| 单词 | at best |
| 例句 | Lyra was used to washing with hard yellow soap in a chipped basin, where the water that struggled out of the taps was warm at best, and often flecked with rust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He knew that Carl was not far off, a hundred and fifty yards at best; he could hear his engine in the fog. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "Cods make uncertain allies at best," the old man insisted, "and that one has no power here." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Dries has gotten married, and although the marriage is rocky at best, a disaster at worst, he is living the life of a married man. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Quentyn understood one word in two at best, but he did not need to know the words to know the fish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Supposedly they were sworn to the Arcyns of the Vale, but the Eyrie’s grasp upon the islands was tenuous at best. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z One was from Martin’s, the department store at the Pagoda Mall, where, at best, I’d be stuck behind a cash register all day, swiping cards and saying “Debit or credit?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I do the same—exit the car, I mean—but my grip on reality is feeble at best. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z But such an agreement was at best tentative, for each national group faced problems peculiar to itself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor Lydia’s situation must, at best, be bad enough; but that it was no worse, she had need to be thankful. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Or at best a confused motivation, as with Liszt’s well-intentioned misunderstanding of Romani music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The success of these hortatory campaigns has been mixed, at best, especially when it comes to the government’s highly unpopular efforts to lure city-bred people into back-breaking farm labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Medical care was at best a kind of potluck affair. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Hizdahr’s fearsome collection of former fighting slaves made indifferent guards at best. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the machine in the corridor dispenses only coffee, tepid at best, in paper cups. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t say that. But let me add that B positive is a relatively rare blood type. Statistically rare. Ten percent of Caucasian males, at best.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He must have seen the corner of my mouth twitch, because he added, “But don’t think you’re going to get all the bandages—these are superficial wounds at best.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The prospects for success were remote at best. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Their relationship was professionally tolerant at best and a bitter rivalry at its worst. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Ophelia wasn’t surprised—the phones in Mirebalais worked half the time at best—but she still felt frustrated, and a little dejected. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Like I’ve said, the truth and I are uneasy companions at best. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Instead she said, “That’s because I’m not her family. She doesn’t love me and so she doesn’t feel all these complicated things for me. I’m just a nuisance at best.’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “It’s not your fault that you cannot pick up my housecat, Thor. It is a large cat, and you are a scrawny little fellow at best, compared to any of our giants.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Even if the actual enforcement of these laws was sporadic at best. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, nothing would have survived from such an encounter except, at best, a few fossilised bones and a handful of stone tools that remain mute under the most intense scholarly inquisitions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z People wanted to like him, they wanted to believe him, but he was undependable and self-centered at best, mischievous or evil at worst. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z My relationship with God at this point was, at best, tenuous. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I was a second cousin to them at best. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z From the start, the prospect of congressional representatives reaching an easy consensus on the location was problematic at best. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Dorian’s skill with the Eyllwe language was spotty at best, and the princess spoke too fast for him to understand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Reducing a complex intelligence or the economy to numbers on a scale, whether I.Q. or GNP, is myopic at best and many times simply ludicrous. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were at best hints here and there in the old books of things that might be like the shadow-beast. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z That he was no good or at best just a weak man who was easily susceptible to whoever he was with? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z All these numbers are at best rough approximations, but their implications are clear: the epidemics killed about one out of every five people on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My grades were average at best, and eventually I learned to live with my father's disappointment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The other man was too near, seventy-five yards, a hundred at best, out there in the fog, his motor cut. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Didn’t he have the same bubbles of air in his throat, keeping the words back, letting out only a stutter at best? Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Any effort they made to defend the territory was clumsy at best, and hopeless, at worst. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z If we barely eat, we have two days of food left—at best—no money, and half a table. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Because no other options occur to me, I return to school—a temporary solution at best. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Just this,’ he thought: ‘encumber a rider, and hope at best to stay in my seat and not be pounded to death by galloping hoofs!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I can’t move fast or far and my shooting abilities are questionable at best. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z At that time—and in many ways it is still true—the public was given at best a very limited and horribly skewed idea of what nuclear war would be like. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I will be labeled as, at best, an “irresponsible” black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When I went to the big houses, I remembered that I was, at best, a visitor to the world I saw there. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They are small enough at best—I could eat twenty of them. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Only one of his 1932 Olympic gold medal crew still rowed for California, and his varsity lineup was turning in indifferent times at best. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Maybe, at best, a half-dozen times in all my years—half-dozen times, no more ’n that. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Then farmers use artificial fertilizer, which at best is expensive, and at worst may inflict longterm damage on the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At worst, I was a potential terrorist; at best, I was an outsider who wouldn’t fit into corporate culture. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But even the occasional hit would mean, at best, a minor respite from the daily grind of barely making ends meet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Or be burdened with gigantic loans, years of obligations to finance an enterprise that would be difficult, at best? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He'd been, at best, an anguished editorialist; he was incapable of fully indulging himself when it came to condemnation. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Either one would provide only the most tenuous sympathetic link to my lute string: one percent at best, perhaps only a tenth of that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For the Elves, I fear, it will prove at best a truce, in which they may pass to the Sea unhindered and leave the Middle-earth for ever. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Thus, in the realm of morals the role of Christianity has been, at best, ambivalent. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “The tonic will make it woozy at best. Don’t worry, we’ll still be at a disadvantage.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z In truth, the tests were subjective at best, one exploding bottle difficult to compare to another. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Though he learned to speak a fluent, somewhat eccentric English, his written command of the language was mediocre at best. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But outside of class few were willing to recognize that I was, at best, paradoxically named a minority student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was standing at their hub, looking down each of them in turn, but he could see only so far, one or two steps ahead at best. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “I do not think we should allow them to invest us. Theirs is a patchwork host at best. These slavers are no soldiers. If we take them unawares...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A dwarf enjoyed at best a tenuous hold on dignity. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I could see he was uncomfortable, and at best, lukewarm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nico has until sunset—at best. And this entire city is supposedly getting destroyed today.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That said, the established U.S. methods of keeping guns away from the people who do cause crime are, at best, feeble. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Mr. Stonecrop, tourism is at best a chancy business.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The chances of a successful test before July 20, he said, were fifty-fifty at best. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be better that way, I thought drowsily; then there'd be no need to stand before her and stumble over emotions and words that were at best all snarled up and undifferentiated . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z By the measures that seem to matter most, Truman High is, at best, second-rate. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They had enough money to last a few weeks, at best. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But in the short term, siblings are at best a hassle and at worst a terror. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She and I can only be, at best, at a standstill—but I need to beat her to get through the door. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He appeared to be half-alert at best— his eyelids drooped, his mouth hung open. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We were not in this central zone, however, but at best on the edge of it, between it and the zone of turbulent, deflected, precipitation-laden storms that it sends continually to torment the subglacial lands. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I, an American writer, writing about America, was working from memory, and the memory is at best a faulty, warpy reservoir. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There are miracles, yes, mostly of a medical nature, a few to satisfy hungry stomachs; at best a storm is tempered, water is briefly walked upon. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Both my hammock and my attempt to connect with them are mediocre at best. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They tend to be rather secretive as their business is semilegal at best. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It might also be said that everything at dinner after that is fuliginous at best. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z People too firmly rooted to the center of their lives find such questions uncongenial at best, quite distasteful at worst. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Their relationship was professionally tolerant at best and a bitter rivalry at its worst. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If you didn’t have a death sentence, he decided, then prison was, at best, only a temporary reprieve from life, for two reasons. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Being black had become, at best, the absence of being white. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Seldom is any mention made of an operation which is non- associative, so the definition seems unnecessary at best. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were benches, a few flowering trees, and a marble fountain misting water over a statue of a satyr chasing a group of half-clothed nymphs whose attempt at flight seemed token at best. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When they taught, they were at best bloodless and inoffensive; at their worst, they could ruin a child’s life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z From everything that happened later, I would guess that these instructions in feminine hygiene were rudimentary at best. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Typhon is stirring. It is very likely that soon, in a few months, perhaps a year at best, he will escape his bonds.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Her English was middling at best; her reading comprehension minimal. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once convicted of felony drug charges, one’s chances of being released from the system in short order are slim, at best. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Most of the islanders were indifferent riders at best, more comfortable on the deck of a longship than in the saddle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Even when technology succeeds in manufacturing a machine as big as Texas to do everything we recognize as human, it will still be, at best, a single individual. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At both the social and verbal levels, in short, an American nation remained a precarious and highly problematic project—at best a work in progress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z To most whites, the reasons for the boycott that was devastating downtown merchants were mysterious at best and mean-spirited at worst. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The data show that car seats are, at best, nominally helpful. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Chances for survival were slim at best if they all stayed together. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z If you have only a room, with a hot plate at best, you can’t save by cooking up huge lentil stews that can be frozen for the week ahead. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Our Dauntless guards lead us to the center of the room, where we are greeted with, at best, murmurs, and at worst, jeers. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But for residents of Pyongyang, electricity is intermittent at best, hot water is rarely available, and travel outside the country is difficult except for diplomats and state-sponsored businessmen. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He understood that sometimes you did things out of necessity, things that were horrible, or underhanded at best, things you wouldn’t do if you had a choice. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Nina had been a passable Tailor at best—but under the influence of jurda parem, well, as Van Eck had once said, Things become possible that simply shouldn’t be. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Berg had been a mediocre ballplayer at best, hitting .243 over fifteen big league seasons as a backup catcher. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Always to be the only African, except for menial workers, to be regarded at best as a curiosity and at worst as an interloper, is not a congenial experience. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Stamitz’s music is at best agreeable, but he does demonstrate an important first step in the process of creating proportion from basic melodies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z All of the needed reforms have less to do with failed policies than a deeply flawed public consensus, one that is indifferent, at best, to the experience of poor people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Their minds were fuzzy at best, like the ghosts Frank had seen in Asphodel, but they remembered one thing clearly: they were supposed to protect their eagle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z My heart is a dubious object at best, blotchy and treacherous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Piers Plowman, went to town to sell his children to the lords of the New Order for purposes that we may call questionable at best. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the afternoon, she hoped at best to be a shopgirl in one of the department stores. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be better that way, I thought drowsily; then there'd be no need to stand before her and stumble over emotions and words that were at best all snarled up and undifferentiated . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dim enough at best, and he had to feel anxiously into the shadows to be sure he had not missed some morsel of clay. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z They called it Charlie Company, but it wasn’t really anything more than three squads at best. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew the prosecutors were on the fence, at best, about charging Reggie with negligent homicide. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z While her employers were extravagantly wealthy, the Saedi family was considered lower middle class at best. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The details of what was to follow were hazy at best. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The truth and I ain't very close—uneasy acquaintances at best—so imagine my shock to discover that Miss Anderson really did go harder on me than the others. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She was too tired to be amused at her uncle’s telephone manners: he viewed such instruments with deep anger and his conversations were monosyllabic at best. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z At the same time I wrote a letter to Washington, breaking the news that my current experiments on the biochemistry of virus reproduction were at best interesting in a nonprofound way. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Finally, we come to the jealousy and mostly benign neglect of her masters in Cairo, to whom Alexandria and her port were, at best, redundant, and at worst, a reminder of Egypt’s foreign-dominated past. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Their prerogative, though it’s an imprecise business at best. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She who controls the grandkids controls the menu 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z In his new novel, “Beast,” Kingsnorth strips out nearly all punctuation and grammatical cues and assigns the telling to a narrator who seems, at best, only intermittently reliable. ‘Beast’ cements Paul Kingsnorth’s reputation as a furiously gifted writer 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Still, mine was a conditional surrender at best. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: In the Minority 2013-04-18T18:08:01Z There are more than 10,000 different tomato varieties available as seeds, while a well-stocked nursery might carry two dozen varieties at best. Seeds vs. plants: A buying guide for vegetable gardeners 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z To Morgan's detractors, his rise from the ashes of a tabloid career to international stardom must be at best mystifying, and at worst maddening. Working Piers 2011-01-17T08:00:05Z Living with an alarm system is at best a minor inconvenience, at worst enough of a hassle that many homeowners don’t use theirs regularly. Simple and affordable ways to safeguard your home 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z But in our popular stories, they’ve held a tenuous place at best. Beyond Mike Brady: Finally, stepfathers are getting their pop culture moment 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z The leering male gaze of the typical “adult” store was, at best, off-putting to most women. The Sex Toy Shops That Switched On a Feminist Revolution 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Some commenters began to express disgust at the suggestion, saying that it was college dorm cooking at best and a form of cat food at worst. Should you actually make Stephen King's viral microwave salmon recipe? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z What should be a lovely family celebration will be strained at best. Carolyn Hax: Find the happy medium with a mentally ill family member 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z As her child, your position here is complicated at best. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: By using fake online profiles to dig up dirt, mother shows her true face 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The story of the Roma, Jimenez said, has long been told by outsiders who depict them at best as itinerant slackers and at worst as unhygienic thieves. A Self-Portrait of the Roma, Without the Stereotypes 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z If this show were mediocre, or even just good, I might have lasted half the set at best. Get Close: 10 Gems From the Pretenders 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The paranormal showdown is fuzzy at best, but the pacing rocks and Spall radiates such ingratiating evil that he needs no help from special effects. ‘The Changeover’ Review: Stranger Danger 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Most stations are fallow or unwatched, especially beyond the capital, Port-au-Prince, where electrical power and TV reception are unreliable at best. The TV Watch: In Haiti TV Tries to Educate, With Mixed Results 2012-07-11T21:54:55Z I was an office drone, and played in an instrumental-rock band that my father tolerated, at best. Fade Out 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z A bride is getting dragged on Reddit for complaining about her “second-hand ring,” which she called “old and the stones looked average at best.” Bride slammed for complaining about heirloom ring: ‘It looked old’ 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z In most cases, it meant that the main breadwinner was, at best, facing a substantial cut in salary and, at worst, unable to work at all. Hollywood blacklisted my father Dalton Trumbo: now I’m proud they’ve put him on screen 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Jewels are to art what celebrities are to society, at best an ornament, more commonly an excrescence. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Cultural studies has since fallen out of fashion a bit, and it doesn’t seem to have left much of an impression on the public, who at best dismissed it as fad. Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z And to reinforce that the importance of performing an act of friendship is in direct proportion to the strength of the friendship — which in this case was diluted, at best. Perspective | Miss Manners: Friend of a friend treated like a servant 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z His shot composition is rudimentary at best, his blocking of action is practically indifferent, and his editing rhythms run the gamut from hobbled to stumbling. Review: ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ Finds Tyler Perry in the Usual Costume(s) 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “This is not a victory for Ireland but at best a fighting retreat,” Dr. Paterson said in an interview. After Outcry, Irish Government Buys Yeats’s Artifacts 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Ultimately, this was a vision he was only, at best, momentarily able to realize. A portrait of Gandhi's growth as social reformer 2011-03-29T17:01:04Z The novel is narrated from Marcel’s point of view, but Marcel is at best a lens, an eyewitness to history, a stoic nursemaid and a reliable guide. Stepsisters, Lovers and Gender-Bending Artists, Now Celebrated in a Novel 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Because a pop singer's life, in my day, was only three years at best. Cilla Black: 'I don't want to see a 70-year-old on TV' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The pop structures, meanwhile, are comfortingly crisp verse-chorus-verse and the settings are, at best, subliminally familiar without being too blatant about their sources. New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z Their acrobatic feats are clunky at best and often unattractive: Shoulder balances involve three people. Dance Review: Shen Wei, LDP and María Pagés at Fall for Dance 2012-10-13T00:50:06Z Rather, its edge and pessimism make it a remarkably responsible piece of film-making, with a conclusion about the wisdom of pursuing a career in the arts that is ambivalent at best. An oral history of Fame: 'We were dancing on cars in the epicentre of porn and filth!' 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Also I think they opened comments on this one just to let us have fun with it, this is a big budget film but everyone must have known it would be mediocre at best. ‘Taken 3,’ Starring Liam Neeson 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z For every instance of success, there are two or three scenes that are problematic at best — family strife, hopelessness, promise unfulfilled. Review: ‘Daughters of Destiny’ on Netflix Explores Caste Struggles in India 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z It’s also why fretting over the decline in the artistry of wide releases is irrelevant at best, destructive at worst. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z To my detractors I represent the debasement of public forum, at best, a pawn, at worst, a perjurer. ‘It was just awful’: The Clarence Thomas hearings, in the words of those who were there 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Well, I am ambivalent at best: afraid to file for divorce, but unable to take the steps necessary to reconcile. Psychic change or con job? 2012-11-13T01:00:00Z Hunter's relationship with Edwards was, at best, sporadic. What really happened with Rielle Hunter 2012-06-28T19:18:48Z But such a comparison is approximate at best, given price fluctuations and the difficulty in comparing one property to another. On Mexico’s coast, skip the resort and rent a house for an immersive vacation experience 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He asked his followers for help, thinking he might raise a few hundred dollars at best. Live-Streaming Your Broke Self for Rent Money 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z I still work myself at least an hour and at best 90 minutes daily, first thing in the morning. Twyla Tharp’s Final Rehearsals: Creating a Company 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Had I never seen him act I would assume, from his own words, that he was poor to middling at best. Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z A career in Hollywood seemed implausible at best. Moana’s voice, Auliʻi Cravalho takes the next step 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The idea of such nonstop elections in the animal kingdom seems dubious at best. Documentary suggests sky not falling after all 2011-03-10T01:59:52Z “It is at best inappropriate, and at worst, criminal.” Perspective | The right-wing drag panic is not about men wearing women’s clothing 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z When news broke that Mr. Letterman was being pursued, Mr. Koppel called a suggestion that “Nightline” was no longer relevant “at best inappropriate and at worst malicious.” Jimmy Kimmel’s New Time Slot May Seal Fate of ‘Nightline’ 2012-08-26T22:15:15Z I was surprised and delighted by that, because my drawings are limited at best. ‘The Bad Guys’ and the Crossroads Its Author Faced 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z This, no doubt, is what Dafoe gets, at best, from working with Wilson. Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please' 2013-06-16T18:00:06Z “Missionaries” is skeptical at best; it does believe, however, in fiction’s ability to illuminate these dark places. The Intricacies of Colombia’s War, Stitched Together in a Novel 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The fact that it stayed put for so long made Pence look focused and resolute at best and at worst lifeless and — yes, Dolores — inhuman. Pence vs. Harris: Amid lies and side-eyes, a garbage pile of a debate attracts a fly 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Romantically, the guys in our lives are tertiary characters at best, antagonists at worst. Modern Love: Casting Call: Bit Player, Male 2011-03-10T22:08:55Z "Better Things" a dramatic comedy about life, which – as "The Galaxy Song" reminds us – can only be soft-scripted at best. The "Better Things" final season reminds us of how incredible it is that we – and it – exist 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z But vital new music is secondary at best. Jay-Z and the Politics of Rapping in Middle Age 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z He called any link to terrorism “specious at best.” After Trump’s ‘social-media summit,’ it’s business as usual for his online provocateurs 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But the concept of identity that allegedly grounds the right to know is a fuzzy one at best. Do abandoned children have the right to know their origins? 2013-02-10T16:00:00Z Indeed, hurling continued as a key component of this pitiless portrait of failed or, at best, fleeting relationships. Alvin Ailey at Dorothy Chandler: Brutality chic in modern dance 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Restaurant-style French onion is iconic served in those ramekins, but doing that at home and with multiple ramekins in a home kitchen oven can be challenging at best or a dangerous mess at worst. Upgrade your French onion soup with these expert tips 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Delayed and delayed, and then delivered – to indifference at best and heartfelt raspberries at worst. Splinter Cell: Conviction 2010-04-13T17:05:00Z Any comparison to his level of attainment is futile at best. The incomparable Paul McCartney at 80 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s clear he now believes this arc, at best, reaches an asymptote — that dastardly dotted line it can never quite touch. Through the Lens of the Obama Years, Ta-Nehisi Coates Reckons With Race, Identity and Trump 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z You already know where I'm going to come down, but I don't find either of those movies boring in the slightest, and think they're bush-league examples at best. In praise of boredom, at the movies and in life 2011-06-08T01:01:00Z Indeed, even the pejorative connotation of “shiksa” is fuzzy at best. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z But it will, at best, provide additional context and a smattering of footnotes. Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford: does it matter if movie romances are real? 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Residents said the golden sand was often covered with turtle entrails, and with roads that were rocky at best, boats were the preferred form of transportation. Next Stop: Mexico Without the Crowds, or Attitude 2012-06-01T19:25:40Z Others, meanwhile, eagerly expressed the view that fat is a moral failing at worst and not the rest of the world's problem at best. Kevin Smith: Skinnier -- but not proud 2011-02-11T16:12:00Z But her knowledge of politics and world events is minimal at best. Leslie Jones blazed brightly on "The Daily Show." But is a star really what its new era needs? 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Because of the fragility, transport would have been difficult at best, and the labor involved would have made them cost-prohibitive. A brief history of royal icing string work 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, for doctors and immunologists, the notion of superhuman health remains at best unproven and at worst a fiction. The secrets of people who never get sick 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Without these bulwarks, the ballot box alone only paves the way for “majoritarianism” at best and authoritarianism at worst. The Silencing of Writers in Turkey 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z I’ve seen or read most of these, and found the vast majority of them flawed at best, dismal, or even downright annoying at worst. ‘Surprised and Dismayed’: Readers Respond to Our Best 25 Plays List 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z This was curious in a slow-moving economy, and at a time when retail sales have been shaky at best. On Madison Avenue, a New Vibe 2012-08-16T00:25:24Z In both cases, the alleged musical connection is flimsy at best. It’s Got a Great Beat, and You Can File a Lawsuit to It 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z There were days when my mental state was precarious at best. Raising Muslim kids in a climate of hate and fear: This is how our family has fought Islamophobia since 9/11 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z His writing before and after those years is forgettable at best. Comic book icon Stan Lee's 'Amazing Fantastic Incredible' memoir doesn't live up to the superlatives 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z And she’s getting flak from people of all colors who think at best she’s insensitive, at worst racist and perhaps mentally unhinged and in need of medication. For white chicks in afro wigs 2012-10-19T23:30:00Z I don’t know, and any pundit who tells you they do is deluded or, at best, guessing. Danger Zone: The New (Or Old?) Adventures of Anthony Weiner 2013-07-24T16:33:55Z School was at best a distraction, he says, and at worst “an illegitimate system” that “wouldn’t recognize any legitimate dissent.” In Edward Snowden’s New Memoir, the Disclosures This Time Are Personal 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The story is a mixed bag at best. Video Games: Far Cry 3, Hundreds, Zero Escape, Joe Danger Touch and Kentucky Route Zero 2013-01-15T22:38:18Z It’s hard to know whether this represents hypocrisy or penitence on McKay’s part, but the idea that someone can’t care about both politics and popular culture is dubious at best. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z His association with that network, however, appears to be peripheral at best. There’s the major media. And then there’s the ‘other’ White House press corps. 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z The two biggest winners in recent years, “30 Rock” and “Mad Men,” remain niche successes at best, with passionate but relatively small audiences. ?Glee? and ?Modern Family? Face Off at Emmys 2010-08-30T03:25:00Z He said technology, at best, can serve as support to scholarly expertise. Italian group hopes to find Caravaggio's bones 2010-04-08T14:55:00Z Jefferson’s drinking was moderate at best: three glasses per night, or, as New York wine merchant Theodorus Bailey observed, he drank “to the digestive point and no further.” Even Thomas Jefferson's most lavish White House banquets had the common touch 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z There are notes she can’t hit without the help of backing singers and tracks, demands that are outlandish at best, silhouettes that can’t quite match the ones she sports on her contemporary album covers. Review: Mariah Carey's Collects All of Her Hits on '#1 to Infinity' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Not only is the pace tepid at best, but Tom is a bore, with at least three characters more intriguing than he is. ‘Kandahar’ Review: Marooned in a Dull Movie 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z “With women’s rights now in question at best, and artisan businesses feeling the necessity of shutting down social media accounts and websites, the ripple effects economically and culturally are all in question. Frighteningly so.” ‘Made in Afghanistan’ Once Symbolized Hope. Now It’s Fear. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Fielder’s ideas are always radical, but often terrible, and at best painfully convoluted, often completely misunderstanding the core values and market of the business. Nathan For You: finding the comedy in awkward commercialism 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Where his vibrato was weedy, hers was a voluptuous purr; where his palette stretched at best to pastels, hers plundered rich, nightly hues. BBCSSO/Runnicles – review 2012-11-09T16:51:45Z Case in point is another film named for a singular person – that came out on the same day as " Oppenheimer" in fact – and proves that argument flimsy at best. That "Oppenheimer" sex scene speaks to a larger problem with Christopher Nolan's storytelling 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Eliot shows, however, that Mr. Brooke’s commitment to reform is, at best, insubstantial. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z JN: Correct – any chalice offered from the mouth that sits in the middle of Cameron's plum face is, at best, poisoned. Should Andy Murray receive a knighthood? 2013-07-14T08:09:02Z In those texts, acts of sheer goodness, if not outright comical, are treated with irony at best or ladled with suspicion and fruitlessness at worst. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z West and Kardashian are mega-celebrities but they are also people, and parents, and there’s an argument to be made that peering into this dysfunctional one-sided pursuit is tawdry at best and unhealthy at worst. Perspective | Lessons Kanye West and Ben Affleck taught us on Valentine’s Day 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Exercise was never my thing — undertaken periodically,- at best, in an effort to force my body to become a smaller size. Perspective | All my life, I hated running. In my 50s, I set out to change that. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z So what if she despoiled my name with a misplaced apostrophe and her hyphenating was lax at best? I’m a self-publishing failure 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There are also some fine farcical scenes more or less dedicated to the proposition that maintenance of a love nest is, at best, full of peril. Highlights From More Than 50 Years of Glenda Jackson Reviews 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Even in middle school, the relationship between homework and academic success is minimal at best. Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z All of which is to say that as a predictor of Oscar glory, the NBR is middling at best. Why 'Mad Max’s Win as the National Board of Review's Best Movie Matters 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z “Horn’s main insight is that much of the way we’ve developed to remember and narrate Jewish history is, at best, self-deception and, at worst, rubbish,” Yaniv Iczkovits writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The fact that he's bringing up the company's $100 yoga pants in the first place is, at best, odd for a guy like Rock. Chris Rock's "Selective Outrage" best exemplifies that comedy isn't black or white – it's green 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z And industry experts say the country’s undeveloped islands offer immense potential, although construction is likely to be several years away at best. Top Hotels Look to the Next Frontier 2013-06-05T15:50:15Z Families that aren’t traditional are viewed, at worst, as damaging or, at best, as “alternative,” as if there were a proper default for the makeup of a family. Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z At a time when the civil rights and feminist movements were still fighting to win equality in everyday settings, Chisholm’s declared candidacy was considered to be symbolic at best. TV to soothe election panic: “The Contenders” offers historical perspective, “The Bunker” gently skewers the process 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Or how “The White Queen” got nominated for best miniseries when it’s mediocre at best. One critic’s picks for the 66th Emmy Awards 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z And this trend, once perceived as a novelty at best, is attracting a new generation of light-traveling frequent fliers and canny frugalistas. Convertible Clothing Is a New Twist for the Cost-Conscious 2011-01-19T23:12:08Z But this story is so nonsensical that it, at best, exploits its subject matter and, at worst, insults it. Left brutalized by adaptation of Stephen King's 'Big Driver' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z But, somewhat encouragingly, another common response was that Hasbro’s attempt to tout its new title as empowering to women, while ignoring a woman’s role in creating the game, was, at best, hypocritical. The Misplaced Feminism of Ms. Monopoly 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z In this male-dominated culture where women are referred to as "old ladies" and treated, at best, as possessions, one female calls the shots. Sons Of Anarchy: 'don't touch the Harleys' 2013-02-02T08:00:00Z But singing was at best a backdrop, maybe even an obstacle. The accidental opera star: 'A lot of the purists, they don’t believe my story' 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z He finds people, at best, helpful to his creations or, at worst, annoying. "Social Network" a mesmerizing, must-see movie 2010-09-21T23:39:00Z I had tried so hard to learn some Japanese and embrace the culture, but I still felt, at best, like an outsider. A Guide to Tokyo, From an Outsider (and Insider) 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z But maybe you're more like me, someone who could at best be described as "turkey ambivalent." What you really want for Thanksgiving is pumpkin pizza 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z But for some reason the laughs overall are few and far between--polite chuckles at best. 'The Guardsman' at NoHo Arts Center 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Though not a threat to human health, the seaweed, which attracts flies and smells like rotten eggs as it decomposes, is a nuisance at best and a repellent at worst. Update: Caribbean Beaches Dig Out From Massive Seaweed Invasion 2011-10-11T18:24:04Z Until very recently, transgender people were very much on the margins, invisible at best, mocked or attacked at worst. Caitlyn Jenner's got company: meet Kate Bornstein, the one-woman whirlwind who's lived many lives 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z I will have to fight for his wants and desires in a world that, at best, cannot afford to fulfil them and, at worst, doesn't listen or care.' One fan's mission to Lars 2012-06-02T22:01:47Z And she, if not a conniving, green-card-coveting gold digger, was naïve at best, a silly young woman, easily duped. From ‘Homewrecker’ to Caretaker 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z But it is at best a partial account. Review: ‘Russian Modernism’ at Neue Galerie, Figurative Focus With Amorphous Results 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The Skagit River sockeye opener this past weekend was lackluster at best. Skagit River sockeye wekend opener was a dud 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z But as with most attempts at increasing diversity, the first forays into inclusion can be inconsistent or awkward at best or downright offensive at worst. Rating "Bridgerton" on its South Asian authenticity, from its hair oiling to the haldi ceremony 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z That recording studios are among the most male-dominated spaces in the music industry and Ms. Spalding was often the only woman in the room felt like an afterthought at best. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The songs of “Joanne” are confident but modest at best, middling at worst. Review | Lady Gaga tries on yet another new hat at Capital One Arena — but it doesn’t quite fit 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Initially, he was regarded as a fringe figure—at best, thanks to his online Yang Gang, “the Internet’s favorite candidate.” Andrew Yang and the Political Narratives of Asian-Americans 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Industry efforts to educate drivers are informal, at best. Before getting in an unfamiliar rental car, take steps to minimize confusion 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z As a personality profile, “Senna” is sketchy at best. | 'Senna': A Spectacular Rise and Fall 2011-08-11T22:00:12Z I think the record here is mixed, at best. 'The Killing of Osama Bin Laden' by Seymour Hersh details a grave threat to our democracy 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Wick shows himself, at best, as a writer of average gifts. Books of The Times: A Foreign Correspondent in Nazi Germany Who Interpreted It for the World 2011-08-09T21:57:15Z Dismissing it as nothing but hypocrisy is counterproductive at best and maybe misguided. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Its relationship to mainstream country music’s increasingly urban core is tenuous at best, even as a response. Sturgill Simpson’s ‘Metamodern Sounds in Country Music’ 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z I find that argument to be flimsy at best because why even go see a long movie in a theater if you already know you will need a break from it? Actually, I don't need (or want) intermissions during long movies 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z But he’s at best a criminal and at worst a deadly terrorist, and an official System interrogator is dispatched to break him down and find out which one. Review: ‘Lightless,’ About the Bratty Machine on a Spaceflight 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z His brand of weird is gooey and misanthropic, with an insistence that the universe is at best indifferent to human life and at worst antagonistic. Gods, Monsters and H.P. Lovecraft’s Uncanny Legacy 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z To call her a socialite is archaic at best, the designer said tartly. Paging Dr. Samantha Boardman, for My Mental Health 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The details of his employment are sketchy at best; other than to get to the bottom of whatever thing needs its bottom got to, his mission is vague. Patrick Macnee: The essence of a gentleman 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z But her attempts to describe the world he inhabited are at best rudimentary. Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world by Suzanne Corkin – review 2013-06-27T07:00:18Z Their accident-prone older son has led the local emergency room doctor to suspect them of being at best irresponsible or at worst, every good parent's nightmare: abusive. "Breeders" feels your parenting pain and cusses right along with you 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z This means that, at best, Marvel is operating mainly on hunches in its conviction that diversity would spell financial doom. Marvel’s Trump agenda: Maybe it’s no accident that fans have to push for equality and diversity at every turn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The corporate world’s record of acting in the public good is, of course, spotty at best. The Messages of Koko, Zika and the Colorado 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Trying to address those topics in a play that puts just one black body onstage is myopic at best, looking less like a critique of inequality than like a mimicry of it. Review: Small Mistakes With Big Consequences in ‘The World My Mama Raised’ 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Any agreement with the tribes would provide temporary relief, at best. US embassy cables: India accuses Pakistan of supporting Taliban 2010-12-16T21:30:37Z His manifest gifts, however, earned him at best a twilight kind of fame — a reputation for being chronically underrated. John A. Williams, an Underrated Novelist Who Wrote About Black Identity, Dies at 89 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Watching the waning afternoon light through a woodland demonstrates that this is at best a dance between the opalescent sky and the black-branched tree. Perspective | Finding the flower bed in the firmament 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z But if the writing and bits were hit and miss at best, “S.N.L.” got the last laugh. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2018 Emmys 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Alas, Linton's broad film actually never goes over the top enough often enough, making it, ultimately, a dubious achievement at best. With "Me You Madness," Steve Mnuchin's wife creates a bold, bipartisan comedy to annoy us all 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z So much of nonwhite representation in cinema is trivial at best, stereotypical at worst — the wisecracking sidekick or the background player stuck there as a token. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The wisdom this oracle dispenses is dubious at best. Television Review | 'Being John Daly': Sand Trap of His Own Making 2010-03-01T23:28:00Z Ms. Paul herself noted that “glib talk about appreciating dyslexia as a ‘gift’ is unhelpful at best and patronizing at worst.” Motherlode Blog: Dyslexia's Silver Lining 2012-02-06T21:25:40Z Needless to say, McNaughton's conception of "how the liberal mind thinks" is foggy and misguided at best. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z The bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt also wears David August suits — but he looks, at best, like a mini-Conor, and, at worst, like a mob boss on Halloween. Hollywood Image-Makers Work Their Magic on U.F.C. Brawlers 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Her prodigious output was, at best, uneven, but the ideological certainties that fuelled Chinese contempt for the impassioned realism of her fiction have crumbled away. Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China by Hilary Spurling 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z Yet, while this vision of King as a peaceable and unifying figure may be comforting, it is incomplete at best and in many ways misleading. MLK was a disruptor: How Black Lives Matter carries on Martin Luther King’s legacy of effective activism 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z We've had 11 Marvel shows/movies total in Phase 4 thus far, and the plot threads tying them together are minimal at best. Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe getting too big? 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z It becomes at best an incubator, a petri dish — and at worst, a threat. Perspective | Theater is a haven. But with the coronavirus, it’s become an incubator for our fears. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The otherwise enthusiastic Santa Fe audience greeted the solo arias and duets with tepid applause at best. Santa Fe Opera breathes new life into epic Civil War tale ‘Cold Mountain’ 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z "Taymor has always regarded human beings in her shows as inconveniences at best," posted RJ on the New York Times website. Spider-Man the Musical: The webbed crusader comes out fighting 2011-01-26T17:31:15Z As a meditation on prejudice and senseless persecution, the video is, at best, politically naïve. M.I.A.?s Agitprop Pop 2010-05-26T04:15:00Z The dispersal of seeds or birds or insects across the Atlantic or to the Galápagos or Hawaii would be rare, at best, so long stretches of time were required to account for the observed distributions. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z It shouldn’t be rocket science why invoking “All Lives Matter” is, at best, insensitive and, at worst, an active attempt to derail activism and deny reality. “All Lives Matter” has always been a lie: The brutality of Hiroshima and Nagasaki echoes in Ferguson and Iraq today 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Lindo: There is a tradition of black soldiers being marginalized at best, expurgated at worst. Delroy Lindo on his titanic performance in ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Its exact location was not marked on any map, and people whom I asked were, at best, polite — but unhelpful. A Black Forest trek to German philosopher Heidegger’s writing ‘hut’ 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z But they haven’t felt especially victorious either, as they’ve been humiliated by the discovery of a bug in their offices and haunted by the sense that whatever cases they win are symbolic at best. ‘The Americans,’ in Its Melancholy Fourth Season, Was ‘Breaking Sad’ 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z No film about euthanasia, no matter how sensitively written, can avoid offending one side or the other; at best, both sides will find reason to complain. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z With a few exceptions, most American pinot noir at the time was at best simple and fruity; more often it was stewed stuff from the hot Central Valley. Josh Jensen, California Pinot Noir Pioneer, Is Dead at 78 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z It's a practice that is classist gatekeeping at best and racial discrimination at worst — and it all boils down to whom dining establishments want to invite in and whom they want to keep out. It's time to admit restaurants have a racist dress code problem 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z When I asked my psychiatrist about the issue, he admitted that diagnosing personality disorders is “squishy” at best. Duty to warn: Shrinks can’t say that Donald Trump suffers from a mental disorder — but we can 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z It strongly suggests the support she claims for “all abuse survivors” is selective at best. Mia Farrow’s sex abuse silence 2014-02-04T15:17:00Z It would literally be cheaper to send my daughter to law school than to day care, but her aptitude for torts is shaky at best. Perspective | This is your regular reminder that abortion access is an economic issue 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z As recently as five years ago, Kinston was, at best, a pit stop for folks on the way to the coast. Vivian Howard lives ‘A Chef’s Life,’ her attempt to show the real North Carolina Frankly, Shaw explains, most English translations of “Abduction” are pretty dated. “They come off as a little corny at best,” he says, “and a little racist at worst.” Captain Kirk, Klingons and an aria: How the Pacific Opera Project remade Mozart, 'Star Trek'-style 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Even Patty, after years of study, still considers herself “at best a beginning Latinist.” Finding meaning late in life without ‘Eat Pray Love’ 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z One by one, with the whole world watching, elite gymnasts kept falling off the vault, in ways that were embarrassing at best and dangerous at worst. 6 Podcasts to Whet Your Appetite for the Olympics 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z That proved to be too much innovation for 1990 viewers, and “Cop Rock” still registers as an imperfect experiment, at best. How ‘Cop Rock’ Called the Tune That Some Shows Still Dance To 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z His ties with his long-term lover Carol Stevens were at best part-time. Norris Church Mailer obituary 2010-12-07T18:30:00Z And all my experiences were exactly what I’d expected: at best tolerable, at worst uncomfortable. How to Tell If You Are Asexual 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z He joins Sergei’s political group but is at best a socialist manqué. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Seinfeld, on the other hand, is at best echoed, and only rarely well. Seinfeld at 25: There's Still Nothing Else Like It 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Millions of people are being unnecessarily labelled pre-diabetic, increasing their likelihood of being prescribed drugs which will at best briefly delay the onset of the illness, say experts. Millions unnecessarily labelled pre-diabetic, health experts say 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The fact is the wealthy control the marketplace, so they decide that CEOs and other high-ranking executives must be constantly rewarded, while determining that the value of the average worker is minimal at best. The class war is a one-sided fight — and the very rich are winning 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z His work may well be a bastardized, nonsensical blend of styles and themes, at best half-aware of the resonances it conjures up and the uncontrollable meanings it unleashes. Trump propaganda painter Jon McNaughton: "Greatest" artist of our time? 