Word: inept
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Presumably, the public has made it a box-office sellout in the titillating hope that it is a keyhole drama. Sad to say, Liz and Dick are almost as inept at playing themselves as they are at re-creating Coward's characters. All passion spent, they seem blankly disaffected, otherwise engaged. The chemistry between them is about as combustible as lukewarm tea, though their quarrels raise ghostly, vulgarized echoes of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...many specialists in forgery detection had predicted, once competent experts had a full and fair chance to examine the documents, evidence of any but the most crafty forgery would be swiftly found. But this fabrication, the German scientists discovered, was astonishingly inept. Chemical analysis of the binding showed that it contained polyester threads, which were not produced until after World War II. The glue used on the book labels also contained postwar chemicals. The same typewriter had been used on all labels on the volumes. It was a 1925 machine, all right, but close inspection of a label ostensibly typed...
Pringle can handle most of the deficiencies of modern medicine: indifferent nurses, inept interns and medical students who observe a parent-doctor conference "like bright-eyed evaluators for a game show." But the bureaucracy is unendurable: "I feel like an immigrant unable to get through customs." Listening to Eric as he receives injections, Pringle writes, "My child shouldn't be stuck and made to scream. We have lost control...
...October 17th, 1896, when the first production of The Seagull opened in the State Theater of St. Petersburg, it was a resounding disaster. The play was poorly understood by its actors and poorly acted. Hissed down by the audience, it was dismissed by critics as inept and absurd Playwright Anton Chekhov, confounded by the disaster, left the theater after the second act, vowing never to write a play again...
...after the first inning, the Crimson did not get anything going. Both offensively and defensively the batwomen looked inept. At the plate, Harvard managed only four hits against Stovall, even though the batwomen were consistently making contact with the Chieftain's fastballs...