Sentences with phrase «neo-dramatic death march»

But while AIG's defenders have vilified Goldman Sachs for collateral calls that seemed timed to inflict maximum damage, Boyd pins the blame for the insurer's downfall on a handful of AIG executives too fixated on securing power and maximizing their bonuses to realize that their company was lurching along on a death march.

In the past week, a series of moves by the campaign, coupled with some striking numbers about his place in the race, point to the fact that Gingrich is entering a new phase in his presidential quest: the death march.

Too often, entrepreneurs go on a feature death march only to bring the new feature back to the prospect and have them still say «no» and ask for another, different feature or outright say they won't buy it.

In the book Angel by Jason Calacanis, he describes this as the «feature death march» where the entrepreneur has had limited success to date and feels if they just add one more major feature, customers will start buying.

Entrepreneurs are often puzzled by why another company's funding erupts into a feeding frenzy, while their fundraising drags on like «the Bataan Death March.»

If investors smell blood, you will find yourself in a painful Bataan Death March.

While holding the interim position in 2007, Ms. Godkin faced a challenge from outgoing PC Youth President David McColl, who published an op - ed in the Calgary Herald predicting that «PC Alberta will continue its slow death march, to the beat of a rural drum and tired, stale policies.»

Some 400,000 of them met their deaths in gas chambers or on the death marches.

The strumming of an insistent guitar frames the song as a death march or final voyage.

Between 1950 and 1953 in Communist North Korea, «50 percent of the hierarchy, one - third of the clergy, and at least fifteen thousand lay persons perished»; many more died in the notorious Death March to the Yalu River.

Crazy Uncle Jester's Scorpion Death March 2.

Attrition the first two years (still referred to by players of that time as the Death March) was frightful.

He survived the Bataan Death March, but by the time he was liberated from a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp in 1945 his weight had fallen from 170 to 125, he was paralyzed from the waist down and was near death from malnutrition.

«The worst,» he says, «was the Texas Death March.

Like John Winterholler, he was on the Bataan Death March.

«A death march,» says Hazzard.

Harry Spiro, the holocaust survivor who shared his story with the Chelsea players at Cobham back in January, was one of the many who had to endure one of the death marches.

The death march continues through the 200 - plus policy sessions here at NCSL's annual meeting in Boston.

The Hubble telescope's infrared camera, called the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, captured a fleeting phase in the death march of this star.

But with the slow «death march» of old vents comes the birth of new ones, and the inexorable cycle of life begins again.

Contrary to popular belief held among marathoners and triathletes, this does not require a 2 - 3 hour death march every weekend.

If you get a freakishly hot morning and you have 14 miles on the schedule, you're likely to slog it out until it's a death march, or else push yourself into a higher level of exertion than I prescribed.

I like a mix of sites, museums, theater, great food, death marches where you are so tired at the end of...

We all hit rough patches, but don't make the hunt for love grow to be some sort of death march.

As couples prepare for candlelight and romance today, Valentine's Day can feel like a death march to singles who yearn for a partner.

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2016, Episode 6: 60 MINUTES SPORTS covers Marshawn Lynch after announcing his retirement, Alysia Montano on racing against Russian runners, and survivor Ben Skardon takes on the Bataan Memorial Death March marathon.

On a family picnic while his clan chirps merrily, Darwin hears the death march that is the survival of the fittest, and also sees it through the magic of time - lapse vision, as though with the eyes of David Lynch.

Ana is drawn to Mikael, however, she has bigger problems because nearly 2 million Armenians are being forced to leave their villages and sent on death marches by the Turkish government.

Initially the story is about the inexorable death march of an undead and immensely powerful king — the protagonist, no less!

On the face of it, the romantic entanglement of an Armenian medical student, an American reporter, and an ethnic Armenian woman, who has lived most of her life in Paris, means little within the context of forced migration, death marches, labor camps, and mass executions.

by Walter Chaw The mermaid effects in a nasty little sequence that falls around the midway point of Rob Marshall's disastrous, deadening Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (hereafter Pirates 4) are the only thing to recommend about this death march, and even those are almost too dark to make out.

That Guttenberg produces the best performance in this death march is ultimately the most damning criticism one can offer for this direct - to - video atrocity.

In his 2007 review, The Bataan Death March of Whimsy Case File # 1: Elizabethtown, Rabin introduced the «manic pixie» into the pop culture's consciousness when describing Kirsten Dunst's effervescent Elizabethtown character, Claire Colburn.

The mean one is Betty (Kirsten Dunst), the promiscuous one is Giselle (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the plain one is Constance (the very pretty Ginnifer Goodwin), and the brilliant one is Joan (Julia Stiles)-- one gets unhappily married, one gets happily married, one gets sad over an ill - conceived dalliance, and one gets a shot at happiness against all odds (because she's «ugly»); when the film deposits them in a secret society where libations are indulged and secrets spilled, what begins as tedious becomes a death march.

Now, however, his rehabilitation has picked up speed with an American re-issue (prior to a spiffy DVD release) of Cruising, his infamous 1980 account of a serial killer at large in the bacchanalia of the New York gay scene in the last moments before the death march of Aids - the attendant commentary having been rounded up by David Hudson's Green Cine Daily and, a few days further back, the IFC Blog.

Counterplots and sidebar stories involving Thandie Newton, Amanda Seyfried and Sharlto Copley add a needless 20 minutes to this death march of entertainment.

No, think of it as more of a dirge: not ironic, but post-modern; not a death march, but mournful.

A meandering, overlong death march towards nothingness, the latest from the American auteur is a showcase of a man who's more than worn out his welcome, who has drip - dried every ounce of juice from the same re-wrung fruit but still yet splashed it up on the screen like a car wreck.

Helen then brings up Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, which has made Helen wonder what she's gotten herself into.

I do occasionally find a zombie comic with a new twist (check out FUBAR for some well - written historical zombie action), but as a creator, I'm going to pause before working on the next Barbie Zombie Death March comic.

This isn't a death march, people.

As always, Picoult's research is thorough, wide - ranging and apparent in every paragraph and includes holocaust survivors, concentration camps, mustard gas, baking, death marches, Jewish customs, Polish ghettoes, vampire myths, plant poisons, Nazi hunters, war crimes and gas chambers.

Ganor offers a riveting and remarkable account of his experiences as a Lithuanian Jewish teenager suffering ghetto life, the concentration camps, and death marches before being liberated by Japanese Americans.

He had survived the Bataan Death March.

What Was The Bataan Death March?

Tree is stationed on the Philippines and endures the Bataan Death March, imprisonment in a POW camp, and more.

Only hours before, when I had last seen him, he could barely walk, so I knew he had left on his final death march.

What they end up doing is kill off the dog's spirit, and the obedience looks more like the dog is doing a Death March rather than obeying with speed, intelligence, and willingness to please.

Long - time resident and author of Comin» in Over the Rock, Peter Lindsey compares the journey from Seaside to Cannon Beach as «the Bataan Death March.»

February When February set in, I was still in Tarlac covering the last few kilometers of the Bataan Death March 160KM Ultramarathon that finished at the Capas National Shrine.