The more things drag on, the more monotonous they become and, by the end, Hard Candy has devolved into a rather transparent game of one - upmanship in which Hayley and Jeff come across in almost equally repellent measure, their behaviors driven less by organic impulses than by their need to satisfy the script's elaborate series of reversals and counter-reversals. (metacritic.com)
High - profile downtown tenants liked the taste of one - upmanship of getting into the special new building before the recession, and today there's still a waiting list of major tenants wanting to jump into top - line office space. (nreionline.com)
The transmission struck us as a rather meaningless one - upmanship over Mercedes - Benz «s seven - speed, particularly since the LS seemed to use only four ratios. (automobilemag.com)