Sentences with phrase «performance of this handful»

If someone tries to sell you the performance of a handful of actively managed funds that have out performed the market, you should start by asking if these were the funds they were recommending 10 years ago.

Not exact matches

The modern Super Bowl halftime show as we know it started in 1991 with New Kids on the Block (previous shows featured a theme with marching bands and various performance groups), and it's stayed relatively consistent since: A pop star (or stars) takes over the field with props, backup dancers, probably pyrotechnics, and possibly even a live band, and goes through a rundown of their hits in a handful of minutes.

Stock returns tend to be driven by a handful of stocks with particularly strong performance.

7 years with Arsenal and only 2 decent months / handful of performances to show for it.

That persistent ambition translated to her first qualifier for the U-17 National Team in April of 2017, after a handful of strong performances at elite camps across the country.

In fact, Sterling has produced a only small handful of decent performances over the past year and a half.

The Golden State Warriors dropped 113 on them in Game 1 and would have scored more if not for a handful of missed layups and a horrific shooting performance from Klay Thompson.

And despite the absence of suspense, there was a handful of outstanding individual performances and some rather surprising developments on the field.

Despite having a handful of impressive performances, a lack of consistency and some misfortune with injuries have significantly derailed the Colombian's Arsenal career.

Injuries to other players and a handful of solid performances have seen him wrestle a more regular spot back, but he still has plenty to prove.

i'm not sure the overall evidence of team performance could have chelsea the better team not by a country mile and not even after they played trump card hazard we were a right handful for chelski.

Xhaka - 3 one competent pass doesn't make up for a rather careless performance... a handful of times he telegraphed passes in the worst part of the field when playing a counterattacking team and this needs to stop if he has any chance of maintaining that role... reminds me of a taller Arteta at Arsenal, which isn't a good memory

There are probably a handful of reasons why bettors aren't swayed by the Celtics» game 3 performance.

Thankfully for a handful of EPL teams domestic play resumes again in earnest after performances in the Champions League that can only be described as abominations.

Despite a handful of uninspiring performances during the course of Inter's abysmal 2016/17 Serie A and Europa League campaigns, the 28 - year - old Croatian still managed to rack up 11 goals and 9 assists in all competitions.

Describing Mr Brown as «head and shoulders» above the handful of others who have announced they will run for the leadership, Ms Beckett praised Mr Miliband's parliamentary performance to date but could not recommend him to run.

Mason, a research associate at the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport (PHC) at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom, is one of a handful of sports scientists working with the Great Britain and Northern Ireland performance analysis team.

Yet most computers can handle only a handful of scenarios at once — too few to create a full picture of fuel performance during combustion.

But their review found only a «handful» of the studies had purposefully varied these factors, or examined the importance of natural variability to the performance of reef organisms.

A handful of studies have examined the effects of virtual voices on driving performance, and many studies have examined how the interactions between people and embodied technologies (e.g., computer agents, avatars) influence people.

Pick out a smart handful of supplements to keep your body healthy, upgrade your performance and stimulate better quality growth.

Since the first edition of the book The Strongest Shall Survive in 1976, Bill Starr's «big three» — back squat, bench press and power clean — have often been revisited in the effort to identify a handful of strength training exercises that can significantly improve performance in sport.

Since the race, he also participated in the FASTER study along with a handful of other keto - adapted athletes, demonstrating that extreme levels of fat oxidation during exercise are indeed possible and not detrimental to endurance performance [10].

You'll walk away feeling sombre and slightly downtrodden but, thanks to a handful of strong performances and a strong emotional core, the central debate will linger in your mind, which is exactly what «Lullaby» sets out to do.

Excellent direction from Tom Hooper, but it is the handful of fantastic performances that bring these iconic figures to life that really make the miniseries work.

Critics Consensus: Bad Samaritan delivers a handful of genre thrills — and a stellar central performance by David Tennant — that help offset iffy direction and a disappointingly mundane story.

Enjoyable thanks to three fantastic performances, a handful of fairly amusing moments, and an interesting glimpse behind the scenes of the stand - up comedy industry.

Hooper's strategy is to suggest the monumental (a handful of overhead shots against massive 19th - century sets), but he also gives attention to the close - up intimacy of the performances.

Critic Consensus: With plenty of pulpy action, a pleasantly retro vibe, and a handful of fine performances, Captain America is solidly old - fashioned blockbuster entertainment.

The trailer ends up capturing the movie's mood rather beautifully, thanks to a well - selected handful of its best images, a snippet of its lovely ambient - rock soundtrack, and glimmers of its terrific lead performances.

The jokes are mediocre, the scares are mediocre, and the performances are painfully mediocre — in other words, it's your basic middle - of - the - road horror / comedy sprinkled with a handful of memorable moments.

From Love, the performance was mostly ignored — likely because, much like her frenemy Madonna, moviegoers only like to see her play a version of herself — and led only to a handful of other film roles and a more general portfolio as a catchall cultural Baba Yaga.

