Sentences with phrase «best stab at»

Lexus is taking its latest and best stab at a non-boring, high - end sporty car with the Lexus LC500 that will likely arrive in a year as a 2018 model.

Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan's World War II epic is his next and best stab at Oscar glory and could be a massive, Saving Private Ryan level hit.

He went on to use this «equivalence principle» as the fundament of his general theory of relativity, still our best stab at explaining the mysterious force of gravity.

Others had a good stab at scooping our Stats Zone Player of the Season prize; champions Manchester City had Yaya Toure and his brilliant season to thank for their second trophy in three seasons.

But their own organization, the School Nutrition Association, is taking a good stab at it.

The only problem is that when low risk suddenly becomes immediate, life - threateningly high risk (unexpected haemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, rapid onset eclampsia), being in hospital gives you a good stab at survival.

I hate this particular fashion (bralets over shirts) although you have a jolly good stab at it Sam.

Of course it was no picnic for the lower classes, but the film takes a good stab at showing that a life of privilege is not all it is cracked up to be.

It's a far better stab at the story than the canned ham and soft cheese of «Mirror, Mirror,» this year's earlier version starring Julia Roberts.

Diamond - shaped motifs abound, the facia top appears to be floating, and the material and construction quality makes a good stab at premiumness.

There are some difficult problems to solve regarding pricing and the mechanics of delivery, and it must suit everyone involved in the chain from author and agent to publisher and bookseller, but Amazon and the others offering bundling are having a good stab at how to deal with these issues.

Its not as if they didn't have a good stab at it themselves.

So, while Skyrim Special Edition has a good stab at bringing the native 4K experience to consoles, the execution isn't quite flawless and it's actually Pro users with 1080p screens that get a raw deal - they get the exact same performance as the 4K users owing to the super-sampling implementation.

With Lords of the Fallen we have the first true «inspired by» Dark Souls game and the developers have had a good stab at recreating the wonders of that title and ended up delivering what can be described as Dark Souls for the MTV generation.

Everybody had this really ill - advised idea back in the late 90's that they could create the fabled «Mario Kart Beater», and — knowing everybody loves a trier — some are still having a crack at it today (Sega actually had a pretty damn good stab at it!).

The latest budget Lenovo Tab 2 A8 8 - inch tablet has a good stab at it though, introducing a neater, tidier Android Lollipop user experience - which... Read more

Take a good stab at your one - sentence, 30 - second, and 1 - minute elevator speeches.

I think I am going to really take a good stab at this room as soon as the weather warms up.

My 4 year old took a good stab at this momma's heart this morning when he asked if I could snuggle under the blanket instead of going to work.....

Not exact matches

This is a good question, so feel free to take a stab at it here or on the Burnside site.

Although I believe that dreams are always best interpreted by the dreamer him or herself, I'll take a stab at your «House of Doors» dream.

This world would be far better off if only anti-theists would stop their blatant mimicking and mocking just to take a stab or two at those who only want to profess their perceived beliefs without their being blueballed and scape - goated by the ilks of anti-atheists.

Last year, I took my first stab at making it sugar free and it was just as good.

But since I do my best to keep things on this blog gluten - free, I took a stab at gluten - free phyllo dough.

I understand that there may not currently be a 9 available that is bang on better than Giroud, but I'd like to have seen Arsene maybe take a stab at Jackson Martinez earlier in the window, or truly make an offer to PSG that might entice them to balance their books and sell Cavani — saying this with the understanding that I don't know that I've seen him be spectacular in recent memory, but with the squad of players that would be behind him, certainly he could improve us.

Even though she didn't get the win, this coincidence should make her feel a little better about her blind stab at the answer!

The Ivory Coast international notably flopped at Manchester United earlier in his career but looks back to his best now and could get another stab at playing for a top club.

Well, he could always re-up with the Heat, but look for the Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks and pretty much everyone who eyed him the first time around to take a stab at the best player in the world.

No it's not just the schools and the school food programs that are the only problems in the USA, but it's a darned good that Jamie Oliver is attempting to make a stab at improving this one small area.

