Sentences with phrase «figures like»

Shakur's brushes with the law and criticism from Washington figures like Vice President Dan Quayle add interest and context to the music that has aged terrifically.

In a Hollywood climate that has promoted accuser empathy and largely avoided direct public mentions of figures like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, the hosts gleefully took jabs at the disgraced men before a crowd that included Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig and Salma Hayek.

The book is littered with real - life figures like Karl Marx, George Gissing and Dan Leno.

I don't know what the sales of consoles are in the uk but with figures like that I'd imagine many are making do with the bundled software... Even if, for many, it's just Nintendo Land.

«Black Hawk Down» doesn't have heroic foreground figures like most war movies.

Manhunter was ahead of its time in 1985 and Seitz analyzes the commonality that figures like Will Graham (William Peterson) and the Tooth Fairy (Tom Noonan) sh...

Instrumental in that effort, according to the Times article, was Becky, who «arguably wields even more power in comedy than Louis C.K.» and still represents figures like Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, and Amy Poehler.

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There are many big guest stars [including Lena Dunham, Will Forte, and Michael Sheen, as well as tennis figures like John McEnroe, Serena Williams, and Chris Everet].

From the Greek mythological references of the Sirens, who lured sailors to their watery graves, to Biblical figures like Delilah, whose betrayal led to Samson's enucleation and ultimate death, the femme fatale has taken on many forms in literature, art and other mediums.

But in October 2017, sexual assault allegations took down movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, followed by a cascading series of allegations against Hollywood figures like Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, Louis C.K., James Toback, and more that started to cut into the careers of those powerful men.

You'll be able to pick up new Animal Crossing figures like Kapp «n, Timmy & Tommy, Rover, and Digby, as well as a new wave of Animal Crossing amiibo cards.

With «Dear Dictator» a modern parody playing on figures like Fidel Castro and suburban moms and teens, the genre has sunk to its most unfunny low.

Sometimes it's a comedy about a conniver, scheming to undermine a corrupt system with the help of larger - than - life funnyman figures like John Goodman and Stephen Root as upbeat schlockmeisters Frank and Hymie King.

With the transgender movement heavily in the media with figures like Caitlyn Jenner, and countless others heading the conversation, a film like Tom Hooper «s «The Danish Girl» feels vibrantly relevant in today's cinematic climate.

The journey they embark on allows for the introduction of numerous other mythical figures like Medusa (Uma Thurman), Persephone (Rosario Dawson), Aphrodite (Serinda Swan), a Minotaur, and five janitors who morph into the fearsome, multi-headed Hydra.

Veteran media figures like Chris Berman and Rich Eisen, along with former superstars like Deion Sanders, Jim Brown and Bernie Kosar, also make cameos as themselves.

With a reputation for being an oddball, no - one batters an eyelid when he starts to take orders from Frank (the bunny) and speak out against authority figures like Patrick Swayze's bizzarro motivational speaker.

Adam Levine also makes a bid for acting cred, while the film will have cameos from musical figures like Mos Def and Cee Lo Green.

Along the way, he came into close contact with cartel figures like Pablo Escobar and Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez, as well as the CIA and DEA.

Pete Travis's film presents an assassination attempt on a US President from eight different points of view, and the impressive cast features reliable figures like Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver and William Hurt.

The bases are cheap on amazon, and I can buy a few figures I like for cheap too.

Featuring a slew of interviews with big figures like Spike Jonze, Tony Hawk, Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and more, this celebration of 90s counterculture combines archival footage and intriguing chats makes for a one - of - a-kind documentary.

The gimmicky references to real - life figures like David Bowie, Elvis Presley and Andy Warhol, all of whom appear in cameos, reeks of look - at - me desperation, while the fictional characters are so unlikeable — each one equally self - destructive and mired in some kind of hilariously manufactured conflict — that it's hard to know who you're supposed to be rooting for.

And customers looking for pre-owned items at GameStop will find 2,500 different used games available for less than $ 20, plus a buy - two - get - three - free deal on any pre-owned toys - to - life figures like amiibo, Skylanders and Disney Infinity.

