Sure, they can whine about negative depictions, but much of that is caused by their own lack of character and craven pandering. |
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The Guardian accused its competitors of pandering to a voyeur instinct by prying into Blunkett's life. |
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It is just more socialist bureaucracy and more pandering to the trade union movement. |
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This low price should ensure a high take-up, pandering to people's desire to look good and not worry about a comfortable ride. |
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The Government should not be pandering to public taste in the arts, but rather driving it. |
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And the politicians are going to try to raise money by pandering to these same players. |
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You can see the difficulty she's had now, where her opponent is framing her as pandering to minority interests. |
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Pity the poor candidates who believe they can get by on charisma, pandering, and laugh lines alone. |
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One inevitable response to breakout success is the charge that an artist is pandering to the masses. |
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She will not regard it as lowering herself, or pandering to the male chauvinist ego. |
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At the time, critics attacked the show for pandering to the middle class fear of a right wing police state. |
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It gets worse when you find out that the groups you've been pandering to can't stand one another. |
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It's all about sound bites, deluding the people, pandering to the lowest common denominator. |
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He cannot, therefore, be accused of pandering to the partisan proclivities of the people. |
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This Government is too busy doing the photo shoots, doing the soft stuff, and pandering to the unions. |
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One doesn't have to be a woolly-minded techno-utopian to criticize this as pandering to reactionary fogeys. |
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She tries to hold on to as much genuine stuff as she can while pandering to fancier tastes. |
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It is music of absolute integrity, always sensitive to the tiniest musical gesture, and never showy or pandering to fashion. |
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I want to see philosopher kings, not political prostitutes pandering to special interests. |
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The Party is pandering to the racist, base instincts of the right wing press and politicians. |
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If so, I'll happily settle into middle age and grump at the advertising people pandering to those young tykes with no respect. |
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So are cable news executives just pandering to the popular taste in order to get a bigger rating? |
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He is uncompromising in his insistence on seeing the world from his own perspective and never pandering to audiences. |
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She's a singer who takes a lot of artistic risks while never succumbing to gimmickry and pandering. |
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Perhaps this is an example of where pandering to the masses is not always as attractive as it intuitively seems. |
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This is clearly a personal project for all concerned and one which isn't interested in pandering to the masses. |
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Yet there are pundits who have dismissed his refusal to pander as pandering. |
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The Oxford elite, it appeared, had closed ranks and snubbed him for committing the unpardonable sin of pandering to a popular audience. |
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At this rate the country will become a land of paupers pandering to third world countries. |
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Hollywood is warned that the judge will no longer tolerate pandering to the masses. |
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Without pandering, Christie made real progress in appealing to voters outside the lily-white confines of the conservative base. |
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Aggressive self-abasement, grandstanding, veiled abuse, genuine thoughtfulness, thin-skinned pandering ā it's all there. |
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Clearly, pandering to the general feel out there is very easy for all of us to do politically. |
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This is pandering at the expense of women and ignores a slate of human-rights offences from enforced veiling to stonings and honour killings. |
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Petersen's film draws out the tragedy without pandering to the mainstream, and is populated by flawed heroes rather than knights in shining armour. |
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Opposition parties are meanwhile arraying themselves as beacons of moderation. They accuse Mr Najib of pandering to UMNO's far right. |
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Meanwhile the Euroscepticism that the prime minister's pandering has not satisfied will maraud like a clumsy drunk. |
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The Liberals are pandering to those who want to devalue marriage as a cornerstone of public policy. |
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He and his fellows are correctly grappling with Britain's immigration neurosis, but they will achieve nothing by pandering to irrational fears. |
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But the implication that Ono's new show comes down to V. I. P. pandering perpetuates moth-eaten sexism. |
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By pandering for the laziest voters Colorado actually compounds the problem. |
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There are reasonable grouses on both sides, but governments are also pandering to ill-informed opinion at home. |
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Is the government simply pandering to its Republican soulmates in Washington, who are boycotting the Dublin talks? |
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Food quacks will try to make you believe that you can lose weight while pandering to your vices. |
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Some of these pop stars are wearing wild outfits, pandering to a gay audience. |
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It is also up to us to fight the root causes of anti-immigration sentiment, like the housing crisis, rather than pandering to it. |
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I simply cannot understand how it can be argued that strengthening safety means pandering to the nuclear industry. |
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Of course, the government is pandering to the special interest groups that want anything and everything and would live in a vegetarian society. |
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That is pandering to the lobby and has nothing to do with the cultural discrepancies that exist between our peoples. |
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The Conservatives have offered nothing but rhetoric and pandering rather than discuss this issue on its merits and its substance. |
