But why does Wilson feel himself to be so embattled that he needs to drop chippy asides? |
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But the announcer intoned visitors' names in a voice so soft, so dipped, that those men were reduced to whispered asides. |
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When the film strips down to basics and actually concentrates on its main characters rather than these daffy asides, it's pretty good. |
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His strange mannerisms and goofy asides are amusing, and he has a comedian's sensibility for wanting to keep the audience at home interested. |
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More generally, his writing style is somewhat diffuse, full of jokes and asides, with the result that his line of analysis is sometimes opaque. |
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You mentioned language and its multiple meaning, metaphorical asides, its evocative transgressions and endearing intentionality. |
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Truss's voice is deadpan, her asides are witty, and she is never condescending about misuse of the language. |
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It contains many gems, some of which are asides about how books can be dangerous in unexpected ways. |
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Promises will be made, seductive asides will be whispered into shell-like ears, egos will be stroked. |
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Always aware of its own absurdity, the scripts positively dripped with knowing pop-culture references and side-splitting asides. |
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She punctuated her career with asides about the 'body fascism' of television bosses. |
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In his prose he becomes a powerful presence, a personality with obstinate opinions and sardonic asides. |
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Interviewees have thus been treated to loftily dismissive asides, barely stifled yawns and muffled harrumphs. |
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His unique style with witty delivery and humorous asides kept the show humming along. |
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Their bawdy exploits were commented on by Howerd during asides, complete with awful puns, in a pastiche of the traditional Greek chorus. |
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He is never dull and even his more commonplace chapters are enlivened with fascinating detail or asides. |
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These unnecessary asides only waste the time of the House, so would the Minister please just address the question. |
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He had them rolling in the aisles at his hilarious asides and unscripted ad-libs. |
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He wanders into pointless asides, conspiracy theories and even presumes to lecture the audience about its loyalty to Canada. |
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The plot is loopy, dopey and tiresome, and the comic asides don't elicit the smallest of smiles. |
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The clever asides that create a covert intimacy with the audience were too quick for the vocal transitions, if any, to register. |
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The text is delivered in a conversational manner, with frequent asides directed to the audience. |
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Rather than letting such asides dominate his material, Hamilton cleverly weaves them into the overall flow. |
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They are constantly aware that they are in the midst of a movie, and some of the funniest laughs come from their asides to the audience. |
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He uses a language that is accessible to a larger audience, and more suited to humorous asides. |
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His musical set-pieces, as well as character asides in the form of short monologue, are a delight to watch. |
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The revenger also usually had a very close relationship with the audience through soliloquies and asides. |
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This adaptation emphasises the inherent humour of the play, especially in the devil's asides and monologues. |
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There is a fair amount of ludicrous drag, broad farce, heart-rending, bosom-heaving dramatics and pithy asides to an appreciative audience. |
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It takes more than a nice tan, a good smile, and some flashy tapered jeans to pull off the stopping of time to make asides to the audience. |
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She felt herself unable to face the whispered asides and scornful remarks which would accompany her acceptance of any offer. |
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Actual licenses, annotated and explained, are the body of the book with plenty of legal asides and some gentle criticism where necessary. |
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In other instances, the tangential asides and interruptions that characterize any conversation are more distracting than helpful. |
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At the beginning, such reviews were a blend of descriptive reports and theoretical asides, frequently not devoid of controversy. |
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However, some editing would not be amiss, as each piece continues long after its point has been made, with too many digressions and asides. |
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You'll have to tolerate the digressions, the asides, the off-the-cuff remarks. |
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There are in these uninterrupted hundred minutes valuable insights, humorous anecdotes, pertinent and impertinent asides. |
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He made dry asides to reporters at City Hall events, and freely distributed his pager number immediately after taking the oath. |
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Michael furiously takes down all the witty sallies and asides, converting the evening into his next gay play, and, hopefully, a success. |
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Her snappy asides, unconstrained mix of observational humour and rants on life's irritations make for lucid, compulsive viewing. |
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But this slender plot acts as a mere clothesline for a series of slapstick asides and cinematic in-jokes. |
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With this final volume, the reader realizes that small incidents and asides in earlier installments create a breadcrumb trail of clues. |
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The events of his three years on the road, except for a few short asides, make up the plot of the novel. |
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Someone should snap her up just for the sharpness of her headlines, one-line squibs, and nifty asides. |
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The moment is dramatic, the House of Commons sets asides all differences of position and, almost unanimously, votes for declaring war. |
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Today's debate has given rise to a number of historical reflections and asides. |
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McCabe walks into a smoke-filled frontier barroom with its half-heard conversations, its laconic asides, and becomes one of its regulars. |
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It would be a shame to leave out some of the delightful asides and digressions that fill the book. |
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The next three posts will be a detailed account of the lectures and the question-and-answer session, with comments about the audience and a few asides from me. |
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He whispered asides to his merchant team, and stepped away for BlackBerry hiatuses that were sure to set off recriminating e-mail tangents. |
