Even though he found the opening scene quite " shocking ", the acting a bit " ropey ", and the effects " dated ", he admitted the film " grabs you from the start ".
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If you feel I'm treating you unfairly, Martin, then it would be because I was blocked as a sockpuppet on decidedly ropey grounds and someone recommends that all my contributions on the Talk page be deleted!
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The sourcing that's good has mostly been copied and pasted from Anti-Christian sentiment and bolstered with some really ropey sources like TVTropes ( a wiki ) and Search Engine Roundtable ( basically a blog post ) etc.
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For several years, it devotes nearly all its energy to growing long, vigorous, ropey roots, which are good at storing food and finding water over a much larger territory than the above-ground growth would seem to justify.
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As an Englishman I can't think of any similar words for my country, though we have plenty of terms for the ropey old tat that gets sold to tourists . adamsan 17 : 14, 14 May 2004 ( UTC)
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"TV Cream's Anatomy of Cinema " ( ISBN 190554846X ) was published by The Friday Project Ltd . in April 2007 . " The Independent " praised it for telling the truth about the often ropey quality of British cinema.
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The painting " Progression " ( 1993-95 ), with its ropey swirls of hot orange and yellow on a blushing ground, is as warm as an arterial system and has the adamant, sensuous charge of Tantric deities locked in an embrace.
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And in " Tadpole, " which was unveiled on Friday at the Sundance Film Festival, a teen-age boy falls in love with his stepmother, played by Sigourney Weaver, and goes to bed with the equally ropey-looking Bebe Neuwirth.
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Flows from Hawaiian eruptions can be divided into two types by their structural characteristics : phoehoe lava which is relatively smooth and flows with a ropey texture, and aa flows which are denser, more viscous ( and thus slower moving ) and blockier ( see and ).
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Similarly, " The New York Times " s Adam W . Kepler opined that the episode displayed " Orphan Black " " finest qualities ( strong characterisation, dark satire and shocking moments ) and its worst ( odd pacing and ropey plotting ) ".