Sentences with phrase «filled backrooms»

L.A. Noire is a single - player detective game from Rockstar Games set on the infamous streets and in the smoke - filled backrooms of postwar Los Angeles.

Then the new manager can get on with the rebuild as stated above, in particular filling the backroom staff with exciting fresh coaching ideas, tactics and passion.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm late for a meeting in a smoke - filled backroom with some close friends to discuss the future of electronic tobacco policy.

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As for our transfers or lack of them, nothing changes apart from the two backroom appointments which seem superfluous to our current needs.We the fans will be the last to know and I have given up ever seeing Alexis again in an Arsenal shirt.The longer his agent plays the game the lack of time there will be for bringing in anyone who can fill his shooting boots.

The first highlights — filled with backroom political gossiping — were played during testimony by state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Whitestone), who described Skelos» power and explained how his own legislative behavior on issues such as rent control and fracking might have been different if he knew about the behind - the - scenes interests of Skelos.

We have to set out our stall on what we believe in, why we think we've got the best policies for the country and I honestly think the minute you start looking like you're either conceding defeat or you're interested in backroom deals in smoke - filled room over things you've got no control over, you lose the essence of what the election is about.»

In addition, the script adds enough plots to fill a whole rack at the airport Barnes & Noble: looming epidemics, African civil wars, sinister businessmen cutting backroom deals, even a nebulous threat that may destroy all life on Earth if Pitt doesn't save the day.

Released: December 25 Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera Director: Aaron Sorkin Why it's great: Sorkin, the writer of The West Wing, A Few Good Men, and The Social Network, makes his directorial debut with the true story of Molly Bloom, a failed Olympic skier who became one of the most cunning operators of high - stakes, celeb - filled, backroom poker games in the country.

If you like paranoid thrillers filled with backroom dealings and hidden agendas that make you question how much information is out there that is too dangerous for the general public to know, Closed Circuit could have you looking at major events with a slightly more cynical point of view than you might have had going in.

Examining the drastically dire situation from a different angle, Darkest Hour fills in the political skirmishes and backroom showdowns that ultimately led to Dunkirk's successful evacuation and for as thrilling and visceral Dunkirk is, Darkest Hour does a phenomenal job of summoning similarly tightrope tension.

It's a fictional story of hostage negotiation, but Tony Gilroy's screenplay is filled with so many backroom deals, backchannel talks, and instances of parties giving and receiving the runaround that the story feels like it could have happened.

They just want you to be filling out the shelves (and usually it's the shelves in the backroom).