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z “Its record in trying to do so is very mixed at best.” What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Before that I hadn't had great success auditioning for TV shows, it was spotty at best but for that audition, it wasn't a life or death thing. Steve Carell: My family values 2013-06-28T11:59:01Z We found many of the well-known spots to be ordinary at best, the food coasting on vacation charm. In Key Largo, fin-to-fin with the denizens of Florida’s revitalized coral barrier reef 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z His views on religious faith and the lessons of history were ambivalent, at best, yet some of his fellow poets dismissed Mr. Hill’s hard-to-grasp poetry as culturally conservative and maddeningly retrograde. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z For those who once found the band a pleasant diversion at best, “Modern Vampires of the City” represents an intriguing left turn. Album review: Vampire Weekend, 'Modern Vampires of the City' 2013-05-13T18:35:00Z When I brought this up with Bruce Kraig, founding president of the Culinary Historians of Chicago, he agreed that its history is fuzzy at best. The Great Chicago Italian Beef Hunt 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Or its chances are, at best, “a mixed bag.” The Carpetbagger: Scenes Not Safe for Work, Even for the Film Editor 2013-12-09T17:42:29Z It was a strange time, and the quality was spotty at best. Mulder and Scully at San Diego Comic-Con: the 13 best X-Files episodes ever 2013-07-18T12:00:00Z The illusion of agelessness is a tenuous one at best, easily shattered by a favorite lyric or memorable hook. Review: Nostalgia powers dazzling Red Hot Chili Peppers show in Seattle 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s lovely and calm, even though it’s at best a thinned-out take on Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” or Vampire Weekend’s first album. Review: Ed Sheeran’s Secret Weapon on ‘Divide’? Being Unabashedly Uncool 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The rest of us call it at best the calm between the storms. Cable girl: Kerry Katona ? Coming Clean 2010-12-07T08:00:00Z An “Allegory of the Arts” and a matching “Allegory of Design and Architecture” credited to the 18th-century Parisian artist Louis Tessier but oddly inscribed in Dutch within the composition are at best modest curiosities. Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z A floor-length taffeta shirt dress just looked bulky, and the rivulets of fringe that poured down silver sequin-covered outfits were distracting at best. Fashion Review: The Princess Principle: Spring/Summer 2012 in Paris 2011-10-03T18:24:57Z In the wake of minutely reported and perspective-shifting books like “The New Jim Crow” and “Ghettoside,” this is a peculiar omission at best. Review: Deep in a Homicide Unit, Details, but No Big Picture 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Said the cop, “I would bet my last dime, That a ghoul has committed this crime. But the chance of arrest Is unlikely at best. I’m afraid it’s a wraith against time.” Style Invitational Week 1244: Primed for creative Amazon product reviews 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But, given the allegations of abuse at age 7 by Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow disclosed in an open letter in 2014, “young” seems misleading at best in this headline. It’s worse than just Woody Allen: Middle-age men, younger women and the true horror in Mariel Hemingway’s new disclosures 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z In her introduction, Chua remarked that the United States as a supertribal entity indifferent to ethnicity and culture became at best a partial reality only a generation ago. The Battle Over What It Means to Be American 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z But good writers don’t look for impressedness in their readers — it’s at best another layer of distortion — and “greatness” can leave a book isolated in much the way it can a human being. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z The first news reports about a potential lab accident in Wuhan as the cause of the outbreak were speculative at best. The media called the ‘lab leak’ story a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Now it’s prompted corrections — and serious new reporting. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z He is at best ambivalent on whether there is any method to the Terranauts’ madness, and his ambivalence becomes less a point of subtlety than a hole in the middle of the novel. T.C. Boyle explores a world within a world in 'The Terranauts' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Glaser, however, is persuasive in her argument that the actions at best ignored inconvenient evidence, and at worst acted in spite of it. Adoption Used to Be Hush-Hush. This Book Amplifies the Human Toll. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z That may be true, but it’s art that says, at best: “Can you believe I did this?” 'The 14th Factory' art exhibition, despite all the hype, is an $18 ticket to spectacle 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Imagining she was going to be the next Meryl Streep, Miller found herself cast instead as, at best, the next Kate Moss, at worst the scarlet woman. Sienna Miller: 'I feel relatively immune to bitchy criticism now' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just a political project, and the ideology driving it was at best confused and disorganized. Artists helped make the Mexican revolution an international phenomenon 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z The utopian ideas don’t run deep, and the dialogue expounding on them can be stiff at best, turgid at worst. Catching Up With ‘Star Trek,’ the Quiet Franchise 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Its sense of the outrageous is tepid at best. ‘Chris March’s The Butt-Cracker Suite!’ at Here 2012-12-01T03:33:58Z Our excitement for Wham! lasted but a year at best. We were all “Young Guns” then: George Michael and the early days of Wham!, the coolest band in London 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z "Gray's Elegy" once formed part of an educational programme that, at best, helped the impoverished young Miltons and Hampdens of the future to flourish. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z The academy has become synonymous with its annual awards, but those were, at best, a secondary concern when the group was founded in 1927. The First Oscar Ceremony Lasted 15 Minutes. What Happened? 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z When King left the meeting, he issued a verdict to reporters that sounded like faint praise at best: “I think we developed new levels of understanding.” Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z I certainly did, and my reaction, on being dragged along on what seemed an interminable trip aboard the Pequod was, “Oy,” or at best, “Whatever.” Call me the greatest American novel 2012-06-14T00:00:00Z At a time when money worries are more acute than ever, and with two children to provide for, isn't spending £122 on a single an indulgence at best, and reckless, at worst? My eBay ?122 7in?confession ... 2011-07-28T20:31:01Z If you're not invested in that person's feelings, being called ugly produces a momentary sting at best. "Bottoms" takes a swing at the meaning of ugly, reclaiming it for us average, untalented people 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z But rebukes of the incoming administration were intermittent at best, generally taking the form of jokes or indirect appeals to empathy and diversity. Celebrities Who Called Out Donald Trump at the Golden Globes 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z But, more crucially, it lands at a time when the humanities and social sciences are themselves often accused of being frivolous at best, fraudulent at worst. Humanities Committee Sounds an Alarm 2013-06-18T21:48:54Z While the legal debate is muddy at best, the reality is that few police officers feel there is enough legal grounding to prosecute under these laws. Is the growth in nitrous oxide misuse a laughing matter? 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The Catholic church, the dominant force in education during much of Belgium’s existence, was at worst an active participant in colonialism, at best a passive bystander. As protests grow, Belgium faces its racist colonial past 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z But the Ukip approach seems clumsy at best – blaming the last ones in when things are tight; superstitious nonsense akin to witch-burning. British Sea Power on tour: from Helsinki to the FA Cup final 2013-05-23T18:00:01Z But the problem is that this is, exactly, America right now, and insisting that it’s not — especially in this particular context — is inaccurate and ham-fisted at best. U2 isn’t radical now: On tour, Bono calls for justice too softly — and safely — for 2018 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The other stories in “Bad Roads” feel undercooked at best, even if they may present a compelling premise. ‘Bad Roads’ Review: A Wartime Anthology 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z She went back to where she started and revived a career that seemed destined, at best, to remain on the indie fringes. For up-and-coming country singer Margo Price, less is more at Alexandria show 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Names and events are ticked off in rapid succession, and the big, and fascinating, question of what role spirituality played receives cautious attention at best. Movie Review: ‘Bill W.’ Traces the Early Life of Alcoholics Anonymous 2012-05-27T22:23:08Z Sometimes extolled in our own communities, of course, but invisible to the world at large at best; demeaned at worst. "WandaVision" gave us the MCU's first superpowered Black woman, which is long overdue yet not enough 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Even the stylish re-creations turn monotonous, which renders "The Nightmare" a thin mood piece at best. 'The Nightmare' seems more thin mood piece than documentary But science increasingly suggests that most diets are at best ineffective, and often counterproductive, promoting a cycle of restriction and indulgence that doesn’t result in lasting change. For an Antidote to Diet Culture, Try These 6 Podcasts 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Homeland at best has been an action show about what kind of people it takes to fight covert war for years and what kind of warriors covert war produces. Homeland Got Better By Getting Smaller 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Its films have for a hundred years ignored us, parodied us and at best portrayed us as doomed and pitiful wretches. Hollywood's refusal to stand up to Alec Baldwin's gay slurs is shameful 2013-06-28T21:32:04Z "It seems the Post's policy is being applied inconsistently at best, and being used here to discriminate against someone," said Hora. “Being emotionally closer to stories isn’t weakness”: Inside Post reporter's bombshell lawsuit 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z But even the most “successful” instances of its use across the history that Whipple covers have had at best mixed effects over time. One of the Most Perilous Jobs in Government 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Although he never wanted for material comfort, the Albee family was described by the future playwright as wantonly cruel at best. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Romance is iffy at best in Parks’ songs. Arlo Parks Offers Solace Without Illusions on Her Debut Album 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z After years of consistent growth, retail sales of core console games, which often cost around $60, are at best flat these days. Critic?s Notebook: As Games Shrink, an Industry Considers Growth 2011-02-14T23:25:49Z To recognize an abstract obligation to people somewhere else is at best foolish — as portrayed through the big-city tree-huggers the show occasionally brings out to lose arguments — and at worst, disloyal. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z It’s a gig economy with people usually working on week-long contracts, at best. 'Over one hour everything was cancelled' – how coronavirus devastated the film industry 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Blossoms live but a season, and plants a few years at best. Exclusive: An Excerpt from the Upcoming YA-Fantasy Novel by Tamora Pierce 2013-05-30T16:41:07Z Yet the concert also represented an aestheticization, at best, of a range of different traditions, smoothing over their differences in the general sameness of framing. Review | Kronos Quartet plays music from travel ban countries as political protest, but lets its Western roots take over 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z But the betrothal and wedding scenes are both bogged down by divertissements that are quaint at best. Review: In Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Bayadère,’ Mostly Good Revelations 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z This is wishful thinking at best, utter confusion at worst. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z For decades the plant has been stigmatized, at best, as a time waster for malodorous and unproductive men, with the disapproval factor steepening after age 30. High time: introducing the Guardian's new cannabis column for grownups 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The first two Harry Potter movies slavishly followed the books and were mediocre at best. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z There’s not much one can say to defend that comment, which even absent the latter-day controversy around “Last Tango” was juvenile at best. David Edelstein, the “butter scene” in “Last Tango” and the darkness of the internet 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z In a culture where clubs last a few years at best, Avalon is one of the few rooms that last long enough for an artist to get attached. John Lyons readies Avalon Hollywood for whatever's next in dance music 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z These are not ordinarily the values of reality television, which prizes mischief and mild lawlessness and depicts police officers as, at best, tragic figures, shouldering responsibilities that no one else will. Television Review: Playing Hide-and-Seek With a Stash of Cash 2011-08-01T22:58:23Z From its industrial heyday in the early 1900s, Buffalo sank to downtrodden at best. In Buffalo, N.Y., a new vitality is giving the once-gritty city wings If "Lights Out" had committed to B-movie cliches and served them up with relish, it wouldn't have mattered that its supporting characters had, at best, two dimensions. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z Not to subscribe to these beliefs is to be outside today's establishment, to be dismissed by it as an eccentric at best, or even as an extremist fringe element. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Twin Oaks was settled in 1967, at the height of the hippie commune movement, by a group of eight people who were, at best, wary of the shiftless tendencies of some of their peers. I worked hard for no pay — and I dug it 2013-02-10T23:00:00Z Right next to the ocean, the aquifer below us is suspect at best. Unfiltered Fervor: The Rush to Get Off the Water Grid 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z But Perez is a flimsy leading man, and the film around him — a modest production that doesn’t exactly hide its budgetary shortcomings — is at best a borderline campy B-movie with bursts of bloody action. ‘La Soga Salvation’ Review: A Very Inferior Set of Thrills 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The results after about a week were mixed, at best. I’m a self-publishing failure 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He taught me that anxious and avoidant people often connect quickly and powerfully, but the relationships are a challenge at best and doomed at worst. An Anxious Person Tries to Be Chill 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Experiments with long white skirts — which the women pulled over their faces, exposing only their dancing legs — were cute at best. MorDance in a Triple Bill at the Sheen Center 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z And even then things are murky, half-seen at best or glimpsed through the haze of lights shining back out at the audience. Dance Review: Nora Chipaumire’s Dance ‘Miriam’ at BAM 2012-09-13T22:34:38Z When Micah Hendler first went to Jerusalem with the idea of starting a choir of Israeli and Palestinian high-schoolers, some thought his notion naive at best. In conflict zone, raising young Palestinian and Jewish voices 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The Nazi plan required a populace that was, at best, willing to look the other way and, at worst, a participant. Television Review: ?Engineering Evil? on History Channel - Review 2011-11-14T23:00:26Z In its current form and at its current price, Per Se struggled and failed to do this, ranging from respectably dull at best to disappointingly flat-footed at worst. At Thomas Keller’s Per Se, Slips and Stumbles 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z The lack of clarification on this issue is irritating at best. True Grit trailer shootout: John Wayne v the Coen brothers 2010-10-06T09:08:00Z When she is assigned her own false identity and charged with befriending a middle-aged woman who is a Nazi sympathizer, the humor tilts toward the madcap; Juliet is, at best, a sloppy and capricious spy. A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z When and why did an experiment that for fifty years was perceived as a subsidiary anecdote at best metamorphose into an epoch-making moment? The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z He was deceptive, or at best forgetful, about the Vietnam War and the Cuban missile crisis, recounting his role as more dovish than the archives indicate. ‘The Unknown Known’ Explores How Rumsfeld Sees Himself 2014-03-28T17:00:01Z The writing is unshowy at best, but can veer into awkwardness, especially in the scenes with the clichéd, underwritten Laura — there is a thin line between classic and passé. Review: ‘Bernie and Mikey’s Trip to the Moon’ Is Old-School Drama 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Both Holly and the story’s male lead were, at best, cockeyed romantics; both were being paid for their services and neither was a babe in the woods. Books of The Times: ?Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.? by Sam Wasson 2010-06-13T22:07:00Z Nicholas was a walking disaster, a delicate coward at best. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 3: ‘Thank You’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Nothing feels better than being singled out by something that at best should fear you, and at worst would like to eat you. Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Only now, they understand that this mutual comprehension isn't empowering — it's a crutch at best, and more accurately, an insurmountable block. HBO's brutal comedy "Hacks" returns with raw, bloody candor, rising to even greater heights 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z TV, as Intelligent People of Quality saw it, was occasionally good, almost by accident; otherwise, at best it was mindless escapism, of mainly anthropological interest for understanding Joe Q. Walmart. What I Learned Watching 16 Years of Television for TIME 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The expression is at best naive – a single article almost never changes the mood music, especially amid a blizzard of what might now be called “fake news”. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z At night, she saw passengers traveling in coach with masks down as they slept, and during the day, mask use seemed “intermittent at best” in communal areas. Is train travel a safer option this holiday? This is what experts say. 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z A lot of the technology the authors discuss is still proprietary, so their arguments about technical limitations remain speculative at best. What If We Had Perfect Robot Referees? 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Starring Bob Odenkirk as the crooked lawyer Saul Goodman, the show is set before the action of “Breaking Bad,” so any appearances by Bryan Cranston or Aaron Paul would be cameos at best. A Winter Bounty for Serious TV Fans 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z If these letters are “skimmed at best,” why write them at all? The letter of recommendation I’ll never forget 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z These stretches of obtuse and icky lyricism eventually become at best a wash of caustic anger and at worse, hilarious. Lou Reed and Metallica Go Loopy on Lulu 2011-11-01T09:00:11Z Mel and Sue never miss an opportunity to incinerate a joke that needed, at best, half an hour in a proving drawer. I love The Great British Bake Off, but won't miss Mel and Sue 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The show is stuck between treating them as the main characters and recognizing that most of America thinks they're dull at best, pathetic at worst. Can Will Ferrell's cruelty save "The Office?" 2011-04-22T12:01:00Z But it’s become a self-evident truth that the correlation between Oscars and actual merit is arbitrary at best. ?Next to Normal,? Drama Pulitzer Winner, Is in Some Way 2010-04-13T21:11:00Z The win was an upset; “The Inheritance” had received, at best, mixed reviews in the U.S., and many observers had expected Jeremy O. Harris’ “Slave Play” to pick up the prize. ‘Moulin Rouge!’ and ‘Inheritance’ Take Top Honors at Tony Awards 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Loyalty to older ways of doing things looks at best quaint, at worst reactionary and in any case irrational. Is Moviegoing Undemocratic? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Our French is conversational, at best, but we relied a great deal on hand signals and drawn pictures, as Guadeloupeans speak rapidly, and often in Creole in more isolated areas. A Return to Guadeloupe: Tropical Life, French-Style 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Wildhorn was last on Broadway this spring with "Wonderland," an updated telling of "Alice in Wonderland" that had some good songs but came with a book that was, at best, insipid. 'Bonnie & Clyde' has murderous leads, killer songs 2011-12-02T23:27:18Z Easter that year fell early – Easter Day was on 23 March – and the weather was at best variable. Our pursuit of spring continues, 100 years after Edward Thomas's 2013-03-28T13:57:39Z I knew that his methods were irresponsible – lazy at best, hazardous at worst – and so I kept the nature of his treatment mostly to myself. The day my therapist killed himself: shock, tears and then came a revelation 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z And the idea that medical education is responsible for the difference in cost-efficiency is implausible at best. Who's Better at Running Medicare: Government, or the Private Sector? 2012-09-03T02:38:24Z The show denies Thorpe’s denial, and shows him engaging in what at best is a domineering seduction, and what at worst is a kind of violent predation. The Very English Politics of “A Very English Scandal” 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z It must be noted that compliance in updating one’s status is spotty at best. Field Notes: The Facebook Ring: Why Wear It, and When? 2011-02-04T16:40:03Z There is no post office and spotty street lighting at best. Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map 2010-04-06T14:56:00Z But at best, the seasonal vaccine is 60 percent effective. Could there be another super-flu? The possibility worries scientists. 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z This is, at best, a worrying reflection of the drift in cultural as well as economic wealth from north to south. The Tate of the nation 2011-07-14T12:09:53Z I actually thought they were moderately cute at best. In the Northwest, 3 Trips, Planned by Others 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Podcasts seem to be, at worst, tolerated as escapist entertainment, and at best, able to influence the criminal justice system — in a more socially progressive way than crime reporting did in the 19th century. Penny dreadfuls were the true crime podcasts of their time 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z There's a lot to like about Peele's debut, if only the desperate yearnings of film critics, intellectuals and pundits didn't get in the way of what is at best an entertaining B flick. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z I know now that at best I will come remotely close. Kirk Douglas’s Film ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ 2012-07-28T22:47:18Z On the level of craft, “My Son Wears Heels,” which includes a foreword by Diane Ehrensaft, a developmental and clinical psychologist specializing in gender, is workmanlike at best. ‘Inside My Head I’m a Girl’: Three Ways of Growing Up Gay 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z But personalities and plot are thumbnail sketches at best. Movie Review: ‘Silent Hill: Revelation 3D’: 2012-10-27T02:13:01Z The rest of his screen credits were obscure at best. Pattinson, 'Twilight' take an adult turn 2011-11-15T05:15:07Z At worst, the words are like a lucky charm, barely glimpsed but nonetheless reassuring by their presence; at best, they create a unique synthesis of sound and sense. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z There really is no other way to explain Marvel's interest in a film-maker whose CV is middling at best and whose movies have hardly registered at the box office. Who can Marvel trust to take charge of the Guardians of the Galaxy? 2012-08-24T16:22:46Z Your partner needs to fully own that he made her feel uncomfortable at best and unsafe at worst, and that he needs to earn her trust back, bit by bit. Perspective | Dad needs to focus on consent and boundaries with his daughter, not his ego 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z People in his circle wrote about the Oriental world of the Turks and North Africa as “the other,” at best, and barbaric at worst. Eugène Delacroix at the Met: A 19th-century retrospective that evokes today’s turmoil 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z I am at best a casual consumer of magic. Joshua Jay explain how magicians think — without ruining the magic 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Working within the framework of now-familiar facts, Mr. Weinraub, a former New York Times journalist, has built scenes, dialogue and even characters from what is at best inference and at worst convenient tendentiousness. Review: Putting Arthur Miller on Trial in ‘Fall’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In a nonce, the two accidental partners find themselves knocking at the polished door of St. Kilda’s, looking for, at best, an informant; at worst, a killer within. Tana French’s ‘The Secret Place’: The Dublin Murder Squad takes on the Mean Girls "I was of the opinion that at best he was a bad actor and at worst a clown," McCord said. Ronald Reagan movie planned for 2011 2010-09-08T04:55:00Z Everyone watching will note that the Queen is, at best, a risky shade of beige. "Bridgerton" is Netflix's randy costume confection that you'll want to put in your face straightaway 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z And getting a straight answer about the scope of the problem from people who champion the cause is difficult at best. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z Channel 4 has, at best, a marginal commitment to the arts; ITV has shown barely any interest at all. What's TV's problem with theatre? 2013-03-20T18:31:19Z I never feel rested and nourished after binging through a season of a show I love; I feel at best momentarily successful. Why I'm resolving to quit binge watching TV 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z I loved how we writers enjoyed nailing ourselves to our own cross, working on projects for years on end when the odds of finding an audience was, at best, tiny. I wanted to publish a book before I died 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The wording, though, is a tenth of the battle at best. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You hate your husband’s pandemic beard. Now what? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z While "Green Book" has its charming moments, the underlying politics are simplistic at best. "Green Book" robbed "Black Panther" 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z She had an hour, at best, before Liza appeared pouting from the top of the stairs. Claudia Rankine on the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Lucca was on the opposing team during the police brutality case and seems only mildly intrigued by Maia’s presence at best. ‘The Good Fight’ Recap: On the Other Side 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Like most writers, I have at best a sceptical attitude to posterity. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z He showed us gold-leaf, silk-weaving and lacquerware workshops, where the conditions are rudimentary at best and ancient crafts are forged by hand. In Burma, a cruise along the Irrawaddy River from Mandalay to Bagan But their work is ignored by the critical establishment at best, derided at worst. ‘Call My Agent!’ Puts a Human Spin on Show Business 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Demand is limited, even as a rental, and the masons who don’t try to sabotage their future robot overlord are at best uninterested in assisting much with its operating needs. A Team of Engineers Invented a Brick-Laying Robot. This Is Their Story. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Ratings are down, attendance is down, sponsors are fleeing and in general golf is remaining a niche sport at best when it could do so much better. Tiger, The Tour And Inside The U.S. Open 2010-06-15T22:00:00Z But despite literature's fervour to explore the far reaches of human experience, disability is for the most part disregarded, or at best pushed to the margins. The top 10 books about disability 2013-07-03T10:32:34Z The diet’s critics say it is, at best, a passing trend and, at worst, a socially acceptable form of disordered eating. High on fat, low on evidence: the problem with the keto diet 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z This idea is at best, silly, and at worst, sinister. I will never apologize for my flavored coffee 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z How much these ideas reflect reality is debatable, at best, but as comic conventions they have endured for centuries. Nora Ephron’s romantic-comedy revolution 2012-06-27T16:35:00Z His words and his deeds enjoy a tenuous relationship at best. Trump is stranger than fiction: John Altman on writing thrillers today 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z So their connection to a genuine black culture in America was compromised, at best. Blaxploitation Movies Are Ready to Stream, Nostalgia Included 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z There are plenty of places one can act ratchet — in the club, in the bedroom — but it’s always about behavior that’s dubious at best, that makes people point fingers in slack-jawed astonishment and discomfort. Critic’s Notebook: He’s Acting Out; It’s on Purpose 2013-07-10T21:52:21Z But he's become, at best, a regional candidate, and still must get past Santorum in Mississippi and Alabama next week to preserve what remains of his viability. Romney fails to deliver knockout blow 2012-03-07T13:05:00Z Without this interest, the task of studying thousands of words per day, as elite spellers do, would be onerous at best. Zaila Avant-garde stands where Black children were once kept out 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z All of which is to say that his relationship to pop music’s stratosphere is liminal at best, and possibly temporary. Review: Jingle Ball Tour Shows Radio Still Rocks 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Basic decency ended the day even, at best. Much Like a Trump Rally, the End of “Roseanne” Felt Both Shocking and Inevitable 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z It is, at best, our chronic condition, and perhaps our terminal one. Perspective | Art can help distinguish between conspiracy and reality, and this exhibition proves it 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z There are so many other falsities necessarily built into this productions as to makes this idea meaningless, and disingenuous at best. Stage reader review roundup: Julius Caesar 2012-12-14T17:13:34Z But they're also regular guys, clueless about the female experience at best and part of the problem at worst. Jon Stewart and Robert Smigel Craft a Comedy Benefit at a Polarized Moment 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Awards shows are thankless at best; there are invariably complaints about omissions and honest disagreements over winners. Music Lives in the Present. Can the Grammys Escape the Past? 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z As ambulances wailed past my window, the analogy seemed dubious at best. Can Ballet Come Alive Online? 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Suddenly we're fishing from a much smaller pool, full of people who are at best wildly deluded, and often just plain bonkers. The Apprentice: what makes the perfect candidate? 2010-10-06T12:47:00Z Half-assed efforts at creating the appearance of a corporate social conscience are suspect at best. Starbucks’ cringe-inducing #RaceTogether campaign has caused a Twitter firestorm 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z An instinctive Modernist, Pick understood that a poster should be more than just a picture illustrating a verbal message; it was, at best, a high-impact fusion of image and text, an art form unto itself. Art Review: ?Art for All? at the Yale Center for British Art 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z It is in broad agreement with that view – that political policy on culture is peripheral at best – that politics operates. Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z So it certainly made things much more difficult; it made for tremendous government inaction, at best. “Am I being punished for being gay?” 2012-06-05T16:37:00Z Though intelligent updating can shed new light on a work, this effort seems at best beside the point and, at crucial times, downright harmful. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z Be sure to examine those flickering memories closely, though, because they happened less often than you may remember, and the quality of those treats was basic at best. Sick of working from home? "Corporate" will remind you of how lucky you are to escape your cubicle 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z As for the rest, it’s unremarkable at best, at other times noticeably thin, but then again, the creation of steps has never been Mr. Bourne’s strength. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Nutcracker? in London, Four Different Versions 2012-01-02T23:38:52Z Even within a week in which the entire family seems incoherent at best and abusive at worst, let’s remember that not every person with the Palin last name is reprehensible. Sarah Palin misses the point: Forget scoring points on Obama, think about the women and girls in Track’s life 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z His brain lies in Glasgow’s Southern General hospital, donated to the team who work on glioblastoma multiforme, a devastating cancer that has a survival rate of 15 months at best. How I came face to face with my dead father’s brain 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z The venue is still being renovated, the beer garden next door gets noisy whenever the weather is half decent, and the resident piano is rustic at best. Hebrides Ensemble – review 2012-06-15T12:58:16Z After all, those left above the Wall would at best be slaughtered by the White Walkers, and at worst, join their ranks. 'Game of Thrones' recap: "Kill the Boy" 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Almost as the story breaks, his part in it becomes a trigger event at best – the Franz Ferdinand moment in the first world war – or a footnote at worst. Why did no one speak out about Harvey Weinstein? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z “The View” labeled the get as a “historic” precedent, but if so, it’s a footnote at best. The TV Watch: Obama Takes in 'The View' 2010-07-29T19:36:00Z Allen can be, at best, naive and, at worst, obtuse. 'Do I really care?' Woody Allen comes out fighting 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z It was, at best, an experiment in using clothes to figure out how I appeared in the world, concretely, to others, and what I sounded like, visually. Finders keepers: my favourite piece of clothing 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z “Today, I will explain to my healthy transplanted heart why, in what may be a matter of days or weeks at best, she — well, we — will die,” Ms. Silverstein wrote. Amy Silverstein, Who Chronicled a Life of Three Hearts, Dies at 59 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Though their deliberate and constant introspection is admirable, their crude performances of wokeness are less so — insincere at best, and offensive at worst. Murder and White Privilege on a Family Holiday in the Caribbean 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z They consider themselves invulnerable, or at best they look for challenges from even-higher-end technologies. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z But there’s no denying that NBC is, at best, pretty much where it was when it started the season. Upfronts Watch: NBC Tries to Turn Around Its Turnaround 2013-05-13T18:04:02Z The subscription season’s roster of guest conductors includes significant names, but they are conducting only two works by living composers, one from 1988 and the other from 1966: semi-new new music, at best. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z But his voice is backed by questioning, almost needling, high sustained instrumental sonorities that suggest this innocent is, at best, naïve. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z What we learn about Israel comes to us through media coverage that is slight and slanted at best, mainly broadcasting government officials’ fiery declarations as a backdrop to scenes of rock-throwing protesters and explosions. In 2023, nobody knows how to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2013, Anthony Bourdain did 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Goodman spends many pages attempting to master the techniques for a staggering number of bows and styles of walking that could, if deployed ineptly, result in sniggering at best and ostracism at worst. Manspreading, Renaissance-Style: 2 Experts Weigh In on Etiquette of Centuries Past 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Those who dared to do so were, at best, fined $50. Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Part of the challenge in the beginning was to try and make Birmingham — which was a blank canvas at best before — cool. Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z History, religious belief, and conclusions from everyday life were close to sheer opinion; this knowledge was at best probable and could not compel assent from others. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z I could tell that whatever she had heard was, at best, a mixed review. ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z While there are certain AA meetings that are women-only, the availability of these meetings is scarce at best. 'I was fresh meat': how AA meetings push some women into harmful dating 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z As in “Hat,” Mr. Guirgis makes it clear that any rules for human behavior are at best provisional. Stephen Adly Guirgis’s ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Such stretches would prove a distraction, at best, today. An ‘Otello’ Without Blackface Highlights an Enduring Tradition in Opera 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Charles had just finished his “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music” series, and his 1963 album, “Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul,” is a grab bag at best. Bob Dylan’s Sinatra Album 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Yet this time Earth’s citizens are at best utterly terrified of Superman, and at worst would quite like to kill him - immediately - with the help of the nearest batch of kryptonite. Is the big-hearted Spielbergian sci-fi of Close Encounters dead? 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The topical jokes and misty reminiscences that mark time between musical numbers are standard issue at best. | 'Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway': ?Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway? at Broadhurst - Review 2011-11-11T03:01:10Z The relationship between agents and border crossers is, at best, a messy détente. A heartfelt lament on patrolling the border: Francisco Cantu's 'The Line Becomes a River' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Saudi Arabia, our main regional ally, may portray itself as the leader of a “moderate Sunni block” when it comes to both Iran and terrorism, but the reality is, at best, far grayer than that. Worth dying for? 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z The Art Newspaper estimated in October that “at best” there remained just 20 of these art funds active worldwide. For Art Collectors, the Risk Behind the High Returns 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z The film focuses more on one character’s moral defects than the sketchy project overall, leading to a conclusion that feels unsatisfying at best and pompous at worst. ‘The Immaculate Room’ Review: A Blank Slate 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Once seen as a hobby, or at best a side hustle, podcasts now provide an opportunity for stars to connect directly with their audience. 7 Podcasts From Familiar Faces 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z To assume that by including other types of believers, as well as nonbelievers, Starbucks is therefore maligning Christians, is narcissistic at best. Starbucks doesn’t hate Jesus: The malignant narcissism of the new “war on Christmas” crusaders gets the backlash it deserves 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Toppings/garnishes: I think drinking a whipped cream-topped beverage out of a mug is middling at best and frustrating at worst, so I omitted. Push the (hot chocolate) envelope this year with these delicious customizations 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z It turned out that I had, at best, a partial view of Rolo’s. Rolo’s Looks Like a Corner Tavern in Queens. It’s That and Then Some. 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Since the Judds disbanded three decades ago, her relationship with her mother had been fraught at best, an exercise in boundaries. Wynonna Judd, on Her Own 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The strong contention held by Live Earth that thinking about the collective good is simply a better way to do business was at least a nice idea, and at best, a potentially empowering paradigm shift. 10 years ago: A dispatch from Al Gore’s Live Earth festival 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z But this is at best a false equivalency, Jews having been victims of the Inquisition, not its perpetrators. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Clean, nondescript white wine, refreshing at best but with little else to offer. These wines prove that pinot grigio can be distinctive — and affordable enough to stock up on 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Today, it’s mostly considered the province of women’s magazines and Instagram memes, at best a harmless fiction and at worst a pernicious pseudoscience. Astrology Is Hard, Even if It’s Fake 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s the reason that authentic suspense has been sporadic, at best, since “Better Call Saul” started. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 8 Recap: Showdown 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z This is an adventure at best and an art project at worst.” Check in, Swim Out: A Floating Hotel as Art 2011-07-10T22:30:06Z Even now, he considers his arsenal of traditional skills to be limited at best. How Benny Blanco Became the Most Popular Oddball in Pop Music 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z For an evening that felt like a muted celebration — at best — this moment stood out more than a Spielberg trailer could. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2021 Oscars 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Reading a book or going for a walk is, at best, a distraction; at worst, it’s a dereliction of duty. First Crush: A TV Lover Grows Up to Be a TV Critic 2013-07-10T15:52:13Z Sound design is a stepchild that’s neglected at best, abused at worst. In 2 New Plays, Sound Design Is Front and Center (for a Change) 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z But the movie received reviews that were lukewarm at best, and Academy voters apparently felt that way about it too. The Carpetbagger: There Was Even a Snub in the Foreign Language Category 2013-01-10T19:30:11Z The people are, at best, slaves of the state. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Just a handful watched the historic first flight, which Orville, the pilot, described as “an uncertain, wavy, creeping sort of a flight at best”. Heavens above 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z In “Magnum” you have to go down to what looks to be, at best, the fifth lead, a Honolulu police detective, to find an Asian-American actor. Review: New ‘Magnum P.I.’ Is Mostly Nostalgia and Testosterone 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Anika’s been exhibiting increasingly bizarre behavior this season — keeping a secret Hakeem shrine, stalking Laura — and it is balderdash at best. ‘Empire’ Season 2, Episode 10: She Fixed You? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z We know our current selves pretty well at best — and our future selves are a guess. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sharing is scaring? A cheater’s confidant no longer trusts her friend. 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Most of the jokes hit me as grin-worthy at best, and Mr. Fowlie seemed too convinced of his own funniness, pausing after each line in anticipation of the laugh. Review: Detoured From ‘La La Land’ for a Comic Stop in ‘Boulder City’ 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Many separatists harbor an inchoate nostalgia for both the Soviet Union and the tsarist empire, and the distinction between Russian imperialists and local anarchists is vague at best. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Medicating addiction remains at best a tricky business. Can we trust addiction medication? 2012-10-04T22:09:00Z Is it okay going forward if I’m neutral at best? Carolyn Hax: When one half of a couple isn’t on board for another baby 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z These moments are clunky devices that offer no understanding of Hitchcock and his demons; at best, they're good for a chuckle here and there. Review: 'Hitchcock' is lightweight but fun study 2012-11-19T17:30:11Z She also has a tenuous relationship at best with her mother, who was emotionally and physically abusive with Camila and her siblings, and kicked Camila out of the house when she was 15. This Is What It’s Like to Be Homeless in New York City 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z When relations between the US and Iran are at best fragile, the interpretation of this evidence of Persia's historic tolerance is an intriguing prospect. Babylonian relic to visit US with historic message of tolerance 2012-11-27T19:03:48Z But those who provide abortion care say that this conversation is incomplete at best. “I wish we talked about ‘choices’ instead of ‘choice’”: A Texas abortion counselor on how to change the conversation about abortion 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z My French is pidgin at best, but the rhythms of the piece – both physically and vocally, were enough to keep me entranced for over five hours of performance. Noises off: Don't leave Southwark Playhouse without a home 2011-08-02T14:53:37Z Benghazi was certainly a tragedy, but whether it was a scandal is dubious at best. DeflateGate ... or Ballghazi? Will the new scandal suffix have staying power? 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Rock the Bells also included younger rappers on a side stage, where they performed for club-size audiences at best. Music Review: Hip-Hop History, Recreated by Those Who Made It 2010-08-29T23:06:00Z All of this needs to be said because a movie about World War I that completely ignores the ideology that begat that conflict is, at best, irresponsible and lazy. "1917" has one major flaw - it's irresponsibly nationalistic 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Such Hollywood biographies were, he learned, approximations at best. Don Cheadle on Becoming Miles Davis 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Selecting a single symbol to communicate several weeks of a person’s presence in class, attempts at communicating, and intellectual effort strikes me as deeply arbitrary at best—and demeaning and reductivist at worst. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z Unnecessary at best, a source of searing abdominal pain at worst. Let's never have an Oscars host again 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z When melodies do arrive, they are bittersweet at best, like the one that arises in “Make My,” a deathbed reflection. Critic?s Notebook: The Roots: 2 Albums, One Quest 2011-12-06T23:35:54Z Films and television tend to depict hacking haphazardly at best, and it’s a point of pride for Mr. Esmail that any code that appears in “Mr. Robot” is at least rooted in legitimate programming language. Rami Malek of ‘Mr. Robot’: The Face of Hacktivism 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Musical biopics have had a mixed track record at best — for every "Walk the Line" there's a "Jersey Boys" or "Great Balls of Fire!" — and Brown's complex legacy presented particular problems. Getting it together for James Brown biopic 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z After a couple of tries — the first was deemed by onlookers “C-plus” at best — we gathered our weapons and waited behind the hulking set. What It’s Like to Perform at the Met With No Opera Experience 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z But that is, at best, a wink: Traditionalism is not Aer’s goal. Music Review: Aer, Hip-Hop and Reggae Duo, Plays Irving Plaza 2014-02-09T22:26:35Z Because of the nature of their work, they're seen as annoying at best and predatory at worst. Book Talk: The dark doubts in the heart of a Mormon missionary 2013-06-21T14:18:17Z The idea that this is going to be much of a solution is fanciful at best.” De-extinction won’t make us better conservationists! 2013-09-06T12:40:00Z The details of the deal are vague at best, but it will apparently allow Green to collaborate with Temple Hill Entertainment, which produced The Fault in Our Stars, on several projects. John Green Is This Close to Having All His Books Made Into Movies 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z They seem to have moved from the view that military adventurism by great powers is problematic, at best, to thinking that limited wars fought far from home are part of normality. Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague,” he wrote in “The Premature Burial.” The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery 2012-04-27T10:30:18Z Shows like Bored to Death, Hung or How to Make It in America had their fans, but their reception was mixed at best. Agents of Channel Change: HBO Cancels Enlightened 2013-03-20T14:26:46Z Because I grew up in an Irish-Catholic household where sexual feelings were at best contained, at worst annulled, I took particular pleasure in allowing hers to flourish. Why My Daughter Got (Temporarily) Married at 13 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The responses of many of my friends and family have been tepid at best. Hillary Clinton’s Moment, and My Own 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Last night on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” the third-stringer candidate—at best—for the Democratic Party managed to finally get through all of his talking points in his minutes-long interview with the host. Trevor Noah can’t save Martin O’Malley: The “sexiest” candidate is in over his head 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z From a strictly historical perspective, the Biblical Exodus story is murky at best. How Christian Bale's 'Exodus' Strays from the Bible 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z More often than not, though, the view from the top of the rock is partial at best, as hazy as a Monet garden. The Back Row During New York Fashion Week Isn’t All Bad 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z But like just about everything in the digital economy, it’s a mixed blessing at best, and a touch totalitarian at worst if Amazon sticks to the method it uses in its Seattle store. Amazon’s bookstore trap: Come for the casual browsing, leave all your data in their hands 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Such accounts — many banal, at best — turn interesting, even significant, when read together and regarded as a wave of testimony. In Search of Time Lost and Newly Found 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z For less privileged Americans, meals were entirely practical, and repetitive at best. How Jell-O Molds Claimed Their Spot on the American Table 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Yet the reviews within the biking community, notorious for its outspokenness, have been mixed at best. Google Maps Add a Feature for Bike Riders 2010-08-10T20:44:00Z Friday’s choreography, trivial at best, was not unrepresentative of Ardani presentations. Review: Three Ballets at City Center Honor Two Impresarios 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z But when Skeet went to prison for the gruesome murders of two women — convicted by evidence that seemed inconclusive at best, even to the judge — she made sure Rob and Skeet saw each other weekly. ‘The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace,’ by Jeff Hobbs 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z My ailments were absolutely nothing by comparison to Stephen’s, yet what he needs is elusive at best, prohibited at worst. With pancreatic cancer, what Stephen needs is legalised cannabis 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Worse, he writes, actual slavery is tolerated “or at best ignored.” Books of The Times: That Perfect Florida Tomato, Cultivated for Bland Uniformity 2011-07-05T21:04:11Z Mississippi Emergency Management Director Lee Smithson told his staff on April 6 that the Red Cross’ response was “marginal at best.” The Red Cross is its own disaster: Relief agency stumbles again after Mississippi flood 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z But there were many nights when I was, at best, a human facsimile, and at worst reviled for not capitulating to whatever idea of a bartender — a woman bartender — the guest needed in that moment. I’m not going back to work in restaurants — but only because I have a choice 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Its exterior is charming, but its rooms are utilitarian at best, similar to those at a Days Inn. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z Chilling out Broadly, storing fruit and vegetables in the fridge is, at best, a necessary evil and, at worst, a culinary crime. How to eat: apples 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Any harm bucketing down below is at best an abstraction, just as it is in 1929, when the play shows us suicides of despairing stockbrokers but none of the pain radiating through lower social strata. Review: In ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ a Vivid Tale of Profit and Pain 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The first challenge was finding artists in a country where making paintings or sculpture might seem at best a secondary concern compared with keeping body and soul together. Venice Biennale: Iraq's art world emerges from the ruins 2013-05-29T10:00:17Z You assume, for example, that the Ossies were thrilled to get to the West, but many were at best ambivalent. Big Bang in Berlin 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z “He preferred twisted movement. It’s a good studio work with a little Leonardo at best, and it’s very damaged.” Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Yet these moments register as ritualistic at best, opportunistic at worst, and you wish he wouldn’t even bother. Review: ‘A Bigger Splash,’ With a Speechless Tilda Swinton, Is Ready for Its Close-Up 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Rod Stewart certainly has had tremendous success, and while I find those interpretations bloodless, at best, whether I like them or not is inconsequential. Michael Feinstein is keeping the standards alive 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z While Zee rolls her eyes at Gentry’s behavior, eventually she realizes that it allows him to interact with a world at best confusing and at worst hostile to his mind and spirit. Review | In ‘The Reckless Oath We Made,’ an unlikely fairy tale unfolds in Kansas 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Up until this point, your sexual encounters with boys have been underwhelming at best. