Sentences with phrase «first few acts»

The writing overall is as funny and heartfelt as in some of Homestuck's narrative peaks, and Andrew Hussie has obviously learned a lot from the criticisms of the pacing of his prior comic, particularly in its first few acts.

Not exact matches

The global drop in oil prices, while terrible for Wall Street upon first blush, has yielded a decrease in gasoline prices that may act as a massive tax cut for those who have reaped very few benefits from the economic recovery.

The global drop in oil prices, while terrible for Wall Street upon first blush, has yielded a commensurate decrease in gasoline prices that may act as a massive tax cut for the very people who have, so far, reaped very few benefits from the economic recovery.

A few weeks after the announcement of the review, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) said that the acting director of ATF was unsure if the agency had the legal power to ban bump stocks in the first place, with regulation being perhaps the only available option unless Congress passed legislation.

For a Biblical concept of justice has been the real concern of a few of these writers.58 Evidence is of course mixed, but the overwhelming thrust of Scripture's discussion of «social justice» suggests the following Biblical definition: «to each according to his or her needs» Rather than act on the basis of society's most common definitions of «social justice» those of merit or equality - the Christian seeking a Biblically derived social ethic must respond, first and foremost, on the basis of need.

In Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict describes how, in the first few centuries after the resurrection, the Church was known for its acts of charity.

At first, the sauce acts as a dressing, but after a few nights in the fridge, the vegetables marinate in all the smokiness, and the dish gets a sort of second life, and a delicious one at that.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

and maybe get arteta, lungberg, pires, bergkamp, coming up underneath to be a coaching team for the first team, but for me a henry and bergkamp management double act is just the ticket in a few years.

Lerner had to act quickly to hire a new manager, after Kevin MacDonald took charge of the first few games.

The vernix should always be left to absorb naturally as it acts as a natural moisturizer and protects against infection in the first few days.

If by potty training you mean to train your dog to «go» oditsue, I would suggest a few things. - take the dog oditsue often, every 2 - 3 hours at first (a pup can only hold it for as many hours as his age in months - so a 3 month old pup can hol dit 3 hours)- crate training is a great tool to assist in «potty training» - always reward him when he goes oditsue - never punish him if you find a mess - if you catch him in the act, a firm «NO!..

The easiest way to avoid this dilemma is to take a few seconds to think first before you act: «Is this a limit I really to need to set?»

Nobody tells you that it takes a couple days for you to actually make milk out of those suckers or that the first few weeks of breastfeeding can be just as painful as the actual act of giving birth.

There are already a few legislative initiatives under way, nationally — among them the Songwriter Equity Act, a bill first introduced by Doug Collins, a Republican from Georgia, and Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, and then in the Senate by, among others, Orrin Hatch, who is himself a prolific songwriter.

«The Criminal Justice Reform Act has provided fairer and more proportionate outcomes for tens of thousands of New Yorkers in just the first few months of its existence,» she said in a statement.

The fact that parts of this act were already ruled unconstitutional by a NY judge, with more still being appealed shows how much real thought was put into it; within the first few weeks of passing this debacle almost all police, armed guards etc. were violating the law because the legislators in their infinite wisdom forgot to exempt law enforcement, not to mention all the people who went to bed and then the next day — due to the fly - by - night method of governing — people woke up breaking the law without having done anything.

The impending move marks the first time a gun manufacturer is actually leaving New York due to the SAFE Act, which Cuomo put forth in response to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and the ambush killings of two firefighters in a suburb of Rochester a few days later.

He was elected MP for Newcastle East in 1983, and was given his first front bench job by acting leader Margaret Beckett, who made him Shadow Leader of the Commons for a few months in 1994.

First, while there may be a few reasonable provisions in this act, none of them have to do with the registration and / or banning of any type of «assault weapons.»

The Save Darfur cause generated most of its members in the first few months and a more detailed analysis revealed that after the initial act of joining, 72 % of members never recruited anyone else and the majority of members never donated2.

The amendment was one of just a few passed yesterday evening as the House science committee deliberated over the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (FIRST) Act, a controversial bill that would reauthorize the National Science Foundation (NSF) and several other science agencies.

Challenge in hand, a few bold engineers dared to draw up the first sketches of a radical new approach to gathering light: tile together smaller hexagons, and control them so finely that they would act as a single, giant mirror.

Sure enough, when I first started intermittent fasting, I had to be super gentle with myself and I actually acted like I had the flu the first few times.

Presenting her talk Selecting the Right Relationship at a New York TEDx event, Redcay suggests that the act of falling for someone actually happens much quicker than we're willing to admit — the first few months of getting to know someone to be exact.

