Sentences with phrase «of gung»

Alienated from the patriotic careerism of their gung - ho sergeant and the chatty, coffee - klatch femininity of their co-workers, they desperately cling to each other to alleviate the killing boredom.

A final report by Lord Justice Briggs in July (Civil Courts Structure Review) was followed by the announcement of a gung - ho response from the Ministry of Justice, supported by the Lord Chief Justice and the Senior President of Tribunals, in September.

Now this is significantly less than the IPCC and any sort of gung ho global warmer claims for the near - TSR forcing level.

Like the last game, it's more of a gung - ho action affair than the earlier entries, smartly taking Uncharted as an obvious role model.

On one level, the movie was a wry send - up of gung - ho militarism and fascism.

Tannie is the type of gung - ho lady who thinks nothing of getting down on her hands and knees, despite her age, to tie a rope onto our bumper somewhere.

Ron Shelton comedy about an old timer (Morgan Freeman) in the witness protection program at a retirement home, fending off bad guys with the help of a gung - ho fellow resident (Tommy Lee Jones).

The trouble is a gang of gung - ho Purge - enthusiasts is after the man and it then becomes a game of can the gang get in before society returns to normal the next morning?

A World War II picture with a title like The Great Raid might conjure up images of gung - ho war classics like The Great Escape, Hell and High Water, Merrill's Marauders, They Were Expendable, The Dirty Dozen, or The Guns of Navarone.

In the spirit of this gung - ho tale about a militarist old boys network, three reviewers sit down for a chat about The Expendables 2.

This parody of gung ho action films lets you take control of characters who are obviously based on your typical line - up of stereotypes such as Rambo, Schwarzi and others who all have their special weapons and traits.

This time, she rides with a band of gung - ho military types (Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, etc.), as well as a nerdy pencil pusher (Paul Reiser) with an alternate agenda.

On the mountain, there are the mountaineers: Clarke's Hall, Josh Brolin as the man with the dark cloud following him, John Hawkes as a man on his last climb, Jake Gyllenhaal as one of the gung - ho owner of a competing guide company, Naoko Mori as the woman who wants to climb all seven summits, Michael Kelly as the journalist, and others of somewhat less significance.

Its other principal virtue is the waiving of gung - ho rites — something that given the respectable budget that the studio must have had would have been tempting — in favor of overturning the usual narrative expectations.

Whatever its bias or excisions, MOH rejects the sort of gung - ho globetrotting baloney seen in Modern Warfare, and makes an honest attempt not to trivialise the lives of US soldiers, creating an air of sober authenticity which is unusual among shooters.

a bit of gung ho is required if we are to compete for the title and a new coach with some new ideas is a must.

The briefest glimmer of hope, early in the second half, from a smartly taken Lanzini goal was quickly extinguished by another rush of gung - ho defending that left keeper Hart grounded with a resigned WTF look on his face.

I remember the season before last when everyone was calling for Wenger's head because of his gung - ho one dimensional approach to every game, trying too hard for the 3rd goal when we were winning 2 - 1 and ending up with a 2 - 2, not being satisfied with a draw and going all out for the win.

Not exact matches

The company was gung - ho on building a company around an idea instead of what users wanted.

Everyone has experienced for themselves gung - ho start of the week energy and the sensation of it slowly ebbing so that, by Friday, you have to drag yourself into the office.

All this talk about higher stages of consciousness is fine, but even gung - ho Tealiocrats like Kirby are unwilling to live on the bleeding edge if they have to take a pay cut.

On the other hand, the Mexican energy ministry is not nearly as gung - ho, voicing their considerable concerns about Mexico's low levels of crude production.

The person who has spent the past 30 or 40 years carefully building his / her slow and steady pension pot will have a good sense of risk tolerance and is unlikely to adopt a gung - ho strategy by starting with a 6 % withdrawal rate for the coming 30 or 40 years of retirement.

Also, if the Christians who are so gung ho about limiting the freedom of expression by non-believers were truly confident in the righteousness of their belief, they wouldn't care what someone else said.

