Such bad sportsmanship will not bode well for a party that fails to see its own lack of good-governing sense, its flagrant political shortcomings, its visionary collapse.
Julia Rubin of Headlines and Global News described the song as a "candy-coated, clap-happy club anthem with plenty of girl power and sex appeal, much like a bubblegum version of Rihanna's "Cockiness (Love It)", while Jim Farber of New York Daily News said that "Birthday" "has the bratty sense of entitlement, flagrant delivery and braying hook of Icona Pop's smash "I Love It".
What makes the tension between the pair compelling is the flagrant inappropriateness of any kind of sexual relationship, the sense not of deferred romantic resolution but impending doom.
In the face of flagrant misappropriation, she found, ordinary citizens could experience a sense of grievance so potent that it filled them with something worse than anger — a desire for revenge.
Sanders was a Young Turk, too: more flagrant than the others, perhaps, but always with a clear sense of where the borders of propriety lay — he remained one of the boys in the legislature, a favorite among his colleagues in both parties because of his entertainment value.
Thompson was able to get away with such nonsense, and with his flagrant drug use, because he had befriended the local sheriff, who had an elastic sense of justice when it came to literary perps.
But in the face of massive and flagrant data misuse by platform giants these are ideas that seem to sound increasingly like sense.
It also made sense to him that the administration might keep the list tightly focused on cases of flagrant abuse and corruption that should withstand international pushback and scrutiny.
Michelle Stanistreet, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: "We are delighted that common sense has prevailed and the Met has woken up to the fact that they cannot get away with such flagrant abuse of the Official Secrets Act.This was an outrageous attack on a central tenet of journalism – the protection of our sources.
