Sentences with phrase «only stab at it»

He can only stab at it rather than put his laces through it.

Not exact matches

What makes the message of Mystic River doubly powerful is that the audience knows Dave is innocent (of this particular crime at least) and can only watch as his former friend first stabs him and then shoots him at point blank range.

Each side sends out as many gullible followers as they can find or buy and they send them to an agreed upon place where they bash eachothers heads in and stab at eachother with spears and arrows and eventually only a few survivors will wander back to their masters covered in blood and wounds and claim Truth for their side, since whichever side won was obviously God's chosen ones...

The vision set forth here is idealistic, daunting, unrealistic to be sure (in the sense of being inexhaustible), and we can only take stabs at it; only in the Kingdom of God will it finally materialize.

Catholic agencies have sometimes made a stab at including priests, but usually only for special «moral» services or as regular social case workers.

This world would be far better off if only anti-theists would stop their blatant mimicking and mocking just to take a stab or two at those who only want to profess their perceived beliefs without their being blueballed and scape - goated by the ilks of anti-atheists.

Dušan Tadić flicks a ball over the top for Charlie Austin, but under pressure he can only stab a shot straight at Petr Čech.

No it's not just the schools and the school food programs that are the only problems in the USA, but it's a darned good that Jamie Oliver is attempting to make a stab at improving this one small area.

The only problem is that when low risk suddenly becomes immediate, life - threateningly high risk (unexpected haemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, rapid onset eclampsia), being in hospital gives you a good stab at survival.

The ex-Madam, who only got 22,000 votes, thanked her lawyer Daniel Hochheiser as she left court - and didn't rule out another stab at politics.

Let me take a stab at a presumed rejoinder to these poll numbers: The only poll that counts is on June 28!

ALL TEETH While researchers have only the dinosaur's upper jaw bone and some teeth, this reconstruction takes a stab at a portrait of Matheronodon provincialis, a new species.

Only in the last half - hour do the usual Emmerich absurdities pile up: I laughed outright at the character who, past 65 and diagnosed with a massive brain tumor that will kill him within months, can not be stopped by a ferocious beating, being stabbed in the neck with a sharp implement, then being crushed against a wall by an SUV moving at a minimum of 30 mph.

When Freeman is rolled out as the new Commander - in - Chief during the crisis, it's a pretty desperate stab at credibility (which lately seems to be the only kind of roles he's been taking).

The stabs made at George W. Bush are amusing only for their inadequacy and irrelevance — surely we've all made up our minds whether he is an idiot or not almost two thirds of the way through his maximum eight years in power, and any satirist hoping to target Bush at this late stage had better have an amazing new slant to get any reaction.

Given his oft - professed admiration for the infamous 1980 gut - muncher Cannibal Holocaust — whose Italian director, Ruggero Deodato, makes a cameo in Hostel: Part II — it was only a matter of time before Roth took a stab at reviving the cannibal subgenre.

What You Need To Know: With Daft Punk scoring «Tron: Legacy» and now M83 taking a stab at «Oblivion,» Joseph Kosinski has proven himself to be the only person in Hollywood who has a record collection that predates 1994.

• The movie was the Coens» first — and to date, only — stab at romantic comedy, though with generous helpings of noir, screwball, and Hollywood satire thrown in.

In the next shot, we get a better look at the stab - happy woman, as she remarks, «You're the only one of these fools that I trust.»

Refn says that he'd love to take a stab at this project, but that the only real way it could happen is if his current project, Logan's Run, is successful enough for studios to give his next project a chance.

A man was stabbed in broad daylight outside London's Royal National Theatre only moments before celebrities started arriving nearby for the BAFTAs at 4 pm on Sunday.

Only a few short hours before the red carpet turns a muddy purple under the heels of Sydney's sodden socialites (it has really rained this week), SCREEN - SPACE takes a last minute stab at who will take home an AACTA Award at tonight's Oz industry gala event, to be hosted by AACTA ambassador Cate Blanchett (pictured, below; at the 2014 event) and actress Deborah Mailman...

He's going under with only his best friend Maceo (Charles S. Dutton) and sickly daughter China Doll (one of many black villainesses favoured on Tyra Banks's curiously self - hating «America's Next Top Model», Yaya DaCosta) to bear witness, leading him to make one last stab at saving the joint with an appearance by some phantom guitarist whom no one appears to know by face.