While Poltergeist easily featured a handful of memorably scary scenes and moments of genuine intrigue, Poltergeist II only stands out for Julian Beck's formidable performance as Reverend Kane, whose harrowing face and imposing demeanor makes him a good foil for the naive but tight - knit family to test themselves against.

But the set pieces are so spectacular, and the key central performances so strong, it's impossible to dismiss Ready Player One or not say, on at least a handful of mesmerizing levels, that it isn't worth giving a look.

Good performances and a handful of masterfully - crafted scares allow it to work as an above - average slasher flick.

Pugh, a young newcomer with just a tiny handful of film credits, gives a performance of rare ferocity.

* The problem wasn't their fine performances, but the fact those were a few of the handful of major roles for actors of color in prestige - ish films this year (and you can argue «Straight Outta» never really found that prestige clout).

In the kind of film that usually relies on the performances of its pop - in cameos — and there is quite a handful, including Anthony Anderson, Ethan Embry, Neil Patrick Harris, Luis Guzman, Ryan Reynolds and Fred Willard — Cho and Penn keep control of the wheel the whole way through, never missing a beat on their unadulterated wit as they continue to push the moral envelope in their search for a late - night snack.

A failed attempt to make it in L.A. as both a comic and screenwriter would typify his poor reception in America; despite thousands of performances coast to coast and a handful of appearances of David Letterman, he remained virtually anonymous stateside.

Best supporting actress: Here's where Scarlett Johansson will be honored for the wrong performance: The academy will nominate her for «Lost in Translation,» where she was indeed wonderful as the young newlywed who becomes Bill Murray's late - night soul mate, instead of «The Girl With a Pearl Earring,» where with only a handful of spoken words, she tells us everything we need to know about a young woman who could have achieved anything, if only she had been born in a different time and place.

She may be very good in «Albert Nobbs» — though for reasons I can't pinpoint, I don't quite trust the film — but if the performance proves sufficient to build a campaign on, few will vote for her without a handful of previous roles in mind.

This is thanks in part to a handful of inspired tweaks, a couple fine performances, and a fearless but never contemptuous eye for carnage.

«It's action - packed, it's hilarious (although I wish they'd held a few more laughs back from the promos), and its characters still shine bright, with a handful of them even putting in stand - up - and - applause - worthy performances.

The scene is minimalist in conception, with the young Chiron asking Juan a handful of questions, which the man answers as carefully and honestly as any loving surrogate parent could, even as he wrestles with the inner conflict that defines Ali's revelatory and humane performance.

Despite a handful of memorable visual flourishes and some decent performances, it fails to determine whose story it's interested in unfolding.

After a handful of unmemorable performances in films like Knowing and Adam, Byrne is finally opting to stick with a genre that works quite well for her — comedy.

Much of the film's success relies on the crafty screenplay (by Alvarez and co-writer Rodo Sayagues) and its generous handful of unexpected plot contortions, but fortunately, Don't Breathe also showcases a pair of fantastic lead performances: Jane Levy (previously great in the aforementioned Evil Dead remake) does a fine job of creating a conflicted anti-heroine.

As usual Sharni Vinson (You're Next) makes for a highly capable horror anti-hero, and it's her performance, plus a handful of clever twists, that keep this crime - thriller - turned - carnage-fest, about a group of ill - fated criminals bickering over what to do with the (plainly and perhaps supernaturally evil) young woman they've abducted, cooking.

It's not only in performances that the film feels stuck between genres; discounting a handful of choice scenes, by the film's end we're left with many unexplored emotional avenues that serve only to reinforce the film's stuntedness in that regard.3

On the television side, a handful of performers and TV shows picked up double wins including Transparent (LGBTQ Show of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actor for Jeffrey Tambor), The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for TV Drama of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actress for Sarah Paulson and Kate McKinnon earned two wins; one for her melancholy musical performance of «Hallelujah» on Saturday Night Live the week of the Presidential election and as the Wilde Artist of the Year (in a tie with Hamilton «s Lin - ManuePerformance of the Year — Actor for Jeffrey Tambor), The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for TV Drama of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actress for Sarah Paulson and Kate McKinnon earned two wins; one for her melancholy musical performance of «Hallelujah» on Saturday Night Live the week of the Presidential election and as the Wilde Artist of the Year (in a tie with Hamilton «s Lin - ManuePerformance of the Year — Actress for Sarah Paulson and Kate McKinnon earned two wins; one for her melancholy musical performance of «Hallelujah» on Saturday Night Live the week of the Presidential election and as the Wilde Artist of the Year (in a tie with Hamilton «s Lin - Manueperformance of «Hallelujah» on Saturday Night Live the week of the Presidential election and as the Wilde Artist of the Year (in a tie with Hamilton «s Lin - Manuel Miranda).