Sentences with phrase «from plucky»

It's hard to believe that OnePlus has only existed for four years, morphing from a plucky startup where you needed an invitation to buy its phone into a major player in the Android market with adverts on the London Underground and Emily Ratajkowski as a brand ambassador.

As mentioned above, Jaster is a nice break from the plucky, young, fanatically altruistic teenies that usually spearhead Japanese adventures.

From the plucky PSP port of the excellent second game, shown above, to even a new mobile game (called Earth Defense Force Legend).

From the plucky 2D characters to the synthesised background music to the dated - looking cartoon cutscenes, it captures the 80s perfectly.

This new Apple policy is a pretty disturbing move (that is almost certain to hurt consumers, however it shakes out), but even more disturbing is how Apple has morphed from the plucky underdog to the ruthless, monopolistic giant corporation that uses its power to squash competition.

Do you have a release from the plucky redhead?

Each of the 2016 Q5's engines has its own charm, from the plucky performance of the 2.0 T, to the torque - happy acceleration provided by the TDI diesel model.

The teacher strikes have quickly gone from a plucky fight over paychecks to an increasingly polarizing progressive crusade over tax and spending policy.

Well, that didn't take long: The teacher strikes have quickly gone from a plucky fight over paychecks to an increasingly polarizing progressive crusade over tax and spending policy.

Trank plays the transformation of the Fantastic Four from plucky kids to mutants blessed but mostly cursed with superhuman powers from another dimension as Cronenbergian body horror.

From the plucky 2D characters to the synthesised background music to the dated - looking cartoon cutscenes, it captures the 80s perfectly.

Stopping by from Plucky's blog hop... nice to meet you!

So the story after the game was that Michigan is still a national title contender, and perhaps a stronger one because it survived the scare from a plucky team that every national champion seems to face.

This is my 18th year online and I've gone from plucky baker - girl, single - mother of three sons, and entrepreneur to the wise (and still saucy) woman of the wheat fields.

Not exact matches

The large and accelerating rates of incorporation happened because of the weird interaction of two different populist instincts: (1) Even tax - cutting governments were reluctant to reduce personal income taxes on the top tier of income - earners, for fear of being accused of delivering «a tax cut to the richest Canadians;» (2) Just about every government from Jean Chrétien's onward was eager to cut small - business tax rates, because this seemed to be a handy spur to the plucky spirit of the theoretically job - creating mom - and - pop entrepreneurial class.

And then, just a few days later, elimination from the Champions League at the hands of Barcelona, in one of those games that feels plucky but in a profoundly futile way.

It was a hard - fought game against plucky Burnley yesterday, but Arsenal finally came away with the three points in the end thanks to the last minute penalty from Alexis Sanchez.

Brazil recorded their eighth consecutive win on Sunday as a second - half strike from substitute Roberto Firmino was enough to see - off the plucky challenge of Chile at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.

Plucky Tottenham Hotspur continued to embrace their role as Premier League comeback kings on Sunday as they came from 2 - 0 down to draw 2 - 2 with West Ham United at White Hart Lane.

Notre Dame's rugger boys, who didn't know a scrum - down from a loose - forward five years ago, scored with 15 seconds to go to win the Irish Challenge Cup, but plucky Toronto showed who was boss at the parties

The narrative will be that the plucky underdog managed to come away from this match against the Premier League giants with a draw, and in the history books that is exactly how it will look.

I'm Not Santa — The plucky baby owl from «I'm Not Cute!»

When he arrived in the street at 6.30 pm, the plucky Pole surprised everyone, including Mr Cameron, by arriving at the Horseguards Parade end of Downing Street and emerging on foot from the iron gates by the Foreign Office, instead of being driven in a limo from the Whitehall end, which most official visitors are.

How likely is it that a plucky start - up will be able to pry your entire legacy from Google and Facebook?

So far we have an anthropomorphized terrier — plucky, and he was playing with them, mind you — and the Little Rascals returning from the candy store, when:

The story, filed from Wellington, New Zealand, includes these details: «A plucky Jack Russell terrier named George saved five children from two marauding pit bulls....

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His inspiration didn't come from an eloquent teacher or a plucky guidance counselor, but his own defiance of school rules.

OK Bilbo and the dwarfs need to escape from the Wood Elf dungeons... even though I'm not entirely sure why they imprisoned our plucky team anyway truth be told.

