Sentences with phrase «direct hits as»

We knew we were going to get hit, but didn't know if it would be a direct hit as a category 3 or 4 or if Irma would come up the state and hit us as a category 1.

Not exact matches

The 128 - year - old beauty company, known for products such as Skin - So - Soft and ANEW skincare, has been hit by a triple whammy: the rise in sales of low - priced beauty products at mass - market chains such as Walgreen (WAG) and Dollar General (DG), the apparent obsolescence of its direct - selling model for beauty items, and ill - advised forays into fashion, jewelry and pricier skincare products that alienated many customers.

Of course, when the federal government and states make changes to hunger programs, it has a direct and hard - hitting impact on the groups that act as a safety net.

«It's almost as strong as a hurricane can get in a direct hit.»

Some parents and teachers were angered and confused last hurricane season, as the Space Coast braced for a direct hit from Hurricane Matthew, when the district held classes the day of evacuations for the barrier islands.

Farmiga, who starred opposite George Clooney in the hit movie «Up in the Air,» told CNN that she began panicking during preproduction, as the magnitude of the undertaking - simultaneously directing and playing the lead role, lots of child actors, and 25 scenes that included music - became clear.

That would include the ones who come into my business and curse me out, and especially those who direct bad behavior toward LGBTQs, such as screaming at us, trying to get us fired from our jobs (you can be fired in over thirty states just for being gay), threatening us, hitting us, throwing us out of our homes and the other behaviors mentioned in these posts.

I got home and, at first, thought it unusual that I had about 250 + more «direct» referrals in my Google Analytics for the day — that is, until I realized that as I was on the stage, all these low - income people were hitting my blog from their smart phones.

Irving comes completely free as Cherilus hits the turf, but then he sees that the defensive tackle inside of him, Maliek Collins, is upfield in the B gap blocking Irving's direct path to the quarterback.

If hit from behind the child's neck won't be taking the direct hit, as a forward facing child would, but their shoulders.

Babysitters, nannies, preschool teachers provide many different services as well: counseling / behavioral therapies (think children fighting in a sand box who need to be directed to «use words» rather than hit one another), nutritional guidance (our son's teachers have given us great ideas and resources for healthy meals), arts training (music class, creative arts class), occupational therapist (correct hand hold for four year old grasping a pencil), physical therapist (Hop on one foot, kids!

As an example of the kind of direct engagement he's prescribing, Barger said that his staff had stayed on Twitter until midnight on the day that the auto bailout plan hit the press, engaging both journalists and citizens online.

Ed Miliband asked me with a grin, after a protester scored a direct egg hit on the Labour leader's jacket as he visited London's East Street market.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo is out with a new attack ad that isn't actually a direct hit at GOP / Conservative opponent, Carl Paladino, but rather a sideswipe at the candidate for hiring people to work on his campaign who have, as the Times put it, «tainted pasts.»

And once the internecine struggle was over and donations DID start flowing in, as we saw above many of them weren't under his direct control, leaving him cautious with cash up until the Republican convention let him hit his big donors one more time.

Trump said that he would visit the devastated island of Puerto Rico next Tuesday, describing the island as «literally destroyed» after a direct hit by Hurricane Maria.

«We really have to look at both linear forces, or direct hits, as well as rotational forces,» Colello said after the presentation.

And while we still haven't seen evidence of the laser «defeating» a ground target, as Boeing puts it, a video of it scorching a direct hit on the hood of a truck is still pretty amazing.

From the famed Dodo, through the lesser known Guam Flycatcher, to the near - extinct Albatross, the exhibition combines beauty with more hard - hitting images that really bring home the devastation wrecked on these fragile creatures, often as a direct result of human behaviour.

The 2 - mile (3 - kilometer) wide tornado tore through town of Moore outside Oklahoma City, trapping victims beneath the rubble as one elementary school took a direct hit and another was destroyed.

Then there are detectors, such as the Xenon100 experiment at Italy's National Laboratory in Gran Sasso, built to register direct hits from particulate dark matter.

Another way to go with more direct and indirect hits for every muscle, is the Phase 1 Size Surge program, as outlined in Jonathan Lawson's e-book The X-traodinary Size Workout (available at www.

Aside from several overlookable latency issues that have hit - scan weapons and spinfusors dealing zero damage on direct hit, you got ta go fasterr as this is Sanic Hegehog world of shazbots.

Remar has also appeared in the hit films, THE UNBORN, as the father to Odette Yustman's character in the supernatural hit, directed by David S. Goyer, and the Judd Apatow Production PINEAPPLE EXPRESS with David Gordon Green (SNOW ANGELS) directed by and starring Seth Rogen and James Franco.

An old friendship is renewed and new bonds are forged as Kenai and Nita set out on the adventure of a lifetime in this animated, direct - to - video sequel to the 2003 Disney hit Brother Bear.

