| 单词 | shoehorn |
| 例句 | Guides to English grammar were written as pedagogical steppingstones to mastery of Latin grammar, and they tried to shoehorn English constructions into the categories designed for Latin. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I looked at myself in his metal shoehorn. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Helen is so fat you need a shoehorn to get her in the door. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z We got shoehorned into the car with this big fat lady and her dog, a Chihuahua with a rhinestone collar. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They made me remember that guy David and the shoehorn. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z And that probably goes back to the shoehorning – too much emotional complexity from too many characters for too little screen time. TV review 2011-07-12T21:39:00Z Action scenes stumble through definitions of weaponry and hardware, their purposes, their implementation — shoehorning in the kind of expertise Quirk probably earned as a reporter for the Atlantic covering military contractors and terrorism. ‘Cold Barrel Zero’: A fast-paced thriller with a final scene set in D.C. 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Honestly, what's the point of even calling the film Gulliver's Travels if you're going to shoehorn a Guitar Hero scene into it? Beat a Swift retreat? 2010-06-08T07:30:00Z To a degree, Womack’s audacious career path has been shoehorned into a conventional profile format. ‘Joy Womack: The White Swan’ Review: When Success Is a Stretch 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Basically it's what I can shoehorn into one of my own beats. Disclosure and Zed Bias: dubplates, DJing and the sound of the suburbs 2013-02-15T14:00:00Z But Montross’s typically formidable narrative skills sometimes go awry, most notably when she shoehorns herself and her family into the story. Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z You'd have to be David Cameron to find anything fresh in this generic teen tripe with social networking references shoehorned in. This week's new films 2012-06-01T23:05:45Z And choosing the artists first means the company avoids the common pitfall of trying to find singers to shoehorn into roles that don’t quite fit. Summer opera: Wine, women and Gassmann 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z But Savoca is less concerned with shoehorning the characters into a neat story than in watching them bounce around in a confined space filled with unruly, unwelcome feeling. 'Union Square': Polar-opposite sisters struggle to reconnect 2012-08-10T07:16:04Z One super-sized clue about how much the filmmakers and studio wrestled with shoehorning Superman into this ill-fitting Snyderverse comes with the hero’s ultimate fate. The Real Reason 'Batman v Superman' Was Doomed 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z She displayed a weakness for the kind of self-pitying, quasi-inspirational ballads that flourished in the early 1980s, when they were often shoehorned into daytime soap operas. Marieann Meringolo Sings at the Metropolitan Room 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Maybe he'll even shoehorn some more Manic Street Preachers song titles into his links. Euro 2012: What to watch on TV if you don't like football 2012-06-15T10:37:20Z An intriguing and rather impressive French film, which solves the perennial Portman problem of how to shoehorn her always-evident film-star glamour into more earthly personas by making her character … be discovered as a film star. Natalie Portman's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z And though they seem to be shoehorning industry-standardised hospitality into a platform built on the idea of individuality, all the companies maintain they are true to the ideals of Airbnb. Airbnb: from homesharing cool to commercial giant 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z This works, usually, although setting herself the task of summoning up 1950s Chicago in a few pages leads to some shoehorning. The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes – review 2013-05-05T09:00:01Z What Pipeline is another artist-run space, this time from Detroit and with a group show shoehorned into a tiny project space. Art Review: Pope Chairs and Carpets at NADA NYC Art Fair 2014-05-08T21:51:09Z “When you come down to it, it’s pretty simple. We don’t like to be shoehorned into categories.” In Tucson, an Unsung Architectural Oasis 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z For no particular reason, “Not Your Time” shoehorns in a Bob Fosse-style production number that has little to do with the story but is still fun to watch. Movie Review: ‘Stars in Shorts,’ With Judi Dench and Colin Firth 2012-09-27T21:54:52Z “Eastern Boys,” the most compelling film to be shown at last year’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema series at Lincoln Center and just now getting an American release, is impossible to shoehorn into a generic box. Review: In ‘Eastern Boys,’ a Train-Station Pickup Gone Wrong 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Clearly in a state of denial about the new judging lineup, the Star shoehorns in a picture of Cheryl Cole in its The X Factor double-page spread. Monkey's X Factor notes 2011-08-22T16:37:59Z And so the show goes, stumbling from one scene to the next with no evidence of coherence, shoehorning songs that advance neither plot nor characterization. Review: The Devil Wears Pleather but Can’t Save ‘Christmas in Hell’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z On tour he travels with three bags stuffed with old hotel keys, newspapers, shoehorns, corkscrews and much, much more. What John Prine Can’t Travel Without 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Nor, he added, did he want the gown to be so fitted “that you would need a shoehorn and a tube of lube to get into it.” The Man Who Dressed Melania Trump for the Ball 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z We already know that he's shoehorned the likes of Legolas and Saruman into The Hobbit, while adding at least one entirely new character that did not appear in the book. Will Peter Jackson's third Hobbit film bring us crashing to Middle Earth? 2012-07-26T14:49:12Z Scenes that take place on Endor, Tatooine and other locales in which the earlier films were set don't feel shoehorned, nor do the reappearances of certain key characters from the saga. "The Rise of Skywalker" fixes the sins of "The Last Jedi" 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z This one is actually from 2011, but I like it so much I am shoehorning it in here. Best Bathroom Books of 2012 2012-11-22T20:23:44Z But the story’s unwieldiness becomes apparent when one elderly character drifts off to sleep, allowing Ms. Trussoni to shoehorn in a very long World War II section. Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z Sure, maybe there really was a voting glitch, but given this show’s history of histrionics, it seems entirely possible that this was just another effort to shoehorn in some phony tension. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: A Glitch and Then the Singers Are on Their Own 2011-12-08T06:00:10Z But Sting's songs "never feel like pop tunes awkwardly shoehorned into a ready-made narrative. The pungent lyrics spring directly from character and situation." Sting musical 'The Last Ship' opens on Broadway to mixed reviews 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Elegant in the Haydn, coruscating in the Bartók, the orchestra was on good form, but this felt like four short concerts shoehorned into one very long one. LPO/Jurowski 2010-09-27T22:00:00Z He seems to think so, shoehorning his now traditional statement that he will never do this again into the press release that announced his reappointment. Ricky Gervais isn't the Golden Globes host we want – but the one we deserve 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Let’s open the floor: should we stop trying to shoehorn Big Historical Moments into these stories, and focus on the small personal details that always feel so devastating real? Mad Men Watch: In the Name of Love 2013-04-29T09:45:14Z A subplot about his marriage shaken by his constant touring is shoehorned into the story, but its thinness only underlines how little we learn about what motivates Carlebach. Theater Review: ‘Soul Doctor’ at New York Theater Workshop 2012-08-15T16:26:49Z Lacey also shoehorns a funny lament about health insurance into her endnotes. ‘Biography of X’ Rewrites a Life Story and an American Century 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z While I haven’t closely followed his long career as a rock star, I was impressed that Sting’s songs for “The Last Ship” never feel like pop tunes awkwardly shoehorned into a ready-made narrative. ‘The Last Ship,’ With Songs by Sting, Opens on Broadway 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s as if Netflix has tried to shoehorn an entire season of television into a little over two hours. ‘Luther: The Fallen Sun’ Review: Psycho Filler 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Some fans feel diverse character have been shoehorned into older superhero roles, but that criticism is particularly ridiculous when applied to the Asgardian corner of Marvel. Hey Marvel, please don’t take away female Thor’s hammer 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z He just couldn’t shoehorn all his ideas into a half-century. Gucci’s 600 Years of Inspiration 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The orchestra’s two previous Project 19 premieres felt shoehorned into standard-repertory programs. Review: At the Philharmonic, New Music for a Changing World 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Apparently thinking he needs to shoehorn everything into his bipolar analysis of markets and morality, Selbourne also periodically stretches things. Three Authors Consider Contemporary Politics, Anxiously 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Among Mr. Sultan’s obsessions are toy boats — some of which he keeps in his house in Sag Harbor, N.Y. — as well as pocketknives, shoehorns, watches and teacups. Toy Boats and Teacups Are an Artist’s Treasure 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z In shoehorning the movie’s own characters, plots, and themes into them, he sacrifices cinematic style. The Mild Horror of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The owner, Jay Zheng, has shoehorned two tiny restaurants into this compact Queens space. A Tour of the Japanese Table at Chikarashi Isso in the Financial District 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z These contrasting views are clearly designed to make a point, but doing so shoehorns him into an argumentative posture that doesn’t always fit his comedy. Stand-Up Sets Where You Can Choose Your Own Adventure 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z On one hand, shoehorning a set piece on Obamacare or climate change into a win for “Frozen” just seems like grandstanding. This Life: Speechmaking Lessons From the Oscars 2014-02-28T20:07:57Z The film's religious elements are shoehorned in and woefully tossed off. 'Left Behind' is a disaster in all the wrong ways 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The substance of Stephen’s work is shoehorned into a few compressed, overly dramatic scenes. In ‘The Theory of Everything,’ Stephen Hawking’s Home Life 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The details of the Holocaust are too abhorrent and too well known to be shoehorned into Beethoven’s opera, with its radiant confidence in the ideals of the Enlightenment. Santa Fe Opera Sets ‘Fidelio’ in a Concentration Camp 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Dear Heloise: I used your suggestion to use a clean shoehorn in my kitchen for lifting out muffins without tearing them, and it works like a charm. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Taco casserole takes the field 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Don’t try to shoehorn yourself into places that are better left off-limits for you and your crew, and you’ll quickly uncover a side of the city that’s fun for all ages. Miami Beach with a toddler? Believe it or not, it can be fun. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Other characters we care about get a little lost in the endless shuffle: The towering knight Brienne of Tarth is shoehorned awkwardly into the action, just to remind us she’s there. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Game of Thrones’ Opens a Fourth Season 2014-04-04T21:45:49Z A distracting, unnecessary sequence about political unrest in the phosphate mines of Gafsa, the hub of the spontaneous uprising, is shoehorned into the film so abruptly it fails to resonate. Review: In ‘As I Open My Eyes,’ Feeling a Revolution Coming 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Even the attempt to shoehorn a string of Gershwin classics into the storyline creates bizarre moments. Crazy For You ? review 2011-08-10T18:00:01Z Mr. Lurie shoehorns Southern racial history and the shadow of war into a single character, an African-American sheriff, played by Laz Alonso, who is a veteran of the Iraq war. | 'Straw Dogs': A Remake of ?Straw Dogs,? by Rod Lurie - Review 2011-09-15T22:30:47Z Mallon's cast of characters is vast, and the narrative maneuvers he uses to shoehorn them all into the picture feel a bit forced in the first 50 pages of the book. 'Watergate': Thomas Mallon's novel of Nixon's downfall 2012-02-22T22:01:06Z While most of the book concerns construction details and wranglings with architects and contractors, there are a few chapters, shoehorned in, on other topics. In every dream home a heartache ? Annie Proulx's 'Bird Cloud' 2010-12-29T23:03:04Z “Television Stuff” reminds us with sketches and some uneven television specials from the 1970s and ’80s that shoehorn Mr. Martin’s sensibility into a variety-show format. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Steve Martin: The Television Stuff’: A Comedian’s Evolution 2012-09-17T21:49:26Z It is a shame the film shoehorns so much of the book into two hours. "Where the Crawdads Sing" is a stupefyingly bad adaptation of spoon-fed melodrama 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z I don't have to shoehorn it into a detective fiction format. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z There are plenty of scenes scripted straightforwardly, but screenwriting for Borat also means finding ways to manipulate the real world, guessing how people will respond, and shoehorning those guerilla encounters into a coherent narrative. The gonzo art of writing for ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Dozens of crew members and nattily appointed extras shoehorned themselves into the basement bar. A Rookie Film Director Takes on Salinger 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Although awkward, this scene, shoehorned into the film to be reassuring, crucially tilts a movie that might otherwise be misinterpreted as an invitation to embrace madness in the direction of medical common sense. Review: ‘Touched With Fire,’ a Love Story Between Two Bipolar Poets 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Global luxury brands once dominated the prime storefronts in Madrid’s upscale shopping district known as Barrio Salamanca, with local talent and independent designers shoehorned into tiny spaces and appointment-only ateliers. 36 Hours in Madrid 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Apatow is one of the most deceptively conservative directors in Hollywood, and even in the female-fronted hit Bridesmaids, which he produced, the film’s theme of unsentimental female friendship saw a forgettable romantic subplot shoehorned in. Why How to Be Single is more casually progressive than Trainwreck 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z I wish I could have those good lines back so that I could shoehorn them into something else. Things we lost in a hurricane 2012-11-12T20:46:00Z In each show, performers are taken on their own terms, not shoehorned into uncomfortable boxes. The Grammys Fumble Hip-Hop and R&B. Here’s How to Fix It. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z For "California: The Tempest," playwright Alison Carey relocates Shakespeare's plot to modern-day California and shoehorns in a lot of information about our state that is tenuously related to the story. With 'California: The Tempest,' Cornerstone makes homespun magic 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Thompson would, I suspect, be horrified to hear that, given the way she shoehorns her dislike of Brexit into the movie. Emma Thompson’s ludicrous Last Christmas is the perfect Brexit festive movie 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z It also consolidated it and then shoehorned it into rhythms better suited to commerce and railway travel than the rhythms of the seasons — or our bodies’ own needs. ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z He never appeared more compromised than he did up on the Grammy stage last year when he was shoehorned into a nonsensical duet with Imagine Dragons, a Las Vegas rock band of astounding mediocrity. Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar: Two Americas and one big Grammy 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Love and death are entwined from the start, as two corpses are joined in marriage, their bodies shoehorned into a limp embrace. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Viktor – review 2012-06-07T10:41:17Z Perhaps for a related reason, a brush with a real-life Nazi feels shoehorned in, a harrowing story that deserves to be fully realized, not a plot twist. A Tale of Five Women 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z "We're not shoehorning the musical around a book," he continued, referring to the theatrical term for a script for a musical with a story. Beatles musical has London launch 2012-08-23T16:45:49Z It was all shoehorned into a suitcase — an on-the-go vehicle by designer Don Buchla to amplify circuitry’s potential for serendipitous inspiration. Review | With analog Music Easels, Eternal Now paints a serendipitous aural landscape 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Miller’s guiding principle appears to be shoehorning as much and as varied an array of footage as possible into the movie’s brief span and to edit it into a slick, smooth unity. “Apollo 11,” Reviewed: A Found-Footage Documentary With No Sense of Discovery 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelley is a light touch of velvet, a blue-eyed soul man shoehorned into country. Critic?s Notebook: Lady Antebellum?s ?Own the Night? 2011-09-14T22:15:11Z That includes refusing to be shoehorned into somebody else’s story line. Perspective | Ask Amy: Cancer treatment brings on odd requests 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z The up-tempo songs are mostly shoehorned in as we see Rachel in performance. Review: ‘The Bodyguard’ Is Shadowed by a Stalker, and a Superstar 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Tardy’s shop, a longtime survivor of the Seymour Square Business District, is shoehorned in between a bail bond office and an under-the-radar neighborhood deli known for its gyros and cheesesteak sandwiches. Story near end for Grand Rapids comic shop owners 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Why make a gorgeous breakfast platter and try to shoehorn it into the charcuterie section of Instagram? "Everything is a spritz, nothing is a spritz": Notes on creativity, cocktails and bad copies 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z At the end of “The Starboard Sea” Ms. Dermont shoehorns in a couple of Jason’s observations about what will happen “years from now” to the Bellingham set. Books of The Times: ?The Starboard Sea,? a Novel by Amber Dermont 2012-02-28T23:57:01Z "I'd obviously found the word manumission somewhere and was keen to shoehorn it into my book — no real idea what this phrase means." Book auction to shine light on the secrets of quidditch 2013-05-17T21:30:48Z Thereafter he trod the freelance path, taking his place among the seasoned professionals who shoehorned themselves into a bewildering array of movie soundtrack sessions, commercial jingle recordings and one-off concert engagements and recording dates. Derek Watkins obituary 2013-03-25T16:29:10Z If you have to ask about any of these, this book is perhaps not for you, despite pages and pages of backstory shoehorned into the contortuplicated plot. Lestat returns: In her new novel, Anne Rice revives a much-loved vampire He also shoehorns sex into the conversation a lot; it's clearly the only thing he really misses. Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild – TV review 2013-04-23T06:00:08Z The mother-son scenes, shoehorned into the movie, are dramatic tidbits that may work on the stage but are too abrupt in the film. Review: In ‘The Lady in the Van,’ Maggie Smith Homesteads in the Driveway 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The Northern Virginia nursery specialized in uncommon varieties of rosemary, lavender, oregano and the rest, and the business was shoehorned for the first few years into the family house lot in Arlington. Pandemic could not have come at a worse time for independent garden centers 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Even though that’s not logistically possible, “Dancing with the Stars” did its level best to shoehorn as many former contestants and pros as possible into Tuesday’s “10th Anniversary Special.” 'Dancing with the Stars' recap: 10th anniversary special 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z In Dave, for example, Kevin Kline plays a Presidential impersonator who gets shoehorned into leading the country, only to reveal corruption at the highest levels of the United States government. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z But “Shackled and Drawn” genuinely shakes its fist and howls, while “Rocky Ground” — even with an unnecessary rap shoehorned in — ends up redemptive. Music: Pareles and Caramanica on Springsteen?s ?Wrecking Ball? 2012-03-02T21:32:35Z Which bloated box has been shoehorned into the wrong place, blocking routes or views? Carbuncle Cup: what's the ugliest building of the year? 2013-05-21T10:36:49Z Attempts to reinstate the shows began immediately, but Brooks rejected a compromise suggestion that he shoehorn five shows into three days by adding two matinee performances. Garth Brooks 'crushed': Dublin concerts are off, refunds to begin 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Complexity, ambiguity and paradox may be sweet nectar for historians, but not necessarily for a broad public that tends to prefer grand generalizations, sound bites and contemporary categories into which to shoehorn historical figures. Slaying the Dragon of the Dark Ages 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z So, the filmmaker shoehorned his preachy sociopolitical messages into a toothless satire featuring an amoral character. "Greed," a satire about the filthy rich, is as subtle as Steve Coogan's blindingly white teeth 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The question is whether or not he can shoehorn in a bongo solo. The X Factor Files: Stuart Heritage's X Factor briefing 2010-10-22T11:27:00Z On the page, at least, it finds its author awkwardly trying to shoehorn his fabled sense of a melting American identity into the intricate plots and counterplots of the genre known as noir. Review: Sam Shepard’s ‘Simpatico,’ Cut Loose and Roaming Wild 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z And such a hefty object is always going to feel shoehorned in an urban context. Leeds Arena: giant mint helmet or technicolour dreamboat? 2013-04-25T11:23:00Z There was a period not so long ago where ITV compulsively attempted to shoehorn the word Celebrity into all of its show titles, from Celebrity Love Island to Celebrity Shark Bait. The Great British cliche 2011-03-09T12:02:45Z The story has a "killer" premise, she says, "So why does director Rupert Goold shoehorn contrivances to amplify the drama? The powerful real-life story is provocative enough on its own." 'True Story': James Franco-Jonah Hill drama doesn't convince critics 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z This, in and of itself, isn’t new: Other awards shows, like the Grammys and the Country Music Association Awards, shoehorn a slim number of prize presentations in between ever more performances. MTV Video Music Awards, a Playground for the Next Generation 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z He has shoehorned what might have been 10 or 12 books into one. Books of The Times: ‘Far From the Tree,’ by Andrew Solomon 2012-11-13T13:00:24Z Fortunately, the main players are compelling enough to overlook the inevitable strains that come from shoehorning any real life into a television series. Kids, transgender parents are heart of ABC Family's 'Becoming Us' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z They showed that, despite heroic efforts to shoehorn it into a curriculum, leadership is best taught by example. A senior’s intense, 14-day sailing lesson — from scratch — off the New Zealand coast 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z But then of course that's always going to happen when you shoehorn an intricate and evocative 500-page novel into a mere 90 minutes of television. TV review 2011-07-12T21:39:00Z Back then, the goal involved shoehorning both the Moynihan Amtrak ticket hall, along with a new Garden, into the Farley building, a historic landmark. How to Transform Penn Station: Move the Garden 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z I genuinely appreciate the madcap workmanship of Travis Scott, who is not content as a performer unless he throws himself into a crowd, but his punk maximalism didn’t quite translate in his shoehorned Grammys set. It’s Too Late for the Grammys to Redeem Themselves 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The filmmakers also shoehorn the Holocaust into the film with a conspicuously effortful shove. Review: Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” Is the Cinematic Equivalent of a Designer Che T-shirt 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z It’s as if the writers, worried about shoehorning in both a new mystery and a sense of closure, overcompensated. Review: Final Season of ‘The Killing’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The incident is famously documented, but it still feels like a forced attempt to shoehorn pathos into what is fundamentally a showboaty comic vehicle. Theater Review | 'Looped': Valerie Harper Is Tallulah Bankhead on the Skids 2010-03-15T05:35:00Z Less so: a shoehorned moment of wisdom in which Tsukuru is finally able to accept everything that happened to him and grasp “what lies at the root of true harmony.” Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z JD: It was disrupted, but if you listen to TV, everyone is trying to shoehorn it into their existing agenda. Didion on 9/11: How many times can America lose its innocence? 2013-09-16T00:00:00Z Their eventual ability to save Tate isn't the inevitable result of their narratives, but comes out of nowhere, feeling shoehorned in rather than organic. The problematic history in Tarantino 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Some decapitated legs being used as a shoehorn? Kitchen gadgets review: Dexam stuffed burger press – a mangled patty dribbling cheese 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z At the other end of the scale, Park shoehorns in a reference to James Cameron’s Aliens. Aardman's 20 best films – ranked! 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z They need time to get to know one another, to get used to each other’s patterns and behaviours and tedious Owen Wilson impersonations that they keep shoehorning into conversations for no real reason. Hail Twiddleswift! Not the super-couple we deserve, but the one we need 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Trombetta does work hard, shoehorning dozens of short, silly, gleefully gory stories into quasi-academic categories like "Death and the Maiden," "The Gorgon" and "The Age of Nuclear Terror." Comics: Ding dong! The Code is dead 2011-02-02T00:20:12Z In Travels with My Aunt, Catholicism sometimes seems to be oddly shoehorned in, as if Greene couldn't stop himself mentioning it. Travels with My Aunt and the many shades of Greene 2012-06-15T14:32:11Z Colonial and local allusions are shoehorned into back stories wherever possible. Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee Religious casts are aestheticized and then shoehorned into an evolutionary narrative. Critic?s Notebook: Quai Branly Museum in Paris Glorifies the ?Other? 2011-11-25T23:47:39Z My meals are a study in green, efforts to shoehorn as many different vegetables as possible into a single serving vessel. How to make the one soup that always celebrates the season 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z But this year’s show — recorded Dec. 6 in the center’s Opera House and shoehorned into a two-hour telecast Tuesday night — is still intent on a business-as-usual approach. Kennedy Center Honors show on CBS: Duty-bound, but still needing a jolt 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Banished to the mind-numbing task of “doc review” in the basement, she shoehorns in time to make dozens of phone calls, covering the office stairwell with sticky notes, to land the firm a huge client. The Working-Woman Hero of ‘Better Call Saul’ 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The mighty Philharmonic is squeezing into halls built for smaller ensembles as it shoehorns its own performance schedule into the open windows it could find in the long-set schedules of other venues. The Philharmonic Is Out of Its Hall This Year. It Doesn’t Pack Light. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z As is often the case with jukebox musicals, the songs are clumsily shoehorned into the narrative. Theater Review: ‘Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds,’ Reggae for Children 2014-02-11T21:21:37Z The references to the 1990s were, like the usage of Goose, witty and entertaining without seeming excessive or shoehorned. "Captain Marvel" is a soaring success thanks to Brie Larson and an adorable cat 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z This is particularly true in the case of Perec, who, like an agoraphobic miniaturist, focuses on manageable, bite-sized chunks of reality, which he then tries to shoehorn into his books. Oulipo: freeing literature by tightening its rules 2013-07-12T09:34:37Z Actually, his contention that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare felt like an unrelated gripe shoehorned into an otherwise illuminating investigation, but at least he graciously allowed an Oxford professor to put the other case. TV review: The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Derek Jacobi on Richard II; Mad Mad World 2012-07-01T20:00:01Z The lyrics double-down on the obvious, and a few numbers seem shoehorned in just to give a performer a turn in the spotlight. 'Breaking Through' falls into cliched musical traps at Pasadena Playhouse 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The scenes in which he is shown making phone calls from foreign locales are so crudely shoehorned into the film that they interrupt its deep-purple mood. | 'Road to Nowhere': Trouble Ahead: Director Falls for Leading Lady 2011-06-09T22:50:55Z There are the eclectic letters, but also a long essay on writing that is insightful, if shoehorned in. Tim O’Brien, a Veteran of War and Fatherhood, Opens Up to His Sons 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z At human scale, the garden exemplifies the sort of minor miracles New York manages to shoehorn into small spaces. The Case Against a Mammoth Frick Collection Addition 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Everything is shoehorned into the dedicated “Selects” gallery on the museum’s first floor. Duro Olowu Excavates Pattern at the Cooper Hewitt 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The exhibition is shoehorned into spaces not quite big enough for anything to breathe comfortably, filling temporary galleries, stairwells and passage spaces on four floors of the mostly subterranean museum. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z This historical digression, though interesting and well researched, seems shoehorned into the book. A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z A complete performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde clocks in at around five hours, making it an awkward beast to shoehorn into standard concert slots. BBCSSO/Runnicles – review 2012-09-28T11:38:31Z “The Address Book” is her first book, and she is already a master at shoehorning in fascinating yet barely germane detours just for kicks. What Street Names Say About Us 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Pell was also relieved not to have to shoehorn the complete show into her home. Hudson Valley Ballers: SNL writers hit the country with a few funny guests 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z I could shoehorn the sage, exquisite work of Marilynne Robinson into nearly any list of recommendations. Dear Match Book: Religion in Fiction 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z The bottle sidled between an ethereal shopping bag and a cracked shoehorn, was sucked down and spat up, its green sides glittering in the sun. A mollymawk snapped at it. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z Rahm, aesthetically, you need a shoehorn to fit him into our classic image. A Rich tradition: Can Chicago shake political stereotype with new mayor? 2011-02-22T00:45:00Z A rushed, extraneous scene involving the purchase of a halal chicken for the birthday dinner of Maalik’s mother seems shoehorned into the movie. Review: To Be Young, Gay and Muslim in Bed-Stuy 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z If, by hook or by crook, it can be connected to the glamorous days of air travel, it’s shoehorned in here. A Critic’s Survey of Summer Books 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z To be fair, a episode at the two-thirds mark does challenge Murray’s acting chops more than we’ve seen in a while, but the episode feels shoehorned in for pathos. St. Vincent: I can't get no beatification – Toronto film festival review 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z It didn't trust viewers to enjoy it for what it was, so producers frantically tried to shoehorn in as many half-baked populist ideas as they could. Must Be The Music: the anti-X Factor we've been waiting for? 2010-08-13T14:00:00Z But this shoehorns her into the very conventions of capitalism and bourgeois values that she eschewed so aggressively. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z And is shoehorning in old faces the best way to achieve this? Is Peter Jackson planning Lord of the Hobbits? 2010-12-09T13:41:00Z The main difficulty is that the scenario and circus skills seldom feel perfectly matched and appear to have been shoehorned one into the other. The Butler 2010-07-15T21:00:00Z “Fatigue” has nothing at all to do with the pandemic, except that the murder of George Floyd happened in its midst, which makes the chapter feel shoehorned into to the show. ‘Breathe’ Review: A Pandemic Musical That Strains to Surprise 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z In considering why, it’s hard to avoid the fact that Raylan Givens does not appear in the novel on which the mini-series is based — he’s been shoehorned into another cop’s story. ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Review: Raylan Redux 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z We’re drowning in wildly inappropriate footage of real-life tragedies that no sensible person would ever think of shoehorning into a film. Forrest Gump 2: a sequel berserk enough to suit our hellish times? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “With some summer tent-poles,” he explained, “there is a tendency to try and shoehorn in everything that has worked before as an insurance policy, even if it doesn’t totally make sense.” Save My Blockbuster! 2013-06-28T16:14:07Z Biographers have a tendency to shoehorn every last tidbit of information they can into their books. All Those Books You’ve Bought but Haven’t Read? There’s a Word for That 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Then you've got at least a fighting chance of shoehorning your way on screen as part of a specialist programme, before eventually becoming "the face of" ghosts or wool or glass-blowing. Screen burn 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z Yes, there’s a plot here, but the show sometimes seems lazier than a jukebox musical in figuring out how to shoehorn in Mr. Harding’s songs. New York Musical Theater Festival Report: 'Somewhere With You' 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z And, as Pulver says, "too much has been shoehorned in; so vivid are many of Lewis's tableaux that you are barely given time to linger before being whisked on to the next". All is well with Narnia 2010-12-13T16:22:00Z Amber is crassly shoehorned into the movie to provide jiggling eye candy for boys. Movie Review: ‘The Other Woman’ Stars Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann 2014-04-24T23:08:18Z The play’s climax shoehorns all the elements of the story into a farcical scene that seems a little forced, funny though it is. | 'Sons of the Prophet': ?Sons of the Prophet? at Laura Pels Theater - Review 2011-10-21T02:14:08Z I shoehorned that in there, but not in a very elegant way. Mark Whitaker Takes A Long Trip Home 2011-11-07T12:00:07Z The intimate, stylized “Charlotte Salomon,” with its strong connection to visual art, felt shoehorned into a standard grand-opera presentation. Alexander Pereira Leaves Austrian Festival for La Scala 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The numbers are stylishly interwoven in a show that mitigates to an extent the shoehorning tendency of the jukebox genre. 'Beautiful' makes a fetching Los Angeles debut at the Pantages 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z But where he was nimble, the exhibition is clunky, shoehorning the interests of its corporate sponsor into an exhibition ostensibly designed to give us a more intimate view of the artist. 'Letters to Andy Warhol': Celebrity drives art exhibition, but in the end, is it a clunker? 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z It's because often those artists, their songs and their albums are shoehorned into very specific categories, never rising to the marquee awards such Best Album, Best Artist, etc. Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar Lead the Way 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Along with everyone else, I leaned over the railings and desperately tried to shoehorn the contrasting scales into the viewfinder of my camera. Explorer: In New Zealand?s Remote Fiordland 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z There was no need for the East German government, as it sealed off its own citizens in the summer of 1961, to shoehorn this part of the wall into a crowded neighborhood. For architects, Trump's wall reveals as much as it promises to close off 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Across the territory, yachts of all sizes now crowd the turquoise waters, shoehorned into the curved bays on makeshift moorings. Moored in a Fragile Paradise 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Astutely, it doesn't try and shoehorn Kinect into everything it does, reserving it for a few occasions in each episode, which keeps things fresh. Kinect Sesame Street TV: Season 2 – review 2013-01-12T06:00:15Z In Girls, a very different, naturalistic show, the story felt like a sketch shoehorned in to say: we hear you, we get it, we’re thinking about these issues really hard! Girls Watch: White People Problems 2013-01-21T14:20:30Z It's not that the play is bad, per se, but it's awkwardly and unnecessarily shoehorned into an otherwise straightforward narrative. Dava Sobel's curious new book on Copernicus 2011-10-26T21:58:03Z “FNAF”’ instead spins out of control as it attempts the fool’s errand that has befallen many a video game movie: shoehorning a weird and immersive experience into the bones of Hollywood narrative convention. Review: In 'Five Nights at Freddy's,' a moldering pizza parlor hides after-dark secrets 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z “There’s so many great messages and life lessons that you can shoehorn into scary” stories, said Roth. In coming-of-age horror shows ‘Goosebumps’ and ‘Fright Krewe,’ the scares are rooted in everyday life 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Forbes reported that the pandemic’s work-from-home-boost heightened our need for privacy as we shoehorned offices into dining rooms, closets and basements. Striking a balance between open and closed kitchens | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Limits on visitation can benefit tour companies by improving the experience rather than having tourists “shoehorned” at the glacier, said Hutchinson, who doesn’t worry about Juneau losing its luster as the glacier recedes. Crammed with tourists, Alaska’s capital wonders what will happen as its magnificent glacier recedes 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z The Washington Post, meanwhile, tried to shoehorn Florida’s whitewashing of slavery into a “both-sides-do-it” framework. Column: The story behind that Florida school curriculum that whitewashed slavery keeps getting worse 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z “I want to actually deliver, not just on goals and ambitions, but on projects,” Newsom said when asked this month about shoehorning legislation. Newsom's signature move at the California Capitol: Jam the Legislature 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z So often in musical theater today, showstoppers seem shoehorned into the story. Review: The Tony-nominated 'Into the Woods' revival — maybe the best in my lifetime — lands in L.A. 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Usually in these kinds of shows the famous songs are shoehorned into a book that doesn’t sweat the dramatic details. Ranking this year's Tony best musical nominees from worst to best 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z The company said no employees were required to do anything sexual, it didn’t use sex or psychological manipulation as a marketing ploy, and it had tweaked policies to ensure customers didn’t feel shoehorned into debt. Founder, ex-executive of sexual wellness company charged with forced labor conspiracy 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z That ban was shoehorned into the trans care bill as an amendment after a separate bill to ban abortion at about six weeks failed to overcome a filibuster. ACLU sues to block new hybrid Nebraska law restricting abortion, gender-affirming care for minors 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Last autumn, the Premier League was bracing itself for a season like no other - with a World Cup shoehorned into the middle of a packed club schedule. How did winter World Cup shape Premier League season? 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z That is on purpose — and by shoehorning CRT into the picture, critics of DEI have been able to send Americans scrambling to the same old battle lines ahead of the presidential primaries. DeSantis' DEI boogeyman is all wrong 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Republicans, eager to speed up permits for oil and gas production, say they will keep trying to shoehorn a bipartisan energy proposal into the must-pass debt limit legislation. Side deal to fast track energy projects, expand power grid emerges in debt limit wrangling 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z CRP alleged it was “shoehorned” into using Cookies’ suppliers and pressured by executives to repeatedly increase the number of orders despite manufacturing delays, defects and other problems. Popular pot brand Cookies lined up millions in kickbacks to self-dealing execs, lawsuits allege 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z That San Francisco was overrun by violent criminals was taken as gospel; a predawn killing in a deserted part of town was shoehorned into the prevailing narrative. Column: The Bob Lee killing in S.F. shows how crime reporting gets almost everything wrong 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Chatbots are also easier to use than online symptom checkers because people can simply describe their experience rather than shoehorning it into programs that compute the statistical likelihood of a disease. AI Chatbots Can Diagnose Medical Conditions at Home. How Good Are They? 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The new GOP majority faces Democratic opposition to virtually their entire agenda, but Mr. McCarthy is plotting a way to shoehorn some priorities into the must-pass measure to raise the debt limit. Speaker McCarthy readies GOP demands for debt ceiling battle with Biden 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z He noted that the government hadn’t been able to collect enough votes in the Legislative Assembly to pass their law, and instead had to shoehorn it through with a special constitutional tool. Protesters Clash With Police Over Retirement Change 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The film’s weakest parts involve shoehorning in more backstory for Emily and Sam as they talk about their lives to keep each other company. Review: Deft performances elevate snappy thriller 'Unseen'; Idris Elba is back as 'Luther' 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z ERA backers are asking the courts to ignore the deadline, count the latecomers and discount the revocations in order to shoehorn the amendment in. Equal Rights Amendment stumbles in court and on Capitol Hill 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Part of the problem was that he was trying to shoehorn multiple movements into a single whole. Column: Right-wing culture warriors say wokeness is dead. They can't even define it 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “We had to shoehorn everyone into it, and after I’d sold them to all my friends, I had nowhere to go. It was time to move on.” Red McCombs, Used Car Salesman Turned Media Mogul, Dies at 95 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Wider doorways aren’t just a way to shoehorn new furniture into your home. 9 tips for creating a home that is safe for aging in place 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Overtly shoehorning people’s diets into our dismal left-right divide does no favors to those for whom advancing vegetarianism is a cause. Keep your politics out of my arugula 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z No more keeping the clock running after a guy goes out of bounds, just so slightly fewer deadly plays can be shoehorned into a three-hour game with a 60-minute clock. Football's problem isn't the rules, the equipment or the medical care: This sport kills 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z Big meetings of more than 50 people will get shoehorned into a six-hour window on Thursdays, with a limit of one a week. Shopify tells employees to just say no to meetings 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The show, unfortunately, shoehorns in too many songs. Review: If the Razzies included theater, 'Invincible’ would be one of 2022's big winners 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z So everything gets shoehorned into this brief period, and the calendar gets oversubscribed, and important bills never pass. Opinion | What a horrible way to run a country 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z She had gained more than 50 pounds, and she needed help just getting dressed; Shana bought her a foot-long shoehorn so that she could slip her feet into sneakers she couldn’t reach. Was She Ready to Be a Mother? A Judge Got to Decide. 