Sentences with phrase «efforts at escaping»

There reaches a point, however, at which Killer's Kiss begins to morph into an unexpectedly compelling film noir, as the narrative begins revolving around Davey and Gloria's efforts at escaping from Vincent's increasingly nefarious clutches.

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There is no thought of resort to dishonest means to escape effort, no subterfuge, and no bypassing aimed at getting something for nothing, since the whole motive for work is not getting but giving, making, serving, creating.

According to the Metro, Sunderland are going to sign Townsend in the January transfer window and will give him a pay raise in an effort to escape the relegation zone, where they currently sit at 19th.

The report details the early efforts by Matt and Sweat to recruit Mitchell in planning the escape, and the sexual relationship she developed with Matt while she worked at the prison.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

Unfortunately, despite owners» best efforts indoor cats occasionally escape to explore the great outdoors where they are at high risk.

Such a black hole (and its hypothetical disk) would have escaped Boyajian's efforts at high - resolution imaging because it would emit no light itself.

Almost in an effort to escape these implications, this advanced medical training has, at some sites, been rebranded as Consultation - Liaison Psychiatry, to invoke the seemingly more legitimate study of psychiatric symptoms emerging in medical and surgical patients.

Now, while that film was mediocre at best, that one scene, which is satirical of the concept of the botched heist, just couldn't escape my mind while I patiently waited for the lights to dim and Ben Affleck's latest directorial effort The Town to commence.

It's certainly a more serious and less intentionally campy effort than Escape to the Planet of the Apes had been, and it does continue the storyline that Dehn had set forth at the end of its predecessor, further cementing the series into what appears to be Earth's inevitable fate toward ape dominance.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

In some ways he chose Oezo in an effort to escape the highly competitive prep schools he had attended previously, but he was faced with an entirely new set of difficulties at Oezo, surrounded by animals and Mother Nature.

Real dogs not only must be housetrained - most owners are aware of that need; they also must be taught not to chew the furniture, taught not to jump on their owners, taught not to play - bite, taught not to bowl over the toddler, taught not to dig holes in the yard, taught to come when they are called, taught not to eat the homework or the woodwork, taught not to swipe food off the table, taught not to growl at strangers or bark at the mail carrier, taught to walk on a leash without dragging their owner down the block, taught to allow their toenails to be cut and their coats to be groomed without biting the groomer, taught not to shred feather pillows and down comforters, taught not to steal the baby's toys, taught not to growl at their owner's mother - in - law, taught to sit, stay, and to lay down when and where the owner tells them to, and to wait there until the owner says they may get up (absolutely essential commands for the dog's own safety), taught not to escape out the front door or out of the yard or out of the car when the owner looks away for just a second... all of these things and many more are not «natural» canine behaviors; they must be taught by owners who are willing to spend the time and the effort doing so.

Yards and dog runs can be made escape proof, and at surprisingly little effort and low cost, (cost and effort depends on the size and breed of dog).

Retailers should also be aware that in an effort to escape the heat, walking dogs at night becomes more common, thereby increasing the risk to owner and pet of being hit by a car, even in well - lit areas, says Chris Bal, director of operations for Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. - based Dog - E-Glow, Inc., a manufacturer of LED dog collars, leashes and harnesses.

Put the fictional Liberty City (featured on New York City), the single - player story goes after a war veteran, Niko Bellic and his effort to escape his past at the same time as under pressure from loan sharks and mob bosses.

Each will be priced at $ 75 with $ 25 from each sale supporting hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico and St. John: two Caribbean - American territories that share a fraught history in the sugar industry and are oft synonymous with sunny escapes.

Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal (known by the acronym RE < C), which was launched in 2007 via the Google.org Foundation, aimed to drive down the cost of renewable energy via R&D efforts until it was cheaper than coal, the magic point at which adoption would reach escape velocity.

This said, the brutality of the assault on Aboriginal families should never again escape public awareness and must surely influence future efforts at reconciliation.

His brother, who was in the mine when the accident occurred but escaped, ran two miles in an effort at rescue, which failed.