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Sunny’s misery is treated as a shrug at best and a punchline at worst. ‘Adopting Audrey’ Review: Building a New Home Out of Nothing 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The question of who did what and why is, at best, academic. ‘Marlowe’ Review: The Adventures of a Worn-Out Gumshoe 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z The film is average at best and would not yield solid results financially or critically, especially when compared to the Marvel Cinematic Universe's multiple successes in the same genre. "The Flash" is a missed opportunity, continuing the disappointing history of Jewish superheroes 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z The use of hacking as either a plot element or illuminating ingredient is minor at best. ‘Amnesia,’ Peter Carey’s New Novel 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Lyrics like, “Calling all lady haters/Why must you vilify us?” from the pseudo-feminist ode “Woman Down” sound de-fanged at best. Alanis Morissette, Corin Tucker and the Frustrating/ Promising State of Women in Rock 2012-08-28T13:45:49Z While its verbal texture is gorgeous, the tortured syntax renders any interpretation tentative at best. Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z You’re not crazy; your daughter is being obtuse at best or, at worst, greedy. Carolyn Hax: Uncle’s feelings for children unequal, but should his treatment of them be? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z And Tilikum is at best a problematic candidate for release because he has been so damaged, both physically and mentally, by captivity. Free Lolita! The remarkable story of a remarkable whale held captive for four decades 2014-04-06T10:58:00Z And good luck finding out from the subculture’s leadership, which is loosely organized at best, said Ms. Illig of the Polyamory Leadership Network. Cultural Studies: Open Marriage?s New 15 Minutes 2012-02-03T20:37:19Z “Because of limited government support, they are forced to rent their space, so the programming is spotty at best,” he said. Special Report: Art in Perspective: A Contemporary Artist Takes Helm at Chinese Bank's New Contemporary Museum 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z Hotel beds are average at best, and plenty of guests complain about bad sleep when they’re on the road. ‘Like sleeping on a bed of nails’: What to do when hotel-mattress hype doesn’t match reality 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z "I will say this: If I can bring down your monarchy, you have – at best – a wobbly monarchy." Thai junta unamused by comedian John Oliver's royal jibes 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Greenberg is a nightmare—a self-obsessed mansplainer who is embarrassingly entitled, and whose self-awareness is flickering at best—but his vulnerability is recognizable, even poignant. The Enjoyable Discomfort of Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z By that point, defense attorneys for the brothers had already begun to argue that the confessions on the tapes were, at best, incomplete. Will the Menendez murders become America's next true-crime TV hit? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z As an investment adviser, he’s been mediocre at best. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “In the Land of the Cyclops” finds him in, at best, a holding pattern. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Essays Struggle With Big Ideas 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z But my memory of those years — the period of time during which that story, my story, occurs — is cloudy at best. Going off meds to write my book 2013-01-30T01:00:00Z Late-night monologues were at best funny diversions, at worst toothless jabs pandering to the easiest stereotypes. Jon Stewart, Seamlessly Mixing Analysis, Politics and Humor 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z “At Eternity’s Gate” begins with the impoverished Van Gogh in Paris in the 1880s where his paintings are, at best, ignored and, at worst, derided as incompetent. Willem Dafoe plays tormented genius Van Gogh in Venice biopic 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z The auditorium — especially the stage, with its curiously low ceiling and odd-looking, acoustics-aiding “bongo drums,” as Philharmonic officials call them — remains an uninviting place to attend a concert, nondescript at best. Geffen Hall’s Renovation Could Transform How We Hear It 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z When I introduce myself as a writer, even a published one, I get polite, semi-interest at best. I’m a smut-smith, not a nympho: Stop thinking I’m sex-crazed because I write hot sex scenes 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z But each of these writers is given at best a paragraph or two. Books of The Times: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Take Me In 2011-08-16T16:57:42Z Alas, the results — only available when the guest searches on a European web domain like .ie for Ireland or .it for Italy — are inconsistent at best. Help! I Was Catfished by My Airbnb Host and the Place Was a Mess 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z That theory struck me as arguable at best – especially with respect to Koolhaas, a rationalist if ever there was one. Interior dark: two shows reveal visions of the unhomely 2010-06-16T10:07:00Z But if you set out thinking the experience will fix the problems percolating within you, prepare to be disappointed at best and terrified at worst. "The White Lotus" shows no pity for fools in love 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The crowd’s response to it was, at best, lukewarm. At the Fillmore, 50 Cent cashes in on the nostalgia factor 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z That things aren’t going so well, bedlam at worst and turmoil at best, registers at every turn. At Park View gallery, a spellbinding trip into a world turned upside down 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Her parents are frustrated at best — who will feed the pigs when they go drinking? ‘Children of the Mist’ Review: Stolen Youth 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Alas, it is occupied by Soja, whose rote mix of reggae and dancehall functions as a placeholder at best and preachy distraction at worst. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z The coven's arrangement is haphazard at best, both tested and held together by supernatural forces. Who would have guessed that "What We Do In the Shadows" would provide a clear model of polyamory? 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z I used to frequent jazz venues in the 90's and 00's - I was there for the music - but the attitude towards females was 1950's at best. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Costumes remind the players who they’re supposed to be even if embodying that person is at best an aspiration and at worst a ruse. Perspective | Nancy Pelosi’s pin at the impeachment debate was a declaration: The republic will survive this 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Max William Bartos, the baby of the bunch at 16, first saw “Sing Street” — which was a cult hit at best — on an airplane. Meet the Kids Who’ll Make ‘Sing Street’ Rock 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z To Flex, Tyler is at best a curiosity. Tyler, the Creator, Funkmaster Flex and the Wildest Interview of the Year 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Its treatment of female characters is, at best, bleak. ‘Memory’ Review: Getting Too Old for This 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z And some of the songs, with Sia imitating their recipients’ styles, reveal all too clearly why they got sent back: “Cheap Thrills,” with its off-the-shelf Caribbean beat, would be second-rank Rihanna at best. Review: In ‘This Is Acting,’ Sia Adheres to Her Victim-to-Victory Formula 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z “The Returned” is much more cool, cerebral and unsettling, but it is at best a ghostly reflection of “Les Revenants.” Review: In ‘The Returned,’ the Dead Return as if Nothing Happened 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z The fashion this week is mediocre at best. 2010-01-29T14:30:00Z Thackery’s revolutionary surgery on the twins was a little anticlimactic — it was at best the third story line in the episode. 'The Knick' Recap: A Dazzling Shot, and Other Developments 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z But the idea that the events were the stuff of musical theater seemed, at best, far-fetched to many. A 9/11 Parable, Resurrected in Newfoundland 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Her position is at best ambiguous; early in her career she embraced such ideas. Critic’s Notebook: Rei Kawakubo, of Comme des Garçons, Veiled Like Mona Lisa 2012-05-30T23:34:55Z Your family sounds unsupportive at best, blind at worse. My brother-in-law sexually assaulted me but my family don’t care | Ask Annalisa Barbieri 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The awards are fun as a show—I never miss them—but they’re erratic at best as a an actual award for quality. Golden Globe TV Nominations: Another Round of Hits and Disses 2011-12-15T14:21:46Z This Muller-Thurgau, from a workhorse German grape that usually makes pleasant wine at best, is delightfully zesty and crisp, with just a hint of sweetness to balance the orchard fruit flavors. A $12 crisp Italian white and more great wines to open while it still feels like summer 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “It will take months to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people, and the vaccine may be, at best, 75 percent effective.” Fauci Says It Could Be a Year Before Theater Without Masks Feels Normal 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Haunted at best, cursed if we were less fortunate. A letter to ... the couple who died in my house 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z So what are we to do with these tales of one anxiety-riddled workplace, useful as a Rorschach test at best and an irreconcilable The Dress fight at worst? Is Amy Klobuchar being smeared by sexist "mean boss" stories? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z There are obviously problems with this scenario — your sister-in-law sounds controlling and difficult at best — but murkiness is not one of them. Carolyn Hax: Niece’s mom has a strict no-gifts policy, but Auntie resents it Wednesday brought the world premiere of his “Ports of Call,” a complete embarrassment; Thursday’s gala featured the New York premiere of his “The Open Door,” half-baked at best. Paul Taylor Opens With Humor Intact, but Poetry Missing 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Only now, both “The Daily” and “The Weekly” are at best keeping up with online outlets including Vox Media, BuzzFeed, Vice Media and Axios, all upstarts compared to the venerable Gray Lady. Why the NY Times is breaking this devastating story about an asylum-seeking family on TV 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z That, in turn, can make alcohol-induced sleep fitful at best — making the flight seem even longer. He was dreading his 13-hour flight. So he asked experts for some tips. 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z This won him less critical acclaim, but it arguably also freed up his films – at best glorious, hedonistic Hollywood entertainment. Tony Scott: a career in clips 2012-08-20T11:31:18Z Yet it is, at best, unacknowledged today in the Euro-centric conversation on religion and science. Richard Dawkins is so wrong it hurts: What the science-vs.-religion debate ignores 2014-04-05T13:45:00Z You'd have to be, at best, naive to tackle these songs if you didn't know how good you were. The persistence of Rumer 2011-03-17T21:29:00Z In recent hit finance films, like “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Big Short,” professional women are secondary players — at best — or eye candy. What Did It Take to Make ‘Equity,’ a Film About Women on Wall Street? 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z She described a child whose primary interests were in creative pursuits, and who is, at best, “ambivalent” about college. Motherlode Blog: When College Isn’t in the Cards 2014-04-30T20:39:06Z And they will be right, in the sense that it’s not very good — hackneyed and medium funny at best. | 'The Exes': ?The Exes,? With Donald Faison and Wayne Knight - Review 2011-11-25T23:33:17Z I’m scared that, at best, I’d end up being a specter in someone’s life: appearing fleetingly every now and again when my symptoms ebb. I’m a high-functioning man with autism coping with health issues – do I bother dating? 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Those dreams are a long shot at best. Aiming to be an Olympian? Long-shot goals may make you ignore small victories. 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Reid’s charges are unsubstantiated, not backed up and at best hearsay. PolitiFact, Harry Reid’s Pants, and the Limits of Fact-Checking 2012-08-08T13:53:40Z Let’s face it: As a cultural ethos we’re suspicious, at best, of stillness and silence. To get students to focus, some professors are asking them to close their eyes 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z That interpretation is at best bizarre: technological innovations in energy efficiency, conservation and production are exactly what caps or levies on CO2 are meant to encourage. 7 ways to shut down a climate change denier 2013-12-18T13:00:00Z The musical, which includes songs by Britney Spears and Ariana Grande, secured nine nominations, despite reviews that were mostly lukewarm at best. ‘& Juliet,’ a Jukebox Musical, Leads Olivier Award Nominations 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Sure, the people of color are there, but the only two who speak at all are tertiary characters at best. Why Disney's New Cinderella Is the Anti-Frozen 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Apart from the interesting but short Parson solo for Ms. Whelan, however, all the choreography is flimsy; most of it is, at best, minor camp. Review: ‘Whelan/Watson: Other Stories’ Pairs Stars of Ballet 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z “This is a news organization that at best has no idea what’s going on inside its own organization,” said one producer at the network, who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak about NBC. NBC News chief calls Ronan Farrow’s book ‘a smear’ in lengthy new rebuttal 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z I was not really very social at that point, and some of my behaviors must have been curious at best. Neil Young: 'These people were our audience' 2012-10-04T19:00:04Z Sichel came to view these operations as useless at best and immoral at worst. When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z You would think that a bunch of fans in the Paramount couldn’t come close to Berninger’s rich tenor, and usually singalongs are off key at best. The National plays joyous, fiery show at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Let's just say that the release of any author's early work is, at best, a mixed blessing — even in the best of circumstances. Mixed feelings on Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z On strictly dramatic grounds, the character is, at best, a collection of lazy, sexist screenwriting clichés. ‘Richard Jewell’ Review: The Wrong Man 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Or, at best, who only get a quick look at the sights of a port — one critic calls it “drive-by tourism” — before climbing back onboard. ‘Overbooked’: the impact of exploding tourism on cultures and environments 2013-03-13T21:39:31Z The more urgent abstraction — defeating the plague, or in today’s parlance, “flattening the curve” — renders them provisional, at best. Perspective | Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Luckily, perhaps, books don’t make me cry very often — I’m a thrice-a-year man, at best. Books of The Times: ?Wild? by Cheryl Strayed, a Walkabout of Reinvention 2012-03-27T15:51:40Z “Gardens to me are often works of art, so they are as a result and at best a reflection of the people who made them,” she wrote. Forget the perfect trophy garden. Today’s finest landscapes are positively wild. 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z When the riddle of its initials is solved, it is about the corporate sponsorship of an educational program: a worthy cause, but something concertgoers find mildly interesting at best. Classical Groups Get Creative With Names 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z But in real life, for most people, such suspension of the will can be unsatisfying at best. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z Serena was released in Europe this month, and preliminary reviews are middling at best. Watch the New Trailer for Serena With Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z “Most of the evening, however, suggests he finds it convenient to make choreography that is at best cute.” The Next Thing for Mr. I-Can-Do-Everything 2011-03-06T01:45:21Z They are, at best, a mess and, at worst, moral cesspools, polluted by greed, lust for power, political corruption and a system built on what one character refers to as “toxic masculinity.” Review: In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Kohn is not an architecture student, and his proposal is rough, at best. Art world speaks out against drones 2013-02-10T22:00:00Z We simply can’t do communal things at this point in the pandemic, and to keep pretending that we soon could is at best unrealistic, and at worst irresponsible. Christopher Nolan Says ‘Tenet’ Will Come Out This Summer. Should It? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The result is, at best, a mosaic of moods and a healthy reminder of who built our country; at worst, an excuse to daydream about the tantalizingly close French food court. Review: ‘Harbored’ Spins Immigrants’ Tales, With Liberty in View 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Plus, everyone used to be able to check the first bag without paying extra, which makes a “free” bag offer seem like an empty gesture, at best. Perspective | Unhappy with your travel loyalty program? Join the crowd. 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The Senegalese are known for their friendliness and hospitality — two qualities I witnessed in most everyone I met on a trip to Dakar last month — but their relationship with Western cameras is reserved at best. On the Streets of Dakar, a Kaleidoscope of Style 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The Zen appeal of a river running through it is at best postcard-pretty, and not much deeper. Movie Review: ‘The Manzanar Fishing Club’ 2012-09-14T00:18:46Z It’s important to make it clear that this woman comes across as delusional at best and felonious at worst. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes’s weird, possibly fake baritone is actually her least baffling quality 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z With tragedy affecting so many people around the world, and with the coronavirus obliterating the words “normal daily life” from our vocabulary, I was unsteady, at best, and completely terrified on my worst days. Winter is right around the corner. Are you ready for ski and snowboard season? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z When men are often seen, at best, as irrelevant and, at worst, as useless idiots, who needs them? Hart: Two new books undercut men 2011-09-06T14:51:05Z At worst, it might distract you from your troubles—at best, they might inspire us both to live more meaningfully in our time of crisis. Quarantine book club: Reading for mental health in a plague year 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z But the film is a primer, at best, on complicated matters that need specific solutions. ‘Ivory Tower’ Evaluates Issues in Higher Education 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Like the franchise’s previous allegories for marginalized experiences — the zombies of “Zombies” and werewolves of “Zombies 2” share hardships with Black and Indigenous Americans, respectively — this one is dubious at best. ‘Zombies 3’ Review: Take Me to Your Cheerleader 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Cared for by three fairies who are, at best, dotty aunts, a girl alone needs a mother figure, and finds it in Maleficent. REVIEW: Maleficent: Sympathy for the Rebel 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z In other instances, the Bergman connection to the festival roster was nebulous at best. A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Ticket sales, like the reviews, were mediocre at best, with roughly 55 percent of its seats going unsold. Tupac Shakur musical 'Holler if Ya Hear Me' to close 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The night's first Fab Four track -- a faithful rendition of "All My Loving," complete with black-and-white Beatlemania footage -- showed that McCartney's voice wasn't in peak form, its "whoo-hoos" abridged at best. Paul McCartney thrills L.A. crowd with hits, tales 2010-04-01T00:20:00Z The body count is at best an educated guess, since many of the missing have never been found. Border fence’s devastating toll 2012-09-18T22:00:00Z The audience response to early performances was mixed, at best. He Turned ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Into Protest Music 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z I’m afraid it scores, at best, a Pyrrhic victory. Arts & Leisure: Film Favorites of A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in 2011 2011-12-14T13:13:18Z At worst, the movie is likely to contend for a Golden Globe/comedy; at best, it could be in the run for an Oscar. Cheat sheet of leading Oscar contenders 2010-11-24T06:47:00Z It’s the sense that he is playing chess to everyone else’s lame checkers moves — he is simply faster, funnier and on firmer, more principled ground than his adversaries, who are at best, comically flimsy. Lil Nas X, Clapback Champ 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z An excerpt from Mr. Morris’s choreography for the Azerbaijani opera “Layla and Majnun,” one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking dance works of the past decade, is at best a teaser. Review: More Mark Morris Video Dances, More Postcards to Fans 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z He explains why economies need central banks: at best, they are independent managers of the money supply and rein in the banking system. Halfway there 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The elf came with a book lauding its backstory, which was troubling at best. How I learned to stop worrying and love Elf on the Shelf 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The only films that dropped were the three new ones, suggesting that word-of-mouth was muted at best. Box Office: Sly Preys on Julia, World Beats Pilgrim 2010-08-15T07:55:00Z Even her business plan put her chances of making money in the first two years at 50 percent at best. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Could’ve been in on the ground floor. Instead, it’s the envy escalator. 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Yet, as we shall see, many of the fears they stoked turned out to be either groundless or at best unduly exaggerated. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z Words that might be thought "at best maudlin, at worst painfully trite" become transformed in the "mouth of an expressive, and doomed, teenager". Noises off: Theatre that makes us see differently 2012-05-25T08:35:20Z The witnesses’ descriptions of whatever happened are usually comically distorted, as in a game of telephone, so that everyone’s understanding of Trivia Night is at best half-wrong. In ‘Big Little Lies,’ Liane Moriarty Finds New Complications 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z We heard from some of the Oscar pioneers, including Rachel Morrison, the first-ever female nominee for cinematography, and took a special look at best supporting actress nominee Mary J Blige. The Oscars 2018 primer, timetable and final predictions 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z These sequences are, at best, embarrassing, as is the alliteration-heavy courtroom drama that ensues. Review: In ‘Ye Bear & Ye Cubb,’ Colonial America Takes the Stage 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Adrian Danchig-Waring, in a debut, was a bright spot in a performance that, at best, was efficient and enthusiastic; lively, for sure, yet never as alive as it could be. Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z So his insistence on knocking both parties, even when his jibes at President Obama are clearly dutiful at best, seems oddly contrived, if not self-defeating. Critic’s Notebook: Comedy and Politics, Uneasy Bedfellows but Snuggling 2012-10-03T20:05:01Z They’ve called for court intervention, a petition or anything that might save B. Smith from what, to them, looks at best like cruelty and at worst, predation. Lifestyle guru B. Smith has Alzheimer’s. Her husband has a girlfriend. Her fans aren’t having it. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Don't the realities of life on the ground render artistic expression a diversion, at best? The Palfest book festival puts Palestinian writers on the map 2010-05-11T10:56:00Z Now, Ellen DeGeneres joins an illustrious line of women in Hollywood rumored to be difficult to work with or for at best, monstrous at worst. The problem with Ellen DeGeneres is that she made "be kind" the unattainable goal of her brand 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z He can, at best, competently manage self defense, but he simply doesn't have the stomach for aggression. "Game of Thrones" fans are wrong about Tyrion Lannister 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z "My father's from Ghana but he lives in Saudi Arabia" omitted the fact of his decade-long absence, while implying that I, too, was somehow "from Ghana", a tenuous claim at best. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z Its viewers are fed a diet of conspiracy theories to salve the wounds of an election loss — a tactic that’s misleading at best and damaging to democracy at worst. Trump-friendly Newsmax a sudden competitor to Fox News 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The intersection between the art of movies and the Oscars is coincidental at best. The Oscar Whiteness Machine 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Some Asian-Americans shoot back that casting Anglos as Japanese is at best insensitive, at worst tantamount to whites playing African-Americans in blackface. The ‘Mikado’ controversy: A call for calm discourse 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z If Ebb, with his brasher, needier personality, would have eaten up the honor, Kander seems at best to withstand it, embarrassed by too much attention or praise. John Kander’s Major Chord, Undiminished 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z For starters, his performance was at best a simulacrum. Let’s Not Go Crazy: The Grammys Missed an Essential Part of Prince 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z More often, though, the onscreen minimalist is written to be quirky at best, or perhaps unfeeling, like the upper-class family in "Parasite." "The Girl Before" confirms the villainy of minimalism 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z So, I think, is Shrigley, whose dark humour is at best a mordant response to modern life. Turner prize 2013 shortlist: Tino Sehgal dances to the fore 2013-04-25T12:52:06Z Consequently, many of our best museums still have food offers that only deserve, at best, a C+. Museum food: eat the ancestors 2010-05-14T09:15:00Z If the plan works, at best it would transform Saudi Arabia into a technologically advanced society controlled by a slightly more tolerant religious autocracy. Critic?s Notebook: Laying Out Economic Cities, Saudis See Window to Modernity 2010-12-13T03:28:00Z What is the message of a film that depicts the state itself as, at best, incompetent, at worst, no more trustworthy than the super-powered beings they fear? The sneaky politics of “Suicide Squad”: A popcorn movie for the prison-industrial complex era 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Take a tip from both versions of "The Parent Trap" -- this kind of thing leads to awkward musical numbers at best and Lindsay Lohan's entire career at worst. 'Smore, 'smore, 'smore: Cinema's greatest summer camps 2011-07-01T14:01:00Z It is being rehearsed by two Vermont-based frenemies, for a mutual friends’ wedding, though the musical component is at best a device. Fidelity, friendship make up Road on Magnolia's 'Flower Duet' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z My grasp on most legal concepts is tenuous at best. