Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Need (1999). Yet she still features on those media-friendly lists of British young bloods to watch out for, and reviewers still struggle to pin her down; Kennedy harvests and grades their comments on her website and is particularly fond of an early one accusing her of "making misery tedious." Hannah Luckraft's misery is making her drink herself to death: Paradise opens in hell, in the kind of hangover that is most quickly cured by getting drunk again. Her career - "something in cardboard" - is hanging by a thread, her grasp on reality starting to slip. Her loving family...
...strip should look like. Beyer stuffs his raw caricatures into the corners of zany layouts, no two of which are alike. And a good thing, too. It would be unreadable otherwise. Even smart strip collections like the "Complete Peanuts" suffer from the monotony of the square panels and the tedious pace of setup?development?punch line. Printed with just one, enlarged strip per page, the A+J collection not only avoids this pitfall, but leaps over it. The bleak negativity of the message has its counterpoint in the constant variety of the form. The two combined make Mark Beyer...
...point that there are only two practicing sorcerers left in England. The pair are a pleasing study in contrasts: Mr. Norrell is exceptionally learned but shy and fussy. "He is," a character remarks, "at one and the same time, the most remarkable man of the age and the most tedious." Strange is charming, young, fashionable and romantic. Clarke could have called the book Sense and Sensibility if the title weren't already taken...
...European clubs above those of their countries - there's a certain trick to it, of course: Make sure you're available during the World Cup or similar tournaments when buyers from the major teams are out scouting for talent, but cry injury, or even "retire" to avoid all those tedious qualifiers and friendlies in between. Countries such as South Africa, Australia and Senegal have increasingly recognized this reality, given that most of their natural picks for the national team now earn their living in Europe. They are increasingly adapting their national setups to accommodate the foreign-based players...
...European clubs above those of their countries - there's a certain trick to it, of course: Make sure you're available during the World Cup or similar tournaments when buyers from the major teams are out scouting for talent, but cry injury, or even "retire" to avoid all those tedious qualifiers and friendlies in between. Countries such as South Africa, Australia and Senegal have increasingly recognized this reality, given that most of their natural picks for the national team now earn their living in Europe. They are increasingly adapting their national setups to accommodate the foreign-based players...