There are only a few plot details set - up throughout the course of the first act, so it's very predictable when viewers finally reach the third act.

The film assumes that what we want to see is Ana find her inner dom, and top Christian in one way or another, and it plays around with this notion in a few first - act bits where Ana takes the driver's seat in Christian's souped - up Audi, and intimidates a hot architect who is a little too touchy with her husband.

He's a few decades out from being «The kid in Billy Elliot,» and he's done a lot of good acting since that excellent first film.

Thanks to that rousing third act, good performances, and a few fine moments of suspense, «Jurassic World» succeeds as an enjoyable piece of popcorn entertainment, in spite of its troubled first hour.

(Luckily, we're given a solid first act and a few moments in the second before it does.)

The First Act: «Show, Don't Tell» Issues & The Missed Opportunity Of Exploiting Theme Put aside for one moment that we're supposed to believe that one girl victor has given an entire country a sense of renewed hope to the point that it might topple a totalitarian dictatorship (neatly summed up by Katniss herself who remarks on the fragility of a system that could be brought down by a few berries).

It could be the distracting cinema verite style, it could be the heavy improvisation and at times inconsistent acting, it could be the terribly transparent exposition, the way the first 45 minutes takes a few too many shortcuts to force its intrigue to the fore.

The first 85 % is the stuff of kings, but it falls into a few cliché pitfalls in the third act that hold it back just a tad.

In the acting categories, there were a few great surprises as first time nominee Rami Malek took home the award for best actor in a drama for his performance on USA» sMr.

After the relatively measured pace of Act 1's first few moments, the story kicks into a breathless tempo that barrels to a somewhat disappointing conclusion eight to ten hours later.

Still, everyone in the movie gives entertaining and enthusiastic performances — with special mention to Paul Bettany's charming crime lord - and with a stronger, smarter script (you guess the outcome of the movie within the film's first few minutes - not good) and the elimination of some very questionable choices (all spoilers, let's just say we're referring to the third act), «Solo» might have been something to really send a hologram Leia to call home with.

Kevin Wade's script has a lot of obvious material, but it saves the most important revelation — one the film shockingly gets away with not revealing in the first act — until the last few moments.

The act was surprising, considering that just a few hours prior to landing on Titan, the Sorcerer Supreme warned Tony that the stone was his first and only priority; he'd let Tony and Peter die if he had to.

The first act is straight political thriller, with a few brutal fight scenes thrown in for good measure.

The best actor, and character, here is the movie's antagonist, but he is left hidden from the audience for a final act twist (which is a pretty dumb move, as everyone knows who it is going to be from the first few scenes).

I'm bored of people acting as if this is Hathaway's first «serious» role... there was a little movie called «Brokeback Mountain» a few years back, and I think her contribution to it was very undervalued.

Once Forman stages his first recreation of bits from Kaufman's standup act, the film sets into cruise control, offering reenactment after reenactment of keystone events and performances in Kaufman's career (including his infamous «feud» with wrestler Jerry Lawler), with few moments of downtime in between and even less dramatic momentum to string it all together.

I Am Not a Serial Killer sells itself on being one of those quirky and slightly surreal indie horror movies that has a premise that sounds familiar but adds a few twists and turns to throw you off your guard, and for the first half of the movie this approach generally works; the sense of a small town in the grip of an apparent serial killer comes across thanks to the geography of the houses and the interactions of the people we meet, and as a character John is well - written and superbly acted, making him instantly interesting and, despite his odd character traits, slightly endearing.

It's a big day for Schafer then, and the adventure game which stars Elijah Wood and Jack Black will conclude in a few months, when the second act becomes available for those who have purchased the first.

Freida Pinto Pinto was a model and television host who had done no acting apart from a few school plays when, after her first six months of auditioning, she landed the role of a lifetime — the female lead in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire which went on to win Best Picture at the 2009 Academy Awards.

The laughs are fewer and farther between once Ansel and Claire are confined to a non-descript hotel room, but for the sake of the first act, those countless humiliations are vital to empathizing with an otherwise petty, insecure has - been of a protagonist, one constantly assaulted in Coen-esque fashion when not pocketing just about anything in sight.

There are even numerous callbacks to certain scenes (for those that thought that one sexually explicit line in the first was too controversial, well, you probably don't want to know what is said at all before a brief act of lovemaking in this one) and a few moments taken from The Secret Service that are almost the same here.

Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).

Well, first, go back and read through the Enhanced ACT Writing Test details and click on a few of the writing prompts so you know what I'm talking about below.

For Bob, buying the 2018 Aston Martin DB11 V8, Gaydon's first Grand Tourer with fewer than 12 cylinders in nearly 20 years, would be an act of blasphemy.