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z The enforcement of these laws, along with the N.Y.P.D.’s routine harassment, made being gay precarious at best and deadly at worst. Stuck in Stonewall 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Dystopia is a classic of genre fiction, but Davies’ approach differs because the Lyons family is utterly average and middle class — or at best, upper middle class. The quiet alarm of "Years and Years": A slow slide into dystopia, with cozy family dinners intact 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z Music, mainly used for timing and atmosphere, has always been secondary at best. Dance Review: Pilobolus Puts 4 Decades of Dance on Display 2013-07-10T21:43:59Z At least, the skills of Fergie and will.i.am; Taboo and apl.de.ap were negligible at best, and a genuine liability at worst. Music Review: Black Eyed Peas Play Central Park Benefit Concert - Review 2011-10-02T21:57:48Z When Mr. Schell first brought up the idea to the Chinese government, the response was lukewarm at best, he said. Group of American Cultural Figures to Visit China 2011-10-27T00:20:49Z "The rewards are, at best, the fun of forcing your tastes on a room half-full of drunken punters," points out Time Out film critic Tom Huddleston, who runs the Exploding Head Film Club. Film clubs: fancy a cheap night out at the Picture & Pint? 2011-01-18T16:54:53Z As someone who’d never worn the stuff before, it was, at best, noticeably uncomfortable. Spanx Started a Shapewear Revolution 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Sometimes all the comedies are kind of bummers or many dramas are quite snappy; sometimes the length distinction feels arbitrary at best. Emmys: Our Critics on ‘Beef,’ ‘Succession’ and Category Confusion 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Their music is at best undistinguished, and large parts of their received choreography are formulaic, added or altered in the 20th century. Critic’s Notebook: Ballet Clings to Racial, Ethnic and National Stereotypes 2012-09-05T15:11:19Z But with government offices closed, the process of getting that help is cumbersome at best. 'Inundated and overwhelmed': black undertakers struggle amid pandemic 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z But it is left with the same basic problem that has been undermining Russian ballet since the 1940s or earlier: choreography that is at best unremarkable and at worst dismaying. Mikhailovsky Ballet, Full of Stars at Lincoln Center 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z But even as hagiography, “Soros” is unfocused; it races from topic to topic, with clips that seem arbitrary at best. ‘Soros’ Review: A Philanthropist in the Spotlight 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z There was no mishap, but the partnerwork was at best blurry. Critic?s Notebook: Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? Occurs in a Child?s World 2012-01-01T23:17:55Z Pop Smoke, who I naïvely thought had a shot at best new artist, is represented through a single nomination, best rap performance for “Dior.” Grammys Snubs and Surprises: The Weeknd, Luke Combs and BTS 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z This sort of behaviour, directed so narrowly at one person, is unconstructive at best; bullying at worst. Cribsheet 18.02.11 2011-02-18T12:49:23Z Deep, dark, disturbing downers were a niche product at best. Why The Walking Dead Is So Brutal--and So Popular 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z They are, at best, a slow one — with no guarantees of success. Perspective | Want to improve air travel? Start here. 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Existing in the netherworld between glam and punk, the band were treated at best like a novelty, at worst like a freak show. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2011-02-05T00:05:34Z With resignation, she views herself as "at best … only half-illuminated, like the moon". Snake Road by Sue Peebles – review 2013-07-27T07:45:00Z Second, history taught in order to teach patriotism must be "patriotic" history, which is bound to be selective at best. Why the new British citizenship test distorts history 2013-01-30T13:00:01Z For Daisey to shrug this off as simply a poor choice of venue is willfully naive at best. This American Life?s Apple Retraction: The Danger of Truthiness 2012-03-16T19:32:44Z In fact, they were probably selected for their tolerance for situations that are uncomfortable and boring at best and painful and frightening at worst. What was Seamus thinking? 2012-11-05T15:00:00Z "When he was stoned, he was at best a tuneless knob, and at worst a paranoid mess." Why I won't be going to see the Stone Roses, by John Harris 2012-06-22T23:15:00Z But this latest opportunity seems, at best, a lateral move. Her husband is job-hopping. Is that a good idea? 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Two hundred years later, Hegel's view of philosophy is at best a magnificent ruin, and no one can believe in it any more. Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek – review 2012-06-27T11:52:01Z But many students, with the backing of the majority of the school board, believe the moniker and the mascot are noninclusive at best, and racist at worst. Anatomy of a Mascot 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Is it any wonder, then, that older generations’ contributions to the conversation are, at best, a kind of verbal meteor shower, the flickering, nattering remains of planets that haven’t existed for eons? Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The membership stretches across North America, Europe and parts of Asia, encompassing a sizable diaspora; for cultural and political reasons, working as a composer inside Iran is challenging at best, even more so for women. Finally, a Stage for Female Composers From Iran 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z That happened five times a year — at best, said Hedley, who is deaf. Disabled People Fear Being Left Behind as U.K. Culture Venues Reopen 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Derek Marsh, who trains California police in best practices on human trafficking cases, called the exemption ”antiquated at best.” Hawaii law allows police to have sex with the sex workers they’re targeting in an investigation 2014-03-21T21:21:00Z Instead, it opts for a bizarre shock that's baffling at best and deeply tone-deaf at its worst. The bonkers twist in Netflix's "Behind Here Eyes" is an unresolved mess of problematic narratives 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z I had imagined you’d be relieved the show would be winding down and you’re soon to be off the hook, but it seems likelier now that your feelings are at best mixed. Game of Thrones Creators: ‘We Know What Happens in Each Scene’ of Season 8 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z His intentions towards Cookie are shady at best. Empire: season two, episode seven – True Love Never 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The lack of specifics and a looming election for lawmakers led Republicans to rip Quinn as a big spender and Democrats who might otherwise support their governor to remain skeptical at best. Quinn shoves aside state's budget woes 2012-02-02T06:00:00Z So far, her grade is, at best, incomplete. Review: ‘Chelsea’ on Netflix Seems Just Like the Talk Shows It Says It Isn’t 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The mash-up of the two holidays was embraced with tepid enthusiasm at best. A brief history of Canadian Thanksgiving 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z But using such a public forum was reckless, at best, and the success of the Lincoln Project — with the ensuing spotlight on all the founders — made the risk much greater. The fall of John Weaver, a Lincoln Project co-founder whose political career was shrouded in mystery 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z He concluded that, without you, “Mark and Tom would have been, at best, a lukewarm poser pop-punk band.” “I did so many bad things with my genitals”: Blink-182’s Travis Barker opens up on sex, drugs, plane crashes and Christianity 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z "The likelihood of confusion is at best minimal," Carter wrote. Louis Vuitton loses lawsuit on "Hangover" handbag 2012-06-15T22:26:26Z But he’s also a terrible preacher, flatlining in front of his congregation and putting in a half-hearted effort, at best, to connect with anyone. Preacher recap: season one, episode one – Pilot 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z But the patina of authority the finance CV provides is thin at best. Wall Street should hate itself 2012-11-13T22:02:00Z When Hagerty heaped glowing praise on the at best mediocre offerings of the chain restaurant, instead of drawing sniggers, she got equally glowing praise heaped right back at her. Guy Fieri takes his lashings, but was it fair? 2012-11-15T20:33:10Z Abortion laws are purposefully complicated, and have arguably only grown more complicated since the 1990s, but if the testimony is true, Kelly's reasoning could be seen as murky at best. What the R. Kelly trial allegations about teen abortions can tell us about reproductive coercion 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z With the news that Pedowitz is leaving the network he helped transform upon Nexstar Media Group acquiring a controlling interest in it, the future of The CW is, at best, uncertain. From groundbreaking to nearly in the ground: The CW’s days of defying expectations are over 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The 19th-century novel had, at best, a moral complexity and social range that allowed readers to understand the world they lived in. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z There are, apparently, "A" tables and "B" tables, and those not famous can only hope for a 6:30 table, at best. Ten Star-Spotting Restaurants 2010-03-02T23:00:00Z It is a mixed bag, at best, nowhere near the strong penultimate episode one would hope for to prepare the way for the season finale. 'Orange Is the New Black' Season 3, Episode 12 Recap: Clanging Themes 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He’s been, at best, a minor success, limited not because of any steadfast refusal to hew to country norms, his preferred narrative, but because he’s still finding his balance. 2010-02-12T22:13:00Z Aging guards often treat visitors as if they were suspects, education programs are rare, and cafeterias are an afterthought at best. Russia’s Expanded Garage Musem Aims to Be a Global Art Player 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The premise is disingenuous at best and, in a moment where scores of citizens are calling for widespread police reform, fearmongering at worst. ‘Spiral: From the Book of Saw’ Review: Slicing Up Bad Apples 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z At the time, many in the industry thought it was a strange move, improvisational at best, misguided at worst. The 'Interview' controversy highlights Sony's Amy Pascal anomaly 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Except ... at best you pay less than half of my bill for a root canal and crown. Gene Weingarten: Let’s get to the root of AARP’s dental insurance 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Another lesson from these texts is that there was little or no separation between medicine and diet, a link that is at best tenuous in the West today. What the ancient Greeks can teach us about herbs 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z On the other hand, "42" outdid the usual expectations for baseball movies, which usually do modest business at best. '42' scores at home, Cruise dominates overseas 2013-04-14T19:56:12Z When Halt and Catch Fire premiered last year, it was considered, at best, a muted success. From Breaking Bad to Blackadder: the great TV shows with patchy first seasons 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Yet contemplating European history since his death—first the dominance of Britain, then the rise of Germany and now France’s relative economic and demographic decline—that seems at best debatable and at worst plain wrong. Flawed sparkler 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Dwight didn’t look any happier about any of that on Sunday, spending most of the episode emotionally ambiguous at best. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 3: The Ballad of Daryl and Dwight 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Even his Kitchen God is only life-size at best. Books of The Times: Dumplings With the Kitchen God 2010-12-08T23:25:00Z Though the story is true, its sanitized feel is off-putting at best. Uneven 'Love & Mercy' saddled with one Brian Wilson too many 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Every character except for Venom/Brock is completely forgettable, the story is generic at best and quite messy at worst and the climactic battle scenes have foregone conclusions. Tom Hardy singlehandedly saves “Venom” from the trash pile of bad standalone superhero movies 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Nor does Polunin, whose acting is perfunctory at best, and who partners her with little care and no tenderness. Coppélia – review 2013-07-13T23:05:57Z He didn’t assign blame but he did sketch out circumstances that clearly suggested Cheney had been careless, at best. Perspective | The thing Harry Whittington refused to lie about 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The movie feels like a glorious representational triumph for Asian audiences, who are used to being relegated to the role of nerdy superhero sidekick, at best, until now. "Shang-Chi" crafted a fantastic, badass fighter – too bad the movie was all about her brother 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Even if Dominion prevails the likelihood that Fox News will change its ways is miniscule, at best. Ready to reinvest in "Succession"? Skim the Roys' portfolio to get up to speed in time for Season 4 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z "Yet a whole musical drama about assassins? This is the stuff of university faculty revue evenings, at best." Sondheim hails 'fresh' Assassins show 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z This is the puzzle of the 2nd Amendment, which, Waldman admits, is a problematic text at best. 'The Second Amendment' is a smart history of guns and the U.S. 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The clips at least looked intriguing: at best, this could be an improved Tennessee Smash. Upfronts Watch: ABC: Once More, With Feelings 2012-05-16T12:32:28Z A year and a half into her father’s Presidency, Ivanka’s representation of the interests of working mothers has been, at best, insipid. Ali Wong’s Comedy, Ivanka Trump’s Instagram, and the Rights of Mothers 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The lawsuit further says that even if they were Adams' negatives, the prints and posters being created from them aren't the photographer's works, "but are derivative works at best." Ansel Adams trust sues over garage sale negatives 2010-08-24T03:16:00Z But at best he’ll be merely an imitator, not a commentator. Theater Talkback: What a Drag 2010-09-30T16:29:00Z But many nutritional experts say butter is, at best, a neutral force in the diet and recommend moderation; if we went overboard in demonizing it, neither should we lionize it. Our messed-up relationship with food has a long history. It started with butter. 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Lee admits that Markle’s wedding dress is a well-kept secret and that her hand-sewn designs for the dolls are guesses at best. All dolled up for Britain's royal wedding 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z My reactions have been mixed, at best, to his accounts of that Bruckner symphony and other works including Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” and Debussy’s “La Mer.” The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z While such claims may contain a kernel of truth, they are at best subjective and at worst misleading or even hypocritical, some environmentalists say. Celebrity 'fractivists': True advocates or NIMBYs? 2013-03-05T18:07:09Z What makes it all work, though, is that these debaters aren’t merely improvising, which would have resulted in lazy comedy, at best. Review: ‘Debate Wars,’ Where Nothing Is Too Frivolous for Argument 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The same might be said of this collection, which is at best a stopgap between more essential books. George Pelecanos' 'Martini Shot' short stories colorful but confined 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z In many homes, however, the master bedroom is messy at best and overcrowded at worst. Perspective | The top clutter culprits in every room — and how to deal with them 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Desperate vacationers crack open books they’ve spent all year piling other books on top of; the music of the early month is perplexing, at best. The Book That Gets Inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Mind 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Before innovation crystallizes as influence, however, it is bemusing at best, if not altogether maddening. Never-Before-Seen Photos of the Velvet Underground in 1966 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Daily Show” fans love and need what Jon Stewart made “The Daily Show”; since he announced his departure and Noah was chosen to succeed him, we’ve lived in a state of game apprehension, at best. Trevor Noah’s “Daily Show” Début 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Howey was a sophomore on the Spring Wood High School baseball squad when Roger Clemens was a senior on the team, an average pitcher at best, kind of pudgy actually. Asleep at the Roger Clemens trial 2012-06-10T13:00:00Z Most compositions are suspended before us, hanging in the air, their legibility intermittent at best. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z More often, the documentary provides an apt example of what it must be like to be a celebrity surrounded by intimates whose agendas appear murky at best. ‘Britney vs Spears’ Review: When the Intervention Is the Problem 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Of course, any possession in this life is, at best, temporary. In Alex Trebek’s Reluctant, Moving Memoir, Life Is All About the Next Question 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are either incompetents at best or traitors at worst. The ghouls have won: The first night of Donald Trump’s RNC was a political death cult 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The logic here is dubious at best, especially since no one can lie to Aro. It Was the Best of the Worst of Times: Breaking Dawn-Part 2 2012-11-15T21:09:35Z The brothers are explaining how it's not only possible, but advantageous, to make art and music in the north-east – when London dominates and cultural life is commonly assumed to end, at best, at Manchester. Field Music: Rock around the crockery 2010-11-22T21:46:00Z My family feared I was relapsing, no matter how much I tried to explain that the depression made eating irrelevant at best and impossible at worst. My ex introduced me to arepas. They’re now my favorite comfort food 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z There is a “hot sex prospect” once every six months at best. I’m a lonely country girl 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z Various pundits and civilians and veterans have questioned the veracity of the movie edition of Chris Kyle, or responded to Eastwood's depiction of the Iraqis and the insurgents as one-dimensional at best, subhuman at worst. Is 'American Sniper' a litmus test for patriotism? 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z It is, at best, a floating island prison. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Kenneth Montgomery, his defense lawyer, called the indictment “a glorified gun case at best,” disputing that GS9 was a gang with Mr. Pollard in charge. Hip-Hop Star Bobby Shmurda, in Jail, Finds His Label Unsupportive 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Dramaturgy is, at best, threadbare; old-fashioned exoticism and sexism are par for the course. Paris Cabarets: Can We Ask for More Than the Cancan? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z No one of that new wave generation made more films than Chabrol, or so many that were sardonic at best, routine at worst. David Thomson on Claude Chabrol 2010-09-16T22:25:00Z While swimming is not really one of the so-called patrician sports, such as golf or tennis, which are connected to membership in restricted clubs, minority access to swimming pools was limited, at best. Michael Johnson’s gold medal in ignorance 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z But for me it was, at best, OK, a film whose animating idea is more interesting than its actual satisfactions. Kenneth Turan takes a critic's lonely stand on 'Boyhood' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Such evidence of progress and getting ahead tends to be temporary at best, and mainly illusory. "The Boys" versus The Big Sellout 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Surely, generalizations like these are unhelpful at best. Men aren’t ending 2012-09-11T17:56:00Z In some of the offerings, the intersections are glancing, at best, while others dive deep into the squalid and the violent. Partners in crime: Lawbreakers and music, in a new short-story collection 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The narration was at best an unrealistic portrayal of teenage thoughts and the characters, though well depicted, are extreme clichés so exaggerated that they cannot help but irritate an actual teenager. Shelter by Harlan Coben - review 2012-06-20T14:00:00Z This year’s Oscar conversation is mostly circling Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman – solidly made films in which women are an afterthought to the story, at best. Why are female narratives still undervalued by Hollywood? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z He was at best defined as a Lothario — at worst, a cad. John Mayer: Pay attention to my music, not my love life 2010-03-25T21:45:00Z “It’s the absence of a particular fault — at best.” Jordan Peterson is on a crusade to toughen up young men. It’s landed him on our cultural divide. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z While it’s true that the number of fantasy shows being commissioned is increasing, their quality remains at best mixed. What's the next Game of Thrones? All the contenders for fantasy TV's crown 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Each of these would merit a middling TV movie at best. Smart Watch: The notorious “RBG” comes to CNN and more top TV picks for the week 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Likewise, the relationship between things Jack Dorsey thinks are interesting at the time and actual features in the Twitter platform is, at best, extremely loose. What if Instagram Got Rid of Likes? 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z She is a beginner at best, which is fine – unless you portray yourself as something else. Aaron Sorkin's shot at Sarah Palin 2010-12-09T16:30:00Z His contact with his two brothers and a sister became intermittent at best. Neil Hope Dies at 35; ?Degrassi? Actor Whose Life Unraveled 2012-02-28T05:09:02Z But the safety net for those returning home is frayed at best. Leaving Gun Towers and Barbed Wire for a Healing House 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Thus admonished, we made our way to the refectory, expecting a small meal at best, perhaps a plain broth and dry bread. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z It used to epitomize the stereotypical Italian white wine — fresh, thin and neutral at best. 15 Wines Under $15: Inexpensive Bottles for Stay-at-Home Drinking 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z For many, such outrages are unfathomable at worst, or at best caused by economic dislocation or internet-peddled conspiracy theories. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Kutti knew that leaving a note for John Lennon’s widow, a lightning-rod of a public figure who surely received countless inquiries every day, was a long shot at best. How Yoko Ono and a publishing temp saved the Beatles' Holy Grail from the scrap heap 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z I found the jokes at best corny, and at worst, buffoonish. A not-so-fond farewell to 'Sábado Gigante,' a corny, buffoonish show 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Over its first few episodes, though, black-ish has shown that at best, it can be something more nuanced and rewarding than either. black-ish Whips Up a Conversation About Spanking 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Hurkos' contributions to the investigation were dubious at best: At one point he was arrested for impersonating a police detective and harassing a potential witness. New movie to explore bizarre hunt for the Boston Strangler 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z But “ZigZag” — formulaic at best and clueless at worst — feels hopelessly regressive. Review: What Does Ballet Need Now? Not Retro Fantasy. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z He can recall his life up to the murder, but thereafter he can't remember anything for more than a few minutes at best, though he's painfully aware of his condition. Philip French OBE, Observer writer of 50 years and film critic extraordinaire 2012-12-29T18:54:00Z In other words, if you like your flamenco infused with tragedy, look elsewhere: her soulfulness, at best, is forcefully fresh and poetically tender. Dance Review: Flamenco With Soulfulness and a Burst of Springtime 2011-01-30T22:13:19Z Hector is an honorable man, which makes him an anomaly when everybody else is driven by lust, power or, at best, calculating self-preservation. Review: ‘Troilus and Cressida,’ a Trojan War Love Story 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Andrikou made it clear, however, that the lines between myth and history remain blurry at best. Savoring the mythic Aegean on a small-ship cruise in Greece 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z But his critique of that system is so weak and his artistry so ponderous that “The Nauru Elegies” must be counted, at best, a missed opportunity. Music Review: D J Spooky’s ‘Nauru Elegies’ at Metropolitan Museum 2013-01-20T22:29:46Z But any consciousness that the world is not a video game and reality is not a reality show is intermittent at best, and kind of a bummer. Which is stupider: “The Purge: Election Year” or the total insanity of the real world? 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Vegetables at his house are served raw or crisp-tender, at best. The one food texture that makes me happiest 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z You need to know that most people don't care or at best are sort of ambivalent and be ok with that. Top 10 tips for being a comedian 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z “Their expectations were at best uncertain,” the narration says. Movie Review: ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dollar?’ by Thom Hoffman 2012-08-17T15:19:26Z One, the writing is generic at best, the prose equivalent of truck-stop lighting. Books of The Times: Clark Howard?s ?Living Large In Lean Times? - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:10Z And government efforts to repress it have been ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst. 5 things you should know about methamphetamines — the “all-American” drug 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z In large part her post-techno beats were preprogrammed, and she played the keyboard up against them, though the effect was that of water against a stone, a light tickle at best. Music Review: Keyboard Speaks Louder Than a Microphone 2011-06-20T21:56:23Z It’s a bleak view, where values are situational at best, and more often, plainly self-serving. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: 'Go Ahead, Girls, Take a Break From Your Values' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Chief among them is that dads are, at best, semi-prepared for the job. Review | Raising a boy in 2020 is tough. Three new books aimed at fathers offer some guidance. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s a fraught arrangement at best, one that has led many great musicians, including those in the indie rock band Cymbals Eat Guitars, to contemplate abandoning the dream altogether. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But, after major summer events across Europe like the Edinburgh and Bayreuth festivals were canceled in recent weeks, many of those dates now seem uncertain at best. The Coronavirus Derails Marina Abramovic’s Maria Callas Opera 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z There is something very comforting in the regularity of the routine, particularly at this time when the economic future of the country seems shaky, at best. Personal Journeys: Finding Gems on the Tuscan Coast 2013-06-18T20:24:34Z While “M*A*S*H” was known for its snappy humor and lively dialogue, ChatGPT’s effort was hollow and its jokes leaden at best. A New ‘M*A*S*H’ Scene: Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J. 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z "At last, a Reich Chancellor who is interested in art!" declared Richard Strauss, at best naively, when Hitler came to power in 1933. The Rest is Noise festival: The Art of Fear 2013-05-08T20:42:52Z For many in Hollywood, the move from executive to creative is, at best, ill-conceived. Guns. Money. Iraq. And Then a Screenplay for ‘War Dogs.’ 