Sentences with phrase «latest stab at»

The company's latest stab at the problem is saying it will change what people see in their News Feeds.

The news is welcome as the latest stab at making pricing more compatible with library budgets.

Slate's Alison Griswold, reporting on this, noted the mention of George Orwell: «Amazon Invokes Orwell in Latest Stab at Hachette.»

At the other end of the product shelf is Hyundai's latest stab at the small - car market, the three - door 2007 Accent.

Take Jayne Mansfield's Car, actor Billy Bob Thornton's latest stab at directing.

For my latest DVD / Blu - ray column, over at ShockYa, I confess how unsettling I find Channing Tatum's moustache in The Son of No One, plus take a gander at Dirty Girl, a tribute to Bernie Mac, 50 Cent's latest stab at screenwriting, the memorably titled Nude Nuns with Big Guns, and more.

Roger Michell has directed this latest stab at My Cousin Rachel, starring Rachel Weisz as Rachel (the role played by Olivia de Havilland in an early film version) and Sam Claflin as her young cousin who is attracted by her but isn't at all sure if she is to be trusted.

A snowy labyrinth of anguish and detective work, the kidnapping drama «The Captive» is Atom Egoyan's latest stab at arty, dignified pulp.

The process of choosing a new leader, former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, was chaotic and contentious, with the legislature squabbling with the Board of Governors as lawmakers took a late stab at inserting themselves in the selection process.

Not exact matches

[4] A Lefebvrist priest — later disowned by the Society of St Peter and formally laicised — stabbed him in 1982 at Fatima.

Soshe took a stab at freelancing psychological how - to articles, and by the late»90s her work was popping up in magazines such as Golf for Women.

On 9 February 2016, the late MP was stabbed to death in his room at his Shiashie residence.

It was reported by the police that the late Abuakwa North lawmaker was stabbed three times by one Daniel Asiedu at his East Legon residence leading to his untimely death.

When he began working on surreal numbers, Conway made a stab at describing their anatomy; later Kruskal came up with a powerful, intricate, and precise way to dissect them, based on certain surreal numbers that can't be broken down any further.

The stabs made at George W. Bush are amusing only for their inadequacy and irrelevance — surely we've all made up our minds whether he is an idiot or not almost two thirds of the way through his maximum eight years in power, and any satirist hoping to target Bush at this late stage had better have an amazing new slant to get any reaction.

2007: More than 20 years later, director Oliver Hirschbiegel takes a stab at a remake with «The Invasion,» in which psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) races to protect her son (Jackson Bond).

The job then passed to Doug Liman, and now It director Andy Muschietti is being rumored as the latest to take a stab at it.

Nearly two decades later, Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne took a stab at their own version of «Pickpocket» with the harrowing «L'Enfant,» a title referring to both the film's nine - day - old child and the immature young father who sells him — a fatal error that condemns the man's soul and sets him on a quest for spiritual salvation.

Charlie Hunnam takes a stab at the title character in this latest version of the once and future king.

Too much darkness and too much yelling mars the prolific Franco's latest all - star stab at literary adaptation

Late in the film, Ribisi asks Brolin whether maybe there's something a little troubling or even hypocritical about their gangster - smashing squad trying to destroy Cohen's empire using tactics even the vicious Cohen might find excessively destructive, but the film is so unrelentingly positive and unambiguous in its depiction of righteous violence that this stab at moral ambiguity feels arbitrary and halfhearted.

With his latest film Like Crazy, Drake Doremus takes a stab at a truth that still stands regardless of how many times it is said — love is tough.

For most, the choice was relatively easy since even though Eastwood's output of late has been a bit on the uneven side, he has still made more than his share of stone - cold classics and his willingness to experiment at an age when most filmmakers become increasingly entrenched in the tried - and - true, even when those experiments end up going sideways, promised something more interesting than the wooden acting and tepid stabs at «kink» that have distinguished the «Fifty Shades» films so far.

From wannabe hero Dave Lizewski's (Aaron Johnson) first attempt at vigilantism resulting in his stabbed, battered body being carted into the Emergency Room, to a later scene when he shoots a guy in the face with a Taser gun «Hangover style», the tone is all over the place, and yet, ironically, as steady as a rock.

Around the same time, he also became the latest writer — following Alex Garland and «Gangster Squad» scribe Will Beall — to take a stab at «Logan's Run» for Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling.

More a footnote to a revered career than an epic swansong, the late Alain Resnais final film takes him back to the works of Alan Ayckbourn for a third stab at adapting that most English of playwrights.

Clean Slate This latest approach shares virtually nothing with the company's last stab at an NSX successor.

Lexus is taking its latest and best stab at a non-boring, high - end sporty car with the Lexus LC500 that will likely arrive in a year as a 2018 model.

Then move on to the next page and come back later to take a stab at the first one again.

Hopefully, the worst thing to come from this data collection would be a stab at the artistry of writing, where publishers only take on projects that meet the guidelines of the latest reports on digital reading or where authors feel pressured to adapt their plots lines and characters to the latest figures on what readers want.

Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler takes a stab at the Bard in her twist on The Taming of the Shrew, Vinegar Girl, which is coming out in late June as part of Hogarth's Shakespeare series.

The Hollywood cops are investigating the vicious death of Baby Boy Lee, a noted blues guitarist, fatally stabbed after a late - night set at a local club.

Amanda Filipacchi takes a darkly comedic stab at friendship, identity and the value society places on women's appearances in her latest satirical novel, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty.

It looks like Rakuten wants to take a stab at the eBook business with its latest acquisition.

Let me take a quick stab at a couple of the Q's, and I might have to circle back later when I have more time... basically, my first thought while reading your questions on my investments is to try not to overcomplicate it, and try not to categorize each investment.

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I know Ethos already touched on this in his latest TTKL, and I don't mean to upstage him; but I'm totally geeking out over this, and there have been some new rumors abroad, so I figured I'd go ahead and take a stab at the story as well.

Sacred 3 tries to take a stab at this genre with their latest release but sadly forgets to implements a few components that would greatly help the overall experience of the game.

Near the end of the Nintendo Entertainment System's lifespan came arguably its most mental controller, and the Japanese gaming giant's first stab at the motion control that would resurrect its fortunes two decades later.

Everybody had this really ill - advised idea back in the late 90's that they could create the fabled «Mario Kart Beater», and — knowing everybody loves a trier — some are still having a crack at it today (Sega actually had a pretty damn good stab at it!).

It is always refreshing when you don't have an inventory full of useless items that «maybe I'll use later», and you don't have to just wildly stab in the dark at item combinations.

While Rastan Saga II didn't achieve the same success as the original, Taito took another stab at the franchise a few years later, this time turning it into a sidescrolling beat - em - up.

In Short Fuse at Anger Management Class Leads to Stabbing Part I, I told you the story of one Faribah Maradiaga, who arrived late to her anger management class while a «Dr. Phil» DVD on managing anger was being shown, and promptly began complaining about the video and disrupting the class.

The latest budget Lenovo Tab 2 A8 8 - inch tablet has a good stab at it though, introducing a neater, tidier Android Lollipop user experience - which... Read more

Henrik Fisker, the famed automotive designer behind the gorgeous lines of the BMW Z8, Aston Martin DB9 and V8 Vantage, and the late Fisker Karma, is going to take a stab at the luxury electric vehicle market — again.

In June 2016, a British Labour MP named Jo Cox was stabbed and shot to death by a right - wing terrorist, Thomas Mair, who shouted «Britain first» during the attack and «death to traitors» at a later court appearance.