Sentences with phrase «bonfire of»

A decade ago, Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities offered a withering portrait of the forces that move New York's elite and poor communities in the story of a corporate bond trader whose fast life is derailed by an accident in the Bronx.

This throwback sci - fi series set the world ablaze in the summer of 2016, igniting a bonfire of nostalgia while simultaneously telling a gripping story that gets more exciting with each episode.

On Brexit, the report notes that it is the dominant issue in the insurance market but should not overshadow other topics since there is little reason to expect a «bonfire of regulation immediately following Brexit».

A peruse of the partner's Instagram shows further snaps of him laughing with friends at a bonfire of all of his suits and ties, and celebrating with his lifecoach after going fully vegan.

Public Bodies Orders (PBOs) are made using powers delegated by the Public Bodies Act 2011, which permit ministers to abolish, merge or modify 285 public bodies as part of an exercise sometimes referred to as «the bonfire of the quangos».

A hard Brexit is one where we have a bonfire of regulations; where we have no truck with experts who advise us on risks of ethylene - based cladding or excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere; where «risk assessment» is a joke we have down the club; where the little people enjoy the fruits of «trickle down» economics in a thriving Britain, free of (allegedly) over-weaning regulation.

Given the house - of - cards - like collapse of global warming alarmism over the past year — as well as the sort of ongoing self - inflicted harm described above — I'm hoping that Tom Wolfe will recount the spectacle in a new book, perhaps called «The Bonfire of the Credibilities.»

Allow me, if you will, to equate this climate change challenge to a gigantic raging bonfire of all Tony Abbott's currently and previously - owned pairs of budgie - smugglers which would surely be a blaze three - storeys high visible from Christmas Island.

Presented with the challenge of controlling this three - story high bonfire of budgie - smugglers, what Tony Abbott is saying is that only he has a credible policy to enable him to pee on it, such is the gap between what is being offered and what is needed.

Then we can have that bonfire of wind turbines.

Schools and colleges of art throughout the world dutifully preached the new polytheism, adding further fuel to the bonfire of Renaissance art traditions.

Despite the dismissively iterated «bonfire of the vanities» label, the period was devoid of neither irony nor conscience, tragedy nor wisdom.

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The new content, titled Bonfire of the Vanities, also known as Sequence 13, is out tomorrow on both Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

They are entitled Battle of Forli and The Bonfire of the Vanities, respectively.

If you need further proof, the Bonfire of the Vanities is an actual historical event that took place in Florence during the year 1497.

There is an Easter egg that can only be seen with Eagle Vision in the «Bonfire of the Vanities» DLC, and only at a certain time.

Titled Bonfire of the Vanities, this section sees Ezio running around Florence once more.

The second DLC, Bonfire of the Vanities, will follow some time next month.

Players saddened that their stealth - stabbing romp through fifteenth - century Italy had to end will be cheered by the upcoming downloadable content for Assassin's Creed II — Battle of Forli ($ 4, January 2010) and Bonfire of the Vanities ($ 5, February 2010)-- which fills in the sequence gap in the century - spanning storyline.

That extra scratch does nab players some extra goodies, as the game will ship with the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities DLC packs on the disc «free» of charge.

I won't second - guess Wolfe; some people say that Wolfe has proven himself as a novelist in «Bonfire of the Vanities.»

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A modern American epic set against the panorama of contemporary politics and culture — a hurtling, page - turning mystery that is equal parts The Great Gatsby and The Bonfire of the Vanities

The pink, with which we were graced, looks like something straight out of the 1980s and the bright yellow case they included made it look like Crockett and Tubbs probably read Bonfire Of The Vanities on this thing.

Enrolled titles include Life of Pi, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Johnny Carson, WOOL, The Alchemist, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site and All - New X-MEN Vol.

ANN ARBOR If Tom Wolfe had written The Bonfire of the Vanities today rather than in 1987, Sherman McCoy would be driving a BMW 760i.

