Word: gracelessness
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...even a sheep joke. Vulgarity can be a dazzlingly pleasurable thing in comedy. But there's something very sad about Year One's vulgarity. It's desperate. The movie is one long snigger. Cera is the only aspect of it that doesn't feel graceless and defeated. "I'm just minding my own business," he seems to say. "Doing my thing." It might be one-note, but at least it's in the key of funny...
...even drowned in the Seine since the program began; 7,800 others have been stolen. Just as bad, some cyclists have even begun broadcasting Internet videos of themselves engaged in "Vélib free rides" or "extreme Vélib'," in which wannabe urban daredevils put the solid but graceless bikes through punishing stunts usually reserved for BMX or mountain bikes...
...moderate to be George W. Bush's top diplomat. Liberals, meanwhile, were not ready to forgive his role in hyping the case against Saddam Hussein. After the 2004 election, Powell was hurried out the door by the White House in a fashion that his supporters found graceless...
...Chinese graphic designer has not been a happy one. In mainland China design was, for a long time, an instrument of socialist propaganda, and to be a graphic designer was to be a sort of mechanic, running chunky, graceless type across posters of model peasants or valiant soldiers. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, designers spent much of the 20th century toiling in the service of another omnipotent master - the export market, which required packaging and other printed matter produced strictly to Western specifications and sensibilities. Questions of form, style and color were not settled upon locally, but in British...
...days before this graceless d?nouement, Clinton's inner circle seemed split about how to proceed. Those closest to the candidate were bitter and had taken to rehearsing small grievances distorted by the campaign echo chamber - that Obama's aides had exploited Clinton's gaffe when she inappropriately raised the specter of Robert Kennedy's assassination, that Obama hadn't defended Clinton sufficiently after the disgraceful attack by Father Michael Pfleger from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ, that the Obama campaign had played too rough in the Democratic Rules Committee battle, which granted the disputed Michigan and Florida...