Sentences with phrase «de force tells»

Beautifully written, this tour de force tells a story whose dramatic action takes place in only one minute and seven seconds.

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Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

As part of his ongoing rift with de Blasio, Cuomo reportedly has told his top police executives to pull investigators from various state and federal task forces and dispatch them — in uniform — to the city's high - profile transit hubs to boost the state's profile there.

«I think the fact that our police force has once again performed so well is an indication of how good it is in its current state,» Mr. de Blasio told the Observer at an unrelated press conference when asked what he'd say to those who think Islamic State - inspired threats require an increased headcount.

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.

For her second narrative feature Los Perros, which premiered in Le Semane de Critique at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Marcela tells the story of an upper - class housewife whose complicated relationship with her horse - riding instructor forces her to confront her family's complicity in the oppressive regime that gave her a life of privilege.

In The great all - rounder, Simon Charlesworth discovers what makes the car so appealing to drive / For this month's Auto - biography, Matthew Bell travels to Milan to meet Corrado Lopresto — the well - known collector and view his 150 examples of Italian exotica / In Dealing with a Delage disaster, Douglas Blain tells how a major mechanical failure almost took the sole - surviving 1914 Delage Grand Prix car off the road for good, while Philip Guilfoyle explains how modern technology was used to create a brand new engine block / Doomed by its audacity and now largely forgotten, the Hotchkiss - Grégoire was a technological tour de force.

Karl Ludvigsen describes a technical tour de force of the first magnitude / Oily Rag Run — We report on The Automobile's inaugural Oily Rag Run, an event we hope will become a permanent fixture in the motoring calendar / Franschhoek Motor Museum — Simon Moore has visited this museum, an hour from Cape Town, and describes some of the mouthwatering exhibits being collected there / Dan Margulies — In the fourth part of Dan Margulies» competition reminiscences, as related to the Editor, we look at his switch to historic racing with the famous Maserati 8CM, chassis 3011 / The Car of Quality: The Taylor — Michael Worthington - Williams tells the story of one of the most ephemeral of all marques, Taylor of Scotswood - on - Tyne

In this sublimely intricate and compulsively readable tour de force of Dickensian bravura and genre - blending splendor, Harkaway tells the tale of a mild - mannered London clockmaker faced with saving humanity from extinction.

In this reportorial tour de force, Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome tells the entire harrowing story of the atomic - weapons establishment's secretive and unconscionable plutonium experiments, travesties of medical ethics that involved unsuspecting civilians as well as military personnel.

A tour de force of 2D platform - game excellence, Tiny Barbarian DX uses pixel art, chiptunes and time - honored gameplay mechanics to tell an incredible story in four exciting chapters.