The Mr. Roboto of the Village Voice, Brendan Koerner, said it might be easy to fool "this creepy brand of surveillance.... Try it out yourself -- how hard is it to affect a little limp, walk on your insteps a smidgen more or simply don a heavy overcoat?
The difference is that Gob Squad bestows celebrity without a smidgen of snark or sourness or, for that matter, enough edge (to use one of last century's favorite words) to cause a paper cut.
God forbid that the poor and sick should have the tiniest smidgen of comfort or pleasure.
Of course, many men would balk at such a suggestion, requiring a smidgen of dissimulation or subterfuge on your part.
All that's required today, you might gather, is a smidgen of fame (or infamy) and a total disregard for your dignity.
"Nobody grows up thinking, 'I want to be a customer service adviser'," she says without a smidgen of bitterness or self-pity.
But the finding may add at least a smidgen of mystery or paranoia to dozens of reports of similar creatures in Connecticut and the Northeast, most of them investigated and then dismissed as mistaken impressions.
He also referred to "Mueller's core premise," "Mueller's proposed regime" and "Mueller's sweeping obstruction theory". For someone operating "in the dark," Barr didn't show a smidgen of humility or restraint.
As the screenplay's sour wisecracks fizzle around them, Mr. Fiennes and Mr. Sutherland play their characters without a smidgen of irony or facetious humor, and their performances in impossible roles lend "Land of the Blind" a frisson of gravitas.
Of his visit in 2012, Mr Clegg said: "The reaction of the group I was in was, in a strange way, one of the most uplifting things I'd seen in a very long time, because there wasn't a smidgen of indifference or cynicism".
A key contribution of this study is our novel simulation methodology (Super-Method Input Data Generator, or SMIDGen) that better reflects biological processes and the practices of systematists than earlier simulations.