Piers Morgan's first nights filling Larry King's suspenders weren't great... He's better — thorough, thoughtful — with serious figures like Rudolph Giuliani.

No mention is made of breakthrough celebrity trans figures like Caitlyn Jenner.

Until someone figures out a way of truly subverting what's already been subverted, cartoon stick figures like Austin Powers and Johnny English will never feel fresh, even when they're actually saying funny things.

«If they get offline figures like Dr. Phil involved, more visitors will come to their sites [and convert].»

A clever social media strategy paired with celebrity endorsement from influential figures like Zayn, Bella Hadid and Chris Brown helped the sneaker brand grow its stockists to 500 in 2017.

But for model - figures like you — I would look like a checked cake You look really wonderful!

I don't have a particular person to look up to, everyone inspires me really, from the top celebs like Alexa Chung, fictive figures like Serena van der Woodsen, to world - wide fashion bloggers.

We particularly love the colourful head wrap, a timeless accessory, symbol of feminity and flamboyance in the disco's era, also adopted by intellectual feminist figures like Simone de Beauvoir in the 40's or more recently by novelist's Zadie Smith.

There is some competition from Old Hollywood Glam and Classic Pinup, from Ethereal Futuro - Avant Garde and Effortlessly Chic Parisienne... but the Golden Goddess, healthy and glowing, aligned with other personally powerful figures like the Amazon and the Pioneer, has a voice that speaks to me with purity and directness, nothing lost in translation and everything just as I would have put it myself.

Or how leading health figures like the Dutch health minister, Paul Van der Velpen, proclaim sugar to be worse than alcohol, tobacco, and cocaine combined.

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If you are one of those people who think that bodybuilding is something that only people under the age of fifty can do, just take a look at figures like Kevin Levrone, who proves you wrong still intimidating with his presence.

A few prominent figures like Vincent Priessnitz, Father Sebastian Kneipp, Louis Kuhne - and some other less famous ones - were known as Nature Cure practitioners.

A petition to stop the bill has already garnered more than 140,000 signatures, and it's important that prominent figures like Colicchio get involved in the fight for the right to know what consumers, well, consume.

Even if you don't personally know someone who is transgender, there's much greater awareness for gender identity than there used to be, thanks in part to public figures like Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner, and Jazz Jennings from the TLC reality show I Am Jazz.

The bulk of the text consists of transcripts of conversations held late in 1945 at Farm Hall, near Huntingdon, between 10 captured former luminaries of the German nuclear effort, including distinguished figures like Otto Hahn, Carl von Weisacker, Max Laue and Werner Heisenberg.

From legendary figures like Boudicca to today's armed forces, women have taken up arms.

High - profile figures like Bloomberg, Cuomo and Clinton speaking candidly and practically about climate change suggests a change of pace among public officials.

«With this tool we have reached the same conclusions as those presented in Nature by researchers working on the modENCODE, but the enormous difference is that instead of seeing the information in hundreds of graphs and figures like in modENCODE, we have achieved a single map,» explains Azorín.

«Within the ranks of elites, climate change denialists are overwhelmingly conservative white males,» reads the report, pointing to figures like talk show host Rush Limbaugh and Marshall Institute CEO, William O'Keefe.

Mr Corbyn rejected calls from pro-EU figures like Lord Mandelson and a number of his own backbenchers to commit to staying in the EU single market, saying instead that he wanted a «close relationship» with it.

Suggestions by senior hard left figures like Len McCluskey, Diane Abbott and Ken Livingstone that there could be a reckoning for the leadership if Labour's poll ratings haven't improved within a year have given the Conservatives much more cause for concern than any fumbled policy announcement from the Opposition frontbench.

A senate president that has access to raw cash and power is quoting figures like he has educate the whole nation.

As a safe Labour seat near London, Leicester West has been too amenable to establishment figures like Kendall (or previously Greville Janner, amongst others).

In addition to the aforementioned pundits, Client 9, which will air tonight and be hosted by Court TV's Vinnie Politan, will also air the opinions of esteemed figures like John McCain, Alan Dershowitz, and «private eye Vito Colucci.»