Sentences with phrase «bit of ambition»

The first left - hander I tackle with a bit of ambition, the front end grips... then goes alarmingly light, and then the rear end appears to be quite unconnected and unhelpful until you get on the power.

Our State of Decay 2 Review - It is a good game that lacks a bit of ambition when it comes to deliver certain things such as multiplayer and other core mechanics that could've been smoothed up.

Like Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Godzilla, Days of Future Past tries to use real - world history and iconography to prop up its storyline, and while its allusions aren't particularly deep, the attempts at contextualizing its fantastical action at least evince a little bit of ambition.

In my opinion, although the price does seem a little high, who are we to complain about Wenger spending such amount of money, when all we wanted to see what a bit of ambition from Arsenal in the transfer market.

Ozil is probably waiting for the same thing as the fans — for Wenger and the board to show the slightest bit of ambition.

By showing a bit of ambition.

Can't see anyone any good coming in, would you if you were a top player with the slightest bit of ambition?

No one revels in our losing no one and to suggest it is just stupid beyond belief... It's been 12 f ****** years without a sniff at the title thats getting close to the worst run in the modern era... I.e. Post 1966... The point is wenger refuses to address longstanding gaps and weaknesses in squad by suggesting the spirit is good or cohesion is right or youngsters about to come good or his bargain basement purchases from ligue I are hidden gems... it's become tiring and time he should join the pensioner ranks and leave this job to someone with a bit of ambition..

I'm sure with quality additions and a little bit of ambition can make Alexis stay, with him in our attacking system with the new quality players, I'm sure we won't be the laughing stock come next season

this will show bit of ambition to fight for the second part of the EPL and he can add some pace to UCL when Bayer comes.

Don't blame Wenger for not signing new players but instead take a swipe at clubs who have shown a bit of ambition in the transfer market.

Not exact matches

Managing a staff of employees — with their diverse personalities, responsibilities, ambitions and pet peeves — can sometimes feel a bit like nailing Jell - O to the wall.

The CEO demonstrated willingness to bite the hand that feeds by ridiculing representatives of Wall Street's biggest banks, some of which have helped the company raise billions of dollars to fund his other - worldly ambitions.

The space houses both the tasting - menu - only Travail and its new sibling bar, The Rookery, which serves bites and cocktails, all with a surplus of ambition and liquid nitrogen.

The first centered on the rumors of what had happened to him: a) he was suffering from burnout, hardly uncommon at Yale, where stress, expectation and ambition sometimes alchemized to disastrous effect; b) he had gone to Europe in pursuit of a love interest or a band («We heard he was roadying for Smashing Pumpkins,» says teammate Josh Woodruff); c) in a bit of typical college overreaching, others theorized that the country had just sworn in the first Democratic president (Bill Clinton) since we were in the fourth grade, and Blake's walkabout was a manifestation of a new, free - spirited ethos.

Personally, I prefer City because I think Mansour has shown a little bit more class but I can only dream of Kroenke having half the ambition of either.

«The values are a bit of human class, distinction, respect for people and ambition to have a certain class in what you do.

I live in hope but doubt that Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang will join Arsenal, last time he was linked with us (what the press said) he made crude jokes to his friends regarding ever Joining Arsenal, his ambitions were in Spain, but who knows he might of grown up a bit and thinking..

Wenger motivates the team, Alexis doesn't seem short of motivation so maybe we have to also consider the attitude of the individual players as well, maybe a bit of a clear out is needed to get players who are mentally motivated as well to match the team and managers ambition... This will require transfers and Silent Stan has final say on profit... I mean players.

• The wantawayishness of the player (yes, that's a word, and it encompasses everything from homesickness to ambition to greed to thinking that the current manager's a bit of a berk).

The fact that the Arsenal academy graduateis saying this despite being one of the players to benefit in terms of time on the pitch if one or both left shows good ambition for the club but is a bit worrying at the same time.

We could sign better than the guy mentioned in the article but we won't unless it's done as a tactic by the board to get the fans off Wenger's and their backs for a bit and to conceal their true lack of ambition.

I am a bit surprised that lack of ambition is regularly thrown at Arsenal and then in the next breath we hear that we did not «need» the player who at the time was regularly and routinely assessed to be the world's best No. 10.

However, I feel a little bit that that would put paid to Walcott's ambitions of playing as a striker.

I'm not saying that we should do a Chelsea or City and buy the premiership but, at least get a collection of players with drive, ambition and a bit of ego to force the club to want to do better.

