Sentences with phrase «gets upended»

However, their seemingly idyllic existence in New York's trendy upper class gets upended when Mona spies Griffin in an extramarital dalliance.

Luke Skywalker's peaceful and solitary existence gets upended when he meets Rey, a young woman who shows strong signs of the Force.

The nominees could very well end up being the same as Director (Beginners, The Descendants, Drive, Shame, and Take Shelter), though I'd say at least one gets upended by the likes of Like Crazy, Rampart, or The Tree of Life.

But when it came to Season 2, he felt it was «smooth sailing right from the jump,» something his co-star Drew Barrymore agreed with — though she did have some issues with leaping back into the story of Sheila, whose hyper - normal suburban existence gets upended after some sort of curse turns her into a flesh - craving zombie.

Their life gets upended in a big way though when a young enthusiast of Josh's work named Jamie (Driver) and his wife Darby (Amanda Seyfried) befriend them after a chance encounter.

The Skelos verdicts, like the earlier one against ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, got upended because the US Supreme Court effectively changed the law after the trials ended.

and as the #RIPTwitter campaign suggests, norms can get upended in any given week.

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Even if it's just you selling your product through Amazon or Facebook, get ready for them to make another tiny tweak to their algorithm that completely upends your business.

«Salesforce is upending that whole obnoxious paradigm by teaching these companies they've got to be better at what they do,» he continued.

There's also more pressure to get a foothold at Whole Foods during a time when Amazon is threatening to upend the supermarket industry.

Theranos is a diagnostics company with fast finger - prick blood testing technology that aims to upend the traditional health care establishments by making it easier, less expensive and less uncomfortable to get tested for various conditions.

As victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, and of the Northwest wildfires, work to restore their upended lives, including, in some cases, the loss of their homes and worldly possessions, getting their personal finances back on track only lengthens what seems to be an insurmountable task list.

There has been widespread praise from TV critics, calling the show «intimate and heartfelt» and «as good as it gets» and praising TLC for how it has «upended the conventions of reality television.»

OG has had elbows to the face, knees to the back, not to mention the times he gets undercut and completely upended.

The story coming out of this game is that # 14 Seed and 2012 Defending Champs have upended another Team in order to get back to the Final 4 for the second consecutive season.

They got a small piece of redemption during Week 1 when they upended their Championship foes from a year ago in Team Fiji.

The retirement of Julissa Ferreras - Copeland is said to have «upended» the race for speaker, but that argument gets everything backward.

The fight over who controls the state Senate won't upend the policy work that needs to get done next year, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie on Wednesday said.

A total AIDS cure is still not quite here, but researchers are getting remarkably close — and the quest has upended our understanding of the immune system and laid the groundwork for solutions to hundreds of other diseases.

Both Popper (Jim Carrey, ideally cast) and his assistant, Pippi (Ophelia Lovibond), prefer to preface their pronouncements with the letter «p.» And they get plenty of opportunity when he receives an unexpected package: six penguins, who immediately upend everything.

Reluctant and unwilling to upend his life, Logan opts to decline the offer until he becomes faced with the stark reality that helping this young girl get to her destination is more vital than he anticipated.

Starlet is a rich, satisfying film about upending expectations and circumventing stereotypes to reveal the deeper truths beneath the kinds of people society really cares to get to know.

It's as narratively outrageous as horror cinema gets: a young couple, Josh and Renai, find their home upended by mysterious malevolent forces, which seem to have a hand in their young son Dalton's mysterious falling into a coma.

By using standard notice - and - comment rule making, by bringing the agency's policy in line with the Supreme Court's interpretation of Title IX, by getting a better handle on the extent of sexual assault in educational institutions and effective prevention measures, and above all, by focusing regulations on improving the educational opportunities that we provide students rather than upending the sexual mores of society at large, they can demonstrate that not everyone appointed by President Trump need sink to his level.

Meanwhile, disruptive innovations — innovations that upend or compete with existing priorities — almost always get neglected or ignored in mature organizations.

Related: Open Educational Resources haven't upended the way that K - 12 schools get course materials — yet

It's been a long battle to get to this point, and the whole effort was nearly upended by problematic legislation that, fortunately, never made it to the governor's desk.

But then he upended his argument by saying the Tesla drivers who got into accidents by relying on AutoPilot are the Tesla drivers who best understand the technology, and became complacent using it in the vehicle.

Kindle Unlimited is a promising offering that has the potential to further upend book publishing — if only if could get some more books.

In the end what I got from it is your life can be upended in a minute and you need to be able to somehow carry on.

Outside of consumer loans, here are other sites that are harnessing technology and upending traditional ways to get cash:

As victims of Hurricane Harvey and Irma, and of the Northwest wildfires, work to restore their upended lives, including, in some cases, the loss of their homes and worldly possessions, getting their personal finances back on track only lengthens what seems to be an insurmountable task list.

Haven Life has upended the traditional process of acquiring term life insurance by getting rid of the medical examination for people who qualify.

Here, the fundamental design principles of SOMA have been upended in favor of trying to get more people to play an underrated thriller.

67 participants get their assumptions upended when they discover their true heritage in this moving campaign for Danish travel site Momondo.

All kinds of papers get published that revolutionize fields or upend the current paradigm, but they're based on solid science.

Last winter, Faraday Future came out of nowhere with big promises to upend the auto industry and redefine the entire idea of how we get around.

An ultra-cheap Android phone that gets regular updates could seriously upend the budget market, much more than the Pixel did with the high end.

Nancy is also committed to helping people whose lives have been upended by a traumatic event, such as divorce, which motivated her to get Certified Divorce Financial Analyst ™ designation.

I don't want to get too graphic, in case you're snacking or anything, but if you can imagine a pot of yoghurt upended onto his scalp, I think you'll get the picture.

«I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.»