Sentences with phrase «brash way»

Yet McDonagh brings a new sense of empathy to his trademarks, giving Burwell the opportunity for the rural - flavored emotion of a no - nonsense mother out to tell the local cops to solve the murder of her daughter in a particularly brash way.

«I just wanted to talk to him, and when I talked to him he was so clear and so confident, not in a brash way but he knew the film he wanted to make, and it was a really lovely thing.

A dashing American who finds himself trapped in the darkest corners of Victorian London, Ethan's charm and brash ways are catnip to the ladies.

Though these characters were certainly a marginal step up from the original, no one really grabbed your attention and Rico was back to his unlikable brash ways.

Not exact matches

Some of these leaders have the brash, take - charge attitude you might expect; others pursue their mandates in more quiet, subtle ways.

Pat Swisher was a brash young franchise titan until a stretch in federal prison changed the way he thought about business.

The end result was a brasher and more competitive T - Mobile, who lead the way on a wave of improvements in the sector culminating most recently in the return of simpler, easier unlimited data plans.

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

All this done with brash showboating and pantomime fanfare that is the quintessential Real way.

In many ways, Lewis, 58, a brash, tough - talking South Side product of Chicago's public school system, is an unlikely foil to Emanuel and CPS leaders in the national push toward longer school days.

«But the best way to take on a brash New Yorker is with another one.

The brash, blustery behavior by Anthony Scaramucci, the White House communications director, illustrates the way New Yorkers have taken over the West Wing and are turbocharging its culture.

From the brash, banging tracks all the way to the idyllic soft touches, Beautiful Rewind is captivating and completely refreshing to hear.

In one way, it's commendable to tackle this potentially touchy - feely subject matter in such an aggressively brash manner.

Rocket is brash, selfish, and morally ambiguous, but the glimpse we see of his tortured past goes some way to explaining how he wound up that way, and it's easily the stand - out sequence of the series so far.

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.

Mann joins Paul Greengrass and Doug Liman as one of the finest visual poets of the fall, able to sketch in brash, reptilian movements the ways that violence is ultimately as doomed an endeavour as love, loyalty, faith, or vigour.

Young and brash, Karlson described his job as «washing toilets and dishes and whatever the hell they gave me» 4 and talked his way into a number of short - lived assignments as an assistant to directors Arthur Lubin, Henry Koster, Tay Garnett, William Wyler, Stuart Walker and John Ford, and successfully pitched a story idea to Will Rogers, who unfortunately died in a plane crash before the film could be made.

Jackie makes her move from Cleveland Coliseum secretary to ballsy wheeler - dealer by way of rough - around - the - edges but gifted fighter Luther Shaw (Omar Epps), thus setting up two parallel underdog stories: the traditional genre one of a gutsy young athlete moving his way up the ranks, and one in the Erin Brockovich mold, with a skanky dresser with a brash attitude to match making waves with her moxie.

A bolder, brasher film would have allowed these paradoxes to exist without painting Bulger as simply a tyrant, often the one doing the shooting or strangling, making him in that hand - on way feel smaller rather than the opposite.

I'm not sure if writer - director Martin McDonagh suffered a case of writer's block on his way to creating Seven Psychopaths, but the end result is brash, brilliant, wickedly fun, and the best film about screenwriting since Adaptation.

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.

Director Mark Pellington's heartwarming dramedy, The Last Word, follows the badass adventures of the brash Harriet Lauler (Shirley MacLaine), a tightly wound, 80 - something control freak determined to do it her way.

In many ways, it's similar to Leo's — both play brash, tough older women prepared to do anything to protect their families — but Weaver isn't attempting to completely reinvent herself onscreen, and that leaves her free to channel all of her energy into making her character, who's improbably called «Smurf,» as creepy as possible.

With her brash attitude and selfish nature in tow, Mavis plows through town, chugging as much diet coke and alcohol along the way as possible, to reclaim her man and reinforce her position as the popular girl in school.

Benjamin Herold of Edweek states that «despite a $ 1 billion investment and a steady stream of brash promises to radically disrupt the way public schools do business, the company's education division, known as Amplify, is deeply in the red and on the auction block.

It's a much brasher, bolder super saloon and the cabin also falls a long way short of the competition.

We wouldn't call the brash and boxy Mercedes - Benz G55 AMG understated in any way, but apparently His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan — the crown prince of Abu Dhabi — thought so.

The car feels simultaneously brilliant and brash, and the best way to drive it is to grab it by the scruff of its neck and wring it out.

The FWD King of the Ring turns plenty of heads with its unapologetically brash styling, but the drive is eye - opening in more ways than one, as we found out on the road and track in Germany.

It's nice to see that Mercedes - Benz has gone the radical way with the brash and imposing nose grille for the A-Class.

Caroline, however, longs for independence and adventure, and she sees a way to both in her brother's handsome best pal, brash Irish - American Jack Culhane.

He can be brash, sometimes abrasive, and I mean, he's War, so you know there are some issues that come with that... and yet, he's also funny, self - deprecating, protective, romantic, and sensitive (though I expect he would not want to be described that way).

What would it take to put our way of life at risk?Is it possible for a handful of ultra-deep players to cripple the global economy?A secret organization with immense wealth and limitless influence squares off against The Establishment in this # 1 Bestselling financial conspiracy thriller from espionage master Lars Emmerich.As the clandestine conflict reaches an explosive flashpoint, Special Agent Sam Jameson, a brash, ballsy, and beautiful spy catcher, is cast headlong into the crossfire.

Watching the vessel gently crunch through brash ice and manoeuvre its way around huge icebergs was not only entertaining but a real privilege.

I've stayed in maybe around 100 hostels all around Europe, Australia and New Zealand and a couple in Asia and I know what I don't like — big, brash, characterless «backpacker factories» intent on separating you from your money any way they can The ones that use the word «funky» about 40 times in their advertising pamphlets and are packed to the rafters with tour groups or hop - on hop - off backpacker bus crowds.

That's not to say that the single player is particularly well realised or features amazing stories, but it's fun in the same way a Michael Bay film is; it's big, it's brash and it has some great set pieces.

When they came over to look, they were infatuated by the brash, loud, colorful, and silly way these games looked, played, and presented themselves.

For a woman to paint in any way excessively, loudly, using thick paint or brash color, is a near taboo.

Most of his painted aluminum reliefs are amazing for their brash beauty and the witty, worldly way they play with the protocols of painting and collage in three dimensions.

The ultimate icon of American patriotism, the way red, white and blue are used to express one's pride and loyalty is evident all across the USA; sometimes flown with brash presence and at other times positioned more subtly.

Perhaps it is indeed the slight dullness of those old European abstract painters — the way we have to steel ourselves to study them — that persuades us they are more worthy than the brash Americans, who in reality took abstract painting to much greater artistic heights and deeper psychic lows.

This series focused a bold and brash depiction of the female nude — enlarged, hyper - sanitized, and above all, objectified: «The nude, I feel, is a good way to be aggressive, figuratively.

Maybe it's the eloquent way they never return our calls or that certain Je ne sais quoi of Brut, brash and totally cocky.