Sentences with phrase «with fewer jabs»

With fewer jabs in the arm, no more throat scrapings, and fewer urine samples, saliva could end up a patient's hero.

In dueling appearances on Wednesday, the incoming and departing mayors of New York laid out starkly different visions of the city's fiscal future, with a few jabs, subtle and not so subtle, thrown in for good measure.

Its ok to hit the competition with a few jabs here and there but when you get dirty... you get dirty.

Not exact matches

The Penn State players remained polite, buttoned - up and, with the exception of a few wounding jabs at Miami coach Jimmy Johnson's perfectly coiffed hair, respectful.

but do I think a round where one guy dominates the other with knock downs, ground and pound, and close submissions should be worth 3 rounds where not much happens and its won by a few extra jabs or hooks that barely connect

Even if you feel that you were wrongly jailed, half an hour on Have I Got News For You letting Paul and Ian take jabs at you, combined with a few self - depreciating one - liners, will do more for your standing than any amount of charity work.

Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota — a comedian - turned - politician — traveled to Cleveland to deliver a few jabs to the Donald Trump - Mike Pence ticket, while another Democratic senator, Cory Booker of New Jersey, made the case for fighting with love.

Everything that happens in the story is only a matter of course, and despite a few knowing jabs at itself (Charlie insists that Max dance with Atom when they enter the ring because the crowd loves the «kid thing»), Gatins» script strictly adheres to formula.

With its jabs at hipster culture and avocado toast, I found a few good laughs.

Complete with jabs at social - media marketing, this is one of the film's few extended jokes likely to go over the collective heads of very young auds, but it's the kind of absurdly exaggerated everyday detail — complete with the repurposing of familiar gadgetry — on which Aardman's comic brand is built.

Donald Glover responded by tweeting out a mock script for the show's «finale», which saw the Merc with a Mouth taking a few jabs at Marvel about the series» cancellation [read it here], and now his brother Stephen has shared his own comments on the situation with a series of now - deleted tweets that were caught by The Wrap.

Creed staggers from the few plot jabs that feel recycled from boxing movies of past, but rises above with a gentle romance between Adonis and his musically talented neighbor Bianca (Tessa Thompson).

He does something similar here, except he does it with drone pilots, and while he does use this film as an opportunity to make a few jabs at the C.I.A. and the close - minded «my country «tis of thee» patriotism that informs the thinking of many soldiers, for the most part he allows the characters to bring up the advantages and disadvantages of drone warfare and allows you as an audience member to make up your own mind on this topic.

The movie possesses a certain energy that propels the story forward with macabre, cynical humor, but it also becomes repetitive after a few too many jabs — both satirical and physical.

The Great Beauty takes a few jabs at the current snapshot of Italian culture and does so by showcasing hilarious satire with magnificent cinematography.

Alongside this, Glover also shared a «script» for the series which takes a few jabs at Marvel and sees the Merc with a Mouth speculating as to why the show was cancelled:

In the film's defense, the dialogue itself is fine and often amusing (save for a few cheap stereotyping jabs played for laughs), complete with a reoccurring joke of analogies mentioning gorillas.

And because Volvo also sells safety, both models include side air bags, daytime running lights, traction control, headlight washer - wipers and even tail lights with light - emitting diodes that illuminate a few hundredths of a second faster, when you jab the brakes, than incandescent bulbs.

The fighters themselves do look a little silly throwing jab after jab before tossing in a kick for good measure, but EA Canada has demonstrated a knowing awareness that not every player will want to recreate fights so much as waste a few hours over beers with a friend.

Tim Cook and Craig Federighi took a few swipes at Android during WWDC's keynote, but now that Google is readying its hype machine for Google I / O tomorrow, Sundar Pichai, the head of Android, tossed a few jabs Apple's way in an interview with Bloomberg this morning.

Don't you just love the way Batman and Robin put down the bad guys with a few swift jabs?