Sentences with phrase «cunning bit»

In a cunning bit of casting, Emma Watson, forever known as Hermione in the Harry Potter films, portrays Belle, the bookish and kind - hearted young woman who doesn't fit in her provincial French village.

True, Refn doesn't give the Blue Valentine star an awful lot to do, but it's a cunning bit of casting.

Ford's cinematic influences are overtly placed — everything from the iconography and satire of DR. STRANGELOVE (as shown in the war room scene), to the narrative drive of STRAW DOGS (as shown in the grippingly tense scenes with fictional Tony's harassers, led by a perfectly - cast Aaron Taylor - Johnson), to the tangible feel of David Lynch's oeuvre, to the cunning bite of Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES.

Not exact matches

In a bit of cunning, he argued that the open - ended nature of the commitment — which most economists view as highly stimulative — would allow the Fed to pull back if the economy takes off.

This second act is a bit prolonged, carrying the film to a 116 - minute runtime and detailing more than necessary the cunning vengeance plot.

What starts off a bit like Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said, quickly turns into something far more sharp and cunning.

This is despite an opening bit, narrated by Ricky Jay no less, that would seem to indicate a fun and light - hearted romp, as the title characters (played by Mark Ruffalo and Adrian Brody) are established as cunning siblings with a penchant for engaging in almost ridiculously complex con games.

It's a bit depressing to reflect upon a movie in the mindset of trying to figure out who won, as if the filmmaking process boils down to a battle between the cunning of the creative and the brawn of the financially minded.

To do so, he must confront his most dangerous adversary yet, Nick Geraci, a former boxer who worked his way through law school as a Corleone street enforcer, and who is every bit as deadly and cunning as Michael.

But it also probes into the philosophies and personalities behind the headlines, from Kennedy, whom Peet characterizes as «a wreck of a man,» to Khrushchev, whom he describes as «hard as a drill bit and as cunning as a lavatory rat.»

And suddenly, the monster was real and the Mouse needed every bit of cunning he had.

I could have made up something elaborate, a cunning lie, but the simple truth is that the past few weeks have been a little tough for me, leading to something that I had always assumed was a bit of a myth: writers block.

Although the sword fighting and hand to hand combat can be a bit underwhelming, the ultimate goal is to dodge most of that through sharp environmental awareness and cunning stealth tactics.

The puzzles start off very easily, but over time gain a cunning level of fiendishness (word of the week: fiendishness) that will have you scratching your head and dying quite a bit.

To the humans, they looked much like the tigers of Old Earth, and they soon proved themselves to be every bit as cunning and dangerous.

The concept of the Giant Soldier (the hulking bionic boss that would slam you into him with his three bionic arms) has been entirely redesigned to make him a bit less giant and a lot more cunning.

(It's a bit distorting, but irresistible, to deem Richter the cunning Apollo, and Polke the rampaging Dionysus, of the period's renaissance in German art.)

Cultivating the right relationships takes a bit of cunning, a bit of cold (icicle in the heart) because the editor is always present.

I'm sure working together that you and your ex hubby will manage to get things back on track for your youngest (she sounds like a bit of a go - getter anyway... I often think in today's world «rat - cunning» is a far more useful trait than academic brilliance!)