Sentences with phrase «gamesmanship at»

There is a lot of gamesmanship at this time of the year between teams.

Real talk: If the Dodgers were a sporting team, and if they were interested in gamesmanship at all, they would have replaced Kershaw with a starter that had half the strikeout rate last year, too.

What started as a bit of gamesmanship at TPC Sawgrass two weeks ago now has sponsors distancing themselves from the Spaniard.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is either the most reckless politician on the planet or he is engaging in gamesmanship at a level few in financial markets can comprehend.

Not exact matches

«If they held this in their back pocket, and brought it out at a strategic moment to maximize its impact, that would suggest a level of political gamesmanship that is conduct unbecoming [of] senior members of the US Senate,» he said in an email.

Gamesmanship lies at the heart of Stack's approach to management.

It's hard not to view such a statement as a bit of gamesmanship — a polite dig at an upstart.

He joked about how being able to wear Jordan cleats on the field is even part of his gamesmanship — opposing batters are always trying to sneak a look at his shoes, so he'll make sure to pull the pants up and make a show of tying them, so his opponents are thinking about the kicks and not the next pitch that's coming.

The offense is allowed to do whatever they want to convince the defense they're allowed to snap the ball — this is considered gamesmanship, and when a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers becomes great at drawing the opponent offsides, we laud them.

Counsel David Lewis, also throws in a jab at Democrats in the motion, claiming that «political gamesmanship» was a hallmark of their two - year term in the majority.

Then along comes Brooks (Kyle Chandler), who excels at gamesmanship and at besting younger brother Max throughout their entire lives and suddenly the stakes get higher.

Yet Desplechin's wildly discursive style calls so much attention to itself that even his heroes are overwhelmed by the aesthetic gamesmanship, left to flounder as the director skips from Leda And The Swan to breakdancing to a Hong Kong - style action sequence at a convenience store.

The gamesmanship continues in Abel's modest apartment, where the close attention paid to his earlier activities lends his attempts to hide that coded message an instinctive audience sympathy, even though he's spying on the good old U.S.A.. By observing a spy at the ground level (the camera swoops low around Abel's pursuers» feet, as if it's combing the apartment itself), Spielberg establishes the humanity so crucial to the rest of the film.

, but looking at the way that both of Marber's pictures flag in the third act while most crucially failing to un-flesh the sympathetic humanity in his icy necropsies highlights the brilliance of Nichols's (an acclaimed theatre vet making his debut here, with his next stop The Graduate), merciless dissection of the intellectual's disease of ennui and gamesmanship.

«At least in the academic community, it was well know that 100 % proficiency wasn't going to happen without gamesmanship, and the amount of improvement that was needed in some states was not plausible,» says USC's Polikoff.

Even with the gamesmanship by states, No Child's accountability rules have shown that far too many schools are dropout factories, failure mills, and warehouses of mediocrity; that far too many teachers are not capable of providing high - quality instruction; that school leadership at all levels is often abysmal; and that the fierce urgency of right now is not only necessary, but paramount to helping all kids get the education they need to fulfill their potential.

But for all the maneuvering and legal gamesmanship, the Wright — Curtiss feud was at its core a study of the unique strengths and flaws of personality that define a clash of brilliant minds.

His gamesmanship, as when upstairs he piles up busts of Tom Cruise, appears glib at best.

Considering them both to be transformative figures, Steinberg located a particularly significant moment of transition in contemporary art at large in Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing from 1953, a seminal piece of conceptual gamesmanship that the artist created by asking Willem de Kooning for an intricate layered work of ink, graphite, crayon, and charcoal and then meticulously erasing it.

I was particularly appalled at the blatant political gamesmanship represented by the «RiotTV» notion.