Sentences with phrase «over plucky»

Gareth Bale scored yesterday in Real Madrid's 4 - 2 victory over plucky Villareal.

Watford's win over Arsenal really has to have done them the power of good and they can build on that by taking a narrow win over the plucky Clarets.

Not exact matches

What began as a plucky underdog in the first Ashes test in 1882 slowly morphed over time into Australia becoming the force in international cricket in the mid-1990s.

Mighty England knocked over in their own back yard by a plucky (though, admittedly, not particularly good) team led by Alex Tettey.

For a fleeting moment it seemed as though Leicester's heroics had inspired a plucky Iceland at the European Championships after their famous victory over England this summer.

Listening to the game on Five Live (a preferable option to most Sky commentators), with around ten minutes to go, our 1 - 0 lead over Spurs was being described as the «surprise of the season», as if we were some plucky club leading a Premiership giant in the cup, hanging on by the tips of our fingernails.

Avalor is a mythical pan-Latin country ruled over by a neophyte but plucky teen princess with a magic wand and a brave and loving set of advisors including her grandparents, her best friends and a Dr. Smith - type foppish foil of a cousin.

I'm partying over at Think and Make Thursday, Create It Thursday, Lovely Little Link Party, Your Turn To Shine, Hearts for Home, Get Your Shine On Thursdays, Pin Junkie Pin Party, Weekend Re-Treat, Creativity Unleashed, Simple & Sweet Fridays, Crafty Friday, Home Matters Linky Party, That Friday Blog Hop, Link Party Palooza, Show Me Saturday, The Creative Collection, Found & Foraged, Nifty Thrifty Sunday, That DIY Party, Inspiration Monday, Monday Funday, Mad Skills, Frugal Crafty Home Blog Hop, Plucky's Second Thought, Making Monday, Merry Monday, Show and Tell, Do Tell Tuesday, Tip Me Tuesday, Totally Terrific Tuesday, Tutorials & Tips, The Inspiration Board: Creative Party, Fabulous Party, Whimsy Wednesdays, Wise Women, A Little R & R Wednesdays, Women With Intention Wednesdays, Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop, Work It Wednesdays, Homemaking Linkup and The Ladies Collective.

Plucky penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with a savvy spy to thwart a tentacled villain's plans to take over the world.

The Mindy Project, Season 6 (Hulu, Sep. 12th) After five seasons, over 100 episodes and one jump from a network to the Internet, creator / star Mindy Kaling's plucky, unlucky OBGYN has searched for love and professional fulfillment.

Sigourney Weaver, here playing the cold - eyed T - 1000 to our plucky junior hero's John Connor, can't even plug the young guy when she's got a clear line of sight and the advantage of surprise, which she somehow gains about 16 times over the course of this plug - and - play narrative.

With Yakuza Kiwami due for its Western release in just a few days (Aug 29, 2017), those plucky, keen - eyed folks over at NeoGaf have spotted a surprise on the Taiwanese PlayStation Store — the release of Yakuza Kiwami 2, this December!

He's a burnout, having left his position in the Jaeger Academy (where plucky recruits train to control those giant robots) and instead makes his money by selling black market scraps left over from the war 10 years prior.

Daisy's contribution to the plot probably ages it the worst: The earthbound excuse for this movie is a team of plucky NYU archaeologists going toe to toe with a fat - cat real estate firm, whereas any New Yorker probably feels the opposite has happened over the ensuing 20 years.

Attacked by a mysterious swarm of mechanical space bees, the crew becomes marooned separately, the better to give each member their own special screen time, Kirk engaging in his patented brands of derring - do with an adoring Chekov (Anton Yelchin) by his side, Spock and McCoy bonding in their uniquely prickly way as they argue over emotion versus logic, and Scotty (Pegg) confronted with a plucky alien woman (Sofia Boutella, triumphing over the stylized makeup and pert ponytail) who is just as mechanically inclined as he is.

