His one new production last fall, of Bernstein's "A Quiet Place," was an ardent gesture on behalf of a flawed work — the kind of effort that might have been saved for a time when the company was on surer footing.
Without new laws to curb these practices, or a new Supreme Court to reconsider its very flawed jurisprudence, the kind of spending we are seeing in Senator McConnell's race against Alison Lundergan Grimes will likely represent the future of campaigns across the country.
We had seen this kind of flawed character before, it was said.
The author Walter Mosley specializes in his own kind of flawed Everyman: easy to underestimate, easy to overlook, like the title character from his allegorical 2008 novel, "The Tempest Tales".
"Saved" is a medical show not a police thriller, and cards not candy are the protagonist's weakness, but Wyatt is supposed to have the same kind of flawed but endearing personality as Brenda.
"In these images I find my own, flawed search for a kind of perfection," he says.
He's cool, but in a totally human, flawed and often embarrassing kind of way.
It didn't really impress the judges either, but they sent the 4-foot-10 crooner to the next round anyway because despite the flawed singing, he was kind of amusing.
Since then has come a flood of highly acclaimed original series — first on cable networks and now via online providers such as Netflix — with the kind of flawed protagonists, ingenious storytelling and rich production values that were once strictly the province of movies.
Free suicide hotlines, which are being touted as a solution all over social media right now, can be a useful resource in an emergency, but they are an inadequate, often flawed substitute for the kind of consistent treatment that depressed people usually need to feel well enough to function.