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z “It’s like putting in landscaping before building a house, you need to design them together,” he said, rather than “try to shoehorn a subway track in afterward.” What Does Queens Need More, a New Park or a New Train Line? 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z His efforts to shoehorn the language into the defense bill comes as Republicans begin mounting an effort to unseat him when he’s up for re-election in 2024. Still in the pipeline: Manchin won’t give up on his payoff for voting for Biden’s climate change law 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z An hour later, servers scrambled to convert Triumph Valley’s sports bar into a third dining room, to shoehorn in another 80 customers. Restaurant review: Triumph Valley may be Greater Seattle’s best dim sum 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z In the past, those networks often shied away from midterm nights, shoehorning in an hour of coverage between police procedurals and the local news. TV Prepares for a Chaotic Midterm Night 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Democrats had tried to shoehorn an immigration-legalization plan into their budget bill. Dreamer ruling gives Democrats immigration opening in November’s elections 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z That space was so narrow — eight feet — they had to shoehorn the necessary soda-making equipment inside. Perspective | Marriott’s new Bethesda headquarters celebrates the company’s past 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z “To attempt to shoehorn women’s body parts into such rigid size categories is planning to fail,” she said. The Army is making its first uniform bra. Vets say it’s long overdue. 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z “Give him an afternoon, he’ll learn how to play Mozart on a shoehorn.” Jon Batiste leaves Stephen Colbert’s ‘The Late Show’ 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Because it’s unethical to shoehorn students into classes they don’t want to take—for research, anyway—the investigators took a different tactic. When Students Learn Spatial Skills, Their Verbal Abilities Get a Boost 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Some conservative journalists are skeptical that the “pro-democracy” attitude taken up by their legacy-media peers is just a permission slip to shoehorn liberal opinion into ostensibly nonpartisan coverage. American media wants to save democracy. Is it helping? 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z In a signature flourish of the show, Dr. Oh would dispose of every object the parents used to beat their children — back scratchers, umbrellas, shoehorns, broken chair legs. Dr. Oh, ‘the God of Parenting,’ Will See You Now. On Television. 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z There’s no need to shoehorn in “white supremacy” to make the case. Opinion | Joe Biden working while covid-sick was not ‘white supremacy’ 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z That’s when a bunch of videos from people you don’t follow get shoehorned into your feed. Adam Mosseri confirms it: Instagram is over 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Among those ideals: preventing people from being tortured into confessing or being shoehorned into a “cruel trilemma of self-accusation, perjury or contempt” of court. What does ‘plead the Fifth’ mean? Will the Trumps do it? 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z “They are trying to shoehorn abortion into laws that clearly weren’t designed to address abortion.” U.S. Tells Pharmacists Not to Withhold Pills That Can Cause Abortion 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Levine contributes additional lyrics that perform the usual jukebox service of shoehorning songs into an unrelated storyline. Review: 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' arrives at the Pantages in a burst of colorful excess 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z “I just kept waiting: ‘Are they going to shoehorn this into the end?’ Danny Roberts is HIV-positive. So why did 'The Real World' leave that out? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z EPR policies seek to shoehorn different materials with very different recycling needs under a single regulatory umbrella with the misguided expectation that all will be improved as a result. Journalism crisis: Paper-production costs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The two episodes flit through so many different facets and issues pertaining to a Pakistani immigrant family like Kamala’s that they all feel a bit shoehorned in. Review | ‘Ms. Marvel’ offers up a fresh new hero — and more Disney marketing 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z A key component of autonomy in the post-pandemic environment involves giving workers flexibility and self-control of where and when they work, rather than trying to shoehorn them into the pre-pandemic "normal." Why Elon Musk's anti-telecommute edict might have just doomed Tesla 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Democratic incumbents, he feared, could either be shoehorned into more difficult districts or forced into primaries against one another. Fearing ‘Extinction-Level Event,’ N.Y. Democrats Turn Against Each Other 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z The writers know everything about the last two years can’t be shoehorned into one production or under one tidy, happy ending. ‘And So That Happened …’ looks for ‘something hopeful’ from the last 2 years 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Six hours may in fact not be a large enough canvas for all that the writers want to accomplish — especially their efforts to shoehorn observations about how policing has changed after Gray’s death in 2015. Review | ‘We Own This City’ is an ambitious but uneven companion to ‘The Wire’ 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z But it is no simple matter to shoehorn other historical situations into the specific frame of 1865. Review | Lessons from Lincoln’s leadership at the close of the Civil War 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Instead, “Bittersweet” reads like a series of thought bubbles shoehorned into book form. Review | In a relentlessly positive culture, a defense of melancholy 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Standard shoehorn: Nice product – and it works even better on your shoes after you’ve buttered your toast with it. Style Invitational Week 1481: Mess with our heads 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Instead, in the following years, Google has shoehorned its entire productivity suite into Gmail to push people into using the rest of its Workspace services. Shortwave just rescued my inbox from the drudgery of Gmail 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z “Given some of the administration’s other recent actions, it is becoming clearer that they are less concerned about properly implementing this infrastructure law and more focused on shoehorning it into their woke agenda.” EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s infrastructure czar accused of ignoring GOP calls for transparency on spending 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Witherspoon has tried a bit harder, shoehorning NFT promotion into the feminist narrative that drives much of her work: “Crypto is here to stay,” she tweeted. Analysis | The celebs have gone crypto 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Not retiring from anything else, even if I wanted to, and I didn’t drunkenly hit someone with a shoehorn and now escaping as a fugitive. Awkwafina vows to 'always listen,' then quits Twitter after 'blaccent' criticism 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Luckily, I had recently purchased two of your quality shoehorns and was able to finish the exam without missing a beat. Style Invitational Week 1481: Mess with our heads 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z That is why on Thursday, few people took a beat and asked why a paid analyst would risk his livelihood to shoehorn a callous reference to a murder into game commentary. Perspective | LeBron James’s tweet on Glenn Consor: An eagerness to judge and a reluctance to think 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The modest home my daughter built had to be shoehorned into the modest buildable area within her lot. Acres of issues: Buying raw land to build a home requires foresight 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z “The Tragedy of Macbeth” allows those associations to occur freely, without feeling shoehorned or editorialized. Review | Joel Coen’s ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ is a minimalist, maximalist masterpiece 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Democratic leaders issued statements expressing disappointment with the parliamentarian’s ruling and projecting a tough stance in the future, vowing to explore “all options” for shoehorning immigration in. Democrats in bind over amnesty as immigration groups demand payoff 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z “The need to keep expenses down,” Robison explains, “forced compromises, decisions that would one day hamstring Boeing’s attempts to shoehorn in more sophisticated technology.” Review | When Boeing put profit over quality in the 737 Max, the result was tragedy 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z But on arriving in Hollywood, she was quickly shoehorned into a series of thankless roles, where her background became an excuse to play any nonwhite, “exotic” caricature. Rita Moreno gets candid in documentary on her decades-long career 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The parliamentarian ruled the citizenship provisions were too big a policy change to shoehorn into the budget debate. ‘We are your base’: Activists warn Democrats of election losses without full amnesty in budget 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z In a TV documentary landscape rife with flashy graphics, sensationalized revelations and shoehorned analysis, “Attica” stands out as a bracingly direct and appropriately sober testimonial. Review | ‘Attica’ reminds us why we mythologize — and misunderstand — the infamous prison rebellion 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Democrats are trying to shoehorn legalization into President Biden’s $1.75 trillion social spending budget package, which deals with climate change, tax credits and prescription drug pricing. Citizenship path for illegal immigrants to cost taxpayers more than $500 billion 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Many are working overtime behind the scenes to shoehorn their pet initiatives into the final bill. Trump mocks far-left Democrats for getting rolled on Biden agenda: ‘No wonder AOC +3 are so angry!’ 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z And somehow, Powell naïvely thought that he and his pal George Tenet could scrub his speech of all the deceptions shoehorned in by Cheney’s co-conspirators. Opinion | Colin Powell and ‘Guernica’ 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z “They are trying to shoehorn in these trespassing charges because they don’t want to touch the third rail of politics that is a mask mandate.” California maskless woman in store convicted of trespassing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The Senate’s parliamentarian ruled that granting citizenship was too momentous a policy change to shoehorn into a budget reconciliation package. Citizenship or else: Activists warn Dems over amnesty for illegal immigrants 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Elected Democrats took advantage of one-party rule last spring to shoehorn this massive change into state tax code even as a bipartisan Tax Structure Work Group was studying comprehensive tax reform. The Times recommends: Advisory votes won’t change policy but send message 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z That’s one of the key tests for shoehorning policies into the reconciliation process. Democrats maneuver behind the scenes to secure amnesty provisions in Biden’s $3.5T spending bill 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z “As a person who is emphatically not involved in political coverage in any way, shape or form, I’m always a little uncomfortable when you get kind of shoehorned into the narrative somehow,” Ms. Ward said. Clarissa Ward of CNN Looks Back on the Afghanistan War 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z She shoehorned Zoom meetings with clients in between the needs of her kids. Pandemic pushes moms to scale back or quit their careers 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z The Supreme Court said while such a question is legal, the Trump administration cut too many corners in trying to shoehorn it into last year’s count. Census reports increasingly diverse population as country begins redistricting 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z “So we just shoehorned it in with reconciliation.” Democrats Ready a Tricky Legislative Two-Step. It’s Been Done Before. 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Council chose to ignore all of this information as it tried to quietly shoehorn this flavor ban into law. Opinion | D.C.’s proposed ban on flavored tobacco is dangerous and counterproductive 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z If Republicans were to scuttle the deal, accusing Democrats of bad faith, Mr. Biden would be left to shoehorn his entire agenda into a partisan bill. On Infrastructure, Biden Tests the Limits of Having It Both Ways 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z He’d been asked to return to reprise the role in 2017’s “Fate of the Furious” but says he felt the character would have been shoehorned in without good reason. How 'F9' reunited the 'Tokyo Drift' crew — and what that could mean for the 'Fast' future 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z ‘Loki’ is both natural story thread and shoehorned backdoor pilot Loki is a natural story thread as much as a shoehorned backdoor pilot stuck into Endgame’s time heist. Loki is a chance for Disney Plus to escape the shadow of Marvel blockbusters 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z And so the film shoehorns in an almost admirably ludicrous explanation for her lack of regard for canine lives, which is to depict a trio of Dalmatians pushing her mother off a balcony. Perspective | ‘Cruella’ is about a puppy killer. Has the origin-story trend gone far enough? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z They defeated Illinois, Virginia and Nevada in the lower courts, and they say they’re ready to fend off any other attempts to shoehorn the ERA through. Three states ask federal appeals court to order the ERA be considered ratified 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Biden had to shoehorn the temporary subsidy boost into a fast-track process called “budget reconciliation,” which averts a Senate filibuster. Biden pushes to make large subsidies that helped revive Obamacare permanent 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Unless Democrats can find ways to shoehorn those requests into the budget process, each will have to clear the 60-vote filibuster threshold in the Senate — meaning they’ll need the support of at least 10 Republicans. ‘Explicit disrespect’: Biden’s GOP snubs in first 100 days threaten agenda 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z House Democrats are shoehorning environmental justice into every possible spending item in President Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure package, attempting to divert money to minority communities that they claim are more severely impacted by climate change. Democrats push for broad ‘environmental justice’ funding in Biden’s infrastructure package 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Readers overwhelmingly panned the Democrat’s attempt to shoehorn a gun-control message into a killing that didn’t involve firearms. Ilhan Omar: Deadly Capitol attack worse ‘if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife’ 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Kim said these kinds of shoehorned ads had become popular topics of discussion online, with some fans claiming they disrupt plots and threatening to stop watching altogether. Korean TV’s Unlikely Star: Subway Sandwiches 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Mr Price referred to "overweight girls being shoehorned into gowns and paraded through the town like cattle". 