Sentences with phrase «snub of»

Announced at CES, Amazon Alexa will now come bundled with various PCs from high - profile vendors, such as ASUS and HP, which can only be seen as a snub of Microsoft's own voice - assistive efforts.

For instance, there is almost a complete snub of the Color Field movement, as Frankenthaler, Noland, Olitski, Poons, et al., are conspicuously absent.

Her disinclination to go herself was seen as a snub of the board's wishes, which ultimately led to the artist pulling out of the gala — he himself noting he didn't want to be just another in a long line of white male honorees.

Her disinclination to go herself was seen as a snub of the board's wishes, which ultimately led to the artist pulling out of the gala --

Their snub of Canada with this new feature is puzzling.

And de Blasio has said full retroactive pay for all municipal unions won't happen, that any retroactive pay must be offset by cost savings, and that the UFT's snub of him in the primary means he is not beholden to the union.

Streisand's revelation came after actress - director Natalie Portman's dig that no women were nominated in the directing category this year, referring to the snub of «Lady Bird» director and writer Greta Gerwig.

Another shocker is the unconscionable snub of Lesley Manville for Mike Leigh's «Another Year.»

I've got to agree, the snub of Christopher Nolan is a tad ridiculous.

The most egregious snub of that year was the lack of attention the Academy paid to «Eve's Bayou».

With the inconceivable Oscar ® snub of The LEGO Movie, there's a good chance that Disney's Big Hero 6 — a terrific film, itself — could snap up the Best Animated Film award.

He could very well be the high - profile snub of the day, especially if we see Gyllenhaal and BAFTA nominee Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel) make a late in the game sprint to the finish line.

The saddest snub of the bunch has to James Gandolfini, who would have been the 9th actor in history to receive a posthumous nomination.

The Dark Knight getting snubbed is one of the reasons we now have the potential for 10 Best Picture nominees each year, and audiences were very upset by this year's snub of Wonder Woman — a film that became a cultural revelation last summer.

The snub of this moving film about a group of Chinese women and their American - raised daughters shocked Roger Ebert.

Also shocking our forum posters were the double nominations for Alicia Vikander for «The Danish Girl» and «Ex Machina,» and the Best Actress snub of Brit Charlotte Rampling («45 Years «-RRB- on her home turf.

Still, never underestimate Viola Davis, especially since AMPAS owes her for their last - minute snub of her outstanding work in 2011's The Help.

The Academy resurrected the ten Best Picture nominee format for the publicly perceived snub of TDK but could it be possible that just didn't care enough for it as a whole with the except of Ledger's performance?

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The Globes gave us an unforeseen snub of Oprah Winfrey in Lee Daniels» The Butler, in favor of GG Winner Sally Hawkins in Blue Jasmine, but her star power seems too big to be passed over.

In 2017, the HFPA had a chance to nominate a number of great directors, including Bigelow (Detroit), Dee Rees (Mudbound), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) and, arguably the biggest snub of all, Greta Gerwig, who saw her Lady Bird screenplay and film get nominated... but not her work directing it.

Ah man, huge snub of Aaron Taylor - Johnson.

Snubbed: Michael Keaton («Spotlight»), Idris Elba («Beasts of No Nation»), Jacob Tremblay («Room») Reaction: The snub of Elba is unfortunate, but it makes me wonder if members of The Academy truly thought «Beasts» was a theatrical release.

Already a groundswell of support is in place for the Academy to «Right the Wrong» of the snub of The Dark Knight, but even the most rabid of fans of these films must admit, we have to see it first.

But she's been left - out of the years most unpredictable category, and is easily the Biggest Snub of the 2017 Oscar nominations.

But no one mentioned Rosalind Franklin — arguably the greatest snub of the 20th century.

The snub of New York's archbishop was the strongest signal yet that the Legislature has no intention of approving tax credits for families that send their kids to private and parochial schools.

Mr. Hamilton — a longtime Democratic district leader — has the backing of Mr. Adams and much of the Kings County Democratic establishment, and a source told the Observer that the mayor's choice to back Mr. Dorancy is a snub of the borough president and his effort to determine his own successor.

The Peoples Democratic Party has criticised the repeated snub of Senate's invitation by the Inspector - General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, and described the attitude as «an assault on Nigeria's democracy».

The recent, most apparent snub of the Accra Mayor Alfred Vanderpuije by Former president Jerry John Rawlings has brought to prominence the issue of etiquette at state functions.

Cuomo's office denied it was an intentional snub of the mayor, who had another event scheduled later in the day.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has criticised the repeated snub of Senate's invitation by the Inspector - General of Police (IGP), Mr Ibrahim Idris, and described...

It seems Mario Balotelli has landed himself in hot water again, thanks to an ill - advised snub of the travelling Liverpool support after last night's shambolic defeat in the Champions League.

This may have been the biggest combine snub of this draft class.

But the report claims that is just what is going to happen in the summer, as Reus is ready to snub all of those European giants to become a Gunner.

For example, Mr. Wolff reports a snub of the president by Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell that a McConnell aide says never happened.

The surprising snub of the unconventional Tonya Harding biopic, «I, Tonya,» from the best original screenplay category for this year's Oscar nominations was disappointing for many.

In 2016, critics cited the Oscars» snub of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama «Beasts of No Nation» as evidence that the industry was «turned off» by Netflix's business model, which debuts films on the streaming service simultaneously with theatrical releases.

Britain has already felt the impact of the tougher Xi approach over Hong Kong with the refusal late last year to allow a Commons select committee to visit the former colony and, in January, the snubbing of the Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire by the two most senior Hong Kong officials.

Young Icelandic - American Aron Johannsson will be the focus of intense attention when he inevitably makes his full US international debut, after his public snubbing of Iceland.

I've said it many times before and I am repeating my saying again on this site that Arsenal should not waste their time, energy and money looking for another marquee striker to sign after the disappointment we've suffered with the snubbing of Vardy who had refused our overtures to him.

And am quite disappointed with AW's blatant favoritism of out of form players, as well as his snubbing of certain in form players.

For example, the constant snubbing of Juan Mata and the refusal to play promising young talent like Marcus Rashford and Jesse Lingard has...

Lawmakers snubbed all of his proposals except the most obvious one: a proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent public officials convicted of corruption from collecting state pensions.

One senior Democrat told The Post that Cuomo's repeated snubbing of de Blasio at the convention had also «backfired on the governor» and left many New York delegates convinced the governor «was petty and divisive at a time when we were all preaching party unity.»

Together with the insane snubs of Scott Thomas and Sally Hawkins, the fact that this fearless piece of work never even entered the Oscar discussion boggles the mind.

All 5 of these actresses stop shining as soon as you compare them to the 2 snubs of the year: the extraordinary, fantastic, amazing Bjork in Dancer in the Dark.

THE BLU - RAY DISCS - THE KARATE KID + THE KARATE KID PART II by Bill Chambers Available individually or in a «Collector's Edition» bundle that makes the snubbing of the third film all the more conspicuous, The Karate Kid and The Karate Kid Part II come to Blu - ray from Sony on discs that, content-wise, mirror their 2005 DVD counterparts.

But with John's recent piece on the season's snubbing of «Revolutionary Road,» aside from some notices -LSB-...]

Founder of Napster and Plaxo, Parker manages to get his hooks into Zuckerberg and apparently was behind the snubbing of Saverin.