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The need for a biography is obvious, but this first attempt—"Corresponding With Carlos"—is a curate's egg, a book of two unequal halves.

The Disappearing Maestro Norman Lebrecht 2011

Falling Skies has been something of a curate's egg: some great, fascinating alien science fiction stuff encased in a mess of sentimentality and weak characterisation.

TV highlights 30/08/2011: The Great British Bake Off | Inside Nature's Giants | Sex, Lies And Gagging Orders | Falling Skies | Wilfred | Donor Mum: The Children I've Never Met 2011

Such "historicist" interpretations of Victorian London have also appeared recently in the fascinating current exhibit at the Wellcome Collection, "Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life," and in Bill Bryson's new bestseller, At Home, which examines the social history surrounding a Victorian curate's manor.

Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011

The massive health bill is not even a curate's egg, good in parts, despite measures such as the publication of information or the role of local authorities that command broad assent.

The NHS deserves better than government meddling | David Miliband 2011

Catch 22 (Heller) I found a bit of a curate's egg (though was only a teenager when I read it, and knew nothing about the culture or events depicted).

Culture Maxine 2009

Such "historicist" interpretations of Victorian London have also appeared recently in the fascinating current exhibit at the Wellcome Collection, "Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life," and in Bill Bryson's new bestseller, At Home, which examines the social history surrounding a Victorian curate's manor.

Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011

In that case, tonight's is a very important episode but again it's something of a curate's egg.

Outcasts: series one, episode five 2011

Such "historicist" interpretations of Victorian London have also appeared recently in the fascinating current exhibit at the Wellcome Collection, "Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life," and in Bill Bryson's new bestseller, At Home, which examines the social history surrounding a Victorian curate's manor.

Naomi Wolf: David Cameron's Great Expectations Naomi Wolf 2011

We all think we enjoyed it, but we aren't too sure - something of a curate's egg.

Film Maxine 2009

Only another cliché can truthfully describe her heroic failure in The Invisible Bridge: it is a perfect curate's egg of a book.

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer 2010