Looking back, I was totally naive and amateurish, but those six months stood me in good stead for what I'm doing now. |
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While one can dismiss much work at a glance as amateurish or badly crafted, that is not the case for this mark. |
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Their presentation was ill-prepared and disappointing, and their proposals amateurish and ill-informed. |
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The stress deepened her dependence on alcohol, and her amateurish efforts to market her story led her to embellish the details of her espionage. |
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The cheesy production values, the low-budget special effects, and the amateurish level of some of the acting alienated me at first. |
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For all her brother's enthusiasm, she imagined that the end product would be three amateurish pop songs, all with the same four basic chords. |
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Looking back to that first World Cup in New Zealand 15 years ago, it all seems laughably innocent and amateurish now. |
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Nothing is more amateurish than to browse aimlessly all over the bookstore. |
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Most top athletes despise the notion of luck, with its amateurish connotations of fluke and happenstance. |
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One of them left no impression on me at all and the other struck me as quite amateurish. |
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Typically, the songs mix advanced guitar noodling with amateurish keyboard bashing. |
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What he does provide are gross out jokes, amateurish animation techniques, and hideous images of the human body and deformed flesh. |
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While no one disputes his ability to lift 900 pounds, some have found his performance refreshingly unpracticed, others off-puttingly amateurish. |
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Now his not knowing the difference was what I should call bungling and very amateurish. |
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Finally, the intervention of allied troops was ineffectual and actually amateurish. |
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I think the station is amateurish, playing embarrassing music and is unlistenable. |
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In this country there has always been something a little amateurish about gambling. |
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This is a situation which bespeaks an amateurish approach to football administration. |
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The amateurish performances, hamfisted dramatics and video nasty violence are a completely resistible combination. |
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Worse, it is making unforced errors which make it look amateurish and incompetent. |
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It's expensive, but worth it to avoid the mistakes that mark out a cheap, amateurish video from a slick corporate one. |
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But if special insight is far beyond my ability, amateurish speculation based on a questionable assumption is not. |
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In both cases, the process is entertainingly amateurish, at least from a branding professional's perspective. |
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Though they then ruin the effect by making an amateurish mistake on a flip reference to cricket. |
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In spite of the good result, their London election performance was more amateurish than last year's European elections. |
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Yet when fox-hunting was considered a sport, from its inception in the eighteenth century, it was far from an amateurish or cost-free pursuit. |
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Try to ignore the poor spelling and amateurish design, and concentrate on the quality of advice gleaned from years of experience. |
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The photographs are of indifferent quality, the layout and design clumsy and amateurish. |
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Here, playing a priest who has lost his faith, he comes off as amateurish and unlikable, a second rate character that is not very funny. |
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On the next wall, there is a clutch of figurative drawings from the early 1990s, some beautifully conceived and others unwieldy and amateurish. |
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In spite of its amateurish direction and hypocritical preachment, it broke even. |
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More importantly, what sort of record label would dignify such amateurish enthusiasm by actually releasing it? |
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The impromptu funeral rites she performs are her amateurish attempts to clear her conscience of this terrible burden. |
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He peeks behind the curtains, an amateurish move on his part, but nothing too bad. |
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The amateurish performances, ham-fisted dramatics and video nasty violence are a completely resistible combination. |
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The bottom line is that it is amateurish and will threaten the safety of our children. |
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I can deal with a film that has plot, but at times, it seems like the director's desire to break Hollywood conventions clashes with amateurish writing. |
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Attempts at singing punctuate the record, and though Mos Def's technique is unconventional and amateurish, his efforts still manage to remain somewhat charming. |
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The stigma attached to student films is that they are amateurish, dilettantish and excusable on the grounds that they're made by non-professionals. |
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It's the first time cameras have been allowed behind the scenes of lottery operator Camelot, and this rather amateurish film reveals what happens once a win is confirmed. |
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This may explain why Ricci gives a thin, amateurish performance. |
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The writing is mostly amateurish, aimed at times to young kids. |
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And if that sounds rather vague and amateurish, I'm sure it is. |
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They used to dismiss fintech as an amateurish attempt to take on a venerable industry, with no hope of disrupting it, but have stopped scoffing. |
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Locals in well-worn bush hats and boots mingled with Trailblazer men dressed in crazily amateurish hammed-up drag and multicoloured wigs. |
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The government's attitude could be criticized, however, because, once again, it has taken an amateurish and poorly thought out approach. |
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In RD's view, one does not engage in anthropology for amateurish reasons, but to meet a social need. |
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Certainly there is a greater issue here which is the unprofessional and amateurish way the government has handled this file. |
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This Paper Tiger video is also interesting to watch for deliberately amateurish, creative and humorous way it presents a serious lecture. |
