Sentences with phrase «deep stab at»

The downside proved to be the momentary lag between a deep stab at the gas and the delivery of power.

The early arrival of peak torque dispenses with turbo lag and brings a brisk response to a deep stab at the gas pedal.

It takes a deep stab at the gas pedal to find a downshift, and there's no sport mode to make it kick down more eagerly.

Deep stabs at the throttle will reveal that the turbo - 4 runs out of ideas somewhat quickly, and adding the manual transmission only makes it worse.

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In the process, it will take a stab — again, a small one — at the deep, underlying problem in the academic labor market: the severe, perennial imbalance between the number of would - be researchers coming out of the nation's universities and the number of career positions available to them.

That's not to say it lacks some annoying «Another Earth» - like stabs at deep thoughts («It's dangerous to play god,» Sofi says when Ian asserts he can create superficial eyes for blind worms), and the whole premise has blatantly silly undertones (especially if one considers why no past researchers could have made these discoveries before).

Emily, the feature length debut from director Ryan Graves, takes a tiny - by - design story and earnestly goes deep, exploring the destructive impulses, badly timed stabs at nobility, and increasingly mixed signals of a couple on the brink.

They go deep on the shocking nature of killing your star in the opening scene, the rules and tropes of horror film, and the killers» ridiculous plan to stab each other at the end.