'Kardashian clones' jibes teacher struck off 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z New public-health guidelines, released Monday, offer clarity but shoehorn these unique ceremonies into existing guidelines for miscellaneous venues and outdoor spectator events. Let the graduations commence 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z She was working up to 45 hours a week, keeping a bag of versatile clothes in her Honda as she shoehorned in the auditions. Kelly Marie Tran’s journey to becoming a fighting Disney princess: ‘It feels like an absolute miracle’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z USC also faces a more daunting schedule with makeup games against Oregon and Stanford shoehorned into the final two weeks of the regular season. UCLA steals win from Arizona State to move into tie with USC atop Pac-12 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z I probably should have tried to shoehorn in some terrible Valentine’s Day pun in that preamble, shouldn’t it? Everton v Fulham: Premier League - live! 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z You’ve grown up, into a major metropolitan city, bringing with you more people who claim you as home, more cars on the road and more homes shoehorned into your finite space. We asked readers to write Valentine’s Day love letters to Seattle. Here are the best, sweetest and most interesting. 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Mr Price referred to "overweight girls being shoehorned into gowns and paraded through the town like cattle." Teacher 'mocked' pupils for being fat and having fake tans 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z This insemination can even be simultaneous, with one shipworm shoehorning its sperm into a second shipworm with one of its siphons, while its other siphon receives a gob of sperm from a different shipworm neighbor. Revealed: The Shipworm Sex Tapes 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Too many ideas are underdeveloped or left hanging, and the whole if-and-then explanation seems shoehorned into examples that don’t really work. Review | Were human innovations driven by autism? 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z While Democrats and most Republicans are in agreement that Section 230 needs revisiting, they also believe that it should be changed through a more careful process rather than shoehorning it into the defense bill. House expected to override Trump’s veto of defense bill, setting up first such rebuke of his presidency 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z It's just that whatever the facts are, they continue to shoehorn them into the age-old congressional reporting tropes about both sides slogging it out to the finish line. Mitch McConnell is no more credible than Donald Trump — but the press sucks up to him 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z That demand, registered late in the legislative process, found little support among lawmakers in either party, who regard shoehorning a major unrelated policy move into defense bill as untenable. Senate Sends Military Bill to Trump’s Desk, Spurning His Veto Threat 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z But lawmakers have bristled at a full-scale repeal — and at the administration’s attempts to shoehorn it into the defense bill. Trump’s threat to veto defense bill over social-media protections heads to a showdown with Congress 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z In that case, he had tried to shoehorn a question about citizenship into the 2020 count. Supreme Court to hear Trump’s bid to take shape census 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z The Cayuse and other neighboring tribes, who once roamed 6 million acres, were shoehorned into what would become a 172,000-acre reservation. ‘Unsettled Ground’ examines the shifting legacy of the 1847 Whitman massacre in what is now Washington state 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Another problem with shoehorning political history into discrete eras is that political parties are rarely monoliths. Column: Trump's defeat was supposed to launch a new progressive era, so what happened? 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z No shoehorning in career advice when the issue is that she’s late with her share of the power bill. Perspective | When your co-worker is your roommate, and making bad choices 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Last year the court rejected his attempt to shoehorn a question about citizenship onto the full census questionnaire. Supreme Court to rule on Trump’s census illegal immigrant order 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z There will be shoehorned awards, arcane TV broadcast rules and of course, Pedro Pinto. Champions League: group stage draw – live updates! 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Even now, most wireless chargers have been forced to choose between lacking any Apple Watch support at all or figuring out an awkward way to shoehorn in a separate Apple charging pad. It’s past time for the Apple Watch to add Qi wireless charging 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z It was kind of shoehorned into that location and look what it brought to the community.” Syracuse’s Carrier Dome turns 40 years old, gets new look 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z They shoehorned him into writing the history of Alabama State College. Racism denied Auburn’s first Black student a master’s degree. Then, at 86, he returned. 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z An entire toy stockroom seems to have been meticulously shoehorned into a broom cupboard. Blood, death and toy cars: how the Mexican Weegee makes sense of a violent world 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z He was involved in the last major census case when Mr. Trump tried to shoehorn a citizenship question onto the 2020 count. Judge fast-tracks case challenging Trump on census count, illegal immigrants 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Most Star Wars games around the turn of the millennium were awkward attempts to shoehorn the license into various genres, usually without much success. Star Wars Episode 1: Racer zooms onto Switch and PS4 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Once the conceit of the brazen boomer was floated online, it was all too easy for media outlets to shoehorn that narrative into pre-existing analytical templates. Opinion | Baby Boomers Were Blasé About the Coronavirus? Why Did We Believe That? 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z There was never any sense that the actors had been away from their characters for five years, or of shoehorning old material into a weirdly shaped new box. 'Parks and Recreation' reunion, reviewed: Right idea, right time, perfect execution 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The PR company that arranged the interview was livid we didn’t shoehorn “Hot Pockets” somewhere into the story. Perspective | Happy 20th birthday, KidsPost! It’s hard writing for kids, but it’s also a ton of fun. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The report, published on ClimateRealism.com and Heartland.org, comes amid complaints that Democrats have been trying to shoehorn some of their agenda, like emissions reductions, into legislation designed to relieve the virus' economic burden. Heartland Institute accuses 'climate alarmists' of exploiting COVID-19 pandemic to advance agenda 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z NBC is already making plans to shoehorn the French Open and Kentucky Derby into its fall schedule after they were moved from their usual spring dates. For NBC, an Olympics delay was best among bad outcomes 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Some budget airlines, including Frontier and Spirit, shoehorn passengers into seats with legroom as dinky as 28 inches. No one weeps for the talls, I get it: But in air travel's legroom wars, we suffer 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The 1920s in Seattle saw the continuation of long-established ethnic segregation, with sizable populations of native, Black, Asian, Latino and Jewish residents shoehorned into established neighborhoods such as the International and Central districts. Studying Seattle’s Roaring ’20s history might help us get through this next decade 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z But the costs and engineering required to shoehorn a powerful V8 engine into a small space without the benefit of a long hood were onerous. Is the new midengine Corvette too good to be true? 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Despite some clever work with cellphones and text messages, the story and atmosphere feel impossibly forced, shoehorned into a milieu that never feels authentic enough to elicit real dread.” Here are 17 of the worst movies of 2019. You’re welcome. 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z “The proponents are concerned about Roe being stripped away by the Supreme Court, so they’re trying to shoehorn the ERA into the Constitution.” Lawmakers pledge ERA will pass in Virginia. Then what? 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z “When I try to shoehorn my life into a song, it gets really ham-fisted,” he said. Beck Is Home 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The snaking lines, screening equipment and conveyor belts were shoehorned into the exposed area after 9/11, Day said, and leave travelers vulnerable to an attack by an active shooter. Troubled renovation of Denver International Airport offers lessons for others 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Last week, the Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee shoehorned into the permanent record of the impeachment inquiry a conspiracy theory about the “real” attackers against the 2016 election. Trump's still pushing the CrowdStrike conspiracy theory: But why, and where did it come from? 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z He traveled to San Francisco twice, most recently in September, when he flew out in the morning, shoehorned a fundraising lunch, reception and dinner into that day, and came back on a redeye. Terry McAuliffe stepped up when Va. Dems looked doomed. They bounced back, but he’s not quitting. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z "It feels to me as if they're trying to shoehorn this problem into existing accommodation instead of thinking more radically," Mr Clarke said. Ageing prisoners 'dying in front' of officers 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Amazon’s hardware event was worth paying attention to because it confirmed that Amazon isn’t trying to shoehorn its way into your digital life with one huge, hit product but instead dozens cheaper ones. Amazon is flooding the hardware gaps between Apple, Microsoft, and Google 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, we should be prepared for Barr to shoehorn himself into the proceedings at any moment, especially if the news cycle and congressional pressure begins to close in on Trump. Watch out for Bill Barr: Trump's new fixer will work his black magic on Ukraine scandal 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Jackson said the suit improperly attempts to “shoehorn” a defamation claim into the framework of a case that accused the law center leaders of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Judge tosses lawsuit over law center’s hate group labels 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z With the kind of complex plot and range of personalities that book critics couldn’t resist calling Dickensian, “Goldfinch” was a challenge to shoehorn into a film, even one that’s two hours and 29 minutes long. Review: 'The Goldfinch' sings its own tune in its own sweet time 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z To an extent, the Post’s blunder rests in trying to shoehorn a nuanced phenomenon into its Pinocchio scale, which doesn’t much allow for shades of meaning. Column: Medical bankruptcy is an American scandal — and that's not debatable 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z There’s something subversive in that, considering how often the media shoehorns Palestinian artists into a simplified narrative of cultural resistance. 'If Israeli soldiers start shooting, we won't stop the interview': Palestinian hip-hop crew BLTNM 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z After a stellar debut featuring a duel between Matthew Wolff and Collin Morikawa, the Minnesota event is shoehorned between the Open Championship and the Olympics. PGA Tour announces new schedule featuring 2020 Olympics off-week and a significant WGC move - Golf Digest 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump has said he’s considering issuing an executive order to try to shoehorn the question in — though that, too, would face legal scrutiny from judges, at least one of whom has already expressed skepticism. Pelosi: Trump citizenship question is attempt to ‘make America white again’ 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Meantime Congressional Republicans are shoehorned into the era of President Trump. Despite July 4 display on National Mall, the real fireworks are in Congress 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The ACLU’s filing came just hours after another federal court in Maryland expressed skepticism about the administration’s last-minute attempt to shoehorn the question back in to the 2020 count. ACLU asks judge to forbid Trump from restoring citizenship question to census 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z A one-off vitamin IV might have a nice placebo effect but is probably as helpful to our physical constitution as a shoehorn made of rhubarb. How women anxious to have a baby are being exploited for profit | Eleanor Morgan 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z The park, hemmed in by a freeway and major streets, is slightly bigger with the opening of Galaxy’s Edge, which was shoehorned in by demolishing three attractions, a restaurant and several office buildings. Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge forces Disney to tap eons of crowd-control expertise 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Over the first half of the league’s life span, teams were frequently shoehorned into baseball parks where baseball clubs took top billing. From functional to fancy, NFL stadiums have made a huge leap 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Instead, he shoehorned the swipes into his answer to an unrelated question about how he would run against President Trump in a general election. Dems increase pressure on Pelosi for impeachment 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Medina addresses the crowd shoehorned around the table. In Berkeley, Cafe Ohlone brings back the Bay Area’s first foods 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Fred might learn to loosen up, and his best friend, played by O’Shea Jackson Jr., manages to shoehorn in a lesson in liberal smugness, but his character still plays like a self-congratulatory archetype. Review | Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron as a couple are meant to be hilarious. But ‘Long Shot’ is really just immature. 