Sentences with phrase «drove the point home with»

In my opinion you drove the point home with such precision, clarity and..

Iconoclasts isn't, and uses that veneer to drive the point home with a sledgehammer while drawing players in with atmosphere and gameplay that has always had underlying complicated themes but also often keep them subtle.

The Journal drives the point home with, «The battles are rooted in a political fight over how to improve public education.»

With 475 horsepower and 470 lb - ft of torque, Dodge calls the latest addition to its SRT performance line the most powerful mass - production American three - row SUV on the market, driving the point home with a short video showing the truck doing a fantastic four - wheel burnout.

The ads will convey the message that the XL - 7 is the right alternative and drive the point home with the tag line, «It fits.»

Microsoft further drove the point home with purchasing N - Trigs stylus technology earlier this year.

Crosby drives this point home with dramatic force in such works as Thread (2012).

In fact, it's still thriving and Lenovo drives that point home with its new Legion - branded desktops for PC gamers.

Trying to drive the point home with excessive adjectives and adverbs will not.

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Meicun Weng, the founder of Chinese community and news site Boxun (which regularly reports on Chinese human - rights abuses and is blocked in China), drives home the point about how the Chinese government wields influence with its economic power.

To drive home a point about privacy, Sen. Dick Durbin asked Zuckerberg whether he would «be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?»

Hamlet drives home a similar point in the pipe playing scene with those two irritating ciphers, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

«3 With force and effectiveness, nearly all of his works drive home the point that both man and nature point inevitably toward God and are incomprehensible apart from him.

Their subsequent editing — and purging — were done with the sole purpose of establishing a hierarchical church structure, and much of what's left is there because it drives that point home.

Though the Cardinals had a raucous home crowd behind them and a chance to win it with the clock ticking down, junior point guard Peyton Siva drove down the lane and forced a pass into too much traffic, leading to a steal by the Orange and a 52 - 51 road win.

Whether we're talking about who's better, Gerrard or Fabregas, or discussing which play was more batshit crazy, Paul Gascoigne or Eric Cantona, we like to drive our point home until the person listening to us HAS to agree with our point (because we are always right).

To drive home the point that chewing tobacco wasn't the culprit of his illness, Peterson addressed reporters with a packed lip after the Vikings» win.

As if he hadn't driven home a point with that RBI, Lollar homered off Puleo his next time up.

With each swing, she drives home the point: Today's evolution is complete.

Lewis Hamilton entered his home race at Silverstone with a 20 - point deficit to championship leader Sebastian Vettel, after a tough recovery drive in Austria.

However, now is the time when Bolton have no excuse cards to use up as a home fixture with Blackburn Rovers is an early gift wrapped present from Santa himself for those Reebok wearing Bolton fans to pick up a vital set of three points, points that would enable them to drive away from the point craving bottom pack.

«Elementary wants real salad,» declared a third sign, this one with seven exclamation points, driving the message home.

And while we think we are really driving the point home and helping the kids get it, what we are doing is blaming and shaming them and making them feel super defensive and causing them to tune out and not helping them come up with a solution to the problem.

Schaffer used the example of Bellone being «charged with a crime» three times to drive home his point.

The Woodstock Town Board will have to balance the need for peace and quiet with encouraging live performances as it drafts a new noise ordinance, a point driven home by many musicians who attended a public hearing on March 20.

Sen. Catharine Young, an Olean Republican who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, drove the point home during a legislative hearing with Cuomo's budget director, Robert Mujica, telling him the idea, if enacted, will make both lawmakers and the governor «extraordinarily unpopular» with taxpayers.

The Woodstock Town Board will have to balance the need for peace and quiet with encouraging live performances as it drafts a new noise ordinance, a point driven home by many musicians who attended a recent public hearing.

In a nod to the campaign's new emphasis on the racial dimension of the primary fight, the Clinton camp also said new legislators in Mississippi — the state with the highest percentage of African - Americans in the nation — would back her on Wednesday based on «her commitment to fight for women, families and African Americans as President,» and, to drive home the point, the campaign said three mothers of African American men killed in high - profile cases of violence, would campaign for her in the coming weeks.

Miner delivered her speech with the kind of rolling repetitive beat that drives home a serious point and the kind of pause that allows time for laughs.

Over the last three years, we worked hand in hand with the Lunch 4 Learning coalition to raise awareness and drive the point home.

The point was driven home this summer in the wake of the bear siting: A team of British glaciologists went on a daylong field excursion to dig a trench below a glacier, but Cox instructed them to keep one person on watch with a rifle at all times as the others worked.

