Word: weak
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...Don’t be afraid of matching anymore. The more pink, the merrier.2) Wearing a blazer may make you think that you can talk about your hedge fund with the power and authority of a seasoned banker. You are correct about this.3) Bowties are not for the weak.—Staff writer Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached at harring@fas.harvard.edu...
Dupri, the Boyz, D4L (whose “Laffy Taffy” blew up all over the country and whose cheap, minimalist sound precipitated the formation of this group), et al. have managed to make a club trend out of really weak drum machines and minimal production. It’s good business, and it works. This is the kind of music that you say you hate, but which secretly you wish you could play at full volume without fear of being smacked...
...offender in this respect is “Joy Ride,” an uninspired torch song in which Carey likens the pleasures of love to, surprise, a joy ride—not exactly the most potent of metaphors. Worse, Carey attempts to overshadow the track’s weak production with an excessively acrobatic vocal performance. At times it’s unclear whether she’s singing or just running through scales...
These graphic sex scenes only highlight Ward’s weak writing skills. She lacks lyrical prose compared to other established vampirical writers like Rice. Even her sentence structure is more aligned with the simplicity of Dan Brown...
...Certainly, Musharraf has plenty of incentive for going after the movement that has twice attempted to kill him. But bin Laden is a popular hero in Waziristan, where central government authority is weak, if not entirely nonexistent, the elected regional government is openly pro-Taliban, and Pakistani troops are on hostile terrain when they leave their bases in search of Qaeda fighters. Fierce armed opposition from the locals has significantly curtailed action against the jihadists...