Sentences with phrase «nadir as»

by Walter Chaw Thinking that Oscar - winner Kathy Bates had reached a career nadir as a Bible - thumpin» mama in Adam Sandler's deplorable The Waterboy, colour me surprised to note that Ms. Bates actually plumbs a new depth in reprising that performance for Les Mayfield's painful American Outlaws.

His nadir as a role model for fatherhood probably comes in the Empire Strikes Back, when he slices off his son's hand with a lightsaber just because Luke refuses to sign up for the family business (Evil Incorporated).

Russian - American relations reached a nadir as a result.

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As CEO, he weathered the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and steered the firm back from a reputational nadir, when it faced scrutiny and fines over how it sold mortgage - linked securities.

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

«Buying a company below its historic average or intrinsic value (as that is how low quality businesses will often be valued when they are close to the nadir of their capital cycle) is a good starting point for any investment and has a track record of producing excess long - term returns» Marathon Asset Management

That moment was both the apex and the nadir of a presidential campaign that styled itself as a moral crusade.

When the Chinese regime was at the nadir of its brutality, the religious left was hailing it as a bastion of social progress, if not the very kingdom of God on earth.»

A kind of nadir was reached a few months ago when Deane Ferm roasted me in the pages of The Christian Century as an exponent of secularism and a contributor to the God - is - dead movement.

Just as each individual must arrive at his nadir of exhausted possibilities, at which point of death he is united to God, so also that portion of the human race which has achieved its historical limit must now find death and life in an ecstatic moment of self - forgetfulness.

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That solitary win, a laboured 1 - 0 FA Cup victory against League Two side Plymouth, has been surrounded by draws and defeats, with the run reaching a nadir on Saturday as Jürgen Klopp's side went down to a shock 3 - 2 defeat to relegation - threatened Swansea...

The 2012 budget — dubbed the «omnishambles budget» by the then Labour leader Ed Miliband — is viewed as the nadir of Osborne's political fortunes.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio confronts a pair of hostile police unions convinced that he is responsible for the deaths of two police officers Saturday, he is reliving a conflict familiar to past mayors rather than reaching the absolute nadir of relations between City Hall and police.

The nadir came in the ghastly encounter between Gordon Brown and Labour supporter Gillian Duffy on the campaign trail in Rochdale last May, when the prime minister angrily dismissed Duffy's views on immigration as «bigoted».

It would be a grimly positive thing to see this moment, with Corbyn visibly on the ropes, as some kind of nadir for the party.

In what must surely count as the nadir of a strange odyssey, Robert Sullivan finds himself sitting in a cold, dank alley in the middle of the night, observing his newly purchased (and forlornly empty) rat trap, fighting «a savage urge to try one of the Vienna sausages» he has used for bait.

EXRAD has one conically scanning beam as well as one nadir beam, which looks down directly underneath the aircraft.

Neumann, an instrument specialist for the MESSENGER mission, helped to calibrate the altimeter's reflectance signal, which can vary depending upon whether the measurement is taken from directly overhead or at an oblique angle (known as «off - nadir»).

As shown in Table 5, the peak minus nadir leptin concentration was significantly lower at visit CRC3 than at visit CRC1 and was lower at visit CRC2 than at visit CRC1 (P = 0.09).

Nadirs of leptin time series data were defined as the average of the 2 lowest consecutive values, and peaks were defined as the average of the 2 highest consecutive values occurring over a 24 - h period.

For the most part, however, the actor's last two decades as a performer were distinguished by a steady stream of cheap, threadbare horror films, reaching a nadir with such fare as Hillbillies in a Haunted House (1967).

The nadir of the movie's poor judgment occurs during its still - mostly - astonishing climax, when Petit lies down on the cable, engulfed in misty cloud cover, and watches a lone gull hovers over him and seems to stare into his eyes, as if wondering if he's some kind of bird, too.

Even now, though, it's hard to find anyone who'll really go to bat for the film as anything other than a new nadir in Burton's creative slump.

