Sentences with phrase «plucky upstarts»

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

When Forza arrived in 2005, it was the plucky young upstart, challenging the golden god that was Gran Turismo.