Sentences with phrase «as swan songs»

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As far as swan songs go, Two Tribes did a great job.

In terms of the Gestalt I have proposed here, I can describe that as the swan song of the Niebuhrian generation.

It looks like his league contributions will be practically non-existent between now and his seemingly inevitable departure in January, so the League Cup is the best he's going to get as far as a swan song in red and white is concerned.

Lucasfilm has wisely decided against using the uncanny valley CGI necromancy they did on Peter Cushing in Rogue One for Fisher, so it'll be a send - off for the character as well as a swan song for the beloved actress.

And everyone involved with the movie has sold it as a swan song — the closing chapter of a trilogy, and one...

Along with the Japanese - market Evo Final Edition, a special U.S. - market Final Edition version of the 2015 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution will have a limited run of 1,600 examples as a swan song for the rally - bred performance car.

But before the all - new GT - R takes center stage, Nissan will bring out a hardcore NISMO version of the R35 as a swan song.

Many are claiming that it's a 2018 Corvette ZR1 that will be offered as a swan song to the C7 program in advance of a mid-engine C8 Corvette that will launch in 2019.

This is expected to be one of the first big games for Nintendo's new console, the Switch, as well as a swan song for the Wii U.

During development, Awakening was prepared as the swan song of a franchise with declining sales, but pulling out all the stops not only saved the series but also made this game one of the best RPGs ever made.

Whether or not this stands as the swan song of the demo disc is something that remains to be seen.

Further, in an age when cameras are incessantly used, this exhibition — which has been organized by Roxana Marcoci of the Modern; Matthew S. Witkovsky of the Art Institute of Chicago, where it was first seen; and Mark Godfrey of the Tate Modern, in London — can also read as a swan song for old - time photography in all its fastidious gorgeousness and endless minutiae, as art, craft, science and commerce.

Michael C. McMillen: Train of Thought As his swan song project, Oakland Museum of California curator Philip Linhares entertainingly surveyed his Southern Californian friend Michael McMillen's prolific invention.

As my swan song in the Obama Administration, I led the development of the President's Memorandum on Climate Change and National Security.

Not exact matches

Aquinas sat a moment, mind withdrawn From his mouth's taste of buttered loaves, the song Without, the wish for more wood in the fire To clear the frost from stone or to admire The cool swift brilliance of all he said As a swan plumes its white and well - turned head.

But he goes on: «When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.»

But this was in effect the swan song of the Q community, as it was absorbed into the gentile - Christian church, except for holdouts who returned to the baptist movement or to emergent normative Judaism, or became small Christian sects that we, on the winning side, call heresies: the Ebionites, meaning the «Poor,» or the Nazarenes, claiming Jesus of Nazara.

Liverpool are also believed to have enquired about a possible swan - song return to Anfield for Gerrard in the winter as the MLS takes a mid-season break.

... its looking everyday towards us retaining the services of most of these players as if to tell them to prove themselves as deserving to wear the arsenal jersey or else they wont feature in wenger's final year swan song.

But as a captain in his swan song year, his behaviour seems a bit inappropriate to me given the magnitude of this game.

Mack Brown will remember the Alamo as his bowl swan song and Texas is a huge underdog to Oregon on the Alamo Bowl odds menu.

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It will be interesting, however, to see the financial details of this deal, both in terms of his salary (which has been reported to be as low as one or two million) and the marketing / merchandising rights for this unprecedented swan song.

In what appears to be retiring Heartland director Joe Bast's swan song, things are not going as planned.

I went out with a girl last night, as sort of a «swan song» for my single - hood.

With Side Effects as Steven Soderbergh's cinematic swan song, we rank up the works of the retiring director.

A shorter six - episode Series 5 serves as the show's swan song, but before «Warehouse 13» closes up shop there are loose ends that need to be tied up, beginning when Artie (Saul Rubinek) and Co. set out to defeat the evil genius Paracelsus (Anthony Head).

