unearned

1 If these fragments attain a particular elegiac gravity, Shephard never allows them to stray into unearned sentiment.

2 The result is a timely fillip for the actor, who had previously overworked his patented formula of characters buoyed by "unearned confidence".

3 As the film lumbers to its climax — a kiss that denotes the long-denied love for a character — it feels unearned.

4 The moments of sadness concerning Ludovic and the fate of the house itself are entirely unearned, and the notes of comedy are wince-makingly unfunny.

5 In the real world, there are greater tragedies than losing what was inherited and unearned.

6 But it’s also one that he shies away from by tagging on an unearned ending that feels awfully hollow, mainly because Sylvia and the couple’s teenage daughter, Diana, never emerge as fully fledged characters.

7 The question, I believe, is rooted in a form of guilt: Nature is about to shower us with unearned gifts; what can we do to make amends?

8 The pieces had the yearning richness associated with elegiac sequences in independent films, but they meandered, and their emotional payoffs — melancholy in the slow moments, exuberant uplift in the fast — felt unearned.

9 Those " shameless" people who choose to live in unearned idleness have a good conscience too.

那些乐意过不劳而获的悠闲岁月的“无耻”之徒也心安理得。

10 But her dramatic shift in opinion feels unearned and hollow thanks to poor acting and writing.

11 He will continue to live a life of greed, excess and unearned wealth just like Felix's family.

12 Under the most conservative predicted growth rate in unearned revenue — 5 percent a year — the company would reach the 10-production benchmark by 2025.

13 With their monster trucks and unearned pompousness, no hometown boy stood a chance of enticing us.

14 Synthetic excitement explodes out of my cursor, unearned.

15 This unearned cash makes me feel a little bit more American.

16 But what I believe is that everybody has a combination of unearned advantage and unearned disadvantage in life.

17 Even so, this very authenticity underscores the trickiness of repurposing real-life tragedy as mass entertainment, leaving “The Assault” no more than a handsome, ruthless charge to a bloody, unearned finale.

18 As Allen says, “This is absurd — as if ‘life’ consisted of production values or hokey premises or unearned, happy endings.”

19 This ought to be fun, but with a heroine who’s a materialistic, judgmental horror, we are given few reasons to smile — or to care when the film abruptly collapses into unearned weepie territory.

20 The standards for merit are too vague and still too saturated with inherited or unearned qualities, like the social class of our families.

1 不应得

undeserved undeservingly

2 不劳而获

drop into lap scrounge for nothing

3 不配的

unworthy

4 非劳动所得的

private

5 不劳而获的

fast unlabored unmeriting

6 不配

unworthy

7 不应得到的

unmerited

8 不应得的

desertless undeserved unmeriting unworthy unmerited

9 非劳动所得

a gift from the gods

10 不当

unreasonable undue unjust amiss undeserved unmerited unwarrantable foot-in-mouth wrong wrongness

11 不当的

unreasonable undue unjust amiss undeserved unmerited unwarrantable foot-in-mouth