Sentences with phrase «like little consolation»

Arsenal have also maintained their Champions League status which may feel like little consolation, but it protected their status and provided a further financial boost, allowing a team with stringent financial responsibility to acquire players such as Mertesacker, Koscielny, Chamberlain and Cazorla.

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Köln's unexpected and hard - won point perhaps comes as some consolation when set against the general perfection of the Bayern experience: all it takes is a little defensive laxity, some wasteful finishing, and one of the best goalkeepers in the world ends up contorted like a pretzel, watching the ball and the result sail past just out of reach.

It's a category where even the notoriously conservative Academy have been known to push the boat out a little, but the new faces it sometimes features (last year's winner Lupita Nyong» o, for example) tend to need to break out in an otherwise recognized, buzzed film (like «12 Years a Slave») and even those picks are often offset by nods for established actresses who either deserve a consolation prize or who in general feel like they haven't ever really been given their due.

Kidman is the obvious bet for consolation prize: it feels like she's moving into the Grande Dame phase of her career in which every major role she takes has one eye on the little gold fella, and if a lot of the time she's going to aim and miss (the specter of «Grace of Monaco» hovers on the horizon, not eligible here yet, but still its stinking word of mouth and distribution troubles are already part of the narrative), in general the Academy loves a trier, so a nod for something as unexceptional - but - prestigey as «The Railway Man» would not be out of the question.

While it's little consolation to her friends and loved ones, at least we can hope that, like Jenna, she had ultimately found a kind of happiness.

But Father Barton, he pointed his skinny finger at the little gold seal on my menu like it was some kind of consolation prize.

Without the local multiplayer and in a time when PC games like this are all too common, though, it's little consolation.