The very sketchiness of the characters'history, especially Bliss's, suggests their having been gleaned from a much larger work, and suggests, too, some of the troubles Ellison must have faced in completing his work.
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At times the old wit bubbles up, but there is post-war weariness in many of the witticisms, and though the character delineation is admirable the whole book has a sketchiness which prevents the reader settling down to it.
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Such sketchiness can't help affecting the novel as a whole : What elevates le Carre's fiction from merely first-rate suspense is the thick dimensions of his characters, all of whom ought to be crafted with equal precision.
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The news that Hollywood tampers with facts in the interest of a good story is up there with the rediscovery of the wheel; documentaries have their own sketchiness and attitudes, and sometimes Hollywood gets things right even when it glosses over facts.
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But the sketchiness of the plans he mentioned also reflected what some Republicans said was the budgetary constraint imposed by the large deficit as well as difficulty within the White House in reaching consensus on how ambitious to be in proposing second-term initiatives.
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In an indication of the sketchiness of any recovery, though, Sanders and other AMD officials warned analysts two days later that the semiconductor company may have to cut 10 to 20 percent more of its 13, 000-plus workers to reduce costs.
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Butler's report criticized the government for not revealing the sketchiness of its intelligence, and for not making it clear that a claim that Iraq could use chemical and biological weapons on 45 minutes notice _ which later proved false _ referred only to battlefield weapons.
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You might also consider checking with your local Better Business Bureau ( via their website ) to see if there are other complaints about the contractor-again, probably a little late now, but that might give you a feel for the overall sketchiness of the situation.
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This sketchiness is unfortunate but may be intentional, for " Unless " is a story that belongs to Reta : to a mother's fear and helplessness, to a writer's imaginative agency, to the powers of language to communicate if not transform.
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Defenders have cited the sketchiness of much information about the death camps in Eastern Europe and also the inability of prewar generations to fully comprehend the industrial gassing of millions of innocents _ a machinery of death not yet exposed by those chilling mounds of Jews'bones, hair, shoes, rings.
