Sentences with phrase «desperate lunge»

An Ideal Husband had hints of My Fair Lady, with a touch of Tony Blair's Third Way, while Earnest was tricked out with fantasy sequences and desperate lunges of physical comedy.

But Saints were a different proposition now and Latics defender Dan Burn had his head in his hands when his desperate lunge to stop Gabbiadini after he had been played clean through by Ryan Bertrand resulted in a penalty.

Cesc Fabregas failed to secure possession in midfield and Messi was away, skipping past a desperate lunge from Andreas Christensen, before taking the whole stadium by surprise by squaring to the back post.

Wild sheep and goats are far and few in between in these mountains, and each hunt is a rollercoaster ride of steep cliffs, precipitous falls and desperate lunges.

The result: The most famous moment comes when Lloyd, in a desperate lunge, grabs the minute hand of a clock, terrifying the onlookers below.

The stories are largely about the dramatic and desperate lunges that people make to give life meaning — acts that are spawned by fissures or create fissures.