Sentences with phrase «enough second acts»

For her sake, here's hoping she proves them all wrong, and that she's able to come up with enough second acts to sustain her career for years to come.

Not exact matches

It could be just enough to «turn off the sequester,» the second tranche of across - the - board cuts that will take effect in mid-January if Congress doesn't act, says Steve Bell, a former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee now at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

RE the second point: if someone can explain to me how the Futures Market (which is cash settled) will affect the actual Market Ill stand corrected on that point... having said all this I do believe BTC is overvalued on a «fundamental» basis because there has not been enough adoption and the transaction cost is too high but it is acting more like gold 2.0 and there will have to be a better method of lowering transaction costs and increasing speed or using an alternative coin.

I sometimes wonder after listening to Arsene Wegner if he was at the same game, because for him to believe that before the second goal the game was close is clearly ridiculous, he then went on to say, he doesn't understand why people are acting like we lost to a team at the bottom of the league, someone should have reminded him of the team losing to Nottingham Forest in the FA cup, really sad that the embarrassment under this delusional old man continues without anyone responsible enough to stop him.

The likelihood of the bill passing into law is very small indeed, and even if it passed second reading it is unlikely that there would be enough parliamentary time before the end of the year to act on it.

The second is to the international community, and Britain in particular, that they can act indiscriminately in the sovereign territory of other states, while still being considered respectable enough to host major international sporting tournaments like the World Cup.

A new nanogenerator that acts like a second skin and harvests energy from human motions can easily generate enough power to light 20 small LEDs.

The glycogen lactic acid system can also act quickly, and enough ATP can be produced to last around 90 seconds.

But even though «Edge of the City» starts decently enough, and makes its point well in the end, the dramatic tension does fall off somewhat in the second act.

Their father (Eric Lutes) thinks he doesn't have a close enough relationship with Emma, so he decides to draft her onto the winning girls» soccer team he's coaching; their mother (Kathryn Greenwood) signs Sam up for a second - string team coached by someone who acts as if he could hardly be bothered to watch the game.

His character comes to fruition in the second act and apart from being present during pivotal battle scenes, his character is not given enough time to establish, and so comes off rather bland and underwhelming.

Interestingly enough, the more broad comedy that opens the film is not as effective as the more personal comedy that takes off in the second act.

Things do get better for the most part during the film's second act, wherein Satrapi does quite a few interesting things with Jerry's mental illness, and Reynolds plays his role decently enough.

It starts as an intriguing enough mystery, evolves into a suitable second - act quest; however, some third - act «twists» just derail whatever narrative momentum the story manages to build, and muddles both the mythology and character relationships developed up to that point, leaving us with an awkward ending that doesn't feel much like an ending so much as a chapter break.

Everyone's likable enough, save Jackson and a couple hissable stooges, and once Kong gets to a certain point in the second act, enough gears are in motion to get it to the finish.

He has literally two proper scenes; the first is to justify demoting Cruise's character and sending him into battle in order to cover his own ass (somehow) and thus set the story in motion, and the second is to give Blunt and Cruise the MacGuffin when they finally decide that they've been faffing about for long enough and should probably get act three started.

I have serious issues with some of the silly almost sitcom - y genre conventions Nicole Holofcener throws into the second and third acts of Enough Said.

And while the film marks only Monáe's second live - action feature, between this and «Moonlight,» acting work is sure to come to the six - time Grammy - nominated musician soon enough.

The second act delivers a few chuckles, but nothing funny enough to earn a laugh out loud moment.

The movie does its best with the tricky material, giving Belle enough clout to be a Disney heroine with some bite and Dan Steven's Beast does show enough genuine endearing traits to make him loveable in the second act.

The scenarios do not differentiate themselves enough, and while they escalate in absurdity appropriately, they lose their luster by the middle of the second act.

The 1.4 TSI engine with ACT (Active Cylinder Technology) in the FR model has 147bhp and 184 lb ft of torque, which is enough to allow it reach 62mph in 8.0 seconds and onto a 134mph maximum.

My second was to do enough paid acting annually to cover the cost of my classes,» Dennis says, «I achieved those goals the first year and surprised even myself.»

You can act out the exact same plan that succeeded five seconds ago, only to discover that an enemy is now ten feet away on the opposite side of the room, just far enough away to blast you with his shotgun before you can close the distance.

Oddly enough, the game decides to assign a useless seconds and minutes timer to these sections, but with each turn equating to 5 seconds, it would have made more sense to just tell you how many more turns you have left to act.

As for English being FCs second language — I understand your concern but I trust that they are professional enough to get professional people (mainly native English - speakers) to do the voice acting, proof - reading etc..

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Or if the there enough water molecule in droplet the water acts similar to a drop water from dripping facet or pool of water - which a portion of it is evaporating and condensing - but with H20 gas molecules in a gas mixture most of gas molecules are transiting from gas to liquid state within a time frame of something like less than a second.

The second argument made by the Tenants was that the Leasing Representative had enough control over the premises to comply with the Act.