Sentences with phrase «poobah of»

Steve Konkoly (seen menacingly at left), the major domo, the grand poobah of the Perseid Collapse series — now a Kindle World on Amazon — throws me the tough questions in an interview on his web site.

SharePoint is touted as Microsoft's fastest growing software and the grand poobah of content management and collaboration.

Well - funded poobahs of autonomous duchies, they have no reason to change.

Not exact matches

of the Assistant, Associate, Deputy Commissioners, Special Assistant Deputy poobahs, etc..

Numbers - crunching poobah Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research Group has compile another one of his patented spreadsheets on campaign finance filers up until this point.

Last we saw Vin Riddick, he just killed some space grand poobah and accidentally became king of everything.

The first section of the film is an expositional wonder, as not only are the main characters (including Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn), Republican poobah Preston Blair (Hal Holbrook), radical abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) and various members of the White House - hold, among others) introduced and motivated, but the political issues involved are explained with a detail, clarity and respect for the audience's intelligence that's extremely rare in a Hollywood film.

For me, self - publishing was an effort to escape the narrowness of commercial fiction, the poobahs and gate - keepers of publishing (editors and agents who have acted in concert for years to destroy fine literary fiction and promote crap... which pays a lot more).

Among rail - riders was a mix of museum poobahs (SFMOMA curators Gary Garrels, Janet Bishop, Rudolf Frieling); collectors (Frances Bowes, Pam and Dick Kramlich, Carla Emil, Nancy and Steve Oliver); gallerists (Cheryl Haines, Gretchen and John Berggruen, Claudia Altman - Siegel, Jessica Silverman, Gagosian's Anna Gavazzi Asseily) politicos (Rep. Nancy Pelosi, former S.F. Mayor Frank Jordan) and Napa Valley grandees (artist Eleanor Coppola, OJ and Gary Shansby, Diane Chapman Kelly, vintner Carl Doumani).

Well, given that I was working on the reply to my uncertainty monster paper, where the IPCC grand poobahs were telling me that they did it right in AR4 and they had natural variability figured out, I was rather surprised to see these comments, especially since one of the persons quoted was a coauthor of the reply criticizing the attribution arguments in my uncertainty monster paper.