Sentences with phrase «much of a long career»

Thanks to the content of his films, American director James Ivory has spent much of his long career being mistaken for an Englishman.

Mary Steenburgen has spent much of her long career in comedy, but she's also drawn to crime bosses and slightly unhinged, post-apocalyptic accordion players.

But no one has made much of a long career writing only easy - sell books, because the target just keeps moving.

For much of her long career, Stacey exhibited mostly genre scenes and landscapes in the Art Institute of Chicago's annual exhibitions.

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People who are invested in building a career, however, are much more focused on finding ways to learn and gain experience in their work as a way to go further toward fulfilling long - term goals, which might be running a company or starting one of their own.

«Most people won't have as long of a career at a high level, and it's certainly unusual to keep as much of that stock that you've been granted.

If it is the first episode (c. 742 B.C.) in a long prophetic career, we suspect that the present account of it was created much later.

Everyone else either has a little too much April - May - June in them, or they have a longer career of being fine players, but are just short of getting legacy bonus points.

The youngster would appear to be a much better buy than Arda Turan who has been linked with Arsenal for ever as he could have a long and successful career ahead of him.

He left Sunday's start with a blister, which is admittedly not a big deal in the long run, but Hill has had his share of legitimate, career - altering injuries that kept him from breaking out like this as a starter until he was in his mid-30s already — it doesn't take much imagination to come up with a scenario where the A's tried to get too much and ended up getting nothing instead.

Hugely overhyped when he first burst onto the scene with Newcastle, Jermaine Jenas never did much of note despite a long career at Tottenham Hotspur.

Having said all that can't see WS sitting around on the bench for much longer at this stage of his career.

And as the No. 48 team demonstrated last year, when it struggled for much of the regular season with Johnson going through a career - long 24 - race winless streak before embarking on a title run, there is still ample time to correct any issues before the playoffs begin.

At 30, he might not have too much longer if he's eyeing a move to one of the top clubs as ultimately it's difficult to see them investing in the later stages of his career.

Considering that his career totals of 330 points in 570 games is just about.58 ppg, he's pretty much right where you're expecting him to be over the long haul.

With the current ankle injury being the tenth of his career, you can not help but worry about how much Jack can contribute on the long - term.

Alan Tate — the long serving defender looks ready to call time on his career, having spent much of the last couple of years out on loan.

Now, fifteen years later with success in another career, I'm in a fairly chronic sleep - deprived state once again — but much less severe, and thankfully not because of all - night - long anxiety attacks.

We are a long way from that now, but creating a proper parliamentary career structure would be of much greater benefit to our democracy than fiddling with the vacuous process called House of Lords Reform.

For much of his career, Cuomo has looked like another in this long line: someone too nakedly ambitious, too pushy, with too messy of a personal life — too, well, New Yorky — to play much beyond Buffalo and the Battery.

Lord Baker of Dorking, who over a long and distinguished career has done so much to improve education in this country, has said:

Much like Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose net worth was famously low due to his long career in politics, Schumer has never held a job outside of elected office.

Over the course of a long career, a Ph.D. in science is pretty much a wash financially, but in the short term, science requires financial sacrifices.

And once in law, there is a great deal of flexibility — unlike scientists, lawyers usually do not have as much time and emotional investment in a career - long project, so if a certain situation is not right, lawyers can typically change jobs more easily than researchers.

In a certain sense, however, my work today is much as envisaged at the age of six and a half, when I gave up on a long - held ambition to become a milkman and chose instead for a career working with animals.

Freeman has another idea: The way to attract young American talent is by providing much higher incomes for graduate students and postdocs, but with the explicit understanding that, as in such other highly prestigious, highly competitive fields as acting, music and professional sports, only a few of those who enter the competition will win the jackpot of a successful long - term career.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

As one of the world's leading authorities on ancient seafaring, he has devoted much of his career to hunting down hard evidence of ancient human migrations, searching for something most archaeologists long thought a figment: Ice Age mariners.

Long considered the capstone of a scientific career in China, election to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confers so much prestige on those anointed that organizations often try to recruit CAS members or reward their own with a guarantee of lifetime employment.

Our investment of over # 150 million in fellowships funds a diverse community of researchers, supporting long - term career progression and providing much more than just security of the funding.

Over the course of his rich bodybuilding career, Frank Zane found out that machine exercises that don't put too much strain on the shoulders are ideal for keeping your pecs in great condition in the long term.

