Sentences with phrase «coda on»

That section has an amusing coda on some contemporaneous neologisms that have accompanied «Anthropocene» into dictionaries:

[* This thought was the coda on last night's post summing up events at the United Nations, but I think it's worth featuring on its own.]

He ends Naturalist with a brief coda on his new career.

In part 2 of our conversation with journalist and author Maryn McKenna, she talks about antibiotic resistance in agriculture and human health, MRSA, and offers a brief coda on the subject of fecal transplants

And at the end, a solemn, almost despairing, coda on Blair's grappling with the democratic dilemma: Do you do what the people want?

The deal is a notable drop from the $ 70 billion valuation Uber once commanded, and is a humbling coda on a rough year for the company, which has been rocked by a series of scandals.

Not exact matches

An interesting coda: In the recent filings, one of the endless nuances of bankruptcy reveals itself: how a paper still losing money every month on an operating basis squirrels money away to serve the few rather than the many.

Don Ross, the CEO of PDQ Enterprises, operator of CODA Markets, a Chicago - based dark pool, thinks further rate hikes could pump the brakes on bitcoin's eye - popping rally.

The coda to the TurinGames will be inspired by Venice's annual winter Carnevale — think acrobats,high - wire acts and actors in costumes from the 1971 Fellini film The Clowns.When the tumbling is over, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (above) will performand pass the Olympic torch to Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne, who will acceptit on behalf of the host of the 2010 Games, Vancouver.

After sitting out with injuries for her first two seasons on campus, Powell has exploded into an offensive force for the Golden Eagles, and it would be a wonderful coda to her career to see her reach the top 10 in goals scored as a reward for her perseverance.

On tap for this week's Buffet: an interesting coda to our discussion of vegetarianism; parents tell their children some whoppers about food; celeb chef recipes for the picky; beefing up safety standards for chicken; and a processed school lunch item... [Continue reading]

CODA is an independent political organization that mobilizes residents, activists, and neighborhood groups — anyonewho wants to join in struggling for political, economic and cultural power for the community and an end to discrimination based on class, race, gender, age, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.

That's because the larger surface - wave magnitudes record low - frequency energy, while Richter and coda magnitudes are based on high - frequency seismic waves that people usually feel during real quakes.

This may be why the movie's epilogue feels a little conventional: the tidy resolutions in a coda that feels gently triumphant, but also tacked - on.

Not surprisingly, the final film ends with a coda set on King's Cross station 19 years later, as the grown - up Harry, Ron and Hermione send their own children off to board at Hogwarts.

The coda at the end feels tacked on and unnecessary.

And yet, in a kind of coda, the film ends with Francine, her hair now cropped into an au courant bob, singing on stage in a club.

Suffice to say, Home Alone 2 falls into the same sad camp as Elf, celebrating the material benefits of the holiday season and then tacking on a sentimental coda as a half - hearted apology.

Toward the song's end, «Mad About You» takes a left turn into a blurry coda unlike anything else on Hollow Ground.

Yet the screenplay has the unmitigated gall to tack on an inspiring coda at the eleventh hour that retrofits this dirty adult comedy with an uplifting moral.

The unconvincing «grown - up» coda leaves you on a bum note, but this was mostly hugely satisfying stuff.

«True Legend» seems like a typical revenge movie until it isn't; then it slaps on a half hour coda that points the way toward other, better movies.

While Saving Private Ryan excels at portraying the randomness of survival on a battlefield, and is easily cinema's greatest and most realistic achievement in depicting the uncompromising horror of war, it's not without its flaws, chief of which is a horribly sentimental coda in which an ageing Ryan — who is bequeathed a responsibility which would rest heavily on anybody's shoulders — visits the military cemetery in which some of his former comrades are buried.

There's little doubt, as well, that Shyamalan's expected emphasis on stylish visuals plays an integral role in confirming the film's mild success, while the story's coda is nothing short of jaw - dropping in its unexpectedness and audacity (ie it forces the viewer to rethink and recontextualize everything they've just seen)- which ultimately ensures that Split continues the momentum established by Shyamalan's comeback endeavor, 2015's The Visit.

If now not, it may well be any other play on a vintage end - credits scene just like the filmmakers did with the primary Deadpool film, recreating the end - credits coda from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

«When we had come up with the time - travel coda, there were a lot of things thrown on the table.

It is, however, an engaging and accomplished production and its coda offers yet another perspective on the show, the controversy, and the complexity of the characters we might have assumed we knew from observing them on camera.

Screenwriter Robert Eisele saves that thematic observation for the coda, though, so by the time we should be finishing up appreciating its impact on the characters and the larger social turmoil in which they're living and the sweep through which they will go on to live, we're just given the concept to understand it.

As if admitting defeat, he ends the movie with a tacked - on meltdown, which is augmented with an even more tacked - on «surreal» coda — a fittingly tone - deaf, arbitrary ending to an inconsequential movie.

