Sentences with phrase «just hitting its stride»

With nearly a whole football season behind us and the basketball season just hitting its stride, injuries in professional athletes are a common source of discussion in the media.

Asparagus is just hitting its stride where I live too, and I must eat more of it!

It's a show that's just hitting its stride, and that stride averages about 100 miles an hour.

Here, Old Crow Medicine Show feel focused and fully realized, as if they're just hitting their stride after two decades in the business.

The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck, is further proof of a talented director who I believe is just hitting his stride.

Currently Outlier Society has two projects listed, but Jordan is only just hitting his stride as a star.

We managed to hit 205 mph on a closed test track before having to brake for the next bend, and the car was feeling more stable by the second, while the cylinders were only just hitting their stride.

The 2018 model year is just hitting its stride at Spitzer Cleveland Kia.

As they approach 60 mph, things start to change; the ZL1 is out of breath, while the GT500 is just hitting its stride.

I was loving it so much, slowly levelling up my abilities and exploring all the nooks and crannies of the vast underground map, that when it ended I felt like I was only just hitting my stride.

Experimental movies were just hitting their stride in 1963, well before Paul Sharits or Michael Snow and Wavelength, and not one of Hollis Frampton's from those years survives.

«I think we've just hit our stride with a product that's easier to use,» says Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO and cofounder.

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Just as I was hitting my stride and began hiring staff, the industry experienced an unprecedented raw materials shortage, driving up the cost of goods sold.

Counterintuitively, Circle has hit its stride just as onlookers might have assumed the company had all but abandoned cryptocurrency.

She hit her stride in the mid-1990s after becoming head of Morgan Stanley's technology banking team, just as Wall Street was growing infatuated with the shiny new Internet.

Named Google's senior vice-president and CFO, the Montreal native became responsible for the tech giant's finances just months before the Great Recession hit full stride.

At the time, in late 2009, Foursquare was just beginning to hit its stride of popularity, and location - based check - in apps were the quickly becoming the focus of investors and entrepreneurs throughout San Francisco and the Valley.

While the U.S. appears further along in the cycle, Europe, China and the rest of Asia appear to just now be hitting their stride.

Disney is, in my opinion, just starting to hit its stride.

All experienced clergy will know only too well the Achilles tendon that snapped, thus hobbling effective ministry just when they were hitting their stride.

Cider doesn't have the foothold that craft beer is getting in the country just yet, but American cider makers have more than hit their stride.

Our Dad may be just hitting his top stride.

So the batter dives into the pitch — he doesn't simply stride toward the pitcher as in the old days — and is just as likely to pull an outside pitch out of the park as he is to hit it out to the opposite field.

Gray missed 11 weeks with a broken bone in his left foot, but hit his stride just after the All - Star break, posting a 2.64 ERA in his last 13 starts, never allowing more than three runs in that stretch.

Yes, on another side of the coin, one could argue that he might be a bit rusty and not yet hit his strides, which is true, but I just can't see him being successful as a winger, or affecting the game positively for Arsenal.

Coming to the 2014/15 campaign, there's a smidgen of skepticism that the Welshman hasn't hit his stride just yet.

While he made strides with his plate discipline this year, he's overly aggressive and just a fringy runner, so he projects to hit in the lower third of an order.

The season is just now hitting its stride, but we've already settled on our choice for football's Family of the Year.

With that said, the Broncos seem to be hitting stride just like last year.

They are starting to hit their stride and just in time to claim a pretty stellar seed for the Playoffs.

These guys followed a similar path as in the fall, they started off a bit slowly in the Regular Season but turned it on just before the Playoffs and then hit their stride at the perfect time.

Unfortunately, just as Welbeck was hitting his stride, he was struck down with a knee injury in April ruling him out for a further nine months.

Utah is hitting their stride at just the right time and they've added firepower with Jae Crowder.

With my third child, I thought that if I could just get through the first four weeks until we hit our stride, I'd be golden.

Can you imagine, just when you're hitting your stride in a career, you're all of a sudden deemed «too old» because of a completely natural, inevitable, unavoidable biological process?

Just as her career began heating up in 2011, Jennifer's fashion started to hit her style stride, fearlessly trying bold colors and prints, like this bright blue cheetah - print sheath.

Ideal for newcomers and veterans alike, the Pokémon flame is burning stronger than ever with this 3DS release, and it seems that Game Freak is hitting its stride just in time to deliver its first home console adventure on Nintendo Switch next year.

Steven Spielberg finally hits his stride as a mature filmmaker with the autobiographical (and sharply auto - critical) Catch Me If You Can while new directors Sam Jones and Todd Louiso offer, respectively, a magnificent music documentary (I Am Trying to Break Your Heart) and a story of grief and loss (Love Liza) just to the south of true.

Keegan - Michael Key Key and Jordan Peele ended «Key & Peele» just as that show was hitting its stride TV Academy voters.

For Baumbach, whose last movie «While We're Young» premiered at a festival just five months before «Mistress America,» the latest effort suggests he's entering Woody Allen territory — not always hitting his stride, but usually somewhere in the vicinity of it.

WHY: It seems a little unfair to refer to «Enter the Dragon» as Bruce Lee's masterpiece, because he was just starting to hit his stride at the time of his unfortunate death, but it's definitely one of the best martial arts movies ever made.

Let me be clear, V / H / S is a mixed grab back of genre stories, but when the segments hit their stride they are pretty phenomenal - some just are too disappointed to make it that far.

While many think that «The Life Aquatic» and «The Darjeeling Limited» are more mixed affairs, others insist the director was just beginning to hit his stride.

Perhaps a bit of trimming may have been in order, as a story this devoid of substance doesn't require a nearly two - hour run time, especially when there are at least two unnecessary and largely unfunny subplots (anything having to do with the skip tracer and the hitmen brings the comic momentum to a screeching halt) that continue to rear their ugly heads just when the comedy begins to hit something close to a stride.

It seems as if Davis and Harlin's first collaboration, the middling pirate epic Cutthroat Island, was just a dress rehearsal (albeit a very costly one) for Long Kiss, in which the wife - husband team hit their action stride.

Molly's Game is a hit and hitting its stride at just the right time for optimal impact with the voters.

To put it mildly, L.A. Story is an uneven film and just when it seems to hit its stride, the film changes directions.

So many pilgrims passed through here: kids on the way to college (often with starstruck dad in tow), fans on vacation — some with appointments but many who just boldly strode in and hit the elevator button for the second floor.

Because Mini, a brand I love, had a series of great hits — starting with the original of 1959, the Cooper S of 1963 (just as the Kinks were hitting their stride), and beyond.

As one of the first true crossover vehicles, the RX was born just as the sport - utility vehicle craze was hitting its stride, and its unibody chassis and car - like ride predicted fairly accurately the future of the SUV.