Three U.S. hospitalñbased studies showing that resistant bugs disappear with the withdrawal of antibiotics drive home the point.

To drive this point home, Talbott quotes Denis Goulet in The Barefoot Expert: «It is discomforting for a sophisticated technical expert from a rich country to learn that men who live on the margin of subsistence and daily flirt with death and insecurity are sometimes capable of greater happiness, wisdom, and human communion than he is, notwithstanding his knowledge, wealth, and technical superiority.»

The purpose of all the background information was to drive home a point - pure water alone can be detrimental to long term performance, as athletes require other nutrients to function, while too much sugar or salt in the digestive system will slow water absorption and result in a similar performance decrease, along with severe GI distress.

A point Mercola really drives home with this blend is that everything is routinely tested for heavy metal and chemical contamination to ensure the product is always pure.

Be sure to pair your glittery, celestial nails with some heavy metal jewelry to drive the point home.

The pictures you shared are fantastic, too, and really helped to drive home the point — especially on the outfit with the green pants!

4 If the answer to the last question is yes then perhaps we're dealing with aesthetics and attraction rather than love, a point driven home by Ben - Zeév when he points out that «attractive people are more likely to be the object of love at first sight.»

At the end of the night, I offered to drive the Challenger home, at which point he admitted that his Dad had been visiting for the weekend, and he had sacked him off and left him home alone to come on a date with me.

By the time Bruce Almighty hit screens, audiences could tell that Oedekerk's manic sense of silly was still as strong as ever, and just three short years later that point was driven home when the increasingly prolific writer / director returned to the screens with the kid - friendly, computer animated comedy Barnyard.

Despite the efforts of a strong ensemble cast — featuring Bruce Dern, John Ortiz, Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener and Patton Oswalt — the film fails to drive home its point, about the power of the stuff we leave behind when we die, with the same emotional punch that the people on - screen seem to be telegraphing: grief, longing, regret, resentment and sundry other flavors of moroseness.

Despite the underlying anger, the character is well - rounded, with the ability to laugh and have moments of happiness, never settling into a one - note portrayal that many other filmmakers might have gone for in order to drive home points.

There are moments that drag like a fouled anchor, when Howard's Hollywood sensibility gets a little schmaltzy - swelling music, philosophical points driven home with harpoon - like subtlety, and a bracketing story that interrupts more often than it informs

It feels rushed and unfocused, never generating enough momentum to keep this ambitious satire running with a full head of steam to drive the points home.

Others drive the point home: if Reynolds» shenanigans as Wade Wilson weren't your cup of tea two years ago, chances are they won't be in the sequel either (especially with the Deadpool - O - Meter being turned up to 11).

With dialogue like «I don't know what we are going to do with these wretched savages» and «There ain't enough punishment for his kind» and soldiers with too - symmetrical responses to their own culpability, and unceasing brutality to drive the points home, even the fine acting can not bring it to lWith dialogue like «I don't know what we are going to do with these wretched savages» and «There ain't enough punishment for his kind» and soldiers with too - symmetrical responses to their own culpability, and unceasing brutality to drive the points home, even the fine acting can not bring it to lwith these wretched savages» and «There ain't enough punishment for his kind» and soldiers with too - symmetrical responses to their own culpability, and unceasing brutality to drive the points home, even the fine acting can not bring it to lwith too - symmetrical responses to their own culpability, and unceasing brutality to drive the points home, even the fine acting can not bring it to life.

Ad infinitum, he drives home the point that we aren't dealing with dictators or strongmen as is often suggested by the mainstream media so fond of vilifying these working - class heroes.

An intellectually grizzled Liev Schreiber plays the new editor Marty Baron, who makes this case the paper's mission on his very first day — in fact he invests Baron with an enigmatic quiet that drives home the film's point about how it sometimes takes an outsider to be able to get inside a local story.

But Robinson drives each of these points home too hard by intercutting the Josette Frank scenes and having her point out all of these links between his art and his life; Marston's fascination with depicting feminine strength in his comics, then seen as highly unusual, is also reduced to a few quick, punchy montages.

When you realize the film spends more time in coconut opening than in Hanks relationship with Helen Hunt (Pay It Forward, Dr. T and the Women), you see how Cast Away needed a bit more shoring up in the thematic department if Zemeckis wanted to really drive his points home, especially when you consider those scenes have little to do with what the film is really supposed to be about.