Sentences with phrase «like woodcock»

There are tests to measure short - term and long - term progress, tests to observe behavior, I.Q. testing, speech and language testing, reading checklists and individual achievement tests, like the Woodcock - Johnson, and I could go on.

the Department created an arbitrary «9th percentile» that a student must have on a norm - referenced achievement test (like Woodcock - Johnson) or curriculum based assessment to even be considered for eligibility.

We're not supposed to like Woodcock, but we don't even pity his gruff, hostile attitude, even after meeting his father (Bill Macy), who might be worse than the son.

Like Woodcock, Mugatu is particular about his breakfast — «Are you not aware that I get farty and bloated by a foamy latte?»

Not exact matches

The Commons exchanges also saw Labour backbencher John Woodcock say shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry was «not fit to stand at that despatch box» after she warned many foreign parties were now acting like the Assad regime.

The delights of watching the likes of paul Mariner, Tony Woodcock et all.

There had been speculation that Woodcock would stand down from parliament, like Jamie Reed, who quit as Labour MP for the nearby seat of Copeland earlier this year, triggering a by - election that the Tories won.

Other former Blair or Brown cadres like John Woodcock, Luciana Berger, Stella Creasey and GMTV's Gloria de Piero dominate the top ten in terms of media attention.

Like Jones, Janet Woodcock also started out in chemistry.

One opinion shared by Jones and Woodcock is that of all their responsibilities, they like the budget process least.

When you first start working, it's like work is the only thing that matters, as it is with Woodcock.

Reynolds Woodcock (Day - Lewis) is the premiere fashion designer of the era, a genius playboy who detects the contours of women, dresses, and life itself like Neo sees The Matrix.

Like There Will Be Blood's Daniel Plainview, Woodcock is vampiric, feeding off the weak to further his grand plans.

Alma is shocked: «She can no longer behave like this in a dress of the House of Woodcock!»

Not only do we have to tell a story about the characters in a traditional arc, then we've got a sub-arc, which is the House of Woodcock fashion — people who are in that world, what they come in the house looking like, who made their clothes, what he makes for them.

He plays Reynolds Woodcock, an elite London couturier who likes everything just so, including his women.

SURPRISE: Paul Thomas Anderson for «Phantom Thread»: It feels weird to call it a surprise that an acclaimed filmmaker like Anderson got a nomination for Best Director, but in such a competitive field, not many awards analysts expected him to sneak in and take a nod for his work immersing audiences in Reynolds Woodcock's meticulous world.

Like the film's central romance itself, I suppose — or like the dark secrets behind the creation of the House of Woodcock's signature desiLike the film's central romance itself, I suppose — or like the dark secrets behind the creation of the House of Woodcock's signature desilike the dark secrets behind the creation of the House of Woodcock's signature designs.

ShockYa: I'd be interested in that element of embraced fear you talk about, especially coming off of an experience like «Mr. Woodcock» (a film Gillespie left during production, with David Dobkin stepping in to direct) where there were disagreements about the final tone of the movie, where you couldn't bridge that gap [between what you and the studio wanted].

Day - Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, a sought - after dress designer in 1950s London whose clientele — comprising mostly wealthy matrons — see Woodcock's creations less as pretty dresses than a crucial part of their female armamentarium: «I feel like it will give me courage,» one of his customers says of an evening gown.

She seems like the kind of woman for whom the term «demure» was coined, though she isn't afraid, during her first evening date with Woodcock, to challenge him to a staring contest.

Hitchcock references are everywhere: in the names of Woodcock and Alma (the real - life name of Hitchcock's wife and collaborator), in the «Vertigo» - like references to the way the dead watch over the living, and the way Hitchcock's 1940 film «Rebecca» casts an elegant shadow over the entire film.

Following massive research on the clothing of the period, which included poring over the Victoria and Albert Museum's fashion archives, Bridges» team created 50 unique, House of Woodcock garments inspired by the likes of Balenciaga and Hardy Amies.

There's also some drollery, as carefully threaded as the secret messages Woodcock sews into his dresses like a boy scout earning a merit badge for philosophy.

But Alma, like Cyril, has Woodcock's number, which is that of a boy - man with serious mommy issues.

Reynolds Woodcock, the 1950s - era British fashion titan played by the astounding Daniel Day Lewis in what he cruelly insists is his final film role, likes secrets.

Mr. Woodcock ends like most of these things do with a scene in which the «hero» learns that the target of his hatred isn't as horrible as he's assumed, but in this case, he's still a jerk.

It goes in some unexpected directions asking if a character like Reynolds Woodcock can be changed by love or if he even knows how to love.

Day - Lewis appears to be drawn to extremely flawed characters, and he makes Reynolds Woodcock very hard to like as the relationship between he and Alma progresses.

«If you came and saw what my desk looks like, you'd be like, right, he's not Reynolds Woodcock,» he said, and chuckled.

Scoff at that if you like (I do prepare to be eviscerated by K. Austin Collins, the Cyril to my Reynolds Woodcock), but it's a warm triumph that actually reminds me a bit of this year's Lady Bird.

Eventually marching up to her bedroom and removing the gown from her comatose body and making it known to all in the room, «it is no business of ours how Mrs. Rose behaves, but she can no longer act like this and be dressed by the House of Woodcock».

A high - school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a tricky balance of humor and pathos more in line with Little Miss Sunshine, Win Win turns out to be one of the early sleeper surprises of 2011.

Here Daniel Day - Lewis as designer Reynolds Woodcock spends the entire movie needling his seamstresses as they sweat over what look like aproned doilies and lumpy Halloween costumes.

«It's not filthy, rotten, gross like many of them are,» said Terri Woodcock, executive director of the Wisconsin Retired Breeders Rescue club, who has taken in dogs from Puppy Haven over the years that couldn't find homes.