Sentences with phrase «brash at»

Redfin was really brash at their launch, criticizing the established real estate industry, similar to attitudes we are now seeing in Canada by some of the promoters trying to enter the market.

Jerry talks with his pet dog and cat, and their voices are awkward and overly brash at first, but as we learn more everything starts to make sense.

Brash at times, he refers to neuroscience as akin to dermatology.

That care - free attitude may come across as brash at times..

Not exact matches

Another ad executive was more brash: «Microsoft set up leadership discussions with all the major advertising groups, and Rik was there, and at all the discussions they had their heads handed to them on a platter.»

U.S. companies thrive at this kind of brand storytelling, probably because they are brash and not afraid to tell the world that they are the best.

At eCompany Inc., a software firm at which Maiffret was hoping to land a job, CEO Firas Bushnaq invited the brash teen to try to hack into the company's computerAt eCompany Inc., a software firm at which Maiffret was hoping to land a job, CEO Firas Bushnaq invited the brash teen to try to hack into the company's computerat which Maiffret was hoping to land a job, CEO Firas Bushnaq invited the brash teen to try to hack into the company's computers.

(Indeed, Fortune on Trump in 1990: «The boss has always behaved like a brash entrepreneur: trusting his gut; charming his executives one minute, bellowing at them the next; second - guessing and often firing employees; suing his suppliers; making wild public statements; nagging the custodians who polish his brass.»)

At the time, Trump — brash, proud, eminently entrepreneurial — had just secured millions from banks to avoid «a default that could have demolished his empire,» wrote Sherman.

Uber's reputation for somewhat assertive — some might say brash — tactics could put it at loggerheads with Chinese authorities.

Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self - belief directed at others.

At the same time, activists, who at times could be brash, have softened their imageAt the same time, activists, who at times could be brash, have softened their imageat times could be brash, have softened their images.

But it had been a long time coming at a company that leaned into its brash reputation, disdained the status quo, and prized results, performance, and «hashtag winning» — to use another Travis - ism — over most all other matters.

One young man mentioned was Gabriel Cardona, «the ringleader of the American cell of assassins, a savvy, brash young man who orchestrated at least five murders in Laredo of people connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.»

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

His academic colleagues at Union were taken aback by his brash, outspoken touting of socialism and pacifism when he joined the faculty, but they were even less ready when he attacked theological and political liberalism in this book.

Their self - confidence at first seems attractive too, especially when compared to the whining culture prevalent in America today, but it is also brash, aggressive, with a touch of brutality.

Golf's first designated event became Rod Curl's first victory, as the brash little Indian beat the big boys at Colonial with a brave performance

Still, as 1970 ski racing moves toward its competitive pinnacle — the FIS World Alpine championships next week at Val Gardena in northern Italy — there are signs that the season is about to produce one of sport's classic battles: the challenge of the crafty old kings of the mountain by brash young hotshots.

By that point, Ball's father, LaVar, was an ESPN star: a loud, brash meme machine who made absurd claims and ran his mouth at everyone, no matter their stature.

At the Oldsmobile Classic two years ago, Mochrie's colleagues called her brash for — among other transgressions — charging ahead to the next tee and hitting her drive before her partners had finished putting out.

He was entering that stretch of six closing holes at Augusta which is purposely designed to make or break the golfer who is brash enough to try to make them yield a sub-par score.

Brash, voluble, cocky, controversial, ever his own man, he flashed a kind of off - speed Irish grin that turned up at only one corner of his mouth, as if he were saying, «I'll show you guys.»

The Frenchman made eight changes to his starting XI from the team which comprehensively beat Blackburn Rovers 4 - 1 last weekend, including the likes of Ashley Young, Stewart Downing, Marc Albrighton and Darren Bent, a bold decision which didn't go down at all well with the supporters, who are growing tiresome of Houllier's brash and abrasive decision - making.

The majority of the people are brash troglodytes, the Yankees are a microcosm of what is wrong with our economic operations, the people suck at driving, and the city is dirtier than German shepherds b - hole on a hot July day.

It veers recklessly and off - puttingly between brash one - liners and angst drama, between kooky times and personal tragedy, like a nervous guest doing stand - up at a shiva.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

HMO physicians are the heroes in «MDs,» which stars William Fichtner and John Hannah as brash docs who delight in bending company rules at a San Francisco hospital.