Jack Black's finest display of acting prowess is his 1996 Oscar nominated performance in the critically acclaimed blockbuster Mars Attacks in which Black stars as a plucky upstart U.S. Army soldier who valiantly attempts to defend the planet from the evil martians and in doing so, allows Pierce Brosnan to see less screen time.

Amelia Earhart (Adams, Doubt) has a personality based solely on female screwball - comedy heroines given to us from movies of her era (she's plucky, resourceful and inventive).

Jyn herself is something of a street rat, with a rap sheet and a hardscrabble attitude that, at least in the beginning, separates her from the standard «plucky hero» type favored by Star Wars thus far.

Just got back from Mike Leigh's Happy Go Lucky, a movie about a quirky, plucky lady (Sally Hawkins) given to laying spirited, feel - good emotional fascism upon others, including the audience.

Final further meanwhile, Finn (John Boyega), the storm trooper turned rebel, recovers from injuries sustained in the last film just in time to go on an adventure with Alliance true - believer and low - level technician, plucky Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran).

All of which means that underneath the plainness of True Grit are currents of satire and the wryest sense of extratextual irony — its major departures from the source material (speaking of the novel, not of the novel John Wayne film) are almost exclusively in the reductions of its male icons in favour of the plucky little girl.

It's wartime folks, and Phoebe Fox stars as Eve, a plucky schoolteacher charged with bringing a group of evacuated children from London to the relative safety of an abandoned country house.

And even here the movie looks like a genre fight picture from the 1940s, right down to the plucky little gymnasium manager (Burgess Meredith) who puts Rocky through training, and right down to the lonely morning ritual of rising at four, drinking six raw eggs, and going out to do roadwork.

The Mindy Project, Season 6 (Hulu, Sep. 12th) After five seasons, over 100 episodes and one jump from a network to the Internet, creator / star Mindy Kaling's plucky, unlucky OBGYN has searched for love and professional fulfillment.

If you can overlook little things like wooden acting and clumsy dialogue and arbitrary twists, you'll find an insane tale of zombies from hell invading Earth and eating their way through a cast of crucified martyrs, blind visionaries, creepy hotel handymen and befuddled cops, while a plucky pair of heroes desperately fleeing a horde of hungry undead.

Step forward a group of plucky young MCU fans from Malaysia who have literally served the Russo brothers with their own shot - for - shot parody of the film's first trailer.

He's a burnout, having left his position in the Jaeger Academy (where plucky recruits train to control those giant robots) and instead makes his money by selling black market scraps left over from the war 10 years prior.

Interestingly enough, the few glimpses we're given of the evil Yankees are a Destroyer sitting around placidly (a couple of days after K - 19 has fired off a test missile) and a Navy photographer snapping pictures from a helicopter as the plucky Russian lads bare their bums, Braveheart - style.

Even from its origins as a plucky indie web series (back when people were watching plucky indie web series), Broad City was smashing the Bechdel Test by offering the world a stoner comedy duo without testosterone or sexual tension.

The plucky and well - acted, if not always shiver - inducing, «Lights Out» — from first - time feature director David F. Sandberg, building on his popular viral short, and fright impresario James Wan («The Conjuring 2»)-- works a clever gimmick that seems tailor - made for the visual particulars of movies: a terrorizing figure one can only detect when there's no illumination.

In this, his first feature film, Shaun finds himself in a rut on Mossybottom Farm, and, in a clever attempt to take a day off from grazing, inadvertently sends the farmer who tends Shaun and his fellow farm denizens off to The Big City, forcing the plucky ovine to find a way to bring him back despite the help of his fellow sheep.

Starting with the genuinely spooky image of Soviet paratroopers cascading onto an open field behind a Spokane high school, Milius» film thoroughly imagines an American city transformed by invasion and occupation, which raises the stakes for the plucky young guerrilla warriors who lead a rebellion from the mountains.

Dapper Robert Donat and plucky blonde Madeleine Carroll on the run from the good guys and the bad guys, moving from London to the Scottish highlands.

So the plucky widow sets off to get medicine from the reclusive Mr. Ages (voiced by Arthur Malet).

Think: the floundering security agent turned away from working in the highest office, only to be trapped there in a time of crisis; the plucky child barely talking to her father, soon needing his help to survive; the weary government agent approaching his last week of service, certain to have a memorable swansong; the overworked employee forced to deal with distress on her day off; the leader lambasted for being an academic, then swiftly becoming an action hero.