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The asides to the audience from many of the performers were hilarious but their faces never slipped and they played their parts straight down the line. |
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They weren't just asides to give voice to the feelings of the characters. |
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The major figures in the field also raised such issues, but these were gestures amounting to little more than footnotes, unelaborated caveats and asides. |
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Many of the songs are laced with clever hip hop asides and contain every conceivable type of bleep, scratch and vocal distortion known to nu-metal man. |
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Whether delivering information, opinions, perspectives, dissenting arguments, or humorous asides, the human voice is typically open, natural, uncontrived. |
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Typically, viewers gain this knowledge through one character's asides or soliloquies of which other characters are unaware or through the use of a chorus commenting on events. |
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The little asides about people are what make the book so memorable. |
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With no asides and soliloquies, nothing is put in to sweeten the pill. |
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There were sharp observations on Christmas consumerism and quietly furious political asides. |
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Sir Christopher Kelly's report into what went wrong at the Co‑operative Bank is worth a read, if only for its curious asides. |
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Conservation on private lands should be taken into account when evaluating the need for set asides and special management on public lands. |
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But for all the jolly quips and witty asides public relations and advertising are tough, unforgiving industries, teaming with showmanship and bravado. |
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He created a half-dozen memorable characters that often winked and made funny, out-of-context asides to the audience, and no one topped him at ad-libbing. |
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Here, too, serious reflection is interrupted by nonsensical asides. |
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The vibrant cast in modern dress hurl contemporary references, songs, slang and asides into Shakespeare's verse, accentuating the comic and the physical. |
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Besides a trove of data showing that the rich really are getting much richer, the book is full of peppery gallic asides. |
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The book offers good intentions, fascinating asides and digressions, and competent plot summary, along with textual analysis often marred by unsupported conjecture. |
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For them, a few idle asides excepted, America and its works amount to nothing but unbridled wickedness, a brief for gunplay, willful stupidity, and closed-mindedness. |
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He opens avenues of commentary with essayistic asides on politics and history and mulls over the plot choices he makes and the nuances of the theme of shame. |
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More of the changes had to do with breaking the fourth wall and actually interacting with the audience or making critical asides about certain actions and speeches. |
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No matter how serious the topics, there will always be instances when it's impossible not to smile, so droll are the minimalist observations and asides. |
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He's harder to read, sullen when you first meet him, but very relaxed in Georgia's company and given to deadpan asides that he drops into her indiscreet chatter. |
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It is unfortunate that this movie could not have been produced entirely in Spanish, with asides in English for the sporadic encounters where they are warranted. |
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Cheeky and cherubic in his asides and introductions, when the stanzas start he bombs bombastically through them. |
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It is to Amy that this novel is addressed in poignant second-person asides, the use of prolepsis thickening as the story progresses. |
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Those not directly engaged by his tricks and nudges and lippy asides can enjoy a master of the midfield mind games, a proven winner in the wind-up wars. |
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It is slyly witty, full of knowing asides, false starts and playful indirection. |
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But the narrative loses urgency when Shuler unspools one of his off-topic asides. |
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A former clerk to Black once told me that Black had underlined much of the book and made aspersive marginal asides. |
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None of those smart-mouthed, skewering asides. |
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Withering asides, snide remarks, and Chinese burns would be absolutely fine and dandy as long as you show us the money. |
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Like Underwood, Jeff Perry's Cyrus is a Machiavelli who cozies up to the President, but he's got rage, wit, and a capacity for passion, not just oleaginous asides. |
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Julia Child's chatty asides have been replaced by grim nutritional statistics and an insistence on brewer's yeast, wheat germ and blackstrap molasses. |
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Their smart-aleck annotative asides intersect. |
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The getaway Car is lousy with these throwaway lines and asides. |
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Godwin's company does the opposite, retaining the bumpiness indicated in the text where the soliloquies and asides are printed as indented paragraphs. |
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When the reaction of other shareholders during a general assembly questioning is observed closely, these asides exasperate the majority of small shareholders and help encourage them not to change their behavior. |
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Once the directors have waded through the numbers and snarky asides about the corporate jet, it boils down to three demands: a buy-back, the spin-off of a non-core subsidiary and the search for a merger partner. |
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But the talks they must launch on Friday are not with each other: those negotiations have been going on in mused asides, broad hints and more forthright assertions ever since the first coalition was agreed. |
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You can tell by the way they stare into the middle distance over a cup of cooling tea, doomed to replay the scene endlessly in their minds, thinking up the witty asides that would have won over the director. |
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The filmmakers kept after her as she moved from airplanes to hotel lobbies, dressing rooms and onto the stage, where her cavernously wide mouth pours out invective, acid asides and jokes jokes jokes like water. |
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Benjamin Black makes pointed asides about the dullness of Agatha Christie, and about the patness of mystery stories that resolve their loose ends too tidily. |
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He lingers nostalgically in Boot Hill cemeteries, the last abodes of bodies that were shot, lynched or otherwise violently assaulted. The reputations of a few American legends are damaged by asides. |
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