Sentences with phrase «plucky upstart»

Yet such has been their progress through the tournament, including a remarkable dismantling of AC Milan, and such has been their capacity for keeping up with the Spanish Old Firm at home at the same time, that treating them as plucky upstarts simply does not sit right.

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

The $ 96 bln biotech is betting a plucky upstart has found cancer treatments that will change medicine, and society will pay the staggering cost.

The plucky upstarts, declaring that they belonged in the upper echelon of European football with their young, exciting stars and unrelenting style running over the old, creaky legacy team.

Jack Black's finest display of acting prowess is his 1996 Oscar nominated performance in the critically acclaimed blockbuster Mars Attacks in which Black stars as a plucky upstart U.S. Army soldier who valiantly attempts to defend the planet from the evil martians and in doing so, allows Pierce Brosnan to see less screen time.

I, Tonya seems set to rehabilitate her image, recasting the vilified Harding as a plucky upstart, talented and troubled — an antiestablishment figure in a stuffy, elitist sport.

Does the plucky upstart win the big race after all?

To complete the irony, perhaps the best hope to tame the Apple juggernaut is a partnership between Nokia and a plucky upstart in the mobile operating system field: Microsoft.

Innovative new strategies like on - platform Facebook lead generation cards and the newly - opened Amazon Marketing Services platform (which is effectively offering free brand - building impressions at the moment) seem to be the preserve of the plucky upstart, not yet adopted properly by traditional rivals.

It's clear OnePlus is no longer the plucky upstart.

When OnePlus launched its first phone back in 2014, it was clearly the plucky upstart, one that was trying to offer as powerful a phone as possible that almost anyone could afford.

But while Spotify remains to this day a plucky upstart from Sweden, albeit a rather popular one these days, Tidal has since been acquired by little - known rap star «Jay Z» (ahem) for 56 million American dollars.

In one corner, we have the 900 pound gorilla, Cult of Mac; in the opposite corner, wearing the green trunks, we have the plucky upstart, Cult of Android!