Word: inept
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...John D. Rockefeller. But artistically, the exhibition as a whole is unfortunately at least 50% junk. In their zeal to obtain a painted likeness of every last historical figure, the directors of the exhibition have been forced to fall back upon dozens of oil portraits that are either pitifully inept, cloyingly sentimental, or else the sort of sycophantic banalities that normally decorate board rooms and government antechambers...
...Phillip Law). In between, she meets some topflight actors who are all too lost in space-Marcel Marceau as the wizardly Professor Ping, Claude Dauphin as the President of Earth, Ugo Tognazzi as a friendly inhabitant of Planet Lytheon. Her only really amusing encounter is with David Hemmings, an inept leader of the Lytheon underground who has a hankering to try the old earthling technique of sexual intercourse...
Prince first staked claim to his present heights with Cabaret, a musical that owed its success by and large to his conception and staging. But Cabaret had a lackadaisical book and some inept casting that tied his hands somewhat; it was not the triumph for this producer-director that it might have been...
Ultimately, a spectator at the trial announces that Goldman is really a Jew [the telltale SS tattoo in his armpit urns out to be a self-inflicted cigar burn). This denouement makes the playwright seem like a bumbling amateur and the Israeli secret agents as incredibly inept. Goldman, it appears, was a kind of Christ-surrogate who wanted to be martyred so that his people might feel that some fitting atonement had been made for the monstrous wrongs done them. But Shaw's conception of martyrdom makes it seem less a matter of conscience that an attention-getting device...
Smith characterizes his trial as a hurry-up affair, marred by an inept defense and an inexperienced judge in a lynchlike atmosphere. Crucial facts, such as fixing the time of death, were botched by his attorney. The case against him, Smith suggests, was founded on shoddy police investigatory work and was somewhat in the nature of a frameup. The actual bases of his many appeals for a rehearing and retrial, which have kept him alive these many years, involve improper trial procedures and the applicability of the Supreme Court rulings regarding forced confession and post-indictment police interrogations...