Sentences with phrase «de force about»

A tour de force about a group of women brought from Japan to San Francisco in the early 1900s as mail - order brides.

A tour de force about a marriage, it's a story that posits that «the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets.»

The novel is publicized as a «tour de force about the dislocations wrought in our lives by accidents of fate and time,» and in this case, the accident is a terrorist bombing of a train.

A tour de force about ordinary people caught in the tide of an extraordinary situation, Catherine Chanter's The Well is a haunting, beautifully written, and utterly believable novel that probes the fragility of our personal relationships and the mystical connection between people and the places they call home.

He was brilliant in Bronson, a tour de force about Britain's most violent jailbird.

One of our senior editors sounded a cautionary note a few years ago as we were publishing a journalistic tour de force about the health risks of drinking milk after childhood.

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Forty schools were closed province - wide while de Jong was the minister of finance, and many families were forced to make tough decisions about their careers when they couldn't find or afford child care.

Alex believes Steven Pinker's new book is a tour de force that should upend mainstream distortions about how bad things are.

About Ted Reader Ted Reader is an award - winning chef and food entertainer, who's parlayed his passion for food into a culinary tour de force that includes more than a dozen cookbooks, shelves of food products, live culinary performances, TV and radio cooking shows and appearances as well as culinary demonstrations, a catering company and teaching.

But if you want to take about incredible stats look no further than Kevin De Bruyne who after the disappointment of a failed spell at Chelsea — thought whether this was the fault of him or Jose Mourinho is up for question — has gone on to be a quite spectacular tour de force in the Bundesliga.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James called on Mayor de Blasio Monday to rescind the Fire Department's rehiring of Joseph Cassano, who had been forced to quit in 2013 after making hateful remarks about blacks, Jews and women.

An embattled Mayor Bill de Blasio took to Rev. Al Sharpton's pulpit Saturday to whine about the dark forces opposing him.

An unrepentant Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday sharply criticized the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the state oversight body that on Monday filed a motion in State Supreme Court seeking a judge's ruling to force a non-profit de Blasio started to comply with a subpoena for information about its donors and activities.

Last year, after talking tough about forcing charter schools to pay rent, de Blasio showed no appetite for taking on the movement's noisiest leader, Eva Moskowitz.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James called on de Blasio to rescind the Fire Department's rehiring of Joseph Cassano, who had been forced to quit in 2013 after making hateful remarks about blacks, Jews and women.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio may have come to the Capitol on Tuesday to ask state lawmakers for help with affordable housing programs and homeless shelter allowances, but he found himself forced to answer a barrage of questions about an unexpected issue as more than a half - dozen lawmakers pressured him to allow a property tax cap in the city.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito on Sunday unveiled new details about her plan to hire 1,000 cops — while Mayor de Blasio continued to insist that the police force is...

Mayor Bill de Blasio won't be forced to testify about claims he accepted bribes of campaign cash from a crooked restaurateur, a defense lawyer said Wednesday.

As CBS2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reported, de Blasio has taken a vow of silence about the sprawling and complicated municipal corruption probe that has so far forced police Commissioner Bill Bratton to take action against five NYPD officials — four of them top commanders.

The bill, which Mr. de Blasio says he supports, would compel the department to publish quarterly reports that include information about the number of inmates in solitary confinement, their length of stay and whether they were injured, sexually or physically assaulted, or subjected to use of force by correction officers.

TORQUE Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec, in his 1899 lithograph of the snake - costumed dancer Jane Avril, depicted the principle of torque, the force that makes an object rotate about an axis.

Even though it is a technical tour de force, the paper leaves several open questions: «The study doesn't tell us whether there are other cells that are important for this kind of memory, or anything about other types of memory,» he says.

Here is an annotated version of her story, with comments about individual elements that add up to a tour de force of science journalism.

Engaging biopic about the rise of power of Adolf Hitler, Hitler: The Rise of Evil features a brilliant tour de force performance by actor Robert Carlyle in the lead role.

Her tour de force seduction of Doc, mostly performed while naked, uncorking a slow drip of role - playing, self - revilement, vulnerability, and desperate control that's indistinguishable from nihilistic abandon, expresses more about sex as a weapon and a survival strategy than a thousand footnoted treatises on the femme fatale in film noir.

With About Elly, the familiar elements of his filmmaking coalesced into a tour de force mystery thriller that, despite the formally impeccable, universally acclaimed A Separation, remains the filmmaker's best film.

