Sentences with phrase «ragtag group»

Story mode's also split into several separate paths depending on which ragtag group of warriors you decide to play as, and while this means that you can opt to play as your favourites, it's also worth pointing out that there are no real differences between the stories of each different party.

This is a position supported by every major scientific institution in the world, and all the scientific academies of countries and regions, but denied by the anti-GMO lobby, which promotes its own alternative «consensus» of a small ragtag group of academics out on the fringes of the mainstream.

The movie's central dilemma has some dramatic juice, especially given the way it characterizes the volleyball team: There isn't a naturally great new player who can help rally an otherwise ragtag group to victory, just the grueling prospect of hard work and lots of practice.

Jess (Zooey Deschanel), Nick, Cece, Winston, and Schmidt are back for an abbreviated final season, and while we'll be sad to say goodbye to our favorite ragtag group of LA lofters, we can't wait to see them all get the happy endings they deserve.

After learning just how much a male stripper act like the Chippendales make for performing at local bars, Gaz recruits his own ragtag group — including best mate, Dave (Mark Addy) and former boss, Gerald (Tom Wilkinson)-- to put on a show of their own.

The self - appointed leader of this somewhat ragtag group, played by Michael Gambon, decides that the best thing to raise the profile of the event is to bring back together the four singers who performed a celebrated rendition of the quartet from Verdi's Rigoletto.

Buck's squad was filled with personality and fun banter, but Reach «s ragtag group of ethnic stereotypes just isn't as interesting.

According to a news article that caught his eye, a ragtag group of Canadian physicists was planning to build a working commercial thermonuclear reactor.

It was a ragtag group of people with little boats that usually worked on weekends,» Frohnhoefer recalls.

Led by Grand Master of the Jedi Order #YodaPug, this ragtag group of K - 9s are sure to make your Halloween just a little bit better.

In the past month, the gun - control movement has found its voice in a ragtag group of eloquent, Twitter - savvy teenagers from suburban Florida.

Even Sullivan's chapter on «The Liberationists» does not include those we have come to associate with that term (the strident gay - rights activists or flamboyant gay liberationists) but focuses instead on a ragtag group of theoreticians influenced by French philosophy.

McCarthy followed The Company She Keeps with The Oasis, which accompanies a ragtag group of intellectuals and misfits to a mountaintop retreat for an experiment in collective living.

We were a ragtag group of under - recruited players with so much spirit and zest that we fought our way through the tournament, despite the naysayers.

Ranging in age from 19 to 51, short and wide to superbly conditioned, they seem a ragtag group, but for the cleats around their necks, the footballs a few carry, and the insults, bro - hugs and daps they exchange as their number swells to a dozen and they head into the Baruch Projects and its 75 - year - old playground.

Sure, it's a heyday for the league's marketing team when they land a club like the legendary Real Madrid to square off against a ragtag group of MLS stars.

The chef revamps the lunch program with a ragtag group of kids.

And that's fine for entertainment purposes — yikes, even I don't want to see the real thing on screen — but it's not fine if it leaves moviegoers with the impression that all it takes is «heart» and «pluck» (and, apparently, «a ragtag group of kids») to fix school food.

He is fastidious about controlling his message and says nothing on the record — other than insisting he has gone perfectly Zen about that ragtag group at Cuomoville.

The ragtag group of lawmakers was led by Albany - area Assemblyman Jack McEneny, who apparently got through the Governor's security by saying he was leading a tour through the capitol.

, writer Ben Hellwarth describes the ragtag group of scientists who are striving to establish modern research colonies on the ocean bottom.

A RAGTAG group of rugged travellers is sent on a three - year round trip to a desolate moon that might be the site of a future human outpost in space.

One's interest does, as a result, begin to wane considerably as the film plods into its increasingly predictable midsection, with the inclusion of hackneyed plot twists - eg Nick and Billy must whip their ragtag group members into shape, Billy is forced to contend with an obnoxious rival (Max Minghella's Graham), etc - ensuring that the movie only grows more and more interminable in the buildup to its expectedly uplifting finale.

