Sentences with phrase «by taking a stab at»

Earlier this decade, Wilson made a move that's not uncommon for actors by taking a stab at writing and directing.

A couple years ago, a resume website executed a publicity stunt by taking a stab at a resume for Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk (without his cooperation, as far as I know).

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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.

6 --(yawn) Not sure what you are talking about due to your usual vagueness, but I'll take a stab at it — If I am right, and there is no heaven and no hell, you, as a believer and minister lose nothing by wasting years and years of your life preaching a lie, and convincing hundreds, perhaps thousands to believe that same lie, and waste millions, no, billions of dollars to pay for the continued propagation of that lie...?

So please do me the honour take this time to check out all the amazing recipes created by my participating bloggers, because I am so touched that they all wanted to take part and to take a stab at creating a diabetic - friendly recipe for World Diabetes Day.

In the event that individuals locate this hard, why not begin by including an additional segment of natural product or veg a day to your lunch or take a stab at swapping one of your insidious snacks for a bit of organic product?»

Soshe took a stab at freelancing psychological how - to articles, and by the late»90s her work was popping up in magazines such as Golf for Women.

FAULTY DEPTH PERCEPTION Allow me to take a stab at what might be behind White's Effect, described in «Colors Out of Space,» by Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez - Conde [Illusions].

In honoring the spokespersons of the two detector collaborations, the prize committee has taken a stab at the thorny question of how to hand out laurels for a discovery that was made by large teams of people.

The commission took a stab at these complicated questions, issuing new analysis and recommendations for how to manage these increasingly complex issues in medicine, research and with direct - to - consumer tests that allow a patient to send in a cheek swab and get health information (like the personalized genome services kit offered by 23andMe, that was recently blocked by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration).

Last year, using the exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope as a guide, astronomers took a statistical stab at estimating the number of exoplanets that exist in our galaxy.

I've long admired the Celine white wedges from afar, and with this project, I took a stab at designing a pair that were inspired by them.

After endorsing a toddler's review of her Fenty Beauty's highlighter, the multi-hyphenate star took a stab at beauty blogging by appearing in front of the camera in an Instagram post to demo Fenty's upcoming product launch: the Stunna Lip Paint Longwear Fluid Lip Color ($ 24; sephora.com).

I'm going to take a stab at this whole writing about motherhood thing but before we begin let me start this post off by saying two things.

Undaunted by the lack of response to Opportunity Knocks, Carvey once again took a stab at solo success with the similarly panned Clean Slate in 1994.

Among other opportunities, it gave Clooney the chance to take his first real stab at screwball comedy, a box he was eventually going to have to check if he wanted to validate the by - now - ubiquitous comparisons between him and Cary Grant.

In an 11.28 W profile by Lynn Hirscherg, Phantom Thread star Daniel Day Lewis took a stab at explaining why...

Emily, the feature length debut from director Ryan Graves, takes a tiny - by - design story and earnestly goes deep, exploring the destructive impulses, badly timed stabs at nobility, and increasingly mixed signals of a couple on the brink.

by Walter Chaw Okay, I'm gonna take a stab at this one.

I almost let this one slip by without taking a stab at it.

Heavy on battle scenes which include decapitations, stabbings, and nearly every other imaginable way of taking life known to men at that time, Troy also delves into the sexual immorality enjoyed by characters like Achilles.

Only a few short hours before the red carpet turns a muddy purple under the heels of Sydney's sodden socialites (it has really rained this week), SCREEN - SPACE takes a last minute stab at who will take home an AACTA Award at tonight's Oz industry gala event, to be hosted by AACTA ambassador Cate Blanchett (pictured, below; at the 2014 event) and actress Deborah Mailman...

Like the frustrated screenwriter played by Vincent D'Onofrio in The Player, you may want to make a stab at regaining your faith in the movies by taking another look at this neorealist masterpiece.

THE STORY OF FILM By Jonathan Rosenbaum A commendable TV epic takes a stab at remapping the history of world cinema

But several drivers have taken hellacious, car - pulverizing licks on ovals this year, and it was only fast work by the Holmatro Safety Team at Indy that prevented James Hinchcliffe from bleeding to death in the cockpit after he hammered the wall during practice and was stabbed by a suspension piece.