It is obvious, bureaucrats enjoy creating bureaucratic processes, give them funds and you might as well burn a bonfire of # 50 notes.

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Scenes from other nominated films were projected: Dr. Strangelove delighted with frank laughs, Beckett ignited a bonfire of applause.

De Palma, producer Martin Bregman, and actors Steven Bauer, Robert Loggia, and Angel Salazar all participate, as do Julie Salamon (author of The Devil's Candy, the book - length making - of devoted to De Palma's ill - fated The Bonfire of the Vanities), Ken Tucker, Keith Gordon (star of De Palma's Dressed to Kill), Antoine Fuqua, and Eli Roth, who surprises no one with his claim that he saw Scarface 56 times in seventh grade.

Droll, dry and ultimately rather heartless, it's clear that Kirn («Thumbsucker») positioned his novel as a kind of «Bonfire of the Vanities» for post-millennial readers, a work that diagnoses the ills of corporate America and chimes in with a wider sense of social malaise.

Worst - Of Runners - Up: Runners - up for the bottom five: Surrogates Bonfire of the Vanities, The Whole Ten Yards, Blind Date, Striking Distance, Sunset, and The Story of Us.

Even then, what they're usually talking about is something like Cloud Atlas, Bonfire of the Vanities, or some other totally fascinating but catastrophic folly made by an overly ambitious director possessed of more money than sense.

The subject's films, especially Scarface and The Bonfire of the Vanities, still inspire as much hate as love, which makes watching them a cinematic cage match that gets your blood up.

With indie - film admirers Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow at the helm, De Palma holds forth with bracing candour on his hits (Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Mission: Impossible, The Untouchables), his misses (The Bonfire of the Vanities, Casualties of War, The Black Dahlia) and his excursions in excess (Scarface, Body Double, Murder à la Mod and much more).

One can see the smooth charm of Moonlighting's «David Addison», the slapstick energy of Blind Date's Walter Davis and the scummy antihero of Bonfire of The Vanities «Peter Fallow» in Ford.

When a movie goes wildly over budget and looks like a fiasco in the making, we tend to resurrect the ghoulish specters of toxic buzz magnets past like Heaven's Gate, Ishtar, Waterworld, Bonfire Of The Vanities, and 1941.

Sure, he's had his share of duds such as BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES and MISSION TO MARS, but there's no denying the man's ability to frame a shot and construct brilliant suspense sequences.

A powerful film directed by Emmy Award winner Janet Grillo (Autism: The Musical), Fly Away narrates the story of Jeanne (Beth Broderick, Bonfire of the Vanities, Sabrina the Teenage Witch) and her autistic teenage daughter, Mandy (Ashley Rickards, One Tree Hill).

CALL it the bonfire of cancer drugs.

Blair believes that the government is making «a bonfire of senior police involvement in policy making».

«For a party that has promised a «bonfire of the quangos», turning Britain's best - loved institution into the biggest quango in the world - responsible for a # 100bn budget and 1.4 million staff - is a proposal that has had dangerously little scrutiny to date,» he said.

--» Bonfire of the Vanities»

«Abuse survives in silence,» Ms. Paulin said, «and by writing this letter we're throwing another log on the bonfire of the #MeToo movement.»

«Abuse survives in silence,» Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, a Democrat from Westchester County, said, «and by writing this letter we're throwing another log on the bonfire of the #MeToo movement.»

«We hope the OTS will include genuine substantive simplification, not just set the ground for a bonfire of taxpayer reliefs and exemptions.

Ministers had sought to add the Office of the Chief Coroner to David Cameron's «bonfire of the quangos», objecting to its # 10 million start - up costs and annual running costs of # 6.5 million.

Although the Conservative Party leader made it clear that it would be far too «simplistic» to propose a «bonfire of the QUANGOs», he emphasised his strong appetite for significant reform of these organisations and a general rolling back of unelected governmental bodies.

«We can not allow short term financial considerations to throw the years of thoughtful work reflected in the legislation onto the so - called «bonfire of the quangos.»