Sentences with phrase «as good bedfellows»

Poor driving skills and fast cars are as good bedfellows as water and electricity — in other words, the results are often dangerous.

Not exact matches

The two are well matched bedfellows in this day and age, as the Hollywood romanticisation of the gunslingers and the west has been replaced with grit and grime, reminding us that these were not great times to be alive in.

The two make good bedfellows for Pasolini and the addition of Willem Dafoe to the triumvirate results in a film full of brains, as well as a good amount of bodily display.

Based on James Ellroy's novel, LA Confidential is a modern noirish tale of how police corruption and the flourishing of organized crime go hand in hand, as well as how public decisions are dictated by public image, strange bedfellows, and the allure of the Hollywood glamour industry.

Such a brass - tacks perspective would seem to make Forge's pointillist abstractions strange bedfellows with the all - white paintings of the American pragmatist Robert Ryman — both artists approach each new work as tabula rasa, an unpremeditated engagement with the empty surface (in a 1985 interview, Forge cites Monet's claim that he painted «as though he were a blind man who had just recovered his sight»)-- but there is an experiential connection as well.

And by the same token, it could be argued just as easily that demands for acting on the best scientific evidence and scientific opinion makes bedfellows of greens and the eugenicists of the early - mid 20th century.

In the US, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer (via CCH) see themselves as rivals in the tax market, where LexisNexis is less visible but WK's weakness in law suggests that LexisNexis and WK would be good bedfellows to counter TR / Westlaw.