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  • Since I'd had my fill of postmodernist neoclassicism by the early '90s, Georges's ‘Temple’ paintings seemed rather ham-fisted to me at the time.
  • Manufacturers, pubs and bars are eager to head off what one industry insider said could become ‘some ham-fisted attempt to clamp down’.
  • Despite my ham-fisted attempts, under Rosemary's instruction my bread emerged perfect from the oven.
  • Further plot contrivances abound, including a gunshot wound that Michael simply shrugs off, all the priest's suspicions about Angela inexplicably dropped, and an illogical and ham-fisted final twist.
  • This bittersweet drama about three best buds and their midlife crises resumes its better-by-the-week second season following the premiere of the ham-fisted legal dramedy Franklin & Bash. Matt's Picks: May 30-June 2
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  • The whole disc is jumbled riffing and passages that are ham-fistedly smashed together, making each ‘tune’ come plodding out of the speakers like a wet, grumbly fart.
  • Were it otherwise, it would remain at best a ham-fisted attempt to to ‘objectify’ the unalterably subjective.
  • There was more than enough in the story about the two main characters to fuel a charming, sweet, sensitive film without turning it all into some kind of ham-fisted slapstick or whatever it was supposed to be.
  • But the attempts were ham-fisted, to say the least.
  • Putting it explicitly in the script is ham-fisted and breaks the butterfly of imagination on the wheel of obtuse sarkiness.
  • The report criticizes the ham-fisted way in which complaints were dealt with.
  • I have stood on the shed and waved my arms about the place making ham-fisted attempts at semaphore.
  • For the pro-war blood mongers to claim that they are the true supporters of our troops and that people such as myself of an anti-war disposition are not, is at best a ham-fisted attempt to take the moral high ground and at worst a barefaced lie.
  • The distressing, and to my mind accurate, message that monopolies are putting profit before human and animal health and well being, is potent and distrubing, and would have been much better served without the emotional overkill, the taint of exaggeration; the helping of ham-fisted propaganda. (and okay, enough with the hackneyed food metaphors). Food Inc. and the stench of ham-fisted exaggeration
  • Anyone familiar with my previous ham-fisted attempts to establish myself as a domestic goddess will find this new urge more laughable than laudable.
  • It's sort of like watching Leo X's inept and ham-fisted dealings with Martin Luther.
  • Unfortunately, an unsubtle ham-fisted approach is taken and subplots waltz in and out without any real relevance to the main story.
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy is the much-mocked quintessence of Hollywood's ham-fistedness when it comes to filming the lives of the great artists.
  • They made several ham-fisted attempts to spy on her.
  • With Brittany Snow of American Dreams as her perky assistant, who takes charge of the shoe inventory, they take on impossible clients and make ludicrous legal arguments in courtroom scenes so ham-fisted that after one case, even Harry has to admit, "That's what I call a lucky verdict — if not preposterous. Roush Review: Remakes and a Retread
  • With its broadly drawn character types and occasionally ham-fisted dialogue, it brings to mind the gee-wiz adventure pictures like The Phantom and The Shadow. Scott Mendelson: Huff Post Review: Green Lantern Not As Good As Hoped, Not As Bad As Feared
  • Nixon wanted dirt on Ellsberg, so his men dispatched a ham-fisted outfit to Los Angeles to see what Fielding had.
  • At first, the pair try to head off their enemy at the pass, so to speak, by nobbling his ham-fisted henchmen.
  • The amateurish performances, ham-fisted dramatics and video nasty violence are a completely resistible combination.
  • We get no sense of the Western society in which they live, apart from a ham-fistedly jolly counterplot about Ziad's friend running a pizza restaurant.
  • He courts ambiguity, populating his paintings with shape-shifting topiary, chunks of masonry, stylized umbrella pines, fountains, city walls, column fragments, sculptures and more, including the sinister "hoods" of the paintings exhibited in New York—all of it conjured up with ham-fisted, assertive drawing and with paint-handling that ranges from elegant to slapdash. An Anxious Modern Eyes the Eternal City
  • Sullivan is now back for more, once again ham-fistedly mixing together sensationalized "controversies" with a shallow understanding of Church teaching and practice. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • Bolton and Cheney's ham-fisted approach to foreign policy did catastrophic damage to our reputation and our values, and whatever shrieks of support he has for Cheney should be taken for what they are: the rantings of a representative of an undisciplined, unfocused and amoral clique. Cheney named Conservative of the Year
  • Compared to Sergio, the jug-eared Arsenal reserve is a ham-fisted amateur.
