Sentences with phrase «jousting with»

Roger, Re my stirring experience of jousting with Mann, Ehrlich, and Rahmstorf: What a scurrilous bunch.

Why make life difficult, when this book is obviously targeted at the crowd that wants to see jousting with straw men?

There was a day, many years ago, when a conviction politician of socialist leanings in the UK used to spend his summers as a young man jousting with attendees at the Conservative Party conference.

When he gets steamed he mixes metaphors like «jousting with jesters» not quite realizing that the old court jesters would be able to tell the king things (truths) no one else could, as Steve noted at the time.

Two full disclosures, first on who I am and what I do (http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=4893), and second, that the person at the heart of the attack below, Tom Harris, has alerted me to his letters - to - the - editor from time to time, knowing of my 8 - year history of jousting with online commenters that I mentioned and showed in a screencapture in the above link about myself.

The tank variant of mech can range from the freakishly huge «Treehouse» which coats its surroundings in boiling vapour, all the way to nippy bike - styled mechs which make quick passes of machine - gun fire; jousting with bad - guy bots before escaping.

It's horn jousting with 80's neon space narwhals.

That night, after a bit of playful jousting with his wife Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald), Llewelyn finds himself unable to sleep.

This is the kind of film where we not only hear about the Young Hegelians, we meet some of them verbally jousting with Marx in a newspaper office in 1843 Cologne.

Art School Confidential goes for its doctorate in Jonathan Parker's bitchy, hilarious (Untitled), the story of two pretentious brothers jealously jousting with each other in the dog - eat - dog world of fine - art cred.

His heroes step into their time machine, pass quickly through a metaphysical car wash of suds, and then spend the rest of the novel jousting with black - armored knights and rolling under descending portcullises.

Tenant groups say they were shut out — jousting with then - state senate majority leader Pedro Espada, he threw crumbled dollars their way.

Bould seemed to enjoy jousting with the media in the same way as he relished the heat of battle with opposing centre forwards.

A long arm is where a pass rusher fully extends his inside arm, in this case Fletcher's left arm, while aiming to put his hand at the end of that arm right down the middle of the blocker's chest, kind of like jousting with your arm.

Good luck jousting with windmills, religious zealots, I really can't stand to read any more of your willed ignorance.

And to be sure, this is not Benchmark's first time legally jousting with a founder they once funded.

During years of jousting with local taxi authorities over the legality of its car service, Uber had been discovered using a tool called Greyball that disguised the location of its cars and showed a fake version of the app to city officials.

Dinshaw's concentration on literary and intellectual value prevents serious assessment of historical worth, which is relegated to a series of predictable jousts with secondhand opinions of other historians.

Peter J. Leithart engages in bold caricaturing and simplistic «either / or» analysis in his recent joust with the straw dummy called «dispensationalist pop - apocalyptic.»

He seems to be particularly strong with his right arm, which he uses almost to joust with guys at times.

Fangio's most talented competitors jousted with him in Argentina, but when the results were in it was THAT MAN AGAIN

As for Obama, his jousts with Bill and Hill of The Infernal Machine won huzzahs in independent circles.

The other party leader Farron can learn from is - wait for it - Nigel Farage, the man he impersonated to help Nick Clegg prepare for his televised Euro - joust with the Ukip leader last year: «I don't know what Ukip's position is on local government reform, or on land value taxation, [or] on transport, but I've got a pretty clear idea what they think about immigration.

It was a typically quick - witted reply to a barbed invitation from Labour's stand - in leader at Holyrood, Jackie Baillie, to describe himself in just one word, and it set the tone for his final, rowdy joust with the Scottish parliament's opposition leaders.

That wasn't the case Wednesday, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo's economic development czar Howard Zemsky alternately jousted with, rebutted and generally went head - to - head with lawmakers who posed pointed questions about job creation programs overseen by Empire State Development Corp..

«The fact that he continues to survive in various capacities perhaps bespeaks that he is untarnished in a realm where not everyone has been able to look back at their career and say that,» said Buffalo - area Democratic Assemblyman Robin Schimminger, who has frequently jousted with Cuomo over economic development issues.

Though structured around that day in Dallas, this a conventional biopic, going back to portray LBJ's earlier joustings with the Kennedys and forward to his first days in power.

And in the fourth, he verbally jousts with military psychiatrist Gary Oldman, who is seeking to understand a fatal enemy contact during said Afghan war.

Flip a switch and the next scene will have Allen exchanging familiar glances and verbal jousts with his duck hunting buddy Christmas (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a freed slave who is the perfect companion for Allen.

In some of the film's best scenes, Bachmann engages in cagey intellectual jousts with his icy American colleague, Martha Wright, played with great charisma by Robin Wright.

Despite their screen time being relatively short and sweet, both actors certainly make an impact and their verbal jousts with Cruise throughout are nailed to perfection.

As a 35 year classroom teacher I have always had a commitment to try and educate those without knowledge and it has been a real «joust with windmills» when encountering those who don't want to learn.

Find a few willing partners, cuddle up on the couch, and share controllers or go online to joust with anonymous players from all over the world.

Some years ago Dessler used to blog on other climate sites occasionally, and I had the chance to joust with him.

At the time, I observed: no wonder Hansen can't joust with -LSB-...]

The really smart ones denounce Monckton beforehand and announce that they do not «joust with jesters» who are obviously funded by evil Big Oil to avoid debate.

I don't respond because I've got enough real enemies without clearing the schedule to joust with fictional ones.

Trying to get to a deregulated profession through incremental liberalizations authorized by justices willing to joust with their compatriots in the profession would take forever.

It's my premise (and I take this from my own evolving mindset) that most SRLs go in planning an individual performance and are caught off guard by being jousted with; I think we expect to be evaluated on our merits and not on how we thrust and parry.

I have had agents openly joust with me about their perceived lack of need to stay in touch after that commission check is cashed.

In San Francisco, real estate agents have jousted with tech workers over their obsession with living in the city.

Not exact matches

Don't forget about their jousting contests with unicorns, and who would want to miss midget... oops I meant leprechaun wrestling?

How about something more in keeping with your mindset, like a good midieval joust, or a hot tar and feathering?

Almost all of the respondents in these jousts have been bested, sometimes disastrously, with the most favorable result being a draw.

This art of verbal jousting does not fit in the postmodern world, so concerned with providing safe spaces.

This unique dining experience takes you back to a time where knights jousted and people dined on foul and fixin's with their bare hands.

There was even a bouncy house with these fun jousting batons and free food!

However, at certain moments it is difficult to convince him of this — such as the time he was fastened by a bungee cord to a hot - air balloon, or the time he was pummeled with a jousting stick on the set of American Gladiators.

It also lines up its final round with Mother's Day — a holiday that ensures plenty of pink on the course as the game's top golfers joust for leaderboard supremacy.

«The Queen's Justice» is powered by long - awaited meetings and lengthy jousts of dialogue, and it delivers on almost all fronts: Jon is simple and stubborn; Dany is intractable until she gets Tyrion's sly counsel; Cersei delivers a monologue that both summarizes years of backstory and explains her plan with a relish that would make any Bond villain envious; Lady Olenna's Blunt Talk Express reaches its terminus with Jaime; and Bran and Sansa definitely talk.