| 单词 | well-meaning |
| 例句 | All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Major Danby pressed forward avidly with a look of vulturous well-meaning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I still had practice, but I was keener to run around and deal with stress that way than I’d been to have well-meaning teachers not know what to say in my presence. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Esperanza’s parents were well-meaning, but occasionally clueless, certainly unprepared for the complications of adopting a brown girl and raising her in a white home. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My house is probably nicer than yours, she’d murmur to herself while reading their well-meaning comments. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z If a castaway is injured, beware of well-meaning but ill-founded medical treatment. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother talks about folks who are well-meaning. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He gave her one last awkward, well-meaning hug. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Occasionally, Debbie wished Sasha would ease up a little—resist correcting well-meaning relatives who said he instead of they, for example. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But you’d be surprised how quickly armed military personnel and pepper spray shut down the well-meaning protests of liberals in small, leafy towns. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Despite his bouts of drunkenness, the young husband is well-meaning. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Can’t blame the poor car, I suppose, but don’t like to blame the stupid, well-meaning driver. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The founders, as well-meaning as they were, still suffered from a mortal mentality, having been so close to the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Yes, I can imagine Aunt Aggie saving me from the clutches of that well-meaning midwife. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They always end up kicking some well-meaning horse whisperer in the head and getting put down. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Staring up at Aishwarya Rai on the Bride and Prejudice poster above my bed—a typically well-meaning, completely misguided gift attempt from my mom—I hope I’m not getting ahead of myself. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z All these years, I never considered the possibility that my father—my well-meaning but occasionally whacked-out father—might be walking around with a broken heart, carrying a pain too awful to talk about. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She was such a devoted woman, such a well-meaning, devoted woman. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As you may know, complimentary remarks of this type are all too often made by well-meaning adults to children who are, to be frank, perfectly ordinary- looking. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “You told the truth—your dad’s a peaceful, well-meaning guy who occasionally loses a wing nut. Anybody who reads that story can see how much you care.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “You told the truth—your dad’s a peaceful, well-meaning guy who occasionally loses a wing nut. Anybody who reads that story can see how much you care.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “A lot of these kids are afraid to roam this neighborhood because well-meaning people may get the wrong idea,” she says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z They came shyly down the lane, like well-meaning acton who were trying to do their best, but who were not good at acting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t say he was sorry, or make any of the well-meaning comments Frank always hated: Oh, you poor guy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But it was so like her to try, to make this doomed, grasping, well-meaning effort. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We should have made it a period ball, not the hotch-potch of humanity it was bound to be, with Giles, poor fellow, well-meaning and hearty in his guise of Arabian sheik. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He endured trumpet lessons, soccer camp, church-sponsored basketball tournaments, and after-school sessions with well-meaning tutors who would politely change the subject when asked about the Rooster's chances of getting into Yale or Princeton. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All of that other well-meaning advice, all of it disappears. Miss America crowning new winner in Las Vegas 2012-01-14T11:16:10Z It is in this chaotic petri dish that the animal comes under the well-meaning scrutiny of his adopted family and ingratiates himself with his carers, to the delight of some and the chagrin of others. Project Nim: we are the real chumps in this chimp's story 2011-01-21T11:00:10Z This is an understandable gesture, and a well-meaning one. Chris Rock Is Exactly What the Oscars Need 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z “As a Black person who has endured a lot of racism and microaggression, I wanted to understand how a well-meaning white person might still hurt you,” she said. A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z Crowdfunding campaigns are often the first response by a well-meaning do-gooder. Perspective | Is that crowdfunding charity campaign legit? Here are some ways to protect your donation. 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z I’m sorry, but in the season of “Girls” a secondhand, sentimental sex comedy, however well-meaning, is not going to cut it. Movie Review: Daryl Wein’s ‘Lola Versus’ With Greta Gerwig 2012-06-07T22:39:20Z Mary always seems to be creeping up on Jarret in an organza frock: well-meaning, with an interest that comes to verge on the romantic, but putting him at risk by her very presence. In ‘Horse,’ Geraldine Brooks Sets a Consideration of Race at the Track 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z The people you’re trying to help may use their sounding boards’ well-meaning availability as a reason or excuse not to get the professional help they really need. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A caregiver fears the emotional roller coaster is about to derail 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z On the night of his Writers’ House event, he shocks the well-meaning audience by reading from the most violent passages of his novel. Book World: ‘The Train to Warsaw’ by Gwen Edelman And genug with the well-meaning but lazy young adult novels that use the Holocaust as an atmospheric, high-drama backdrop for a love story, providing emotional intensity without true gravitas. Why Are There So Many Holocaust Books for Kids? 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z She hears voices in her head as well sometimes, and it’s much cheaper than a well-meaning but wildly ineffective shrink. Salon’s 2015 Gift Guide: All the goodwill toward men you can buy — even for Christian Grey 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z And a world full of well-meaning people who don't know her very well, talking a little louder, touching her belly, smiling broadly and telling her how she is feeling. Mothers, enough of the simpering please! 2013-06-29T06:29:01Z Jennings taps into a powerful sadness that only grows as well-meaning people keep failing to connect. The Welders’ ‘Not Enuf Lifetimes’ explores the perils of trying to do good It is decorative, well-meaning, and full of neat encounters, and it certainly presents a Garbo in the high summer of her maturity, richer and more mellow than she has ever been before. From the Observer archive, 6 October 1935: Greta Garbo in her element as Anna Karenina 2012-09-29T23:05:46Z Baby gorillas weren’t as victimized by the primate craze of the ’60s and ’70s as chimpanzees and bonobos, when infant apes were raised like children by well-meaning scientists. Answering the Many Questions About ‘The One and Only Ivan’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z But Jar Jar represents the well-meaning public that accidentally votes for a dictator. From “Star Wars” to our wars: What the Force has in common with “Thank you for your service” 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Accounts by the choreographer, epileptic and dancer Rita Marcalo of well-meaning attempts to dissuade her from trying to induce a seizure as part of a performance pointed this up beautifully. Access All Areas: putting disability centre stage 2011-03-07T18:34:31Z There's a handful of heartfelt moments where she's seen comforting them, giving them well-meaning advice and stepping in to help them amid difficult situations. "Sex Lives" stars on how their characters are "more powerful" in their sexuality this year 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z They are on the face of it, well-meaning, if slightly embarrassing, in their desire to be seen as good progressives, boasting about voting for Obama, engaging in fist-bumps. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 3 Get Out 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The Jewish characters are well-meaning but clueless, like Carlin’s white liberal cabdriver. ‘Car Wash,’ a Raunchy 1970s Comedy Brimming With Meta and Mayhem 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z But Dr. Deary’s book — though well-meaning and not entirely softheaded — is close to unreadable for different reasons. 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Salon spoke to Cummings recently the challenges of homeschooling, and how to answer those well-meaning friends who ask, “But what about socialization?” Quinn Cummings: My homeschooling manifesto 2012-08-24T18:10:00Z “What ended up happening is that I made a really technically beautiful, well-meaning record that isn’t censored . . . but there is a lot of my own retroactively shaping the narrative I had.” Julien Baker questioned her faith. Music helped her embrace the uncertainty. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Sam, as she is called, uses “Dear White People” to call out the hypocrisies, blind spots and micro-aggressions that African-Americans experience in their daily encounters with well-meaning Caucasians. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z I've a feeling we will be looking at Hell when more well-meaning protests are forgotten. Why the art of war is hell 2013-07-25T14:36:27Z "I would give him, oh, a 6 out of 10," he sighs, like a well-meaning but eternally disappointed maths teacher. What to say about ... Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway 2011-03-29T09:58:53Z I felt that the consolation was well-meaning but kind of disingenuous, I suppose. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Why was she forced to leave her son in the care of people who were, however well-meaning, strangers? “My infant died. He should have been with me”: The horror too nightmarish to comprehend 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Because of that conspicuous silence from dead victims, true crime podcasters — many of whom may be perfectly well-meaning people — are able to make sometimes exorbitant wealth, or draw massive clout and sponsorships. “Only Murders” makes us question the ethically murky joy we derive from true crime 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z This is as true for Lebowitz as it is for a group of well-meaning regular women named Karen whom Ziwe handles gently in a segment later shown later in the same premiere. With Showtime's sunshiny and sharp "Ziwe," we have an iconic talk show host in the making 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Throughout, despite Billy's dystopian view, people are often well-meaning and kind, from the nicely drawn museum staff to the young teacher with whom Billy almost has an affair. Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:02Z I don't want to hurt my husband by broadcasting this mess, never mind my personal embarrassment, so how do I respond to well-meaning questions? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sorry, Dad, but you’re the one donning a trashy look 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z One highlight is “The Weight of Time,” about a well-meaning scientist who builds a time-travel device and hopes to use it to correct some of history’s wrongs. Seven Comic Books for This Season (and the Next) 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Bebe is transgender and is taking the helm of the cheerleading squad, whose members are well-meaning but not completely altruistic. 8 Comic Books in Honor of Pride 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z And the inevitable sentimental journey into lesson-learning gets lost in swamps of well-meaning equivocation. ‘Little’ Review: Too Much Caution and Not Enough Regina Hall 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z According to Mr. LaSala, many well-meaning straight guys can feel awkward addressing subjects they know they don’t fully understand. The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z “American Wee-Pie” is well-meaning, and so eager to charm it may win you over. ‘American Wee-Pie’ cooks up a sugary-sweet second chance 2014-01-29T20:56:29Z The burglars sent to raid Democratic offices were “well-meaning individuals committed to the re-election of the president,” soothed Governor Reagan of California, well after other Republicans began to abandon the Nixon White House. Purpose and worth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Throughout the interview, Obama came across as sympathetic, wise, well-meaning, dispassionate. “WTF” with Barack Obama 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Decades ago, British royalty learned the hard way that snubbing well-meaning Americans is a bad idea. Perspective | Miss Manners: Ready to meet the queen — just in case 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z The professed necessity of hyperspecialisation forms the core of a vast, successful and sometimes well-meaning marketing machine, in sport and beyond. Generalise, don't specialise: why focusing too narrowly is bad for us 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Its well-meaning cops display little by way of a game-plan throughout to combat the increasingly hairy zombie invasion. Jarmusch's star-studded zombie parable kicks off Cannes 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z “Recipe Lost and Found” is more or less that, in its most mild and well-meaning form. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z This somewhat confused though well-meaning festival hasn’t quite figured out how to get that full picture across — another reason that elevator pitch would be useful. Review | In festival opener, a small orchestra shows it deserves the spotlight 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z This is something I try to explain to any well-meaning person who asks about my mysterious, pigheaded, yearslong case of insomnia. ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Fireworks Over Frosting I work for a well-meaning supervisor who insists on buying cakes for everyone’s birthday. Social Q?s: Social Q?s 2010-07-01T23:16:00Z The National Press Photographers Association said the bill is "well-meaning but ill-conceived" and tramples on constitutional rights. APNewsBreak: Tyler to testify on HI celeb privacy 2013-02-08T03:57:08Z He had sustained dental injuries while trying to bite his way out of a substandard cage that a well-meaning rancher, who captured him, used to transfer him to CCF. A trip to meet a cheetah in Namibia 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The next time you start to blush during a work presentation, or when a group of hateful but well-meaning people sing happy birthday to you, don’t think of your blush as a double-crossing cheek-heater. There Will Be Blood. And It Will Be in Your Cheeks. 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Beane's rethinking of Rodgers + Hammerstein's musical is populated by progressive and well-meaning people. The newest 'Cinderellas:' -- finding an unexpected virtue 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z "The show may disappoint rap fans and bewilder Broadway musical regulars. That's too bad, because it's better than merely well-meaning." Tupac musical opens to mixed reviews 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Crowe’s well-meaning script nods to gender equality and even racial prejudice in its glossy world – “I’m Mr Black People!” Jerry Maguire at 20: has Tom Cruise's star appeal ever shined brighter? 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Our conversations usually consisted of me nagging him about homework or college applications or anxiously peppering him with well-meaning questions, only to be greeted by a grunt, his eyes never lifting from his phone. In Berlin, the past and present collide on a mother-son trip 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The Prince is a naïve but well-meaning monarch who is being shielded from the oppression in his kingdom — until a local firebrand leads the peasants to revolt. Cinderella Then and Now: Revisiting Rodgers and Hammerstein 2013-03-13T11:00:32Z Wouldn’t it be interesting to see a movie with two well-meaning people who love each other and they still fight? Joel Stein Talks with the Director and Stars of Before Midnight 2013-05-23T18:29:15Z There’s no murder, no magic, just well-meaning people with conflicting ideas on how best to run a business and create a new world. The Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Still, when well-meaning friends tried to soften our grief, speaking of “the loss of your son,” I inwardly froze, then flashed with anger. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z It was not only well-meaning acquaintances and shop assistants; it was plastered on the walls of the changing rooms, too. How to have a feminist wedding 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z This behaviour is jarring – and more often comes from well-meaning people we know. Diet advice and tiny seats: how to avoid 10 forms of fatphobia 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Because the show revolves around the indignities of day-to-day life as experienced by David's oft-annoyed but well-meaning character, the stars said they often receive unsolicited story ideas from fans who feel they can relate. Larry David working on more "Curb Your Enthusiasm" 2010-03-15T06:13:00Z Stamped from the Beginning offers an intricate look at the history of race in the U.S., arguing that many well-meaning American progressives inadvertently operate on belief systems tinged with a racist heritage. Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for The Underground Railroad 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Collins, 67, who played a well-meaning pastor in the family-friendly TV series, was dropped on Tuesday from the upcoming Universal Pictures comedy "Ted 2," according to reports in the Hollywood press, after the allegations broke. LA police revisit 2012 criminal case against '7th Heaven' star 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Poor Camus was not deported to the well-meaning Oxfam gulag after all. Lost and Found: A Missing Camus Biography and a Christmas Miracle 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Some well-meaning attempts at language change can fall flat. Don't tell me my accent doesn't exist 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z But that requires a belief in reputations, and an adjustment on the part of well-meaning society to the popular concept of being nonjudgmental. Perspective | Miss Manners: Shunning, shaming and ‘cancel culture’ 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z His Siegfried was a sincere, well-meaning lad, but this was not a blazing, heart-driven performance, neither in the dynamic quality of his flights across the stage nor in his warmish rapport with Seo. Review | At Wolf Trap, a ‘Swan Lake’ with streaks of light 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z As the story ticks closer to the party itself, the novel loops back in time to the Riva children’s early years, which were overshadowed by their father, a well-meaning but absentee pop singer. 15 New Books Coming in June 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The lack of agency for a person in prison means decisions are being made for her by many well-meaning people who do not understand the true meaning of isolation. Who understands "lockdown" and isolation? The formerly incarcerated are the experts we need now 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z And: Isn’t it possible she doesn’t need or want her friends to keep trying to fix her, well-meaning though they may be? Carolyn Hax: Does friend really need help finding a life outside parenting? 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The fact that the Ortas' commission is a step upward just adds to the sense of shoddy artistic values littering this magnificent public space with well-meaning inanities. Why St Pancras's Clouds sculptures are on the right track 2013-04-18T16:01:53Z As if the thought of a killer Claus weren't enough, well-meaning gifts could also take on deadly consequences. Oliver Pfieffer: Is Christmas the new Hallowe'en at the cinema? 2010-12-24T12:55:29Z People rarely speak ill of the dead so the already colossal sense of loss tends to be further exacerbated by well-meaning adults telling you how fabulous your parent was. My husband died. Now my daughter hates me | Mariella Frostrup 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z While “Web Junkie” focuses mainly on the teenage inmates, it also paints a sympathetic portrait of the well-meaning doctors and therapists struggling with a phenomenon they know they don’t entirely understand. Rebel without a Wi-Fi connection: China’s war against “Internet addiction” 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z As one well-meaning theologian put it in an e-mail someone forwarded me this June, “Fathers, put down your phones!” This Life: Our Plugged-in Summer 2011-08-12T20:39:56Z At times in this comic novel, I could hear strange echoes of another one about a well-meaning white kid striking out against the racist system of his day: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Boy is an Everyboy, pulled in one direction by well-meaning teachers and in another by his "peeps", his boastful lies made to gain respect or save face, and a culture where "snitches get stitches". Mad About the Boy – review 2012-06-07T17:00:02Z To anger well-meaning people, most likely, which then causes the offending hashtags to trend after a wave of protesting tweets. Don't feed "The Little Mermaid" racist trolls: Sketchy accounts fuel anti-Ariel outrage 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z A disciple of the gospel of racial uplift, Villarosa implicates herself as one of many well-meaning professionals who assumed that the “problem” of Black health must simply be a matter of education and class. The Roots of Black Pain in America 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z From the standpoint of all those reasonably intelligent and somewhat well-meaning people in Los Angeles County who are worried about mortgage payments and Audi leases and private-school tuition, “Jurassic World” unquestionably “delivers.” Taming the hybrid mutant she-beast: Lessons from the giant retro-mall of “Jurassic World” 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z This version of Vacancy means well, but its well-meaning turns subtle-as-a-bludger, hammering on the death of empathy and charity in a world of venality and new money. Review: In The Casual Vacancy, All Politics Is Local 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Playing Karen Smith, the well-meaning but spectacularly dim member of high-school clique the Plastics, she showed real comic cadence. Amanda Seyfried: 'I would lay naked on the street for Les Misérables' 2013-01-11T13:30:00Z I teach undergrads, sometimes really young kids, raised by well-meaning parents who still managed to convince them that recorded history began when they were born. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The sequence of Melrose novels – his publisher likes the term "Melrosiad", coined by a reviewer in the Guardian – concluded this year with At Last, which recounted the funeral of Patrick's well-meaning but ineffectual mother. Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible' 2011-08-17T20:30:02Z Hughie’s our Everyman — our well-meaning protagonist who gets thrown in with Butcher’s crew and serves as his moral compass. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Anyway, people’s inboxes are choked with emails, so it would be a good idea to drop this well-meaning but unnecessary addition. Perspective | Miss Manners: Skip the ‘You’re welcome’ email 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z Sunday saw two such showcases: one a deliberate homage to the museum, and well-meaning but perfunctory; the other only fortuitously scheduled for the same weekend, and absolutely stunning. Two musical season openings were influenced by black culture. One satisfied, the other soared. 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Alma’s timeline fluctuates wildly as she splits time between her bland existence — dead-end job, well-meaning boyfriend, overbearing mother — and hopping on and off this earthly plane with her dead father. How ‘Undone’ Takes Viewers Through the Looking Glass 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Hurt does a fine job of making him both well-meaning and hubristic. ‘3 Christs,’ About Milton Rokeach’s 1959 Study 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z James Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust and an evangelist for the use of technology by art historians, assessed “Recognition” as a “well-meaning and an interesting experiment.“ Artificial Intelligence as a Bridge for Art and Reality 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z How about plain "swinging"? This shows how the sexist jazz culture has sublimated itself into even well-meaning intentions. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Concert-hall rules are born of a well-meaning, even poignant hope: that someone else can have the same reaction that we do to something we love. How (not) to behave: Manners and the classical music audience 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “The well-meaning people at the Academy Museum — what happens when they are not there anymore? Who comes in? And what happens to the inclusiveness idea, then? This is the anxiety I have.” Haile Gerima Is Having a Hollywood Moment. It’s Left Him Conflicted. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z I’ve heard really well-meaning white people say, “I would never have been one of them.” Ava DuVernay on Modern Slavery in America 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z When you see them, you’re usually reading someone with a well-meaning desire to protect and restrict the understanding of music; you’re reading a subtext of fear and anxiety as much as one of pleasure. A Jazz Critic Inspired by a Book of Album Cover Designs 2013-07-31T15:59:01Z Lorre’s new CBS comedy is a love story, you see— one that involves a well-meaning, lonely sock salesman pursuing a relationship a hard-working woman who is uninterested in him. With "Bob Hearts Abishola" and "Sunnyside," sitcoms are showcasing the immigrant's story 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z “Low Winter Sun,” a new AMC series that also begins on Sunday, has a classic film noir premise: a well-meaning sap is tricked into committing murder. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z According to Hammer, to this day, Lendrum insists his heists were “well-meaning” rescue missions meant to protect the wildlife he supposedly loved. Meet the ‘Pablo Escobar of the Falcon Egg Trade’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z “The tech industry, which is still seen by many as a cultural backwater full of socially clumsy but well-meaning nerds, is now an acquisitive and seemingly amoral force,” Chafkin writes. ‘The Contrarian’ Goes Searching for Peter Thiel’s Elusive Core 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Her third movie was Gentleman's Agreement, Elia Kazan's well-meaning exposé of antisemitism in America. Celeste Holm obituary 2012-07-15T19:04:12Z His screen persona, a well-meaning but clumsy vagrant with social aspirations – wasn't showy, or imitable in an obvious way. Clip joint: Charlie Chaplins 2011-07-13T15:34:00Z This is the sort of cover that transcends any clever marketing plan, helpful sales input and well-meaning editorial direction. Favorite Book Cover Designs of 2012 2012-12-19T17:32:57Z The members are good and well-meaning people who do good things. Perspective | Ask Amy: These blended family gatherings are no ‘Brady Bunch’ episode 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z I don’t want to diagnose projection at a distance but perhaps a well-meaning friend of Sarah’s might point out that she and Meghan have so much more in common that she has thus far acknowledged. Andrew and Fergie: is a conscious recoupling of convenience on the cards? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Krisha is a well-meaning but volatile character, a desperate sort who carries a kind of reverse Midas touch wherever she goes. Krisha Fairchild is a breakout star - at age 64 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Gallerists and museum curators must strike a balance between making works accessible and protecting them from a well-meaning, but perhaps absent-minded, public. Art Fair Visitor Breaks a Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Sculpture 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z “It’s not like Sarajevo with everyone sleeping on sandbags. It captures very well that Derry is a chirpy, well-meaning place but it also has a legacy of so much trauma.” In ‘Derry Girls,’ the Lighter Side of Life in a Conflict Zone 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Perfectly good, well-meaning films get nowhere because they don’t have any luck. How we made the original Murder on the Orient Express 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Leigh played a well-meaning and occasionally irresponsible parent, about to have a second child. Jennifer Jason Leigh: ‘I've been at this precipice so many times' 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Makkari's deafness is neither treated as unimportant, nor made into a focal point that otherizes and dehumanizes her, as many well-meaning portrayals of characters with disabilities often do. The dazzling star power of "Eternals" is both its triumph and its undoing 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z In 2018, the publishing giant G. Schirmer took over the estate, promising to regularize transactions that had been well-meaning but chaotic. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Eventually, even well-meaning journalists and intellectuals became guilty of what he called “the ‘doping’ of excitement”—an artificial incitement of emotion that culminated, inevitably, in mass hatred and fear. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Aside from Mrs. Chung, who is presented with compassion despite her abuse, the characters all seem like ordinary, well-meaning men and women, doing what anyone would do under the circumstances. Nicole Chung’s Adoption Memoir, “All You Can Ever Know,” Is an Ode to Sisterly Love 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z So are the well-meaning characters — and their conflicts. Review: Skewering White Pieties About Diversity in ‘Admissions’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z And back in Peoria, well-meaning constituents are eager to play matchmaker. Building Consensus Around a Congressman?s Abs 2010-07-07T20:40:00Z Then there are the frat guys they date, Grace’s love interest, well-meaning parents, the head of the sorority, and a few other people – I’m not sure exactly where they fit in. Scream Queens: Glee creator is back with a frighteningly funny horror show 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z “New Girl” is the rare mainstream sitcom that’s exceedingly at ease in discussing race, largely because it acknowledges the characters’ — Schmidt’s especially — well-meaning, flawed views, and plays them for eye rolls and laughs. Critic’s Notebook: ‘New Girl’ Season Finale, With Zooey Deschanel 2013-05-13T21:56:07Z And “Porgy and Bess,” of course, is a well-meaning attempt to elevate the black experience into the realm of opera. Review | ‘Porgy’ and ‘Simon’: Two works trying to fold black experience into Western canon 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Having outlived its relevance, the musical is doomed to an afterlife of well-meaning but slightly anodyne remakes as it slowly, inexorably fades into oblivion. Can ‘Miss Saigon’ Be Saved? Two British Shows Disagree. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Grinning and getting over it in general seems like a fine approach to anything other people do that’s generally well-meaning and doesn’t do you any harm. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Dislike the wedding mores of today? Leave that part out of the RSVP. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But it also diverges from the typical hero flick that portrays the U.S. military as a benevolent, peacemaking force, and if not incompetent compared with enhanced superhuman beings, at least well-meaning. The Suicide Squad's grim portrait of real-life, US-Nazi collaboration 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Her family, including a college-aged sister and twin older brothers, are universally supportive; her grandmother, well-meaning but unsure on the nomenclature, asks at one point if “tranny” is an offensive term. Review: An Extraordinary, Ordinary Girlhood in TLC's I Am Jazz 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z There is the well-meaning but misplaced, “I always think a baby needs a mother’s breast, but look how happy he is.” ‘Mum’s day off, is it?’: what adopting as a same-sex couple taught us 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z As the holidays are approaching, well-meaning family members are asking us for the baby’s “wish list.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Do you let a 13-year-old dye her hair platinum blond? 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z The finger-wagging and required reading lists of well-meaning teachers and parents can backfire, he says. How a kid who didn’t read a book until he was 17 grew up to become a literary star 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Gordimer wielded English exquisitely, and her characters were often the kind of well-meaning liberals recognizable in Georgetown or Cambridge. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Moyes writes movingly of how easy it is for a child to be damaged by well-meaning adults, and we see how the same family can swing from grinding desperation to domestic bliss. Jojo Moyes’s new novel, ‘The Horse Dancer,’ has a Dickensian spirit 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z All the characters, from the callow manipulators to the well-meaning dullards, are awash in cliché. We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z But of course movies don’t grow up, and “Dirty Girl” will never be anything other than a well-meaning, misbegotten frenzy of confused impulses. | 'Dirty Girl': ?Dirty Girl,? Starring Juno Temple and Jeremy Dozier - Review 2011-10-06T21:14:14Z The revelations are utterly at odds with Obama's long-held myth of his father's grandeur, a myth propagated by his well-meaning mother. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z As well-meaning as they might seem, these programs teach us a small amount of history and more about how to flatter a celebrity’s notions of genetic destiny. ‘Hollywood Game Night’ and the problem with the celebrity fun bus 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The lovable shopaholic humorously struggled with body image, balancing work and a personal life, and well-meaning but always meddling mother. 'Cathy' comic strip comes to an end. AAACK! 2010-08-12T21:14:00Z “Social norms are changing,” he said in a statement positioning him as a well-meaning grandpa trapped in an eddy of cultural upheaval. Perspective | Joe Biden, the master of not quite getting it 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Even her well-meaning nurse advises her to move on with life and marry. Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z The well-meaning white male in the room said, "If we're going to do that, why don't we get a real coach?" "As a Woman" author Paula Stone Williams: I was "unaware of my male privilege" until transition 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z It is becoming harder to defend alleged hypocrisy, however well-meaning. Could you give up flying? Meet the no-plane pioneers 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Critical reception had been tepid — Clive Barnes in The Times praised the “brilliant” cast but said the musicalization drowned what had been a powerful play in a “frothy sea of well-meaning clichés.” Muhammad Ali in a Broadway Musical? It Happened 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Sweet, troubled, and as reckless as he is well-meaning, the character does not seem a terrific stretch for the man playing him. Pete Davidson has a puzzling yet undeniable charisma, but is he ready to be a movie star? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Sadly, our well-meaning soul mate is preparing their romantic overtures to a song about a stalker. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z But it is hard not to feel sorry for genuinely well-meaning parents such as Chris MacNeil in The Exorcist, who does the best she can when Pazuzu makes her daughter puke pea soup. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The vast majority of the art trade is 100 percent well-meaning and acts legally. Lessons from the Museum of the Bible’s fake Dead Sea Scrolls: How not to buy looted antiquities 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s all the things Mr. Byrne’s twitchy and alienated music with Talking Heads never was: genial, well-meaning, as forgettable as a real estate agent’s handshake. Books of The Times: ‘How Music Works,’ by David Byrne 2012-09-12T18:02:58Z East offers levity by poking fun at the grief workbooks that well-meaning people send to Leo’s house. In This Y.A. Novel, the Grief Comes Before the Tragedy 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Like well-meaning but ultimately super-boneheaded public awareness programs that stigmatize kids for their weight, the “fat letters” don’t do anything to address the issue of making this a healthier country for our children. The fat-shaming of school “FitnessGrams” 2013-06-04T00:00:00Z Lactation consultants, paediatricians and well-meaning friends told her to just keep trying. ‘I want to give my child the best’: the race to grow human breast milk in a lab 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z “Eighth Grade” We’ve seen this movie before: Awkward teen comes of age amid bullies, mean girls, well-meaning but clueless parents and her own crippling angst. Best movies of 2018: ‘Roma’ is intimate, epic and the year’s finest 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Her old magazine closed, and well-meaning friends warned her about making a fuss. Curator Says MoMA PS1 Wanted Her, Until She Had a Baby 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z First he’s surrounded by a bunch of well-meaning hicks who treat him like royalty and can’t do enough to “help” him. At Village, a fresh take on ‘The Foreigner’ 2014-01-30T20:18:12Z So, this mediocre and derivative artist exerts his posthumous tentacular grip and spreads the well-meaning lie that virtue equals genius. Henry Moore has carved out a bigger reputation than he deserves 2012-12-12T14:43:57Z Love’s circle intersects with the worst of Hollywood and the most well-meaning, ludicrously open New Agey spirituality in ways that Will barely understands. New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Melania really did care for children as well as couture, Grisham convincingly insists — though well-meaning ideas, like sending young students in Malawi mirrors, were nixed by others at the White House: bad optics. Stephanie Grisham, the Latest White House Memoirist, Offers Apologies and Payback 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Yet you also rightly point out that while this may have been well-meaning, it reinforces how we pin all responsibility for pregnancy prevention on women. The gendered burden to "Just Get on the Pill": "That is not reproductive freedom. It's the opposite" 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z In addition to rooting for Faraday, you are invited to get fully behind the city’s doltish but well-meaning head of prisons. Television Review: A Man With a Cape And a City to Salvage 2011-01-06T22:54:36Z "I immediately saw an aggressive, impulsive, willful boy, the despair of his well-meaning, but biased parents," she added. 'Horrid Henry' author drawn to impish behavior 2011-08-27T05:20:29Z Jamie's well-meaning interventions are met with such hostility that by the end of the first episode he breaks down. Jamie Oliver, like me, is finding out what Americans think of pushy Brits 2010-03-28T00:07:00Z She and I often discuss the remarks we hear — from musings about how Asian or white she appears, to well-meaning but misguided comments praising her “blended” features. Motherlode Blog: ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ 2013-08-19T17:26:39Z You react to every suggestion, every insinuation that you drink too much, no matter how well-meaning, with anger, denial and yet more drinking. Letter to … my dad, whose heavy drinking is out of control 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z He talks to police, too, including a well-meaning retired cop who had understood the “overkill” murders to be the work of gay killers who “had not come to terms with their sexual problems.” “Uncover: The Village”: A Serial Killer, Toronto’s Gay Community, and a Podcast That Transcends True Crime 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z After being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at 35, Bowler quickly tired of well-meaning but oblivious people who advised her to grab life by the horns and make the best of her situation. Once a Best Seller, Always a Best Seller, Especially if You’re Rick Ross 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z But sometimes the advice from well-meaning acting coaches was a little too abstract. Acting Coaches and Rehearsals: YouTube Stars Are Getting Movie-World Lessons 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z It's hard to imagine Cera playing the role as anything but cute—a well-meaning kid who found himself in the wrong place in the wrong time. Jesse Eisenberg vs. Michael Cera: Who's Winning? 2010-05-20T20:30:00Z But its uplifting, powerful, well-meaning message might be enough to win over even some skeptics. 'A Small Section of the World' an inspiring coffee workers doc 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Alam is an especially keen observer of the dynamic between Rebecca and Cheryl, who loves and is grateful to Rebecca and Christopher but also bridles at their well-meaning ignorance. In Rumaan Alam’s New Novel, Motherhood Lit Tackles Race, Adoption, and White Privilege 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z It’s a tough call for our well-meaning ambassador. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,’ Season 1, Episode 5: Misty Mountain Hop 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “Sounds of Hazel” is a worthy and well-meaning project. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The recent row over “Is humanitarian design the new imperialism?” was triggered by the spectacle of well-meaning designers striding guilelessly into the political booby traps of economic development. Design: Sustainism: It's Got a Name, Now Do It 2011-01-10T01:00:03Z Shepard, who also wrote “CHiPs,” is nothing if not well-meaning. Why can’t bro comedies stop making fun of gay men? 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z FastHorse said she wanted someone on the creative team — otherwise made up of people of color — who understood what it was like to be a “well-meaning liberal white person.” In ‘Thanksgiving Play,’ the Pageantry of ‘Well-Meaning’ White People 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Soon, though, a series of well-meaning lies will propel him from awkward nobody to social-media celebrity. Their songs and their names will linger in your ears: Pasek and Paul and 'Dear Evan Hansen' 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The balanced cast includes the assured trio of Christopher Bloch as Lizzie’s well-meaning father, Gregory Maheu as her sweet but dim brother Jimmy, and Stephen Gregory Smith as the bossy Noah. At Ford’s, a cool ‘110 in the Shade’ 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z It is a well-meaning irony that trying to do the right thing is why you and your sister, and the estranged wife, now face these wrong-feeling choices, calculating who says/knows/withholds/deserves what. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Don’t tell, but don’t cover for brother who’s being vague about divorce 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z In the opening pages, Nora is growing impatient with the bossy sympathy and “hectoring tone” of her well-meaning neighbors. Colm Tóibín’s ‘Nora Webster’: A masterful portrait of a grieving woman finding herself It’s not that I haven’t read the Jane Austen novels — I have — but it’s still embarrassing to have to be told by well-meaning friends and my wife what I’m supposed to get from them. John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z They’d reminisce how they or their friends easily conceived and would offer unsolicited, well-meaning advice: “Try yoga,” “Fall asleep afterward” or “Have a few drinks beforehand.” Our infertile years 2012-11-19T00:59:00Z “I’m not living my life,” Jean Remy, the hero of the well-meaning but frequently ham-handed “Jean Gentil,” tells a companion as the two find shelter for the night under a bridge. Movie Review: ?Jean Gentil,? by Laura Amelia Guzm?n and Israel C?rdenas 2012-04-20T00:28:13Z What should we say to this well-meaning, but slightly misguided, cousin? Perspective | Miss Manners: Wife’s salutatory texts more annoying than attention-grabbing 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z While “Catfish” presumes everyone online is lying, “In Real Life” presumes its reader is a well-meaning social media addict. Nev Schulman of “Catfish”: “I’m addicted to social media” 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Gradually, since their well-meaning messages went unanswered, they stopped. My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Along with hundreds of thousands of real-life asylum seekers, he’s in Europe’s waiting room, and a handful of well-meaning Germans are ready to see him now. The Awkward Attempt to Find Comedy in the Refugee Crisis 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Body positivity is a well-meaning and powerful movement that's uplifted and empowered many people of all body types, but it might not be for everyone. From Britney to Lorde: Young women shift from embracing body positivity to body neutrality as teens 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Michael’s mother is MIA; his well-meaning father encourages his son’s interests by taking him to a local club of older, like-minded geeks, which doesn’t really help. Cloudy with a chance for terror in Joe Hill’s ‘Strange Weather’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z But when well-meaning people encounter language like "pregnant people," or "pregnant-capable people," or "people who give birth," they begin to ask questions and learn more. With Elliot Page, greater visibility of transmasc identity is “both great & awful” 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z As just noted, Roth's representation of an African American boy in "Goodbye, Columbus" has generally been interpreted as well-meaning. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Is she a well-meaning lonely soul or some kind of malevolent body snatcher? In ‘White on White,’ the Traditional Landlord-Tenant Pact Is Ruptured 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Ginger is well-meaning, but her desperation to be the perfect surrogate mom sweats off these pages. Mary Gaitskill’s ‘The Mare’: A bracing, tender take on motherhood and guilt 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Here are some of the best responses, with names withheld to protect embarrassed recipients and well-meaning benefactors: Work Advice: Can I tell my boss that his holiday gift goes unused? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z After Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her immortal work, almost all unpublished, endured the clumsy, if well-meaning, treatment of her family for decades. No way to treat an author: How Harper Lee lost control of her legacy. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z In the years since, many well-meaning people have asked me, “How’s the book?” My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z Even well-meaning men participate in dialogue that centers their own interests and perpetuates male dominance. Never tell a woman to “smile”: An earnest plea to the good men to sit down, shut up and listen 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z At work, well-meaning colleagues ask her how she plans to deal with empty-nest syndrome. The Season Finale of 'The Good Wife' 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Everyone who comes by to help, including a chicken and an elephant, is full of well-meaning advice. Standout New Picture Books 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z "Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline," he wrote. Eli Broad, white knight and lightning rod, gets ready to open his own museum 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s a pretty good illustration of the fact that while most celebrity feminism is no doubt individually well-meaning, it often has no tangible connection to the images and fantasies we pay those celebrities to construct. Has celebrity feminism failed? 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z It’s very easy to imagine well-meaning, left-leaning nonfiction filmmakers trying to bridge American cultures by making movies that patronize the very audience they’re trying to reach. Left-Leaning Documentary World Seeks Right-Wing Perspective 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The stars are generally up to the task — Ms. Ashitey is convincing as the team’s precocious ingénue, and Mr. Molony retains the charm he exhibited as a well-meaning vampire in “Being Human.” Review: ‘Suspects,’ Britain’s Unscripted Relative of ‘Law & Order’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Her parents received hints from presumably well-meaning physicians that there remained options by which they might liberate themselves from the burden of their daughter. What Happens When Your Baby Isn’t Who You Expected? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Toby, vigilant about his diet and insecure about his height, is persuasive as a well-meaning egotist. “Fleishman Is in Trouble” Turns the Marriage Novel Inside-Out 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z “The few glimpses we catch of the Ford’s Theater production of ‘Our American Cousin’ are unfortunately the liveliest and most convincing moments in this well-meaning, misbegotten movie,” Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in April. Video: Streaming Video?s Emerging Bounty 2011-08-20T19:33:02Z I was like, I think Matt is a well-meaning person, but I think he's a little high on himself a little bit right now, and it just felt like real life. Chris Perfetti on what aspect of "Abbott Elementary" is like "trying to play one-on-one with LeBron" 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z The tableau, well-meaning though it is, enshrines Miranda as a white savior who transcends divisions and a painful history through art. Review: In Robert Lepage’s ‘Kanata,’ the Director, Too, Plays the Victim 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z He comes across as a shrewd, well-meaning parvenu who savors the expensive, tacky trappings of his success but who has no mythic stature whatsoever. Movie Review: ‘The Look of Love’ Stars Steve Coogan as a Sex Impresario 2013-07-04T20:55:14Z Ash is struggling to figure out who she is and what is important, and the messages she gets from everyone around her, including her loving, well-meaning parents, are confusing. Young, Gifted and Searching for a Sense of Self 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Unlike another well-meaning midseason dramas, "For Life" does not try to jam a bushel of teachable moments about social injustice into every hour. "Power" producer 50 Cent brings a story of wrongful conviction in ABC's "For Life" 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z I’m sorry even your well-meaning friends fail to realize that their value judgments — even the positive ones! — around food and body image are just not helpful. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Tell a girlfriend who likes to ‘test’ you that you’ll pass 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z But in general, I hope well-meaning Latinos and good old boys can come together long enough to agree that the collective answer to Ms. Thompson’s question is “Eww.” Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z "Look," said the well-meaning parent to the child, "here's a fluffy bunny adventure for you to watch." Clip joint: Rabbits 2012-12-12T17:22:24Z The dinosaurs are out, and the zookeepers have lost all control, after a well-meaning child lets the captive and poached creatures go, rather than watch them die. "Stranger Things 5" should go full "Jurassic" 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z I and most other well-meaning humans might wonder. Martin Freeman: No More Mr. Nice Dad 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z And when the well-meaning people recommend that he may need to be “put away,” ask yourself, where? Motherlode: A Son's Demons 2011-08-01T18:26:40Z They really need proper counseling, though — not from a well-meaning Irish rock star. U2, Preaching Defiance, Heads Back to Paris 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The beginning of their unlikely real-life friendship is the subject of “The Best of Enemies,” the latest muddled and well-meaning big-screen attempt to find solace in the history of American racism. ‘The Best of Enemies’ Review: A Klansman and a Civil Rights Activist Become Friends 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z It's an entertaining and well-meaning if narrow look at Seattle music. Watch the KCTS 9 Seattle music doc, 'Something in the Water' 2011-10-20T16:34:24Z Why, for that matter, does the mere sight of Carrie seem to irritate him so; why do her well-meaning words spark such rage? ‘Homeland’ Season 6, Episode 2: Carrie Is Back to Her Old Self, Bending Rules 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Specialists drifted into my life with well-meaning uselessness. My Mad Fat Diary: Rae Earl describes her childhood mental health issues 2013-01-21T08:00:02Z Don’t listen to well-meaning people who foist advice and books on you and tell you to “nip this in the bud.” Perspective | 4-year-old’s refusal to use the potty is pricey and perplexing 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z He casually parroted his dad’s well-meaning advice that acting classes would stand him in good stead for whatever path he chose in life. Steve Buscemi: ‘I feel I haven’t fulfilled my true potential' 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Across the nation, well-meaning people who’d like to repair a deeply fractured America are attempting to bridge divides. Hi Democrat, I’m a Republican, let’s not hate each other: The quixotic movement to get opposing voters to talk 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z As it approached our table, so plump it was nearly NSFW, so tender it was basically wiggling atop a shallow pool of sauce, Nate began to huff and salivate like a well-meaning dog. The absolute best way to make juicy pork chops 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z The school's well-meaning guidance counselor – a white lady – suggests that Laquarius' class might be too challenging for him. The return of "Atlanta" is perfectly timed, delivering its sharp honesty when we need it most 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Yet kids may appreciate the effort to let them decide about Trump for themselves—another well-meaning failure from a grownup. A Trump Biography for Teens Is a New Lens on the President’s Totalizing Awfulness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z How can you contemporize a work whose very conceit — its whole plot, its central perspective — will land like a well-meaning but ignorant cousin’s comment in a conscientious cultural conversation? Review: ‘The Visitor’ Lags Behind the Times 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z While Hollywood used to signify a spectacular vulgarity, the influential American cinema now has a stifling and well-meaning tastefulness. The Best Movies of 2014 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In the opening scene of the cult classic, Cher Horowitz — a well-meaning yet oblivious clotheshorse played by Alicia Silverstone —gets dressed with the help of a computer program that digitizes her entire wardrobe. An app dressed me for a week. The results were shockingly good. 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The questions are all well-meaning, but I’m afraid the questioners expect me to say, “Oh, I’ve become chairman of Such-and-Such,” or, “I’m founding a company.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What are you doing with your retirement? Being honest. 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z In fact, one well-meaning person told Ms. Tommy, “‘If you go gray, you just have to make sure you look cool every time you leave home.’” Ditched the Dye During Covid? Maybe Stay Gray. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z And as those values turn into personal choices — as well-meaning as they might be — we are complicit in the cruelties of the broader food system. Review | Our food shopping habits have human and environmental costs. ‘The Secret Life of Groceries’ adds them up. 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Dent has only a couple of scenes, but is spot on as the well-meaning Vin, who doesn’t have the language to articulate his anguish fully. