Sentences with phrase «hand of cards»

Being matched based on key areas of personality meant singles were sitting pretty with a really, really good hand of cards at the table.

There are many people that are dealt a rough hand of cards, not just yourself.

You accept that sometimes you just get the rotten hand of cards and you accept that.

But it's also because the political hand of cards she holds leaves her little option.

I just show up to the event deal a couple hands of cards for 2 - 3 hours and then go home with a check in my hand.

I look at it like that poor puppy was not dealt a fair hand of cards.

Once players get into a match they'll start with a small hand of cards but will automatically gain more as the game goes on.

Each player starts with ten cards in their deck and then deck cards are used to pick up other cards to create a potent hand of cards.

It's a little like gambling, perhaps, where you get ten fresh hands of cards a minute and with them ten little springs of hope.

Sometimes the end - game all depends upon the initial conditions, and not starting your adult life in debt is a great hand of cards to be dealt.

They are playing a different hand of cards than you.

He remarked that it looked like Katrina had tossed the giant concrete slabs that had once been a bridge into the water, much like one might toss down a losing hand of cards in disgust.

It is somewhat ironic that Dave was always very lucky when playing blackjack, and now life has handed him such a bad hand of cards.

On the other hand, Spider's weapons revolve around cards; his special attack involves playing a quick hand of draw poker with higher hands of cards inflicting more and more damage.

«The president's done very well with an extraordinarily difficult situation and a difficult hand of cards,» Gabriel said.

Adding tons of cardio at the start of an exercise plan is like playing your whole hand of cards at the start of the game — you leave nothing left to ensure you keep making progress long term.

Life deals all of us a certain hand of cards, some of which we are powerless to control.

What synchronicity you can achieve with your random hands of cards will go a long way.

If anyone can do it, Poker Boy can, all between hands of cards on a great Saturday night.

While it isn't a strategic juggernaut juggling a sizable hand of cards that each have several things that can be done with gives you a lot of work out, turning each round into a sort of puzzle as piece together how best to use up your available tokens and resources.

At the moment, it rather feels as though Microsoft's current list of Xbox One exclusives are a mediocre hand of cards, and awaiting the potential success of Gears of War 4 is like trying to win the game on the river.

Noodle was dealt a bad hand of cards... no family, no home, and a debilitating injury; nevertheless, her future is bright.

Every time you get dealt a hand of cards, the hand you end up with had massive odds against its forming, but there it is..

I picture her sitting at her kitchen table, holding a hand of cards, playing gin rummy.

Being dealt a hand of cards, or having genes that make us vulnerable, does not determine our course.

Contrarily to this adapted rom - com's verbose title, one shouldn't «expect» much; that is, unless literary desecration is in your hand of cards — if that is the game you're looking to play, then consider this mess a winner.

Although Winchester toys with that idea, it reveals its hand of cards way too early to generate tension in that respect.

He would also make a great therapy dog, as an «inspiration licker» for people who feel that life dealt them a bad hand of cards.

The blaze of white sand licked by the surf was dotted one recent sunlit afternoon with fishing boats and their local owners, a pack of bored men in flip - flops who each kept one eye on their hand of cards and the other on the pale tourist cargo streaming from the docked speedboat onto the main road of the island of Gili Trawangan, east of Bali, in search of beach, beer and bungalow.

These caravels also represent cities that you can't go back to until your hand of cards is refreshed.

There are no hands of cards here, rather everything is played automatically, so when a card bearing an effect hits the field you can simply choose to activate it or not.

As the forces of Sin I often found myself letting the altars act as bait if my hand of cards was already strong enough.

There's no set actions or movement amount here, instead, everything you can do on your turn is determined by a hand of cards drawn from an action deck.

Each player has a hand of cards (4 - 6 based on number of players) which represent the varied warriors set to fortify the castle's defenses.

Each player starts with a hand of cards and takes turns to draw another card, before using one to advance on the board, draw extra cards, steal cards, or force an opponent to retreat.

In Piña Pirata, players control a hand of cards containing one or two anthropomorphic pirate - animals.

While it may take a few games to get used to, the controls are very intuitive and work well with the game's two layers of mechanics — controlling units around the map and using the player's hand of cards.

Each player will be given a hand of cards.

To damage an opponent, you'll play from your hand of cards various monsters that have abilities, hit points, attack levels, attack range, Mana costs, and Mana points.

Her recent solo exhibitions include; Francis Upritchard, Kate MacGarry, London, UK, 2014; Mandrake, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2013; Potato Poem, MIMOCA, Japan, 2013; War Dance, Anton Kern Gallery, New York; A Hand of Cards, Nottingham Contemporary, UK, 2012.

His quietly mesmerizing «Women Playing Cards» (1948) features two female subjects sitting at a table and focusing on their hands of cards.

Recent solo exhibitions include Francis Upritchard, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2014); the Whitechapel Gallery Children's Art Commission (2014); A Hand of Cards, Nottingham Contemporary (2012); and In die Höhle, Sezession, Vienna, Austria (2010).

Nottingham Contemporary: Exhibition and accompanying publication, Francis Upritchard: A Hand of Cards, 21 July - 30 September 2012 - # 8,000

Now, unlike certain skeptics, I realize that even «plausible» is a fairly strong statement (eg, if I said it was plausible that my current hand of cards * was the highest hand of cards that had been observed at my table in the last 1000 games, that would be a fairly strong statement), but I thought it was somewhat lower than «likely», maybe due to somewhat increased uncertainty bounds?

We are all dealt a hand of cards in life that we must manage to the best of our ability.