Word: shallow
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Sometimes, talented actors can redeem a poorly conceived movie from complete failure--no such luck this time. The characters prove so stereotypical and shallow that even earnest attempts from usually likable actors like Bullock and Pullman fall flat...
...Grant's culpability than with the problematic state of te College admissions process that her case so vividly illustrates. The New York Times reported that Grant had been questioned about the death of her parents by a Harvard alumni interviewer who was "interested in the orphan angle." How typically shallow of the college admissions process to refer to personal tragedy as an "angle." When I applied to college in 1987, my counselor told me to do some hands-on community service to improve my application. I remember being disconcerted by his frankness; the primary purpose of the service...
Cicero, though, maintained his composure with the bases loaded and induced the next batter, Eagle outfielder Kevin Penwell, to pop up to shallow right field...
...apparently interested in Grant because of the "orphan angle" as much as because of her academic achievements. The enchantment of the noble admissions officer with Grant's rags-to-riches success story and the disgust when faced with the reality behind that myth creates a wonderful irony, illuminating the shallow standards on which admission applicants are judged...
...often very precise. The colors are muted: grays, sandy browns, black, occasionally lit by a flash of red, as in Glasshouse Mountains, 1958; forms are pressed into a flat dense surface (stamped there, you feel, as by a Chinese seal), but the space also folds in and out, shallow and buckling, like a screen. Sometimes the brushstrokes are languid and creamy, but they are interspersed with a stuttering, rough calligraphy that might have been drawn with a twig. The broken grid half-conceals figures and friezes remembered from China, India and Bali, mixed with recollections of marketplaces, rituals and washing...