyphus? Or Pandora...
...campaign trail and in the White House, Hughes earned a reputation for being tirelessly, and sometimes tiresomely, on message. Her refusal to acknowledge any flaw, mistake or internal dispute alienated reporters so much that at one point in the 2000 race Hughes offered to quit. "The press doesn't like me," she told Bush. "I don't play their game. That can't be good for your campaign." Bush turned her down, of course, out of loyalty and a conviction that message discipline trumps a sated press corps...
...shows. He brings the characteristic flair that worked so well in past works such as Being John Malkovich and Human Nature. The problem with adapting Kaufman’s flair-ridden scripts is the danger of self-consciously indulging in their wacky nature and losing their essential heart, a flaw that derailed the last third of Adaptation and the central portion of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind...
...courts aren’t able to rectify what appears to be a flaw in the wording of the current statute, then lobbying the legislature to change the law is not only within The Crimson’s rights, but part of what our system of government is all about,” Anderson said...