Their dynamic consists of the brash Sin - Dee storming from place to place, pestering people for information about Chester's whereabouts (and usually insulting them in the process), with the sophisticated Alexandra calmly tidying up after her and passing out flyers for her performance later that night at Hamburger Mary's, a gay mainstay in the heart of West Hollywood.

Much more than just «the iPhone movie,» Sean Baker's in - the - moment look at life «on the block» is brash and daring, funny, subversive, insightful and poignant.

It seems out of place at first, but it counterbalances really nicely the brash and cocksure facade he wears almost the whole rest of the film.

It's a shame that otherwise careful scripting gives way to a poor shoot - out finale â $ «but the way McDonagh quirkily humanises his hit - men through brash, fast - paced dialogue makes for a slice of Irish cinema at its irreverent best.

Bustin» Down the Door The latest entry in the time - honored surfing documentary genre, joining the likes of «Step Into Liquid» and «Riding Giants,» this film profiles the group of brash Australians and South Africans who challenged Hawaiians at their own sport in the mid-1970s.

Low budget crime movies were never going to capture the Academy's attention, but the one and only film directed by Leonard Kastle now stands as a shining example of the brash, bold wave of filmmakers that changed the game at the turn of this decade.

He was just perfect: loud, brash, self - absorbed and clueless all at the same time.

For example, Siegfried — a brash, cocky teen when he first appeared in Soul Edge — now plays the role of measured, reassuring elder statesman at age 40, and you can see that growth as a man clearly during one particular cutscene.

Bradley Cooper didn't have a whole lot of time to prepare for his starring turn as Pat Solitano, the brash, damaged soul at the center of filmmaker David O. Russell's «Silver Linings Playbook.»

The new trailer offers a look at some of Turbo's human supporters, including optimistic Tito (Michael Peña), pragmatic Angelo (Luis Guzmán), and brash Kim - Ly (Ken Jeong, playing a woman).

But as meddling kids and their brash pets are oft to do, they soon begin an unlikely friendship, and find themselves at the center of a dangerous crime.

And Jason Kohn's tennis documentary «Love Means Zero,» focusing on the brash, victory - at - all - costs tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, offers some implicit parallels to the current White House occupant.

Woody's younger son David (Will Forte, in an understated performance that serves as the film's sympathetic core) arrives at his parents» house to hear from his mother Kate (June Squibb, stealing scenes left and right with her brash commentary) how miserable it is to live with Woody, who maybe has a year or two tops, she suspects, before he succumbs to some form of dementia.

Packed with outrageous testosterone - driven stunts, minimally clad call girls, and profanities, xXx places the future of the entire world in the hands of one brash bad boy — hardly the kind of hero parents want emulated at home.

Wilkinson is particularly good, while Weisz captures the brash, impulsive American's energy and her frustration at not being able to speak for herself in a British court.

At first glance, «Living Out Loud» is a brash and sassy comedy about the human condition.

Again writing with star Gerwig, Baumbach has constructed what is easily his most exuberantly brash film yet — chartering a collision course with contemporary beatnik culture at neck break speeds and spilling out a messy monument in its wake.

After both of these men are called away on unspecified business Katherine at long last tastes freedom, and soon is consumed in a brash, passionate affair with Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis), one of the farmhands.

And the brief scenes of Charlie on the stage reveal him to be a brash showoff with at least a modicum of talent.

But things go another way, and so Frank covertly launches a bitter and complicated revenge scenario, aided by his chief of staff (Michael Kelly), his ice - queen wife (Robin Wright), a party - boy congressman from Pennsylvania (Corey Stoll), and, naturally, a brash young reporter, Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara), who works at a Washington Post-like newspaper and who would do anything to cover «what's behind the veil» of power in the Capitol hallways and get herself off what she erroneously calls the «Fairfax County Council» beat.

Through flashbacks, we see a young Philomena (Sophie Kennedy Clark) at a carnival meeting a brash young man.

Bold, brash, and free from overt irony, Jack the Giant Slayer proves to be a lot of fun, at times playing more like the central tale in The Princess Bride without any of the trappings of self - reflexivity.