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In my opinion, although this hashtag is used by many with the most positive of intentions, it is a cop out in many instances.
The biggest cop out in my mind is if you end up in a situation where your appeal is so narrow you're never in a position to do anything about the people that you want to serve.
In a slightly more mixed review of the DVD release, Cindy White of IGN criticized the episode for its shock value, but appreciated "that the writers didn't cop out in the end, and actually picked a side".
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The role of the critic (a term I've never much liked, though my preferred "reporter" is regarded by some as a bit of a cop out) is in a process of substantial transformation, as digital dialogue with readers makes the relationship much more of a two-way street.
Kevin Smith certainly has other ways to get PR and as I mentioned, he turned down an appearance on Larry King show even though his film Cop Out opens in theaters on February 26.
"It is a cop-out in a democracy to blame the president only for what goes wrong," he said.
"You don't want to say maybe I'm not cut out for this: that's almost like a cop-out in my mind," Hughes said.
The first half-hour is very funny and the rest mildly amusing until the painfully sentimental cop-out in the final 15 minutes.
A cop-out in anyone's language, but we should consider, I suppose, that in 1935 this plot device was perhaps not as hackneyed as it now seems.
It all leads to a bromidic, cloying cop-out in which Sally advises her mother to accept responsibility for her life.
Although not exactly Baden-Powell material, the pillows were our only cop-out in six delightful, life-enhancing days of camping on St Lucia, the ravishing volcanic island where tat-sellers on its palm-fringed beaches greet you with the words "Welcome to paradise!" and push a banana in your mouth.
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