Sentences with phrase «as valiant»

They are then in battle - mode, inspired to see themselves as valiant heroes, even though it isn't true.

However, Toad is not nearly as valiant in the games: his fear of Bowser is much more pronounced than in the cartoons, and he often ending up kidnapped just the same as Peach, or is simply reduced to running to the Mario Bros. for help.

Editor Max Moeller reviewed Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus last year and described the game as a valiant sequel that still manages to draw you in.

If NX sells as well as the valiant PS 4, it will outsell the XBone in 18 months, but the PS 4 will still be 3 + years away... The NX will inevitably start reeling the XBone in, there will be talk of 1080p from Nintendo and the XBone's humiliation starts all over again... Evil «Phil» and XBones will say, «Just wait until the Scorpio is released!»

A graduate of Temple University, Zach McAleese began his career with Infinity's audio department and now works as our valiant book formatter.

Do we really need it spelled out for us that Drillbit is as much in need of rescuing as our valiant Three Stooges?

«It is therefore expected of you as valiant Youths to brace up for the challenges ahead from this outset as you embark on National re-orientation and development.»

On the 21st day, the remaining 58 cyclists (out of 120 starters) rode finally toward the Paris finish, «united in their lassitude, having endured their private hell as valiant athletes.»

Not exact matches

However, while many business owners are making valiant attempts to position themselves as thought leaders, their efforts often fall short because of one key reason: credibility (or lack thereof).

Everyone feels the need to be recognized as an individual or member of a group and to feel a sense of achievement for work well done or even for a valiant effort.

James Bradley makes a valiant attempt to solve within Whitehead's basic terms the problem Jones has suggested needed a solution, but there is little doubt Jones would regard Bradley's solution as too heavily» reliant upon numerical unity», and therefore abstract.

Even now, more than ten years later, I remain awed by their valiant struggle, mounted at great personal cost: drained finances, lost privacy, media scorn, impugned motives, death threats — and eventually Bob's death, which the family believes was caused by the stress of watching helplessly as his daughter died by court order.

Atheism is valiant as well — simply because we don't know where we are going after this — maybe nowhere.

Even when we think we have it all figured out, might we too change our minds, as did Queen Orual (at the end of her life), Queen of Glome «who was the most wise, just, valiant, fortunate and merciful of all the princes known in our parts of the world», as attested by Arnom, priest of Aphrodite.

Others, like the ancient Pharisees, prompted by equally noble motives, are making valiant efforts to keep the church structures buoyant and active by winning converts from the lost world as occasion offers.

When Pope Francis arrives in America next month, he will undoubtedly find a very different country than did Paul VI, John Paul II, or Benedict XVI.In the past decade, the culture of death has gained momentum (even as pro-life marches and valiant efforts to chip away at it continue), the sexual....

Any human attempt to build unity, no matter how valiant and well intended, will fall far short of the spiritual structure that has Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone.

As the conversation dragged on, Dave made a valiant attempt to save the chicken.

Not quite as good as Jerome Simpson's flip with the Bengals, but this was a valiant effort by Bears wide receiver Earl Bennett to somersault in for the score.

England fought back from Sunday's semi-final disappointment to secure a valiant bronze as the Commonwealth Games mixed team event drew to a close on the Gold Coast.

Pompey were valiant in their efforts last weekend though as they nearly halted Aston Villa's push for European football.

We were, of course, involved in the game that effectively decided the title over the weekend as our boys put in a valiant performance in the 0 - 0 draw with United.

Remember to praise your child for a job well done, as well as for putting forth a valiant effort.

But even as I'm forced to take sides in a fight which pits the needs of kids against the leading trade group for school food workers, I try to regularly remind everyone that those workers themselves are doing a valiant job under difficult circumstances.

However, despite the valiant efforts of left Rawlsians to press down hard on pre-distribution and force it to yield some radical implications (O'Neill and Williamson, 2012; Doron, 2012), in Miliband's formulation it seems a weak reed, relying on labour market interventions such as education and training to alter distributional outcomes.

Interestingly, many years after the fact, I am now being described as part of a team of «valiant persons».

Historians may look back on the Coalition as a bold but flawed attempt by Messrs Cameron and Osborne to frustrate the realignment of the Left of which Roy Jenkins dreamed: Mr Cameron's Sunday Times (#) article yesterday was a valiant attempt to keep it going.

Therefore as a true son of a valiant father, I hereby humbly but strongly appeal to you not to contemplate leaving the house that we are jointly trying to roof, just before the raining season».

David Cameron's negotiation was a valiant final attempt to make it work for Britain - and I want to thank all those elsewhere in Europe who helped him reach an agreement - but the blunt truth, as we know, is that there was not enough flexibility on many important matters for a majority of British voters.

