Sentences with phrase «few stabs at them»

After reading a few articles about writing short fiction and after taking a few stabs at Chuck Wendig's Flash Fiction challenge, I licked it.

After taking a few stabs at the right formula, the series has finally found its voice, and Ethan Hunt and company give James Bond a real run for his blockbuster money.

But then again the idea of being a Stuntman in a video game now that sounds like a good idea, and something that THQ has taken a few stabs at over the years and has come up with mild success.

Throughout the years there has been quite a few stabs at bringing Watchmen to the big screen (at one point 12 Monkeys director Terry Gilliam was rumored to be set to do it) until the project was finally green lit with director Zack Snyder at the helm of things.

His advertisements even took a few stabs at good old «plumber boy» Mario.

Mugen Souls tries to take a few stabs at making fun of games such as Disgaea while itself committing the same atrocities — i.e. needless grinding, relying on stat maximization and an insane amount of battles.

I took a few stabs at making rejuvelac for the Artisan Vegan Cheese recipes, and it didn't work so well for me.

And, even assuming your overwrot imagination could in fact gin up a few stabs at them, what are chances that they'd agree with any other equally deluded True Believer?

Not exact matches

Each side sends out as many gullible followers as they can find or buy and they send them to an agreed upon place where they bash eachothers heads in and stab at eachother with spears and arrows and eventually only a few survivors will wander back to their masters covered in blood and wounds and claim Truth for their side, since whichever side won was obviously God's chosen ones...

Here is my stab at it with a few modifications: http://neonmarkt.com/2014/09/15/thai-inspired-chicken-noodle-soup/

I decided to a take a stab at it last week, in part because I was working on this Slow Cooker Black Bean Chili with Kahlua, and I had to go a few rounds to get it just right.

I wash the outside, stab the a few times with a knife and then bake the at around 400 degrees for an hour!

It have been tough times over the past few years, but now the Gunners are really having a stab at adding some long - awaited silverware to the cabinet.

Manfred Oehmichen and his colleagues at the University Hospital of Schleswig - Holstein in Kiel, Germany, found that fewer enzyme - positive mast cells showed up in the wounds of people stabbed to death than in neighbouring undamaged skin.

Perluigi Gambetti, who directs the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has a few criticisms: The hamsters were infected by injecting the protein directly into the brain, for instance, which is «like creating a stab wound» through which protein may have entered the blood stream.

► Several teenagers confront three other teens in a train car and fistfights erupt with punching, kicking, choking and slamming of bodies onto walls and floors: a teen girl punches a young man for leering at her (we see a few scrapes on teen girls and teen boys), a teen boy pulls a knife and another boy takes it from him and stabs him multiple times below the frame while a young man holds a teen girl's head out the boxcar door, choking her (she gags) and trying to toss her out, but another young man pulls him away; during one fistfight the arm of a young man catches against a pole outside the boxcar as the train passes and the young man screams (it is implied that he lost his arm, but we do not see this).

-- Features several new monsters — Subtle improvements and embellishments — 1080 native — Rextextured rather than rebuilt in HD — Improved loading times — 50 % more content than Tri — Most of the new content comes from the upper levels of the game like the G class quests — New monster: Brachydios — Brachydios is like a cross between a poisonous rhino and an extraordinarily aggressive, volcanic T - Rex — Brachydios enjoys slobbering explosive neon - green saliva all over its stumpy arms and then pile - driving you into the ground with them, leaving a residue of slime wherever it treads — Brachydios will go into rage mode after you hit him a few times and the green nodes on his head start to glow read — Expanded monster stamina system in Ultimate — Can more easily see when a monster is weakened or hurt — Monsters tire out more visibly — AI companions Cha - Cha and Kayumba can be used in single - player — Cha - Cha and Kayumba sing stat - boosting songs and have the odd stab at a monster during battle — The two are mainly used to distract the monster's attention — GamePad shows map — Mess around with your inventory on the GamePad as well — Target button in both versions lets you actually lock on to monsters

There have been other stabs at Fitzgerald's book: a lost silent production, with Warner Baxter as Gatsby, a few years after the novel was published; Alan Ladd as Gatsby, in a 1949 version; and Robert Redford as Gatsby in the Francis Ford Coppola - scripted 1974 production, a handsome but bland affair.