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He noticed that most designs he found on the internet were quite... amateurish. |
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Our default position is to assume that Canadian films are cheap and amateurish. |
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Sure, it's an amateurish mashup of every other action movie, but it has its charms. |
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The release of the Romney tax returns is so amateurish that it almost offends me. |
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In the end, Haro was brought to justice when her brother implicated her in the amateurish plot. |
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We won't be happy until we've got 400 cable or satellite or digital stations and we can watch the most ridiculous, amateurish, shoddy bits of nonsense. |
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If the answer to both questions is in the negative, then tell him that jiggling in time to the music is amateurish and jiggling out of time with the music distracting. |
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Why did these highly paid professionals make such amateurish mistakes? |
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If they try to do so on their own, their attempts will often be amateurish, incompetent, and therefore less of a threat than they might otherwise be. |
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I think it's a good sign that there is so much amateurish material. |
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Ryan's ads were laughed at as amateurish, but they apparently worked. |
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Rather, I'll mention the fact that the movie has a certain amateurish charm to it that's hard to deny, but it hardly bears more than one or two views. |
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And the thing that strikes me is how amateurish the whole thing seems. |
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It was very amateurish and very unprofessional and very disturbing. |
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While no one disputes Ahola's ability to lift 900 pounds, some have found his performance refreshingly unpracticed, others off-puttingly amateurish. |
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His account of his road trip has an endearingly amateurish quality-not least because of the author's penchant for mixed metaphors and overwrought prose. |
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Along the streets a few scruffy, amateurish posters flap disconsolately in the wind. |
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The amateurish motion capture does not match up to the thrill you expect from a Rajini flick. |
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I find the base fact-finding project one to be very amateurish. |
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Ever a bit amateurish, and never quite an echt Impressionist, he inspires vicariously, conveying the ardency of a cultivated fellow-traveller in an epoch of aesthetic revolution. |
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The drawings were amateurish, cut-rate, antiquated. |
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At times the first half hour feels almost amateurish, while peripheral characters verge towards vaudeville hamminess. |
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By breaking its gateway funding promises, the government is failing B. C. on the gateway at home and abroad through its amateurish approach to relations with our Asia-Pacific trading partners abroad. |
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I'd also argue that there are more big hits being produced from things that might be seen as amateurish than there are coming from the conventional formats lately. |
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And they knock off in time to say goodnight to their children. A second excellent feature of Scotland's new politics is that it is, still, a refreshingly amateurish affair. |
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The move has been criticised by Democrats and even some Republicans as an amateurish attempt to pull the rug from beneath a president at the height of delicate negotiations. |
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With this there is a quality which seems to issue from its vibratoless tone: a sound of amateurish ineffectuality, as though he could never quite make it. |
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Discussion between groups, in an unselfish spirit of sharing knowledge and experience for the good of all, will be effective in keeping down wastage due to misplaced effort or amateurish planning. |
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By 1951, television was keeping people home, but a television show based in the Stork Club was an amateurish calamity, exposing the owner as a fumbler and the place as banal. |
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An amateurish red button announcement in the middle of Take Me Out doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in a song The UK knows this, which might explain why it hasn't really bothered this year. |
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The court held that it was an error to impose a penitentiary sentence on a first-time offender who was no danger to the community for being the follower in a relatively minor and amateurish offence. |
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With Terrorizer, which is a magazine for those who are passionate about metal, we have the same kind of relationship as with French magazines but their business remains quite amateurish. |
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The last section wanders through Desniansky Raion, a district in the suburbs of Kiev, filmed without flight clearance from a microlight, dangerously shaken by the wind, producing images both cinematographic and amateurish. |
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Unless the Commission comes forward immediately with some answers on this project, we in the EU run the risk of appearing amateurish and irresponsible. |
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Darwin scorned its amateurish geology and zoology, but carefully reviewed his own arguments. |
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He is a count, a gallant and fashionable man, with excellent taste, and a wide and pleasant range of amateurish talents: he writes, sings, knows his way around a gallery, and dances as well. |
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Natalie Bennett was as amateurish as usual, but that won't worry Greens. |
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It was painfully low-budget and amateurish, available only on YouTube. |
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Romney has so far been an amateurish foreign-policy candidate. |
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Not all of this can be dismissed as amateurish twaddle. |
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I would challenge the image that it's amateurish. |
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Overall, the Committee on Budgetary Control is very concerned about the extent to which an amateurish improvisatory approach has prevailed in the administration to date. |
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It may be amateurish, some of the stuff on YouTube, but people love it, and they love it more than some of the professional shows that we're producing. |
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The promising attempt at a solution in the form of co-financing was allowed to slip out of sight at the very beginning, which was an amateurish way to proceed. |
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