  • If you look at the history of health insurance, the problems start during the FDR/WWII era when there were ham-fisted attempts to control employees who might leave a vital war contractor for better money elsewhere. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » I’ve Been Given a Reason to Vote Republican
  • There's something endearingly gauche and ham-fisted about the way in which this tune almost succeeds as a Stock Aitken Waterman soundalike, but ultimately just falls short.
  • The Slovakians' ability to pass the ball around a pitch that was hardly conducive to an expansive approach embarrassed the ham-fisted attempts of Eriksson's men to mimic their hosts' fluency and rhythm.
  • There are other indications that the plot - which has been widely portrayed as a ham-fisted attempt by a band of mercenaries to seize power in an oil-rich state - had wider backing.
  • This is what separates the professional from us ham-fisted beer guzzling amateurs.
  • I think cap-and-trade would be a ham-fisted, unhelpful, damaging thing to the economy. ... Tim Pawlenty: Cap-And-Trade Support Was 'A Mistake' (AUDIO)
  • I have stood on the shed and waved my arms about the place making ham-fisted attempts at semaphore.
  • At first we didn't have a lot in common: he's a middle aged east African Asian with a knowing smile, while I'm a tubby ham-fisted writer without much sense of the world.
  • Serco continued its slump following the outsourcing group's ham-fisted attempt to demand cash rebates from its suppliers to make up for the squeeze on its margins, a move it later retracted. Tullow Oil leads the way as FTSE moves higher ahead of Federal Reserve's QE decision
  • I admit that my blanket statements about conspiracy theorists was a complete ham-fisted overgeneralization. Is Swine Flu source leaked military weapon?
  • Tuesday's leader column described this proposal as ‘a ham-fisted attempt at social engineering’, and it is true that the council might have seen this one coming.
  • It was a ham-fisted attempt which was doomed to failure.
  • My subject-matter is to be strangled at birth before my ham-fisted attempts to bring my feeble story to life are even completed.
  • And then, in light of the company's history of serial duplicity and ham-fisted sponsoring subterfuge, they assume it must be rubbish.
  • The furore was increased by the ham-fisted police hunt for those responsible.
  • I was sitting in Panera Bread last night, fumbling around with proxies in an attempt to get around their ham-fisted network filtering.
  • WorldCom's in a big mess, and many of you have questions about it, so I thought that I would, in my ham-fisted, amateur way, attempt to answer them.
  • Even compared to the platting that we see on the west end, the CPR platting of the 500 acres granted the CPR on the downtown peninsula could not have been more ham-fisted. Vancouver says goodbye to Olympic streetcar « Stephen Rees's blog
  • It was an attempt - ham-fisted, but an attempt nevertheless - to interpret, in some Van Daniken kind of way, some of the phenomena, especially in the Old Testament.
  • Its ham-fisted attempts to modernise the service plunged the post office network into crisis.
  • There's something endearingly gauche and ham-fisted about the way in which this tune a-l-m-o-s-t succeeds as a Stock Aitken Waterman soundalike, but ultimately just falls short.
  • But the move was seen by opposition critics as a ham-fisted attempt to have his cake and eat it.
  • Food Inc. and the stench of ham-fisted exaggeration Food Inc. and the stench of ham-fisted exaggeration
  • When she fights back, he delivers a ham-fisted haymaker across her jaw accompanied by a sound effect that made me wince.
  • A certain portion of these teachers are incompetents and frauds; some are rabid patriots and fundamentalists - and some are ham-fisted leftists.
  • For the most part these aren't radical reworkings, although the omnipresent parping horns and hammering keys at times mean the sound approaches showband-esque sameyness, and a couple of tracks are marred by ham-fisted editing.
  • Now, before anyone slaps me down for being ham-fisted, this could be taken either way.
  • Were it otherwise, it would remain at best a ham-fisted attempt to to ‘objectify’ the unalterably subjective.
  • And a too jarring, ham-fisted, funeral dirge of a score by usually dependable composer Terence Blanchard doesn't help matters any.

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