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Furthermore, the film hinges on the passionate, lustful romance between Fiennes and Mol, a fire that supposedly burns for over 14 years, but the palpable lack of chemistry between the two leads renders the love story completely ineffective.—
Vikram Murthi,
Vulture,
21 Jan. 2025 -
Therefore, policy efforts aiming to equalize the supply of healthy groceries across neighborhoods are wasteful and ineffective.—
Ge Bai,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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At a hefty 2 hours and 24 minutes, the film is flabby, not jacked, and lacking in an unpredictable live-wire element.—
Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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His pale face and flabby jowls belie too much time spent under fluorescent office lighting, too little in the gym.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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But none of this means that the court, or the quest for international justice more broadly, is ineffectual.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
27 Nov. 2024
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The data indicates that Trump’s idiosyncratic efforts to target individual companies for presidential bullying were ineffectual.—
Steven Tian,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2024
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Its economy is already facing a deepening malaise, brought on by a property crisis, mounting government debt and weak consumer spending.—
David Pierson,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The team continues to play great with a different weak spot each season, so maybe that’s part of the excitement and drama of being a fan of the franchise now. · 5h 1m ago Thanks Chandler, good stuff as always.—
Chandler Rome,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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This created huge frustration for 911 professionals, who felt powerless to deploy life-saving resources to people who needed them.—
Alison Coleman,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Inside our powerless building, ash already raining outside, reason escaped me.—
Mikey O'Connell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Jan. 2025
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But given the Biden Administration’s flaccid border policy, Trump carried 89% of voters who ranked immigration as their top concern.—
Nancy Gibbs,
TIME,
4 Dec. 2024
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The discovery that flaccid penises are a bit like snowflakes — and need to be differentiated for realism reasons.—
Erin Strecker,
IndieWire,
31 Oct. 2024
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Iran Hostage Crisis The seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by radical student followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Nov. 4, 1979, and the subsequent siege made the Carter administration seem impotent.—
Marty Steinberg,
CNBC,
29 Dec. 2024
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People become impotent in the face of new technology only if society permits it.—
Diane Coyle,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Aug. 2023
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Zuckerberg blasts Biden admin on Joe Rogan; Dave Portnoy calls CEO ‘spineless jellyfish’ Robby Soave and Lynda Tran react to Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.—
The Hill,
The Hill,
13 Jan. 2025
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There are about 60 games left and plenty of time to make up that kind of ground, especially in the AL West against the spineless Mariners and after getting through the Astros last year.—
Ken Rosenthal,
The Athletic,
23 July 2024
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