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z My question is, how best to answer well-meaning queries from new friends who naturally expect we’ll trade info about our children? Carolyn Hax: Facing questions about children when yours is estranged 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z There is the well-meaning West Wing tribute, featuring smart people trying to do the right thing in fraught circumstances. Hail to the Kief! Sutherland is still TV's best action hero – even as President Dadbod 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z As so often Ayckbourn seems to be following the example set by Ibsen in The Wild Duck and warning us that when well-meaning idealists come knocking at the door, it is best not to answer. Absurd Person Singular, 40 years on 2012-05-25T21:55:04Z I pictured myself saying with a well-meaning grin, “Hey, I work with religious people every day and my atheism is stronger than ever!” Toxic atheism drives people apart 2012-10-21T16:00:00Z He added, “I don’t want well-meaning readers and staff members to think that I’ve ignored their concerns.” New Yorker Festival Pulls Steve Bannon as Headliner Following High-Profile Dropouts 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z It is as complicated to navigate as it is well-meaning: inviting users to experience a shifting kaleidoscope of pieces organized around a key word they choose, like “masked” or “broken.” Museums See Different Virtues in Virtual Worlds 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z In the 1870s, the protagonist, a young African orphan, is taken from his home in the Kalahari Desert to Sweden by a well-meaning but easily distracted man. Review | Five years after Henning Mankell’s death, his gritty first novel makes a welcome appearance 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The second half of Season 1 of "The Problem with Jon Stewart" streamed in March of this year, and represents an improvement over the lackluster if well-meaning opening four that premiere in late 2021. The problem with "The Problem with Jon Stewart" is that it's not more widely available 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z During dinner parties, well-meaning friends would gather around the butcher block, wanting to help. David Liederman, Founder of David’s Cookies, Takes a Shortcut to the Trash Bin 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z You could dismiss this one-off as a bold, well-meaning misfire. When good TV goes bad: how The West Wing went south 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z He doesn’t overdress, overact or contort his voice as the well-meaning parent with well-developed coping skills. Louie Anderson pays tribute to his late mom with TV role 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Leguizamo sets himself up as the well-meaning but cartoonishly inept teacher, but it’s a missed opportunity that the history he relates doesn’t come into sharper focus. Latino history with professor John Leguizamo, the CliffsNotes edition 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z He might be amused by the hapless electoral efforts of Mr. Brooke, the blustering if well-meaning local landowner, who is pelted with eggs on his first appearance at the hustings, which is also his last. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z As yet, the leap into the mouths of the well-meaning wider community has yet to occur. Has Django Unchained defused the 'n-bomb'? 2013-01-14T17:26:56Z Priests are generally well-meaning but incompetent in this genre, but nuns are to be avoided. Joe Queenan's guide to horror film cliches 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z When her well-meaning husband Ira, an allergist, tries engaging her in conversation, the talk drifts toward her favorite topic: highbrow culture. Theater J’s ‘The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z But a hands-off pregnancy is not in Matt’s playbook, and an awkward celebration dinner is only the beginning of his well-meaning intrusions. ‘Together Together’ Review: A Conceivable Plan 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z That answers the question of why it feels like when very well-meaning people on the liberal or left side of the aisle are countering with Bible verses, it makes no dent. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Beethoven, who refused to wash his clothes to the point that well-meaning friends would steal them while he slept. Perspective | Pretending to be bad boys let them get away with being bad men 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z She is right that a well-meaning commitment to tolerance can be easily exploited, and that women’s rights are often the first to be sacrificed in the service of cultural relativism. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z And "The Fever," a solo piece that implicates liberal, well-meaning Americans in the scourges of Third World poverty and revolt. Playwright-essayist Wallace Shawn ponders plays, politics at Town Hall 2011-01-19T23:18:09Z Taking a break from the sex, drugs and fabulous parties of “Gossip Girl,” Chace Crawford stars as a well-meaning drug dealer. Film: Joel Schumacher on ?Twelve,? Starring 50 Cent 2010-07-23T21:51:00Z For others, the film hews to the “tragic arc,” as one BlackStar participant put it, that too often defines how African Americans have been depicted, often at the hands of well-meaning white artists. Perspective | ‘Detroit’ and the question of cultural gatekeeping 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z One consistent criticism of Burton's work is that he returns too often to his own fantastic realms, fairy-tale lands cloaked in German Expressionist shadow and populated by well-meaning outcasts and loners. Tim Burton is happy to share his nightmares 2011-06-01T15:46:10Z “Love the Way You Lie,” his recent hit humanizing both sides of an abusive relationship, was muddled but well-meaning. On Eminem's fifteenth anniversary, his act feels more tired than ever 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z But you might also feel that Tony is being gratuitous, that there is a social value to well-meaning pieties and cutting people slack. Review: Ricky Gervais’s ‘After Life’ Is the Tearjerking of a Clown 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The last thing well-meaning public health officials want to do is tip the population in that direction. Study: Trying to convince parents to vaccinate their kids just makes the problem worse 2014-03-03T22:01:00Z One well-meaning white teacher, Aaron Podolner, strains so hard to relate to his black students that it gets awkward. Review: ‘America to Me’ Is a Searing Lesson in School Inequity 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The characters, too, are generally more well-meaning and heroic, and have more upbeat and winning personalities. ‘The Rings of Power’ Premiere Recap: All is Not Calm in Middle-Earth 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The play's unlikely hero, a well-meaning dentist named Ben Stark, is said to be "as mixed up as the 20th century!" Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z But before the US president got involved, the hunt for Bergdahl was in the hands of what Koenig describes as “well-meaning people much, much lower down the chain – or not in that chain at all”. Serial recap – season two, episode five: Meanwhile, in Tampa 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z By the end of the novel, she becomes a proxy for well-meaning white folk who don’t realize the extent of their racism until they are forced to confront it. Jodi Picoult’s New Novel Reviewed by Roxane Gay 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z I don’t like it when well-meaning people say God never gives you more than you can handle. “I don’t like it when people say God never gives you more than you can handle”: Small-town obit writer Heather Lende knows better 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z How, they will ask, could the well-meaning leaders of these four major museums be so spineless, so patronizing and so wrong? Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The rule-bound, well-meaning Dutch officers in charge of the base become the general’s hostages and then his accomplices. ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ Review: Life and Death in Srebrenica 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z “Fleabag,” about a self-centered, often nasty but well-meaning young woman negotiating sex, love and family bonds, is the darker and more inventive of the two. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z They were not the only curious, well-meaning Westerners there. The Journey From the Calais Jungle to the London Stage 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Weeks later, a well-meaning neighbor hit on a solution. Stacy Schiff’s ‘The Witches’ Shines a Torch on Salem Trials 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, it’s precisely the shortcomings of this well-meaning, heartfelt, and vigorously engaged tribute to a remarkable person—who also happens to be a remarkable artist—that ricochet off matters of a wide-reaching cinematic import. “Welcome to Marwen,” Reviewed 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z It would have been easy enough to cast the earnest, well-meaning Ford as a bit of a chump, but Rumsfeld portrays him as an honorable and brave man. Gerald Ford, President Nice Guy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z We duly meet the well-meaning but ineffectual social worker and discover that the boorish loud-mouth of a neighbour actually has a heart of gold. Some Other Mother – review 2013-06-11T18:26:49Z There she encounters well-meaning professors and students determined to define her based on their own ideas of minority students. Jennine Capó Crucet's 'Make Your Home Among Strangers' illuminates 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Russia, exhausted and desperate from three years of disastrous war with Germany and its allies, was being run by ineffectual and well-meaning moderates. Missed connection 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z This is not a rhetorical question but rather an expression of genuine puzzlement occasioned by “Something Borrowed,” a well-meaning comedy of marriage that seems ardently committed to the blandness of its characters. | 'Something Borrowed': New Lovers and the Old Triangle 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z Martin Sheen and Sally Field play Parker's well-meaning uncle and aunt, who do their best to keep him from going off the rails. Andrew Garfield: The new 'Amazing Spider-Man' 2012-06-19T01:01:10Z “Switched at Birth” deftly shows us well-meaning people utterly oblivious to their economic prejudices — people who need a lesson that the guy with the biggest house doesn’t always win. Critic?s Notebook: A Television Family Tree That Bears Surprising Fruit 2011-06-13T22:30:18Z “The first time, it was like a bullet. But I knew people were well-meaning.” Nadja Ensink-Teich: ‘I wanted to show our daughter the world to honour my late husband’s life’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z So is an episode about the well-meaning relocation of Nim to a horse ranch that leaves him feeling isolated and lonely. 'Project Nim': Smart tale about the education of a chimp 2011-08-11T20:58:07Z Unfortunately, while the actors were well-meaning in their roles, they were not given a storyline that held together effectively or entertainingly as slices of life over the 12-year span of those people's lives. Readers respond after 'Boyhood' fails to impress critic Kenneth Turan 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z But I will not bear with you, Melissa, though I am sure you are a very nice and well-meaning person. Do not even think about putting chocolate in pecan pie 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Together with three other performers, Monnet pays tribute to Duplessis in a production that has high points — including evocative choral and dance numbers — but feels overly linear, its text well-meaning yet monotonous. A French Festival Focuses (Timidly) on English 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z And yet despite Dano's riveting, deeply internalized performance as a good, well-meaning man who's tragically ill-equipped to handle adulthood, "For Ellen" falls short of those other, better films. 'For Ellen': Paul Dano is riveting in thinly plotted fatherhood drama 2012-09-13T20:28:03Z In a place like today's Haiti, the former values inevitably take precedence, particularly when there are innumerable charities and NGOs advancing well-meaning but uncoordinated reconstruction projects. Haiti: rocked to its foundations 2011-01-11T21:31:00Z If that performance was any indication, then this will be less of a reunion and more of a well-meaning intervention on the part of the other four. Why an S Club 7 reunion show needs to happen 2013-05-30T14:26:24Z The personal, cultural and political implications of Black hair are at the root of the well-meaning but less than inspired “The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks and Curls.” Review: In ‘Crowns, Kinks and Curls,’ Getting to the Roots of Black Hair 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Or is it the story of a well-meaning intellectual struggling to rein in the loutish young buck he tries to nurture? The Master trailer: will Paul Thomas Anderson's film inspire devotion? 2012-07-20T14:10:48Z As an attempt at correcting such wrongs of the past as Blackface and yellowface casting, I'm sure it's a well-meaning gesture. Representation heals: How watching K-dramas lifted the weight of white supremacy and freed my tongue 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Even the most well-meaning, respectful and compassionate true crime podcasts and storytelling that involve murdered victims will always on some level be an appropriation of someone else's life and story. “Only Murders” makes us question the ethically murky joy we derive from true crime 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Although parts of the film veer on cliché, its intentions are well-meaning and its messages about nurturing curiosity and fostering community are well worth hearing right about now. ‘Jingle Jangle’ Review: Dancing Through the Snow 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z This leads to a deeply unpleasant exchange of words, including assorted “well-meaning,” poisoned clichés that we are all of course beyond now. Theater Review | 'Clybourne Park': Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors 2010-02-22T08:11:00Z “It takes a lot to say that,” another congratulates him, as the other well-meaning dudebros applaud. Watch “Portlandia” poke fun at back-patting male feminists in hilarious new sketch 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “Quirky” — a word that is well-meaning, but also makes me think of middle-tier sitcoms, or the comic relief guy on a sports pregame show. Salon’s author questionnaire: “Figuring out that page-turning quality is tougher than it looks” 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Which is probably not quite what the NSO had in mind when it started this well-meaning but ill-defined project. NSO’s ‘New Moves’ festival closes with Jessica Lang and Leila Josefowicz Berneche says she wanted to report Gatti’s behavior but a well-meaning adviser to whom she had turned said, “If you come forward, you will be fired, and he will continue.” Assaults in dressing rooms. Groping during lessons. Classical musicians reveal a profession rife with harassment. 