tin-eared

Associated Press Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng The Christmas tradition continues nonetheless, perhaps as a tin-eared gesture of Chinese Communist defiance.

Beijing's Fear of the Powerless 2011

Yes: the loss provoked a contrarian and somewhat tin-eared debate as to whether the U.S. women "choked."

Scandals, Lockouts and Crazy Comebacks Jason Gay 2011

Why is it that English sports fans are so tone-deaf and tin-eared?

Pakistan v England – day one live! | Andy Bull and Rob Smyth 2012

I am happy to volunteer my services and willing to undercut whatever was paid to the tin-eared idiots responsible for the development of train and station announcements over the last 20 years or so.

Railspeak should be terminated 2011

Without knowing why, I've always been a sucker for apocalyptic art, most recently falling for the cheesy, tin-eared yet entertaining novel Robopocalypse by Daniel H Wilson and TV series The Walking Dead featuring Andrew "Egg" Lincoln.

Summer readings: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2011

By casting regulatory agencies and the people who work there as tin-eared buffoons, the President makes it all the harder for the agencies and their advocates to get the political support they need to adopt badly needed safeguards.

Rena Steinzor: Bureaucracy Bashing, Obama-Style Rena Steinzor 2012

Romney's tin-eared joke about his own presidential aspirations to a representative of the millions of struggling Americans kind of says it all about what he's in this for.

John Wellington Ennis: Why Mitt Romney Won't Get the Job John Wellington Ennis 2012

Romney's tin-eared joke about his own presidential aspirations to a representative of the millions of struggling Americans kind of says it all about what he's in this for.

John Wellington Ennis: Why Mitt Romney Won't Get the Job John Wellington Ennis 2012

By casting regulatory agencies and the people who work there as tin-eared buffoons, the President makes it all the harder for the agencies and their advocates to get the political support they need to adopt badly needed safeguards.

Rena Steinzor: Bureaucracy Bashing, Obama-Style Rena Steinzor 2012

I am happy to volunteer my services and willing to undercut whatever was paid to the tin-eared idiots responsible for the development of train and station announcements over the last 20 years or so.

Railspeak should be terminated 2011