The success of the film led to a job directing the 1989 big - budget version of Batman; a darkly lavish, gothic production, the film proved to be a huge hit, securing Burton a place on the roster of A-list directors.His next film, 1990's Edward Scissorhands was the tongue - in - cheek gothic tale of an artificial boy put together by a benign scientist, who dies before he can complete the boy; as a result, the fabricated youth has hedge clipper - like scissors for hands.

Farrands broke into the horror world's subconscious as writer of 1995's Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, and he has since directed the documentaries His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th, Scream: The Inside Story, and Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy, and served as a producer of the 2009 hit The Haunting in Connecticut.

Emerging from the 2014 Toronto film festival with ecstatic reviews, audience buzz and a $ 12.5 m deal from Paramount, Rock's major comeback film, which he also wrote and directed, seemed as if it would be a box - office hit, too.

Regardless, co-writer and director Adam McKay has done nothing but direct massive comedy hits tweaking the concept of American exceptionalism since the first «Anchorman,» growing in leaps and bounds as a satirist.

In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's - put - on - a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned it.

The latest adaptation of a Gillian Flynn thriller, written and directed by Gilles Paquet - Brenner, hits screens starring Charlize Theron as Libby Day, tormented by what happened to her family decades before.

... is set to hit theaters on August 7th, with Josh Trank (Chronicle) directing a cast that includes Miles Teller (Whiplash) as Reed Richards / Mr.

Addison has form behind the camera, having previously directed a 2012 episode of The Thick of It, as well as 13 episodes of the hit American series Veep.

The film's wildly loyal producer Judd Apatow, then known as a showrunner of acclaimed but short - lived TV comedies, would again cast Rudd in his hit feature directing debut,

As the first direct follow - up to Joss Whedon's smash hit «The Avengers,» Black (along with co-writer Drew Pearce) elects to strip Stark down, emotionally and literally, leaving a man bereft of the suit that lends him power and authority.

After moving to Los Angeles together and failing to hit the big time as actors, they decided to make a film of their own — written, funded, directed by and starring Wiseau, with Greg playing his best friend.

Despite the grave subject matter, Searchlight is hoping the Steve McQueen - directed picture will generate enough positive word - of - mouth to become a hit as it expands nationwide over the next month.

Ori's jump feels a little like Super Meat Boy but without as much range in distance, while attacking is not a direct hit but a series of homing bulbs shot from Ori's overhead companion.

It's hard to believe that Clint Eastwood, the man responsible for bringing such acclaimed hits as Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, and Letters from Iwo Jima, has fallen so far back in his directing style and bring such an uninspired and daftly work that is J. Edgar.

HIT RECORD ON TV / U.S.A. (Director: Joseph Gordon - Levitt)-- HIT RECORD ON TV is a new kind of variety show with host Joseph Gordon - Levitt directing a global online community of artists as they create short films, music, animation, and more.

Minority Report does so many things so well from the terrific concepts of Dick, the superb screenplay by Scott Frank (Get Shorty, Out of Sight), the always impressive directing of Spielberg, the convincing acting of Cruise, and outstanding special effects, that it comes as a bit of a surprise that a home run isn't hit here.

Hitting theaters in earth - shattering 3D this weekend is Seth Rogen's new take on the classic hero The Green Hornet, directed by Michel Gondry and starring Seth Rogen as Britt Reid and Jay Chou as his sidekick Kato.

From the creators of the hit supernatural saga, Underworld, comes the action thriller I, Frankenstein, written for the screen and directed by Stuart Beattie based on the graphic novel «I, Frankenstein» by Kevin Grevioux, and brought to life by a cast that includes Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Jai Courtney, Socratis Otto, Mahesh Jadu, Caitlin Stasey and Aden Young as Victor Frankenstein.

David Gordon Green, whose directing résumé includes «Pineapple Express» (a process server and his marijuana dealer are on the run from hit men), borrows heavily from Rachel Boynton's 85 - minute documentary with the same name, based on the actual 2002 Bolivian presidential campaign pitting winner Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada against Evo Morales in which our own James Carville served as the victor's campaign strategist.

«The Big Hit» is a Hong Kong action comedy, directed by Che - Kirk Wong («Crime Story»), starring an American cast and written by Ben Ramsey, an American who has apparently done as much time in the video stores as Quentin Tarantino.

Coming next... David Fincher is set to direct and Rooney Mara is cast as Lisbeth in the Americanized version of the fabulous Swedish hit, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

«The Room» — which even inspired a recent SXSW hit about its origins, directed by and starring James Franco has attained Golden Turkey status as a film that is so bad, it's good.

As a film directed at the «kiddie dollar» Bee Movie hits all the right notes — bright colours in a whirl of activity and smart - cracking anthropomorphised insects are sure to appeal.

Last summer he was in the thriller «Nerve,» starring opposite Emma Roberts and directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman; the hit sequel «Now You See Me 2,» alongside an all - star cast featuring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Caine, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson and Morgan Freeman; as well as the comedy «Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising» where he reprised his role of «Teddy.»

Trumbull's directing career did not take off afterward, so he returned to special effects, making significant contributions to such hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Blade Runner (1982).