Nevertheless, the new standard may seem like a valiant (a mediocre Plymouth I drove in the 1970s) initiative on the horizon (a truly lousy Plymouth I owned in the 1980s) to make the country a bit less reliant (a crummy Plymouth I somehow avoided) on foreign oil, as well as less polluting and more innovative.

The passage also aptly described the situation faced by the scientists at BP, such as vice president of engineering Paul Tooms or vice president and engineer Richard Lynch, who seemed incapable of determining how much oil was actually flowing and figuring out how to stop it despite valiant efforts.

Although years of rock»em, sock»em adventures have branded comic books as lightweight entertainment for children, Jay Hosler and Jim Ottaviani have staged a valiant defense of the medium.

First it was as a VERY stiff salve only loosened with a bit of avocado oil to rub into my chronically abused cuticles in a valiant attempt to at least heal them enough to handle salt and lemon in the kitchen (yes I have a lifelong nibbling habit.)

Overall the game makes a valiant attempt to be something «hip» and new but falls flat and ends up being what i can describe as a boring version of «The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt», if you think of playing this game and haven't played the Witcher 3, please take my advice and play that instead and whilst this may sound spiteful (take it as constructive criticism), anyone who give the game a 10 out of 10 is clearly blind to any of its many flaws.

As Brashear's displays of valiant will are the film's raison d'etre, everyone around him tends to showcase his greatness and / or learn by his example, from Pappy to Sunday to fellow diving student Snowhill (Michael Rapaport), whose life Brashear saves.

Despite a warmly interacting cast that includes Jennifer Ehle as Emily's sister and Keith Carradine as her lion - maned, lionized father, and a valiant effort on the part of Nixon and Davies to externalize the poet's inner demons in emotional, high - tension scenes, the film can't escape an underlying static quality that extinguishes the flame before it can get burning.

As he delves ever deeper into the case, he arrives at the sudden, shocking conclusion that he knew each of the women, and worries that he might have rubbed them out in a drunken state, as he concurrently (and paradoxically) makes valiant attempts to reach the next victim before the killeAs he delves ever deeper into the case, he arrives at the sudden, shocking conclusion that he knew each of the women, and worries that he might have rubbed them out in a drunken state, as he concurrently (and paradoxically) makes valiant attempts to reach the next victim before the killeas he concurrently (and paradoxically) makes valiant attempts to reach the next victim before the killer.

But Submission — despite valiant performances from Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin as the parties involved — lacks the spark it needs to spring to life.

Even its lavish 70th birthday celebrations (guests included Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Charlize Theron and Claudia Cardinale) seemed a valiant attempt to enshrine the festival's past, perhaps as a means of safeguarding its future.

And for the Mad Titan's part, Infinity War offers a valiant effort to develop his character so as not to fall into the underdeveloped Marvel villain trap.

It was a valiant effort, but as Fraser might say, it was «doomed» to fail.

With their home world of Auir overrun by Zerg, the valiant Protoss, led by their stalwart leader Artanis, must gather whatever resources and allies that they can in order to face down the dark Xel «Naga god Amon, a being which seeks to eradicate all life as part of a twisted plan to «purify» the universe and start anew.

The Main Menu of Porco features the valiant pig as he flies through the clouds, which eventually give way to show the menu's listing.

As battles progress, bosses adapt their attacks to hide their weak points, providing a healthy splattering of challenge that's sure to keep even the most valiant of agents on their toes.

In part two of our August social night episode, our valiant heroes battle thirst and fatigue to hunt with as many people as possible.

That didn't completely prevent trolls from doing so, however it used to be nonetheless a valiant try via the corporate to keep the secrecy of the film so long as they did.

One of Capcom's most classic games, Ghosts «n Goblins finds players taking the role of as Sir Arthur, a valiant knight fighting monsters in order to free the princess from the Demon King.

David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is on his way to a meeting with a client way out woop - woop, driving his nice and shiny new red Plymouth (much like the valiant my father used to own) when a short «incident» with a very run down truck triggers off a sequence of events that can only really be described as pre-meditated road rage.

At least Bates, handed the plum role of a loud - mouthed lesbian arsonist, makes a valiant effort at cementing Tammy as some kind of future camp novelty; surely no one can claim the world is worse off now that footage exists of Bates conducting a Viking funeral for a jet ski.

It really feels beneath her, to be honest, as does the repetitive emptiness of «Pynk» and the club - vibe of «I Got the Juice», which, despite its multilayered flamboyance and valiant gendered assertions, is similarly superficial.