Sentences with phrase «like auditioning»

Over the last fifty years publishing with traditional publishers has always been like auditioning for a play on Broadway.

Test driving the 2009 A8 W12 is like auditioning at chauffeur school.

And this is true across cultures, from Japanese squirmers like Audition to French films like Inside.

«Without a doubt, it is hard to break into a Premier League squad, so every time I was asked to come and train with the first team, it was like an audition and I gave everything I've got, because you might only get one chance to show the manager what you can do.

Burnham's speech had sounded suspiciously like an audition for his leader's job.

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — At times, Thursday's event in Jamestown seemed more like an audition for the coinciding Lucille Ball Comedy Fest.

Is a grant proposal a contract, or is it more like an audition, an opportunity to show that you've got what it takes to do good work?

After a while, I felt like my auditions were going into a black hole.

Remaking a psychological classic like Audition is bad enough in its own right, but remaking a Takashi Miike film is worse.

But the new version seems even more rhetorical and redundant in the wake of torture porn like Audition (1999), Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), and Hard Candy (2005), not to mention real - life horrors like Columbine, Virginia Tech, the recent NIU shootings, and the Tinley Park clothing store executions, whose victims had their limbs bound with plastic tape just like the family in Funny Games.

She noted that Amazon Crossing has created a platform for editors to connect with translators where they can translate a snippet of a text much like an audition.

A pre-qualification is like an audition, while a preapproval is a dress rehearsal for an actual loan application.

I heard from several other game audio people that Tom Francis, the game developer, was hosting a kind of contest, like an audition.

Not exact matches

She's credited with launching the careers of stars like Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Seth Meyers, and each year sends about 15 performers to audition for NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Since our eyes are curved, and liners tend to come in straight tubes, it can feel a bit like you're auditioning for the circus every time you try to apply.

I guess where I am coming from is that it is good to audition safe people and safe spaces like it sounds TLS is for support when needed.

Urging readers to pick up your book feels a lot like sending out a résumé or auditioning for a play or selling grapefruit door to door for your high school marching band trip to London (which is way harder than it sounds, by the way).

I tried out this recipe (pre-Thanksgiving auditions) on my family over the weekend and even my 12 year old liked it.

I'm going to see if I can find an excuse to make this cake again soon (we're going away on Saturday so it might not happen) or if there are any testers out there that would like to audition either of these levels and report back, I would be ridiculously grateful.

He seems to be the next guy up that really gets it: when you get your shot, play like it is an audition.

It seems like Barton has been auditioning for a media role for the last four years — about the same time folks started considering him past his best.

The former McDonald's All - American came to Stillwater as a heralded recruit, but he has treated his time on the court too much like an NBA audition, firing ill - conceived three - pointers (making just 23.7 %) instead of establishing himself in the paint.

Dare to play for the arsenal...... Cuz it looks like failed the audition...... ur partner «Fekir».....

The Tottenham game had the high pressing, fluid passing and the movement of Ozil, Sanchez and Lacazette was a great audition of how this front 3 could look like.

I remember getting an email saying I basically needed to audition to be part of this group and although I didn't agree with that, or how it made me feel, I felt like it was important for me to be around my like - minded women and for my daughter to make friends her age.

«With his departure from the NY - 21 Congressional race, the choice for voters becomes much more clear and much more stark: Do we want to send Stefanik back to her DC cocktail circuit, send some candidates running on the Democratic side who are auditioning for the DC cocktail circuit, or someone who is going to stop talking like a cable news wannabe and just get to work.»

«Charlie King sounds like he's auditioning for a part on the X-Files, because everyday his conspiracy theories are getting more bizarre and out of control.»

Going on a date sometimes feels like going for an audition.

-- DEM HOPEFULS AUDITION FOR 2020 — POLITICO's Isaac Dovere: «Squint, and it looked like Iowa, December 2019 — except the setting was a hotel basement ballroom in downtown D.C. on Tuesday, with the 2020 Democratic field doing its first dry run... Not everyone came: There were too many prospective candidates for them all to get speaking slots at the Center for American Progress» Ideas Conference («BIG IDEAS START HERE,» read the big sign behind the stage) and still have time for bathroom breaks.

And Cynthia was just like, «No, I just wanted to audition.»»

«She liked going on auditions,» recalls David Rind, the longtime boyfriend of Nixon's mother, who died of breast cancer in 2013.

Indeed, it seemed like Christie was auditioning to become the next attorney general in a Trump administration.

These programs look like a good deal for scientists seeking scarce jobs in the industry, offering a benefit that's increasingly rare these days in the private sector — on - the - job training — along with a long - term audition in front of hiring managers at desirable employers.

This is also the first year I lifted weights like I was auditioning to play «Tubby He - Man».

Stick with the ones you get the biggest effect from then gradually work in OTHER exercises on a rotational basis like a continuous audition process at a soap opera.

If you're still avoiding tie - dye for fear of looking like you're auditioning for Hair, this should convince you to try the trend.

Go register for that audition like NOW!

I have muscular legs and certain shorts make my legs feel like I should audition for the WWF.

After the audition, we met some friends and family for lunch at Eggy's (like my new fave breakfast spot in the city!).

Like, I'm 22 and I still would give someone the side eyes if they suggested auditioning for anything lol.

haha Your description of how much you sing «Chandelier» sounds like me with «Let It Go» — and I belt it out like it's my Voice audition.

How do you incorporate each decade's ethos into your look without appearing like you're auditioning to be an extra for Anchorman 3?

If I hadn't have said anything, you would never have known fifteen minutes prior I had looked like I was auditioning for a circus.

So the thing I've come to realise about dating in your late twenties (and beyond), is that people start to see dates like a series of auditions for «The One».

Tommy, of course, never gets anything out of auditions besides the terrified, placating smiles of casting directors who regard him like a bear that's wandered into the room and hope won't notice them as they gently urge it back out through the door.

RDC: When I went to audition for the film, they didn't give me the whole script, but I liked my character Rivka's dry sense of humor.

«Amanda had met Shiloh before and did not like him, so when I told Amanda I was going to bring him in to audition, she made a face.

It looks like as though this group has the solidarity that would protect them from a breakup, but the success of one of their troupe leads to envy by the others and, given that the winner of an audition by a Saturday Night Live type TV program called «Weekend Live» is the two strongest performer in the Commune, things start to look bleak for the other five.

Here are some shots of our headliners in action, with Bullock looking like Miss Congeniality's Gracie Hart back in action but Blanchett giving her audition for a Prince version of I'm Not There.

Vidocq is a spastic audition reel for a Hollywood career; similar to one - named auteurs McG (Charlie's Angels) and Tarsem (The Cell), Pitof uses the camera like an Etch - a-Sketch savant, hastily discarding one flashy image after another.