Sentences with phrase «good opening gambit»
They made a good opening gambit, I'd say, on public sector pensions and MP pensions.
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The opening gambits are well and truly complete.
are well represented), it's titled for the opening gambit of a real British TV game show called University Challenge, which features brainiacs like Brian.
Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.
Simpson's opening gambit is a «Note to Customer» from the publisher of Two Sleuths, the best - selling comic created by Miles and Hector, but she wisely uses this framing device lightly, allowing this exceptionally incisive, fine - tuned, and charming novel to unfold gracefully as she brings fresh understanding and keen humor to the complexities intrinsic to each stage of life and love.