Sentences with phrase «by wily»

At the stroke of midnight, January 2000, the world held its collective breath, convinced that business and commerce as we knew it would be forever blown to bits by a wily little computer bug.

Just for the record, I have my doubts about plea bargaining, since inexperienced ADA's tend to get undressed by wily old defense counsel, but I would hardly want to ban the practice.

«Picabia Alert» takes note of shows that include work by the wily French artist Francis Picabia (1879 — 1953), aiming to sate Picabia appetites until a retrospective of the artist arrives at the Kunsthaus Zurich and New York's Museum of Modern Art in... Read More

Raising an ominous cloud of dust on the outside of the track is Jethro Bovingdon, his boxy Renault 5 GT Turbo being hung out to dry by the wily duo of Andy Wallace and Marino Franchitti in a brace of blue Clio Cups.

Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford) is off to visit her grandmother pursued by a wily wolf (Johnny Depp).

As expected, this doesn't turn out to be the rosy mini-break of intellectual and professional transcendence that Caleb thought it might be, his every move apparently anticipated by the wily Nathan who appears to be testing him as he tests Ava.

«Set in the»70s with a creative tone similar to Casino, it involves the last days before studios were taken over by conglomerates, when they were run by wily entrepreneurs, and where there was a mob influence, drugs, sex, excess, casting couches, and some of the best movies made in the 20th century.

Cruise plays hotshot race driver Cole Trickle (I love that name, but not as much as that of real - life driver Dick Trickle), who accepts a gig driving NASCAR for a woefully under funded race team, led by the wily veteran coach, Harry Hogge (Duvall, Assassination Tango).

Espada is reportedly pushing for a joint statement with Sampson on the farm workers bill — and perhaps also on a package of housing bills that housing advocates dislike because they view them as too pro-landlord — but some people around the Brooklyn lawmaker worry it will look too much like he's (yet again) getting worked over by the wily majority leader and are balking.

After a lively and encouraging opening five minutes led by the wily, bullish forward play of the occasionally unstoppable Romelu Lukaku, and some promising signs from Marcus Rashford despite being shifted out to the right wing, the game turned into one which may as well have been held at a neutral venue.

Bazz kept getting posted up during the game by the wily and multi-faceted Holiday.

His value is way more than Wilshere, who I think is being primed by wily Wenger a sale.

If Fergie had managed the best Arsenal players back then I believe Europe would have been owned by the wily Scott.

Soon - Shiong, long desirous of owning his hometown Los Angeles Times himself, joins the expanding club of those out - gamed, for now, by wily financial engineer Ferro.

Another concern is how easily the tests can be gamed by wily candidates.

Not exact matches

«In 2006, when Wily Technology was acquired by CA, I became a general manager and had engineering, product management and marketing for the first time.

There was not one moment of hesitation in that responsible father, who was thus by God's grace one of the few men during the long and cruel reign of Herod to outwit that wily politician.

Paul envisions the life of believers, individually and corporately, as a grace - full «war» against an age marked by darkness — exploitation, subjugation, enslavement — a struggle in which the «Christ weapons» are made of light: zealous love of strangers and enemies, wily grace, inventive nonretaliation.

If you are living righteously by walking in faith, but all of a sudden you find yourself in some sin, and Satan has, through his wily schemes, gotten one of his flaming darts in, and he comes in and starts to taunt you — «Oh, a Christian wouldn't do that.

Dogs, pickup trucks, campfires and an occasional howl in the desolate night are the background for hunters» tales of wily predators made even more clever by civilization

A wily veteran compared to Hackenberg and Goff, the redshirt freshman from San Antonio surprised many by beating Blake Bell for Oklahoma's starting quarterback job.

He's always managed to go the distance by using his wily, grace like skills but unfortunately has always lost on points to the more aggressive opponent.

Youthful exuberance combined impressively with the more wily members of the starting line - up, epitomised by the fine raking pass by Mitchell that was met by Rooney and clipped just over.

A short, wily support striker with marvellous technique and an exquisite touch, Di Natale is right - footed but typically plays from the left and has proven that he is more than just a scorer of great goals this season by racing to the top of the Serie A scoring charts.

A solid, dependable and well organised defence will stand you in good stead of avoiding the drop more than simply a ruthless offensive outfit, as sooner or late your attacking qualities will get nullified by the many wily managers the Premier League boasts.

But like a mature athlete whose skills are slowed by age, New York must become wily and strategic.

Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker by William R. Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin, Addison - Wesley, pp 306, $ 26.95

She needed a farm to host an audacious experiment dreamed up by geneticist Dmitry Belyaev: to create a domestic animal as docile as a dog from aggressive, wily silver foxes.

In 1840, the wily Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz swung by Glen Roy and offered the elegant theory that the valley had been dammed not by earthen barriers but by icy glaciers, a view that subsequent discoveries bore out.

Carver needs a foil, and even a bit of a conscience, and he finds both in Nash, played by Garfield as a wily, adaptable but increasingly haunted good man.

High kicks above their breakout debut by being brighter («Dirty Mouth), wilier («Goodnight Goodnight») and all around more pogo - inducing.

The wily villain makes a quick getaway but is tracked down by Kazan.

The wily priest responds by organizing the ladies of his congregation into the North Avenue Irregulars, a two - fisted crimefighting unit.

But Dudley hasn't been brought back for this sequel, unlike the wily spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, played by Geoffrey Rush, who has returned for more Olympic - standard skulduggery.

Scrapper, especially, stands out, not only because she's a new character but because she's not hemmed in by romantic attachments; she's just a tough, experienced warrior with a sure sense of her own capabilities and a wily disregard of what others might want from here.

The film is structured around conflicting accounts of the same events told by Harding and her former husband, Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), with occasional interruptions from Harding's pitiless, abusive mother, LaVona, brilliantly played by Allison Janney, who can strike terror (and steal scenes) with little more than a long pause or the wily crook of her half - grin.

But love knows no bounds, and aided by the wise and powerful Merlin — a wizard who has been turned into a roll of toilet paper — our duo must evade the all - consuming incinerator monster, the wily pig witch, and other nefarious adversaries in an attempt to be together.

Here, our wily superspy is actually a cheery huckster played by Leonardo DiCaprio who attempts to fraud his way to infamy as an outlet for his chronic daddy issues.

There is much more to the whole affair, including a curious journalist (Patrick Kennedy), a female assassin (Amila Terzimehic) hired by Federov, and a wily CIA head (Will Patton) who seems too eager to eliminate anyone with or searching for the truth.

En route, Ruth's stagecoach picks up wily sonuvabitch Major Marquis Warren (Jackson) followed by goofy sheriff incumbent Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins).

Barnum, the son of a poor tailor, grows up to become a wily dreamer and schemer played with full - throated energy by Jackman, who attacks his upper vocal register with the freedom of someone who has no immediate plans to play Wolverine again.

British - born ingénue Cummins, curiously enough, gets top billing over Mature (who was by far the bigger star in 1947) and Vincent Price is the wily detective who knows how to play upon the arrogance of the upper class as he builds his case against Mature.

Nick Naylor, the wily tobacco - industry spokesman at the center of Thank You for Smoking, seems like a villain at first, the kind of guy you love to hate, but he's surrounded by so many tongue - clucking federal schoolmarms that before long he begins to seem more like a classic antihero — the kind of guy you hate to love but love anyway.

Wanda Hendrix is a bit young for her role, but the screenwriters early on establish her marriage to her septuagenarian Count (played by Felix Aylmer) and use their relationship to heighten Power's increasing hunger for the waifish creature, and his maturing into a less wily, selfish fox because of true luv and a higher moral calling.

Caesar And Cleopatra (1945), the most expensive British production of its day, is a gorgeous Technicolor spectacle centered by a mesmerizing performance from Claude Rains as the wily Caesar and featuring a kittenish Vivien Leigh trying to play a teenager and almost succeeding on pure performance.

Robert Duvall was superb in «Open Range» as the wily old rancher who ends up in a gunfight for his life with his friend, played by the also fantastic Kevin Costner, by his side.

From Mark Wahlberg's beefed up Mike Williams to powerful performances by veteran actors Kurt Russell (Jimmy Harrell) and the wily John Malcovich (Vidrine) the film is stacked with a stellar cast.

Based on a true story, True Story tells the story of a NYT journalist disgraced for publishing an untrue story about neo-African slavery who must earn back his mag - cover reputation by penning the true story of a wily, potential homicidal killer notorious for telling untrue stories.

Her opposition: The despicable Pat Candy, a thinly veiled James Carville played by a particularly wily Billy Bob Thornton.

Jump ahead three years and Han — surnamed Solo by a security guard because he's a self - described orphan — has hooked up with Chewie (Joonas Suotamo), along with the wily Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson) and the criminal's risk - junkie partner Val (Westworld MVP Thandie Newton).