Sentences with phrase «like battleship»

On the opposite end of the color spectrum, neutrals like Battleship Gray are smart bets for adding subtle contrast to your kitchen.

It is not clear whether the proposed structure would have been for the plaster or the finished bronze, as the artist later explained that, like the plaster, the bronze was «reinforced like a battleship, criss - crossed, to take all the strains» (Bowness 1971, p. 11).

If you like Battleship, though, you may find enjoyment here if you can tolerate some of its quirks.

Card battling and unit commandeering join forces in Golem Gates, while Pilam Sky takes to the aim in a steampunk hot - air balloon that's armed like a battleship.

In many ways, that tension is what makes a simple game like Battleship so appealing...

Like a battleship, book publishing doesn't turn on a dime, so the old year's trends don't usually determine a new year's books.

Advance to the Rear — French Style Much lest resistant to new technological ideas than their neighbours across the Channel the French came up with some highly imaginative proposals in the 1930s as Karl Ludvigsen relates / Vauxhall Velox & Wyvern — Buyer's Guide / Royal Restoration — Michael Ware looks back at the restoration of a Royal Daimler that was carried out for the Queen's Silver Jubilee / Commercially Speaking — Lighter Commercials / Dashboard Instruments — Part Two — Workshop / Cammy Sammy - Salmson Twin Cam / Classic Commemoration — Richard Cass reports on the Le Mans Classic / Singer Super Six — Michael Worthington - Williams recalls a Singer «buult like a battleship graceful as a yacht» / Coventry Cat — Fitted with the first engine entirely designed by Jaguar the XK 120 set the standard by which so many postwar sports cars are judged.

Compared to my trim, nimble two - door TJ, the Unlimited JK looked like a battleship.

(4 pages, 1 color coded answer slide, 2 culture slides) * Exploradores: A long version and short version of our Search and Find game that plays like Battleship (but without all the violence!)

* Exploradores del Mar: A long and short version of our Search and Find verb game that plays like Battleship (but without all the violence!)

The latest in the trend of board games movies, Ouija is something that one might call «high - concept» only in irony - because like Battleship before it, this film proves to be anything but.

Even international markets, where disappointing effects - driven genre fare like Battleship and John Carter tends to be redeemed, only chipped in $ 80 M for a far from profitable worldwide gross just slightly greater than the budget.

After the summer movie season was kicked off in style a few weeks back with The Avengers, cheap it's difficult to accept a big - budget movie like Battleship that often settles for being ordinary.

I went there and I was really struck by the building and the ruins — the Norman keep is still standing and feels more like a battleship than a castle.

Avoid this crap just like Battleship.

Animal House wasn't exactly a masterpiece, but Old School makes it look like Battleship Potemkin.

ML: The telescope was built like a battleship in the 1970s, and one of the advantages of this venerable telescope is that it can support the weight of these instruments, which weigh as much as a school bus.

(On a side note, how is it that obvious toads like Battleship, John Carter, Jack the Giant Slayer and the three dozen other fairy tale reboots get greenlit without half - trying, while a beloved series attached to a major star with a massive fan base has to raise their own money?

Not exact matches

Among the iterations of this co-branding arrangement are video games, figurines, and buildable battleships like the Millennium Falcon.

When we talked to Farhan Siddiqi a few months ago, he noted that trouble with making big changes at places like McDonald's — restaurants that serve unaccountably large numbers of consumers worldwide daily — is a bit like trying to turn a battleship around.

Whole tomatoes will sink like old school board - game battleships and then burst during cooking, making juicy seeded pockets in the filling.

It's like getting a guaranteed ace with every poker hand, an extra submarine in Battleship, or playing as Oddjob whenever you please.

It's not like playing chess or battleship.

«Right now the budget process is like ships passing in the night,» he said, as pictures of white battleships popped up along with cut - out heads of «Commanders» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and with Cuomo wearing a Captain's hat.

«It is like turning a battleship in a bathtub,» Parker said.

During his State of the State presentation Jan. 5, Cuomo used a PowerPoint animation showing him aboard a battleship cruising near ships helmed by Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — Cuomo's way of suggesting that the old budget process involved leaders passing like the proverbial ships in the night.

«The sunken PBY plane is a very important reminder of the «Day of Infamy,» like the [battleships] USS Arizona and USS Utah.

Before satellite images and drones could pinpoint the exact location of enemy targets, warfare was often more like a game of Battleship: a complex series of guesses based on spotty information.

She was the object of Adam Sandler's misguided affection in the comedy Just Go With It and she's currently filming What to Expect When You're Expecting alongside heavy - hitters like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, while her action / alien invasion flick Battleship is set to hit theaters next year.

Rihanna starred in the animated Home and also appeared in films like Annie and Battleship.

Which is not to say that Battleship isn't filled with them, just that they feel fresh because of things like the clever way in which the film references the original board game, or the way Jesse Plemmons takes a stock role — the sailor who talks too much when he's nervous — and adds just a few quirks that make him feel like a real individual.

But the film proved to be a much bigger draw overseas, doing 2 1/2 times as much business in foreign markets and thus managing to save face much like this year's more severe underperformers Battleship, John Carter, and Dark Shadows.

Unlike his previous efforts like Hancock and the aforementioned train wreck, Battleship (Seriously!

I'd love to see a sequel to this Battleship movie and i'd even like to see the director «Peter Berg» direct a Transformers movie!

The players will also get to use some melee weapons such as shovel, sabres, trench clubs etc. and take control of vehicles like tanks, biplanes, battleships and ride horses.

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Moviegoers have been complaining about Hollywood's lack of originality for years now, especially with popular toys like Transformers and Battleship being adapted into big summer blockbusters, but everyone seems to forget that Paramount made a film based on the Parker Brothers board game «Clue» nearly three decades earlier.

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It sounds like just another example of Hollywood cashing in on an established franchise, akin to the decision to make a movie based on the board game Battleship.

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However for the time being, if you are trying to get off of «The Avengers «bandwagon (why would you be anyway) and want to see something refreshing and original, or you just do» t want to see a generic action sci - fi flick like «Battleship,» then bow down to Admiral General Aladeen, aka «The Dictator» and bask in his oh so mighty glory.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Movie: If we can have movies about board games like Monopoly and Battleship, why not a film about a famous parade?

I was very happy to see Lang's masterpiece on the top, however as a film lover i found for myself some obvious omissions: Bicycle Thieves, Leopard, Nosferatu, Battleship Potemkin, Mirror, as well as more recent masterpieces like White Ribbon, Melancholia, Breaking the Waves etc..

(It's a complicated process that resembles something like a bad game of Battleship but in the middle of a highly populated residential area.)

Roll over Citizen Kane and tell Battleship Potemkin the news, that genuinely looks like the best film ever made!

Like a modern - day Battleship Potemkin, it re-creates some of the events of the morning of September 11, 2001, focusing on United Flight 93, which was prevented from reaching its target and crashed into a field.

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Emphasis on speaking (via battleships game) and communication (via running dictation), leading to writing a paragraph about what you would / wouldn't like to be.

This Have, Do, Like and Favorites 7 Board Game plus 2 Worksheet Bundle includes 1 regular board game, 2 Battleship game cards with ships, 36 game or flash cards, 16 Tic - Tac - Toe or Bingo cards, one checkerboard game with checkers, a chutes and ladders board game, an animated board game, 3 photo color worksheets with answer key and one black and white worksheet with answer key.

I've often heard the analogy, «Improving a school system is like turning a battleship.»