Sentences with phrase «fillip from»

Metros and Tier 1 cities dominated online book buying in 2017, while regional language books, especially translations, received a fillip from non-metro readers.

I enjoy injecting sound into the stream of fillips from time to time, because sound has no intrinsic meaning — unlike the words we wield every day — and despite or because of that it can be beautiful and intriguing.

Not exact matches

Amid OPEC supply compliance, WTI markets are focusing on dwindling inflow of Crude from Canada to Cushing due to limited accommodation on the Keystone pipeline.The disruption is providing a fillip to WTI prices while the stronger dollar has Brent prices falling and narrowing the WTI - Brent spread.

«That result, and the way the Scottish side exposed chinks in City's defensive armour, will have given a fillip to Tottenham, fresh from a crucial Champions League win in Moscow, before England's top two clash at White Hart Lane.»

Is there loading a repeat of last year, when it switched votes from crucial roads nationwide, that would have given the economy a fillip, to useless constituency projects, for brazen personal egos?

Whereas Goodbye to Language stood out from other Godard essay films for its singular reimagining of the 3D image, The Image Book offers its own inspired fillip to the director's formula: a soundtrack that ping - pongs around the stereo field in four dimensions.

Both cover and rating were wholly misleading publicity fillips for the movie, which isn't glamorous or gory, or even pornographic: the shots of Williams's Cindy being taken from behind by one boyfriend and receiving oral sex from another - Gosling's Dean, with whom she's newly in love - are inexplicit and more functional than erotic.

Taking its title from Wayne Koestenbaum's 2007 book Hotel Theory (a philosophic enquiry into the hotel state of being), this is the fourth title in Fillip's ongoing Folio Series presenting writing by critics, artists and curators that engages specific and recurring questions on international contemporary art.

We swam in the sea, it got misty and we couldn't tell what time it was anymore, Peter Amby Gallery, Copenhagen Statements, with Chert, Berlin, Art Basel, Basel POST, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Antechamber, North galleries, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen At Night They Leave Their Century, Chert, Berlin Drugstore Beetle II, Special Collections Library, California State Universty, Long Beach, California 2011 Adobe, San Francisco, California The Discovery Award, Arles Photography Festival, Arles Room 129, commissioned by Fillip Magazine, Fair, Vancouver, British Columbia 2010 Carry On, Galerie West, Den Haag 2009 Believe Inn, Chicago, Illinois Public Space One, Iowa City 2008 To a Sunset in Palos Verdes, siteLA, Los Angeles I Will Go Somewhere and Send You Something from There, Right Window, San Francisco

Astute readers of this feature (and some of the rest of you, too) will have noticed that I tend towards non-verbal Friday Fillips, seeking, I guess, relief from the «jaw - jaw» that is law.

And then comes the astonishingly dramatic Cell Block Tango from the movie Chicago, in which all the potential aggression in an argument between lovers is emphasized to the ultimate (and which, in a nifty sort of wrap - up to this fillip, brings us back to law again).

I suspect that someone from Festo, the source of today's fillip, must have had a similar early experience, because that company is all about understanding and reproducing the graceful movement of animals in their natural elements.

(Those of you who've been with Slaw for a few years now may remember this from an earlier fillip.)

Followers of the fillip will know I often like to get away from words on this weekly indulgence, and this is one of those times.

Each day except Saturday there'll be a post under the rubric Today: Summaries Sunday will present precis of Maritime Law Book case summaries; Monday's Mix will offer half a dozen excerpts from leading Canadian law blogs; Tips Tuesday will give you a brief bit from the prior week's advice on SlawTips; Wednesday: What's Hot on CanLII continues the feature that's already in place; Thursday Thinkpiece will publish a long excerpt from a recently published book or journal article; and the Friday Fillip promises to be once again light - hearted.