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Watching the Bellas mash together pop songs without sound mixing or instruments in Khaled’s presence feels at best obligatory and at worst embarrassing. Review: ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ Keeps the Songs but Loses the Plot 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z But basing your body image activism on your personal insecurities earns you at best political solidarity and at worst pity. Disabling the male gaze: “Longing” to be objectified won’t help shatter narrow beauty standards 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z I had been a nuisance, an irritation, an intrusion into her space and, at best, a curiosity. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z On a series that treats most of its characters as exposition delivery devices at worst, plasticine action heroes at best, Sam Hanna stands out. The underappreciated excellence of LL Cool J 2011-03-22T13:23:00Z It’s a forgettable song at best, and it doesn’t get us any more excited for Carey’s new album. Mariah Carey sounds 'Thirsty' for a hit 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z A-list acting coach Larry Moss’ staging elicits at best a B+ performance outing here. Neil LaBute's 'In a Dark Dark House' homes in on troubled past 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Until “Jennifer’s Body,” I had approached horror movies with cautious interest at best. What Megan Fox Taught Me About the Power of Subversive Girls 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z For every story that is deeply imagined and felt, there is one that feels perfunctory, at best. What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z A pair of job reports issued Wednesday show that the nation's employment picture remains cloudy at best. Planned layoffs jump 126% in September 2011-10-05T11:56:00Z The line between the game and real life is porous at best. Meet the super-obsessed college students making their own low-budget ‘Survivor’ 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Its characters were at best forgettable and at worst intensely irritating. Show Me a Hero: is the HBO mini-series David Simon's return to form? 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z The network, in particular, has been painted as clumsy at best and villainous at worst in its handling of the issue. 2010-01-18T16:50:00Z And the audio experience that emerged from the 124 speakers was unremarkable at best. At the Sonic Sphere, a ‘Whoa’ Moment (and Some Music) 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z He responded honestly, with three simple, soul-crushing words: “Skimmed at best.” The letter of recommendation I’ll never forget 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z But I do believe that calling Hagerty an “amazing reviewer” is hyperbole at best and disingenuous at worst. Marilyn Hagerty is the restaurant critic we either love or loathe. Why? For many Israelis, the place remains at best a quaint town worth a stop, and at worse a flash point where tensions with the country’s Arab minority sometimes flare into violent clashes. Special Report: Museums: Dialogue by Way of Art in Israel 2011-03-22T17:19:14Z In the years between Alien and Covenant, the prospect of commercial space travel has advanced spasmodically at best. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Garner’s character receives the most significant development of the bunch, and even she’s two-dimensional at best. Smart Watch: Why you should watch Jennifer Garner play a total jerk in “Camping” 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The reviews were mixed at best, and did not help fill the 3,500 seats of the Center Theater — even with a top ticket price lowered to $2. Shakespeare, Swing and Louis Armstrong. So What Went Wrong? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Stories like this have invariably been wrong because they are, at best, guesswork. The end of the Mueller investigation is near! No, really. Anytime now. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z "You have a regime that is super secretive and totally repressive, so making a film like that is a dicey call at best, I'd say," said Dixon, a film historian. Hack attack over Sony's 'Interview' shows risks of naming bad guys 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Either it’s dark and dramatic — unlike day-to-day depression, which is at best super dull — or it’s quirky and fleeting, like a flash sale of Zooey Deschanel’s wardrobe. Lights, camera, depression: Why does mental illness on TV rarely look like real life? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z We wouldn’t want to get bogged down in labels, but the psychopathology Arthur inhabits is foggy at best: his apparent lack of disordered thinking means the attempt to illustrate psychosis is half formed. Why Joker's depiction of mental illness is dangerously misinformed 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The lighting is poor at best, often changing to worse while the dancers are moving. Critic’s Notebook: Former Merce Cunningham Dancers at Philadelphia Museum 2012-12-23T22:53:57Z Even though Rick treats everything and everyone else in the existences through which he travels with irritated forbearance at best, he prioritizes Morty for reasons other than self-preservation. A "Rick and Morty" guide to 9 essential episodes to get schwifty for Season 4 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Even if, during the pandemic, you were fortunate enough to have your physical health, odds are that your mental and emotional health were probably touch-and-go at best. Peloton star Cody Rigsby says you did not survive a pandemic to do anything but thrive 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z At the very worst I'd deprived myself of my favourite confectionary, at best I'd probably receive my package back with no such address. Why I'll never sell my Damien Hirst 2010-10-18T16:00:00Z Yet “Neighbors 2” doesn’t pretend to be taking a stand for women’s — or anyone’s — rights; its identity politics are scattershot at best, and its sympathies are with everyone. Review: ‘Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising’ Has an Animal House for the Fairer Sex 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Lamar has at best been a reluctant star, and also the rare artist who has become more interesting while in the crucible of fame, who hasn’t smoothed out his rough edges. Kendrick Lamar, Emboldened, but Burdened, by Success 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z From that point on, her time at home was sporadic at best. In the house of alternative facts: How my parents' lies prepared me for post-truth America 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Today, when medical funding and treatment has improved significantly, many films look back with regret at a time when government support was at best reluctant, at worst nonexistent. From Philadelphia to 120 BPM: the changing face of Aids in film 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z An informal survey of younger African-American women showed that brand awareness of Fashion Fair was faint at best. Skin Deep: Fashion Fair Deepens Its Coverage 2011-10-24T17:13:02Z To be willing only to read content that speaks so directly and without conflict to your own experience is lazy, at best. Narrative stress: it's not you, it's me 2013-07-05T20:30:07Z In the 1990s, hiring a prominent designer became a popular strategy for older labels looking to reinvent themselves, but some recent pairings have been shaky at best, often involving designers with little business experience. Star Designer Leaves Balmain Fashion House 2011-04-06T23:03:25Z Even if her track record on the political stage is spotty, at best. Mocking #UnwantedIvanka: The darkly hilarious Ivanka Trump meme that explains itself 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z “Thomas was at best 11 years old when he committed his crime; he was a child,” said Brana Williams, Simmons’s attorney. Thirteen and locked up for life? 2012-10-02T20:27:00Z Sure, the world of 1983 is a mess–there are superpower politics, a nuclear-arms race and a culture that might, especially to one accustomed to the aesthetic of the Babylonian-Sumerian-Egyptian epoch, seem polluted at best. The X-Men Cede to Special Effects As the Franchise Faces an Absurd Apocalypse 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In a good 30 Rock, the zany storylines and non sequiturs still add up to meaningful stories about the characters; at best, they wave together several stories into a larger theme. The Morning After: 30 Rock at 60 Minutes 2012-02-10T14:20:37Z Sharp pain now, or — at best — dull ache always. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When a couple’s fighting affects their children, do you say something? 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z “By nature what we do involves being in a room together. And the fact that we can’t do that, it’s sad at best.” For Artists in Need, a New Coalition Brings $11.6 Million in Speedy Relief 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z As a result, for many years alternative night-life options for the larger population — tourists included — were limited at best. Next Stop: In a Swedish City, Reinvention Under Ancient Spires 2012-08-10T19:17:16Z Indeed, any prolonged discussion around the work or its creator seems, at best, a reluctant professional concession. Percival Everett Has a Book or Three Coming Out 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z Until recently art history has ignored, denied or at best tiptoed around their racial content, just as it has skimmed over the black presence in Europe as a whole. Art Review: ‘African Presence in Renaissance Europe,’ at Walters Museum 2012-11-08T20:30:57Z The pilot — the only episode available for review — suggests option B, and the results are mildly funny, at best. Review: In ‘Son of Zorn,’ the Dad’s Dense, and Drawn That Way 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Ciacci estimated that, after paying off the mortgage and other debt, the museum would, at best, clear several hundred thousand dollars from the sale. Cristina Cox, and Museum of Catholic Art and History 2010-05-17T21:46:00Z Yes, he's good-looking too, but Stephen is so devoted to the Morris campaign that he's a distracted playboy at best. "The Ides of March": George Clooney's dark political vision 2011-09-12T11:12:00Z As science, this system was dubious at best. The Long Collusion of Photography and Crime 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z "The high end of the business is marginal at best. More resources are going to securing those properties." Art world abuzz over leadership shake-ups at Christie's, Sotheby's 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Nonfranchise movies fade faster and, at best, can look forward to being listed in a streaming guide with 49 other titles. This Year Was a Disaster. We Hope the Sequel Is Better. 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Over the past few months, as I’ve been consumed by the pandemic and Black Lives Matter uprising, art has often looked marginal to me, at best. As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z There are more than 10,000 different tomato varieties to be found as seeds, while a well-stocked nursery might carry two dozen varieties at best. Seeds vs. plants: A buying guide for budding gardeners 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z It was a new idea, and bad one, leading to encounters that were at best sterile and at worst embarrassing. Comedy gold: Kevin Bridges' The Story So Far 2013-03-08T10:00:04Z McCollum’s version of the city is, at best, a community of disconsolate oddballs. Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z I'm afraid I'm not very technical on things like that and all I can say, at best, is that it was a feel that I had an empathy with. David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters – a classic interview 2012-06-12T15:57:34Z When the surface of this history is simply looked at, everything seems at best ordinary, at worst disastrous. Exhibition Review: ?The Dead Sea Scrolls? at Discovery Times Square - Review 2011-10-28T22:51:17Z Even the built-in action of the raid itself is decent at best: it’s like something from a first-person shooter videogame, right down to the thrumming soundtrack. TV Weekend: SEAL Team Six 2012-11-02T12:00:35Z In his eyes, Norman is at best a minor annoyance, at worst a threat to his patron’s career. Review: Richard Gere as ‘Norman,’ an Aspirational Jewish Fixer 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z What happens to its democratic promise, which may be a fantasy at best, a lie at worst, but remains nonetheless? In an Era of Streaming, Cinema Is Under Attack 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z They’re also a sharp reminder of his absence, and how all future attempts to resolve the contradictions in the work, or to fuse fragmentary compositions, will be imperfect at best. The Unique Problem Posed by Prince’s Unreleased Songs 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Normally, an extended slide show of institutional baby pictures would strike me as anodyne at best and groan-worthy at worst. Review | Washington National Opera returns to the stage, and it’s something to sing about 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Pension experts question whether that interpretation would hold up in court, calling it illogical and narrow at best. Double-dipping labor leaders to reap millions 2011-10-12T06:00:00Z She claims most “fail the evidence-based test” and are at best unnecessary and worst harmful. When do you know you're old enough to die? Barbara Ehrenreich has some answers 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z But admittedly limited coverage of terrorism in Africa and the Middle East tends to be met with indifference at best. “Master of None” tackles the empathy gap: How nuanced minority stories can shrink the emotional gulf between white Americans and “others” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z Instead, I am working from home, trying to keep her entertained at best, neglecting her to screens at worst, while barely scraping by on my partner’s salary. Protect the sacred lives of women: To be pro-life, you must change your life 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z “Physical and idiosyncratic” is a diplomatic way, at best, to describe the dance parties I instigate at the breakfast table. You've Come a Long Way Daddy 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z As a cheerfully saccharine expression of Indian culture today, the object has a relationship to the historic material that is perplexing at best. Art Review: Plains Indian Culture, as Seen Through the Ingenuity of the Tepee 2011-03-14T22:32:12Z In the world of “Me, Myself & I,” women are at best reflecting pools for the men around them. Review: CBS’s ‘Me, Myself & I’ Doesn’t Know Itself Yet 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Most of the Academy's choices in the 1950s are considered conservative at best today, while the genre movies of that decade were mostly ignored. Academy often misses Hollywood's greatest films, actors 2013-02-22T22:09:23Z But at best, Cena's tweet was interpreted as using breaking news about a potentially catastrophic incursion to promote his HBO Max show. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z That archetype is gone now, or at best dying. Toxic nerds are making “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” criticism impossible 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Any attempts to pin them down would be antiquarianism at best, doomed at worst. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z But since the dolls' resemblance to the artistic masterworks in question is tenuous at best, it looks like collectors will be getting what they pay for -- or maybe even less. The Mona Lisa in plastic 2011-06-30T12:50:00Z Some of the stories and plays are drafts, at best. The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Benson and Mike are a couple at an impasse, and their future is murky at best. 17 New Books to Watch For in October 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The system is at best cumbersome and time-consuming. Letters: Gift aid allows funding to follow the wishes of the people 2010-05-18T23:05:00Z But the politics of “Traveling Lady” are prettily vague at best, spending far too much time on New Agey sound bites on the cosmos and elsewhere skirting problematic territory without nearly enough care. ‘Traveling Lady,’ Starring Rossy de Palma 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z There is also little impact of attending an exam school on SAT reading and writing scores, and, at best, a modest positive impact on SAT math scores.” ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: Angst Before High School 2011-08-16T14:33:25Z The movie was a sensation, and resparked criticism that the investigation and trial were wildly botched at best -- and at worst, deliberately unfair. The West Memphis Three rewrite their own endings 2011-08-22T22:10:00Z Yet while critics trashed "New Year's Eve" and "The Sitter," a lineup of well-reviewed, seemingly must-see family films that include "The Muppets," "Arthur Christmas" and "Hugo" so far have done modest business at best. Movie audiences shrink below post-Sept. 11 level 2011-12-11T19:47:54Z Instead, food was scarce, land was disappearing and the peace seemed fragile at best. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation It is “tendentious at best and totally contrived at worst”. The in crowd 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Opinions have always infected news stories, he argues, so the notion that they should remain separate on cable news is dubious at best. How breaking news got panelized: On cable, journalists and pundits increasingly share space. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z He seems cynical at best, racist at worst. Review: ‘Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll,’ by Peter Guralnick 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Cannadine wrote that Churchill was “at best indifferent, at worst hostile, to modern abstract art” by Chagall and Picasso. Churchill’s Aura, and Bright Colors, Draw New Fans to His Art 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z But solo with her band the Blackhearts, Jett's output warrants an asterisk, at best. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Seven complaints about its 2015 selections 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z “The View” labeled the get as a historic precedent, but if so, it’s a footnote at best. The TV Watch: President Obama?s Conflict-Free Zone: ?The View? 2010-07-29T21:58:00Z The book is, at best, a flawed way to gain further understanding of her work. Ir?ne N?mirovsky: the life of and new work by the author of 'Suite Fran?aise' 2010-05-05T22:07:00Z Viva’s domestic style was haphazard at best and could veer into chaos if left unchecked, so Ms. Auder also learned to be an excellent, if slightly disgruntled, housekeeper. A Daughter of a Warhol Superstar Tells Her Story at Last 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z By the 1960s, “Porgy and Bess” had become, at best, a mixed blessing for black singers. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z The thin surface of Sabbath is dread and fear, and everything underneath, at best, is a seriously good time: deluxe, grooving, sensuous. Review: Black Sabbath’s Metal Séance of Fear, Dread and Joy 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s painful to teach topics people dismiss as antiquated and charming, at best. Teaching civility: two daring assignments She would always be, at best, on its periphery. Illuminating the Beats From Their Shadow 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But this book lacks a unifying idea; his critical take on Didion's work is mushy at best; Didion, her family and friends declined to be interviewed for the piece, so he didn't even get access. The best part of the new Joan Didion bio 'The Last Love Song'? Joan Didion 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z One often can permissibly shift attention in a conversation, but here it is at best unclearly justified. How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z The sensations are entirely detached from the meaning of your partner’s words and the unique sound of his or her voice. In general, the vibration patterns seem crude at worst and random at best. Is this the future of sex? What I learned from trying a remote-controlled robotic sex toy 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Or tell a story with their movements?…If your set doesn't have an intimacy coordinator, at best, you might not be able to tell the story you wanted to tell. Filming sex scenes on "Game of Thrones" could be a “frenzied mess” 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The grimness does not abate at all, and the show’s entire sense of humor is now “ironic music choices” — a construct that is dated at best. Beyond ‘Fleabag’: What Else Will Quench That Quirky Thirst? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Today in 2021, the answers to these questions are elusive at best. True crime shows spotlight women as victims — but don't help improve women's safety 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Hollywood is, at best, the cultural capital of Los Angeles. David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z I asked them to resist prevailing notions of progress and discover the dissenting viewpoints too often scrubbed from the collective consciousness or relegated, at best, to the margins of popular opinion. I was a drunk, angry teacher 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z "Walks that last for longer than an hour and a half, two hours at best, offer no additional gain." Zbinden's Progress by Christoph Simon – review 2012-08-17T21:55:06Z Indeed, it’s remarkable that a practice that is stimulating at best, agonizing at worst, is offered by spas that purport to pamper. Skin Deep: Wildly Abrasive 2010-12-16T06:45:06Z He added the records submitted by the Richmond police were "at best sloppy documentation and at worst fraudulent reporting." ArtsBeat: Prosecutors Ask Judge to Revoke Chris Brown's Probation 2013-02-05T21:42:23Z There are no churches in the Shire and, at best, only vague hints of some kind of afterlife. ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Judging by the 12-13 season, his programme choices are conservative at best. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2012-10-09T15:39:33Z Kono’s women also tend to be ambivalent, at best, about the idea of children. Sex, Death and More Sex: Three Books of Fiction by Acclaimed Japanese Writers 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z At worst it is actively tolerated; at best it is ignored. Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z In the first scene, Purves’s Falstaff is shown not as the usual gorging grotesque in a fat suit, but as a careful master chef, sensitively relishing his creations — and with, at best, a dad bod. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Judge Gordon responded that not only was he troubled by Freid's failure to inform him of the previous settlement agreement, but he found the lawyer's arguments "disingenuous at best" and "very disturbing." Secret Mel Gibson text message may prove extortion 2010-07-22T02:39:00Z We’re told it’s for baby’s sake; anything other than blind acceptance is selfish at best, murderous at worst. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z She adds, “If your set doesn’t have an intimacy coordinator, at best, you might not be able to tell the story you wanted to tell. At worst, you have actors who are being physically assaulted.” How HBO is changing sex scenes forever 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z New York has always been a place where money speaks and to think that the rest of the city wasn't built under the same ideology as Hudson Yards is naive at best. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Star has a gift — the kind no one would return — for creating irresistible shows whose links to reality are flimsy at best. Darren Star Finds Sex in Another City With ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z In some ways, the idea of gaydar – even if it’s just stereotyping – seems useful at best and harmless at worst. Debunking the “gaydar” myth 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z It is dated 1635, when the artist was 29 years old, but the work was thought to be at best that of a student. Turns Out That Guy in the Painting Really Is Rembrandt, Analysts Say 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The band was a cult favorite at best, but kindled a scene alongside a handful of likeminded bands that fused rumbling heaviness and melody: Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu, Sleep. Kyuss Lives, and so does stoner-rock legacy 2011-11-30T04:42:00Z They seem to be right; the research on whether violence in the media begets violence is indecisive at best. Why Parents Worry More About Sex than Violence in the Movies 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z And in real life, being stage-humped by a pair of giant sweaty men in front of a packed arena would be, at best, slightly weird, and at worst, terrifying. Women, stop apologizing for loving “Magic Mike XXL”: Our visual pleasure matters as much as any man’s 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z France looks like a suburban Disneyland at best. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z The work is second rate at best, and like Valance himself, who dies in World War I and becomes a cult figure, it’s a little mysterious. Alan Hollinghurst?s ?Stranger?s Child? Is a Departure 2011-10-31T21:57:27Z Tribe and Matz themselves seem less than fully sold on the notion; the defense they offer is, at best, inconsistent. ‘Uncertain Justice’ and ‘Scalia’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z A scratchy singer at best, he makes up for it with plainspoken lyrics that cut down to the bone and through it. The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Smart women are supposed to consider themselves above them – it is deemed at best desperate, at worst unfeminist. Love Is Blind shows us the problem with the single positivity movement 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Plane travel with a child, as caretaker or bystander, is at best stressful, and at worst involves bouts of weeping and acute tinnitus. Throw Momma From the Plane? 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z But while some embraced the freedoms, which were being enacted against an increasingly violent and rackety background, others noticed that their understanding of the capitalism that was freeing them was sketchy at best. Get on one, comrade! The story of Russia’s post-Soviet rave scene 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z But it was only downhill from there, as Harris increasingly relied on jokes that were tired at worst, downright awkward at best. Neil Patrick Harris’ painfully boring Oscar night: How did a great host get it so wrong? 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Each “had to have, at best, a marginal cult following.” From Bomb to Bust 2010-10-22T16:02:00Z In his book, Wilson gives some support to Adonis on the Clegg/Brown phone call: Ashdown's account of the conversation was "a caricature at best, untrue at worst", and Clegg "now accepts this". 5 Days in May by David Adonis – review 2013-06-14T08:01:00Z They’re not mutually exclusive enjoyments, and at best they enhance each other. “An emotional Benjamin Buttoning”: The inside secrets of 6 new books that will top your fall reading list 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z It's about cowardice and failure – at best, reconciling yourself to being an average joe. A quarter of a century for Back in the Future 2010-09-16T20:30:00Z One woman views the world “with indifference, or at best a sort of vacant amusement.” Books Of the Times: ‘Vengeance,’ a New Novel by Benjamin Black 2012-08-13T21:47:45Z “I was just amongst the mix — someone to dismiss,” he said, adding that, at best, he thought he’d get a dispensable villain’s role: “Here you go, have a baddie.” Ladies and Gentlemen, Daniel Craig 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z But Berlant and Burnham seem up to something more destabilizing, the suggestion that authenticity is just one more act, that truth is, at best, contingent and transitory. Review: In ‘Kate,’ Tracing the Tears of a Clown 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z His first Inaugural Address, in 1801, barely mentioned virtue, and his reminder that “every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle” was at best a lukewarm warning against factionalism. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z There are certain things we will not have: we will never know the cause, the cure and the likelihood of Walking Dead 1 and Walking Dead 2 stories conflating is slim to none at best. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Showrunner Breaks Down the Series Premiere 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Their subsequent decisions and schemes are morally questionable at best, but the show isn’t mercilessly depressing — it has a real bite, and the characters are funny and well drawn. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Yet for a growing faction in the domain of culture, to complain about the pathetically low standard of the art on view is irrelevant at best, oppressive at worse. The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Shelden paints them less as active participants in Churchill's career than as objects of his male desire, or helpmeets at best, so this doesn't quite qualify as "feminist" history. Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden – review 2013-03-15T12:02:59Z When we first arrived, the shower water temperature was lukewarm at best, but the hotel staff promptly fixed it and discounted our rate. Sea Captain’s Mansion Restored in High Style as Luxury Hotel 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Academics worked within categories; at best, they combined or dissolved them. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z To his teenage daughter, “those CDs are, at best, background matter,” he said. Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z The goal is inclusion, and shame is, at best, a way to motivate people to prioritize inclusion. How to have more productive conversations about racism: Stop focusing on individual intent 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Other mild spoilers include a "temptation" for Larry, whose relationship with his imprisoned fiancee is described as "precarious at best". Orange is the New Black is 'a 13-hour movie' 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z That isn’t true—deep-learning algorithms have, at best, narrow capabilities—and yet it seems inevitable that managers will ignore medical realities in favor of the bottom line. Why Doctors Should Organize 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Rhyming "Alexander McQueen thing" with "this is a Queens thing" is uninspired at best. 50 Cent makes another horrible pitch with 'Animal Ambition' 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Despite being widely regarded by experts and intelligence officials as at best baseless and at worst a source of domestic terror, the QAnon movement continues to accrue members at an alarming rate. I think Dan Brown turned my parents into QAnoners 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z Indeed, while many of the handmaids strive to protect each other, the wives, aunts and econowives are, at best, useless, and, at worst, cruel oppressors in their own right. The future isn't female enough: the problematic feminism of The Handmaid's Tale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z These men are ruthless at best, mass murderers at worst; one joins in the spirit of their merriment reluctantly, even though the film’s satiric intent is abundantly clear. ‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Laughing in the Graveyard of History 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Jewish musicians, singers and directors who had played a vital role in Bayreuth productions before the war were at best banned or went into exile, at worst were sent to concentration camps where they perished. 'Autobahn to Bayreuth' - English soprano sings for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-21T15:31:14Z Shockingly and abjectly sexist, codifying women as sexual slaves at worst and as conniving breeders at best. Everything that's wrong with humanity': readers on troubling TV shows, from GoT to Buffy 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Absent hardship, it’s also unfortunate and tone-deaf at best for this couple to inject a nickel-and-dime debate into what seems to be an enduring, enriching, harmonious balance of eight adults. Carolyn Hax: A separated couple is struggling to find a way to reconcile 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Scientists are skeptical, at best, about its existence. 'Bigfoot' suit: NH is stomping on civil liberties 2011-03-09T01:46:08Z But none of his siblings spent decades in a box, having been swindled by a cheap man whose talent level might be described at best, as middling. "The Sandman" retrofits an old story into a cautionary fable about opportunistic "male feminists" 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z He tried to penetrate Hollywood in the late 1950s but was told he could be an elevator operator or, at best, a dancer. Perspective | Melvin Van Peebles was my father, too 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The facilities were sometimes dangerous and often poorly run, not for lack of means but for lack of care, and the management, at best, treated you like a cog in a thong. I Never Planned on Being a Playboy Pinup 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The experience raised a natural question: Are big-production wines necessarily mediocre at best? Back to the Supermarket: Looking for the Good 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z When adoption is successful, it is at best a phoenix: it rises from the ashes of a tragedy. Motherlode Blog: Joyce Maynard Announces Failure of Her Adoptive Family 2012-04-04T16:55:15Z The sound in this unusually quiet concert was passable at best. Review: Joan Baez and Friends in a 75th-Birthday Celebration of Duets 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z “The kitchen at best is like a submarine or pirate group. It’s very high pressure, and a sense of humor is absolutely necessary.” A tribute to artists we lost in 2018, in their own words 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Others might be helpful or joyful companions along the way, even essential at times, but they’re supporting players at best. Perspective | Should her mom be in the delivery room, too? Here is the short answer. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Our conversation was awkward at best, but in the course of it he told me about arriving by night at an encampment of Chukchi reindeer herders in Siberia. My Five-Week-Long First Date 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Graham-Dixon gives little credence to the lurid traditional tales, and at best will concede only that he might have been "omnisexual". Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z He usually choreographs at least one new piece, often two, each season, and the critical drill is that at best these are competent, musically adventurous, generally unexciting ballets. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z There's a skeleton service at best: almost all the staff have fled. Spies, Chopin and a Libya rescue 2013-01-14T07:00:03Z Marry Me has its moments at best, A to Z is unlikely to make it through the alphabet and Bad Judge is an apt description of the comedy development process that created it. NBC Announces Plans to Burn Off Final Parks and Recreation Season 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Its strengths are those of Pilobolus: ingenious transformations of human bodies that are at least impressive and, at best, expressive of strange poetry. Alison Chase’s Troupe Has New York Debut at Miller Theater 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Violence done to the helpless, always the hardest to watch, is here compounded because the victims are in the water, an alien environment, demanding and potentially dangerous at best. L.A. Times' original 1975 review of 'Jaws' unearthed: We hated it 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Dolls and their vaguely lifelike features are unsettling at best, possessed with vengeful spirits and homicidal at worst. 7 allegedly haunted dolls 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z True, the car's leather trim meeting Dornan's leather jacket could be a sly hint at the flogging to come, but it's a whimsical reading at best. Fifty Shades of Grey: first film image appears, and it's not very sexy 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z I had blurry impressions, at best, of what was going on out there, and it was frightening. Essay: Through a Lens Sharply 2014-04-09T18:16:12Z Slate complained that it was “a mediocre story that breezed past the bodyguards because of its Hollywood pedigree” and another writer in The Chicago Tribune, admitting envy, called Mr. Hanks “a dabbler at best.” Hollywood’s Most Decent Fella on Harvey, Trump and History 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z The characters are sketches at best and absurd caricatures at worst. Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z And don’t worry about its temperature too much: Chances of a dip this creamy, rich and savory lasting long enough to get cold are slim at best. Clam Dip, but a Little Hot and Spicy 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Buckingham played hide-and-seek with the band while conducting a solo career, and he and Nicks appeared uneasy allies at best on recent tours. Concert review: Fleetwood Mac at the United Center 2013-04-14T06:08:00Z But this too, is less assuring than he imagines it to be lending him, at best, a poetic explanation for why fate has dealt him a terrible hand. "I Know This Much Is True" offers twice the Mark Ruffalo, many more times the sadness 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Some of the Collegium’s instrumental playing seemed understated, especially that of the trumpeters, ideally among the stars of the oratorio, who proved undistinguished at best. Music Review: Canticum Novum and Collegium Vocale Gent Sing Bach Oratorio 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z Everything he tells us is clearly received wisdom at best. Superb Oddities: Robert Gottlieb Reviews a Biography of Edward Gorey 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z But blacks in the 1940s were still second-class citizens at best, deprived of the water fountains, bus seats, voting rights and entertainment opportunities taken for granted by whites. A Great Lady Makes Her Exit: Lena Horne Dies at 92 2010-05-10T19:10:00Z Unfortunately, despite all his brooding and her pouting, it's at best lukewarm. Girl with a Pearl Earring: plenty of style, but not a whole lot of substance 2013-07-25T09:21:38Z The comparison is tempting, but as with the parallels to the British experience of the past century, its relevance is tenuous at best. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z But Moyn labeled this shallow utopianism because it made economic inequality secondary, at best. Did the Crusade for Human Rights Lead to More Inequality? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Despite being signed by Rembrandt and dated 1635, when he was 29, the painting was thought to be a later copy, or at best the work of a pupil. Self-portrait bequeathed to National Trust is identified as lost Rembrandt 2013-03-18T06:00:05Z Because it was the author's first non-"Harry Potter" book, it was subject to tremendous scrutiny by the media, her fans and critics, who were lukewarm at best. J.K. Rowling reveals why she created alter ego Robert Galbraith 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z She left Corsica to study literature in Aix-en-Provence, and eventually set out for Marseille and later Paris, giving herself a year at best to live out her dream of becoming an illustrator. Garance Doré, the Style Blogger, Snatches the Spotlight 2014-05-07T21:18:59Z Sheen and his troupe proved awkward at best. Charlie Sheen's "Torpedo" bombs in Detroit 2011-04-03T06:46:02Z “The results are mildly funny, at best,” Mike Hale wrote in The Times of this new comedy. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Churchill’s Secret’ and ‘Son of Zorn’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z This is not the Square 1 you want to start on with your child’s grandparents, especially when any sign they’ll be overbearing about said gifts is indistinct at best. Carolyn Hax: Turning down in-laws’ gift of college cash is just, well, Daffy 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z “In short,” the email concluded, “whoever created your beverage program is a mere fanboy at best — not someone who is well grounded in the traditions of the past.” Anyone who picks a fight over tiki drinks’ authenticity is missing the point of tiki drinks 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The tactics the show’s producers use to get this footage are also questionable at best, and disturbing at worst. Cops: the violent legacy of a TV show that sculpted America's view of police 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z And this has been achieved, remember, with a story that is, at best, Rizla-thin. What to say about ... Hair 2010-04-15T16:10:00Z The movie's idea of motherhood and womanhood is shallow, at best: an Instagram fantasy. Wanda, the MCU's Instagram boymom of “Doctor Strange” 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Men are absent at best, violent at worst, creepy always. Young Women and Their ‘Unfinished Business’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Even the doctors who saw nothing wrong with the podcast considered it, at best, “a Band-Aid,” in the words of Rafael Pelayo, a clinical professor at the Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine. The Podcast That Tells Ingeniously Boring Bedtime Stories to Help You Fall Asleep 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z That is at best a recipe for misery, and at worst dangerous. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A lack of empathy but an abundance of rage 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Going up on pointe with a toe stuck in the middle of a track would be disastrous at worst and less than pretty at best. For ‘Little Dancer’ set designer Beowulf Boritt, windows into the soul But Lucy is a fairly unreliable narrator, at best, that’s for sure. Andrew McCarthy stretches his wings: “I do have a strong yearning to escape” 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z What Merton’s mind and heart sought, in those years, was a certain convergence of commitments, a potentially harmonious joining of beliefs and practices that most people thought irreconcilable or, at best, inevitably separate. The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Ewin did something that most would consider strange at best or the work of a charlatan at worst: He hypnotized the burned man. The science of forgiveness: “When you don’t forgive you release all the chemicals of the stress response” 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z In hindsight, seafood had fallen by the wayside from our carryout routine, because takeout seafood sounds unpredictable, at best. Have vaccine, will travel: How a road trip served as a needed jolt from the blahs at home 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z One particularly gorgeous example threads itself through Impossible Soul, transforming it from something you might endure or at best admire, into something not only genuinely remarkable, but genuinely enjoyable. Sufjan Stevens: The Age of Adz - review 2010-10-07T14:30:00Z The connection to Bin Laden was tenuous at best. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z “But that is why our show is so relatable. We are a mess, at best.” Insecure’s Yvonne Orji: 'I’m 33 years old and I’m a virgin' 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z But through another lens, “Back” could also be taken as a statement of return by an artist whose presence in rock ‘n’ roll has been inconsistent at best over the last decade or so. An indie rock Johnny and June: Paul Westerberg and Juliana Hatfield team up for vulnerable, truth-telling “Wild Stab” 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Turning to Deen for healthy food is like turning to the National Football League for moral nourishment—misguided, at best. The Future of Cheesecake Will Not Be Televised: Paula Deen Moves Online 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In reality, the quote is anecdotal at best, and moreover, it severely underestimates the true number of cheeses produced in France. 7 common French cheese myths, busted 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z A French Baroque opera that puts an aesthetic gloss on colonial encounters, refitted with street choreography: a recipe for awkwardness, at best. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Judged by actually watching it, it is at best an adventurous attempt to encircle an immense subject from many angles. ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The tale raises the nature-versus-nurture question and suggests that our unthinking appellation of children as either little angels or demons is lazy at best, and dangerous at worst. The Wheel ? review 2011-08-11T16:56:04Z Black women in particular are largely erased from the American historical trajectory — marginalized, at best. Review | ‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The quality of the show is inconsistent at best—not just over a season, but from sketch to sketch. “Saturday Night Live” at 40: A stubborn habit we can’t bring ourselves to kick 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z But critics say the practice is murky at best and ethically dubious at worst. CNN said a source declined to comment. Except he actually did. Is that a problem? 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Politically, the interview might at best shore up the resolve of voters who were still sticking with Cain anyway. The Morning After: The Good, the Sad and the Odd, in a Night of Big Interviews 2011-11-15T15:59:58Z He was an artist, a quality Voisin will not accept for himself, claiming to be "at best" a craftsman. Lifelike after death: the intricacies of a taxidermist's craft 2013-07-16T13:01:30Z The idea of a partnership of equals is, at best, fallacy, and at worst, fantasy. Teaming Up, Together (Drake and Future) or Apart (Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift) 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z They tend to be contemptuous, disgusted or, at best, amused. Review: ‘Tuesday’s at Tesco’s,’ With Simon Callow, on a Transgender Woman’s Travail 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Netflix sold the show as if it were steak when, at best, we were only ever going to get a McDonald's hamburger. Chris Rock's "Selective Outrage" best exemplifies that comedy isn't black or white – it's green 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z There was the business of prizes — Beyoncé won eight, making her the most decorated V.M.A. winner, with 24; other winners included Calvin Harris, Drake and Fifth Harmony — but these were footnotes at best. MTV Video Music Awards, a Playground for the Next Generation 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z “No matter how friendly our encounter, how personal, even, I will at best be irritated by what she writes.” 20 Years After Diana’s Death, a Happier Ending Imagined 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z While Rakitina’s presence at the podium was a reminder of the strides the Philharmonic has made in gender representation among its guest conductors this season, its track record with female composers remains mixed at best. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z He is in his own description, an “abysmal journalist at worst, slightly above mediocre at best.” “This is not what a rapist looks like”: How this student’s defensive rant misses the point about sexual consent 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Each I.U.I., which has, at best, a twenty-per-cent chance of succeeding, can range in cost from five hundred to four thousand dollars. The Case for Redefining Infertility 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z “Finally” because the region, which straddles the Missouri-Arkansas border, is at best competing for Miss Congeniality in the pageant of American mountain ranges. Frugal Traveler: Music and Moonshine in the Mellow Ozarks 2013-08-01T17:02:55Z Broken into three sections, this evening-length work showed dancers slipping between anger and angst with, at best, a degree of moxie that allowed them occasionally to rise above the superfluous and overly familiar choreographic devices. Dance Review: Expressing the Pain of Being Left Behind 2011-02-06T22:28:14Z At the very least you deserve empathy; at best, there should be a change in your partner’s behaviour. Ask Alanis Morissette: why is my girlfriend so close to her ex? 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z After Doug tricked Andrea and me into running the six-mile loop when we wanted to do three — moderate harm at best — I regarded him not so much a holy guru as a royal pain. Frugal Traveler: Budget Fun on the California Coast 2014-04-02T18:18:48Z They rate average, at best, in employment opportunities and wellness. Why Florida Is Losing Its Grip on Retirees 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z It will mean that cities will consist of series of small units organised, at best, by the people who know what is best for themselves and, at worst, by local crime bosses. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z In “21st Century USA,” Hood writes of “men working hard for not enough, at best” and “women working just as hard for less.” Southern band takes on Trump as impeachment vote nears 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z But the “skimmed at best” revelation stung even more, because it seemed to suggest some scam, some giant conspiracy against teachers. The letter of recommendation I’ll never forget 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The film was uneven at best, with forgettable acting and storylines, but its portrayal of Dirie’s early life in Somalia was startling and moving. The Limits of “Message Movies” about Africa 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z On Friday, every solo of hers, light and intricate, was at least tasty and at best breathtakingly beautiful. Review: The Peggy Spina Tap Company at the Spina Loft in SoHo 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z The William Hartnell Doctor we initially meet is at best a grouch and at worst a sociopath – not unlike the grief-stricken Matt Smith at the start of The Snowmen, in fact. Doctor Who classic episode #1: An Unearthly Child 2013-02-14T16:41:41Z This is what provokes the most despair for Muslims: At worst, Trump’s voters condoned this sordidness to varying degrees; at best, they were apathetic to it. Muslim in America under President Trump: We will endure this 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z But Reagan’s most ubiquitous prevention program, D.A.R.E, was ineffectual at best. Cloudy vision: Jeff Sessions wants to revive Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign with a renewed focus on weed 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Others say that the link between violence in films and real violent behavior is shaky, at best, and the films are actually far less violent than the books themselves. Beyond the Blood: What The Hunger Games Can Teach Tweens 2013-11-19T10:45:00Z Most companies offer, at best, a partial picture. Data brokers are gathering your personal info this very minute 2013-03-08T17:34:00Z There is no parallel harvest of thoughtful assessments of fatherhood in evidence, and the three books at hand are a tentative start, at best. Review | Why do so many books to inspire dads end up making them feel inadequate? 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The band was a cult favorite, at best, but kindled a scene alongside a handful of like-minded bands that fused rumbling heaviness and melody: Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu, Sleep. Kyuss Lives re-emerges from desert 2011-12-01T15:49:25Z These three works, however, are all problematic at best. Review: A Triple Bill at the Royal Ballet Comes Up Two-Thirds Short 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Photograph: Richard Saker for the Guardian For many fathers, the feeling lingers that part-time is at best professionally risky, at worst faintly unmanly. I don't know how he does it! Meet the new superdads 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Such borrowings and revisions are, at best, a stretch, but Brooks has often managed to make hokum sound like good, open-hearted truth. Garth Brooks: Country Music’s Square, Liberal Dad 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z West must be playing, at best, fourth violin. 2010-02-06T05:50:00Z They persuaded Mr. Frank, Mr. Heinecken, Mr. Heath and Mr. Wood to collaborate with them on a project whose contours were hazy at best. Unearthing Photography’s Time Capsule 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Feist and Chilly Gonzales, the composers of Limit To Your Love, meanwhile seem to be, at best, ambivalent about Blake's version. Blake's progress 2011-01-22T00:05:04Z Singer told Hodge that his daughter’s chance of getting into Georgetown based on academics was fifty per cent “at best,” but that “there may be an Olympic Sports angle we can use.” The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Tyga is a labored rapper at best, though he’s capable of a variety of cadences. Reviews of Albums From Grimes, Galactic and Tyga 2012-02-20T23:49:32Z Viewed one way, giving these subjects a platform is dangerous — or, at best, pointless. ‘White Noise’ Review: Hearing Dog Whistles Loud and Clear 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z No matter who you are or where you’re starting, the road to your ideal weight is difficult at best, and confusing for most. Why it really is harder for women to lose weight Seeing those images and hearing all those stories is a painful exercise at best, cathartic only in the sense that repression is worse. The TV Watch: 9/11?s Pain Through the Prism of TV 2011-09-08T14:12:24Z “The Lorax,” while it nods in the direction of Dr. Seuss’s distinctive, trippy drawing style, treats his sensibility as, at best, a decorative element. Movie Review: ?Dr. Seuss? The Lorax,? With Ed Helms and Danny DeVito 2012-03-01T17:57:47Z But let’s also look at best practices for tidying. Perspective | How to get young kids to pick up their toys 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z He seemed to be at best a hypocrite and at worst a crook. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z The word reproduction is "at best a euphemism," as Andrew Solomon says in his new book, "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity." Motherlode Blog: 'Far From the Tree' and the Literature of Autism 2012-11-27T16:22:56Z Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra may share a similarly undeniable influence on the history of American music, but the similarities between their musical styles are limited at best. Bob Dylan's Next Project is a Frank Sinatra Cover Album 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Just seven years later, and yet an epoch, David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” demonstrated that comedy was at best a sugarcoating on tragedy. Five Broadway Revivals Give a Tour of Our Theatrical Past 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The first half of the Broadway season has been, at best, a disappointment. Broadway’s Second Season: 10 Shows to Watch For 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The message of both tales is that the idea of home is a chimera, the pursuit of which leads to disenchantment, at best, and often to ruin. ‘Brickman Brando Bubble Boom’ at Ellen Stewart Theater 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z If your standup spouse jokes about you, it's an occupational hazard at best, and at worst, grounds for legal action. Long live those mother-in-law (and ex-wife) jokes 2010-10-04T13:24:00Z As far as I’m concerned, that photograph is dubious at best. Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z At worst, she was described as a Stepford wife with a faintly medicated aura; at best, as a gracious foil to her blustering frat boy of a husband. Books of The Times: Lonely Texas Girl: Laura Bush?s ?Spoken From the Heart? 2010-04-28T21:57:00Z What we describe helplessly as our fate is, very often, other people’s choices acting upon us — choices that remain largely unknown or, at best, dimly perceived. A Terrorist Attack Sparks the Plot of Megha Majumdar’s Powerful Debut Novel 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z It all has very little impact considering their relationship was murkily defined at best. ‘The Good Fight’ Recap: The Head and the Heart 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z That tiresome Irish step dancer! — that’s creaky at best, repellent at worst. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Offers a Vision of the World Through Mirrors and Illusions 2011-02-27T23:16:14Z Dating is, at best, an enjoyable way of meeting new people and forging relationships. Forget cat ladies: the real tribes of modern dating, from fantasists to routiners 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z |
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