Expectations were low for this because the golden age of North American indie horror has been comprehensively remade as 21st century nadirs of the genre, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dawn of the Dead, Halloween and the rest all looking too clean and healthy, as if the grubby originals were digitally disinfected.

Deadpool is the first disaster movie of 2016 — a chest - bumping, fourth wall - breaking, shot - slamming, wedgie - pulling emojilatory mess that brashly announces itself as the shiny new nadir of the postmodern superhero blockbuster.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

But between its wonderful voice performances and eye - popping animation, there isn't too much to complain about, especially as a follow - up to Pixar's nadir.

ultimately stands as the nadir of the entire series, which is certainly no small feat.)

Avalon marked the nadir of this tendency, but Rain Man suffers from it as well.

This might be the nadir of the movie, and perhaps of cinema as a whole, as «men dressed as women» has been strip - mined by comedies to the point where it is laboriously trite and exceedingly unfunny.

Geoff Berkshire, Variety.com: «Even though «Apocalypse» hardly reps the franchise nadir (an in - joke midway through this»80s - set pic throws deserved shade at Brett Ratner's woeful «X-Men: The Last Stand» as one character exits «Return of the Jedi» and laments «the third one's always the worst»), this is easily the least compelling, surprising and satisfying of Singer's entries.»

As an aside, this must be the nadir of cinematographer Dean Semler's illustrious career.

There's an entire thread elided from Hill's picture centred around violence in «old» Earth cartoons — a conversation that would have fit snugly in the mostly - animated Event Horizon, as it turns out, dealing as the movie does with the question of existential representation in a year, 1997 *, at the peak of our digital revolution, with The Fifth Element on the one side and a pinnacle (or nadir) of sorts, Titanic, on the other.

A montage in which Sarah, Reese, and Pops get arrested, set to Inner Circle's «Bad Boys,» made famous as the theme to Cops, plays like the series finding its nadir.

However, as Paul Peterson shows (see «Ticket to Nowhere,» p. 39), long - term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveal only small increases in mathematics and science scores after 1982, when scores for 17 - year - olds reached their nadir.

As it was, inflation was receding, and 1986 was the nadir for the 80s.

That might change as we get near the nadir of the credit crisis, but it does set up an interesting dynamic.

The Irish market's clearly past its nadir (for God's sake, prime yields are already down to 5.5 - 5.75 %), but as I've detailed it still faces plenty of risk as well as opportunity.

The artist has created an installation based on childhood recollections of playing on the monkey bars and trips to the zoo that he sees as appropriate allegories for our contemporary political nadir.

He illustrates his emotional nadir by using a drone - lofted camera to show himself as a shrinking dot sprawled in a snowy field, paralyzed.

The nadir of the LIA was in the 1680s with a meter of ice on the Thames as Grifier's 1683 painting The Great Frost illustrates.

It was close to the nadir of the cold period known as the Little Ice Age.

The world is currently in an Interglacial, and though warm compared to the nadir of the Ice Age approximately 20,000 - years ago, it's not as warm as previous Interglacials.

GISS have deliberately chosen 1880 as their starting point because this time falls right in the «trough» of a nadir that effectively marked the end of the LIA and the planet's subsequent recovery from it.

Quite a while ago he confirmed what I had long held as to what you actually see as you look at an IR spectrum, 20 km nadir.

I was one of those scientists who was derided as a global warming skeptic until I pointed out all scientists must be skeptics and the world had warmed since 1680 — the nadir of the Little Ice Age.

Furthermore, some legal authorities actually view item's exposing its client Niki Diaz to near - certain imminent deportation as a feather in item's cap — a new value - adding nadir in item's never - ending quest for self - aggrandizement, even at the peril of its own client.

The prime minister himself reacted by publicly lashing out at the Chief Justice in May 2014 in what Harper biographer John Ibbitson described as «the nadir» of the Harper premiership.

This is probably the nadir of lawyer employment, and there is much talk of a «lost generation» of lawyers who enrolled in law school just as Stage 1 was drawing to a close.