Instead of conducting a blunt, honest examination of the hard choices and necessary compromises that confront our country, he presented the sorts of rosy assumptions and slippery generalizations that have characterized too much of this election.
It was more about us, the folks who try to control the narrative – the ones who package the who's-up, who's-down, he-said, she-said coverage that characterizes too much of campaign reportage – than about the voters and what they really need to know to make an informed choice.
More than anything, Egypt now needs to develop that kind of culture of dialogue, of peaceful and respectful arguing — it was totally suppressed under Mubarak — rather than rock-throwing, boycotting, conspiracy-mongering and waiting for America to denounce one side or the other, which has characterized too much of the postrevolutionary political scene.
Taunting opponents has always been ingrained in competitive sports and was an inevitable part of the wider gamesmanship that characterized too much of this year's tournament.
Ironically, it was the CIA, rather than the Committee, that first developed recommendations to address the mismanagement, misconduct, and flawed performance that characterized too much of the CIA's Detention & Interrogation program.
If preachers can rise above the misogyny and moralism that characterizes too much Christian theology, they have the opportunity to tell this woman's story for what it is: a story of the transforming power of love and the capacity to receive and live into a new identity.
Gout is a disorder characterized by too much uric acid in the blood and tissues.
And the service was characterized by too much ritual servility for my liking.
