Sentences with phrase «as wily»

Organized by gallery archivist Natalie Campbell, it includes such participating artists as wily naïf Joe Bradley, «Greater New York» painter Zak Prekop, and the unstoppable Amy Sillman.

«Witness for the Prosecution» (1957, Billy Wilder) From the famous Agatha Christie short story, Billy Wilder expertly fashions one of the screen's trickiest trial - drama / murder mysteries — with Charles Laughton as the wily, wheelchair - bound barrister, his real - life wife Elsa Lanchester as his long - suffering nurse, and Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich as the incendiary couple caught up in a legendary triple - reverse surprise ending.

As a wily U.S. marshal on Justified, no one has more swagger than Timothy Olyphant.

Its performances, starting with Alden Ehrenreich as the young Han Solo and extending to the film - stealing Donald Glover as his wily frenemy Lando Calrissian, are consistently entertaining.

Before being cast, Hoffman has finished his Broadway run as Wily Loman in the revival of «Death of a Salesman,» which earned him a Tony Award nomination.

Whether you know him as wily Ryan O'Reily on the lost, lamented prison drama Oz, or as Denis Leary's younger brother on Rescue Me, or Dennis on the hit comedy, 30 Rock, Dean Winters is one of the most recognisable faces on television.

Connery and Pfeiffer are both excellent, but much of the film's pleasure comes from watching the consummate pros filling out the roles of various bureaucrats, among them James Fox (as a perceptive MI6 head), Roy Scheider (as a wily CIA chief) and director Ken Russell (as an excitable British official — and amusingly looking like Bernie Sanders with bedhead).

Chadwick Boseman is excellent as Jackie Robinson while Harrison Ford is clearly having fun as the wily Dogders» director.

Robert Duvall was superb in «Open Range» as the wily old rancher who ends up in a gunfight for his life with his friend, played by the also fantastic Kevin Costner, by his side.

One year later, spirited youngster d'Artagnan (Logan Lerman, Gamer) makes their acquaintance, as their wily ways are called upon to save the sovereign from the machinations of self - serving Cardinal Richelieu (Christoph Waltz, Water for Elephants).

The cast all do well, Gambon, Nighy, Jones, and Harrison all do their best with the sub-standard script, and did make me chuckle begrudgingly a few times, and Zeta - Jones does extremely well as the wily femme fatale, using her good looks and charm to get the information she needs from the oafish men of the town.

From his Broadway debut as a wily suitor in «The Heiress,» to playing a cross-dressing dad in the critically acclaimed «High Maintenance» web series, a homicidal maniac in the horror - adventure «The Guest,» and now a...

Caesar And Cleopatra (1945), the most expensive British production of its day, is a gorgeous Technicolor spectacle centered by a mesmerizing performance from Claude Rains as the wily Caesar and featuring a kittenish Vivien Leigh trying to play a teenager and almost succeeding on pure performance.

Joe Wright's «Darkest Hour» was Telluride's surefire Oscar contender, and Gary Oldman as a wily and messy Winston Churchill is the one to beat for Best Actor (not to mention Hair and Makeup).

In the midst of a late - career resurgence, with «Grace and Frankie» (Netflix) and Oscar buzz for her performance in «Grandma,» Tomlin's exactly the shape - shifting comedienne to assume Reiner's role as the wily veteran.

The movie also gets a lift from Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a wily Southern G - man, trying to contain the monster damage, and Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy, as the brother - sister team behind the mayhem.

Carver needs a foil, and even a bit of a conscience, and he finds both in Nash, played by Garfield as a wily, adaptable but increasingly haunted good man.

Yong cast light on the microbe Wolbachia as a wily and versatile bacterium now widespread across the planet.

* Nevada (D): Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is as wily a politician as there is operating in national politics today.

Sailing towards what would be an unprecedented 19th English league title, Sir Alex could afford to rest a number of important players for Saturday's clash with Fulham at Old Trafford as the wily Scot sent out an intimidating message to Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti — that not only is he intent on taking the Premier League title away from the West London club, he also wants to dump the Blues out of Europe en route to a potential final in Chelsea's own backyard.

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Gaming is about to break down the barriers between the real world and fantasy, thanks to devices that will read your thoughts, gestures, and expressions; project gaming action onto the streets around you; and populate these quasi-real worlds not only with your distant gaming buddies but with characters that seem as real and wily as Ben from Lost.

He might well have pointed more sharply to his own wily juxtaposition of signs in the novel, that of the movie's illusion of reality and the moment's encounter of the black man on the church steps, the sign of the cross smudged on his forehead with the ashes of the inescapable exile in the wandering season of Lent that is man's lot as homo viator.

