Sentences with phrase «little stab at it»

But if we were to take a little stab at it, we're guessing that it could be somewhere along the lines of a 2.3 - liter unit that pumps out 244 horsepower.

I'm happy for the Pole even if he appears to be having a little stab at our club, and he would still be our third choice if he were here...

Not exact matches

Even though she didn't get the win, this coincidence should make her feel a little better about her blind stab at the answer!

Rust has always been on my list of hues to incorporate a little more into my daily wardrobe and I even took a stab at it here and here.

that being said, ill take a stab at something a little more unique.

An over indulgent and often confusing stab at film noir, The Black Dahlia leaves little to be desired as director Brian De Palma continues to prove that his best days are behind him.

«Baywatch» takes a few amusing stabs at satire — Efron declares that the group's adventures sound like «a really entertaining but farfetched TV show» — but, in the end, director Seth Gordon and a cargo ship full of writers use the beachy setup as little more than a vehicle for generic hard - R and gross - out gags.

If Nicolas Sparks took a stab at the home invasion genre, it might look a little like Labor Day, an atmospheric departure for Juno and Young Adult director Jason Reitman that's a little too earnest and heavy for its own good.

Late in the film, Ribisi asks Brolin whether maybe there's something a little troubling or even hypocritical about their gangster - smashing squad trying to destroy Cohen's empire using tactics even the vicious Cohen might find excessively destructive, but the film is so unrelentingly positive and unambiguous in its depiction of righteous violence that this stab at moral ambiguity feels arbitrary and halfhearted.

But, far too much of Three Billboards trumps its humanity and empathy with vicious cynicism, which makes its goal of at least partially redeeming a handful of characters feel like little more than a hollow stab at stamping some sense of humanity on a film that otherwise wallows in the worst of it.

A little good news, then: thanks to some expert detective work over at Reddit (via The Hollywood Reporter), Robbie's been spotted reading a very different take on the Harley Quinn character, 2015's Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special; potentially as part of the collection Harley Quinn Vol 3: Kiss Kiss Bang Stab.

So when you're at the top, the only way you can go a little higher is when you take a stab at your own record.

The game introduced interesting new characters, such as Goah the giant, Stern the barbarian, Dora the Centaur, and Little Trix, an elf with a pitchfork that stabs at enemy soldiers and monsters like fleshy bales of hay.

Ryan takes a stab at a little old lady in a green hat.

This is something you feel Monolith Soft could have had a decent stab at tweaking, given very little of XCX has changed since its original release in Japan this April.

I took a stab at reducing the IPCC 2013 report conclusions on ice ages down to something that any general audience should have little trouble with (I hope).

And Killian then says we can have a «technology backbone», so undermines his own position a little, and is just taking an educated stab at what he thinks would be sustainable.