Sentences with phrase «of young hotshots»

Brad Pitt turns up as Ben Rickert, a dispossessed trader brought in to act as mentor / facilitator by a pair of young hotshots (John Magaro and Finn Wittrock) who sniff out the opportunity.

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Our 2013 edition of the list features young hotshots who are rocking businesses as diverse as air travel, natural gas, and genetic coding, as well as — if you can believe it — government.

child porn, to use a popular boogeyman of censors and civil liberties activists complaining about censors alike), and then expand the apparatus over time until eventually it gets into the hands of some enterprising young hotshots that promptly decide they can make a few billion dollars through the cryptoeconomic equivalent of LIBOR manipulation.

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

The Boston Celtics are riding high once more due to a blend of old pros and young hotshots, a canny coach, a cannier general manager — and perhaps because Willis Reed of the rival Knicks is sidelined

Still, as 1970 ski racing moves toward its competitive pinnacle — the FIS World Alpine championships next week at Val Gardena in northern Italy — there are signs that the season is about to produce one of sport's classic battles: the challenge of the crafty old kings of the mountain by brash young hotshots.

Instead of having your young hotshots on the practice squad or trying to loan them out, you get development time in your system, with coaches you employ, against teams like Memmingen and TSV Buchbach, the lower - FCS teams of the German professional system.

Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Mark Ethridge, president of Carolina Parenting Inc., fulfilled a dream in 2006 by writing a book titled Grievances, about the shooting of an African American teenager in a small southern town and the young, hotshot reporter who is consumed with the need to shine light on the tragedy and solve the killing.

As a young man Alex worked as a wildland fireman on Ruby Mountain Hotshots for Bureau of Land Management.

A vengeful game of one - upmanship turns deadly in this urban thriller about a hotshot young attorney (Ben Affleck) and a recovering alcoholic (Samuel L. Jackson) whose minor fender - bender devastates both of their lives and quickly leads to an escalating war of dirty tricks and manipulation.

Hill's work on Observe & Report, The Foot Fist Way, and his cultural breakthrough, HBO «s Eastbound & Down, contains more glass - darkly social commentary and life - lived expression than the work of any hotshot young novelist in recent memory.

He has been hiring young hotshot computer whizzes from all over the country and bringing them to his company headquarters in Seattle to work on his plans for global expansion and domination of the media industry.

Douglas is cast in his familiar guise of the comfortable professional, in this case a hotshot psychiatrist, with a lovely home, a lovely child and a lovely and inevitably younger wife (Famke Janssen), who finds his world turned upside down.

It's 1941 and Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) is a hotshot young NAACP attorney, who, like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, is defending a black man accused of rape by a white woman.

After a world premiere at the 2016 Melbourne international film festival, the film's theatrical release arrives not long after Ben Young's ostentatious, soul - sucking debut Hounds of Love, making this a vintage year for hotshot homegrown spooksters.

Distinctly uneven yet essentially entertaining, Fracture casts Ryan Gosling as Willy Beachum - a hotshot public defender whose latest case, involving the murder of a wealthy young women (Embeth Davidtz) by her older husband (Anthony Hopkins» Ted Crawford), threatens to make or break his career.

From an American perspective, the project certainly looks great, blending slick Hollywood - style technique with that restrained sense of storytelling so heartily encouraged among Euro auteurs, though the truth of the matter is the same film wouldn't necessarily stand out if unveiled at Sundance, despite a pair of punchy lead performances from young hotshots Adele Haenel and Kevin Azais.

The day after Grisham completed A Time to Kill, he began work on another novel, the story of a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared.