Sentences with phrase «awful lot of hand»

That can take courage in public and an awful lot of hand - holding and consensus building behind the scenes.

Our sympathies switch to Gerda and, alas, she doesn't seem to have an awful lot to do, apart from staying commendably loyal and doing an awful lot of hand - holding.

There is an awful lot of money flying around and an awful lot of hands reaching out to grab it - and some of those hands don't mind shedding as much blood as it takes.

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The best - selling author also argued that «there's an awful lot» of conservative media, but that she could only «count on one hand the number of conservative talk radio hosts who support Donald Trump, or certainly who did from the beginning.»

Scoring and winning games go hand - in - hand so it won't surprise you to hear that Blackburn haven't done an awful lot of celebrating on the road this season — Just once in fact.

He also promised «an awful lot of people are going to get hurt in the process» if legislative leaders go along with the governor's idea of scrapping third party officials» power to hand - pick who runs on their ballot lines — a pledge that no doubt sent shivers up the spines of not a few Senate Republicans.

Let me tell you what the Institute for Fiscal Studies told us this morning: «there is an awful lot of giving with one hand.

Comparatively few Labour MPs actually voted for the Lib Dem motion but an awful lot of people sat on their hands as a way of showing their determination to finish this issue.»

Very expensive ingredients (unless you happen to have these things on hand) and a lot of effort for an absolutely awful tasting result.

Because in the hands of co - writer / producer Joss Whedon, creator of «Buffy The Vampire Slayer» and «Firefly» (and director of this summer's «The Avengers «-RRB-, and debut director Drew Goddard, who penned «Cloverfield,» «The Cabin In The Woods» is something very different: a neat subversion and celebration of horror that delivers a fistful of scares, along with things less common to the genre: smarts, laughs and an awful lot of surprises.

(It might dawn at some point in the film that this is exactly like an execrable Spanish sex farce called Kilometer 0 — and if it does, hand - in - hand with that recognition is the realization that you've wasted an awful lot of your brain retaining memories of terrible movies.)

Hook and Tiger Lily have a romantic subplot that no one cares about and Peter spends a lot of time being a really awful brat — which jives with what a selfish asshole Peter Pan is in literature, so at least they got that right — and there's a giant blind crocodile but Hook never loses his hand because Warner Brothers thought they were launching a franchise and could do that in another movie.

John Wick was hands - down my favorite action film of 2014 (and that's saying an awful lot for a year that also had The Raid 2), and that was largely because of the slick style and cleverly (and clearly) shot action sequences that Leitch and Stahelski brought to the table.

A spry melding of up - to - date aesthetic and worldview, hand - to - hand combat, and a narrative that dovetails perfectly with its protagonist's panicky quest for self - actualization, The Bourne Identity has an awful lot to do with James Bond's Casino Royale reinvention than most mainstream audiences might think.

In a way, World to the West is incredibly similar to The Legend of Zelda in that it doesn't hold your hand too much as you work to solve problems, but this can also be a detriment to the experience and lead to an awful lot of backtracking, particularly in the latter stages of the game.

Behind the friendly smiles and respectful bows, I can sense the unique tension that comes from placing an awful lot of trust — and perhaps the most significant slice of Nissan racing heritage — in the hands of a foreign scribbler they've never met.

I'm half expecting an awful lot of cool iPad news now that everyone finally has the device in their hands, but the real start of the show will be the TouchArcade Game Jam...

As for single - core, the Snapdragon version does have the upper hand — even if it isn't by an awful lot — but the overall results do show that performance should mostly be comparable between the two versions of the Galaxy S7.