Sentences with phrase «nods are long shots»

Not exact matches

The wilderness - shooter video game series has long been a sort of self - caricature, an unapologetic shoot - em - up that winks and nods at the genre itself, and for its newest iteration, Far Cry turns an eye toward Christian culture — barely.

Not winning any Critics Choice awards, not having either a Globe nod or a BAFTA nod for director makes it a really really long shot that it can pull off Best Picture — though, of course, in a year like this one anything is possible.

Recent subjects of the artist's found images — vintage portraits of sailors, digital profile shots from online gay dating sites, newspaper obituaries — are charged with longing and desire, while the depictions of nature scenes such as seascapes and waterfalls nod to Romanticism and human identification with the natural environment.