Sentences with phrase «own crazy schemes»

Her husband is one of the biggest lobbyists in Albany, she used to be a lobbyist, until she went to work for Spitzer and then used her elected office to stop an effort by Farley's son to have the Schenectady County Legislature object to Spitzer's crazy scheme to give illegal aliens drivers licenses.

He concocts a fairly crazy scheme to a create a Hollywood science fiction film called «Argo» and send a Canadian film crew to Iran to scout locations.

One of which is a lonely college freshman who's quite timid when it comes to actively pursuing her dream of becoming a writer, and the other being a thirty year - old adventurous interior designer who's notorious for entangling others in her own crazy schemes.

Clearly, having already opened the movie at Sundance Searchlight is taking out «Mistress America» — in which lonely New York college freshman Tracy (Lola Kirke) is taken in by her almost stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig), a dangerously entertaining urban sophisticate who draws her into her crazy schemes — in the quieter August corridor rather than taking it on the more congested and expensive fall festival route.

Dirk is the smooth talker with scads of breezy charm, whose crazy schemes are always landing both of them in hot water.

«I know him,» he tells the two men, before joyously getting Senator Lockhart kicked out of the room as he briefs Higgins on «phase two» of the Javadi operation, which involves some crazy scheme to usher in a new regime in Iran with Javadi embedded as a high - ranking military insider who will be moved «up the chain of command.»

On the one hand, Accepted wants to be somewhat like Real Genius or Van Wilder, as the main character is a street-wise slacker who is able to get others to go along with his crazy schemes.

Act one consists of both the beginning of the hostage crisis and Tony Mendez (Affleck) coming up with his crazy scheme and convincing the CIA it is viable.

My mother was mesmerizing and could make crazy schemes and lies sound electric and honest.

I'm giving myself * at least * a year before hitting the road with this crazy scheme.

Being Rufus, he simply shrugs it off and starts planning his latest crazy scheme to reach Elysium, the floating city in the sky.

If you then go along with one of Rocket's crazy schemes to cheer him up, this pisses off Gamora.

If we had excess base load nuclear power, then you could worry about all of these crazy schemes.

Seaweed Farms: A Dutch company, Ecofys, is leading a project that, if the whole crazy scheme pans out, would turn offshore wind farms into actual farms.

This is just another crazy scheme that will have its bust cycle, and not too far off either.

But the Secret Service has uncovered a crazy scheme where criminals are prying out the chips in new cards and replacing them with dummies.

Not exact matches

Props to him for still scoring at a crazy rate for a D, but he needs help out there (either from better teammates or better schemes).

Texas Tech currently has the No. 4 defense in the country, per KenPom, thanks to an aggressive scheme that forces turnovers like crazy and denies three - point shots.

While it may seem crazy to some, this is a practical decision for a woman looking for a lucrative income scheme.

«They are crazy to reverse this policy, afterall it IHT is not really worth making a fuss about in the grand scheme of things.»

A while back, I wrote a column for Discover analyzing your place in space: astronomers» best look yet at where you fit into the big, crazy, cosmic scheme of things.

And anyone angry that the company's gone into a whole bunch of crazy, money - losing schemes last year should hang on, because the president has stated that they're not going to do that anymore.

Of course, the craziest geoengineering scheme to date is the one we're already doing: changing the climate with an excess of greenhouse gas emissions.

Speaking of Piperlime, had a dream that Piperlime's big closing news was just a marketing scheme to get lots of attention and when they shut their website down they had some crazy redirect to a new and improved Piperlime that was full of sparkles and fab deals.

The crazy color schemes and visual effects once made this a popular head picture, though you'd have to be stoned to tolerate the score, which includes The Candy Man.

After transferring to a new school, an imaginative student and his mischievous friend concoct schemes to drive their tyrannical principal crazy.

Yes, despite a clunky control scheme and fixed camera angles that drove many gamers crazy, it succeeded beyond Capcom's wildest imaginations.

BlackBerry People's Choice Midnight Madness Award: Seven Psychopaths directed by Martin McDonagh [TIFF] A screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling to write a serial - killer script gets more real - life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme gone awry brings a galaxy of crazies to his doorstep.

Small thing in the grand scheme of things, but exactly the kind of thing that drives thirteen - year - olds crazy: Unblockable my ass — the first chinks in the armour start appearing once you can't even honour your own lore.

The film is based on a crazy true story and stars Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson as two bodybuilders who get caught up in an extortion ring and kidnapping scheme that goes...

This highly entertaining return of one of the cinema's most enduring giant beasts moves like crazy — the film feels more like 90 minutes than two hours — and achieves an ideal balance between wild action, throwaway humor, genre refreshment and, perhaps most impressively, a nonchalant awareness of its own modest importance in the bigger scheme of things.

But The Power has a crazy color scheme, a zoom - happy visit to a funhouse, and a curious moment when Tanner thinks he sees toys in a shop window come to life (some Pal - style stop - motion animation there).

The original series chronicles Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg), a not so bright fitness trainer living in Miami, who contrives this insanely crazy get rich quick scheme.

Lambos are known for their crazy colour schemes; this one would be mad on the inside rather than the outside for a change.

They also embark on a crazy entrepreneurial scheme involving troublesome pets.

I figure if a group of forward thinking nerds are crazy enough to launch a new ebook - fangled website on a latte and a dream then I'll spend twenty minutes decoding their scheme and tossing so many of my ingenious 1's and 0's at them.

The hotel's suites were all redecorated in 2010, so everything was in pretty good shape, but I wasn't crazy about the color scheme of gray, blue and really bright green meant to evoke the sea, but which I found sort of loud.

Key Features Unique control scheme enabling crazy fast action 7 levels packed with multiple set - pieces and bosses 4 difficulty levels that remix enemy placement and boss patterns 2 - player local co-op for all modes 3 unlockable characters with their own gameplay twists Survive the entire game on one life in Arcade Mode Select and battle up to three bosses at once in Challenge Mode Trophies and Achievements added for PS4 and Xbox One versions Localized in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German

Yes, despite a clunky control scheme and fixed camera angles that drove many gamers crazy, it succeeded beyond Capcom's wildest imaginations.

I like that Polyarc stuck with a classic platformer control scheme and didn't try and get to VR crazy by using some convoluted Move controller method.

If this sounds pretty crazy, just wait until you see the control scheme.

The only way it could really send people crazy is a some trade - in scheme for the 40 million plus PS4 owners out there now, that guarantees a reasonable price on updating.

For the time, it had a good control scheme that allowed you to do a crazy amount of stuff.

The problem with this scheme, like Foster + Associates crazy highway in the sky, is that they aim to reduce congestion by getting cyclists off the road.

Schemes of this kind may sound half - crazy; and, admittedly, they do tend to have some technical and aesthetic complications.

Perhaps the «scientists» might consider the consequences of just another crazy geo - engineering scheme in a little more detail.

But, our crazy theory, which as Niels Bohr said may not be crazy enough to be true, is that partner compensation schemes are a critical obstacle

It seems crazy that companies (such as Apple) design incompatible chargers, and then chip companies invent schemes to work around these incompatibilities in order to build universally compatible chargers.

Some have called the nascent digital assets under various names such as bubbles, Ponzi schemes, fraud, and many other crazy names.

In his scathing critique of the DAICO, Preston Byrne writes: «I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here, because the SEC literally wrote a report about the original DAO scheme, likened it to a security, and cited as authority for this proposition not one but TWO cases relating to an infamous 1970s pyramid scheme that landed its promoter in federal prison for nearly a decade.»