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This bill provides nothing new beyond a promise of endless discussion, additional bureaucracy and ideological pandering. |
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They have offered nothing but pandering, fearmongering and misleading Canadians. |
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The marquee tourism program is supposed to be about economic stimulus, but what we see here is blatant discrimination and political pandering. |
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In eastern Europe there is an ironic return to pandering after western Europe, as Classicism once affected the formal precepts of French academic style. |
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So Mr Howard made reference to the proposals for off-shore processing of asylum claims, even if that laid him open to charges of pandering to the far-Right's agenda. |
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How does one support gender equality without coming across as disingenuous or, even worse, as pandering? |
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Why do people insist on pandering to the lunatic fringes of society? |
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Maybe I'm biased, but I thought Paul was a stand-out, because he didn't seem to be pandering. |
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When you seem to be pandering to an audience with a slender attention span, then it's unrealistic to expect character development, clever plot twists or edge-of-seat tension. |
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They are feel-good movies and cynical in pandering to ignorant audiences. |
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Cultural conservatives will put up with a certain amount of pandering to more modern mores with a nudge and a wink. |
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It is a cankerous posthumous blot on the career of a very good architect, and her gentle and rather pandering critique of it is quite disappointing. |
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A perception had also grown that the Prime Minister was pandering to a racially chauvinist minority uncomfortable with the country's increasingly multicultural society. |
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Less equipment meant less choreography on the part of the band and more time to rock out, which they did quite happily, sweating buckets and pandering to the crowd throughout. |
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I recently listened to one of those ubiquitous radio phone-ins where a caller was blaming the political parties for putting it on the agenda and pandering to public bigotry. |
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The blogger Guido Fawkes, pandering shamelessly to the mood of the moment, niggled away querulously in the time-honoured manner of village gossips. |
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By pandering to them he will only scare away independents. |
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This is not sloganeering and it is not pandering, and to suggest that we are sloganeering to a parent who is crying because of the loss of a family member is actually quite shameful. |
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In spite of the pandering, the average newsmagazine audience this season was down 10 percent from the year before. |
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Pop harbored enough irony to give it the benefit of the doubt, at any rate, and only the mossback modernist critics condemned it as pandering to mass culture. |
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But I am sickened by the pandering of a Liberal member on the front lawn of Parliament to a flagrant display of the symbols of a listed terrorist organization. |
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Some foreigners fear that populist politicians, pandering to a belief that the nation is selling its birthright too cheaply, may kill the goose before it has laid any golden eggs. |
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He was accused of the worst kind of pandering, not for the first time. |
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Racism, albeit more subtly manifested than Powellism, is poisoning the sphere of public discourse, and politicians of all the main parties are shamefully pandering to it. |
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Does this not play into his pandering to fear in Canadians, much like I read out in my quote from Hansard of five years ago, playing to the fears in the population? |
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But the answer is a reform of retirement provision and long term care, not pandering to a minority who want to play with their pension pots, probably in the mistaken belief they know what they are doing. |
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For their part, the Tories portray Labour opposition to culling as base pandering to soppy townies who are sentimental about fluffy animals and don't know the first thing about the harsh realities of life on the land. |
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It displays mainly all of the trademark Holden musical perversions: loose, live-feeling rhythms, quirky time signatures and the bare minimum of pandering. |
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And this strategy has an additional benefit in having freed him, after vacillating too long, to offer the more liberal vision of Britain that pandering to the right precludes. |
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Whoever does so is suspected of pandering to the tastes of the masses. |
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Obviously he was pandering for votes, knowing that his polling was telling him clearly that the Canadian people did not trust his ideological bent and his deepest motives. |
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Instead of pandering to eurosceptics within his own party, such as MinisterĀ O'Cuiv, and eurosceptics outside it, he should be giving decisive leadership instead of further confusing the voters. |
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He asserted, verbatim, that he accused New York of leaving its own mission in the lurch and, instead, of pandering to the elite in power in Khartoum. |
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Really, I can't understand why anyone would want to work in a restaurant, pandering to the random whims of the great unhosed. |
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Years of serving up the same basic meals that my fussy daughter Jesse would eat has just ended up pandering to her faddiness. |
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To me, it is nothing but pandering to a certain political level in this country and it is totally unacceptable from a government that purports to lead a modern, progressive nation in this world, which I consider Canada to be. |
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People say I am just pandering and raising fears that are not real. |
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This sounds like another pandering attempt to communize public lands for the self-serving, urban eco-elite that have infested our state for the last 15 years. |
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We are experts in this country at pandering to the so-called rights of all sorts of minorities, from gender benders and convicted killers to the Scots. |
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And in these days of ridiculous, pandering political correctness, it's refreshing that at least one generation of society calls it like they see it. |
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