By the way, I took a stab at that will vs. money post we've talked about, but from a different perspective.

This year, the Book Expo people took a stab at the self - publishing market by offering a DIY Conference on Monday, May 24th, directly up against the Publishing University.

Kreider's piece took a stab at what seems like a requirement in book cover design on a genre - by - genre basis.

A 1994 fellowship to Antarctica prompted the author to take a stab at a lifelong goal of writing a novel by producing the World War II bio-terrorism thriller Ice Reich (1998).

Tim Ferris, who has launched Tim Ferris Publishing, will be taking a stab at the audiobook market by focusing on books whose audio rights have not be realized.

As mentioned in our Glo review, we were a bit taken aback at just how well Kobo had managed to tackle the challenge of front lighting the first time around, blowing Barnes & Noble's stab at the technology right out of the water and even besting Amazon by a bit.

Nvidia is taking a stab at upping the touch - responsiveness of Tegra 3 - equipped devices by offloading some of the touch input responsibilities directly onto Tegra 3.

Although Bound by Flame takes a vague stab at being a role - playing game, it's severely limited in that form.

The story even takes neat stabs at experimental storytelling by periodically putting your player in the nightmares (really) of other characters.

Developed by the creative team at Quantic Dream who brought us the glorious cult games, Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls, their new title seems to be aiming to take a stab at the futuristic science fiction genre and drawing their own unique twist on a story centered around artificial intelligence and human emotion.

I didn't post that to take a stab at PS3 owners (i am one, as well as a 360 Elite), but only to show that all this stuff goes both ways.Why are people so upset about the PS3 version of Vesperia getting extra content... a YEAR after the 360 version had come and gone.Outside of Japan the PS3 version of Vesperia isn't likely to even sell very well.Look at Valkyria Chronicles for the PS3 (EXCLUSIVELY mind you) by Sega.While an EXSCELLENT action rpg, it sold horribly here in North America and not much better in the rest of the world, save Japan.RPG's only tend to sell well on the 360 here in NA.It's just a fact, and that's why the 360 most often get's them either exclusive permanant, exclusive additional content, and / or timed exclusivity, whereas the PS3 does not.

By Sherif Saed, Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:51 GMT Massive, developer of The Division, is reportedly taking a stab at making a battle royale game.

MachineGames, the team behind Wolfenstein: The New Order, is looking to take a stab at making the revolutionary first - person shooter franchise relevant on modern hardware by inserting prettier graphics, bigger guns and a more developed William «B.J.» Blazkowicz.

Still, any project that at least takes a worthwhile stab at remixing fun music from two of gaming's biggest franchises is alright by me.

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Rest in Pixels # 16 - Inspired by Namco's popular Rolling Thunder arcade series, Capcom takes a stab at the War on Drugs with Code Name: Viper for the 8 - bit Nintendo Entertainment System.

Following the end of the Gulf War and the Bush administration, Clinton's inauguration in 1993 was marred by a rough start; in February the World Trade center was bombed, and although only six lives were taken (a small number relative to 9 - 11), it was the first major stab at America's ego from the inside.

Saturday Cary Hulbert will take a stab at predicting the future at Ortega y Gasset Projects and Sunday we've got a day of music by John Zorn at the Jewish Museum.

The program is one of the first in the U.S. to take a stab at reducing the amount of vehicles on the streets, by making them

Recently, the peer reviewed journal Nature took a stab at explaining «The Hiatus» by ultimately suggesting that the Pacific Decadal Oscillation shift to cooling was to blame.

A stab at completing corrections to the civil fee increases which shook litigators into disbelief on 1 October 2007 (see 157 NLJ 1285, p 1312) is taken by the Civil Proceedings Fees Order 2008 (SI 2008/1053) which came into force on 1 May 2008.

Therefore, I was pleased to learn that the ABA was taking a stab at these issues by publishing Passing the Torch without Getting Burned: A Guide to Law Firm Retirement and Succession Planning Issues.

Todd Zywicki takes a stab at reading the tea leaves on how it all happened — and while I don't think he and POTUS have been chatting, I am impressed by his musings on how Roberts» upgrade happened.