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Examples
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This day started out on a discordant note with a tin-ear video from Sarah Palin.
Heroes, humility and healing in Tucson Jonathan Capehart 2011
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This isn't the same sort of tin-ear lassitude we got from the previous administration.
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Or that M. Night Shyamalan's big-screen live-action version of the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series constitutes a form of Chinese water torture in which tin-ear line-readings take the place of drips.
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But they are delusional on this subject, they have a tin-ear and the trillion dollar President and the Speaker have really hooked up their crazy train by keep pushing this toxic bill.
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Or that M. Night Shyamalan's big-screen live-action version of the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series constitutes a form of Chinese water torture in which tin-ear line-readings take the place of drips.
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Barack Obama, in the meanwhile, has had a months-long tin-ear moment, as late as this week calling the popular anger a "tizzy," probably because he too is in debt to and in awe of these cardboard Masters of the Universe.
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It is a combination of tin-ear for Western issues and the Clinton record of no (or negative) coat-tails.
Obama Backer Questions Hillary's Electability -- Because Of Bill 2009
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It is one part tin-ear, and a related failure to pay attention to the emotional aspects of politics as well as the cognitive ones.
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Patrician's burden: Bush in this election has been conducting such a tin-ear campaign from day one, from the let's-pretend sock-buying mission to Penney's a year ago right straight through the scare assaults, of which we may not yet have heard the end.
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The tin-ear Reagan imitation he tried to market in the primaries hadn't proved persuasive but, back in Massachusetts, he'd shown he could play a centrist game in a general election; and he might have brought in Michigan, where he whipped McCain in the primary and his automaker father was governor long ago.
John & Sarah in St. Paul Lelyveld, Joseph 2008
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