Sentences with phrase «better sparring partner»

With our hero now somewhat mobile and detoxed enough to keep his thoughts lucid, Paul makes a much better sparring partner for the increasingly insane Annie.

Not exact matches

We're placing more expectations on our relationships than ever before — we want our partner to be our best friend, our lover, our intellectual sparring partner, maybe our co-parent — while simultaneously investing less time and energy in the relationship.

I think you could get a better manager for less but who, with any professional pride would step into our set up and not demand a serious budget each year or a sparring partner (DOF) to see we get the right players or put up with an owner for whom winning is irrelevant?

As an example of this I offer you Claude and Ty, good mates but verbal sparring partners and a sort of double act on Arsenal Fan TV.

McNeeley's manager, the millionaire Harvardman Peter Fuller, himself an old college boxer and sometime sparring partner to McNeeley, recently described his fighter as «a straight stand - up guy with a good jab, a good left hook and a fair right.

Jimmy Ellis, his days as Muhammad Ali's sparring partner far behind him, crashed home an effective right hand to win the WBA version of the heavyweight championship and, finally, a chance at better paydays

While often the black boys unload freight or work on the docks during the day, then spend long dreary hours in the gym at night, the white fighter is «romanced» — no job, no fights over his head, the best equipment, expensive sparring partners.

We're placing more expectations on our relationships than ever before — we want our partner to be our best friend, our lover, our intellectual sparring partner, maybe our co-parent — while simultaneously investing less time and energy in the relationship.

Nixon is best known for her role as Miranda Hobbes, a lawyer in HBO's «Sex & the City,» but has also been involved in New York politics in recent years, calling for more funding of public education and stumping for Cuomo's frequent public sparring partner, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio.

And our exclusive NY1 / Baruch College poll finds that this summer hasn't been particularly good for Mayor Bill de Blasio's approval ratings, especially compared to his frequent sparring partner in Albany.

Best buddies and sparring partners, Vince (Woody Harrelson) and Cesar (Antonio Banderas) are a pair of worn - out, over-the-hill prizefighters who jump at one last chance to work in the big time.

«It was really fun to be your sparring partner and thanks for making me a better actor.»

Luckily, fighting games are best enjoyed against a human opponent, and solo play is secondary if you're able to find a sparring partner.

This game is fun as hell, the exhibition mode is fun (with friends), classic fights are a good way to get someone who wasn't into MMA interested in it (e.g. me) Career mode is fun but the problem is that you don't age is kinda dumb to be honest, you're «CRED» has no real purpose other than to get you new equipment, sponsors, sparring partners and opportunities to increase your «CRED» the controls are confusing to someone who's never played a game like this A.K.A me but I'll give it credit for innovation, you can go to training camps which upgrade you're striking and grappling which gives you new moves, their is a few exploits in the game No. 1 if you manage to get all the sponsors you can use them in create a fighter (which by the way has a decent enough amount of options) you can put all of the sponors that give the most cred and get everything easily and I mean everything No. 2 when you go to a training camp all you have to do is watch two demonstrations by the camp fighter and you have full stamina No. 3 any fighter you can beat within a minute of the first round you can beat a few times and shoot up the ranks, the music is good but you'll soon get sick of it and turn it off cause it repeats itself soo often, they didn't add intro walks, music and cage entries which would've made you feel more like an actual UFC fighter, but overall its a fun game but there's a few missed opportunities and not many fighting styles to choose from but rent it if you are curious about the game.

The solo exhibition is the result of a unique relationship between the designers and the Museum, where the Museum occasionally assumed the role of sparring partner as well as that of co-producer.

Florida solo Georges spars with Mac - user Ben Stevens, partner in Stevens - MacPhail in Spartanburg, S.C., and author of the blog The Mac Lawyer, over which system is better for the legal community.