With the application of a few bits of technology, lousy parkers the world over are granted relief.
A bit of concrete, and lousy green shrubs, and wet litter, and a nasty little wind sighing more loudly through the walkway as darkness falls.
Overplotted and overdirected, this thriller about high-tech corporate skulduggery is clever and likable enough to make you feel a bit sorry about the lousy timing of its release.
Overplotted and overdirected, this thriller about high-tech corporate skullduggery is clever and likable enough to make you feel a bit sorry about the lousy timing of its release.
Luckily the mobsters don't hassle me, so my acting talents can shine through even in some lousy two-bit melodrama.
-TENNESSEE WILLIAMS When I realized that I had turned out to be a lousy, two-bit pool hustler and drunk, I wasn't depressed at all.
"If it contains just a few nanoparticles of pure nickel, the output drops quite a bit, because pure nickel is lousy at synthesizing methanol.
I need to be explicit here because otherwise people will play the game and think, "Surely he's exaggerating; maybe the payoff at the end exonerates the lousy story a bit".
In a 2001 essay, "Toward a New Definition of Celebrity," the historian and culture critic Neal Gabler applied Boorstin's idea to Gabor, who used her social ties (she was married nine times, mostly to very wealthy men) to get herself a number of bit parts in some really lousy movies and TV sitcoms in the 1950s and 1960s, despite having little talent for acting.
You even keep a lousy job that allows you a bit of freedom to pursue the job you really want to do — make art.
