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What I liked the most was the way the sexual ambiguity was portrayed - most of those scenes had a playful touch, so as not to get drearily heavy-handed, but I also felt a lot of the veering between seriousness and comedy was awkward where it should have been smooth.
An indestructible seemingly-super human Israili agent (Adam Sandler) fakes his own death at the hands of an equally indestructible seemingly-super human Palestinian agent (John Turturro) in order to go to America to become a hairdresser and make everyone 'silky smooth'.
From the firm buttocks of the hunky men to the smooth perky breasts of the women, this film exploits the 70's free love era.
And, given the political considerations driving the EU’s approach to the issue, the adjustment process will be anything but rapid and smooth.
The key will be to smooth out free trade’s negative impacts and prepare societies better for increasing economic openness.
But the stability of the EU is far from guaranteed, because a smooth and painless Brexit may tempt other member states to also quit the bloc.
It took time to realize that there would be no smooth break with the EU and that negotiations would not be wrapped up in two years.
Opening up also encouraged learning, and, finally, proactive macroeconomic policy enabled the country to avoid financial crises and smooth out fluctuations in growth.
Partnership around the world must be maintained in the global effort to achieve a smooth transition to low carbon and climate-smart development.
This is not to say that it is all smooth sailing ahead.
This entails strengthening China’s institutional foundations and establishing clear, transparent rules, in order to encourage experimentation and innovation, ensure the smooth exit of failed projects, and manage the fallout of errors.
There should be no illusion that the transformation that the protesters started will be smooth.
By doing so, he avoids the damage to his authority that would be caused by becoming a “lame duck,” particularly given Russia’s servile bureaucracy and its lack of reliable institutions and respected traditions to carry out a smooth transfer of power.
No one should assume smooth sailing for China (or for any other part of the world, for that matter) in the years ahead.
Unfortunately for Germany, its current path is not as smooth and secure as people like to think.
Their study lends scientific supportto several such projects underway in Europe aimed at proving that hydrogen gas, converted from water via electrolysis – think of it as natural gas minus the polluting carbon – and stored, for example, in subterranean salt caverns, can smooth out fluctuations inherent in solar and wind energy.
More attention should also be given to regional and inter-regional power initiatives, which can help smooth out the uneven distribution of energy resources across countries.
It is in this high-pressure context that, last year, Moon Hyung-pyo, South Korea’s then-health and welfare minister, allegedly pressured the National Pension Service to back a controversial merger of two Samsung group affiliates that was essential to ensure a smooth transfer of managerial control to Lee.
As the long American struggle for “states’ rights” – and indeed the Civil War – shows, creating a political union out of a collection of self-governing entities is hardly a smooth or speedy process.
A bumpy ride is acceptable as long as the landing is smooth.
The euro crisis has challenged the view that the transition to a multi-reserve regime will have a smooth dynamic.
China must know that the material advantages from closer ASEAN-China economic relations will not be enough to guarantee smooth diplomatic relations.
But that does not mean that it will be smooth sailing.
With nearly half of all services jobs in the OECD at risk of automation, the sharing economy can smooth the disruption caused to displaced workers as they upgrade their skills.
Of course, these economies’ development path was never simple or smooth.
But achieving such a compromise won’t be a smooth or predictable process.
And we should do so under no illusion that the transformative outcome we need will be a smooth, incremental process.
Since then, through successive wars and revolutions, one truth has remained paramount: The Ottoman mosaic provided no clear dividing lines that would permit a smooth reordering of the region into states or entities with homogenous ethnic, national, or religious identities.
Others, such as Russia and Argentina, do not literally peg to the dollar but nevertheless try to smooth movements.
Similarly, it remains unclear that the Chinese development path will remain smooth.
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