«Baywatch» takes a few amusing stabs at satire — Efron declares that the group's adventures sound like «a really entertaining but farfetched TV show» — but, in the end, director Seth Gordon and a cargo ship full of writers use the beachy setup as little more than a vehicle for generic hard - R and gross - out gags.

Otto Preminger's stabs at comedy are few, and none got more lethal notices than this one.

It may not have been the first movie to take a stab at Outer Space Horror but very few people could argue that Ridley Scott's classic isn't the apex of the entire sub-genre.

Hossein Amini has penned a few literary adaptations in his time, including a pair of wildly - contrasting gems (Drive and The Wings Of The Dove), and his first stab at directing his own material can stand proudly in the same company.

Only a few short hours before the red carpet turns a muddy purple under the heels of Sydney's sodden socialites (it has really rained this week), SCREEN - SPACE takes a last minute stab at who will take home an AACTA Award at tonight's Oz industry gala event, to be hosted by AACTA ambassador Cate Blanchett (pictured, below; at the 2014 event) and actress Deborah Mailman...

Like its central characters, at least Cave and Hillcoat are straightforward about their intentions (apart from the awkward placement of its female characters, who are mostly forgotten whenever they aren't necessary to the plot), and the story unfolds in a flurry of pummelings, shootings, and stabbings that punctuate the battle of wills between men with few moral qualms (One particularly gruesome episode really puts a character's legend to the test).

Kinetiquettes will soon be releasing a few Monster Hunter pieces, including this huge statue featuring Zinogre getting stabbed at by both a male and female hunter.

Taking a stab at the 6» 3» statuesque Debicki, it's hard not to at least consider Moondragon, one of the few significant female characters with ties to the Marvel cosmic - verse left outside of Gamora, Nebula and Mantis.

As a very loose rendition of historical fiction, it requires an ability to enjoy the suspension of belief in order to appreciate the humor, as well as an ability to look past the few offensive remarks to that are both poignant stabs at the time period as well as timely interpretations of the fact that prejudice and racism are far from dead.

He cut his meat and stabbed at a few peas, scooped up some mashed potatoes onto his fork.

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TVGB takes a stab at these as well as a few others with five predictions for the Wii in» 09.

Hardline even takes a few illadvised stabs at the E-Sports market through two game modes.

Kinetiquettes will soon be releasing a few Monster Hunter pieces, including this huge statue featuring Zinogre getting stabbed at by both a male and female hunter.

Your first bounty hunter mission has you crossing the street, walking into a bar, and stabbing an outlaw a few times at which point the mission ends in success.

Sacred 3 tries to take a stab at this genre with their latest release but sadly forgets to implements a few components that would greatly help the overall experience of the game.

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While Rastan Saga II didn't achieve the same success as the original, Taito took another stab at the franchise a few years later, this time turning it into a sidescrolling beat - em - up.

After a few more years of training, they were ready to take another stab at the all wood replica.

In one of his dioramalike installations last year at New York's Luxembourg & Dayan gallery, which was based on a novel he'd written, a naked male doll lay on a bed, stabbed with a hook; his show at the Ramekin Crucible gallery on the Lower East Side a few months earlier had included live, baby tigers in cages.

For now, the platform is in closed - beta, open to just a few select ethereum developers who want to take a stab at building apps on the platform.

I've tried quite a few sub - # 100 stabs at true wireless and, sad to say, most of them are no good.

Jabra has taken a few serious stabs at Bluetooth earbuds throughout the last 18 months.