So it's a remarkable gift to fans and cinephiles that Lucky serves as a first - rate showcase for its star as well as an ideal swan song.»

Next Wednesday afternoon, as part of its Stage on Screen series, the Avon Theatre Film Center, in Stamford, Connecticut, presents one of cinema's most intimate explorations of theatrical craft, Louis Malle's 1994 swan song Vanya on 42nd Street.

The Phantom Pain, an open - world stealth game about the adventures of Big Boss, also known as Snake, seems to be his unexpected swan song.

From both the tone and content of the movie itself, we'd guess this could be his swan song: This is a film that gathers all the great — and some of the not - so - great — things about the three previous Craig - as - Bond chapters into one rousing, spectacular, scattershot and somewhat overextended victory lap.

«Phantom Thread» — Paul Thomas Anderson's cold and elegantly visualized art house study of obsession constitutes an ideal swan song for Daniel Day - Lewis» acting career, as he has claimed.

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is the swan song of this franchise on the Nintendo 3DS as the developers...

Rather than draw out their long goodbyes in a single sitting, as Peter Jackson's Hobbits did in his too - long Lord of the Rings finale, Team Harry's swan song will unfold in two parts, a decision dismissed in some quarters as purely a marketing strategy.

Charles Laughton's brilliant introduction (and also swan song) as a film director, which is a terrible loss for all of us.

His swan song, Parade, sorely underrated by the small number of critics who've actually seen it, was a clean break from Hulot, and as such, feels more free than anything else Tati ever made — it's a difficult film for people who may be expecting another lighthearted, whimsical comedy, instead of an experimental film that uses a circus performance as its foundation, but in its own way, it's the ultimate Tati, an undiluted expression of what he loved to do and to see, and what hats to put on.

He also co-wrote The Force Awakens, which stands as Harrison Ford's swan song in the role.

Absolutely absorbing and diabolically clever, the film serves as a fitting theatrical swan song for Steven Soderbergh.

But in terms of its bleak finality, it makes for one hell of a swan song, operating as a meticulous, concentric metaphor for the slow decay and eventual death of animals, people, families, language, countries, political systems — the whole bit.

Michael Douglas takes the lead as the late extravagant showman Liberace in Steven Soderbergh's possible swan - song, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA.

Making the rounds of the Web - fed platforms is this piece from and starring Fred Armisen — late of «Saturday Night Live» and still of «Portlandia» — as Ian Rubbish, the 1970s bottle - blond British punk rocker he introduced in an April edition of «SNL» and brought back for his swan song in May, with an indie - history supergroup that featured Steve Jones, Kim Gordon, J. Mascios, Aimee Mann and Michael Penn..

Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread» is more than just the swan song for an awards - worthy Daniel Day - Lewis, who stars as fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock.

There are also more than enough heartrending scenes as several characters sing their respective swan songs to bring this particular film saga to a fitful conclusion.

Serkis is currently the talk of more Oscar buzz for his swan song as Caesar in the final leg of the current Apes trilogy, War For The Planet Of The Apes.

I look forward to his swan song, as well as looking back through the scores of earlier films yet to be released in the U.S. Until then, I can lose myself in this magnificent production, which I chose as the best film of 2011, and the beautifully mastered Blu - ray presentation of Ruiz's elegant images.

Hugh Jackman gave a stunning and raw performance as Wolverine in his swan song as the character in last year's Logan.

The whole gang is back, including director Daniel Alfredson, who helmed The Girl Who Played With Fire, Michael Nyqvist, who plays Blomkvist, and last but by no means leastNoomi Rapace who sings her swan song as the indefatigable pierced, tattooed, lethal cyber-witch, Lisbeth Salander.

This new Adventure trim comes just as this generation RAV4 is entering its swan song ahead of the launch of the all - new RAV4 for 2019.

Sadly, 1993 would be the swan song for the SE as an exclusive, high content, limited edition Accord model.