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z For many of the survivors, the massacre seemed to deliver multiple blows: first the violence of the attacks, and then the intrusions, however well-meaning, of neighbors, police officers, federal investigators, journalists. After the Orlando Shooting, the Changed Lives of Gay Latinos 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Look at the avalanche of well-meaning Hollywood films about Iraq, yet we're still there, killing. Athol Fugard berates dramatists for failing to confront injustice 2010-08-30T14:59:00Z But even papers with well-meaning local ownership, like the Salt Lake Tribune, are experiencing brutal cuts: The paper is losing one of every three newsroom staffers, it was announced a few weeks ago. Perspective | Elon Musk wants to fix media mistrust with a dopey rating system. There’s a better way. 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z I think that, in our society, the idea of motherhood is pathologically ill, and even well-meaning people assume martyrdom in a mother. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff on the Cult of Motherhood 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Ben Stiller stars as Brad Sloan, the sort of neurotic but well-meaning character Stiller has made a career out of playing. “Brad’s Status” feels like a movie about America in 2017, but it’s more timeless 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z But in the songs themselves, she only sounded like a well-meaning tourist. Madonna Is Still Taking Chances 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Martin will resurrect her role as the well-meaning but pushy Aunt Voula. Andrea Martin is living in the moment these days 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z They are slapped with the label "classic," and they wind up on reading lists produced by well-meaning professors and TV talk-show hosts. Oprah goes classic: A good idea? 2011-01-08T06:00:00Z "I understand why Gloria would say the things she is saying because nobody remembers her, and I find that sad because I think she is a well-meaning lady." Playboy goes retro, slashes price to 60 cents 2011-09-12T14:12:00Z Service is well-meaning but in need of direction. Instant Korean Ramen, Made the Hard Way 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z These are impulse purchases, souvenirs from winery visits, swag from tastings we attended, gifts from well-meaning friends and family. Bottles are only the start of a wine drinker’s collection. It’s the gadgets that pile up. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z That conclusion is based on the content of Susan Charlotte’s gentle, well-meaning one-act play, “She’s of a Certain Age,” being presented by Cause Célèbre and Mary J. Davis at the Beckett Theater. Theater Review: ‘She’s of a Certain Age’ at the Beckett Theater 2012-05-24T23:09:29Z Earn is a well-meaning guy but is also, quite clearly, a loser. Inside “Atlanta” with Donald Glover: “The thesis behind the show was to make people feel black” 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Though this behavioral and psychological approach may be well-meaning, it is shortsighted. How schools are using restorative justice to remedy racial disparities in discipline 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z The conviction Ms. McCormack brings to the role and the subtle, telegraphic way she conveys Leann’s conflicting emotions help lift the film above well-meaning cliché. Critic’s Notebook: Oh, Yes, Saturday TV Is Ladies Night 2013-08-22T20:35:42Z The creators' refusal to sugarcoat the way that well-meaning advice and innocent actions can make things worse earns my trust. Motherlode Blog: Home-Schooling, Comic Con Style (Part 2) 2012-10-17T15:35:51Z Beyond that threshold "City of Angels" is mostly an excellent, well-meaning concept that doesn't quite live up to the grandeur of its intent. "Penny Dreadful: City of Angels": Glam Nazis menace LA in this high style, no heart spin-off 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Then there’s Mary Byrd, herself, a well-meaning magpie whom one character accuses of being a “quaint-hound.” ‘Flying Shoes,’ by Lisa Howorth Elizabeth, on the other hand, almost always comes across as a cozy, well-meaning, deeply sympathetic creature with whom you’d love to have tea – or a gin and it – some day. London Theater Journal: Mind Games 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Instead, I blinked back tears as a well-meaning white woman approached—she couldn’t believe that verdict, she said, the injustice of it all. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z On social media, well-meaning folk often post colourised portraits by masters of black-and-white Hollywood glamour photography, such as George Hurrell or Clarence Sinclair Bull. The Oscars' love affair with monochrome is not black and white 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z “He remains the immature mischief-maker, a well-meaning dad with the instincts of a reckless kid,” Mr. Zinoman writes. Stephen Colbert (That Other One) Returns 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z She would insist that my nose was smaller – the kind of well-meaning parenting that just inspired fury and distrust. Jessica Valenti: my life as a ‘sex object’ 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z I teach at a private high school full of diligent, well-meaning teenagers. “Narcos” isn’t “Breaking Bad”: How season 2 betrays Pablo Escobar’s victims 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Ben is forced to find a job for Roman, who is as untalented as he is well-meaning. Television Review: Sunny Town, Gloomy Boss 2011-02-08T22:17:19Z “We resent being asked by older relatives and well-meaning co-workers if we’re planning for kids yet, while our brothers and uncles and boyfriends are blissfully unquestioned.” Motherlode: Autism Study Starts Clock for Prospective Fathers 2012-08-24T23:46:30Z Podcasts, documentary series and reality shows abound in which well-meaning narrators comb over old details in unsolved cases, and it hardly matters if the evidence is neither fresh nor conclusive. Review | ‘Law & Order’ applies its style to true crime, but ‘Menendez Murders’ lacks allure 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z But it's only a matter of time before a friend plays the well-meaning killjoy by asking questions like, what does this guy really want? OK "Ted Lasso" fans, time to have a conversation about our dear, wonderful Sam Obisanya 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z How can well-meaning parents tell the difference between supporting and pushing? How parents of talented children hold the line between supporting and pushing 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z You write with satirical precision about the way black people are patronised in the US and the UK – often in a well-meaning way. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: my new novel is about love, race... and hair 2013-04-06T23:05:05Z Visions of the United Colors of Benetton danced through magazine ads, and well-meaning figures preached the necessity of "seeing no color." “Star Trek” seeks out new life for Jean-Luc Picard: Why he’s the captain we need now more t... 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Others wrestled with their consciences and vacillated — among them, the most enlightened, well-meaning and educated people in the frontier milieu, such as the brilliant newspaperman Francisco P. Ramírez. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The few glimpses we catch of the Ford’s Theater production of “Our American Cousin” are unfortunately the liveliest and most convincing moments in this well-meaning, misbegotten movie. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z I try to fill that role for the kids, but I hate to see them not talk to their well-meaning dad. Carolyn Hax: Parental overreach can lead to a teachable moment 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z His character is a well-meaning but messianic sociologist whose conduct threatens to destroy the planet Jugal. CBS Blocks Use of Unused ?Star Trek? Script by Spinrad 2012-03-28T22:25:24Z Logos, eldest of the company and a well-meaning but overzealous guardian, is confronted by Exstasis, his secret lover, whose visions have revealed where the angels’ wings are hidden. Music Review: Eric Whitacre and His ?Paradise Lost? at Carnegie 2010-06-16T20:23:00Z Overbey, who is White, says she decided to go public with the goal of sparking an even broader conversation about what she describes as “passive racism” — the inaction of otherwise well-meaning people. A New Yorker staffer questions racial equality at the magazine — and becomes the talk of the town 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z And in retrospect, this lack of special investment in performance connects to the well-meaning tedium of the choreography. Dance Review: Movement to Fill Every Corner of a Space 2010-10-11T21:18:00Z But “The Firm” does represent the purest expression of the common Grisham character arc, wherein well-meaning men or women with troubled pasts turn to the law for redemption. When John Grisham Movies Were King 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z At the beginning of “Never Simple,” I might have been one of those well-meaning friends. What Is Your Obligation to a Difficult, Deceptive Parent? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Through Lenore's calculated maneuvering, the petty shenanigans of the well-meaning mortals around her are revealed as nothing but useless flailing against an indifferent tide. "Hung": A parable for crass times 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z The movie is “a well-meaning comedy of marriage that seems ardently committed to the blandness of its characters.” DVD: How Crimes Have Changed 2011-08-12T18:43:25Z “Why don’t you just call her less often, well-meaning friends would ask, bewildered, and I would laugh disbelievingly,” Scheier writes. What Is Your Obligation to a Difficult, Deceptive Parent? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z And many well-meaning judges and government officials have agreed with them. Title IX: How a Good Law Went Terribly Wrong 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z I got all the “advice” and “feedback” from well-meaning family, friends and near-total strangers. Don’t bet on your child’s safety with hot-tempered partner 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Given that it’s simply bad form to tell a well-meaning stranger where to go, I have often resorted to being facetious. Seen Rain Man? That doesn’t mean you know my autistic son 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z There was, however, criticism that this was exactly what the productions were – well-meaning but naive attempts to borrow ideas from the east and attach them to western forms. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z “By what manner of well-meaning legerdemain,” the linguist Jonathan Lighter, a slang expert, later asked, “does a three-word Most Notable Hashtag become Word of the Year?” At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z His willingness to concede that he doesn’t naturally know what to say and how to help demonstrates how confused and even helpless many well-meaning men seem to be feeling at the moment. Anita Hill gives John Oliver few #MeToo lessons on “Last Week Tonight” 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z “Moone Boy” is at heart a standard chaotic-family sitcom, with Martin under the thumb of his terminally blasé sisters and the siblings mortified by their bumbling, well-meaning parents. ‘Moone Boy,’ a Comedy Series With Chris O’Dowd, on Hulu 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Do we believe that Quin’s career in the Darwinian scramble of reality TV has generated no insults or upsets worse than the one she suffered from her well-meaning high school teacher? What if We Pursued Vigilante Justice on Reality TV? 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z If you are driving up State Route 1, ignore all the well-meaning folks who tell you to tour Hearst Castle. Unplugged Along the California Coast 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Several days ago a very kind and well-meaning white acquaintance sent me a message with an offer of money. Take 2: White allies, here's another list of what to do and what not to do, or wear, or watch 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z At worst, it’s the biggest work of well-meaning celebrity cringe since Gal Gadot’s “Imagine” video. ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Afterward, there are “a few optimists, agnostics and well-meaning liars” who try to shrug off the vision, but for the most part, folks start getting ready for the end. In ‘Drowning Practice,’ a Dreamlike Vision of the End of the World 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Fear-mongering medical professionals, fertility specialists, advertisers, and well-meaning family members love to assert that 35 is the year a woman’s eggs instantaneously become less viable. Tick tock: It’s time to stop bullying 30-something women about their biological clocks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z He’s well-meaning and, when not spiraling in creative self-loathing, a loving friend. On ‘Dave,’ Lil Dicky Faces the Music 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Gifts of sometimes mislabeled antiques came in from well-meaning donors and ended up sent back. 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Violet is understandably upset that her successful attempt at courting one of her male peers was compromised by the well-meaning teenager's memory getting wiped in order to protect her secret identity. “The Incredibles 2″ is the rare contemporary superhero movie that dares to be fun 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z It's a well-meaning work offering important warnings to contemporary audiences: Beware of demonizing "the other" and be alert to the dangers of sitting quietly while the vital freedoms of democracy are eroded. 'Night': worthy message, too heavy-handed 2012-01-26T21:23:04Z This is a variation on an old idea that turns up a lot in feel-good documentaries and on the agendas of well-meaning foundations. Review: In ‘Breaking Borders,’ a Chef Cooks for Sworn Enemies 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z A well-meaning friend kept ordering vegan food for me when in reality I just need wheat-free stuff. How to be a helpful host to your friends with food allergies this holiday season 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Vegetarian clients say that well-meaning hosts often offer vegetarian options such as vegetables and potatoes, not realizing vegetarians need some protein, too! Raw, vegan, gluten-free? Dinner party etiquette for hosts and guests. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z All this well-meaning thematization could have been deadly in lesser hands, further weighing down Mozart’s magical score, already burdened with philosophical notions stemming from Freemasonry. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s not perfect, but it’s well-meaning without everyone having to be an M&M. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to not get dressed down at Halloween 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z But perhaps the most potent insight in this second season is the lead’s amenable but pathological defiance of personal responsibility, his well-meaning and winsome brew of good intentions and self-obsession. Ramy: the smartest, darkest TV comedy that you're not watching 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Talk to techno-utopians and well-meaning libertarians about the crisis in culture today – the increasing demand for musicians, artists, and scribes to work for free or almost nothing – and you’ll hear a cheery solution. Silicon Valley moguls aren’t going to save the arts: The ugly truths of patronage go back centuries 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z But beyond such strategic considerations, every new challenge seems to become an opportunity for well-meaning incompetence, at least on camera. Television: On the High Seas, a Mix of Danger and Bumbling High Jinks 2010-08-26T22:23:00Z Such as, "The well-meaning staff seems to realize that this is not a real restaurant." Guy Fieri takes his lashings, but was it fair? 2012-11-15T20:33:10Z I find such aesthetic gestures, though well-meaning, only partly fulfilling, and largely a reminder that art can only go so far in redressing the tragedy that is American racism. Afrofuturist Room at the Met Redresses a Racial Trauma 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Mr. LeFevre is terrific as the well-meaning Gene, a burly teddy bear type. | 'How the World Began': Catherine Trieschmann?s ?How the World Began? - Review 2012-01-09T03:01:00Z Still, these well-meaning choices struggle to cohere into a satisfying picture. ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ Review: A New Girl in Neverland 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z He is filled with ambiguities – he is well-meaning as well as pompous, oddly kind as well as superior, nervous as well as resentful. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z “The tragic irony is that Hollywood is full of good, well-meaning people,” says Gaydos. Will Hollywood ever end its love affair with guns? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Here, he plays a fictional Diplo who’s well-meaning but largely clueless and self-absorbed, given to imagining himself in ninja sword battles and musing about what Jesus would be like on Twitter. Review: James Van Der Beek, From ‘Dawson’s Creek’ to an Alt-Diplo 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z I have been warned by well-meaning, and slightly older, friends that I should be discreet in my affairs. Small minds crimp my style 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z Any suggestions on how to deal with the nosy but well-meaning masses? Ask Amy: Foster parents struggle with impending loss Like a well-meaning friend, music should help that story in any way it can, without intruding, barging in at inopportune moments or overstaying its welcome. Is the success of a movie score measured only on screen? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z However, Mr Barrett paints his protagonist as a well-meaning tragic hero undone by hubris rather than a venal con man. Murky truth 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Might their well-meaning actions put the entire universe in danger? KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Sal & Gabi Break the Universe’ 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z The global health and economic issues Barfield raises are important and sincerely intended, even if it's a stretch to plunk them so personally into the living room of a pair of well-meaning, liberal American yuppies. Review: 'The Call' is a touching adoption saga 2013-04-15T02:01:06Z Although sensitively handled in the film, it all adds up to an overload of baggage for a well-meaning but formulaic movie with not enough time to transcend predictable clichés. Review: Katie Holmes Directs Her First Feature, ‘All We Had’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “Here I Am” has more teeming life in it than several hundred well-meaning and well-reviewed books of midlist fiction put together. ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z For the distinctly family-oriented audience at the first Beacon Riverfest, in a waterfront park 60 miles upriver from Manhattan, it was a well-meaning stumble in an otherwise sure-footed set. Music: Tracy Bonham?s Bumpy Path From Angst to Bliss 2010-07-09T23:45:00Z That may be truer to the spirit of Guthrie than any of the song’s well-meaning lyrics. Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z Gather round, all you well-meaning liberals simultaneously preaching the same sanctimonious sermon about how the “social justice left” is too uncompromising, too zealous, too mean. Outrage culture changed the world: “PC” critics are wrong — marriage equality happened because activists used shame and rage 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z His simmer and smoulder had aged well into a potent maturity – Connery endured endless “single malt” analogies from well-meaning interviewers – and that baldness, once feared, looked like authentic masculinity. Sean Connery at 90: a dangerously seductive icon of masculinity 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The well-meaning but blunt categories of denazification after 1945 actually blurred our understanding of the complex systems that led to war and genocide and how musicians operated within them. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Lance Vaughan, the creator of Kindertrauma.com, a blog about scary children’s movies, books and toys, said that well-meaning parents may send mixed messages when they engage their children with the Santa tradition. Ho, Ho, Homicide: Killer Santa Is Back in ‘Silent Night’ 2012-11-25T01:00:06Z Her performance is reminiscent of modern celebrities in their well-meaning goodwill ambassador modes. Rylance shines in Broadway-bound comedy 'La Bete' 2010-07-08T13:16:00Z Throughout the evening, well-meaning presenters did their best to personalize the nominees, honoring each one by telling a story about their early jobs in the industry, or the first movie they saw as a child. Perspective | The 2021 Oscars, like the year they celebrated, were destined to be the most anticlimactic ever 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Others argued that, while well-meaning, "Superstar" was overly focused on Christ's humanity, to the exclusion of his divinity. Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of "Jesus Christ Superstar" 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Compared to its sharper contemporaries, “Generation Q” is well-meaning pabulum—proof that conscientiousness alone is insufficient as a guiding force. “The L Word” Reboot Seeks to Absolve the Original’s Sins 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Even positive and well-meaning comments about someone's body can be harmful, triggering, or just uncomfortable for someone for any number of reasons in a society with so many exhausting, unattainable beauty standards. From Britney to Lorde: Young women shift from embracing body positivity to body neutrality as teens 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z The participants on this show are more varied — survival experts and military men but also well-meaning back-to-the-landers with dubious skills. Critic’s Notebook: Discovery’s ‘Dude, You’re Screwed’ 2013-12-20T22:30:53Z One, the well-meaning but simplistic pronouncement that people with Down syndrome are “sweet and loving angels.” Motherlode Blog: Has Down Syndrome Hurt Us? 2011-10-03T17:10:54Z “Awareness” is a virus that preys on well-meaning minds. When Is 'Awareness' Awareness Month? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Throughout his life, this “tall clumsy, well-meaning puppy who couldn’t enter a room without tripping over the carpet” — Matthew’s description of his father — resisted all attempts to curb his personal and political freedom. The real Stephen Spender as seen by his son in ‘A House in St. John’s Wood’ 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z In hell, we’ll hear echoes of all the well-meaning criticism we gave our kids: every perfectly reasonable judgment on that T-shirt, that friend, that music, that mess, that earring, that homework! ‘Us’: A fractured family’s trip into parenthood’s regrets And Ruth, who would like to go to college, is warned against racking up huge student debt by a well-meaning teacher. The compassionate "Holler" encapsulates the desperation of everyday American poverty 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The well-meaning reviewer thus finds herself in a difficult position: eager to urge readers to buy tickets, but reluctant to explain why. Spoiler alert! 'Borrowed Time' magic show will leave you astonished 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z But once a perfectly well-meaning psychiatrist comes aboard, and starts prescribing a drug regime that begins with anti-depressants and soon escalates to anti-psychotic and other heavy drugs, Kenny's existence becomes a living hell. Review: 'Sick' is a scary plunge into a tale of misdiagnosis and recovery 2011-04-15T00:33:49Z The benefits of constructive advice from well-meaning friends can’t be underestimated. I found out my friend used IVF. I feel she should tell her kids | Mariella Frostrup 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z His characters are harried, generally well-meaning upholders of the establishment, whether a policeman or a dealer outraged over an intrusion on his assigned turf. This Man Doesn’t Star in Every Australian TV Show. It Just Seems That Way. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Many well-meaning relatives ask me about her latest news, and they seem to think I should be pushing her more to pursue this transplant. Perspective | Ask Amy: Sister’s illness leads to transplant questions 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z If there’s any drawback to dinner here, it’s the well-meaning helicopters on the staff and the lack of much privacy. After Peacock Room review: Edible art emerges in a small Georgetown space 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z She was well known for her “contempt for conventionally ‘good’ children” and reserved her admiration for high-spirited children — and grown-ups — whose intensity and well-meaning inspirations landed them in fascinating scrapes and eventful brushes with history. The Pioneering British Socialist Who Revolutionized Children’s Literature 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Maybe his well-meaning blankness is a perfect canvas for mass projection? Sam Smith – just a pretty voice? | Concert preview 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z “Learning how to politely sidestep these questions from well-meaning others is a skill they will be able to use again and again,” Fox says. Tired of people asking where you’re going to college? Here’s what to say. 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Mrs. Obama, who declined to speak with Ms. Soechtig according to the film, is portrayed as a patsy, with her well-meaning “Let’s Move!” childhood obesity initiative quickly co-opted by food giants and undercut by politics. The Carpetbagger: Sundance: A Food Documentary That Hopes to Start a Movement 2014-01-20T18:52:17Z A well-meaning white writer, outwardly committed to naturalism, might still look for material from the eavesdropped conversations of friends or neighbors. How Should Black People Sound? 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z He struck me as basically a well-meaning violent jerk who should probably be arrested. In Lee Child’s ‘The Midnight Line,’ hero Jack Reacher seeks justice amid the opioid crisis 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Her words, addressed directly to someone — a social worker, a teacher or another well-meaning stranger — land with an almost physical weight. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The performances in “The Picture Box” are warm and more than competent, but the actors are working with very thin if well-meaning material. | 'The Picture Box': ?The Picture Box? by Cate Ryan at Beckett Theater - Review 2012-01-17T22:41:30Z Some are lovable, jovial or — akin to stereotypical New Yorkers — gruff yet well-meaning. "Only Murders in the Building": This season’s best quotes from Oliver Putnam, Broadway producer 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Brown Dog, distraught over her fate at the hands of well-meaning bureaucrats, conscripts some unlikely allies to his cause. Jim Harrison’s ‘Brown Dog’: full life for a mischief-maker with a noble heart 2013-12-18T22:50:20Z Mr. Green is never really permitted to become more than an uptight if well-meaning punch line, but in a smaller role Mr. Harris shows considerable range. | 'Skin Deep': Fabulous Lodging, Clothing Optional 2010-10-27T21:49:00Z “My Struggle” reveals a well-meaning, self-doubting man in his early 40s, trying to make sense of the emotional wounds of his childhood, to build a meaningful personal life and to fulfill his creative ambitions. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle’ Is a Movement 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z But this play, in which the action takes place in real time, displays not only his technical adroitness but his psychological understanding of the havoc created by the happily well-meaning. Absent Friends - review 2012-02-10T00:30:17Z It was a well-meaning but confusing effort; it simply did not work. Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z The humans interact with HAL by speaking to him, and he replies in a measured male voice, somewhere between stern-yet-indulging parent and well-meaning nurse. “2001: A Space Odyssey” still has insight on future decades later 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s at once empowering and dispiriting, and less a call to revolution than another of the industry’s well-meaning liberal calls for playing nice with power. Punching the Clock (and the Boss) With Dolly, Lily and Jane 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z But Mr. Doyle is in well-meaning company with Oscar Hammerstein II, who adapted the musical in between his work on “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel.” ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In this iteration he is a well-meaning, idle and forgetful husband and father of two who goes into swivets over nothing with his posse of pals, the fathers of his sons’ friends. Television Review: An Idle Star With Time for Trouble 2011-04-13T22:47:22Z A divorced mother of two, who visits her family in Brittany for a summer holiday, Léna does continual battle with well-meaning relatives who bombard her with unsolicited, nagging criticism. | 'Making Plans for L?na': Chiara Mastroianni in Christophe Honor??s Drama 2010-08-19T23:10:00Z Looming over it all is Marston, a big, odd, frisky fellow who comes to seem like Alfred Kinsey’s well-meaning but weirdo cousin. ‘The Secret History of Wonder Woman,’ by Jill Lepore 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z But even we know that well-meaning does not automatically equal good movie. Matt Damon’s Promised Land: What the Frack!? 