For you too, as for all lands, the struggle, the traitor, the wily person in office, scrofulous wealth, the surfeit of prosperity, the demonism of greed, the hell of passion, the decay of faith, the long postponement, the fossil - like lethargy, the ceaseless need of revolutions, prophets, thunderstorms, deaths, births, new projections and invigorations of ideas and men.1

The Law society, in other words, has given «guidance» to its members as to how to draft wills in a way which circumvents English legal principles as they have always been accepted: and it envisages that this might even mean taking on the English law in court to see if their wily little legal tricks have been successful: a perfect example of an attempt to make the letter of the law prevail over its spirit: Christians will remember that, according to St Paul (2 Corinthians 3:6), «the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life».

As a result, prisoners simply continue their addiction in prison, where drugs are plentiful thanks to corrupt guards and wily visitors.

Paul envisions the life of believers, individually and corporately, as a grace - full «war» against an age marked by darkness — exploitation, subjugation, enslavement — a struggle in which the «Christ weapons» are made of light: zealous love of strangers and enemies, wily grace, inventive nonretaliation.

Caxton's prose may well strike us as courtly, decorous, expansive, big - hearted — rather as if Lancelot from his beloved Morte D'Arthur were regaling ladies with the merry tales of the wily fox and his less witty victims.

As the Pharisees of old, Having secured control of their money, the wily schemers used it for their own benefit.

The idea that it is within man's grasp to become like the gods (and so attain immortality) is now set in the mouth of the wily serpent as the very temptation most likely to lead the woman astray.

«It's harder than it sounds as they are wily, and a tough fighter.

lacazette will have to be fit, adaptable and wily as a fox if he's to distinguish himself in the epl.

It makes life that more difficult for them as no sane defender can afford to let this predatory wily fox roam around in the box unattended.

Personnel-wise, the wily old fox picked five of the same players to Crooks, however his team certainly looked to have more balance to it, as he settled for a good old - fashioned 4 -4-2, using players in their actual positions!

After a lively and encouraging opening five minutes led by the wily, bullish forward play of the occasionally unstoppable Romelu Lukaku, and some promising signs from Marcus Rashford despite being shifted out to the right wing, the game turned into one which may as well have been held at a neutral venue.

But Wolves soon took control as Derby were caught completely flat - footed when Wolves central defender Wily Boly lofted the ball over the defence from the halfway line.

A solid, dependable and well organised defence will stand you in good stead of avoiding the drop more than simply a ruthless offensive outfit, as sooner or late your attacking qualities will get nullified by the many wily managers the Premier League boasts.

Whilst the initiative has been sold as an omnibus road safety initiative to clear broken down vehicles from every nook and cranny, the wily RSML has ensured that in actual fact its obligations are in fact limited to seven major highway complexes and 21 towing points nationwide.

And so it is no surprise that he is at his wiliest in wiggling around Gordon Brown to assume leadership of New Labour, depicting Brown as intellectually brilliant and skillful, but also an overcautious and unfailingly strange rival wedded to traditional, Crosland - inspired Labour.

But since he's seen as the Treasury's man, he was far less well placed to do so than wily old Pickles.

Think of Vince as the Harry Redknapp (now managing Championship strugglers Birmingham City) of politics: a wise - cracking and wily 70 + veteran making a comeback and desperately trying drag his team back into the Premier League.

Espada is reportedly pushing for a joint statement with Sampson on the farm workers bill — and perhaps also on a package of housing bills that housing advocates dislike because they view them as too pro-landlord — but some people around the Brooklyn lawmaker worry it will look too much like he's (yet again) getting worked over by the wily majority leader and are balking.

As the trials of Skelos and Silver play out over the coming months, the greater drama will be just off in the wings: a clash between a wily, aggressive governor and a prosecutor who may be wilier and more aggressive than he is.

The malaria parasite is a wily organism, shifting its life stages as it flits from human to mosquito and back again.

Sharing top billing in the rogues» gallery of weak layers is a wily meteorological entity known as «depth hoar.»

Trained as a microbiologist, Venkat brings to his task an impressive history of sleuthing out wily tiny critters.

She needed a farm to host an audacious experiment dreamed up by geneticist Dmitry Belyaev: to create a domestic animal as docile as a dog from aggressive, wily silver foxes.

Over 300 new species have been identified, all, of whom base their survival, in one way or another, on a wily group of bacteria known as chemoautotrophs.

Some of my favorite plants of all time have come into my life as little gifts given to me from tiny cuttings and are now full - blown plants with wily characters of their own.

Rather, he emerges as a complicated, even contradictory figure: wise and wily, manipulative and melancholy, formidable and vulnerable, warm and abstracted — and, perhaps most surprising of all, every bit as bare - knuckled a Washington player as any K Street power broker walking the halls of Congress today.

Filmmaker Ivan Sen is a quadruple threat as writer, director, composer and cinematographer of this wily Australian thriller.