Sentences with phrase «of a maverick»

He has a reputation for being something of a maverick who is quite happy to defy the Tory whips in parliament.

In a Hopps exhibition, considerations of art history and scholarship are often present, along with ideas about style and influence and social issues, but the primary emphasis is always on how the art looks on the wall, and this, surprisingly, makes Walter Hopps something of a maverick in his profession.

He and McFadden had joined a small group of mavericks who dared to link biology and quantum physics.

Set in 2093, Nightflyers tells the story of a group of maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who set off on an expedition aboard the spaceship Nightflyer in hopes of making contact with a mysterious alien life at the edge of our solar system.

«What was missing was an award to these kinds of maverick individuals who have dedicated themselves to establishing a hospitable world for art to exist in.

February 19 «Silicon Valley,» on PBS, tells the improbable tale of the team of maverick scientists who invented the microchip.

From there, he launched a steady film career that slowed down considerably in the late»50s, after he began appearing on television but did not end until 1994, when Brinegar made his final screen appearance, as a stagecoach driver, in the 1994 film version of Maverick.

Half Moon Bay hosts the annual Titans of Mavericks surf competition and is the perfect place for beginners and seasoned surfers.

The chapter quizzes are designed to help get you ready for the final exam you will need to take at the end of the Maverick Texas online defensive driving / driver safety / insurance reduction course.

I also heard Klopp ain't too keen on Man City and Real were not happy with Klopp being too much of a maverick.

Started 30 years ago by a group of maverick Nissan engineers, the NISMO name is synonymous with passion, expertise, and the heights of Nissan performance — not to mention decades of racing dominance.

Holistic veterinarian Randy Kidd DVM PhD told us he's a bit of a maverick on this topic.

Before her stint in Washington, Canales served as the executive director of the Maverick County Development Corporation in Texas and was an adjunct faculty member for Southwest Texas Junior College for seven years.

I hope to show how ripe the current market is for brands that demonstrate a touch of Maverick out - of - box thinking.

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By the time Ussery left Nike to become CEO of the Mavericks in 1997, his name was openly floated as a future NBA Commissioner.

It's why Smith will insist Jr. is added to the back of his Mavericks jersey.

«You make clothes that make the darkness in me matter»: If such an accolade strikes you as profound, make a beeline for McQueen, the James Phillips play about the tortured, all - too - brief life of the maverick talent Alexander McQueen that constitutes...

Though there was an element of fortune in the way it bounced, due to Ibra's imperfect timing, it was further proof that the ends of a maverick decision justify the means — a common theme in the Swede's illustrious career.

Director Jang Hoon (The Front Line, Rough Cut), who developed under the tutelage of maverick Kim Ki - dook (Pietà, 3 - Iron), has become a fully formed filmmaker in his own right, albeit a more commercial one.

Levy always has had a measure of maverick appeal for some segments of the electorate, and several donors contacted in recent weeks said they didn't want a refund.

(I've a piece in the same paper about the new breed of maverick Tory MPs.

I was on a sailboat with a team of maverick researchers from the 5 Gyres Institute trying to answer a simple question about plastic pollution: «How much is out there?»

The belief was that these small teams, these kind of maverick individuals could then step in.

He has also appeared in Sneakers with Robert Redford, The River Wild with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, L.A. Confidential with Russell Crowe, The Firm with Tom Cruise, Lost in Yonkers with Richard Dreyfuss, A Map of the World with Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore, as well as a wide and diverse mix of characters in several of maverick filmmaker John Sayles» films.

With the help of maverick CIA agent Gustav Avrakotos, Wilson dedicates his canny political efforts to supply the Afghan mujahideen with the weapons and support to defeat the Soviet Union.

Alamo Drafthouse and Focus Features are teaming up as part of Maverick Cinema to present «Meet Me in Montauk», an event taking place on the beach, with mattresses for a «bed - in» experience, paying homage to one of the film's iconic scenes (seen above).

MADAM SECRETARY PICKED UP TO SERIES STUDIO: CBS TV Studios TEAM: Barbara Hall (w, ep), Morgan Freeman (ep), Lori McCreary (ep), Tracy Mercer (ep), David Semel (d) LOGLINE: Explores the personal and professional life of a maverick female Secretary of State as she drives international diplomacy, wrangles office politics and balances a complex family life.

Join a crew of maverick soldiers and lead them into explosive combat with strategic precision in The Collectables.

Chasing Mavericks» is the inspirational true story of real life surfing legend Jay Moriarity (Played by Jonny Weston) who trains under his mentor Frosty Hesson (played by Gerard Butler) to learn to tame the mammoth waves of Mavericks surf break.

Tamil Nadu, India About Blog Metaphysical and Mundane Musings of a Maverick Female Scribe.

Based on an adventure fantasy by Arthur Conan Doyle, it's the story of a maverick scientist and explorer, Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard), who reports on a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles.

Yet perhaps this was always to be the fate of a maverick whose works were often unclassifiable and always unique, more so since his later projects didn't match the critical or cult success of his earlier films.

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The WAAM Archives is also the home to the «Maverick Notebooks» a collection of binders and related information gathered by Jean Gaede on the houses and residents of the Maverick Art Colony.

Of all the directors who might have taken a cue from this and Milestone's other seminal war film, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), I think first of maverick Samuel Fuller and his no - nonsense «tabloid» approach to cinema, particularly as it manifested in 1980's mutilated but nonetheless powerful WWII elegy The Big Red One.

America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on.

This is all part of a pronounced trend towards institutionalization within the industry — with a far greater emphasis on pushing the firm & the low correlation / consistency of returns, rather than pitching the notion of a maverick investment genius swinging wildly for the fences.

Turn it off early and it's a tragic tale of Maverick accidentally killing his best friend, Goose.

The trip meant Barea had to miss the first day of Mavericks training camp.

Yanik Silver, a serial entrepreneur based in Potomac, Md., is the author of Maverick Startup: 11 X-Factors to Bootstrap From Zero to Six Figures and Beyond from Entrepreneur Press.

The departure of maverick founder Takao Yasuda has unnerved investors in Japanese retailer Don Quijote, the Financial Times reports.

In an analysis penned by Andrew Warford, who is chairman of Maverick's stock committee, the fund set out its thesis for why the smartphone market has hit a «tipping point.»

There were a lot of mavericks at our early conferences, but in the late 1980s, they began giving way to professional entrepreneurs.

A coalition of mavericks would strain euro zone relations.

Ambar Bhattacharyya of Maverick Capital Ventures summed up the regulated versus non-regulated path question succinctly, noting that «you can run, but you can't hide from regulations,» adding that for wide adoption, payers and providers are going to demand data.