Some of the guys who have worked in fundraising and stuff before say that this is really not anything new, that this is not out of the norm at all, but you know, it's ugly optics, and when you get caught doing it, it's just something you want as much distance between yourself and it as you can get.
"It's ugly, " says Marshall Behling, VeriSign's strategic business development manager.
And so, you know, it's a little ugly, but to some extent, it's working.
It's an ugly turn of events for Blankenship, a brilliant, gutsy operator with an unfortunate tendency to shoot off his mouth.
It's an ugly, visceral bubble of subconsciousness rising to the surface.
To borrow a phrase, it's getting ugly out there.
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The same thing in the real world, if emotion enters your decision making process it's going to get ugly.
We've all been there, me being Irish a lot more than other people, but it's going to get ugly.
And if you think about it logically, if emotion enters a conversation, at some point in time it's going to get ugly.
She tries to get a waitressing job for a while -- I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly -- and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.
And if you make it really ugly then it's really modern and really cool.
By the time trouble rears its ugly head, it s usually too late.
"It's something I knew I had to do - get ugly runs when it counts most, " said the Warwickshire batsman.
Scott's victory is substantial for several reasons: he's the first Australian to do it, it's his first major, it comes less than a year after an ugly self-destruction at the British Open.
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"I feel like overall our team played passionate basketball tonight and that's a plus, because it was ugly in that Game 1, " Noah said.
When it became obvious that this move was an ugly piece of cronyism, it was denounced by Pasok's leaders, and the guilty were held to account.
" She added, "It doesn't shame anyone, and it doesn't make anybody's family an ugly, bad family.
This story is far from over, and as ugly as it looks now, it's probably only gonna get worse.
Given the ongoing drought in capital spending and the ugly overall situation in telecommunications, it's not difficult to understand why Andrew's profits have suffered.
Fortunately, William Hague's ugly populism is doing that job for it.
"They were really on me so I really had to get the ball up - it was ugly but it flew straight and that's all that matters, " he said.
It may be the beautiful game, but football's finances are looking ugly.
It was that back-and-forth that displayed the Web's ugly side.
The graffiti in the tunnels, the creaking of the elevated trains, the performers that filter in and out: It's really the only place where the rich and poor, the ugly and beautiful, rub shoulders.
It's about the size of a Smart ForTwo, and only half as ugly.
Ugly as it was, it means Barca can equal Real's tally of 100 points by winning the last three games.
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