Sentences with phrase «feels little consolation»

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Arsenal have also maintained their Champions League status which may feel like little consolation, but it protected their status and provided a further financial boost, allowing a team with stringent financial responsibility to acquire players such as Mertesacker, Koscielny, Chamberlain and Cazorla.

They've since yielded and allocated a spot but it will come as little consolation to the academy, who will feel that they had everything required to challenge again last year, as the competition was eventually won by the surprise package Red Bull Salzburg.

But that will be of little consolation to the Chelsea boss who will feel his team should have won this match.

It's a category where even the notoriously conservative Academy have been known to push the boat out a little, but the new faces it sometimes features (last year's winner Lupita Nyong» o, for example) tend to need to break out in an otherwise recognized, buzzed film (like «12 Years a Slave») and even those picks are often offset by nods for established actresses who either deserve a consolation prize or who in general feel like they haven't ever really been given their due.

Kidman is the obvious bet for consolation prize: it feels like she's moving into the Grande Dame phase of her career in which every major role she takes has one eye on the little gold fella, and if a lot of the time she's going to aim and miss (the specter of «Grace of Monaco» hovers on the horizon, not eligible here yet, but still its stinking word of mouth and distribution troubles are already part of the narrative), in general the Academy loves a trier, so a nod for something as unexceptional - but - prestigey as «The Railway Man» would not be out of the question.