It is good that he tends to draw back in the end, but it would be even better if he didn't pander to his readers' prejudices in the first place. |
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His films do not pander to escapism or to the audiences settled expectations about entertainment. |
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This is a clear attempt to scratch the itch of racism, homophobia and bigotry and pander to the culturally insecure in order to grub for votes. |
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For these critics, public indifference was a mark of distinction, a sign of the artist's refusal to pander to the degraded tastes of the crowd. |
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But of course he was writing to satisfy his literary muse, not to pander to the base tastes of his public. |
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Excessive gift-giving is now so entrenched in Hollywood culture that a company has been set up just to pander to the tastes of the A-listers. |
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It therefore made good economic sense to pander to popular taste and reaffirm the unique selling points of mainstream Indian cinema. |
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They have been replaced by a blackcurrant variety to pander to tastes beyond the county. |
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And how are we going to clean out the criminal elements that pander to everything from the numbers game to illegal work permits and drug running? |
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This strategy, admirable in its refusal to pander to European popular tastes, will of course never, ever, give Turkey a winning song. |
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Yet there are pundits who have dismissed his refusal to pander as pandering. |
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Often the builders of hotels or airplanes leave out row 13 or floor 13 in an attempt to pander to popular superstitions. |
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In short, we had to pander to the general belief that drifters were losers who were ashamed of their personal histories. |
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His antagonism towards the media will be recast as a firmness of character that wouldn't pander to the most base instincts of people. |
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The Labour government is afraid of the Daily Mail leader writers and pander to the lowest common denominator. |
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We face today a rising inclination for public policy makers to pander to the lowest common denominator. |
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Their intent to pander and to be alarmist causes them to inflame some of those emotions, fears and concerns. |
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In general, independent movies for adult audiences, with no need to pander to marketing insight, do a much better job portraying preadolescence. |
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Feigning obliviousness to an officer's suspicion and refusing to pander to it was my only defence. |
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Basically he was saying that this bill is designed to pander to what he referred to as special interest groups. |
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More than ever, it is the politicians' responsibility not to pander to that populism. |
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There are three reasons to explain why some are prone to pander to Mr Putin. |
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Rather, it used the people's money to selectively pander to certain demographics in our society. |
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This critical reflexivity does not pander to established ontology or rely upon foundational judgments. |
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I should like to make one final comment, namely that we should not pander to our obsessions at the expense of those countries. |
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On me: an investment in the futureIn the face of such voters, both candidates pander. |
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But if I overdo it and I pander and I put something up just because the Twilight crowd is going to like it, I will get punished. |
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All Ham had to do was sit still for two-and-a-half hours, sound vaguely professional, and pander occasionally to his base. |
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The pander itself is a depressing, if familiar, window into conservative Republican thought on the Middle East. |
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However, intellectual honesty is the first thing to go when you are forced to constantly pander to your base. |
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But as far as civil marriage is concerned, there is no need to pander to the objections of a faithful minority. |
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Democrats could use a sunny day as an excuse to destroy the free market, redistribute income and pander to lobbyists. |
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The reaction generally to the defacement must surely have sent a clear message to the vandals, and the last thing one need do is to pander to them. |
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In China, there is no cultural tendency to pander to the consumer. |
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However, women have to understand that it is incumbent upon them to be here to ensure that the level of debate stays high and does not pander to the kind of thing that we are talking about. |
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Anticipating this, there is no reason whatsoever to pander to the wishes of the current regime in its belief that the current state structure is eternal and God-given. |
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So if this had turned out to be a genuine backward message, it wouldn't have bothered me although I'd have been a bit disappointed that Maiden felt they needed to pander to this lame stereotype. |
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His latest speech simply seems to pander to the worst instincts of the electorate. |
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Her attempts to pander to New York's militant minorities have repeatedly backfired, most famously when she endorsed her husband's pardon of a bunch of Puerto Rican nationalists, only to backpedal later. |
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First, I would like to read for members a quote to substantiate my argument that the government wants to pander to these groups that believe that nothing should be killed. |
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The issue I was trying to point out in my speech was that the Liberals pander to the special interest groups that would have us eat tofu and vegetarian food for the rest of our lives. |
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Low don't always pander to fans' expectations. |
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My group has always been wary of those who would pander to the fashionable anxiety about enlargement, making strangers of peoples who will soon be fellow citizens. |
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The minister did a good job of drafting the language in the legislation to ensure that we did not pander to anyone but that we included all Canadians. |
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It is even more difficult for us to adopt most of Parliament's amendments, which further restrict the original text and have no other aim than to pander to nationalist, sovereign or xenophobic prejudices. |
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Over the years, I witnessed the making of all the regulations that are creating the problems and my experience in this Parliament was that we wanted to pander to public sentiment. |
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You may imagine that it is easy to pander to public opinion. |
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That said, underneath all the surface eccentricities, The King's Speech still manages to do the one thing necessary for any potential Oscar-winner to do, and that's pander to its audience. |
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In the name of law and order, instead of satisfying their desire to pander to their Reform base, will the Conservatives listen to Canada's police officers, who are unanimous in asking them to maintain the gun registry? |
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The direct participation in the LKP of Combat Ouvrier and the NPA's uncritical praises of the LKP pander to petty-bourgeois nationalism and expose the politics of LO and the NPA as petty-bourgeois liberal reformism. |
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That kind of stuff doesn't just pander to the lowest common denominator, it gives a legitimacy to lamebrains on either side of this country's divide. |
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It occurs together with the thelodont Phlebolepis elegans Pander, a heterostracan Archegonaspis sp. |
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Lophosteus superbus Pander, ein Teleostome aus dem Silur Oesels.On the oldest known teleostome fish Andreolepis hedei Gross, and the systematic position of the lophosteids. |
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Pander in 1856, who described shields of the heterostracan Tolypelepis undulata, plates of the osteichthyan Lophosteus superbus and a number of jaw bones of acanthodians. |
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