Sentences with phrase «fillip for»

And if you're using an iPhone (connecting to Apple's handset is a real fillip for Samsung and its smartwatches) you'll have to do little things like install the timer app when you actually just want to be reminded that your oven dinner is going to burn because you often fall asleep every evening.

Having happily agreed to post a Friday Fillip for Simon Fodden, I unexpectedly and blithely extended my May vacation thereby dropping the proverbial ball!

Those of you who read the Fillip for leads to «interesting stuff» I've found on the internet needn't fear: I'll lift a theme out of each episode and interpolate notes on fresh findings that touch on that theme.

But because it's also Friday, I thought I'd schedule this fillip for the folks south of the border and those Canadians who have taken their CrackBerrys to the cottage.

Meanwhile, Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope have spurred on this year's competitors, describing how last year's victory has been a fillip for their work.

That's a massive fillip for the small Australian chassis development team.

We've had a lot of rough luck this year and it's not run to plan, but this is just an amazing fillip for everyone.

Uncorking the bottle and letting the wine flow could provide a much needed fillip for the Conservatives.

Whilst that's a big fillip for the manager it also means his claims that once he gets his injured players back «we'll be ok» is set to be tested to the limits.

That was a great fillip for them and if they can take three points at Carrow Road against Newcastle then that could be a huge six points in their survival bid.

A win here would be a great fillip for the Royals as they look to cement their play - off place.

Last weekend's 3 - 0 success at home to Bournemouth was a welcome fillip for Arsenal after they lost two of the opening three fixtures for the first time since 2011/12, the season following skipper Cesc Fabregas's departure for Camp Nou.

Should the attacker commit his future to the White Hart Lane giants, it will come as a major fillip for Spurs, who will see Kane as a key man next term as they look to establish themselves among Europe's elite and retain their spot in the EPL's top four.

That could provide a major fillip for brands targeting the world's top luxury spenders, though who benefits most will depend on which brands are able to lure in China's big - spending youth - now the driving force in the market.

Both cover and rating were wholly misleading publicity fillips for the movie, which isn't glamorous or gory, or even pornographic: the shots of Williams's Cindy being taken from behind by one boyfriend and receiving oral sex from another - Gosling's Dean, with whom she's newly in love - are inexplicit and more functional than erotic.

Not exact matches

«Construction work on venues and transport links has been underway for several years already, and is unlikely to provide a significant fillip to the U.K. economy this year,» said Moody's in a May report.

Is there loading a repeat of last year, when it switched votes from crucial roads nationwide, that would have given the economy a fillip, to useless constituency projects, for brazen personal egos?

Whereas Goodbye to Language stood out from other Godard essay films for its singular reimagining of the 3D image, The Image Book offers its own inspired fillip to the director's formula: a soundtrack that ping - pongs around the stereo field in four dimensions.

He is the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, an omnivorous aesthete who appreciates both sexes, a splash of cologne, and fillip of poetry for every occasion.

Use of tablet devices in sports would get a major fillip when Phoenix Suns uses the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet for its sessions both on and off the court.

Burns and Lundh's writing has appeared in periodicals such as Art - Agenda, Art Papers, Fillip, Journal for Curatorial Studies, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Reviews in Cultural Theory, as well as exhibition catalogues and books.

10, No. 5, September / October 2011 «Prologue» (co-author: Josh Thorpe), Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks 1975 - 2008, (Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art: Toronto / Plug In Editions: Winnipeg), 2011 «And Other Essays,» C Magazine C105, Spring 2010 «Tris Vonna - Michell,» Art Papers 34:01, January / February 2010 «Yam Lau's Hutong House As I Imagine It,» (Yuanfen Media Art Space: Beijing), 2009 «The Reproduction of Space,» Space, WIDEN (Workshop for Inter-Discipline Novelty and Exchange), University of Toronto, April 2009 «Towards Infinity But Not Infinite,» Dynamic Encounters Panel, Universities of Art Association of Canada Conference, 2008 «Living the Image: Looking at Yam Lau's ScapeLand II,» The Fillip Review 8, 2008 «The Possibility of Art: Adorno and the Politics of Aesthetics,» Re-Thinking the Frankfurt School Graduate Conference, York University, 2007

She writes regularly for C Magazine and her texts have appeared in Canadian Art, Fillip, and Blackflash among others.

