Sentences with phrase «like rackets»

Of course Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy), the business woman who becomes a felon who starts what really looks like a racket involving a group of young girls and baked goods, is a wounded soul.

For the three of you out there who do not know what I'm talking about, playing games on the Wii, like tennis or baseball, involves swinging the controller like a racket or a bat, and sometimes people lose their grip on the controller.

Not exact matches

Their tactics, coupled with fighting between groups jockeying for access to the racket, have led to a surge of violence in cities like Salamanca, home to a third of the fuel taps discovered in Mexico in 2016.

«It's a tough, tough racket to play consistently,» he said, pointing to the difficulty of getting good content and the competition for quality productions at festivals like Sundance.

If you want to sell tennis rackets, for instance, you could target fans of the U.S. Open, Nike Tennis, and Andre Agassi plus those who like tennis.

Maybe you Lynn, and Ann, and others like you woke up to the reality that it actually is just a racket, a scam, and it is «this thing of ours» (those of us who control the pulpit that is).

Knight, like everyone else in his racket, is only in it for the dough.

That makes it sound like a protection racket... basically you pay (worship) me for making your life hard or else I will make it harder.

I do nt know why im so disappointed i keep thinking every window he will do it splash big bring back the old days and especially this window with all the abuse he had got last season but no did nothing im the fool for getting my hopes up again you would think id learn by now, if we did pull off lemar and kept sanchez after buying lacazette and kolasanic id be delighted but keeping an unhappy sanchez isnt good hopefully some forgien club will come in for him in January but what happened at Liverpool was a disgrace i cant take any more its ruining my mood im depressed in disbelief at how stupid and soft centred we were making the exact same mistakes for 8 or 9 yrs ground hog day i cant cope we have leaked 8 goals in 3 games very worrying and the clown wont even play kolasanic i wanted wenger to spend big go out in a blaze of glory in 2 yrs time but this is embarrassing to me it looks like a money racket and we are the fools

Then, the next morning, the player nicknamed Gentleman Tim slams his racket on the court without apology and with a gratifying crack, turning its elegant frame into something that looks like a car wreck.

Kind of weird you list Chambers in the same racket as Debuchy (deadwood) who had a solid season with M'borough but yet single out the likes of Welbeck who literally has never scored more than 10 goals.

Thus it is neither surprising nor denigrating that steely competitors like Borg are often likened to robots with rackets.

«I figured I could make the racket an exact extension of my arm, so I could swing it like I swing my arm.

Club pros like his father string rackets.

In many instances, the racket is plainly visible, like the arrangements of a number of Albany's lawyer - legislators.

When Stardust approaches Wild 2 in a few months, the spacecraft will raise a tray of ice - cube - size chunks of aerogel on an arm shaped like a tennis racket.

«Just as it takes time to train a person to swing a squash racket like an expert, it takes time to train one's neurons to produce the ideal activity patterns,» says Byron Yu, associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon.

They lie across one another like the strings of a tennis racket.

It also harvested tiny bits of the comet itself in a tennis racket - shaped collector carrying an ice cube tray - like device filled with the lightest - weight, lowest - mass solid known: aerogel.

Hooting and hollering, he gallops up to the giant buttress root of a tree, grips its crest with his hands, and beats on its wall - like surface with both feet, making a racket that can be heard more than a kilometer away.

Now Fong Wee Teck and colleagues from the Institute for Infocomm Research at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore have developed a haptic controller that looks a lot like a normal tennis racket.

In these sports — including baseball, cricket, and table tennis — the time between racket - ball contacts or ball release to bat - ball contact is about half of that in sports like squash, badminton, and tennis, the researchers report.

Nanoribbons are known for adding strength but not weight to solid - state composites, like bicycle frames and tennis rackets, and forming an electrically active matrix.

But even if you don't play baseball, don't swing racket sports or anything like that, you now have a body that's capable of snapping into powerful action on both sides.

Before that, there was like this little like butter smuggling racket where people are...

I'd feel a little fraudulent, like someone wearing a cute tennis outfit who's never swung a racket before.

