Sentences with phrase «in headier times»

Entrepreneurship is alive and thriving but ill - conceived startups that attracted investors in headier times, not so much.

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

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Despite a slowdown in Internet - related business, «it was still a heady, go - go time,» she says.

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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.

In such heady, fertile, creative times, moreover, pride in one's own intellectual originality was an ever - present intoxicanIn such heady, fertile, creative times, moreover, pride in one's own intellectual originality was an ever - present intoxicanin one's own intellectual originality was an ever - present intoxicant.

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.

Jackson's heady, steady style had come to be viewed as so anachronistic that he had been traded three times in the last four seasons.

Valencia finished in the top four 5 times in 7 seasons between 2005 and 2012, though such heady days remain a distant memory as on - pitch success has been compromised by outrageous debt and the financial mess that envelopes the club off the field.

These are heady and unprecedented times for Everton fans as the club spends freely in the transfer market.

These are heady times for the formerly inferior side in the capital.

The other, a heady presage to avoidable catastrophe: again, for the second time, in a generation.

«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 timIn 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 timin 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 timin 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.

If the outlook is bright in academia, will there be similar heady times in industrial sectors like pharmaceuticals and biotechnology?

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.

Tops have always shown an unfailing commitment to your wardrobe, little wonder Myntra's brings to you a heady concoction that will have you swinging from day to night in no time.

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.

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.

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

Still, heady science fiction concepts and fantastic action need to be equally balanced, not only in screen time, but also in intelligence, and this is where Bay finally falters.

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.»

No one likes to put pressure on a relationship in those early, heady days, but at the same time it's best to know asap if firearms are tucked inside a gal's baggage.

BLADE RUNNER 2049: My desire to marinate in the beautiful world this created and the heady concepts it posited far outlasted the run time.

When Lee cooks up a stew this heady, one best recognize... the right film at the right time, Lee's most creatively fertile and socially immediate narrative feature in years.

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.

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.

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».

Gone too are the heady times where you could run a free Select promo and sell 10K novels at $ 4 a pop in the afterglow.

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.

Titles have tried the heady blend of third - person action and real - time strategy before, perhaps most notoriously in the divisive Brutal Legend.

Just like with the original 3DS, our experience didn't quite reach these heady quoted heights — we conked out more around the five - and - a-bit front for 3D — but there's a tangible difference and it comes off well in comparisons to both the Vita and smartphones, the latter capable of excellent stand - by times but struggling typically with anything graphic intensive for too long.

Focusing on the artistic impulse to seek out new places, experiences and dimensions, WANDERLUST invites guests on a heady journey through time and space in pursuit of aesthetic perfection — and to other - worldly realms that only artists can conjure.

This might not be the best week for delving into heady art in Chelsea or museums, but it's sure a good time to embrace campiness and fun, even in the stuffiest reaches of Long Island.

«I was dating his roommate, so we were in the same house all the time,» Reeder said in a phone interview, recalling the heady days she spent in the company of Basquiat and her then boyfriend, Selwyn O'Brien, at a home owned by Andy Warhol on Great Jones Street.

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.

She was very much an avatar in the art world as it was unfolding back in the 1950s, «60s, and «70s — certainly a heady time to be involved in the many - headed beast that contemporary art had become.

Broodthaers was a master at creatively parroting — both consciously and unconsciously — the tropes, images, and theory that may now seem a bit tame or even passé, but which during his decade or so working as an artist (1963 — 1976) were some of the most heady and cutting - edge ideas of the time: René Magritte's indexically challenged «Ceci n'est pas une pipe» as contemplated by Michel Foucault in 1968; Jacques Derrida's distinction between speech and writing; Jacques Lacan's string of metonymic associations, etc..

Inevitably, the exhibition forces you to reconsider the social, philosophical, political and economic factors that made the»50s and early»60s such a heady time in the arts.

It was a culturally heady time, and in a charming memoir written for the catalog, Bagley brings the period to life.

I did a quick sift for articles on oil and related subjects in The New York Times archives back through 1851 and found a few fun snippets providing a window on those heady early days, when folks got rich pumping 15 - cent - a-barrel oil:

So with the iPad's imminent release this Saturday, these are heady times for Barrett and TL since, in the words of Nathan Arizona Sr., that's TL's «whole G * d - damn raison d'etre, ain't it?»

Justice Stevens came to the Court at the dawn of the environmental movement and at a heady time for environmentalists in the courts.

Such a modestly - stated aspiration of the Attlee government seems the heights of heady idealism compared to our reduced commitment to access to justice in a time of austerity.