Sentences with phrase «just sparring partners»

Of 12 players on his team, the bottom five didn't play — they were just sparring partners.

Not exact matches

And in one of the variously skilled ways that the film folds recognisable tensions into its forever - evolving highwire act, continual mileage arises from the sparring match between Kevin (Lamorne Morris) and his partner Michelle (Kylie Bunbury), who lets slip that she once slept with a celebrity but won't reveal who.The circle widens out to include not just some notably impolite baddies who seem to be liking the game a bit too much but a hilariously weird next - door neighbour (Jesse Plemons, pictured above) who doesn't take to the notion that the game might be happening without him.

She's not just a fine sparring partner for Cruise, but maybe the heart of the picture, lending its terrific spy games some emotional stakes.