Despite his thoughtful ideas on energy, Mr. Sullivan backs the tired Bush policies, including tax cuts for the wealthy.
But despite such thoughtful provocations "The Keep" winds up frustratingly unresolved and falls into a moat of its own making.
Despite the thoughtful and nuanced critiques that addressed "Kimmy Schmidt's" racial politics, Fey made it pretty clear that there were no plans to take those criticisms into account for future seasons.
Despite the thoughtful moments of office tedium that originally led Phillips to make these works, she doesn't have as much time for daydreaming anymore because she's busy making new work for upcoming exhibitions from the plethora of reused printed materials she's collected.
Alice Neel's portrait of Philip Bonosky from 1948 portrays its subject, the writer and labor organizer, as solid and thoughtful despite the enormity of what he's up against — as indicated by the hellacious factories outside the window.
Yet despite all the thoughtful ethical guidance and research that's already been produced, and is out there for the reading, here we are again being shown the same tired tech industry playbook applauding engineering capabilities in a shiny bubble, stripped of human context and societal consideration, and dangled in front of an uncritical audience to see how loud they'll cheer.
In Who Is the Doctor, a guide to the revived series, author Robert Smith? called the episode "highly entertaining" and "thoughtful", despite not being well-plotted with an "unsatisfying" deus ex machina ending.
"Continuum," Syfy: This time-travel thriller was surprisingly soulful and thoughtful, despite being kind of Vancouver-y around the edges (if you've watched any inexpensive genre fare during the last 15 years, you know exactly what that adjective means).
All I'm saying is, it doesn't seem like Mr. Brooks, despite having a thoughtful intelligence that doesn't go excessively far astray in absolutely every column, should be doing a secondary gig at PBS ahead of his primary gig at the Times.