2012-12-21T10:45:15Z The viewer might consider that too, enjoying this frilly, well-meaning fiction while understanding the history that inspires it is not altogether beautiful, and is with us even now. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z I think he thought I was a nice and well-meaning person. Blind date: ‘For some reason I said yes to every alcoholic drink’ 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z "There is sincere danger that a well-meaning juror will be more impressed with an `expert' on television than one presented by the parties at trial," the petition said. Jackson doctor defense files appeal, seeks delay 2011-09-03T02:09:09Z Yes, Minister always had a point of view, the well-meaning British genius for muddling through. TV review: Yes, Prime Minister 2012-11-27T00:46:12Z Oliver and CK’s well-meaning rants were both aimed at self-selecting audiences – premium cable and an email list, respectively – but earned wider coverage. Will John Oliver, Louis CK and SNL's attacks on Trump make a difference? 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Lurking within this well-meaning construct is the toxic view of music as a kind of largesse: the idea that this music is better than the music you already like. Perspective | A world-famous conductor performed in a D.C. public school. The result? Mixed marks. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z This sexist dude sets up a fake audition so he can harass a well-meaning actress into being his girlfriend. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z “Wildcat” is well-meaning, but it’s very frustrating, particularly as Turner’s mental health begins to erode. ‘Wildcat’ Review: Rescue and Rewild 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Whether actively, by well-meaning professionals or family members, or tacitly, through the prevailing ethos of the time, those who survived the massacre and those who stopped it were nearly silenced, or at least muffled. A Hitchcockian Re-Creation of the First Modern Mass Shooting 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s a stylishly edited and well-meaning collage of interviews and archival footage that rather nicely weaves together the sounds of Buddy Guy, Cheap Trick, Etta James, Big Black, Naked Raygun and Wilco. ‘Sonic Highways’: Dave Grohl’s busy but beautiful road trip Statements like these are well-meaning, and contribute to awareness about the crisis of rising anti-Asian violence. Asian-Americans need more than Hollywood representation to address anti-Asian racism 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z I had tried to make him — kind and well-meaning, but unable to match my spirit or provide me the emotional connection I wanted — into my perfect boyfriend, because he was Black. Accepting Applications for a Black Boyfriend 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Hushpuppy is searching for her mother, and also trying to save a world threatened by natural disaster, mythic beasts and well-meaning but soulless government authority. The Oscars Issue: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Shares Something With ‘Lincoln’ 2012-12-28T16:51:45Z While the Santas in Bad Santa and Christmas Evil are flawed but ultimately well-meaning individuals, Ricky Caldwell of Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 is an utterly indefensible psychopath. Clip joint: Bad Santas 2012-12-19T11:28:06Z I don’t recommend even well-meaning attempts at social engineering based on second- and third-hand information. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Bob’s ignoring his family. Should we ignore him? 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Even in well-meaning portrayals, we've often seen characters with disabilities dehumanized by stories that transform their disability into a superpower of sorts, making them otherworldly beings when they're just ordinary people. Marvel’s first deaf superhero shines, but "Eternals" has an accessibility problem 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z As surely as the sun rises, a point arrives in the course of every civil rights movement when well-meaning white people climb aboard and take it mainstream. Black lives, white eyes: what's different this time is we're locked down and can't excuse it away 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Instead, we get Detective Rivers, an overzealous but well-meaning officer who is obsessed with being a positive male role model in Mouse’s life, even though his presence is largely unwanted. Perspective | ‘Charm City Kings’ builds on a legacy of narrow-minded depictions of what it’s like to grow up Black in Baltimore 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z At the same time, you have those very well-meaning defenders that say: “Actually, look at the ‘Symphonic Dances’ and the late pieces. At 150, Rachmaninoff and His Music Are ‘Here to Stay’ 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z When she began working on a novel about well-meaning white people who are blind to their own bigotry, Okparanta, who is Nigerian American, realized the topic was explosive. A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z It speaks to the ways our culture and sometimes even well-meaning media objectivity standards and legal definitions can police and invalidate survivors. Inside the media debate between using “sexual assault” and “rape” 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z At the start of her solo circumnavigation, she got loads of texts from well-meaning people asking how she was. Not a sprint: endurance experts on how to make it through lockdown 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Fallen from the peak of the “Twilight” phenomenon, Mr. Lautner is game here for playing a well-meaning joe who’s deep in debt to a Chinese loan shark. Review: In ‘Tracers,’ Taylor Lautner Joins a Shady Parkour Gang 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z My case is now being treated in an ideal manner, with trained police and investigators who are attentive and well-meaning. Adèle Haenel: France ‘Missed the Boat’ on #MeToo 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z It was well-meaning, often pleasant, and contained almost nothing for fans of Mr Burns or Derek Smalls to get excited about. Harry Shearer and Judith Owen's Holiday Singalong ? review 2010-12-07T22:19:00Z Furniture that Andersen’s well-meaning grandmother found on the street accumulated. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z A simple tale about a couple of well-meaning campers, determined to have a nice time in the country but thwarted by that classic fly in the ointment: “other people”. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z In fact, every activity in the ship’s daily circular reads like the itinerary of a well-meaning but dorky youth minister. Cruises Are So Uncool They Are Cool 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z “Newsroom” is a show about brilliant, elite, well-meaning, serious people who cannot stop talking about their personal lives every- and anywhere. “Newsroom”: Aaron Sorkin does “The Daily Show” 2012-06-20T00:00:00Z It is not only conservatives but also well-meaning, tender-hearted white liberals who reproduce those outcomes. Professor targeted by right for teaching course on “white racism”: “These folks are delusio... 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z What follows is a lot of clattery, only intermittently funny comic riffing by Rogen and Franco as they play bumbling but well-meaning bourgeois nerds who are forced into physical action. How “The Interview” Handled the Assassination of Kim Jong-Un 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Then we move on to Connie, a well-meaning white teacher in a wine bar. Review: The Ghosts of Michael Brown, in ‘Until the Flood’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Both halves of the narrative wind through queer spaces and various character awakenings but only with a well-meaning mildness that feels like preamble rather than actual story. Review: ‘A League of Their Own’ Broadens the Field 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z We can always count on white celebrities to offer their well-meaning but clueless suggestions in their infinite, cringe-inducing predictability. Withholding sex is not the answer to abortion bans: The spectacle of celebrity "pro-choice" activism 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z It’s hard not to think that “Manhattan Oil Project” is just good, clean, public-art fun; pious and well-meaning, mildly entertaining, but nothing to get especially heavy, or ignited, about. Art In Review: JOSEPHINE MECKSEPER: ?Manhattan Oil Project? 2012-03-22T20:35:42Z After the standoff ended, dozens of well-meaning friends and co-workers all said roughly the same thing to me: “You’re so strong. You’ll be fine.” I was a hostage at the 2018 Trader Joe's shooting. Here's what I know now about trauma 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z The Kennedy Center’s annual festivals celebrating the art of a particular region or linguistic group tend to balance on the knife-edge between curating unusual and exciting work and a kind of well-meaning cultural tourism. Around the (Spanish and Portuguese) world in 80 minutes 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z And I know from personal experience that when cancer stomps into your life, sometimes very well-meaning people hand you books like they’re homework. You don’t have to read my book: What I want to say to those who say “pass” to reading about cancer 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z You were practically certain to find only bland foreigner fare, thanks to a well-meaning concern for your taste buds. Choice Tables: Authentic Thai Cuisine Moves in From Sidewalk Stalls 2010-11-28T04:30:00Z While the two sides probably don’t want to go on a cruise together or vote the same color, both occasionally dream of a well-meaning Canaanite, worship iPhones and call it monotheism. “American Gods” are the ones we deserve: Neil Gaiman and the Starz show cast on the “long con” of religion and the struggle for lost soul of America 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z The average poetry buff, confronted by the well-meaning populariser, makes a pub full of diehard Fall fans look like the crowd for X Factor Live. Garrison Keillor v August Kleinzahler 2011-04-10T21:29:05Z At the time, I was barraged on all sides with well-meaning condolences, even while my own primary emotion was one of profound, silent relief. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z This is especially true of people new to wine, who often find the onslaught of well-meaning advice and prescriptions to be intimidating and off-putting. No-Sweat Answers to Some Basic Wine Questions 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z But because most of these films are targeted at an international audience, which is already saddled with its own preconceptions of Africa, well-meaning message movies can ring false. The Limits of “Message Movies” about Africa 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Many personal lives are simply boring, and works with well-meaning politics can be very bad. How the Myth of the Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z But Almanya's tone is preachy, almost strident, however well-meaning it may be. Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland – review 2012-06-12T12:59:02Z It’s human nature to fuss over a gray hair or a frown line, and little comfort when a well-meaning friend repeats the trope, “Wrinkles add character.” Essay: Women’s reward for being awesome: wrinkle cream. Seriously? 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z I used to reject attempts at kindness from well-meaning strangers. Opinion: An IED made me a double amputee, but that didn't mean I couldn't continue to serve in the Army 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z It was a long-shot bid to paint himself as a well-meaning entrepreneur who made mistakes, but he stumbled under questioning. Guilty on All Counts, Bankman-Fried Completes a Fall From Grace 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z There is a new widow whose loathsome husband is kept alive by an app installed by her supposedly well-meaning sister. AI and other ghosts haunt Jeanette Winterson's eerie new story collection 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z China has a tendency to use “well-meaning earnest interactions” by American officials to advance its own agenda, Schell said, which could be damaging to Newsom. After Israel visit, Newsom heads to China for climate talks. But can he avoid global conflicts? 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Loneliness is an epidemic and our city has experienced well-meaning protests and despicable violence. Go forth, Seattle art lovers. The city needs you more than ever | Op-Ed 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z For instance, well-meaning people have bought monarch-rearing kits online and even taken monarch butterfly chrysalises out of the wild to rear indoors. Monarch butterflies aren't endangered, reversing recent decision. Is that good news? 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The cities appear to be acknowledging that the well-meaning effort to house all the homeless, for years now a widely espoused goal, isn’t actually possible. West Coast cities start to confront the limits of the liberal dream 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z Efforts to portray the U.S. government's military actions as well-meaning and virtuous are incessant. Joe Biden and Vietnam: American presidents can't tell the truth about a tragic mistake 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z However, being on a board can be a lot of work, so be prepared for well-meaning people to say “no” if they have too much on their plate. How To Start A Nonprofit Corporation In California 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Fraisse acknowledged that dozens of well-meaning search teams arriving together from overseas could have been overwhelming. Rescue teams are frustrated that Morocco did not accept more international help after earthquake 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z But this well-meaning approach pivots on the assumption that a lack of information is the problem, ignoring an extremely important variable: ideology. Republican Presidential Candidates Vow to Fiddle as the Earth Burns 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z At this point, I've accepted that the press will remain in its well-meaning, but delusional, enchantment of making the GOP great again; it is now self-parody. "Trump is in the final stage of cult leadership": Fulton County arrest elevates his MAGA "martyrdom" 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z |
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