So for better or worse, I will take a stab at breaking this blog in.

In the end one of my best online friends and I started our own forum and made it known that we wouldn't tolerate ANY attacking or back stabbing or malicious comments at all.

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Despite a spate of random slashings and stabbings that have people under stably scared, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said the city is on pace for «our best years ever on shootings and homicides» and predicted that overall crime would be down once again at the end of the year.

I'll take a stab at this but it's not a very well referenced answer, so someone with a better clue is more than welcome to provide a better one.

The amendments also take a stab at removing all the money set aside for a Central Park project, as well as demanding a guarantee for tax credits and $ 4 million in private financing for a proposed new Central Library before signing any construction agreements.

Boris had a wobble over a terrible, failed leadership campaign that saw his best mate Michael Gove stab him in the back and run against him at the last moment, forcing him to dramatically pull out himself.

Evidence of supersymmetry would support M - theory, the 11 - dimensional version of string theory that is the best stab so far at a «theory of everything ``, uniting gravity with the other forces of nature.

Susskind is one of the founders of string theory, which is our best stab yet at a unified understanding of physics — and perhaps the best - known model in which extra dimensions are found.

I took a few stabs at making rejuvelac for the Artisan Vegan Cheese recipes, and it didn't work so well for me.

All the better to appreciate the film's raison d'etre: primal emotional button - pushing, stabbing at the most basic desires to punish the unrighteous.

An over indulgent and often confusing stab at film noir, The Black Dahlia leaves little to be desired as director Brian De Palma continues to prove that his best days are behind him.

The stabs made at George W. Bush are amusing only for their inadequacy and irrelevance — surely we've all made up our minds whether he is an idiot or not almost two thirds of the way through his maximum eight years in power, and any satirist hoping to target Bush at this late stage had better have an amazing new slant to get any reaction.

A murky, brain - dead stab - a-thon packed with so many inane chases, laughable special effects, and mismatched stock footage shots that it begs to be made into a drinking game, London Has Fallen is one of those rare films that is good at absolutely nothing.

-- Features several new monsters — Subtle improvements and embellishments — 1080 native — Rextextured rather than rebuilt in HD — Improved loading times — 50 % more content than Tri — Most of the new content comes from the upper levels of the game like the G class quests — New monster: Brachydios — Brachydios is like a cross between a poisonous rhino and an extraordinarily aggressive, volcanic T - Rex — Brachydios enjoys slobbering explosive neon - green saliva all over its stumpy arms and then pile - driving you into the ground with them, leaving a residue of slime wherever it treads — Brachydios will go into rage mode after you hit him a few times and the green nodes on his head start to glow read — Expanded monster stamina system in Ultimate — Can more easily see when a monster is weakened or hurt — Monsters tire out more visibly — AI companions Cha - Cha and Kayumba can be used in single - player — Cha - Cha and Kayumba sing stat - boosting songs and have the odd stab at a monster during battle — The two are mainly used to distract the monster's attention — GamePad shows map — Mess around with your inventory on the GamePad as well — Target button in both versions lets you actually lock on to monsters

David Duchovny takes another stab at writing / directing an «X-Files» episode where his signature sense of humor fits better with the self - reflexive story.

His advertisements even took a few stabs at good old «plumber boy» Mario.

Plus with Halloween just around the corner, at least it makes for good goofy, stab - happy fun.

But the movie plays fast and loose with how strong they make Thanos at any given moment — sometimes he's nigh - invincible, at others apparently susceptible to shallow stab wounds — and that goes for his henchmen as well, who have such delightful names as Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight.

Set in 2007, well into the Iraq War, director Doug Liman's «The Wall» takes a stab, at least, at hearing from the other side.

Disc 2 resurrects «The Sunset Squid Fight» — the initial, spectacularly failed stab at the squid tussle, reconstructed from colour 16 mm outtakes (it's Ed Wood cheesy)-- as well as the «unused animation» that realized, with limited success, Fleischer's idea for bioluminescent fish to swim past Nemo's porthole.