Walcott though limited would be very confident against Man united Cech (No word he has shocked me, Wow this guy is too great for a team with wenger as coach) Bellerin (He really has to improve his attacking side nd try to take on defenders) Chambers (Hez really good against de big guns & always gud in de middle of de park) Kos (Hez been a bit de-moltivated due to wengers lack of ambition hope Man u will do) Mon (link - up with walcott on the left would be breath of fresh air) Coq (great tackler, stamina & power) Ramsey (great passer of de ball, professional & great stamina) Sanchez (on the right, so he won't always play predictably) Walcott (thats where he was effective the last time against man u) Welbeck (Pace, goals & trickery) Giroud (Power, bully, link - up & goals) 4 -4-2 formation

I like his heart, ambition and skill but don't take the mick, he has a chance to be the king of north London or a bit player elsewhere.

The ambition of Force India this season has to be high given its recent standards, but it seems like this statement, indicating a new - found levelheadedness, is the sort that can bite back once the season gets going.

I'm always puzzled as to why someone coming on here and simply stating they want «what is best» for the club (that is a bit of a lie actually, what they really want is for the club to be run as they see fit and proper) somehow elevates them as some sort of virtuous fan with «real ambition».

But what matters more is that players don't want to come and play for us because we are known to lack ambition and we are now a bit of a joke.

«There was a bit of a chase between a couple of clubs but I think after we set out the ambitions of the Club and my ambitions for him he was motivated to come here and refreshed in his mind by the new challenge he can put upon himself.

In the set - up of the staff to assist Arsene Wenger, and in the transfer market, Arsenal now have to show that that ambition really is there, and it isn't just a sound - bite to please supporters.

But I was not exactly on a specific direction & so when her friend introduced her to her brother (who was my age, the cfo of a pretty serious company & driving the aston martin I had told her I would one day have...) it was a bit of a problem, considering expectations & i guess her ambitions.

It's all there in 720 pages, the self - aware ambition, biting but eminently fair tweaks at Gordon Brown, and an unapologetic defense of muscular humanitarianism in Iraq.

In the future government won't be the limit of the BIT's ambitions.

An international team of physicists is preparing XENON100, a simple experiment with a huge ambition: to record the moment when a bit of dark matter — known as a weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP — smacks into the nucleus of an atom of liquid xenon, triggering a flash of light and an electric charge.

A romantic, a realist, a procrastinator full of ambitions, a bit sentimental but..

But Variety critic Scott Foundas, who reviewed both the Toronto and Cannes editions, noted, «In all its versions The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is a film of marked ambition that turns out to know a fair bit about love and loss and the various ways in which we do and don't grow up to become our parents.»

«A Quiet Passion» says all of that is wrong, depicting Dickinson — in a vibrant, prickly performance by Cynthia Nixon — as a person of strong desires, biting wit and hearty ambition.

I saw this with my friend Raffi and love what he said in his review on The Film Stage: «While not without its issues across some aspects (some of the live - action scenes feel a bit stilted), one can overlook these faults in favor of the grand scope and ambition of Folman's larger oeuvre.

Quite a bit of Nebraska takes place in the distance between Hawthorne and Lincoln, and there's no doubt that Payne's quiet ambition is to sketch the fate of certain American myths symbolized by those names — and by a third, still - active American of near - mythic status that the film's title can't help but evoke, Bruce Springsteen.

His latest, Midnight Special is a bit wider in scope and ambition while keeping one foot in the pool of his previous efforts Americana environment.

This marks reliable veteran Howard's first big - league lead, but he wholly disappears into the role of DJay with the chameleonic immersion of a character actor; if the plot circumstances surrounding him initially come off as a bit much, Howard's DJay never comes off as any less than real: his frustration, his desperation, his stalwart ambition.

Featuring a spectacular, and very scary, performance by veteran character actor J.K. Simmons, writer - director Damien Chazelle's film is a brutally mesmerizing tale of ambition, but tends to run off the tracks a bit in its final third.

«Desire, ambition, faith: without them life is so simple,» one of the humans taken over, played by Leonard Nimoy (Spock of Star Trek) in a bit of ironic casting, remarks during the film.

Yet if Haynes bites off more than he can chew, this is ultimately a disadvantage that he forces his audience to share; given the breadth of his ambitions, and the ideological stone wall that he's battering against, he can be credited with stirring up a healthy amount of confusion.

But the vehicular ambitions of new Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon are a bit more down - to - earth.

Only the top - trim Optima SXL is let down a bit by its ambition; it's missing that extra little bit of driving enjoyment that we expect with such premium pricing.

While many of the procedures mentioned above can be handled by DIY enthusiasts with a bit of automotive know - how and ambition, most drivers will want to rely on experts who have the certifications, equipment, and expertise to ensure that job is done right, especially when you plan to take your vehicle off - roading.

Actually 2015 will be a bit of a mess; I'd planned on attending the London Book Fair, and had loose ambitions of touring southern France and Spain before heading over to Eastern Europe (and also Northern Island, the setting for the novel I'm working on).