The zipper tab on the back of the shoe makes these sound like they have spurs attached, and as cute as this pair is, the racket just drove me crazy in the mere 5 minutes I was walking around the house.

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The bar also hosts live shows every week from artists like Ursula Ricks and the Project, Drunken Uncles, and the Racket.

The game will have a Swing Mode, which will let players use their Joy - Con like a tennis racket — which I'm sure will help make it just as accessible as Wii Sports.

Dizzying swirls of electronics and mechanical rackets jostle with tiny background blips and chugging, train - like sounds that ricochet through reverbed puffs of steam.

While not entirely 1:1 like had been promised, hitting a ball in the racket's «sweet spot» produces satisfying feedback making long, near fatigue inducing rallies as engaging as anything the genre has seen.

His earlier films are both gritty and introspective, and seem nothing at all like Kwaidan: one of Kobayashi's most compelling early films is the brutal baseball noir drama I Will Buy You (Anata kaimasu, 1956), in which a young player rises to the top of Japanese professional baseball, revealed to be little more than a racket.

Other new trick shots like the Super Shot that can blast through an opponent's racket were shown off.

In Swing Mode, players can use their Joy - Con controllers like a tennis racket, swinging them to initiate the tennis swings in the game.

Mario Tennis Aces will be packed with features, including 15 different playable characters (the likes of which include a racket - wielding Chain Chomp) and the option for both 1v1 and 2v2 gameplay.

In Swing Mode, players can use their Joy - Con controllers like a tennis racket, which initiate tennis swings in the game.

Also through her internship, Andi strings rackets (and now has her own stringing business), accompanies Goldthreate at high school speaking events and meetings with the Park Board or the Congress, plays in tournaments, puts on fundraisers, studies for her classes, and attends events like the PTR Symposium, where she networks with other tennis professionals, sharing what they do at their tennis associations, clubs, and PTR offices.

This worked like a charm... until a student needed a book or a pencil out of the desk and then he or she made more racket than if I just allowed the fiddling to continue.

Are billionaires like Eli Broad suddenly hitting the brakes on ed reform because they care about pubic school budgets, or are they just upset that vouchers and religious school tax credits will be horning in on the lucrative charter school racket?

It took a minute for Pilgrim to get used to the grabby, non-ABS brakes (being far less experienced with such brakes, I would later lock them up coming into Turn 2), and he would have liked a little less power in the hydraulic steering (Revology says that's doable), but he found the car pulls surprisingly hard to more than 7,000 rpm and sounds great with its Borla track exhaust, the Coyote making mighty thawwwwwacck racket at full chat.

Mille's wristwatches are wonders of advanced engineering that were developed using real world R&D: they are put through the ringer by athletes during training and competition until they break, enabling Richard Mille's team to find the weak spots in the tiny movements and re-engineer the watch until they're durable enough to sustain extraordinary forces like the swing of a golfer's club, the violence of a Formula 1 driver's track battle, or the snap of a tennis player's racket.

Accelerate hard and you're struck by both the racket and the lack of momentum; it feels like a hot - hatch engine stuck in a car two sizes too big.

Even in the market place, companies like Netflix are jettisoning film publishers because of the racketing up of the price (Netflix dropped Starz).

The erosion of traditional gatekeepers like reviewers, critics, newspaper book editors, and other refined literary tastemakers makes it clear why even a conservative publisher might lose its head over the prospect of all that money — and be tempted to go into another racket.

I get the feeling these tech companies believed they could bowl into the book industry like they did w / music... and they're finding a whole different racket here where they aren't going to have any control.

Seems like more of a racket than a case to better educate society in some of the «tech» school programs.

Second, I am also a dog trainer, which is different than behavior modification work in that it is a lot like being a tennis coach who teaches students to swing rackets, explains the sports» rules and strategies, and introduces fitness techniques, etc..

Racket may sound like a harsh word to use in a discussion of puppy inoculations.

From the moment the sun sets, these bulbous bugs the size of two thumbs pressed together wail with a racketing pomp that sounds like a fire alarm giving up to drained batteries.