Sentences with phrase «heady times of»

As the former Curator of Art at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Dean shows his own considerable artistic prowess at capturing the early heady times of space exploration through original on - site sketches and personal photographs of the artists working at Cape Canaveral in the early 1960's -1970's.

Oelschlaeger tells us of his own awakening to the crisis in the heady time of the first Earth Day.

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These are not heady times for Molson Coors, the Denver - and Montreal - based combination of two of brewing's proudest families.

In October the company's shares surged past their all - time high price of $ 59.56, recorded in the heady days of the dotcom bubble and at the tail end of a decade that the company unquestionably ruled.

After a heady few years in which important new gizmos appeared just about every week, 2013 was more of an iterative time bereft of that One Big Thing.

And I said, but I think it's time for the Japanese people to be aware of people because it's a pretty heady thing to be asked to go defend an island and, by the way, don't plan on coming back.

Ask Scott D. Anthony, author of The First Mile: A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas Into the Market, and he'll tell you that the heady early days — when an innovation moves from idea to market — are the toughest time for any startup.

Perhaps there has never been a good time, which is why the ability to produce energy similar to a star — at the flick of a switch — is such heady stuff.

ARMs are a slightly more risky option, because they will adjust over time, but today's ARMs are nothing like the ones underwritten during the heady days of the last housing boom, when lenders often required no down payments and no documentation.

They operate at scale and have achieved a level of performance few others can claim — a proven business model that is generating heady revenue growth and is yielding profitability today or at any such time of their choosing.

2014 may have seen heady times for corporate acquirers, but it was also the year of the rebuffed suitor.

«Instead, the performance of our Prime Global Rental Index closely mirrors global GDP and with sluggish growth considered «the new normal» the heady days of five per cent annual growth look unlikely to be repeated for some time.

When government officials begin to say such things, as ours clearly have, then that is the time for challenge, because when a government does that, it is beginning to play God over our lives, and the taste of such identification is a very heady thing.

But for now this eloquent priest has fascinating stories to tell about how he moved from heady days of substance abuse and huge success as part of a chart - topping band («the best of times and the worst of times») to encountering God and becoming a priest.

A grassroots campaign saved the decrepit complex from becoming an office park, and instead infused the renovation with the spirit of the time and place, a heady idealism that set out to strengthen the relationship between farmer and consumer; emphasize a transparent, democratic process; encourage and protect new and niche businesses; preserve the market's history; and provide a safe haven for the lower - income residents.

Borussia Dortmund are finding form at just the right time in the Bundesliga, and a third successive victory saw them reach the heady heights of 10th, but unfortunately for struggligh Stuttgart, the game between the two on Friday left them rooted to the bottom of the table.

«I've been in the Legislature a long time and maybe, because now I'm part of it, but these are some heady accomplishments.»

In the heady days of Oodua Peoples Congress when its leader, Gani Adams had been declared wanted by the police authorities in Lagos State, my newspaper had its strategic, guerilla ways of linking up with Adams in order to scoop stories and serve our readers the most impressive editorial accounts of the time.

On reflection maybe I shouldn't have claimed a few thousand quid when I was one of the richest men in Westminster and didn't need the cash, but these were heady times.

That changed briefly after the founding of Alexandria, a heady time and place for cultural and scientific exploration.

Washington Diary: Embarrassing times all round — Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

And then there is the worry that we too may be living in times when the heady mix of science, power and exigency could result in actions as extreme as the ones taken by the Nazis and their opponents.

Life here began in Old Town, with its medieval roots; society was very different back when this part of town was still fresh faced and spry, though some of the old inns still stand if you feel like sampling a date from the heady and seductive Dark Ages... Then take a stroll through New Town, dripping in Georgian decadence; here, you will be reminded that once upon a time the dating scene was a raucous, dangerous place, full of lust and lewdness... Okay, perhaps not all that much has changed, but the point we are trying to make is that Edinburgh's dating scene has shifted across the centuries to become what it is today — fairly sedate compared with the city's tumultuous past, but no less magical or intoxicating.

It's great being in a new relationship - you spend more and more time with your partner, basking in the heady feelings of love.

At times acutely annoyingly, far - out wackiness permeate much of the proceedings, rendering the album's less rewarding half as disposable as the band's frustratingly inconsequential recent self - indulgences ala messy guest star workout The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (2012).

