Sentences with phrase «like holdovers»

When Air Force One is hijacked by an American revolutionary outfit (this may be what the future looks like from 1981, but these yahoos look more like holdovers from the early seventies), the American President (Donald Pleasance) crash lands in the middle of no man's land and becomes a bargaining chip for the reigning king of the outlaws (Isaac Hayes), who runs the place like a gangland Godfather.

It's a fine idea, but also one that feels like a holdover from Legends» original incarnation as a Wii U exclusive.

It's a fine idea, but also one that feels like a holdover from Legends» original incarnation as a Wii U exclusive.

The game's camera also feels like a holdover from another era.

Not exact matches

(The term is a holdover from when most music was physically pressed into a recording, like a CD or LP record.)

Against the prudent, realistic, hard - boiled legalists in the Kennedy administration like Byron White and Burke Marshall, a federal official of conscience and egalitarian conviction like John Doar (an Eisenhower holdover) emerges from Branch's account as a lonely, embattled and courageous figure: a «man who talked like Gary Cooper» and acted like Gary Cooper in the streets of Jackson, Mississippi, where he calmed an angry mob following the murder of Medgar Evers.

My husband has a sweet tooth, a holdover from his childhood when his mom, and I LOVED her, put sugar on / in just about everything, like most red blooded American housewives did back in the 50s.

But then the matches were postponed and both his swing and his putting stroke disappeared, and now Calcavecchia, 42, finds himself limping into the Cup, much like Hal Sutton, another struggling holdover who has to justify his place on the team even though he has deserved it all along.

Efforts to recruit a holdover from the Bloomberg era, like former police commissioner Ray Kelly or former deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff have so far not come to fruition.

The biggest of the non-major distributors, TWC saw its box office receipts grow by nearly 36 % last year compared to 2014 (thanks to hits like Paddington and 2014 holdover The Imitation Game), even as the overall quality of its films declined.

Holdovers like David Fincher «s Gone Girl, the Robert Downey Jr. - lead The Judge, and Whiplash will still likely be in theaters for what might turn out to be a very enjoyable October at the movies.

He's helped by a very entertaining cohort of co-stars which include holdovers from the previous films like Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction), Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) and Jeremy Renner (Kill the Messenger), and newcomers like Alec Baldwin (Still Alice), Sean Harris (Harry Brown) and Rebecca Ferguson («The White Queen «-RRB-.

They join an already packed cast that includes «Hunger Games» holdovers Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Huctherson, and Liam Hemsworth (obviously), along with fresh faces like Jena Malone, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Toby Jones.

The original Kingsman, adapted by Vaughn and Jane Goldman from a Mark Millar comic book series, may have felt like a straggly, goading holdover from the twilight of the lads» mags — but at least it committed to its nasty streak, and took venomous pleasure in prodding your buttons till they beeped.

Transforming Authority and Influence The traditional hierarchical structure of schools is a holdover from the industrial age, when teachers were treated like interchangeable parts in a machine.

A perfect holdover until the Note II releases next year, unless Samsung does like they did with the GSIII and releases it everywhere within a month and on each carrier.

A few, like the Santa Rosa Island torrey pine and the sprawling lemonade berry bush, are holdovers from the original garden.

An obvious choice for a holdover from our previous list, BioShock Infinite, like the others in the series, is a hell of an experience.

But the required multiple playthroughs and drab level designs feel like the game was made with a small budget, marking the title as a holdover until Falcom was able to produce Ys Seven.

These work around a complex and rewarding set of equipment - based systems, which are admittedly daunting at first: you can fuse two pieces of like gear together to create a better one (a holdover from Graces); stack your equipment's skills to gain a cumulative benefit; and even assign adorable creatures called normin to your weapons and armor to learn new skills.

These work around a complex and rewarding set of equipment - based systems, which are admittedly daunting at first: you can fuse two pieces of like gear together to create a better one (a holdover from

That said, the idea that electric vehicle charging behavior and, by extension, electric vehicle charging economics will be anything like our «fueling» behavior for gas - or diesel - powered cars may prove to be a temporary holdover from the fossil fuel era.