Sentences with phrase «piece of action though»

The young Pole did well with his first piece of action though, clearing a free kick away with a commanding punch, but he soon reminded us why he is now second choice.

Not exact matches

But really though I probably do not give it enough credit but with my strategy to utilize a DRIP I did get a small piece of the market action these past couple months so I can still celebrate that small victory as well.

The pro players sacrifice their brains to get a piece of that action — though it was not really apparent to the public (and I suspect most players) until recent forensic evidence of CTE was shared publically.

After these breaks were enacted, Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee wrote a column for the Metropolitan Council on Housing's website that the renewal passed the Assembly smoothly after «a clear message from the Speaker that he was pushing this bill through, even though many members were unhappy with pieces of it.»

To the surprise of some, the committee unanimously agreed on a resolution that gives both sides a piece of the action, though not necessarily everything each might have wanted.

Rather than coming off as an empty paean to the fans, though, the filmmakers» desire to focus on the characters as real people even in the midst of pitched battle keeps even the shallowest viewer of the series engaged in what could have easily been just mindless action set pieces and explosions.

A decent piece of do - good cinema... Director Norman Jewison stages their confrontations for effectively flashy, immediate effects, though he unnecessarily neglects the action - movie underpinning.

Though primarily a star of Broadway musicals, Sheryl Lee Ralph actually launched her career in the Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby feature film A Piece of the Action (1977).

The inclusion of several way out - of - left - field action sequences only cements Mr. Brooks» status as a seriously unfocused piece of work, though there's little doubt that the movie remains worth a look if only for Costner's eye - opening performance.

However, even though there are a decent number of heavy - hitting action set - pieces, Killer Elite is a narrative mess that convolutes a pretty straight - forward plot with loads of bizarre character relationships and added «drama» in an attempt to elevate the film beyond a throwaway action experience.

It's a decent performance of a fine piece of action music, though I'm surprised one of the more thematic pieces from the score wasn't chosen.

Otherwise though the action set pieces of Kaiju vs. Jaegers are so grand and wonderfully constructed that they aren't just Saturday morning anime action that your thirteen - year old sons, nephews and cousins would love but are genuinely exciting.

Action fans may enjoy the prolonged set pieces, mostly set inside and on top of fast - moving trains, though at 2.5 hours in length, there is a similar tedium factor to them that also marred the Pirates flicks, especially as the lack of emotional connection to the sketchy characters makes these scenes ring hollow underneath the impressive CGI elements.

As a result, the movie plays more like a screwball comedy than a violent action thriller, though it contains many pieces of the latter and hardly any of the former.

Nor because, the presence of Pierce Brosnan notwithstanding, it strews action set - pieces like a James Bond movie — it doesn't, though a drive through drizzly New England woods is more riveting than most movie car chases.

From the very beginning, Doctor Strange felt like an outlier in the interconnected men - in - capes world of Marvel Comics, though the character's debut in the equally dense Marvel Cinematic Universe follows the company's film - studio formula closely: Doctor Strange is an origin story, a love story, a framework for vintage pop songs and huge action set - pieces.

Though the action is dynamic, ultimately, it is Washington that sells the film in terms of credibility enough to overcome the serious leaps in logic required to contort the plot in the direction of lengthy set pieces.

These qualities, given added weight by the shot's extended duration, encourage the viewer to regard the action as though it were a piece of sculpture, to contemplate the intermingling of glamour and sleaze.

Though Dillon mentions value - added modeling, he says that the Gates researchers use it «as a starting point,» and spends most of the rest of the piece discussing their use of cameras to capture teachers in action in the classroom — they hope to have 64,000 hours of classroom video by the end of the project and have already begun the process of looking for «correlations between certain teaching practices and high student achievement» and «scoring» the lessons.

Though the set piece action scenes aren't as dramatic as those in the following Uncharted games, and the thrill aspect isn't as exhilarating, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is still an enjoyable platforming experience, with some of the most satisfying combat sequences.

Every developer wanted a piece of the action, though EA's Medal of Honor and Battlefield series tended to dominate the spotlight.

But even though Call of Duty: WWII continues the typical trend of linear heroic storytelling mixed with incredible and explosive action set - pieces, there are a few small changes that makes the whole experience differ slightly from previous campaigns.

During the piece, GameSpy's Gabe Graziani discusses variety of combat moves as particularly vital, though he does choose a bit of a repetitive fighting game to prove his point: «The reason that an action game needs to have combos implemented into the combat system is that you have to keep the «action» that we're continually engaging in fresh and exciting.

• the applicants had not attacked any particular piece of legislation, which is both problematic in and of itself and leads to a s. 1 analysis being extremely difficult if not impossible; • courts are ill - suited to reviewing how governments set social priorities; • it appears unlikely that government action is the cause of the situation in which the applicants have found themselves; and • though the door has not been definitely closed, Canadian courts have been extremely reluctant to embrace such «positive rights.»