Sentences with phrase «impossible tasks of»

Heck, sometimes it may even seem like one of the most impossible tasks of them all.

Unfortunately his opinions aren't met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client and the only person with belief in his abilities with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had.

«On that dangerous theory, the government is secretly blacklisting people as suspected terrorists and giving them the impossible task of proving themselves innocent of a threat they haven't carried out.»

Rather than the impossible task of emptying your mind, give your mind something specific on which to meditate.

-- the impossible task of enforcing uniformity across the European continent, home to many different peoples and cultures, all with different goals and aspirations.

She nails the seemingly impossible task of leveling the playing field by imparting vital concepts in easy to digest bites.

For example, anyone who launches a Facebook - style social network right now confronts the seemingly impossible task of convincing users to totally rebuild their social network.

The company gave Alexa a woman's voice and name in the first place, and then set it up for ire and abuse by giving Alexa the impossible task of responding accurately to an infinity of requests and commands.

After posting the image with the caption, «This is a cupboard that can never be opened,» the image of got more than 12,000 likes and more than 600 comments, with people from around the world talking him through the impossible task of opening of the cabinet.

We can therefore characterize the Christian ethical outlook without attempting the perhaps impossible task of reconstructing the precise teaching of Jesus.

Previously, of course, they had fired him from being the corch of the Dillon Panthers and sent him to the seemingly impossible task of coaching the new team at underclass East Dillon.

They take on the difficult if not impossible task of preserving the foreignness of Leviticus while still making it relevant.

Jews accept the impossible task of redeeming it.

He faced the near - impossible task of mobilizing the intense antiwar sentiments of much of his party without reinforcing the general perception that Democrats are insufficiently hawkish.

As Ishtar risked her life to descend into the underworld to appear before its monarch, so Esther took her life into her hands to appear before the king in what seemed the impossible task of saving her people from certain death.

They have been given the impossible task of making the educational bricks without even a ha» p» orth of straw.

Love is the magic word, the only key that can rescue science from will and so achieve the inescapable, otherwise impossible task of interpreting the inescapable, otherwise meaningless natural world.

What use is it for me to attempt the impossible task of altering the course of history, especially when my influence is so slight?

Christian theologians in later ages engaged in the well - nigh impossible task of holding together the «immortality of the soul» and the «resurrection of the body».

Diana's annoyance with how the mainstream cosmetic industry markets to women spurred on this almost impossible task of producing a cosmetic from the purest of ingredients while satisfying women's desire for long - lasting colour.

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe, who had failed at the impossible task of convincing the dysfunctional conference family to look at each other as equals, was also scrambling.

As the Brazilian rose through the ranks into the first team he had the impossible task of having to battle the likes of Andres Iniesta and Xavi for a spot in the first team.

That left some hapless Hurricane with the near impossible task of blocking one of these future first - round NFL picks by himself.

During the first year home with a baby, one of the biggest universal hurdles revolves around the seemingly impossible task of getting the child to sleep through the night.

The strategic problem for a campaign is the almost impossible task of knowing who those gatekeepers are.»

That saves programmers the near - impossible task of coding rules that describe all the zillions of possible movements a body can make.

Anthony Griffin, a retired Royal Navy admiral, described patented apparatus developed in the US to perform the supposedly impossible task of splitting water with a tiny current into hydrogen and oxygen, which can be burnt.

First there's the impossible task of choosing a color palette and esthetic.

I never held a bland profile heading against someone because I went through the same impossible task of summing myself up in one sentence.

The movie is riveting in the exact sense of the word: We feel nailed to the screen in the impossible task of working out what is going on - let alone why it matters.

Quite possibly the goriest film ever made by a Hollywood studio, Evil Dead is a new Horror classic, a film that accomplishes the nearly impossible task of staying true to the original's roots while standing firmly on its own.

As for his parents, occupying the overbusy flashbacks, a kindly Adrian Scarborough stays out of trouble, unlike the largely nude Anne - Marie Duff, stuck with the impossible task of playing a brain - damaged amateur painter who has screwed up her son's psychosexual growth.

Denzel Washington has the almost impossible task of holding together a convoluted picture that's only intermittently suspenseful and not very engaging emotionally or intellectually.

It also received highly positive reviews with some critics lauding it for doing the near - impossible task of compressing more than a dozen superheroes in a film that while feeling overstuffed never overwhelms moviegoers with exposition.

In almost every frame, the film announces its project of portraying a family pushed to the brink of collapse — and, more specifically, a father who's taken on the impossible task of protecting his children from the unknown.

The quest for freedom takes the U.S. President (Pullman, While You Were Sleeping) and staff into Area 51, where it is discovered we've had visitors before, and with the help of a cable tech (Goldblum, The Great White Hype) who has cracked their transmission codes, they set out on the impossible task of saving life as we know it.

NASA head Teddy Sanders (Daniels) and mission director Vincent Kapoor (Ejiofor) have to back track on their public statement and work together to figure out the nearly impossible task of how to bring him home.

Matthew Goode also manages to give Ozymandias (perhaps the most undeveloped of the characters in the comic) some much needed depth, and Billy Crudup, who has the impossible task of making Dr. Manhattan likeable, does a fine job underneath all the special effects.

Reisman has the impossible task of training them but soon figures that he can use one thing to make them bond: their collective hatred of him.

There's the sense of dread, the impossible task of fighting something that is utterly alien to us earthlings and also the gore presented in the novels.

Woo expands his interview soundbites from elsewhere on the platter to feature - length while Georgaris — unveiling a wealth of insecurity, perhaps — embarks on the impossible task of justifying Paycheck's plot and character motivations.

Avengers: Infinity War also received highly positive reviews with some critics lauding it for accomplishing the near - impossible task of compressing more than a dozen superheroes in a film that while feeling overstuffed never overwhelms moviegoers with exposition.

She had achieved the seemingly impossible task of bringing to the screen Virginia Woolf's fantastical 1928 novel about a 16th - century English nobleman who lives through three centuries, while aging only three decades and changing gender in the process.

: Variety and Indiewire both giving the film passing grades while the Tribeca jury claimed «it manages the near impossible task of breathing new life into a well - worn genre, balancing humor and pathos with an incredibly deft touch, and offering a unique perspective on the way we process loss,» we're curious enough to give this a shot.

Like that film, this is a story about a character that is fractured and hurt by one relationship and faces the impossible task of fulfilling that void with something that is inevitably unsustainable.

Unfortunately his opinions aren't met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and the only person with belief in his abilities (Renée Zellweger) with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had.

Working closely with screenwriters Hampton Fancher (who co-wrote Ridley Scott's original Blade Runner back in 1982) and Michael Green (2017's Logan, already on this very list), and his sensational cinematographer Roger Deakins, visionary Canadian film director Denis Villeneuve did the near impossible task of following up Scott's Blade Runner with a sequel that retains much of the tactile splendor and future noir poetry of the original while manufacturing an objet d'art that is perhaps even more emotionally engaging and narratively a more complete experience.

As for Ehrenreich, taking on the impossible task of filling Ford's boots, the young actor (previously known for the Coen brothers» Hollywood comedy «Hail Caesar!»)

In the midst of political unrest, and with Hitler's Nazis advancing, Churchill was faced with the impossible task of finding a way to rescue the British army from the shores of Dunkirk.

Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collagelike portrait of the acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates the inner turmoil and contradictions of a man who attempted the impossible task of finding harmony among self, art, and society.