Sentences with phrase «in grand tradition»

The Pixelbook continues in the grand tradition of Chromebooks made by Google featuring ridiculously high - end configurations.

Helen is in the grand tradition of Canadian legal sales reps who really know their products and their customers and do everything possible to connect the two.

In the grand tradition of complex legal terminology, allow me to open this post with a polysyllabic word: paraskevidekatriaphobia.

In the grand tradition of the law, I turned to the small print.

In the grand tradition of Overheard in New York, Overheard in the Office and... Overheard at UOttawa?

In the grand tradition of corporations making tiny green steps in the right direction, Coca Cola has announced it will be deploying 185 hybrid electric delivery trucks in 2009.

That love, and respect, continues; I don't have the expertise to critique J Hansen et al's latest paper in detail, but certainly I'm worried by the fact that a paper in PNAS has the word «perception» in its title and its focus; this is «post-modern» «science», which I would argue is not science as understood in the grand tradition of science.

In using elements from popular culture that might be considered inappropriate or unserious in the grand tradition of painting, Fiona Rae looks to re-examine their meaning and expressive possibilities.

Working in the grand tradition of American documentary photography, Arndt is known primarily for his portraits of Midwesterners.

Consequently, Salt's solo exhibition at the Ace Gallery not only reveals her prodigious aptitude at flawlessly laying down color in the grand tradition of both wall and Color Field painting, but also her unique place in such schools of the mundane.

Artist Stanley Lewis will talk about seminal figures in the grand tradition of landscape painting including Claude, Constable, Poussin and Ruysdael.

Artists, public school teachers, art therapists, performance artists, graphic designers, architects and students from New York City, join in the grand tradition of mixed media artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Nevelson.

The Irish artist Kevin Francis Gray is a master carver of marble in the grand tradition of Michelangelo, Antonio Canova, Jean - Baptiste Carpeaux, and Rodin, among other great masters of that material — and what a welcome wonder to encounter such durable, «classically» inspired sculptures.

In the grand tradition of offering the first taste for free, Microsoft and Verizon are teaming up to open the Xbox Live Gold service up to the unwashed, unpaying masses for a free weekend.

A country house in the grand tradition located in the Central West of NSW close to the historic village of Carcoar.

In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs - a classic American story of self - invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.

In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny.

And in the grand tradition of naming schemes of my household, I have named it Freetouch, after Strongbow and Moonshade's daughter in Elfquest.

In this vein, the book titles of Calamity Physics take on new and often humorous connotations informed by the events of each chapter yet remain rooted in their grand tradition as works of the Canon.

The book opens in the grand tradition of coming - of - age novels distinguished by their hypnotic, first - person narrators, but while the voice of British teenager Holly Sykes can hold its own with those of Holden Caulfield or John Green's Hazel Grace Lancaster, it is merely the opening salvo in this multivoiced, harmonically layered narrative symphony that stretches — with occasional sojourns far back in time — from the 1980s, when Holly runs away from home, into the 2040s, when she is attempting to cope with an oil - depleted world descending into chaos.

To achieve this level of performance, the GT - R is, in the grand tradition of its forebears, stuffed to its gills with the latest in technology.

But that car — in the grand tradition of BMW M5, Mercedes - Benz E63 AMG, and Audi RS6 models — costs silly money (try $ 80,000), something that the Japanese automakers still don't go for.

In the grand tradition of My Dinner with Andre, we listen in on one of the best dinner - movie dialogs in years among friends, lovers, intellectuals, and strangers, all gathered together at a crowded New York City bistro.

Others are pure shoot - em - ups in the grand tradition of Atari Star Wars and StarFox.

So in the grand tradition of internet lists, here's a look at my choices — many of which were surprises to me — for the best films of the year.

They decide to move into a flat that calls for a professional couple, and in the grand tradition of «Three's Company,» they must pretend to be something they are not in order to have a place to live.

Mudbound A sprawling, multi-generational Southern epic in the grand tradition of sprawling, multi-generational Southern epics, Dee Rees» Mudbound deals with race, class, gender, and PTSD in the Jim Crow South.

In the grand tradition of cinema's best secret agents, she exudes strength, grit and cool even at her most vulnerable moments.

Since his early days, Jerry Lewis (in the grand tradition of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Stan Laurel) had the masses laughing with visual gags, pantomime sketches and his signature slapstick humor, yet American critics typically derided his output as simple and abrasive.

Not a «Coen Brothers Film,» but a flawlessly executed Western in the grand tradition.

The film does end somewhat abruptly, but this is a cliffhanger in the grand tradition of The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Knight or Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince (not all created equal, though they have similarly unresolved endings) and offers such an incendiary climax (literally and figuratively) that you don't leave the theater feeling hoodwinked or unfulfilled.

Blue is the Warmest Color is a devastating epic in the grand tradition of bigger - than - life love stories, and pretty comfortably the best film of 2013.

The details: In the grand tradition of Bad Santa, Bad Teacher, and Bad Words, along comes another comedy about a foul - mouthed, irresponsible role model behaving, well, badly in front of impressionable minors.

In the grand tradition of «Night of the Living Dead» comes a film, from writer - director Jordan Peele, that functions as both frightening horror thriller and racially conscious satire that confronts the dark underbelly of American racism in its more insidious, less obvious forms.

In the grand tradition of Pixar, this DreamWorks gem has all the heart, humor, and adventure you can handle.

In the grand tradition of Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice, Five Miles to Midnight weaves a constantly tightening web of suspense that grips the viewer by the heart and doesn't let go until the final frame.

In the grand tradition of Jerry Bruckheimer, the film's final third unleashes an astonishing series of shootouts, chases, fights, leaps, sprints, struts, and one - liners.

In the grand tradition of all MMOs, the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited on console isn't going particularly well.

The Lazarus Effect makes full use of the brain's revolving door between empirical science and pure imagination by fusing the two worlds together in the grand tradition of Frankenstein.

In the grand tradition of Bad Santa, Bad Teacher, and Bad Words, along comes another comedy about a foul - mouthed, irresponsible role model behaving, well, badly in front of impressionable minors.

In the grand tradition of courtroom dramas, Nuremberg has the distinction of being probably the most «important» of them all - even if it's not the most blatantly entertaining

The Cisco Kid and his English - mangling sidekick Pancho travel the old west in the grand tradition of the Lone Ranger, righting wrongs and fighting injustice wherever they find it.

In our grand tradition of being behind the curve, le Monsieur and I have been watching «The Borgias» for the first time, thanks to Netflix.

In the grand tradition of holiday day drinking, I think these waffles fit right in.

And, in the grand tradition of horribly misguided medical cure - alls, doctors often prescribed antimony as medicine.

This project follows in the grand tradition of boring into the earth in search of answers.

In the grand tradition of marauding knights and 007, it's pretty much free - for - all.

I think that russellbruce is right that Clegg's statements set up the chance that the remaining Lib Dems splinter in that scenario — in the grand tradition of Liberal splinters — but that's clearly beyond the domain of this model.

Jimmy Kilroe, uncompromising handicapper, was voted racing's Man of Year by N.Y. turf writers «for maintaining integrity of secretary's office in grand tradition of John B. Campbell and Walter Vosburgh.»

Indeed, taken together, the last four tracks on the album represent 15 minutes of adventurous, dynamic film music in the grandest tradition of days gone by (even including the briefest of nods to Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo in «The Cave of a Thousand Sleeping Bears» - a score which McNeely famously re-recorded).