Loyal to a fault, «Unbroken» also can't resist the urge to pile on with a Louis Zamperini coda that tells us the hero bravely decided to forgive his captors, set to a milquetoast - y Coldplay song.

Other stuff, like Spielberg's traditional final course of four or so endings stacked on top of one another, is less successful — especially a final coda evoking the Nixon scandal to come, which ends the film on a jarringly goofy note.

What makes «Year of the Rat» so vital is how, incidentally or not, it goes from denouncing the auteur theory (through not only the typically insecure observations of actors, but also the deflective statements of Morgan and long - time creative partner Wong) to validating it: In a coda, we see that the movie's poor box - office showing has shaken Morgan and only Morgan to the core; call filmmaking a «collaborative effort» to your heart's content, but as William Shatner, of all people, opines on the recent Star Trek V discs, at the end of the day no one on the set has as much emotionally invested in the picture's success as the person at its helm.

They actually look pretty comparable (and, try as I might, I couldn't pick up on the subtle differences between the cuts except for that the preview version ended on a note of unbelievable schmaltz, whereas the final version has a mildly tacked - on coda featuring Guy rejecting a second gentleman caller).

Here, we're forced to confront the face and mind of Piet Blomfeld (Eric Bana), a fictional creation based — according to the film's coda — on multiple sources of real - life individuals who went through the TRC's process.

But such «padding» takes its cues from the novella: a suffocating dinner, endured next to the waiting bed, allows readers to eavesdrop on conversation pertaining to their upbringings; a coda of just a few pages telescopes the lives to come.

Shot on the fly using an iPhone 5S, featuring a pair of loose, energetically bouncy performances from newcomers Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor, the movie is an exuberantly original shot of comedic adrenaline, building to a cathartically touching coda that's as distinctive as it is genuine.

Yet, the sense of hope, the feeling of justice, the knowledge that, by doing their job, this team did something, not just important, but heroic, all of this is here, allowing the film to exit on a euphoric coda that's absolutely superb.

While the heist itself is great fun and executed with the elan and meticulous precision we'd expect from this director, it's the small, wrap - up coda at the end which leaves you walking on air.

The film is not an act of journalism, although its dramatized narrative of events, according to the film's coda, is based on the best available testimony of people involved.

Directed with a breezy naturalism on the streets of Paris, there's a fragile, sad beauty the drama as Chabrol holds out hope for these dreamers in a delicately melancholy coda.

At that point, the only interest the movie has is debating which is more frustrating: that David Loucka's screenplay abandons its already shaky psychological logic for a twist (twice if one counts the movie's pointless coda) or that it lowers the characters» intelligence to the point that they all line up on at a time to fall victim to the horrors inside the titular house.

And not smart enough, as meta - introspection goes, to bridge the gaps in Chronicle, like a badly under - developed «hero» and an equally under - developed «villain,» their relationship to each other, and, at the end, an emotional coda that feels unearned and tacked - on.

It's not a far reach for them to access the despair that's essential, I think, to a certain kind of creation, and Porterfield allows them each a moment to express themselves in song: one in a basement before Oldham destroys his instrument, the other on stage and then over the closing - credits, with the coda being a sigh from Taylor and a little shake of her head.

Co - writer / director Tom McCarthy's film finds that each of these systems had failed in significant ways when it came to the issue of sex abuse within the Catholic Church (The film's coda, which lists locations in the United States where similar crimes were uncovered, becomes even more infuriating when it moves on to the rest of the world).

That's a mere coda, though, to the film's climactic half - hour, when Berg pours on the adrenaline with cool shootouts, last - minute rescues and the cornering of the evil genius.

Blood on the Moon is the perfect coda to such a collection, a riveting and entertaining story.

The doc, which opens nationwide on August 17th, and for which there's now a 2 minute - trailer available on Apple.com, has now got a dramatic coda, since, as MTV's Stephen Totilo explains, there's a new Donkey Kong world champion, and - yes, it's still one of the movie protagonists.

Arguably — and often labeled — the greatest painter of his generation, Luc Tuymans signals in every canvas the necessary limits of the medium, even the coda to its drawn - out death: his reliance on fleeting photographic and filmic imagery, his refusal to spend more than one day on a canvas, and perhaps most of all, his indifference to craft bring the Belgian artist into head - on confrontation with painting, and endow his subjects — from the untouchable (the Holocaust) to the pedestrian (flowers, pigeons)-- with an unmistakable air of violence inflicted.

From the 1930s, Avery spent numerous summers in the company of these younger artists and, during the summers of 1957 to 1961, when Avery, Rothko and Gottlieb vacationed together in the popular artists» colony of Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was a significant coda to their reciprocal artistic dialogue, with Avery pushing his images towards the very edges of abstraction.

Seven of the large - scale stained acrylic paintings that comprise that coda are now on display at Pace Gallery in the late artist's first New York exhibition in 25 years.