The film, based on Peter Morgan's award - winning play, primarily details the build - up into the interviews among both sides, as Frost prepares by collaborating with a ragtag group of intellectuals (including Sam Rockwell's James Reston Jr and Oliver Platt's Bob Zelnick) and Nixon conspires with trusted aide Jack Brennan (Kevin Bacon) to turn the hyped conversations to their advantage.

An exiled Playboy bunny finds refuge as a sorority housemother and teaches a ragtag group of girls how to be popular... with mixed results.

A ragtag group of youngsters band together after the American Civil War to form the Texas Rangers, a group charged with the duty of cleaning up the West.

Guardian Heroes starts off with a ragtag group of heroes in awe over a newly acquired sword.

Aided by his ragtag group of friends, Chase must now work to stop the military's plan.

Into this lair of subterranean mystery and dimly lit sets marches a ragtag group of scientists and explorers led by overqualified Love & Basketball star Sanaa Lathan and funded by Alien series vet Lance Henriksen.

My favorite heist films usually involve a ragtag group of down on their luck ne'er - do - wells, outsiders and lone wolves who come together in an attempt to steal a fortune.

The platoon's captain is bank manager Mainwaring (Toby Jones), who leads a ragtag group of retirees (Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon and Bill Paterson) and younger army rejects (Daniel Mays and Blake Harrison) through a series of exercises along the seaside cliffs.

Now Baker's taken on Cannes with The Florida Project — this time shot on 35 mm film — about a precocious six year - old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with adventure,

Bullock stars as Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of Clooney's Danny Ocean, who brings together a ragtag group of women to pull off the heist of the century at the Met Gala in New York City.

To combat the threat, a ragtag group of freedom fighters consisting of Sonic, a younger version of himself, most of his supporting cast, and a new character you personally create and customize — simply named «the Rookie» — come together.

Mastroianni is one among a ragtag group of petty criminals — including Vittorio Gassman as a washed - up boxer and Totò as the lone professional in the group — who hatch a seemingly foolproof plan to rob a pawnshop.

Director - screenwriter Gary Ross has unearthed a forgotten chapter of the US Civil War in which a ragtag group of Mississippians took up arms against the Confederacy — even though, in theory, they were fighting on the same side of that bloody conflict.

This makes Solo the second Star Wars Story in a row to kinda - sorta focus on assembling a ragtag group of characters for a daring theft.

The hard - edged Sergeant (Frank Grillo) becomes the leader of a ragtag group of survivors who are trying to live through the purge.

Desperate to get her back, Jack and Wang recruit a ragtag group of friends (including Kim Cattrall, Victor Wong, Donald Li and Kate Burton) to sneak into Lo Pan's underground lair and rescue Miao Yin (Suzee Pai) before the 2,000 - year - old sorcerer can successfully return to his human body and, of course, take over the world.

But how can a ragtag group of heroes and villains — including Spider - Man, Wolverine, Ms. Marvel and Doctor Doom — overpower the unstoppable?!

Language: English Genre: Action / Sci - Fi MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: James Gunn Actors: Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel Plot: In the far reaches of space American pilot, Peter Quill, must team up with a ragtag group of misfits after he incurs the wrath of the dreaded Ronan after stealing an orb.

For their third Marvel movie, Anthony and Joe Russo have wrangled all the Avengers we've seen in solo outings, as well as the ones who fought in Civil War, plus a ragtag group of intergalactic heroes and a couple of extraordinary teens.

Mary (Williams) seeks a bigger world beyond the fenced off village of survivors, and the survival of the human race seems dependent upon her success in leading a ragtag group through the dark depths of The Forest of Hands and Teeth.

Just like in Trails of Cold Steel, you follow the daily lives of a ragtag group of students who find themselves in a whole new world once teleportation gates start opening up around the city.

The Force Awakens feels much more apiece with the original trilogy than the prequels, bringing back that sense of a ragtag group of individuals on the fringe brought together to fight a monolithic menace.