Sentences with phrase «about cutthroat»

It makes my head spin to think about the cutthroat competition going on out in the tablet market.

I feel the same way about Cutthroat Island.

Surprisingly, it is less about the cutthroat world of small - town politics, but it's a story about finding love in unexpected.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

With In a World..., a rollicking laffer about the cutthroat voiceover biz in Los Angeles, she proves herself a comedy screenwriter to be reckoned with.

The policy follows years of worrying, after NIH's budget flattened in 2003, about cutthroat competition for funding and the need to stretch NIH's budget to support more labs.

If anything, they see the current upheaval being about cutthroat competition that will hasten the onset of «grid parity» — the day when solar can compete on a level playing field against other energy sources.

Not exact matches

All this was accomplished by building a corporate culture aimed at making running about camaraderie rather than cutthroat competition.

Ann Curry, another former «Today» cohost who left the show after just about one year «felt that the boys» club atmosphere behind the scenes at Today undermined her from the start, and she told friends that her final months were a form of professional torture,» according to Brian Stelter's 2014 book «Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV.»

In the age - old stereotypes about the business world, competition is always cutthroat, corners exist to be cut, companies are eternally at war with one another, and the bottom line is all that matters.

«You're talking about one of the most cutthroat businesses in the world,» he says, pointing out that dessert is the last thing a diner eats before leaving the tip.

Unfortunately, that is what happened, and it led to two myths about evolution that persist today: that there is a prescient directionality to evolution and that survival depends entirely on cutthroat competitive fitness.

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LANGUAGE 5 - About 7 F - words, 2 scatological terms, 17 mild obscenities, name - calling (Red, savages, cutthroat, bastards, butcher, pasty face, belligerents, rattle snake people, demons, Frenchy, animals, retched savages), 5 religious profanities (GD), 7 religious exclamations (Oh Dear God, Lord Willing, Good Lord, Oh God, Jesus, a man says a prayer over the graves of a woman's family members).

To distract us from that inconvenient fact, in «Cutthroat Island,» Harlin finds a way to shoot at, explode or otherwise destroy just about everything in his line of vision.

At first, Marty appears to be the unlikeliest possible choice but, with the help of his new benefactors» support, a cutthroat campaign manager and his family's political connections, he soon becomes a contender who gives the charismatic Cam plenty to worry about.

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

The first was, of course, «Cutthroat Island,» a movie so phenomenally unsuccessful it sunk Carolco Pictures and likely had the nabobs at New Line nervous about the $ 65 million they gave them for this.

Syrup (R for profanity, sexual references and brief drug use) Screen adaptation of Max Barry's dark novel of the same name about a slacker (Shiloh Fernandez) who has to trust a cutthroat marketing executive (Amber Heard) if his million - dollar idea is to have any hope of succeeding.

Granted, we're talking about one of the best bad - movie directors of all time («Cutthroat Island,» «Driven,» «Deep Blue Sea»), so no one was expecting much from him to begin with... and he still under - delivered.

Or does it promise something cheekier, a scathing satire about how truly cutthroat corporate culture can be?

Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world.

The film is about a voice actor who tries to find her voice in a cutthroat world of movie trailer voice - overs.

The film is based on a story by Russell Adams published by The Wall Street Journal in 2013, titled «Tag, He's «It» for Another Year,» about a group of friends who have been playing a cutthroat version of the children's game for the last 30 years.

Red Water (August 17; 8 to 10 p.m.; TBS), with Lou Diamond Phillips as a Louisiana riverboat captain and Kristy Swanson as his scientist ex-wife, seems about to blame some of the carnage that occurs in this movie on an oil company as well as a bull shark, but then retreats to blaming Coolio and a gang of treasure - hunting cutthroats.

Fortunately, the carrot - chomping hobo happens to be a military veteran well - versed in weapons and martial arts combat, a set of skills about to come in very handy since he's just unknowingly ticked - off Hertz (Paul Giamatti), a ruthless mobster with a gang of cutthroat assassins.

At first, Marty appears to be the unlikeliest possible choice but, with the help of his new benefactors» support and a cutthroat campaign manager, he soon becomes a contender who gives the charismatic Cam plenty to worry about.

Like Christopher Guest's «Best in Show,» this is a story about middle - class Americans passionately seeking to outdo each other, with a gallery of brilliant improv actors making small fights into a cutthroat competition.

All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz): «Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night,» says diva supreme Bette Davis in this immortal take on the freaks of the theater, including Anne Baxter as Davis» cutthroat protégée, George Sanders as an acerbic critic and the young Marilyn Monroe as a budding talent who trained, claims the critic, «at the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts.»

If Klaus Badelt turned pirate scores into electro - orchestral rock operas with the «Caribbean» movies, «Cutthroat Island» stands tall as a last, defiant gasp to the old - school symphonic way of playing brigands in all of their unapologetically symphonic glory, as accompanied by Jeff Bond's entertainingly blunt notes about Carolco's sinking ship.

The H3 is ultimately more about image than practicality, and it will be interesting to see if the market in this cutthroat segment appreciates the value of the Hummer name over the readier usability and better tech offerings of competitors such as the Nissan Murano.

She longs for the types of sisterly relationships she's read about in books, but life hands her cutthroat Odalie; she is essentially jolted into modernity.

«The world of high finance provides a thrilling setting for Hemphill's fine debut about survival in a cutthroat business where millions of dollars are at stake and the wrong comment can cost you your job.»

What most people don't realize about the Amazon - Hachette dispute is that there are two issues involved: (1) Traditional publishing has problems with the way publishers treat authors (those profit margins come out of advances and royalties), and (2) Amazon's cutthroat business practices.

NYC About Blog Glamazons Blog covers the highs and lows of their journey as two small town girls trying to make it in New York's cutthroat publishing industry.

I only had about three minutes to spend with Cutthroat Gunboat due to its multiplayer nature and the line that formed behind me to play it, but those were three minutes well spent.

There has been a fair amount of debate in the adventure gaming community about the direction the industry is going and what must be done in order for the adventure genre to survive in an increasingly cutthroat marketplace.

«After an art history lesson up through Barbara Kruger, Hans Haacke and Jeff Koons, Rothko finally concludes that regional painting «isn't about a specific look or style» but «an argument for an alternative model,» advocating for community instead of academic esotericism and rigorous contemplation instead of cutthroat competition.»

«Graceful» is not how the transition seems to be happening, according to Scheiber, who describes a cutthroat environment where everyone is trying to undermine everyone else, and management is basically helpless to do anything about it.

I have only had one pleasant encounter with a farmer out of about 8 years of MMO's, the rest were cutthroat encounters while they tried to annoy me away.

But how on Earth can you go about getting one of them with such cutthroat competition?

NYC About Blog Glamazons Blog covers the highs and lows of their journey as two small town girls trying to make it in New York's cutthroat publishing industry.

There's just something so old - school cool about gathering around with friends and family for a late - night game of cutthroat Boggle.