bits and bobs

20211202 Thursday

irreconcilable

= compatible 妥協できない

Whether that balance was ever truly achievable is debatable, but the conflict between the roles eventually became irreconcilable

CNN bears some of the blame. For years, the network banned Chris Cuomo from interviewing his brother, a commonsense precaution. But in the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus ravaged the country, Andrew Cuomo presented himself as a competent counterpart to Donald Trump’s pandemic bungling.

Bungle = mishandling

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/fire-chris-cuomo/620835/