Word: inept
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...much fun. Willy's eldest son was killed in it. The strudel of his father's eye, he was a lad with an infallible business instinct for knowing just when to switch from regular to homogenized milk. By contrast, the surviving son, Frank Joseph Kleinhans, is an inept dreamer who goes through life keeping his amateur standing...
...conflict between the laws of God and the laws of man was obviously warring within Daniel Ellsberg. By following the dictates of his conscience, he has performed an invaluable service to the citizens of this country. The exposure of the unbelievably inept handling of an inexcusable war can have only positive long-term effects...
...reviews. What with cast changes and the failure of producers or directors to maintain vigilant spot-checks, some shows are not remotely up to the mark. A glaring and appalling case in point is Hair, which is a lamentable travesty of what it once was. The performers are sloppy, inept and totally self-indulgent, and the amplification system is an auditory torture that the Nazis might have envied...
...comic attempts end there. Sometimes Lumet attempts to send up other movies: a one-sided encounter between Angelo and his paralyzed father is an inept parody of Jack Nicholson's monologue in Five Easy Pieces. The film also mercilessly mocks a homosexual antiques dealer, with Martin Balsam, as they say in Hollywood, "cast against the part...
...worst mistake in our history has been to give women the privilege of voting. Women vote for the handsome face of Mayor Lindsay. This inept mayor and worst administrator in our history has the nerve to think of running for presidential office...