Sentences with phrase «other opening gambits»

It is your pitch, the way you get a potential partner to notice you and Male chat - up lines and other opening gambits can be viewed, from an evolutionary perspective, as sexual displays.

Not exact matches

Charting the fortunes and (mostly) misfortunes of Paul Giamatti's eponymous anti-hero, principally his three failed marriages, Lewis and novice screenwriter Michael Konyves have fashioned a busy, baggy flashback structure that races through some key plot points as it leaves others dangling, and never makes good on its literary opening gambit to tell the story as Barney's autobiography.

There's also the fact that dismay among progressive Democrats over the Obama Administration's efforts on other fronts, along with administration's botched No Child waiver gambit, has given traditionalists the opening they need to win over both Hillary and congressional Republicans increasingly uninterested in any kind of systemic reform.

But much more than opening conversational gambits, it helps you figure out what other legal work they might need and who else might need exactly the same kind of work.