Sentences with word «oneupmanship»

In a perpetual game of oneupmanship, the Avengers and company trade barbs, creating plenty of opportunities to alleviate the dourness of tragedies.

There is little time for intimacy, however, when the film takes a breath from plot, character dynamics pop, namely any banter between the Guardians, Peter Quill's quippy alpha oneupmanship with Thor, the ego clash between Tony Stark and Doctor Strange, and Wanda and Vision's warm bond.

I'm not interested in playing oneupmanship games.

After centuries of macho oneupmanship, a Conservative backbencher is now proposing ending the system of primogeniture for good.

Andy Murray's US Open victory has prompted another bout of political oneupmanship from leaders north of the border.

The government is just doing enough to keep the overall contribution from the banks to the Treasury's coffers at # 2.5 billion a year; a politically motivated amount, purely driven by oneupmanship against the # 2.3 billion the banks paid up under the last government.

The show captures the peculiar tense camaraderie and striving oneupmanship of young comedians.»

At the root of the story is a lesson about outgrowing oneupmanship and ridding themselves of the jealousy toward couples who have matured to the stage of parenthood — yet the wholly unrealistic plot only loosely manages to ferry Max and Annie to this graduating point of adult sophistication.

«Zack and Miri» feels uncomfortably like a gruesome game of filth - talk oneupmanship, and it's hard to care who comes out on top.

This one opens a vein of morbid black comedy rather than one of blood, sending up suburban parenting oneupmanship and the motherly desire that everything be absolutely perfect for a child's big day.

While the SAE tow ratings apply to all cars, vans, crossovers, SUV's and light and heavy duty pickups, they were primarily conceived of to eliminate the constant oneupmanship the big three were consumed with in their advertising, especially when it came to the heavy duty pickups.

But if your intention is merely to play a game of academic oneupmanship or hide and seek, then life's far too short for me to bother.

While Huawei hasn't needed American customers to become a powerhouse, it believes that it needs to succeed in the US if it's going to challenge Apple in the high - end smartphone world beyond technological oneupmanship.

Even if it is a mental juxtaposition for getting oneupmanship only; first guy in sometimes gets the deal.

After centuries of macho oneupmanship, a Conservative backbencher is now suggesting ending the system of primogeniture for good.

The game of oneupmanship, in this galaxy, is that the Rebels do not have the upper hand, and the Empire does.

But I'm going to care less about the format, the glossy veneer, the oneupmanship that's so common, and care more about the practice, the experience of getting those words to flow more freely, and getting comfortable again with sharing those words online rather than obsessively editing myself.

The first drive reviews are out and now car fans accross the world are waiting with baited breath for news of the Ferrari LaFerrari's Nurburgring lap time after the war of oneupmanship that's been going on between the car's arch rivals, the Mclaren P1 and Porsche 918 Spyder.

It is a stalling mechanism, and often snarky «oneupmanship».

Noodlecake Games and FizzPow Games are ready to pull some oneupmanship with their upcoming game Bitcoin Billionaire.