Sentences with word «barnburner»

The upside is that Wade's contract expires in 2018, and while expiring contracts aren't as valuable as they were a decade ago, next summer is shaping up to be a potential barnburner of activity.

Romo threw for a career - high 506 yards and five touchdowns in a late afternoon punch - drunk barnburner against the Denver Broncos in 2013.

Petra Kvitova, the third seed, will take on Christina McHale, and there's a China vs. China barnburner on tap when eighth - seeded Na Li takes on 31 - seed Jie Zheng.

They are pulling away from the Steelers in the AFC North after the Seahawks beat Pittsburgh at home in a wild barnburner of a shootout.

Steve Olson wrote a real barnburner at Medium last week, «DCCC, I'm pleading with you.»

The whole forceful, multilayered idea that this movie is not only about the best time in one's life, but also of the times, has a way of sabotaging it, for no matter how well Brewer is able to reimagine Ren's gymnast - on - a-rampage booty - shaking in an abandoned warehouse, or resurrect familiar streamers and confetti for one last swinging barnburner, he can't fully convince you that he's crafted something for the current youth of America.

About ten minutes into Anna And The Apocalypse, you get not one but three barnburner musical performances - sometimes funny, sometimes not - before the zombie shenanigans even start.

While the Blu - ray isn't overflowing in extras, the technical presentation is superb, thus making this haute couture Australian barnburner astonishingly easy to recommend.

Few thrillers are as willing to kill off characters, including random civilians, as cavalierly as this one does, and in that light it did remind me somewhat of John Frankenheimer's final classic, the 1998 Robert De Niro barnburner Ronin, a comparison I do not make lightly.

Should be a barnburner.

The Penguins clinched home ice in the playoffs with a 7 - 4 victory in a barnburner against the Devils.

In Week 2, they played a barnburner against the Falcons that I prayed would turn into a Super Bowl rematch.

The Panthers remained perfect on the season, beating the Giants 38 - 35 in a barnburner that saw New York erase a 35 - 7 deficit to tie the game with 1:46 remaining.

The Golden Eagles head back to Michigan for two neutral site games, including a barnburner on Friday afternoon.

In his third, and penultimate, primary campaign speech Governor Cuomo gave a barnburner, rousing his audience with calls of economic growth, defeating Albany dysfunction, women's rights, encouraging immigration and more.

Couple that with Corker's fumbling campaign and you have the makings of a barnburner.

«As Hochul faces her first re-election, in a newly drawn district, against Collins, the former Erie County Executive, she finds herself in a race that couldn't get much tighter now and looks like it will remain a barnburner over the course of the next 11 weeks,» said Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg.

There are a lot of juicy tidbits in this Observer story about the «barnburner» primaries going on in NY - 19.

«For upstate Republicans, this is a barnburner with Trump at 24 percent, followed by Cruz with 20 percent, Christie at 18 percent and Rubio with 17 percent.»

Siena pollster Steve Greenberg called this race a «barnburner,» and he's not kidding.

NY - 13 (OPEN, GOP - held): Rep. Vito Fosella's (R) retirement amid scandal turns this Staten Island area district into a barnburner.

The Marshall / Gilmore primary promises to be a barnburner, the anti-immigrant forces have to be disappointed with McCain, and it looks like we won't have a gay - bashing measure on the ballot this time.

Cuomo gave a barnburner in support of his new mission of raising the minimum hourly wage to $ 15.

The barnburner campaign I had hoped for in the 103rd Ulster - Dutchess Assembly district, Kevin Cahill versus Kevin Roberts, has been

The barnburner campaign I had hoped for in the 103rd Ulster - Dutchess Assembly district, Kevin Cahill versus Kevin Roberts, has been something of a fizzle.

But the Harvey Weinstein jabs mostly stopped there — the night wasn't about the men who have been brought down by accusations of sexual misconduct, and no one encapsulated that better than Ms. Winfrey, who brought the often chatty and distracted crowd in the ballroom to rapt silence and even tears with her barnburner speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement — the first black woman to do so.

Another barnburner is Sean Baker's The Florida Project, which unfolds at first like a series of sketches about the characters who live in a purple - painted $ 35 - a-night motel called the «Magic Castle» down the street from Disney World.

Streisand evoked the protest hashtag #TimesUp, but it was Oprah Winfrey, accepting a career award with a barnburner of a speech, who brought together the gender, racial and equity concerns of all the hashtags of rage, which also include #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite.

Jessica Chastain turns out a barnburner of a performance as the titular Molly, a role that earned her a Golden Globe nod.

It wasn't a barnburner of a year like the one before it but nonetheless capital market returns for 2010 turned out to be quite respectable.

Her current show at the Garth Greenan Gallery is a barnburner.

It's a barnburner of an expressionist painting display, rich with women artists, and an inclusive, rollicking celebration of craft.

The Snapdragon 650 chipset isn't a barnburner, and you'll notice lag and stutters when playing the latest games.

Regarding specifications, the Lumia 650 is not a barnburner, but it does bring a new design language that is very reminiscent of earlier iPhone designs.