Where Denis Villeneuve's 2016 sci - fi thriller «Arrival» succeeded in capturing our often - skewed perception of time, raw grief, the existence of a higher power and the expansive depths of the universe, Garland's («Ex Machina») equally heady Annihilation compresses human emotion into lichen and mutating cells.

If the slightly rambling Django Unchained is «lesser Tarantino» — you know, only a B instead of an A — it's still a heady, delirious good time.

Love in the time of collider: Alexander Carver and Daniel Schmidt's heady experimental debut feature unfolds mostly at an underground particle accelerator

For people that care about The Hangover canon, there are call backs to situations and characters from the first movie that remind us of headier times for the Wolfpack.

One of the strategies Ford uses to create the film's heady emotional texture is to play with time: to present events out of order and withhold information with a storyteller's cunning.

Riding out these degradations is hard going at times, but this heady thematic mix of «issues about the justice system, gentrification, power dynamics, and racial profiling» also boasts an energetic «music video aesthetic... to give a sense we're playing in Leah's New York fantasies.»

The last time the Oscars fizzed with so many truth bombs and sticking - it - to - the - mans, it was the heady era of the Hollywood new wave, and the counter-culture was going overground.

And it's tough to imagine being further divorced from the ground than L'Engle's heady epic, a melange of time travel, wormholes and shape shifting godlike beings.

If we consider Pong to be the equivalent of a popular child actor of its time - seen everywhere, but not quite fulfilling its potential - then BIT.TRIP BEAT is that child actor's attempt to reinvent itself during the heady early 90's period, full of synth beats and slatherings of neon to hide its aging concept.

Subtly blended together with Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf (of which, Girl shares a key image) and Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, and you have that heady mix of art - house and genre which is rare due to the difficulty of calibrating both sensibilities into a satisfying package; on of far less head - shot horror and far more thinking - woman's speculative fiction.

For mainstream viewers, there are big action sequences, a heady battle montage, a»40s setting featuring über - Nazis with glowing laser - guns, and plenty of well - timed one - liners.

But in this heady, liminal time post-Telluride and pre-TIFF (and during Venice), Oldman is not only a front - runner — he's giving off the vibes of a sure thing.

Heady stuff for a film that is essentially Nick of Time on a plane, and indeed it may ultimately be too slight a framework to support the amount of topical sociology I'm tempted to ask it to bear, but there are moments now and again weighted with so much proverbial baggage that Red - Eye, with its melancholy regret, sucks the air right out of the theatre.

Before the character and the plot device he represents become an excuse for, respectively, an antagonist and a series of chase sequences, the material involving Time and his lair is some potentially heady and involving stuff.

When Hunt is forced to freeclimb up the outside of the tallest building the world — the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — with only the help of one of those science - fictional gadgets, which doesn't work as well as it should, I was laughing with delight as well as gasping in shared panic, it's that breathtakingly intimate while at the same time putting you right in the middle of big, heady action, innovative stuff we haven't seen before.

But as a recent report from the National Conference of State Legislatures explains, that has changed in major ways since Markell put pen to paper in the heady days of budget surpluses and the AOL - Time Warner merger.

The founding years of CES were heady and optimistic times, referred to by some as the Golden Years of the nation's focus on high schools.

Limited, handbuilt production began in 1968 and engine choices would include a series of gas and diesel four - cylinders, some with dual overhead cams and fuel injection — heady stuff for the time.

Helmet on, door closed, isolated from the rest of the world and with nerves steadily subsiding, there's just enough time to slowly breathe in the heady petrol fumes and intoxicating history of this magnificent car before I'm told to get going.

It's the same at McLaren where, thanks to the excellent time - vacuum of its new configurator, I discover the 720S can be built in a heady range of paints spanning everything from «The dog's not well» to «Uncle Peter's fourth heart attack».

Full of heart and heady imagery, it is a luminous tale that swept me back to another time and place and into the life of a brave girl struggling to find her true destiny.

While that's a heady amount of content, the popularity of the ebook distribution platform still amazes Coker after all this time.

With real estate prices so high, Kohaly believes «the heady days of capital growth in real estate are behind us — for the time being anyway.

As a nation, Germany seems to operate in its own sphere, a land which defies time and history by melding its ancient timeline with the heady skyscrapers of the future.

This capacious three - bedroom townhouse, with its elegant furnishings and graceful period features, evokes a heady, homely atmosphere redolent of times gone by.