Sentences with phrase «just cagier»

I'm a veteran of the Buck Showalter Is Just Cagier Than Other Managers War of 2012, in which the Orioles (29 - 9 in one - run games) were lucky, and their fans got angry with anyone who suggested the team was lucky.

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It was a smart, cagey move to get him, as he's been healthy and productive for 13 out of his 14 full seasons, and he was one of the most valuable shortstops in baseball just last year, once defense and baserunning are taken into account.

Pablo Chavarria's fine effort settled a cagey, nervous contest as Lens cut the gap between them and survival to just seven points.

Kwak: I just don't think it's that ridiculous to sit Pogba in what will always have been a cagey first leg of a Champions League tie in a difficult stadium to get a result.

After a cagey first period, Kieran Gibbs turned Antonio Valencia's sharply struck cross into his own net just after half time to give United something to hang onto.

I had to literally fight with the hospital just to feed my child properly and I had to keep my eye on that cagey nurse and not let my child out of my sight for 5 seconds for fear that she would sneak him formula against my wishes and ultimately sabotage his health and my efforts.

Coldly dismissive of any long - term romantic future but brattishly insistent on sex («I just got in from Brazil and felt like banging you,» he leers), Vincent is the least palatable of Isabelle's wrong choices; on the flipside, a dreamy married actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle) is cagey when it comes to carnal knowledge but finds in Isabelle an emotional sounding - board.

Otto Preminger directs with a sharp clarity, remaining just slightly removed from the drama, the better to watch all sides and take stock of the characters, the conflicts and the courtroom tactics, and doesn't get much better than Stewart and Scott sparring with witnesses: the cagey country lawyer hiding his endgame behind a folksy manner versus the smart, sarcastic, thoroughly urban legal eagle who makes a show of his intelligence and showmanship.

Nintendo have been just as cagey lately by releasing only percentages instead of figures, as they know solid global no's are hard to come by.

He's cagey about how much of his screen persona these days is him, and how much is just more filling in that template created for him 13 years ago.

There's an extended, perfectly calibrated cat and mouse encounter with a cagey, boy scout - faced FBI agent (Kyle Chandler) that adds some texture to this single - minded plot; there's Margot Robbie as Belfort's wife so blondly beautiful, it's hard to imagine men not expiring at the sight of her; and there's one early scene with Matthew McConaughey so kooky and venal, he's just got to walk away with the Oscar for best supporting actor.

Ultimately, though, Carrey is just a victim of the clumsy script; he works so hard to sell its tepid jokes that you can never quite buy him as someone as smooth and cagey as Russell must have been.

She arrived just as enigmatically as she left: she appeared one night in Finn and Sean's barn, beaten and cagey and unwilling to see a doctor, but the brothers didn't leer at her like most men, so she stuck around.

Amazon has always been super cagey about just how well its Kindle operation does — it never reveals sales figures for the e-book devices, or for how many actual e-books it sells.

But the company has to date been cagey on just how well the Kindle has been selling and hasn't released detailed sales figures.

While Amazon has been cagey about releasing hard numbers on just how many people subscribe to its Prime service (which includes streaming video), estimates put the number of U.S. members at 30 to 40 million, with the global total reaching 50 million.

It's not because Buffett is being cagey, I think it's just because it's impossible for him to explain to us mere mortals — in simple terms — all of the decisions he's made (some of which might contradict one another).

In the end, just moments from victory, success was snatched away from us by a particularly cagey and tactically savvy band of rat - men, who captured and hoisted us on poles to die, inaccessible to our party's one remaining survivor.