Sentences with phrase «from rollicking»

The tone shifts wildly from rollicking comedic adventure, to straight - ahead action, to campy melodrama, to horror - tinged mystery, all at the drop of a hat.

Hosted at a variety of great venues across the city, from rollicking Irish pubs to chic lounges and modern wine bars, these upcoming Toronto singles events bring professional singles together.

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Soaring demand from institutional investors who don't want to hold the actual cryptocurrency has caused the trust to surge even more than bitcoin itself, making it a rollicking trip.

Amid the man - made lakes and majestic pines my friends and I sang songs, played games and swapped secrets, rollicking in our freedom from the pressures of home and school.

In summer, the crowd spills out from the turquoise walls (painted to match the food truck that launched chef Christina Nguyen's arepa mini-empire) to a rollicking patio.

• Jimbo Fisher is making use of today to polish up his first Texas A&M class, and things are off to a rollicking start in College Station, as four - star Lamar (Texas) DT Bobby Brown has flipped from Alabama to the Aggies.

However, given the length of time that the Englishman has been out of the game, can be start producing rollicking displays from the off?

Calum Chambers The 19 - year old starlet has lived up to his 16 million pound price tag and, through his rollicking performances, earned himself an international call - up from the England manager, Roy Hodgson.

and with the latest stories coming from the training ground, He is either going to crack and step down from his managerial duties at the club or he will start being more ruthless and aggressive with the team, Hopefully the rollicking he gave them demanding more passion and desire will have hit home and it will inspire our players to respond in a positive way, Wenger is not known for showing his anger at the players, So if this rollicking doesn't work!

Professional actors from Improv Playhouse Theater bring classic folk tales to life with rollicking songs, a touch of improv, important life lessons, and hilarious antics that will entertain children and adults alike.

From start - to - finish, the thing features rollicking rock music, teeth - gritting holds, and the screaming voice of Bob telling me to make it even harder.

He keeps things moving at a rollicking pace, incorporates some clever animation, and manages to get good performances from a cast that veries in experiences.

Baker gets great, sly, unforced performances from his two leads, but it's not all a rollicking good time: There are moments of quietude, inquietude, moments when a sense of wariness and loneliness settles over the women.

The cancellation of the James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams led series based on Joe R. Lansdale's nuanced and rollicking 1980s set novels of two mainly unlucky Lone Star state buddies» misadventures came today from the AMC owned net.

Apprehensions about Peter Jackson's first instalment of The Hobbit films — a trilogy stemming from JRR Tolkien's iconic novel, and the writer / director's second stint in Middle Earth after The Lord of the Rings — are swiftly cast aside in The Desolation of Smaug, endless exposition gratefully replaced by rollicking action.

Released: May 20th Cast: Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe, Angourie Rice, Keith David Director: Shane Black (Iron Man 3) Why it's great: Birthed from»70s funk, covered in porn sleaze, and decorated with the English - language equivalent of shaggy neon carpet, this rollicking, Los Angeles - set noir is a comedy of groovy errors.

After a poignant parting from home and Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), the ensuing conflicts with spies, wartime officials and leering villains echo rich, rollicking matinee - serial pleasures.

With a rollicking black comedy set in a war zone, the tone necessarily goes plural, as the story careens from the abruptly tragic to the blithely, weirdly funny and back again.

Filled with rollicking songs by Tim McGraw, Bonnie Raitt and k.d. lang, Home on the Range doesn't stray far from the predictable plot we've come to expect in the musical Western.

All of this has its value, but Plummer, in rollicking good form, without a shred of sentimentality, is primed for greatness, and Mills keeps cutting away from him just when things are getting interesting.

This rollicking action romp has all of the chase scenes and car crashes you expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, but a lot more (intentional) laughs thanks to a witty script and a cast of...

(Brydon and Coogan rock and rollick when they do sing; in this film they harmonize incongruously on songs from Alanis Morissette's third album, «Jagged Little Pill.»)

But as prepared as the family is — from a soundproofed barn bunker for the birth to the creepily coffin - like box through which oxygen can be pumped to an squealing infant — Evelyn's unexpected labor still partly triggers the second half's rollicking succession of nail - biting encounters with the audio - aroused and relentless fiends.