She has also written for frieze, Art in America, ARTMargins Online, C Magazine, Border Crossings, Fillip, Journal of Curatorial Studies, CritCom, and other venues.

David has exhibited and published solo and collaborative work with Art Papers, C Magazine, Fillip, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Museo de la Ciudad Querétaro, Printed Matter, and Skol Center des Arts Actuels.

Middleton was the founding publisher of the contemporary art journal Fillip and has worked in an advisory capacity with Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, The Sobey Art Foundation, and National Gallery of Canada.

Fillip gratefully acknowledges the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the City of Vancouver, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council.

AIR Worldwide, for example, has dramatically narrowed its loss estimate for Hurricane Irma and consequently, US P&C and reinsurance stocks have received a fillip, in turn pushing up European reinsurance shares.

Might as well ask what makes good design: it's a proper question with an answer too vexed for a fillip — or me.

Because this is Good Friday, a holiday, and a serious one for many people, this won't be a flippant fillip.

I continue to make amends for that foolishness, one amend being today's Fillip on the work of a marvellous illustrator.

Ever thoughtful, I've got just the solution: a Friday Fillip that will keep on giving for perhaps three or four hours.

Because this is a fillip, after all, where I try to avoid earnestness most of the time at least, I'll remind you here of the delightfully silly Monty Python sketch where a publisher has produced a mischievous Hungarian - English phrase book (for which he is brought up before the law — for those of you who need at least a minim of legal stuff in every Slaw post).

End of the month and time to clean out the Fillip Folder on my machine — which means it's a six - pack today, apropos for (what should be) the long weekend, perhaps.

I am filling in today and next week for Simon Fodden's Friday Fillip, so this will have a more — for lack of a better phrase — «girlie» bent to it.

It is now one day short of a month till International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and in the Slaw tradition of preparing you well for upcoming challenges, today's fillip takes us back to the days of piracy some two hundred years ago and more.

We've looked a poetry before on Slaw — «Law Firms Sponsoring Poetry ``, «The Lawyer as Poet ``, «Creative uses for law reports ``, and another Friday Fillip about doggerel — so I thought that this might be of interest to the poetasters among us.

This fillip goes all red and white For Canada Day... But lots of places do the red and white thing, it turns out.

So this fillip is for them.

There I was, racking my brains late in the week (no easy thing) for a subject for this Friday Fillip.

I usually try for a light, not to say fluffy, topic and tone for these fillips.

On behalf of the CBA staff here in BC, please enjoy whatever comes next (and I'll continue to watch for those Friday Fillips!)

I am glad you will continue with the Friday Fillips, at least for a while, because drinking my morning Java without reading your entry just wouldn't give my Friday mornings the lift - off it requires.

But don't despise the useless, because some useless things are quite worthwhile, such as art, for example — which leads me to this week's fillip.

We could start some 3,300 years ago with what have been heralded as the oldest surviving pair of trousers — but such a long detailed history would be too large a load of pants for a mere fillip.

This fillip, then, is a meditation on cricket, but not the serious game, which calls for rather more concentration than a fillip should engender if you want to understand the rules.

That said, it's still wonderful to roam through the riches of the Rijksmuseum, for example, which is what this fillip will invite you to do.

The Oxford University Press Blog, home to much that catches my attention, has a piece on «How gut bugs affect brain health.,» a trifle earnest for a Friday Fillip, I'll admit.

Usually I toss»em; occasionally I read»em and toss»em; but for some reason I accorded the last one a place on my hard drive — where I found it today when browsing through the oddments section looking for a Friday Fillip.

(Those of you who've been with Slaw for a few years now may remember this from an earlier fillip.)