Sentences with phrase «of scrappy»

I am honored and blessed to share my love of scrappy quilts through traveling this wonderful world of ours — visiting quilt guilds and shops and giving lectures & workshops, wherever they may be.

I am honored and blessed to share my love of scrappy quilts through traveling this wonderful world of ours — visiting quilt guilds and shops and giving lectures & workshops, wherever they may be.

You will see the crusading reporter in action and get a better sense of the scrappy determination The Good Search brings to the table.

Lingo Live is the very definition of a scrappy, hyper - growth company.

Maybe if the Trump administration would go ahead and nominate Clement to the federal bench instead of Scrappy Doo over here the union could stand a chance.

Ivan Morley's paintings are inspired by the frontiersman's lore of scrappy, dried - out California towns with names like San Gabriel, El Monte, and Tehachapi.

The sculptures» alluringly slick, candy - coated surfaces are a far cry from the aesthetic of scrappy appropriation and lo - fi video that largely characterized Kelley's pre-Gagosian years.

The art they showed was united by a kind of scrappy elegance and insouciant intelligence.

The latter contributes a number of scrappy, colorful collage works; Gahl has a small painting of flowers and a larger canvas that incorporates an enlarged image of a house painter that the artist has scavenged from his own childhood drawings.

It was a kind of scrappy show.

It brought together a diverse band of scrappy galleries, actually allowed a few to sell some art — putting money in the pockets of artists and dealers instead of fair backers — and engendered camaraderie, no small feat in this hypercompetitive field.

That's not to say Valkyria Chronicles is all doom and gloom, as the cast of characters that make up Squad 7 is varied and lively, and the sense of camaraderie that forms as the unit evolves from a team of scrappy rookies to a battalion of seasoned fighters is handled to great effect.

Now available to download through the PlayStation Store, players should prepare their hankies, as Fumito Ueda and his team are definitely going to tug on some heartstrings with their story of a scrappy young boy and the massive creature known as Trico.

However, the Apple of today is not the Apple of the scrappy days.

Some of Scrappy's favorite activities include riding shotgun, sleeping and belly rubs.

She subsequently shot portraits of Scrappy, brought her food and paid Hase well to perform some yard work at her home.

It may be losing a bit of the scrappy underdog edge as it matures, but maybe that's just a part of growing up.

Yet there is a plot here, of scrappy sorts, with moments that are almost — whisper it — touching.

Tom Hardy plays the notorious real - life Bronson in this stylized biographical drama of the scrappy kid who proved to have no talent for thieving but found a real place for himself as a prison bad - ass and parlayed his notoriety into celebrity.

Adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella, Ramsay's film has been billed as an «enticing challenge» and an «elegant homage to a mold of scrappy detective stories that often collapses into a concise pileup of stylish possibilities,» but there's no doubt that it offers Phoenix one of his best roles yet, and more proof of Ramsay's ability to turn complex material into something thoroughly her own.

Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to...

Sixteen years later, the girl's mother (Sigourney Weaver's Julia) is still unable to deal with the loss of her child - though her mental state seems to improve considerably following the arrival of a scrappy young woman named Louise (Kate Bosworth) into her life (it's clear, however, that Julia is secretly hoping that Louise might be her long lost daughter).

The latest effort from Rodrigo Garcia, Albert Nobbs follows the title character (Glenn Close), a turn - of - the - century woman who has spent years working as a male butler, as her orderly existence is threatened by the arrival of a scrappy newcomer (Aaron Johnson's Joe).

Her face had become synonymous with the genre of scrappy, meandering stories about young people figuring out their lives dubbed «mumblecore» (that term may have dubious value today, but unquestionably elevated several filmmakers» profiles at the time).

The stormy showdown of the scrappy pirates versus the fleet of the evil East India Trading Company marks the end of nearly three hours (or seven and a half hours, in entirety) of melodrama, mechanical action, inventive comedy from Depp, and shameless stupid pet tricks from a monkey.

In terms of TIFF, 1992 was the year of scrappy, idiosyncratic mission statements like Reservoir Dogs and Bad Lieutenant and The Crying Game and Strictly Ballroom and Hard - Boiled and Jean - Claude Lauzon's brilliant Léolo.

Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to save the world from itself.

The sharp rise of A24 reminds a lot of insiders of another scrappy upstart: Bob and Harvey Weinstein's Miramax, a bold disruptor with a penchant for edgy films like Pulp Fiction.

Oh, and because it's an X-Men film and those can never stray too far from the same plot, Magneto (Fassbender) is once again involved as an antagonist for the team of scrappy mutants.

De Roche's first collaboration with director Richard Franklin — one that would last 25 years — was the kind of scrappy, energetic blast needed in a film movement's nascent stages.

All of the scrappy anti-heroes at the center of the movie are interesting and the soundtrack ranks among the best of the decade in cinema so far.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story has become a sports cult film of sorts — one of the best of the Frat Pack movies — telling the story of the scrappy dodgeball team at Average Joe's gym, led by Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), going against Ben Stiller's White Goodman and the formidable Purple Cobras from his Globo Gym.

Filmmaker Karyn Kusama has at last fulfilled the promise she showed in her knockout feature debut, «Girlfight,» a pugilistic coming - of - age drama from 2000 that also launched the career of its scrappy star, Michelle Rodriguez.

When it comes to the action sequences, director Peter Berg moves things along with blazing quick cuts and intense close - ups that rattle bones and get the adrenalin pumping as Beck and Scott face everything from Tarzan ju jitsu with Eddie Reyes, who sets The Rock flying like a big beefy whirligig, to a pack of scrappy monkeys with really, really bad attitudes, not to mention a grudge.

At the very end of Scrappy Little Nobody, Anna Kendrick's witty and frank memoir, she includes a «reading group guide,» a tongue - in - cheek parody of the food - for - thought discussion guidelines included at the end of certain literary fiction.

Bust scraps with me in the Year of Scrappy Triangles!

I am honored and blessed to share my love of scrappy quilts through traveling this wonderful world of ours — visiting quilt guilds and shops and giving lectures & workshops, wherever they may be.

Through a full year of scrappy development and team building, Defcon Games is bursting out into the world of

My first ever purchase resulted in a beige & silver, multi textured pair of scrappy heels and a more classic, but equally high, T - Strap Mary Janes in black...

I like the notion of scrappy little underdog plants helping to transform the face of our planet.

The rest of the game consisted of scrappy dominance from Liverpool, and it's telling that only one of the starting eleven managed a pass success rate of over 85 % (Alberto Moreno: 85.7 %).

When you think of Stoke, you might well think of a scrappy 90 minutes of football that ultimately ends with Arsenal suffering injuries or disappointment.

However, a goal on the strike of half - time gave Leicester hope courtesy of a scrappy goal from Shinji Okazaki to make it 2 - 1.

Although they had a few moments of scrappy serendipity, Sunderland still lacked the pluck, luck and fight that had somehow seen them through other relegation scrapes in previous years.

I remember Chelsea getting alot of scrappy 1 - 0 wins last season alot of the time luck and Un deserved and look how that worked out.

A near brawl broke out between the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears in the 4th quarter of a scrappy game.

The Hawks have for several years emitted the vibe of a scrappy mid-major without a true star, but that's only because Horford has fallen out of two of the last three seasons.

It emerges blistered and tender from their glowing hearth and then placed atop a tangle of scrappy bread salad that soaks up the dripping juices as it makes its way to your table.

Shane Smith, CEO of Vice Media, whose empire of scrappy young journalists and content producers was recently valued at $ 2.5 billion

In short, if you want to grow without sacrificing innovation, don't lose track of your scrappy startup roots.