These American Hebrews had divided, after long internecine warfare, into two groups, the Lamanites (mostly bad) and the Nephites (mostly good), and — during a trip somehow overlooked by the Gospels — had been visited by Jesus, after the Resurrection and before the Ascension.
Grisham treats us to a vivid picture of the good, the bad and the ugly (mostly bad and ugly, except for Mary Grace and Wes) of plaintiffs' lawyers as they try to cash in on the victory by going after Krane for what could be billions in damages when all the claims are added up.
Mean people are mostly bad and never study.
When it comes to news about the overall economy, most continue to say that they're hearing a mix of good and bad news (63%), while 21% say they are hearing mostly bad news and 14% are hearing mostly good news".
From Philip Marlowe's wisecracks to Alexander Portnoy's complaints, American literature offers a barrage of good (mostly) men who say (mostly) bad things, and if you think that's faded since feminism I have some David Gates to sell you.
"Wolverine" went on to gross $373 million worldwide, despite mostly bad reviews, and despite the online adventures of a glass installer from the Bronx who, a day after his interview, was laid out flat on the floor of his apartment, the only comfortable position for his back.
That is doubtless the aim of the chirpy Rosemarie Jarski, a former au pair and author of this compendium of household and other advice.Books filled with commonsensical tips on life and how to live it are numerous and mostly bad, with Martha Stewart's snobby and fiddly lifestyle guides being among the worst.
But God and the good works (and mostly bad musicals) he inspires are almost reduced to a walk-on in "Scandalous," which plays down McPherson's extraordinary ministry and spends most of its time dramatizing the punishing peaks and valleys of her personal life.
His general economic and budget policies will be a contradictory mess of mostly bad things; rampant corruption and cronyism that we are already seeing will corrode markets; and the likely deregulation of the financial industry will result in more risk than we have seen since the financial panic of 2008-9.
Mr. Coen is, of course, a filmmaker more known for his pitch-dark dramas and comedies about all the bad things that can happen to mostly bad people, like "Fargo" and the Oscar-winning "No Country for Old Men".
The campaign had become pretty much a referendum on the current economic carnage and eight years of mostly bad news turning to worse, and for the moment, at least, the crisis on Wall Street appeared to have accomplished what Obama's strategists had been unable to do for months leading up to it: change the focus from Obama's readiness and supposed elitism to George W. Bush's myriad failures.
