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Since beginning in Norway in June, the crew of the Abel Tasman have already sailed around Iceland and Greenland, before entering the unaccommodating waters that run between northernmost Canada and the Arctic.

It was a period, he argued, marked by one-party rule and “insular, unaccommodating” attitudes that prevented constructive relationships with other Asian countries, much less a meaningful role in world affairs.

“Putin cannot reasonably expect Ukraine to meet the terms of this suddenly declared cease-fire and may have called for the cease-fire to frame Ukraine as unaccommodating and unwilling to take the necessary steps toward negotiations.”

Osaka, of course, added meaningfully to the discussion about athlete mental health, and resistance against unaccommodating sports governors, when she withdrew from the French Open this spring.

“Daddy’s Home,” for all of its world-building, is clear in the limits of its imagination, unaccommodating past the confines of its small screen.