Unfortunately, the first of these on Thursday night was marred by stretches of singing that were utterly unintelligible to one who did not already know the words.
Taking a well-maintained two-lane road, we hurried past the tourism-marred stretch of beach north of Corfu Town, cringing at signs, in English, announcing family fun at a water slide or souvenir shop.
They are so very close to having survived this harrowing, injury-marred stretch of games with their division lead intact.
In a review for The New York Times at the time, Robert Palmer said the album is marred by long stretches of "sloppy, one-chord jams" and disjointed sounds, and that the music's banality is clearly rendered by the impeccable Japanese engineering.
He filmed the beads of sweat provoked by the sun, probably even her pores — although that smooth, uniform skin seemed to have no pores, no folds or bumps, and not a single stretch mark marred her buttocks.
The idea, a vision of the group Scenic Hudson, could be an aesthetic and economic windfall for downtown Yonkers, which is marred by large paved stretches as barren and dreary as its political culture.
Cheung Chau island has at least three beaches – the main Tung Wan (East Bay) Beach is a long stretch of sand marred by cheap, short-stay accommodation (where many young Hong Kong couples go for a bit of intimacy), but at the other extreme is the deserted Italian Beach, or Pak Tso Wan, in a sheltered south-west cove with hidden rocks.
AllMusic's Andy Kellman also described the beat as a "throwback soul production", writing that it was "provided by the Smokey Robinson-sampling Bink, it's as gorgeous as any of West's own early work, yet it's marred by an aimless instrumental stretch, roughly 90 seconds in length, that involves some incongruent electric guitar flame-out".
The sweaters look as if they have been stretched and artfully marred with holes and runs.
We can see the River Trent and green fields and woods stretching into the distance – marred only by a single gas and three coal power stations.
Australia's fractious negotiations over maritime borders with Timor-Leste and Indonesia stretches back decades and is marred by diplomatic disputes and accusations of espionage.
