Sentences with phrase «of a sideshow»

This may be a bit of a sideshow in our overly leveraged financial markets, but the bets being placed here exceed ten billion dollars of total exposure.

What is for Romans a deeply felt form of self - expression, Americans view as a kind of sideshow entertainment, a vicarious experience to collect.

It could have become something of a sideshow gimmick but Snook makes it work with an affecting portrait of torment and isolation.

Tebow has become more of a sideshow than an NFL quarterback.

I'd suspect a large proportion of those so called «happy» fans are delighted to see the face of Sideshow Bob once more, a «legend» of theirs if you will.

This vacuum was one of the sideshows of the 30 - year» troubles, «and was only filled with dissenting voices at the turn of the 1990s, when it became obvious that there was more than one side to this terrible, intractable conflict.

You are so close to the gullible attendees of these sideshows.

Just an endless bunch of sideshows to entertain cranks.

That's kind of sideshow behavior,» White House senior adviser David Plouffe charged on ABC's «This Week.»

The son of a sideshow barber working with the Barnum and Bailey circus, Faye (born Joseph Palladino) started out as a Borscht Belt comic during the early»30s.

It treats her like a human being instead of the sideshow she's become.

One of the sideshow freaks in Paul Weitz's adaptation of the teen - gothic novels gets by with no innards; his upper body wobbles on an exposed spine.

The fact that you enter through the front, not to mention how the steering wheel articulates out with the car's only door, is something of a sideshow unto itself.

Faith eventually turns to violence for retribution, forcing her to flee home in search of the only friend she has — a troubled but caring busboy who is the lover of a sideshow performer — and to tumble into the colorful, transient world of the circus.

With a dollop of Lemony Snicket's hyperbole, a blob of J. K. Rowling's take on journalism, and a splotch of sideshow allure, Oliver (The Spindlers, 2012) and Chester have crafted a wildly imaginative, over-the-top tale in this series starter, complete with a bearded lady, a dwarf, a fat lady, a magician, and an alligator boy.

, this $ 5 add - on will be available for download on PC, Xbox 360, and Playstation 3 and will allow you to bring all the fun of Krusty the Clown along with the mania of Sideshow Bob to bear on the battle for fish bait supremacy.

The title of her current show runs 198 words and unspools in the cadences of a sideshow barker: «Sikkema Jenkins and Co. is Compelled to Present the Most Astounding and Important Painting show of the fall Art Show viewing season!.»

Their Brucennial, for instance, is really a reworking of Sideshow Gallery's come - one, come - all annual, but set in opposition to the Whitney Biennial, which makes the idea sexier though not much different.

And in the meantime the price fluctuations are a little bit of a sideshow,» Mark David Bakacs, founder of the blockchain venture fund Venture.One and co-founder of the cryptocurrency trading platform Omega One, told IBT.

With each foray into this murky underworld feeling more of a sideshow than the main attraction — a tantalising block off the wedge — you will pointedly be left feeling gluttonous for more.

«There is no constitutional provision for this kind of sideshow,» said Lloyd, pointing to the fact that the leader of the party is elected by an electoral college made up of rank - and - file members as well as MPs and unions.

Fortunately for CNOOC, Long Lake is actually something of a sideshow: most of Nexen's assets lie outside Canada — in the U.K., Yemen and the U.S.

As titillating as it might be to read Andreessen's text messages to Zuckerberg, however — in which the former quotes from a 1950's film noir with Burt Lancaster, remarking «The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river» — the whole thing feels like a bit of a sideshow.

But his legacy is quickly losing steam (in my eyes) and becoming something of a sideshow.

Tony Lloyd, chairman of the parliamentary Labour Party, called the rebellion a «bit of a sideshow», [120] and Emily Thornberry MP called Brown the «best qualified» to lead Britain through the economic crisis of 2008.

«Frankly I think this is probably — for the U.S. Attorney's office — this is more of a sideshow.»

Janney makes a memorable Gorgon, to be sure, but she also reduces LaVona to a cardboard grotesque, the kind of sideshow that can't hold a candle to Laurie Metcalf's infinitely more layered portrait of a tough - loving mom in «Lady Bird.»

Some of the sideshow people in the old days were quite handsome / beautiful, but that was never exploited by the circus owners.

In the circumstances, it seems something of a sideshow to report that the penultimate flat - rate payout to authors on Kindle Unlimited in May was $ 1.37, following April's $ 1.36, but there is a very interesting statistic that can be figured out when looking at total borrows.

Back to dumb economic policy — that's an area where we are kind of a sideshow.

When Russia was flavour (and performance) of the month, they could boast about their Russian allocation — and when Russia was doing a Red October, they could just waffle on about Poland and Hungary instead... Either way, Eastern Europe was inevitably a bit of a sideshow, and Russia was always going to dictate whether you had a good year's performance or not... But let us take a closer look at these funds, and see if anything interesting turns up:

The multiplayer action is enjoyable enough and the map design is good, but in Destiny the PvP modes feel like more of a sideshow than the main attraction.

At best, [the Keystone XL pipeline] is a bit of a sideshow.

At best, it's a bit of a sideshow.

But convection makes it a bit of a sideshow — albeit one that often must be taken into account, especially for smaller - scale investigations (or forecasts — cf., the story of Elsasser, which I told above.)

To this extent, the «hide the decline» debacle is a bit of a sideshow, although it was incredibly significant in drawing political attention to the problems with peer review, especially in relation to the hockey team.....

Britton: What was going on is we had some detractors that were really building a bit of a sideshow.

That's fine — nothing wrong with that, but for the moment, for almost everyone, it's kind of a sideshow.