Sentences with phrase «middle of a firestorm»

We don't want our child to be in the middle of a firestorm!

He has found out the hard way why the Tory chairman should be a street - fighter who can go on television and defend the Prime Minister in the middle of a firestorm.»»

In 2010, two Oscar contenders — Blue Valentine and Black Swan — were in the middle of a firestorm after the former received an NC - 17 for sexuality while the latter received an R. Blue Valentine shows consensual sex between a soon - to - be married heterosexual couple; in one sequence there is an oral - sex scene without anything covering the participants.

Not exact matches

The remarks from Abdul Rauf, who has rarely spoken to the media since his proposal for an Islamic center set off a firestorm of controversy this summer, came while the imam is on a State Department - sponsored trip to the Middle East.

But we're supposed to believe that the Rays, who committed to overlooking off - the - field issues so they could acquire the best players possible, who were one of the teams least likely to be worried about a media firestorm, who had an analytically savvy front office that collectively drooled at the thought of a.400 + OBP in the middle of the order for less than a million, just didn't have any interest in Barry Bonds.

Miles's father, who spent a few months out of the narrative after finding out that his son was the new Spider - Man, and therefore involved in the death of both his wife and his brother, appeared abruptly back into the web swinger's life in the middle of a brand new firestorm being set up by Marvel writer god Brian Michael Bendis, which includes a resurrected Peter Parker and a seemingly immortal Goblin.