Sentences with phrase «more aplomb»

So what we have in the climate change area (and what I find fascinating for cynical reasons) is that everyone and their grandmother, whether they be lawyers, anthropologists, economists, semi-retired mineral engineers, poets, old academic codgers, weigh in on this scientific issue often with more aplomb and fanfare than the actual scientists (earth obs through modellers) themselves.

Amanda Ripley is lean, too: She's a straightforward workhorse who handles the alien, a collective of murderous androids and gangs of panicked humans with much more aplomb than the rest of us would have.

To make things more interesting, we also threw in a couple of curveballs that should work to the PS3's advantage - covering a couple of 1080p titles (which common knowledge / Sony PR suggests the PS3 should handle with more aplomb) and putting Namco's Ridge Racer games on both platforms up against one another.

For the best handling go for the 4S; having a lighter - weight V6 engine up front means it changes direction with more aplomb than the heavier lump in the 4S Diesel.

It's not, but it'll probably manage mild off - road with a lot more aplomb than its city sibling.

As a driver's car the Mercedes shades the Audi, both riding better and handling with more aplomb, while its new inline - six engines are smoother than the Audi's V6s.

Game Change handles Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore) with a bit more aplomb, preferring sober psychological study to broad caricature.

Wags is a patrician WASP who still has to work for a living, and no one has ever kissed ass with more aplomb.

Anyone who saw Kosar's husking of unbeaten, top - ranked Nebraska in January's Orange Bowl game — he passed for a bowl - record 300 yards and two touchdowns in the 31 - 30 upset — would agree that if nothing else, no freshman quarterback ever showed more aplomb under such pressure.

The posts on this article provide a great amount of evidence that when it comes to the persecution of Christians, no one does it with more aplomb than other Christians!

Not exact matches

But that it's apparently hard to pitch at Coors Field, and when two rookies do it with aplomb, maybe it's a good time to pay more attention.

He's done so with aplomb — and no other player provided more assists in European football than the 26 - year - old.

And that's what makes their emphatic victory over Blackburn last Saturday even more poignant, as United's predatory instincts came into play and as soon as they sensed an opportunity to go top of the table for the very first time this season, they didn't just take it but did so with aplomb and with authority.

It takes something special to stand out in the ever - growing auto - running platformer genre, but ATOMIK: RunGunJumpGun does so with aplomb, copious deaths and a healthy dash of that «just one more time» mentality that'll keep you coming back for more.

If the rest of the stars studding the cast are not quite so indelible — a few of the roles are scarcely more than cameos — each one fulfills his or her duties with aplomb.

Adams handles every moment with skill and aplomb — no more so than in the scene at the baby shower, in which she is required to portray social uncertainty and lack of confidence developing into belief in her worth and (for the first time in years) hope for her future.

Singh plays the character with aplomb in what is certainly a career - defining role for the actor who is more often cast as the romantic lead in mega Bollywood productions.

Neeson has taken to his new role as chief action man (of a certain age) with aplomb and in addition offers the sort of gravitas and acting ability that a lot of his more established contemporaries such as Arnold and Sly, either don't have, or have long since lost the ability to deliver.

Hammer, who played the fabulously wealthy Winklevoss twins in The Social Network — and is himself the great - grandson of the still - more - fabulously - wealthy oil tycoon Armand Hammer — is an amiable enough cinematic presence, and Fichtner is magnificent as Cavendish, snarling and sneering and eating the occasional human body part with demonic aplomb.

This is a smaller film than Reitman has done before (though still in keeping with his interest in character dramedies and endings without complete closure), and a somewhat more straightforward one than Cody has previously done, but they both pull it off with aplomb.

In contrast, Scott handles his action scenes with aplomb, showing off more of the skills that he first revealed in Bulletproof Monk.

Despite the overwhelmingly harsh nature of much of Se7en, the film moves between visceral and evocative moments and quieter, more contemplative scenes with aplomb.

She kicks butt on more than one occasion, using hand guns and fists with equal aplomb.

The cast commits to the verisimilitude of the scenario (the script incorporated real life dialogue) with aplomb and ratchets the tension effectively as the situation grows more dire.

And Seyfried unfortunately doesn't get to do much more than frolic in the first half and cower in the second (both of which, it should be said, she does with aplomb).

Not that the old A5 convertible was a slouch but thanks to new manufacturing processes and materials, this one should feel stiffer (by 40 % says Audi) and more planted and should cut through the air with aplomb due to its more slippery exterior shape.

The Range Rover Sport focuses its intentions more on the road than the rough, but it can still handle the muck with aplomb thanks to its permanent 4 - wheel drive and terrain management system.

Perhaps more importantly, and a true indication of the engineering involved, the Macan Turbo with Performance Package tackles the twisties with an aplomb that belies its size, height and weight.

The M550i packs more than enough performance for public roads, and is comfortable enough to handle your commute with aplomb.

It's smooth, too — the Altima absorbed the city's more rutted streets with aplomb, and it was a relaxed highway cruiser.

At a point in hard corners where the previous Sport simply had to resign from delivering any more cornering force, this one continues to obey the wheel with ease and aplomb.

On the street, often even more important than speed itself is the sensation of speed, and in that regard, the 2018 Ford Mustang GT delivers with aplomb.

The 4Runner soaked up any irregularities with aplomb and asked for more.

Sure, the Renault Clio and Peugeot 208 (and the much more expensive Citroen DS3 and closely - related Audi A1) ride and handle with aplomb, but both come with French flaws and, model for model, come with either less performance or a higher pricetag, or both.

Since its introduction for the 1997 model year, Subaru's somewhat oddly proportioned Forester has been a welcomed alternative to more traditional SUVs, thanks to its uncanny ability to handle the road like a car, haul cargo like a small sport / utility vehicle, and scramble through a snow drift or a sand dune with equal aplomb.

With fluid, fuss - free screen transitions, the display found on the Sony Xperia Z helps create a more natural and engaging user experience, with tasks such as skipping between homescreens, scrolling through menus and browsing across web pages all handled with aplomb and not even the slightest hint of trouble.

This is something that Samsung and Sony do with aplomb, but you'll be scurrying off for an app if you want to make this a more dynamic home media device.

And perhaps more importantly, could the Xbox One handle the more technologically ambitious Metro Last Light with the same aplomb as the PlayStation 4 version?

He does a fantastic job here, voicing the demented sides of Deadpool's psyche with aplomb, which are miles away from the more serious work he's commonly known for.

If, that is, we want a good chance of avoiding the dismal future that Bill Hare, an accomplished scientist and the godfather of Greenpeace's climate campaign, has so carefully warned us about: Unstable weather, routine heat waves, widespread drought, crop failure, and mass extinction, rising sea levels, and, in general, a markedly more hostile environment and a situation that our society, as presently constituted, is unlikely to navigate with grace and aplomb.

We're looking at MacBook Air - class CPU performance and MacBook Pro-class GPU performance, so the iPad Pro ought to be able to handle more multitasking features with aplomb as Apple sees fit to add them.

The processor and memory might initially seem a bit anemic for a laptop that costs more than $ 1,700, but they can handle most common computing tasks with aplomb, as you'll see in the performance section below.

With more or less aplomb.

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These are just some of the ways the PlaidFox Studio team enlivened every square inch of the small space, fulfilling the more - is - more mantra with aplomb.