Word: hamfistedness
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Compounding the book's hamfisted nature is its tendency to sound like an apologia for the Chinese government. For instance, the Naisbitts blame "the Western press" for stoking fear about the 2003 SARS epidemic and contend that "Chinese media broke the news of official suppression of information about the SARS...
Or maybe the video is just poorly constructed and full of hamfisted tomfoolery like people standing around and singing to no one in particular. I’m going to assume the latter.
Stage Beauty feels like the brainchild of a producer attempting to capitalize on the commercial success of Shakespeare in Love. But, in addition to the significant absence of Gwyneth Paltrow’s come-hither androgynous sultriness and sans Tom Stoppard’s once-over on the screenplay, Stage...
Robbins' history lesson never feels spoon-fed, delivered with a snappy pace and comedy that is by turns broadly slapstick and subtly incisive. Nimble performances keep this complicated creation afloat. Though the film's scope makes all of its portrayals into caricatures, the actors seem aware of the limitations of...
But where is it written that a novel can't combine tragedy and hamfisted vulgarity? Certainly not in America. History, Marx said, repeats itself as farce; with Generations of Winter, so does Russian historical fiction.