Sentences with phrase «as heady»

The ideas involved in this piece are as heady as the actual composition is fun.

But perhaps their words in the Showdown panel where they pit it against the original Devil May Cry describes DmC best: «Despite not making as heady an impact as the original, rebooted DmC is still a bloody fantastic action game»

He's written about topics as heady and diverse as grown men and women fake fighting over fictional grievances, books about dragons and millionaire playboys that dress as bats.

In the meantime, however, the atmosphere the three create among themselves is as heady as the smell of hashish on a Parisian back alley.

These are some of the pressing and weighty issues brewing in «War for the Planet of the Apes,» a film that has no right to be as heady or emotionally engaging as it is.

Lost masterpieces are rarely as heady, harrowing and curt as Dorthy Arzner's proto - feminist pre-code melo about a couple engaging in a ruinous ménage à trois with the demon drink.

Tekno's absence was to be expected though, as the Headies had withdrawn his nomination for the Next Rated Category.

WHY: You'd be hard - pressed to find many people who list «Punch - Drunk Love» as their favorite Paul Thomas Anderson movie, and that's largely because there's not as much to bite into as his headier and more provocative films.

Not exact matches

For all the heady talk about universal health coverage and / or «Medicare for all,» companies know they're stuck holding a good chunk of the national $ 3.3 trillion medical bill — a bill that has been growing like a parasitic «tapeworm,» as Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett described it in the companies» joint press release.

Greed is good, as the oft - paraphrased Gordon Gecko saying goes, in these heady days of Canadian media.

But — as Recode can now report, because we still do that quaint journalism thing — is a very heady group of less than a dozen, comprising most of the key players in the sector.

The company's net worth had soared as the market gave it a higher and higher price, or multiple, on its earnings power in its heady late 1990s under the tenure of the legendary Jack Welch.

The move seeks to capitalize on robust investor enthusiasm for Chinese tech stocks which have pushed valuations to heady levels for many firms, as well as on rapid growth in demand for commercial - use drones.

Still, in a Tatler interview in 2015, Clark was definitely hopped up on the Uber Kool - Aid, as were many in those headier years: «This is the most impressive set of people I have ever come across, so many future leaders of Fortune 500 companies are going to come from Uber.»

As growth slowed from the heady days of the 90's, they also became pretty decent dividend growth stocks.

As the slumping economies have underscored the continent's growing vulnerability to changes in China, they have quieted much of the heady talk of «Africa rising,» a catchphrase that symbolized the continent's fortunes.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

When government officials begin to say such things, as ours clearly have, then that is the time for challenge, because when a government does that, it is beginning to play God over our lives, and the taste of such identification is a very heady thing.

Johnson sometimes tags his music posts as Sunday Morning Coming Down, and his music posts are far more straightforward than my egg - heady Songbook ones, and much more about what's good in music, particularly in live music today.

Indeed, according to writers and scientists such as Pierre Duhem, Stanley Jaki and Peter Hodgson, science in the modern sense of the word took root in the late Middle Ages, fuelled by a heady mix ofChristian theology and the newly rediscovered riches of Greek philosophy and mathematics.

But for now this eloquent priest has fascinating stories to tell about how he moved from heady days of substance abuse and huge success as part of a chart - topping band («the best of times and the worst of times») to encountering God and becoming a priest.

An idle, aging king in the heady, evening air of a Jerusalem springtime; the beautiful Bathsheba and her incorruptible husband Uriah; the king's prompt, efficient, confident steps to cover the results of his lustful intoxication; Uriah's integrity as soldier and his unwitting and ultimately fatal frustration of David's self - protective scheme merely by the virtue of his extreme loyalty to his compatriots still in the field; David's unhesitating but premeditated resort to murder; the complicity of Joab, always intensely, blindly loyal to David; and continuing this picture of the king's total moral collapse in steps of progressive deterioration, David's calloused words of reassurance to Joab, «Do not let this matter trouble you...»; and at last the consummation of the whole sorry episode when Bathsheba is added to David's harem and another son added to his progeny.

Now as an arty egg - heady guy I can relate to the need (and sometimes temptation) to brood alone, but what I particularly notice is that this music often oscillates, as much of the classic 60s art pop did, between rhythmically simplistic evocations of lonely - ish innocence, say, the Mo Tucker and Marine Girls moments, and a-rhythmic plunges into enervated hopelessness, say, the The Loneliest Person in the World moments.

At war's end, something would begin to happen to the rest of America, too: something that would take more than a decade to manifest itself but that had probably been brewing — as Norman Mailer might say, in the American psychic underground — since the first heady days of victory.