Whiplash J.K. Simmons» tour de force as a sadistic music teacher is the highlight of this drama, about an aspiring jazz drummer (Miles Teller) and the mind - bending, soul - distorting pressure put on him.

In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Shun Nakamura of Sonic Forces was asked about the possibility of Samba de Amigo coming to Nintendo Switch.

In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Shun Nakamura of Sonic Forces was asked about the possibility of Samba de Amigo...

Banished from court and forced into a loveless marriage, de Vere spends a couple of decades secretly writing plays — Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet — that sit untouched on his shelves until the 16th century is about to flip to the 17th.

Green's work has always been about finding the patience to discover these wonderful moments in life and «Prince Avalanche» is a tour de force in that sense.

We've barely recovered from the tour de force that was Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens and already there's news everywhere about the nextforce that was Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens and already there's news everywhere about the nextForce Awakens and already there's news everywhere about the next one.

Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (the Pusher trilogy) is courting controversy with Bronson, a tour de force meditation on violence and celebrity about real - life British felon Michael Peterson.

One of the most relaxed, yet theatrical, tour de force performances in recent years, his performance proves two things: (1) Robert Downey, Jr. can do pretty much anything when it comes to performing, and (2) Robert Downey, Jr. can make just about any creep really likable.

Rich with Hollinghurst's signature gifts - haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism - The Stranger's Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made.

Whaley has written a tour de force of imagination and empathy, creating a boy for whom past, present, and future come together in an implied invitation to readers to wonder about the very nature of being.

I shortlisted the Caye Caulker Itinerary to second place as it was born from the invisible forces that were pulling me onto Belize time that led me to write it so first comes my story about getting de...

Before you run out to pick up your copy, we have one final trailer to get you excited about Quantic Dream's tour de force, starring Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe.

In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Shun Nakamura of Sonic Forces was asked about the possibility of Samba de Amigo coming to Nintendo Switch.

In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Shun Nakamura of Sonic Forces was asked about the possibility of Samba de Amigo...

Everything is going to be alright, Elizabeth Cherry Gallery, curated by Bob Nickas, Tucson, Arizona, USA Fresh: Recent Acquisitions, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA Works on Paper From Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England Next Wave Prints v. 2.0, Elias Fine Art, Allston, Massachusetts, USA New Paintings, Wayne Gonzales, Jacqueline Humphries, Jonathan Lasker, Blake Rayne, Dan Walsh, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, USA 2000 Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA What's So Funny About Color, Elias Fine Art, Boston, USA Glee: Painting Now, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Organized by Amy Cappellazzo and Jessica Hough), Florida, USA PICT: Digital Image Painting, Banff Centre for the Arts, curated by Yvonne Force and Carmen Zita) Alberta, Canada Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, with R. Grosvenor, R. Lichtenstein, R. McBride and D. Walsh, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Hex Enduction Hour, Team Gallery, New York, USA (Curated by Bob Nickas)(212), Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York (Organized by Irena Popiashvili, catalogue with essay by Christine Kim) Bit By Bit: Painting & Digital Culture, Numark Gallery, Washington, USA 1999 Sweet & Sour, Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland Digital Sites, Numark Gallery, Washington, USA 1998 Brite Magic, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, USA (Curated by Carolanna Parlatto) 1997 Diamond Dogs, Team Gallery, New York, USA Super Body, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1996 Face and Figure in Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA AbFab, Feature, New York, USA Mutate / Loving the New Flesh, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, USA (Curated by Michael Cohen) Supastore de Luxe, UP & Co., New York, USA (Curated by Sarah Staton)

The next group of paintings — 10 from 1962 to 1965 — are a tour de force of artistic growth, spurred in part by travel, to Italy and New York and, in early 1964, to Los Angeles, about which he had fantasized for some time, inspired by both its sunny clime and the beefcake magazines published there.

«The Encyclopedic Palace,» Massimiliano Gioni's tour de force at the center of the 55th Biennale di Venezia, is an amazing show about fixations, obsessions, the...

«This book by climate scientists Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer is a tour de force on the scientific debate about global warming.

Evans» book is such a tour de force that liberals are already preparing a «yesterday's news» defense — as if they had long ago admitted the truth about McCarthy.

Talk about tour de force!

But while you shouldn't force your young associate to be the firm's de facto IT consultant, you should listen when they (or anyone else who works at or with your firm) complain about your hardware, software, or systems.

The renamed Huber Opera House and Civic Center has once again become a positive force in the community — presenting programming ranging from a Cinco de Mayo festival to an archeology professor talking about Native American artifacts from the region.