Dasgupta is a strange writer: uneven, a little formulaic, but also graced with an ironic eye and a gift for sentences of lancing power and beauty.
"The Swing Era" might be uneven as a history of the music, but it shines as a highly opinionated and erudite survey from a brilliant mind with a golden ear and a precise pen.
Not every kid in the world gets a chance to swim, twirl around the uneven bars, dig a volleyball out of sand or swing a bat.
Now Cisco, stung by uneven results and a stock plunge, is pulling back.
Next year's Super Bowl will tilt the balance toward teams that have learned to deal with rainfall, uneven footing and a stiff breeze.
That makes for an uneven ad and a uniformly negative reaction.
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Some of the jokes hit the mark but it's an uneven performance and a few members of the mainly French and German audience look utterly bemused.
In order to model the stock market, he insists, one must use fractals, because they are the only way science has of exactly imagining the rough and uneven nature of a market.
Bloomfield was a pioneer, but he had an uneven career, and he died of a drug overdose in 1981.
As an example, she says her uneven-bars routine a decade ago had only two release moves.
But the development has been uneven, leading to a widening wealth gap, environmental challenges and rumbling social discontent over inequality and corruption.
Your goal is a relatively flat surface, but don't worry if it's a little uneven it will be concealed inside, with the stuffing.
Efforts to tour EDM stars in arenas across North America have proven to yield uneven results outside of a handful of major markets.
BBC, leaving a potentially uneven playing-field for competitors.
Gross averages never tell the story in a country as large as the U.S. Beneath the expected subpar, U-shaped recovery lies the reality of the American economy: A highly uneven collection of Vs and Ws.
After flubbing a handstand in Monday's uneven-bars final, Douglas lost her chance at a third Olympic medal midway through Tuesday's beam event.
The car I drove, with the FE3 sports-suspension option, tended to get a little choppy in turns with uneven pavement, at moments requiring me to gather it in a bit.
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The global economy will remain on a modest and uneven path for some time to come.
Bashar's bowlers picked up wickets at regular intervals on a slow and uneven pitch on Wednesday.
Practice begins in the early hours on a dusty and uneven Mahim Ground next to the slum, with fun games to warm up before play.
The NAHT's poll of 806 schools in 137 English education authorities showed the distribution was uneven, as more than a quarter of them had received 8% or more extra this year.
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Unless you're ready to backpack 40-plus pounds of cookware, camping fuel and a tent over uneven ground for days, your chances of truly getting away from people--even in the 22-million-acre greater Yellowstone ecosystem, the Lower 48's last great wilderness--are limited.
By comparison, the new Traffic and Weather feels strangely listless as a whole: Songwriters Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood remain masters of astute character sketches and sly wordplay, but the disc never fully coheres as more than a winning but uneven batch of playful novelty songs.
Its true importance is symbolic: it caps a political season marked by a new-found (if still uneven) enthusiasm for trade expansion, specifically in Africa and the Caribbean, and a gradual willingness to deal with such old rogues as Vietnam, North Korea and even Cuba.
Besides Douglas and Tweddle, all of Monday's uneven-bar competitors have used a spotter during the London Games.
But Louisville's inside dominance, Smith's offensive lift and some timely turnovers forced by the Cardinals helped them pull away in a rough and sometimes uneven game.
Funding and organizational support from Venezuela is making the electoral playing-field uneven across the region, giving a formidable advantage to populist revolutionaries over their democratic opponents.
Legend has it that John Wilkes Booth was hiding outside in the shadows near the front door of Ford's as the presidential carriage rocked down the uneven dirt street and slowed to a stop, but no one really knows where he was at that precise moment.
Their concern would be that a merger would create an uneven playing field, distorting competition.
But those gains were uneven, as 7 lost more than a billion and 6 gained at least that.
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