Speaking of veteran filmmakers, William Friedkin came rollicking back with the hugely enjoyable «Killer Joe,» with a brace of great performances, including a surprisingly ace one from Matthew McConaughey.

Jean - Paul Rappeneau)-- World Premiere Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Grand Budapest Hotel) stars in this rollicking and romantic country - house farce from lauded director Jean - Paul Rappeneau (Cyrano de Bergerac, The Horseman on the Roof).

This should be another quippy, rollicking blast from the past.

From actors who can be seen breaking into laughter during takes, to the blatant delight with which Cate Blanchett purrs her lines and chews her scenery, to the exuberance of action sequences, to the spirit of Thor himself, Ragnarok rollicks along, riding laughter and zeal to definitely the most fun Marvel movie, and possibly the best one, too.

July 23, 2016 • Listen to the rollicking soul band perform songs from its upcoming sophomore album, Sea Of Noise.

(2014) dir Jalmari Helander w / Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber, Felicity Huffman, Jim Broadbent, Mehmet Kurtulus [110 min; DCP] The latest from the director of the twisted Christmas cult classic Rare Exports, BIG GAME is a rollicking adventure in the vein of 1980s teen action movies.

From it's rollicking soundtrack, to the rich, snappy dialogue, with great characters in hilarious situations and kinetic fast paced direction.

The entry event — featuring a video produced by teachers and a guest visit from a classics professor willing to ham it up in costume — was a small but important piece intended to get the project off to a rollicking start.

Apropos of current events, I've been reading Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa's new book, Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters, a rollicking bit of pop science that turns the lens of evolutionary psychology on issues of the day, everything from suicide bombers to the porn industry.

The result is a rollicking rollercoaster ride from obscurity to infamy, and the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings.

I love this description of Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories, from fellow writer and critic Heather Sellers: «An amazingly original Flannery O'Connor / Loretta Lynn collision, this collection lets us witness the indomitable spirit and forces us to take pure joy in all we really ever have a chance at: flawed, gorgeous, weird, rollicking, screwed survival.»

If you tried to cross the Buck Rodgers TV Show from the early 80's with the Guardians of the the Galaxy movies, you'd come close to the rollicking good fun of this classic space opera.

Literary fiction covers an enormous range of styles and tone, from Peter Carey's rollicking adventure novels (True History of the Kelly Gang) to Kazuo Ishiguro's complex and evocative character studies (The Remains of the Day).

This rollicking tale should keep listeners from whining about the heat, the traffic and the enforced togetherness of family car trips, so pack your headphones and hit the road!

«Grabs you by the throat from the get - go for a suspenseful, rollicking ride.»

A wealthy Chinese immigrant family finds their fortunes dashed and their future in question — with surprisingly hilarious results — in this rollicking debut novel from the Los Angeles - based Chang, a YA editor at Goodreads who has also worked as a journalist and editor.

A Fraction of the Whole is an uproarious indictment of the modern world and its mores - a rollicking rollercoaster ride from obscurity to infamy, and the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings.

This rollicking tale should keep listeners from whining about the heat, the traffic and the...

Read on in Generation Rx for: — exclusive interviews with the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, Roche, and more — a first - ever, inside look at the rollicking business story behind pharma's rise to power — the dramatic effects our drug culture is having on our major organs, from the liver to the heart to the brain — why old bodies and young bodies are the biggest, and riskiest, arenas for our great American prescription pill party — how the largely uncharted terrain of polypharmacy (various drugs taken together) has unleashed unanticipated, often deadly, consequences on unwitting patients Generation Rx will make every American who has ever taken a prescription drug look anew at what's in our medicine cabinets, and why.

The two elderly wiener dogs went from life under the grand piano to a house and backyard rollicking with two young Dachshunds, 8 - year old Smitty and 1 - year old Halle; an elderly chocolate Lab, Elle, with a tumor on her back so she needed help going up and down; and two young rescue Siamese - Tabby brothers, Maverick and Goose, who like to mix - it - up with the wieners.

Marco Polo Didn't Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called «Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.»