With a weird and magnetic drawl that could only come from the Tom Hardy School of Accents and a shifty set of eyes that look liable to stab you in the chest just by looking at him the wrong way, Hardy's Fitzgerald manages to keep The Revenant engaging even as it thoroughly overstays its welcome with its bloated running time.

Yet Dibb and co-scripter Matt Charman do at least make a stab at including a smattering of Nemirovsky's vast supporting cast, among them an embittered farmer who joins the Resistance (Sam Riley) and a couple of aristocrats only too happy to make nice with the enemy (Lambert Wilson and Harriet Walter).

But several drivers have taken hellacious, car - pulverizing licks on ovals this year, and it was only fast work by the Holmatro Safety Team at Indy that prevented James Hinchcliffe from bleeding to death in the cockpit after he hammered the wall during practice and was stabbed by a suspension piece.

There's a wealth of standard equipment and rarity value is high, but there is a vast number of alternatives: the Abarth 500C Competizione is probably the Cabrio's closest competitor and a decent stab at the options list only asks for you to cough up around # 22k.

The only way to move the tail at all is to crank the wheel and stab it from a dead stop.

So when you're at the top, the only way you can go a little higher is when you take a stab at your own record.

CNET's video team, helmed by Brian Cooley, had the first stab at the IS 350 AWD F - Sport and, when the vehicle was handed over to me, had only managed about 16 mpg for the first half of a tank of gas.

Deep stabs at the throttle will reveal that the turbo - 4 runs out of ideas somewhat quickly, and adding the manual transmission only makes it worse.

Hopefully, the worst thing to come from this data collection would be a stab at the artistry of writing, where publishers only take on projects that meet the guidelines of the latest reports on digital reading or where authors feel pressured to adapt their plots lines and characters to the latest figures on what readers want.

Measuring 254 x 167 x 6.1 mm and hitting the scales at only 393g, the waterproof Xperia Z4 Tablet is not only 0.3 mm slimmer and 30 grams lighter than its predecessor, but it takes a stab at Apple's iPad Air 2 too.

While the company's stab at a Windows 7 slate flopped, the company has developed a range of Android tablets, from 2.8 inches (really, a tablet in name only) all the way up to 10 inches.

What about the shelters, rescues, humane societies that only take a stab at any history of the majority of animals in those situations.

At least if you're Japanese or pretending to be Japanese — your system has to be registered in the land of the rising sun if you want to experience all the pillow - clutching, boxer - sporting, fork - stabbing weirdness of this adults - only title.

I didn't post that to take a stab at PS3 owners (i am one, as well as a 360 Elite), but only to show that all this stuff goes both ways.Why are people so upset about the PS3 version of Vesperia getting extra content... a YEAR after the 360 version had come and gone.Outside of Japan the PS3 version of Vesperia isn't likely to even sell very well.Look at Valkyria Chronicles for the PS3 (EXCLUSIVELY mind you) by Sega.While an EXSCELLENT action rpg, it sold horribly here in North America and not much better in the rest of the world, save Japan.RPG's only tend to sell well on the 360 here in NA.It's just a fact, and that's why the 360 most often get's them either exclusive permanant, exclusive additional content, and / or timed exclusivity, whereas the PS3 does not.

Not content with having a stab at immersive horror, Ubisoft is also taking a run at the humble arena shooter... only it's doing it via the power of VR.

The only hiccups on Earth are that the camera and targeting are sometimes at odds with each other (both using the right stick) and close combat is limited to simple slashes and a token stab.

This week's patch, though, not only included a brand new champion (Destiny «The Sky Ranger») but also included a very classy stab at Electronic Arts for their recent Star Wars Battlefront II loot box fiasco.

Following the end of the Gulf War and the Bush administration, Clinton's inauguration in 1993 was marred by a rough start; in February the World Trade center was bombed, and although only six lives were taken (a small number relative to 9 - 11), it was the first major stab at America's ego from the inside.

Over 600 comments so far and only Max has had a stab at them.

In a unique fact situation, the Crown was only able to establish the accused's presence at the scene of a stabbing, but not that he was a party to the offence of the stabbing.

Measuring 254 x 167 x 6.1 mm and hitting the scales at only 393g, the waterproof Xperia Z4 Tablet is not only 0.3 mm slimmer and 30 grams lighter than its predecessor, but it takes a stab at Apple's iPad Air 2 too.

«And Kiviat wasn't the only writer to take a stab at the MID: John Tamny, writing for Forbes.com, said in November 2010,» [W] hy should those of us who choose not to own houses subsidize those who do?