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Yet hardly any effort is spent crudely shoehorning in film references to explain our political plight. In the Brexit era, Britain is more Mr Bean than James Bond | Owen Jones 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The question the administration wants to shoehorn in without this process turns out to be particularly disruptive: It asks about citizenship. Opinion | The Trump administration’s census question degrades our data — and our democracy 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Sex is a lot more complicated than it’s made out to be, especially in the United States, where it has been shoehorned into two separate worlds. Christina Quarles’ paintings blur boundaries and find freedom in the flesh 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Like many period pieces, the 1920s-set drama shoehorns modern sensibilities into a historical era, which leads to awkwardly knowing dialogue. Review | Enjoy ‘The Chaperone’ for its strong female leads, but don’t expect it to roar 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Andrew Cosby’s screenplay doesn’t unspool a coherent story so much as violently shoehorn in diverse elements from the comics, overstuffing every scene and only then trying to explain why it’s been included. Review: If you’re not a superfan, ‘Hellboy’ is hell, boy 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The shop, in Fox Chapel Plaza in O’Hara, is shoehorned between two businesses, a pocket-sized factory with vintage machinery that keeps on ticking, including a Landis K outsole stitcher from 1942. Cobblers face extinction - and are busier than ever 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Even its shoehorned Trump jokes, such as Gob referencing “s---hole countries,” don’t feel as fresh as they might have months ago. Perspective | Please let ‘Arrested Development’ finally end before it erases all our good memories 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Despite some clever work with cellphones and text messages, the story and atmosphere feel impossibly forced, shoehorned into a milieu that never feels authentic enough to elicit real dread. Review | ‘Greta’ is a psychological thriller with a regrettable, pseudo-feminist twist 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z On the nightstand on his side of the bed: a wooden tray of pennies in the drawer; a shoehorn still in its plastic package; a chubby anthology of crime stories. “What Can You Do with a General” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Students who showed up for class found situations akin to what unfolded at Vista Middle, with children sometimes shoehorned into gyms and auditoriums, and overwhelmed administrators doing their best to keep students interested and engaged. As a teacher strike enters Day 2 in Los Angeles, learning is a group experience 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z They all agreed that they wanted to preserve the series’ intimacy and character-driven nature, rather than shoehorning in cinematic setpieces that would take away from what made the podcast special. In the race to turn podcasts into TV shows, the podcasts are winning 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z But some of those results have ended up as a diluted version of the artist’s aesthetic, shoehorned into a big-budget film. Tom Holkenborg's journey from dance floors to Hollywood royalty 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z It would be hard to overstate the embarrassment that the show visits on independent-minded artists whom it shoehorns into a common genealogy. The Inflation of Abstraction 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z “They’re attempting to shoehorn a cadaver into the Constitution that was debated and rejected in the 1970s for good reasons,” she said. Will Virginia be next to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment? 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z But when he does, figure someone to try to, well, shoehorn a question in to Wilson about all of this. Seahawks Q-and-A: Did Russell Wilson really throw the shoe of a 49er? And what happens now at right guard? 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Pictures There’s that same desperation to force connections where none were necessary, to make the world smaller by creating new characters, then shoehorning them into the previously existing lore. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the franchise’s Attack of the Clones when it should be The Last Jedi 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z It may be distorted, stacked vertically, or shoehorned into a cluster of other typefaces. The Mystery Font That Took Over New York 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Instead, the committee shoehorned senators, witnesses, the press and 20 members of the public into a bandbox room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Dramatic testimony from Kavanaugh, Ford included outrage, emotion, history 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The club these guys belong to is the Federalist Society, a right-wing legal fraternity hell bent on shoehorning its brethren onto federal courts. WTF is wrong with Kavanaugh? Even conservative bro culture might not save him now 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Done judiciously, this boosts the signal-to-noise ratio; done aggressively, it shoehorns or ‘overfits’ data. Cryo-electron microscopy shapes up 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z However, design changes made in 2018 to shoehorn pool infrastructure into the only viable site at the park will cause the budgeted amount to be exceeded. Opinion | Fix our roads before building a new pool 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The industry has largely soured on the practice, though, after such flops as “The Great Wall” showed the limits of shoehorning Hollywood elements into Chinese stories, and vice versa. 'The Meg' eyes a modest U.S. opening. Disney's 'Christopher Robin' denied Chinese release 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z “You can’t try to shoehorn a supersonic aircraft into a subsonic standard.” Exclusive: U.S. and Europe clash over global supersonic jet noise... 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z But the weapons in our bedroom were limited to a shoehorn, a flattening iron and a stack of hardcover books. Perspective | I thought I was alone in the house, then I heard a bump. Or did I? 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Fékir may be shoehorned into the team and he might provide the spark to propel France into the last four, which would meet expectations. What does Didier Deschamps want from his France team? If only he knew 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z But it’s also useless to slice and dice the degrees of prevarication in a way that sort of, kind of, almost shoehorns Trump into the admittedly debased tradition of democratic discourse. Is Donald Trump a liar? Maybe not — and that’s when it really gets scary 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Iran failed in its effort to shoehorn a coded criticism of the US into the Opec communique. Oil output to rise by 1m barrels a day as Opec reaches compromise 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z When Rashford can score goals of this brilliance it is tempting to argue that Southgate must find a way to shoehorn him into the team. Marcus Rashford thunderbolt sets England on way to win over Costa Rica 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Accessories add style while taking up little suitcase space, so clever social-bee packers shoehorn in extra statement jewels to dress up cotton frocks. How to Pack for Summer’s Most (and Least) Stressful Getaways 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Damaging the pitch, shoehorning games into a crowded county and Test cricket calendar and a relatively small overall capacity were just a few of the reasons baseball never materialized. Will Yankees-Red Sox in London break the NFL's UK stranglehold? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Having directly seen the impact of the switch in the schedule, Foster believes the ones who are now unfairly harmed are the boys who shoehorn their golf season essentially into a month-and-a-half window. Why is participation declining for Michigan boys' high school golf? It's all about bad timing - Golf Digest 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Faced with defeat in the House of Commons, the government dropped its opposition to the amendment, clearing the way for it to be shoehorned into the legislation. Transparency is being forced on Britain’s overseas territories 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z The bigs, or at least the guys shoehorned into that role, cannot protect the rim. Wizards struggle against Hawks, then struggle to explain their four-game skid 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z “It's a true story that utilizes faith in a natural way. It's not shoehorned in.” As Christian films slump at the box office, studios seek new ways to attract the faithful 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z "We deserve our own narrative. Darkest Hour is a male-centric film they shoehorned a female narrative in. Who are they doing that for?" she says. How Hollywood fails women on-screen 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Bryan: The ships did feel shoehorned in as if the studio thought they needed to satisfy a certain contingent of Marvel fans with the traditional approach. Question Club: The best and worst parts of Black Panther 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Low-fare passengers shoehorned into the back of the plane may not even be covering what it costs to transport them. How Much of Your $355 Ticket Is Profit for Airlines? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Certainly, technology and widespread acceptance of remote work have given us new ways to shoehorn a side job into our lives. The first rule of working two jobs | Produced By Advertising Publications 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z When next you shoehorn yourself into one of America’s ever-shrinking airline seats, you might encounter a new wrinkle in the romance of air travel. Opinion | A snake on a plane? For emotional support? 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z “It appears as if the Guardian is attempting to shoehorn research, data and their conclusions into a common narrative about the role of technology in last year’s election,” a company spokesperson said. Senator warns YouTube algorithm may be open to manipulation by 'bad actors' 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “It appears as if the Guardian is attempting to shoehorn research, data and their conclusions into a common narrative about the role of technology in last year’s election,” the spokesperson added. 'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorithm distorts truth 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Adrion focuses on the voices of women who’ve shoehorned their way into the industry and have inspiring stories to tell, as well as discomfiting ones. Half the Picture proves that #MeToo alone won’t solve sexism in entertainment 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z We didn't want to shoehorn women into a story where they weren't. For ‘Dunkirk’ producer Emma Thomas, 8 Oscar noms are ‘the cream on top of the cake’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z The Islanders’ proposal beat out one from New York City FC, another local sports team shoehorned into an awkward stadium-sharing situation. Islanders Are Expected to Win Right to Build New Arena at Belmont Park 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z This need became particularly clear after the 2016 season, with the Rio Games shoehorned into the calendar and leaving a mere week between the Open Championship and PGA Championship. What will the future PGA Tour schedule look like? - Golf Digest 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z House Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday rejected efforts to shoehorn a major immigration fight into year-end talks over avoiding a government shutdown, saying illegal immigrant “Dreamers” should be tackled in separate legislation. Paul Ryan says DACA won’t be part of House spending bill 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Each time Kent Sheridan went camping with his family he diligently shoehorned fresh coffee beans, a hand grinder and a pour-over brewer into his rucksack. We Tried It: Instant Coffee for Coffee Snobs 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z And the headaches and expense of shoehorning so many agency headquarters into this costly, congested town keep growing. Spread the swamp? Trump administration wants to move government offices out of Washington – LA Times 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The show’s moralizing feels so hopelessly shoehorned in and inconsistent I understand what the show is going for here. Only The Walking Dead could make "all out war" feel flat-out boring 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z And that creates myriad opportunities for real estate agents, small-business groups, home builders, universities, farmers and many more to shoehorn in changes potentially worth billions of dollars apiece. Lobbying battle begins over GOP tax bill 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z I’d guess yes, and I’m not exactly doubtful more filmmakers will find yet another sleight of hand in order to shoehorn Mr. Bell into the storyline. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Jigsaw’ a worthy, not obligatory, addition to ‘Saw’ universe 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Two other proposals may require further shoehorning. The third location envisions putting 8 million square feet completely on Hill East, land the District owns south of RFK Stadium along the Anacostia. For Amazon’s next headquarters, D.C. pitches four of its trendiest neighborhoods 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z He played this very fast tune and I said, boy it’s going to be hard to shoehorn lyrics into that but I’ll try. How we made West Side Story 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z But this righteousness feels hopelessly shoehorned in and inconsistent, devoid of any narrative logic. Only The Walking Dead could make "all out war" feel flat-out boring 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Women, she said, were shoehorned into the sweltering, standing-room ballroom balcony, while male journalists dined at tables and were permitted to ask questions. Bonnie Angelo, political journalist who wrote about moms of U.S. presidents, dies at 93 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s far too cute for her brassy singing, which despite being shoehorned into this tightly controlled package, remains intact. null 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z “You know where my heart is,” Trump told the crowd of thousands shoehorned into the Phoenix convention center. Trump revisits his Charlottesville comments in angry speech 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z And there was the occasional stint as a director, which led to a summer upstate in 2010, helping to shoehorn six shows into eight weeks for a theatre festival. Dothan native brings nightmares to life with theater company 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z “I want to distinguish between what you and I might think of as a tiny house and what some people might try to shoehorn in as junk and call it a ‘tiny house,’” Anthony said. Vermont planners mull zoning rewrite to allow tiny houses 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Rather than looking for characteristics that would allow us to shoehorn some of these organisms into known animal groups, we’ve taken a different approach. Reverse engineering mysterious 500-million-year-old fossils that confound our tree of life 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Rather than looking for characteristics that would allow us to shoehorn some of these organisms into known animal groups, we’ve taken a different approach. Reverse Engineering Mysterious 500-Million-Year-Old Fossils That Confound Our Tree of Life 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The force said it was not treating the incident as terrorism-related and said the item being waved was a shoehorn. Man Tasered by police outside mosque - BBC News 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Near the end of the game when a statistician passes a note, Smith shoehorns in: “The Heat are on a 13-2 run.” Jason Smith is learning how to become a wizard in front of the camera 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Then she shoehorned in a plug for her recent memoir. NBC Woos Advertisers With Megyn Kelly, the New Morning Anchor 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z However, timed conversational responses are the meat of the game and make for a much better and informative experience than when Telltale tries to shoehorn in more of those traditional game mechanics. Zadzooks: Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series review 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Nearby was a plastic shoehorn, apparently flung from the cartwheeling corridor, and a takeaway menu from a Chinese restaurant in Lewis. Where oil rigs go to die 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z In the middle of lamenting the death of Rachel Jackson, Trump shoehorned into the proceedings that he visited Jackson’s grave in Tennessee, as if we’re supposed to be impressed by that. Donald Trump thinks Andrew Jackson could have avoided the Civil War: Words cannot capture how ignorant and offensive that is 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z PMQs watchers were left groaning in September by Mrs May's attempts to shoehorn in train jokes after Mr Corbyn's tussle with Virgin Rail. PMQs: May and Corbyn's memorable clashes - BBC News 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z He will also be under pressure to shoehorn those tax breaks back in to the tax reform package. Two questions Trump must answer if he wants to drain the tax swamp 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Gillespie shoehorned the lone religious reference into his closing statement, as he wished the crowd “a blessed Good Friday . . . and Easter.” Republicans running for Virginia governor tangle in TV debate 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z With a little imagination, one could shoehorn a short par-3 hole into the central work area. A tale of 2 Masters press centers: From tent to mansion-like 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z "It's probably got a couple more seasons before the cast try and shoehorn themselves out of the show." Can Big Bang Theory learn from past TV spin-offs? - BBC News 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Costner is shoehorned into the story as the white male hero who lifts the women up. Hidden Figures is a groundbreaking book. But the film? Not so much 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z As with Trump’s previous comments on a number of issues including health care, border security and immigration, GOP congressional leaders moved to shoehorn what he had said into their plans. When Trump speaks, Republican policymakers shrug — and get back to work 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The jangly electric guitar and driving drum beat of I Am a Rock followed the precedent Wilson had set with the repurposed title track, only this time they weren’t shoehorned into an existing recording. Simon and Garfunkel – 10 of the best 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Centuries later a bull-headed Maltese prime minister shoehorned a chapter on Mediterranean security into the Helsinki Accords, a cold-war compact between the West and the Soviet bloc. The cruel sea 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z To look at a map from, oh, 1948, as Answer Man is doing now, is to see the structures shoehorned everywhere. Answer Man remembers the ‘temporary’ office buildings that once blighted D.C. 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Room to expand in Bellevue and other urban centers around Puget Sound should also be part of Seattle discussions about how much more growth to shoehorn into areas that are at capacity. Bellevue’s growth surge shows no signs of stopping 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Burke was shoehorned into the role, and it went terribly wrong. Wizards embracing the Trey Burke that he always wanted to be 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Trying to shoehorn nerddom into identity politics shows callous ignorance for the systemic and daily oppression faced by genuinely marginalised people. 'Nerdsploitation' is not a thing. There's never been a better time to be a nerd | Leena van Deventer 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z If, however, both Washington and Clemson were out, that would leave three teams trying to shoehorn into two spots: Michigan, Colorado and the Big Ten winner. Root for chaos on college football’s conference championship weekend 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z I like what the historian Frederick Cooper says: scholars should stop “shoehorning political discourse into modern, antimodern, or postmodern discourses” and instead “listen to what is being said in the world.” When slaveholders controlled the government 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z If there’s any doubt about the FCC trying to shoehorn its way in, activist groups like Free Press and Public Knowledge already are staking out the maximalist ground that the deal must be stopped cold. Liberals Look to Lawless FCC to Stop a Media Deal 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z But that insecurity is most exemplified by an awkward strain of pop-culture humor that feels absolutely shoehorned into the film. In Doctor Strange, pretty weird isn't weird enough 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Despite this and other disqualifying events during and before the debate, the political press on cable news seemed to bend over backwards to shoehorn Trump into the “win” category. Bizarro world: The debate showed us the real “liberal media bias” — for Donald Trump 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Voters may also cope with complex issues by shoehorning them into existing ideological beliefs. Colombia and ‘Brexit’ Show Why a Referendum Can Be Dangerous 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z But this TV project - shoehorned into Allen’s unrelenting feature-film-annually regimen - feels half-hearted and, at times, even threadbare. Review: Woody Allen’s TV series is a plodding ‘Crisis’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z As this year’s frenzy of multimillion-dollar campaigns prove, the Emmys are more important than they’ve ever been, so why keep shoehorning them into a format that’s about to blow its rivets? The Emmys need to stop watching and join the TV revolution 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z As women joined the paid labour force in increasing numbers, more household responsibilities were shoehorned into the hours outside work. All in the family 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But some residents fear shoehorning in more granny flats could do exactly that. Neighborhood groups have pushed for the city to retain stricter rules on second units than California law would otherwise impose. 'Granny flats' left in legal limbo amid City Hall debate 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z Its approach to letting players explore a 3D world was so consummate and sublime, that it felt less like Nintendo shoehorning eureka concepts into a new paradigm, than the paradigm bending to Nintendo whims. The 50 Best Video Games of All Time Ranked 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z I would love to see Katana be an actual person instead of this cypher shoehorned into the movie. A post-Suicide Squad chat: the characters are its greatest strength and weakness 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z All across the country, the government is shoehorning new 100-watt community stations into the radio dial. A station is born: Inside the high-risk, low-watt, quirky world of community radio 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z But by shoehorning too much into a bittersweet story — more poignant than plausible — he undersells the power of improv and the unique skills it requires. ‘Don’t Think Twice’: The existential crisis of an improv-comedy troupe 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z My Hitch is a device that resembles a giant shoehorn which allows you drag your suitcase through an airport... with your butt. This suitcase attachment for your butt is a crime against decency 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The trick, they say, is not to get shoehorned by theories or politics. Cloning great schools is latest in long line of L.A. reform plans 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Don’t try to shoehorn conduct into the definition for purposes of leveraging a prosecution,’ ” Frenkel said. In McDonnell case, Supreme Court makes it harder to prosecute corruption 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But also, I kinda dig a lot of things about this trailer: the '60s vibe, the kind of lighthearted spookiness, how everything is just casually evil, the way Ouija is shamelessly shoehorned in there. 13 new trailers you should watch this week 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Critics of his television commentary tire of the rhetorical shoehorn he too often needs to mention the feat. Why Johnny Miller's Oakmont 63 still matters - Golf Digest 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Not even an awkwardly shoehorned love story lightens the mood set by the film’s bruising battles, with combatants getting flung, twirled and stampeded by bigger, stronger adversaries. ‘Warcraft,’ inspired by a video game, is a convoluted waste of mental energy 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z While later presidential spouses would still be shoehorned into that old-fashioned role, Roosevelt opened the door for activism from the first lady. Hillary Clinton made history. But she did so upon the shoulders of giants | James Nevius 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Once again, Rooney is central to the debate - still a figure of such influence and one Hodgson is determined to shoehorn into his England team. Euro 2016: England attack blunted by Wayne Rooney's presence 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z If I can do stories that really reflect me, do I continue to do these stories and try to shoehorn other people’s characters in? Mike Mignola: Why I'm ending Hellboy to go paint watercolors instead 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z The story of his life and career has been shoehorned into the U.S. education curriculum at a fundamental level. Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember? 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z But in their awkward attempt to shoehorn these kids into the first pic’s formula, Stoller and his writing collaborators care far less about creating believable characters than getting to the next laugh. Review: ‘Neighbors 2’ is a funny but ill-conceived retread 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The Extreme Sailing Series shoehorns colorful, high-speed racing into far tighter venues than the Hudson River. For Experience, America’s Cup Teams Turn to Newcomers 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Despite the degree to which he was shoehorned in, Marvel might have actually succeeded where Sony failed. Spider-Man is amazing in Captain America: Civil War, but has no business being in it 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z If the power brokers in golf had taken care to carve out room in the schedule for the Olympics instead of shoehorning them into the calendar, “it definitely could have” changed Scott’s decision, he said. Golf’s Schedule Takes the Sheen Off Olympic Gold 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z If America were a European country, the candidates wouldn’t be trying to shoehorn themselves into two pre-formed molds. Want to change 'politics as usual'? Make a viable multi-party system | James Nevius 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z While I agree that admissions standards ought to be tweaked, I was very disappointed to see "athletes" shoehorned in with "specially tagged legacy cases." Rethinking College Admissions 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z But the book seemed to resist being shoehorned into a feature-length film. Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston light up AMC’s ‘Night Manager’ 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Arena had attempted to shoehorn both players into his team before. Portland and Seattle's MLS attacking fortunes are turning around 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Rather, it is still usually shoehorned into structures never built for a task so complex. The secret rules of the internet 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z But the Cummins motor inside was much older, amateurishly shoehorned into a chassis it was never meant to fit. Cummins-built engine is getting new life 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Forget the argument that best-of-five matches for women couldn’t be shoehorned into cramped Grand Slam schedules. Column: Women need five-sets tennis to win equality battle 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Awkwardly shoehorned into her narrative is a snapshot of her own bad childhood and a series of poor decisions, loneliness and the desire to be understood. Revisiting Faye Resnick's book on Nicole Brown Simpson 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The attempts to shoehorn in a sentimental message are less effective. Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘The Brothers Grimsby’ is just trying to gross you out 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Between Manchester City in fourth and Everton in 11th, there are eight teams shoehorned into a nine-point gap, setting up a veritable Fury Road to Europe. Chelsea v Stoke, Real Madrid v Celta Vigo and more: clockwatch – live! 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Experienced, talented players, starting caliber guys trying to shoehorn themselves into the lineup. Dodgers could very well need that supposed surplus of outfielders 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z “We are not going to try to shoehorn renewable energy into the city just to justify a definition created within a boundary,” said Chris Wan, the design manager for Masdar City. Masdar's zero-carbon dream could become world’s first green ghost town 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The most favored court is at the center of town, shoehorned among the market, a school, government offices and a Catholic church. Guatemalan Athletes Are Dribbling, and Not Only With Their Feet 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z As the first half of the game gets under way, the residents of North Block are all in their cells, startlingly small rooms with bunk beds, toilets, sinks, personal belongings, and two people shoehorned inside. Watching the Super Bowl in San Quentin prison: 'It sort of hurts a little bit' 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Between Manchester City in fourth and Everton in 11th, there are eight teams shoehorned into a nine-point gap, setting up a veritable Fury Road to Europe. Chelsea v Stoke, Real Madrid v Celta Vigo and more: clockwatch – live! 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Over the decades, he has been shoehorned into this classification: great defensive coordinator, but someone who cannot hold down the top job. Chip off the ol’ Bum: Wade Phillips gets best from Denver D 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z His efforts to shoehorn himself into the election make him an even worse campaigner. Jeb Bush: a dreadful campaigner waging a futile battle for Republican hearts | Richard Wolffe 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s arguably better to see Jones as a placeholder than it is seeing him be shoehorned into a center-back role, as Klinsmann has previously tried to do. What we learned from USA v Iceland: Darlington Nagbe's missed opportunity 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Army have long been shoehorned into wearing white socks during their workouts—but change afoot with uniform regulations recently has allowed them another option: black socks. In an About Face, U.S. Army Allows a Change in Socks 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Collectively, the message is: show your work, and don’t fool yourself with unreliable reagents or shoehorned data. Repetitive flaws 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Awards are objective measures of excellence, goes one argument; female writers and directors or actors of color should not be shoehorned onto nominee lists just to provide some politically correct vision of diversity. Why the #OscarsSoWhite fuss matters 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z There is disgraceful shoehorning in of advice to keep consuming “all food groups,” clearly a bow to industry and effective lobbying. Here's What 10 Experts Think of the New Dietary Guidelines 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Air can’t be shoehorned into priorities created by humanity’s economic and political demands. The 'age of the human' may not become the age of destruction | David Suzuki 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z If the prequels felt like a grab bag of ham-fisted shout-outs with shoehorned origin stories, Abrams’ film simply sets up shop in the middle of a long, ongoing narrative and tells its little piece. Star Wars: The Force Awakens — our spoiler-free review 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z It’s a lot to shoehorn into one movie, let alone one that traffics in the arcane narrative style of “Chi-Raq.” Spike Lee takes on gun violence with passion and bold creativity in ‘Chi-Raq’ 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z “We were shoehorned into a plan with a very limited network of doctors,” Mr. McCarthy said. Regulators Urge Broader Health Networks 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Trying to shoehorn it into today's tech will break our dreams. We can’t have real virtual reality without a sense of touch 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z We didn’t realize it at the time, but we were being shoehorned into history.” ‘Former Pan Am stewardesses share memories in Savannah 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Sarasota's city commissioners recently voted to lift regulations on taxis, rather than shoehorn new companies into complying with laws made obsolete by modern technology. Uber Unease 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z All the other audio tricks needed to shoehorn a signal into those tiny grooves compromises the signal even more. Reel-to-reel tape is the new vinyl 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z And with that blatant shoehorning of a topical reference into a preconceived article, here are seven popular things aimed at children that are absolutely ruined by the application of scientific reality. Seven scientific facts to ruin childhood | Dean Burnett 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z They tried for years to shoehorn Fischer's thorny narrative into a palatable meal for the studio. Tobey Maguire moves through chess king Bobby Fischer's checkered life in 'Pawn Sacrifice' 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z It supports third-party controllers — developers can even limit their games to only controllers, so they don’t have to shoehorn in motion controls — and iPhones and iPads can also be used as control inputs. The Apple TV doesn’t need to be an Xbox killer to be good for gaming 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z The abatement program – which gradually phases in full property taxes over seven years — was also critical to the project, because of the added expense associated with shoehorning a 159-room hotel onto such a small site. Ithaca Plaza Reawakens, Drawing More Development 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z For starters, it will be tough for a developer to shoehorn more luxury towers into densely packed Coal Harbour, a high-rise condo district and one of Canada’s most coveted addresses. Vancouver Hotel That Housed Howard Hughes Offers New Whodunnit 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z F: They’ll shoehorn the hit single of the moment into a scene, even if it doesn’t fit. Denaun Porter: From Hip-Hop Stardom To The Big Screen 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Its idea of Internet savvy is shoehorning in lots of new ways to get you to use Bing, Microsoft’s unpopular search engine. Windows 10 Review: A Welcome Upgrade, Perhaps Too Late 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The overhaul would remake the entire footprint of the airport, which is shoehorned onto a small, oddly-shaped property on the shore of the East River. New York Will Completely Rebuild LaGuardia Airport 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The "Pac-Man" sequence that follows shortly afterward, in which small cars race through New York City streets, feels like a low point, shoehorning in a chase and overlong. 'Pixels' never comes into focus as a real picture 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z All he had on him was a pen, a shoehorn and a laminated ID card with the words “Fuzz W.S. Fuzzy Shoe Shine Doctor.” The mysterious death of Fuzzy, who shined shoes and touched lives 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Alas, there’s no smirking from Waka on “Game On” — just a rapper who never sounds bored sounding bored as he tries to shoehorn the names of various video game consoles into his boasts. At the movies with Waka Flocka Flame 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The Greeks would be shoehorned into another austerity package, their economy would continue to crumble and we would play the same scene again in another 6 months or so. Greece Rejects Austerity 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z You can hear echoes of it in our early lyrics where we tried to shoehorn the ideals of The Communist Manifesto and thoughts on Lettrism and the vorticists into three-minute songs. Musicians and writers choose their favourite book about music 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Amazon’s approach is very different to most of the other US technology companies attempting to shoehorn their voice control systems into the brave new world of IoT. Watch out Siri: Amazon turns page on future of voice assistants with Alexa 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z They’ve spent the past two decades shoehorning more bodies into planes by making seats smaller and bunched more closely together. Georgia editorial roundup 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Equally, some of the current efforts to “scale Agile”, such as SAFe, seem to be trying to shoehorn the horizontal ideology of Agile and Scrum into vertical management structures. Is Agile Just Another Management Fad? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Among other things, the suit alleged that non-whites were regularly shoehorned into back-of-the-store jobs where customers wouldn’t see them as much. Abercrombie’s Legal Defeat—and Its Cultural Failure 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Fluker had bouts of anger sometimes, wondering how God let he and his family wind up homeless, five people sleeping shoehorned into a car. Chargers’ Fluker goes from homeless to graduate, NFL starter 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z He had gone from hearing trade rumors to working as a reliever to rejoining the rotation to going on the disabled list to, now, being shoehorned into a new, larger rotation. Dillon Gee Falters, as Does the Mets’ Fielding 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Yet reformers remember that such legal tactics during the George W Bush administration allowed the NSA to shoehorn bulk phone records collection into the Patriot Act. Fears NSA will seek to undermine surveillance reform 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z What’s not forgivable is how rarely pundits try to look further, content with an initial vision of glittering skyscrapers and swish airports that can be conveniently shoehorned into whatever case they’re trying to make. For American pundits, China isn’t a country. It’s a fantasyland. 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z McAuliffe, always on the hunt for the next deal, readily shoehorns them into his schedule. Seeking business, Virginia rolls out welcome mat for foreign ambassadors 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The fire scene was a good way to shoehorn one last peaceful conversation between Barry and Wells into the episode, but it still felt like a diversion. 'The Flash' Season 1, Episode 20 Review: Reverse Trap 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Q: With the guests, do they try to shoehorn a young face in with you guys? Colin Mochrie returns to ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’ improv TV show on CW network 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z In fact, it’s taking mass media thinking from the past and shoehorning it into the digital world. SAPVoice: 3 Ways To Boost Content Performance And Win The Battle For Attention 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The attempt to shoehorn in a love affair between a dwarf and an elf has been so cringeworthy I’ve had to mentally edit it out. Blu-ray Review: 'The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies' 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Twenty-five years before Lily James shoehorned herself into a princess gown to play “Cinderella,” another up-and-comer donned a differently problematic dress for a romantic fairy tale that also struck box office gold. ‘Pretty Woman’ is turning 25. Here are nine of the movie’s gifts to pop culture. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Many pared-down college projects were shoehorned into the rewritten plan, approved late Thursday. Borrowing plan’s defeat causes cuts to SLED, K-12 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z She said there’s a “handful of isolated tort claims attempting to shoehorn themselves” into civil rights claims. State can appeal class-action status in prison abuse case 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Though more recent figures are not available, real estate experts say there is no doubt that workers are being shoehorned into even less space. As Office Space Shrinks, So Does Privacy for Workers 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Both are more palatable than the effort, led by hedge-fund manager Chris Hansen, to shoehorn an arena next to Seattle’s working waterfront, with hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies from Seattle. Editorial: Bring a professional hockey team to Seattle 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z You need to feed to evolve, which is a story way of shoehorning in the monster’s evolution mini-game. 5 Things to Know About Evolve's Humans vs. Monsters Multiplayer Mayhem 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z We should not be attempting to shoehorn the most important technological achievement of the last 30 years into a regime that predates modern telecommunications. Net Neutrality: An Unwise And Unneccessary Internet Power Grab 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z After Wrana struck a staffer with his cane, he brandished a two-foot-long shoehorn at officers, prompting them to briefly leave the room. National digest: Feb. 5, 2015 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z He waved a knife and a shoehorn at cops. No police accountability in shooting of WWII vet, 95 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z After Wrana struck a staffer with his cane, he brandished a 2-foot-long shoehorn at officers, prompting them to briefly leave the room. Police officer acquitted in 95-year-old's beanbag gun death 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Let’s face it, nobody likes being shoehorned into a category. Don't Fence Me In. On Second Thought, Do; Why a Category is a Marketing Technology Startup's Friend 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Imagine the top competitive maps and modes from the Black Ops and Modern Warfare games rolled into a single package and flavored with localized content, then shoehorned into a free-to-play framework with connective character-building tissue. Why You Can't Probably Play the New Call of Duty Game 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z A city must fit the Olympics into a coherent strategy for the future, not try to shoehorn the strategy into the Games, as Boston seems to be doing, Zimbalist said. Boston Welcomes 2024 Olympic Bid With Trepidation 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z If only he hadn't waved that knife or the shoehorn that the terrified cops thought was the machete of a jungle ninja warrior. No police accountability in shooting of WWII vet, 95 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Jackson wanted to build Gundabad, so he did, and shoehorned it in. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies — a post-film (and trilogy) chat 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The story begins during Moses’s early adulthood, and Scott has managed to shoehorn the religious narrative into his “Gladiator” template. ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ movie review: Source material one of many sore spots for Ridley Scott 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z So the only real option is to shoehorn those radically different software experiences into Sync — without confusing people. Ford's Sync 3 drops Microsoft, but can it fix the connected car? 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “People would notice if we just shoehorned a Pepsi product into a commercial,” says Matt Heath, creative director at Fallon. Arby's Best Commercial Yet Is Actually for Pepsi 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z They’ve been replaced with busy work, shoehorned quests, and a lame villain. 'Dragon Age: Inquisition' And The Problem With Roleplaying Games 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z They said he had a machete, but that turned out to be a shoehorn. Cop's story in shooting of WWII vet doesn't wash 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Only one other person or object in the limousine was struck by a bullet, and that was Connally, his 6-foot-plus frame shoehorned into a jump seat just inches in front of JFK. The Truth Behind JFK's Assassination |
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