Sentences with phrase «into cutthroat»

Combining an Action MOBA / Arena Brawler and Battle Royale survival gameplay, the new mode throws 20 players into a cutthroat island deathmatch, played «Free For All» or as a duo from a top - down perspective.

A fast - paced adventure into the cutthroat world behind the wrecking ball, House Revenge is another gripping tale of collusion and corruption from a beloved political thriller writer.

Like Christopher Guest's «Best in Show,» this is a story about middle - class Americans passionately seeking to outdo each other, with a gallery of brilliant improv actors making small fights into a cutthroat competition.

The new indie comedy by Lake Bell, In a World..., takes the viewer on a fascinating and often amusing look into the cutthroat world of voice - over acting.

Peering behind the all - American façade, it dives into the cutthroat world of competitive high school cheerleading, following the fraught relationship between two best friends after a new coach arrives to bring their team to prominence.

As Call of Duty prepares to enter into the cutthroat world of Battle Royale games through Blackout, can it take the top spot from Fortnite?

Huggins then is remade into a cutthroat mudslinger at the urging of a hired campaign manager (Dylan McDermott) with ulterior motives of his own.

Gaming juggernaut Nintendo was banking on this in December when it released Super Mario Run, its second foray into the cutthroat world of mobile gaming.

It didn't take long for Coastal to expand into the cutthroat eyeglasses market, in which the company also made quick gains.

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But a hilarious pitch by late night host Jimmy Kimmel recently had the notoriously cutthroat panel erupting into laughs.

In November 2011, The New York Times published a fairly scathing dive into Zynga's culture, detailing overworked employees, a cutthroat environment, and Pincus's aggressive nature.

In short, the debt taken on by the new company will loom over every operating decision Tim's makes, thrusting the coffee chain into uncharted territory where it must answer to a cutthroat private investment firm in faraway Brazil that never saw a cost it couldn't synergize.

Apart from the LBO still weighing down the company and operating in what can only be called a cutthroat market (if you go out of fashion you are done for), Claire's had embarked on a global expansionary campaign with very little regard to both the markets they were expanding into and especially if said markets could absorb 2,700 new Claire's stores.

Most who specialize at a young age (before sixth grade) don't know what they are getting themselves into: a cutthroat, high - stakes, business run by adults.

Our results present a paradox — genetic introgression reduces fitness but progresses rapidly in most situations, where rainbow trout are introduced into native cutthroat trout habitats.

Introgression poses a serious threat to all 14 subspecies of cutthroat trout in western North America due to widespread stocking and invasion of non-native trout into historical cutthroat trout habitats (Trotter 2008); two subspecies are now extinct, five are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and seven have been petitioned for listing.

Careful not to cross the line into «cutthroat» terrain.

On Geena Davis (a rare tangent into the living, precipitated by his memories of Oliver Reed on Cutthroat Island): «Perhaps in a long laundry list of ludicrous events I have witnessed on film sets, the one I most treasure is watching my leading lady having her makeup and hair assiduously attended to between each take of one scene.

Scuttled in early Hollywood by the far more popular western, the pirate movie was left adrift for decades, coming into port every now and again only to find nary a piece of eight at the box office (cf. Polanski's The Pirates (1986), Cutthroat Island (1995)-RRB-.

Towards the end of the year, McConaughey also appeared in Martin Scorsese's drama «The Wolf of Wall Street» as cutthroat businessman Mark Hanna; the brief role was most notable for an on - set improvisation in which Hanna leads Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort into a humming, chest - thumping routine in the middle of a crowded restaurant.

Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world.

«The Art of More» Scheduled to Premiere Winter 2015 10 episodes «The Art Of More» is a groundbreaking drama starring Dennis Quaid («Vegas») that goes into the underbelly and surprisingly cutthroat world of premium auction houses.

When Beca takes this acoustic singing group out of their world of traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all - new mash - ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of the cutthroat world of college music competitions.

Watching former small town folks Ed and Peggy Blumquist (Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst) turn into kidnappers that deal with cutthroat criminal elements while maintaining their polite speech and positive outlook is a pretty bold but singularly unique bit of storytelling that produces a lot of laughter without undercutting any of the tension.

Modeling in Los Angeles is depicted as a cutthroat, catty industry, which Jesse has flung herself into the middle of.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Documentary on DVD Suggests Early Start on College If you think the competition is fierce to gain entrance to the country's elite colleges, then you oughta check out the cutthroat tactics employed by parents of toddlers trying to get their little monsters into the country's exclusive pre-schools.

There's a gruesome edge to it in the opening, a prologue with David Arquette and Sid Haig as cutthroats who run into the savage tribe, and in the final act, where the tribe's sadistic brutality is shocking even this age of cinema violence.

But if the classic pirate scores of yore might have been just a bit serious and symphonically dense in their wonderment, what makes «Cutthroat» into their worthy successor is that Debney's approach is surprisingly light on its feet, replete with the self - aware sense of humor that Harlin gave to the film, especially when the composer engages in a snooty harpsichord waltz.

If Klaus Badelt turned pirate scores into electro - orchestral rock operas with the «Caribbean» movies, «Cutthroat Island» stands tall as a last, defiant gasp to the old - school symphonic way of playing brigands in all of their unapologetically symphonic glory, as accompanied by Jeff Bond's entertainingly blunt notes about Carolco's sinking ship.

The question is how do you hack the hackers and turn their cutthroat compulsions into a force for good?

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

She longs for the types of sisterly relationships she's read about in books, but life hands her cutthroat Odalie; she is essentially jolted into modernity.

Following these four unforgettable characters, Aja Gabel's debut novel gives a riveting look into the high - stakes, cutthroat world of musicians, and of lives made in concert.

Combat encounters are thick with tension because the soldiers are rendered as ancient heroes and living gods; the cutthroat business of managing a resource - starved caravan turns the player into a digital Snorri Sturluson, writing the epic of a brave army fighting back the forces of evil.

He argued that by omitting vital MLS information such as historical data, VOWs are at a competitive disadvantage and will not be able to break into the red - hot, yet cutthroat GTA market.