Recovery, albeit scruffy and uneven, can begin.
Steinbeck's career, marked by uneven achievements, began with a historical novel, Cup of Gold (1929), in which he voiced a distrust of society and glorified the anarchistic individualist typical of the rebellious 1920s.
"The G-20 has shown impressive solidarity in the crisis phase, but as an uneven recovery begins, maintaining cohesion is becoming more difficult," said Stewart M. Patrick, director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The dialogue is often sharp ("We're going to forge an unlikely bond," explains one hit man when asked what he plans to do with his kidnapping victim), and the pace is relentless, but as our antiheroes navigate a "Reservoir Dogs -style torture scene anDogs -styleious "falling symbolic devices," tortureeractive scene and uneven performances begin to grate.
It is an uneven production from beginning to end.
There's much to admire in the first act of Steven Leigh Morris's intelligent but uneven new play, "Beachwood Drive," beginning with its first image.
In brutally honest words, Underhill describes her uneven passage through life, beginning with a searing portrait of the Victorian restraints on women and her struggle to break free from her Quaker family's privileged but tightly laced control.
However, for political reasons, much, but not all, of the cathedral was built over the remains of pre-Hispanic structures, leading to uneven foundation from the beginning.
In an uneven fight that began before midnight on Monday, Israeli tanks pushed into the camp and armed men attempted to stop them.
It is rooted in a sense of social injustice that is intrinsically connected with the pattern of uneven urbanisation that began in the 1940s and continues today.
Hamels allowed four runs over five innings, continuing an uneven season that began in April with his first start, at Coors Field, and lasted through a bumpy September.