This one features a plucky little girl with an epic mane of magic hair that glows when she sings (Mandy Moore), a dashing rogue of an outlaw who ends up a partner on her quest (Zachary Levi), a stepmom who walks all over her self - esteem (Donna Murphy), a chameleon with a wry sense of humor, a horse that thinks he's a dog and a rogues gallery of hard - bitten thugs with a dream in their hearts.

Expect to fall in love with Sally Hawkins playing a plucky mute janitor and then swoon — just as she does — over a scaly, abused «Creature From the Black Lagoon - equse» monster.

Like the plucky kids of Losers Club, you've defeated Pennywise the Clown and sent him scurrying back into the sewer as Kingsman: The Golden Circle ended It «s top - of - the box office reign over the weekend.

Irish actor Robert Sheehan co-stars as Sean, a plucky amateur photographer who moonlights as a restaurant valet, making even more money committing petty theft, thanks to the keys and GPS systems patrons so willingly hand over.

by Walter Chaw Looking for shock value, the more unkind would call Rory O'Shea Was Here «One Rolled Over the Cuckoo's Nest»: the film is a straight - up rip - off that substitutes Randle McMurphy and Chief Bromden for plucky punk afflicted with Muscular Dystrophy Rory (James McAvoy) and his cerebral palsy - afflicted chum Michael (not Donnie Wahlberg).

by Melissa Wellham «Attack the Block is a genre film of the highest order, combining «sci fi,» «thriller,» «coming - of - age,» and «teen film where plucky youngsters triumph over adversity.

Well, that didn't take long: The teacher strikes have quickly gone from a plucky fight over paychecks to an increasingly polarizing progressive crusade over tax and spending policy.

The teacher strikes have quickly gone from a plucky fight over paychecks to an increasingly polarizing progressive crusade over tax and spending policy.

The loop is the latest in a long line of Jaguar launch stunts, such as helicoptering the new XE over London, which set it up as a plucky, slightly daring, outsider to the more clinical and straight laced world of BMW, Audi and Mercedes triumvirate.

Those cars had it all over the CR - Z for power and speed, but the plucky little CR - Z showed its stuff in the turns.

I notice people trying to rally around B&N as the «plucky underdog» seem to develop selective amnesia about the disappearance of places like Waldenbooks and B. Dalton in the mid-90's, even when the DNA evidence is sprayed all over B&N walls (sorry for the visual).

Unfortunately it appears that lack of attention upset Little Plucky, because last week he decided he was done sitting in the corner crying over my pounding of his prized Lufthansa and came back for round two with a lumbering defense to my sleek takedown of AmEx Membership Rewards.

Plucky upstarts Kotaku spotted the extra goodies over at GameStop's Italian site, bless»em.

The brilliantly named Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes simulates that action movie scene where the plucky hero has to disarm a bomb by describing what it looks like to a bomb defusal expert over the phone.

You can expect a story about a group of plucky young people who save the world through the power of friendship, a diverse cast of offbeat characters and a real - time battle system with marginal improvements over last year's model.

With Yakuza Kiwami due for its Western release in just a few days (Aug 29, 2017), those plucky, keen - eyed folks over at NeoGaf have spotted a surprise on the Taiwanese PlayStation Store — the release of Yakuza Kiwami 2, this December!

Hector Hernandez's Hyperbeast series, in which a plucky dancer drapes a presumably fan - blown piece of monochrome fabric over his body, leaving only his legs, which are clad in tights of a different color, visible as he moves through abandoned building interiors, aims for a tension that it doesn't quite strike.

This plucky little device has been designed with over 120 other smart products, enabling it constantly check how safe the air is in your home.

Over the weekend, a minor controversy has gotten stirred up over allegations that OnePlus isn't quite the plucky independent startup the company has presented itself as, and may instead be owned to one extent or another by OOver the weekend, a minor controversy has gotten stirred up over allegations that OnePlus isn't quite the plucky independent startup the company has presented itself as, and may instead be owned to one extent or another by Oover allegations that OnePlus isn't quite the plucky independent startup the company has presented itself as, and may instead be owned to one extent or another by Oppo.