Hey Doc I started training at the age of 13 and literally never stopped ever I have had major knee surgeries 5 or so years ago I have had countless stressful jobs I could not stand I finally said enough is enough and pursued by Personal training career I have an unbelievable passion for the fitness / nutrition lifestyle I'm 26 now at the age of 22 - 23 I achieved body fat percentage of 2 percent while working a back breaking job and literally sleeping 2 - 3 hours a night due to my hormone imbalance I didn't have a spoil meal in 8 months I was finally achieving the look I've been longing for for the 10 years I was already training and it was due to proper training times and nutrition little did i know I was already deep in a over trained zone for years before that I used to spend 3 - 5 hours a day in the gym from the age of 14 through 19 years old i just loved it so much and though more was better as I got older I got smarter I studied non stop this all leads to my decline at age 23 I look back and I know every little thing I did wrong basically al all started at work 3 years ago to make a very long story short I had continued dizziness lack of sex drive for years insomnia all of the above to the 10th degree I know I've abused my body not many can say they have done the work i have done in gyms over all these years I left work one night with sharp pains in my abdomen got blood work done got called back a week or so later and was notified in A very unprofessional way that at the age of 23 I had a testosterone level of 73.6 I have all the blood work to prove it from then on I was treated horribly by doctors none believing what I havenput myself through in the prior years basically going into every appointment and teaching each person endos euros physicians etc..

The screenwriters, Milo Addica (who was a co-writer of «Monster's Ball»), Jean - Claude Carrière (whose long career includes two decades of collaboration with Luis Buñuel) and Mr. Glazer are more concerned with atmosphere than with explanation, and the key to appreciating «Birth» is not so much a suspension of disbelief as an anxious surrender of reason.

We're now able to get a much broader understanding of why a 1932 issue of Picture Play magazine prophesied a «brilliant career for her» and Modern Screen claimed, «Mae Clark deserves a place among the big names of filmdom and will get there before long — watch her!»

For much of his long, illustrious directing career, there have been two Steven Spielbergs: the playful adventurer whose commercial track record is unrivaled and the serious filmmaker who commits to bringing historical drama to life in rich detail.

While Pirates (1986) lacks much of what marks Polanski's best films in style and content, it does continue a career - long fascination with the balance of power, with master / slave allusions to The Fat and the Lean andVampire Killers.

Considering how much of a force of nature that Angela Bassett has been for decades, it is amazing to note how long it took for her career to really start taking off.

In Sandler's long and successful career in film, however, there have been moments that have betrayed an underlying appreciation of family, and a strong tendency to prefer the warm and fuzzy happy ending rather than a much more modern realism.

For a certain group of Oscar viewers, specifically the people who have faithfully followed Sufjan Stevens» career since long before he did the score for Call Me By Your Name, his much - hyped and star - studded Academy Awards performance seemed like it would be the second coming of Eliott Smith's weird - yet - touching take...

It's got the agreeably shaggy vibe that has been one of the key signatures of his long and eclectic career, with characters who are much smarter and more philosophical than you'd ever give them credit for at first glance.

Waterston, only just breaking into the film world's consciousness thanks to excellent work in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, does not have nearly as much to work with (this is very much Moss» film), but she continues to show a knack for the art, and should have a long, satisfying career ahead of her.

, does not have nearly as much to work with (this is very much Moss» film), but she continues to show a knack for the art, and should have a long, satisfying career ahead of her.

Her musical «career» requires that she work a day job as a grocery store cashier in order to make very modest ends meet, yet she also abandoned the idea of writing original songs or otherwise doing much more than playing other people's music, so whatever burning ambition she may have once had has long since been dampened.

Students at top - tier colleges are less likely than their peers at other colleges to go into education; high - achieving college graduates are less likely to go into teaching; and those who do become teachers are less likely to stay in the profession long term.45 In recent polling, high - achieving Millennials revealed much of the thinking that goes into this drop - off: They reported that they do not believe teaching is a good career option for high - achieving students, and they feel that the status of the teaching profession is in decline.46

It stated that «it is vital that serving teachers have access to on - going, high - quality opportunities to update and refresh their skills and knowledge» and that «evidence - driven, career - long learning is the hallmark of top professions»; also identifying that «teachers report that far too much professional development is currently of poor quality and has little or no impact on improving the quality of their teaching» (Department for Education, 2014: 10).

The consultation response on «Strengthening QTS and improving teacher career progression» was launched in December last year, and the government has said its response is just the «first phase of a much longer term programme of work».

After a long and storied career on the silver screen, Errol Flynn spent much of the last years of his life on a small island off of Jamaica, throwing parties and sleeping with increasingly younger teenaged girls.

«So much of the time writing is like digging for water in a desert,» he writes in 1944, not long before The Glass Menagerie launched his career.

That means focusing very much on the author as [a] brand, and aiming for a select number of high - quality writers we can work with to build long - term careers.»

«An Evening with Dean Haspiel», held at the Cinema Arts Center, in Huntington Long Island on October 4th, was as much a tour of the last twenty years of comics history as a look at Haspiel's long and varied career thus Long Island on October 4th, was as much a tour of the last twenty years of comics history as a look at Haspiel's long and varied career thus long and varied career thus far.