Sentences with phrase «flak for making»

Do you ever catch flak for making art that is too beautiful?

The director will, inevitably, take some flak for making a third consecutive film about the alienating side effects of celebrity and privilege — but as with Woody Allen and Upper East Side intelligentsia, or Mike Leigh and Britain's Tetley - swilling middle classes, this is the world she knows and feels, and if she feels a responsibility to keep circling back to it in her work, then she should do so.

Not exact matches

He is chairman and CEO of Survival Inc., which makes flak jackets and chemical - warfare - survival kits for the U.S. Air Force, the Secret Service, and other deadly customers.

On other note, we should be grateful for Snograss» dive against Palace — Mike Jones got so much flak for awarding the penalty, he's making sure he doesn't do the same again!

There's no smoke screen going on here, it's been known for a while that he wants to stay in London and join us which is why Chelsea have made noises all along about «respecting the players wishes» to deflect any flak for letting him go across the city, putting the spotlight on Cech saying it's all his decision.

Route - masterful Taking the flak for his decision to discontinue the Routemaster bus design, Ken admits that he wouldn't have made the move if he'd known that the model in the City Hall memorabilia cabinet wasn't actual size.

Cuomo took flak for shutting down the anti-corruption Moreland Commission last year, and it appears he's trying to make up for it in his negotiations with lawmakers over the terms of their raise.

Despite getting flak from civil rights advocates over his decision to veto bills that would have legalized specific kinds of pocket knives and offering more state funds to compensate lawyers designated by the court to represent defendants who don't make enough money to afford a lawyer for defense in a criminal case, people roared in applause throughout Cuomo's speech.

Mr Corbyn has taken flak in recent days for allegedly not being sufficiently visible in the fight against Brexit and not making Labour's pro-Brussels stance clear enough.

Especially in the early days of online dating, the match - making mechanism took a lot of flak for being cold and impersonal.

Now I understand I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for this one because it's a film loved by many (I've seen it make many - a-top 10 list).

WHY: Stephanie Myers received a lot of flak for the «Twilight» series, but this big screen adaptation of her latest novel makes those films look brilliant in comparison.

Shia LaBeouf's Bizarre Behavior at Berlin: After taking loads of flak for plagiarizing someone else's work to make a short film and then even more for his unusual response to getting caught, Shia LaBeouf continues to suggest he might have lost all composure at the Berlin Film Festival.

At the time — it feels like just yesterday — Lone Star Governor Rick Perry was riding high in the polls, making an issue of education, and taking flak from Secretary Arne Duncan for running an inadequate school system.

Microsoft, for all the flak it gets, is pretty secure — Windows and Office are making more money than they ever have (just check the balance sheet if you find it hard to believe), there are new successes (Xbox Live, Xbox), and there are the low profile billion dollar businesses (SharePoint, Server Tools).

Game sometimes get a lot of flak for not having save systems that let a player make an infinitely returnable return point at any moment in the game.

Sony has taken a lot of (justifiable) flak for not putting a 4K Blu - ray drive in the PS4 Pro — making it a less attractive purchase for film and TV buffs than the Xbox One S.

Brawl gets a lot of flak these days (some warranted, some exaggerated), but one thing it definitely had going for it was that it did a pretty good job at trying to make the characters distinct (Star Fox characters aside).

The so - called Wind Catcher project might be better named the «Flak Catcher» for all the controversy it has stirred, although unfortunately that seems to have made little impression on Louisiana regulators.

P.S. I've got a post at Cato making a related point: is it really libertarians who should catch flak for being too indulgent toward persons who want to be excused from vaccination?

I am getting flak from the company I work for for having built a bookmarklet that makes one of their web applications more functional.

Despite how much flak Facebook gets for all its privacy fiascos, you have to hand it to the company for making it incredibly easy to see what data it's using.

Sony has taken a lot of (justifiable) flak for not putting a 4K Blu - ray drive in the PS4 Pro — making it a less attractive purchase for film and TV buffs than the Xbox One S.

Apple took a lot of flak for this decision but the company says that it showed courage by making this decision to move beyond the standard 3.5 mm headphone jack.