Sentences with phrase «elder statesmen like»

He deftly pivots between the moments of mourning and the righteous wrath of Quan, following in the footsteps of other action movie elder statesmen like Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson and Liam Neeson.

Babangida, in a statement signed by his media aide, Malam Mahmud Abdullahi, said «We lost Ekwueme at a time the invaluable role of elder statesmen like him is needed for national cohesion».

Ask him to step down and become the clubs elder statesman like Bobby Charlton at United?

«For a very reserved and conciliatory Elder statesman like Gen. Danjuma to speak in the way that he did, it should be clear to all discerning persons that the situation is hitting a boiling point.

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It knows, like an elder statesman.

He was belittled in his heyday, then placed on the elder - statesman pedestal as people saw how much worse the daytime talk - show game could get in the hands of people like Geraldo Rivera and Morton Downey Jr..

ABUJA — Elder statesman and Presidential Liaison Officer in the Second Republic, Dr Tanko Yakassai, has described the anti-corruption efforts of the Muhammadu Buhari administration as a mere propaganda war, lamenting it has unfortunately won over right thinking men like Prof. Wole Soyinka.

Part of me feels like Stark should have taken the place of the absent Nick Fury in this film, more elder statesman than rival leader.

«Think of, like «The Color of Money,»» he told the site, before saying that the film marks his move into elder statesmen roles.

He was more active as a stand - up, though, and in his role as an elder comedy statesman he occasionally appeared on talk shows like The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, The Late Show With David Letterman, and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.

We like to think of Warren Buffett as the wise, elder statesman of the investment profession, but Buffett too was young once and prone to the rash behavior of youth.

He became close to Roy Lichtenstein, who later arranged teaching jobs for him, and met Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol - «shy, polite, treated me like an elder statesman» — as well as Barnett Newman, who gave him early encouragement.

Tibia Plateau holds down the space with a certain weight, like an elder statesman, given Clark's eighteen year fixation on the piece, resting its bones in the corner, watching over the younger works in the room, everything else having been completed this year.

Morley became close to Roy Lichtenstein, who later arranged teaching jobs for the artist, he also met Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol who was «shy, polite, treated me like an elder statesman».

Arguably, Picasso and Matisse might have felt like elder statesmen to him, but Cézanne would definitely have been at a historical remove.