The scenes with Mr. Shepard are heavy-handed, and the film lurches between moments of fine, subtle realism and more frequent instances of blunt, blocky overstatement.
During the first six years of the Bush administration, while the Republican Party held power in Congress, there were frequent instances that called for party leaders to take and hold the high ground.
He described "terrible tortures, wholesale expulsions and deportations from one end of the Empire to the other accompanied by frequent instances of rape, pillage and murder, turning into massacre".
The study details frequent instances of egregious misconduct by public officials, including the use of patently false evidence, the deliberate withholding of exculpatory evidence and the use of threats against witnesses to ensure that they will testify falsely.
"Koba the Dread" is a vivid, if often eccentric, rereading of those authors; the frequent instances when the book veers into family memoir and homely analogy, however, are less successful.
O. Burtch Drake, president and chief executive of the Four A's, said that The Journal's concerns were prompted by frequent instances last year of "having to reject ads at the last minute" particularly from dot-coms that had hoped to stand out by being provocative.
But when it comes to routine, everyday bureaucratic abuse of "foreigners" — especially brownish ones with exotic names — there are increasingly frequent instances of the kind of ignorant, bullying, Kafkaesque, unaccountable stupidity that one more often associates with thug regimes than with supposedly advanced democracies.
But Rees said the award failed to acknowledge work done by others in the two teams: "This is one of the increasingly frequent instances when the Nobel committee is damagingly constrained by its tradition that a prize can't be shared between more than three individuals.
It's not the frequent instances of completely different visual behavior on two phones running exactly the same version of Android; again, annoying, but relatively minor.
There were frequent instances of such redirected members creating scenes just outside the EDs and sometimes resorting to verbal abuse and threats to triage staff.