And I sat with the local community for a long time to determine how we were going to do this ordination — what kind of music and what kind of dance and what kind of liturgy — and I was all gung - ho for the fact that they had so many possible ways of incarnating the liturgy through their own African embodiment and rhythms and so forth, but they were absolutely adamant: they wanted Gregorian chant.

If I was more the gung - ho type, I'd want to be like a busy little bee in church running around doing lots of stuff.

Although I usually pretty gung - ho about making everything from scratch, this time I was lazy and bought a bottle of BBQ sauce.

If Arsene Wenger stops his gung ho tactics away from home to top teams you be surprised how the fortunes of the opposition will flush down the toilet.

When needed as xover cover for coquelin he should be less gung hoe than someone like Ramsey / wilshire, more energetic than arteta and less of a risk than gabriel, chambers and hayden.

Hopefully the Manager, coaching staff, and players, have looked at that, and we will not go gung - ho for the equaliser, but rather stick to our formation and play ourselves back in, aware of the counter attacks should we get caught too high up.

In «Betaball,» Jackson was depicted as not being gung - ho about new owner Joe Lacob's progressive embrace of analytics.

With the addition of Paulista, Arsenal may now have the requisite numbers with which to compete in the second half of the season and Wenger insisted, despite his attacking instincts and reputation as a gung - ho manager, that the defence is a crucial part of his side.

all of us are going gung ho about schniederlin, bt the fact is he is no better than the player he will replace in the squad, i.e. cazorla.

So when you wonder which players Arsene Wenger should start with in central midfield against the Tigers, a lot of Arsenal fans might say the most attacking ones we have available, which would probably be Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain and Alex Iwobi, but I do not think the boss will be that gung ho, especially after being caught out so badly against Watford and then Chelsea.

Because of the respective league positions a draw was not much use to us so the Gunners had to be gung - ho if there was to be any chance of the EPL title.

I'm with you on the gung - ho predictions of demolishing other teams — but have to say the mock indignation seems a bit odd coming from someone who routinely denigrates his own players and prefers bigging up other team's players.

We had a gung - ho linesman who flagged an onside breakaway 1 on 1 as offside and failed with virtually every attempt to make a final ball count outside of this one moment.

We have to go gung - ho on them, but with the performance of Saturday, we don't stand much of a chance.

We don't go all gung ho in the cup games, that would be the most noticeable difference, and we get a good rub of the green would be the next noticeable difference.

So yet again we face another second leg of having to go gung - ho for the jugular rather than doing the right thing and trying to get a result in the first game.

We are at home and need to take the game to the Greek side without being too gung ho, so the dynamic running and wide play of the England international could be a great weapon for Arsenal.

Go gung - ho, eat every yard of the pitch up.

Strange to think that this board has spent a couple of years slagging Wenger for being too gung - ho and as soon as we see decent evidence that he is hedging his bets in a much more balanced and pragmatic approach he also gets hung out to dry.

I am pessimist by nature and have watched Arsenal for 40 + years — but I see sustained evidence that we have significantly improved our team balance, addressed the gung - ho antics of recent times and upped the work - rate all over the pitch.

Also when they went down to ten men, I feared we might get a Hazard sucker punch after going gung - ho all of a sudden, but we didn't drop our shape.

Hard work for 90 mins to suppress this lot.We can do it if where disaplined enough.No gung ho like last season.A touch of the George Graham for once.

What baffles me is that we were torn apart by Liverpool on Sunday (that's actually 3 heavy defeats in 4 seasons at anfield) and its clear to see they are a much better team than us, yet they are going gung ho in the last days of the transfer window already agreeing a deal to bring in the talented Naby Keita next season and are going in with serious bids for Thomas Lemar..

They would know they need three, have to go gung - ho, leave spaces for our attack and we could potentially pick them off with the quality of players we have.

Hope you are right Hugh, 3 points would be huge if we can follow it up against Stoke with another 3 we are probably safe, the thing is all the unlikely games often yield points at this stage of the season because you can go gung ho and spring a surprise or two.

He is not as gung ho going forward I assume because he respects his defensive responsibility and that he probably doesn't have pace to recover if caught out of position.