Sentences with phrase «kind of a long shot»

Unfortunately, after all this time, it's kind of a long shot.

Not exact matches

For example, Hornacek praise can still come after a bad loss, or Porzingis skepticism can still come after a good performance, and these kind of counter viewpoints should not be shot down simply because they do not match with the general collective thought of the moment, as long as they are calmly and logically reasoned.

I haven't seen many first option guys on a good team or bad team that goes through that kind of bad shooting for that long.

But come on, it's been so long and all day it kind of felt inevitable that he was going to slog his way to a number that left him two or three shots short of playing the weekend.

Kane can score all kinds of goals, be it tap ins, headers or long shots, and he isn't afraid to shoot either, having had at least 50 % more shots in the past Premier League season than any other player in the league.

The tax - the - rich plan may face long odds in Albany, but it pressures the governor and also provides a kind of triple bank shot in the game of local political advantage for the mayor as he gears up for his re-election campaign in November.

The Netroots did a solid job of identifying and funding candidates in districts where Democrats were a longer shot — the kinds of high - risk prospects you wouldn't necessarily want your congressional committee worrying about.»

-- this kind of PCOS is common for women who have been on the pill or other hormonal birth control like the implant, shot, or ring, for a long time.

Long sleeve tees have been huge over the past few seasons and if you've seen any of the recent fashion week street style shots you'll know that this kind of monochromatic futuristic design from SYSTVM is bang on - trend.

It was kind of hard to get a good shot of my shoes, but I wore my white booties from Kohls to add some height, since I am so short and the skirt was so long.

We had to stop along the way to snap shots on these lava rock walls (which proved to be super uncomfortable and sharp, hence the kind of less - than - ideal pose)-- though I couldn't last long, it was at least an opportunity to showcase these Sole Society sandals that I've been wearing tons and my go - to summer dress from Joe Fresh!

Pretending to be someone else can not last for long, and you will most likely shoot down the chance of forming any kind of lasting relationship.

I'm originally from Long Island, N.Y. I have 2 daughters I like to bowl, shoot pool, I like action movies some drama, and all kinds of music, especially reggae.

I suppose Kinberg is intending it to be some kind of commentary on marriage, but the shootout is so big, so noisy, and so long (they are pretty crummy hit persons if they are not better shots than that) that makeup sex seems stupid under the circumstances.

What George Clooney Does: Stares glumly, stares glumly, stares glumly, shoots this guy, shoots the lady he just had sex with, drives and stares glumly, meets contacts, makes a gun, talks on the phone to the boss he no longer trusts, stares glumly, makes another gun, talks some, meets a lady assassin who's even more cold - blooded than he is, stares glumly, gets kind of turned on when he shoots his gun in the lady assassin's direction and she doesn't even flinch, talks to a priest, stares glumly at the priest.

There's a certain kind of film I see at many festivals: oblique, short on narrative and incident (or filled with repetitive incident), shot in a style that favors long (distance and time) shots of people doing nothing, or doing mundane things like crossing the street in real time.

And compared to many of its kind that hold a PG - 13 rating, its outperformed many of them by a long shot.

Cianfrance and Bobbitt shot the movie in a kind of coldly sunny blur of metallic speed and near - constant movement that starts out with a five - minute - long tracking shot.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The entire gag takes a long while to play out (the money shot - close - up on a set of buttocks most definitely not those of the 62 year - old Willis), though it is infused with the kind of nutty energy that Willis last exhibited in his 1991 megaflop, Hudson Hawk (a film that has since acquired an army of «guilty pleasure» defenders, including yours truly).

So it was a long shoot and quite a big epic movie in one way, but very much a character drama, also some kind of reverse love story between my character and Tom's character: they've been married for eight years when the movie starts and it's like a cold war between them.

Shot with a reverence for the kind of beauty only Michael Mann has ever captured from Los Angeles, the film is a breath of fresh air, a visionary take on a long - storied genre that is one of the most wholly satisfying viewing experiences in a long time.

When you're on a long shoot and it's not going chronologically, you have to kind of keep tabs on how you played certain things.

The Five - Year Engagement, which runs longer than two hours and invites all kinds of bitter jokes about the title, is another collaboration between writer / director Nicholas Stoller and writer / star Jason Segel in which they seem to have written and shot a movie that is four hours long, then awkwardly stuffed it into a still - overlong two - hour frame

Greta Gerwig: We had Lola audition a bunch of times, so we had a really long shooting schedule so we kind of just went straight into shooting.

His earlier films, funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the kind of selfcongratulatory distrust of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his sight gags, use the same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.

It's funny that it took this long for this kind of news to come out, considering PTA shot most of The Master last year around Southern California, but I believe there were rumors a few years ago anyway.

«The Civic Type R has long been forbidden fruit for enthusiasts in the U.S., so we thought it would be fun to offer one lucky customer a shot at owning the first of its kind in America while benefitting the leading nonprofit solely dedicated to finding a cure for childhood brain tumors, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation.»

«The Civic Type R has long been forbidden fruit for enthusiasts in the U.S., so we thought it would be fun to offer one lucky customer a shot at owning the first of its kind in America while benefitting the leading nonprofit solely dedicated to finding a cure for childhood brain tumors, the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation,» said Jeff Conrad, Senior Vice President, Automobile Division, American Honda Motor Co., Inc..

That date was taking me to a «shoot - em - up» action movie of some kind - I no longer recall which one - but it was sold out.

To be sure, long - shots can sometimes be offset by bonanza profits if success does occur, but that kind of investing is more in the nature of a venture capital operation than a value investing operation.

In fact, noting my last post, some kind of North American merger / listing would be ideal — that's a long - shot, but it could potentially exploit a gigantic valuation arbitrage.

It is long and flat, always giving you the chance to practice all kind of shots without having to recur to mount climbing as you play.

When you're shooting film, the cameras use these long lenses; you kind of feel this tendency, if it's wide especially, to push it.

Successfully pulling off these kinds of shots without the laser sight makes this combat system one of the most rewarding I've encountered in a long time.

It was obvious that the results were not as good as they could've been, but was more obvious was that as long as I was standing anywhere near the ball was coming and as long as I had tapped any kind of shot at any point before the ball's arrival, my character would return the shot just fine.

One Mile Film (5,280 feet of 35 mm film negative and print taped to the mile - long High Line walk way in New York City for 17 hours on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 with 11,500 visitors — the visitors walked, wrote, jogged, signed, drew, touched, danced, parkoured, sanded, keyed, melted popsicles, spit, scratched, stomped, left shoe prints of all kinds and put gum on the filmstrip — it was driven on by baby stroller and trash can wheels and was traced by art students — people wrote messages on the film and drew animations, etched signs, symbols and words into the film emulsion lines drawn down much of the filmstrip by visitors and Jwest with highlighters and markers — the walk way surfaces of concrete, train track steel, wood, metal gratings and fountain water impressed into the film; filmed images shot by Peter West — filmed Parkour performances by Thomas Dolan and Vertical Jimenez — running on rooftops by Deb Berman and Jwest — film taped, rolled and explained on the High Line by art students and volunteers) 2012, 58 minutes, 40 seconds 35 mm negative and film print transferred to high - definition video, no sound Commissioned and produced by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

The likelihood that this bill will make into law with the current congress seems like a long shot, but it absolutely represents the kind of ambitious plans we need from our elected officials to fight the consequences of climate change.

As long as the attached phone can handle it, the CMOS sensor can snap full - resolution photos at 24 frames per second, or the kind of relentless shooting speed that would make One X and Galaxy S III fans happy.