Word: ineptly
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Good acting can hide many things in a movie, in "Mr. Skeffington," it conceals a slow script and inept directing to produce an exceptionally moving drama with great emotional impact and effective probing of human nature...
Last week Canadian newspapers carried the most inept recruiting advertisement yet printed. It showed a young man frowning, chin in hand. The text screamed: "Have I got the 'Guts'? Ask yourself this question. One look in your mirror will give you the answer. Am I man or mouse...
Propaganda ranging from the slick to the grotesquely inept pours in there virtually 24 hours a day. This mad ethereal menu was described last week by George ("Smiley") Grim, Mutual Network and XGOY (Chungking) broadcaster, on loan from the U.S. Department of State to the Chinese Ministry of Information. Items : Items...
Poor leadership, which causes unnecessary casualties and "a weakness of the whole fabric of the fighting Army" will have to be eliminated, says Baldwin, before western Europe is invaded. According to Baldwin this major job must first be done: "the unfit, inept, 'stuffed-shirt' and inefficient leaders [must be replaced] with good leadership . . . to build up a pride of outfit in the country's many untested divisions, the divisions that on the war's greatest D-day will hold the future in their hands...
...been Franklin Roosevelt's most faithful follower. Opponents had taunted him with being a Roosevelt stooge, a White House errand boy, reminding him constantly that he owed his election as leader to the President's famed "Dear Alben" letter (see p. 20). Critics had called him inept, plodding, bumbling-as often he seemed. But despite both the taunts and his faults, he had kept the faith. Time & again he had yielded his own judgment to the President's, time & again he had marched up Capitol Hill carrying water on both shoulders to fight the President...