I had not tried reducing red wine with sugar before and the heady aroma was such a delight, and cooking pure cream that came out of a box that said «creme excellence» gosh... all together this was one of those dishes that pleases your senses so much as you work through it, and the end result was great too... thanks!!

Mushroom and lemon are a pairing made in heaven, and I especially like the way he adds the lemon elements as garnishes, so that the heady aroma is released as the diner swirls them into the soup.

Ours is made with a traditional tomato base, but a heady dose of Indian spices (coriander, cumin, brown mustard), as well as grated ginger, honey and chopped shallot, give it a depth of flavor that works wonders on steak, chicken and even grilled tofu kebabs.

We had some beautiful mushrooms left over from Urbis Design Day (grown in our office) so I teamed these with a sharp goats feta and heady caraway seeds and stuffed it into the bread as I was plaiting.

I just made these, and the heady fragrance of fresh rosemary and roasted nuts fills my house as I type.

A vintage Cindy Crawford poster watches as a spice - hungry crowd fills up on northern Thai street food like fatty grilled pig neck, fiery salads, and a ton of heady curries.

As the crumble bakes, the prunes break down adding a rich and winey flavor, further amplified by a heady trio of spices — cinnamon, cardamom and nutmeg.

The simple ingredient list (and the rotisserie chicken option) make for a speedy assembly... but instead I find myself lingering, allowing the heady scent of the herbs to consume me as I carefully pluck each leaf from its stem.

Yale came up with somebody to shout about as Quarterback Brian Dowling (above) climaxed a heady season by beating rambunctious Harvard with a long, long last - chance pass that was The Play of The Game

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Here one can start the day with a «coretto» for courage (a heady mixture of coffee and grappa), then try such slopes as the Forcella del Sasso Lungo — where you can see the world spread out in wide screen — or the Val de Mesdi, so steep at the top (a 4,000 - foot drop in two miles) that you jump right out of your socks to make a turn.

Jackson's heady, steady style had come to be viewed as so anachronistic that he had been traded three times in the last four seasons.

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Back in the heady days of 2012, it was pitched as AT&T Park to the south, a dazzling new theater to showcase all that's best about the Bay Area.

But more important than all this was the prestige which Eddie Arcaro had built up as the foremost race rider of his generation, the smartest, the trickiest, the headiest — and the hungriest when the heavy green bills are waiting to be picked up in the winner's circle.

Valencia finished in the top four 5 times in 7 seasons between 2005 and 2012, though such heady days remain a distant memory as on - pitch success has been compromised by outrageous debt and the financial mess that envelopes the club off the field.

These are heady and unprecedented times for Everton fans as the club spends freely in the transfer market.

Rather than crumbling, as Arsenal midfields have been wont to do in the past two years, the Ramsey - Xhaka midfield could give Arsenal the structure to play away from home, much like a pairing of Mikel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey once did, in the heady days of 2013 and victories at Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

He began 45 matches in all competitions, establishing himself as one of the first names on Conte's team sheet; Pogba scored seven goals and provided seven assists in the league, with his heady blend of technical and physical gifts coming to the fore as Conte's relentless Juventus side broke the 100 - point barrier to win the league by a sizeable margin of 17 points.

Griezmann has scored 15 goals this season in the Rojiblancos of Atléti but hasn't hit the heady heights of the last two years, when Diego Simeone's side challenged for La Liga as well as the Champions League.

Linked to the idea of English devolution as an answer to Scottish «home rule» this has become a heady brew.

As she settled into No. 10 this theme of social reform became ever more prominent with heady discussions in the media of the Tories renaming themselves the «Workers Party» and of them having «parked their tanks on Jeremy Corbyn's lawn».

Cautiously stated, with the usual academic caveats set aside for the quibbler tribe which thrives in universities, the final assessment is that «the heady drumbeat of political and managerial rhetoric surrounding successive makeovers of central government» was — as I've long suspected, but our two respectable academic authors couldn't possibly say — all balls.

As the next general election approaches, the heady highs of partisanship will become ever more alluring to even the most pesky of Tory backbenchers.

I got to know in the heady days of his work with the Deloitte and Touche company, even as the fracas over the probe into his dealings with Dr. William Adda (former CEO of the State Enterprises Commission).

Finally, a photograph detailing Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote as the one behind the reconciliation of Olamide and Don Jazzy's following a mega rift which occurred between the two at the 10th Headies awards on January 1, 2016.