oafishness

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"A film of thunderous oafishness," wrote Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times, with critics around the globe unanimously damning Showgirls as a failure doomed to die in infamy.

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  • Thus the CBS neo-blog produces early evidence of all the oafishness and arrogance that crippled Rather and Mapes. —  Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
  • Danny McBride's martial arts instructor boasted his aim "to build a more peaceable world," but his oafishness got in the way. —  New York Press
  • Most oafishness knocks off elitism points and vice versa. —  Pharyngula
  • "A film of thunderous oafishness," wrote Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times, with critics around the globe unanimously damning Showgirls as a failure doomed to die in infamy. —  PegasusNews.com stories
  • I think Peter's oafishness has never coalesced into anything approaching a coherent character. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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