Sentences with phrase «rare feat of»

The Klipsch Reference On - Ear achieves quite the rare feat of being a comfortable set of on - ear headphones.

(Legal journalists, in fairness, sometimes fare no better: an Australian reporter recently achieved the rare feat of creating a quintuple negative to explain a court judgment: «The grounds of appeal announced on Monday state Justice Sifris erred in not finding Mr Goldberg was wrong in failing to set aside the summonses.»

In «Family Portrait» Bartos's accomplishes the rare feat of thrusting the female gaze onto a complicated, personal, narrative that leaves a nagging residue of unease long after you leave the gallery.

The Witcher 3 didn't totally transcend all the issues of the huge open - world RPG, but it accomplished the rare feat of making its open world an asset to its story, instead of a distraction like Inquisition, or the real game, like Skyrim.

The unfortunate victims of his malice will receive a rare Feat of Strength... as well as a repair bill and corpse run.»

Ten managed the rare feat of returning precisely zero.

- Brad Meltzer, author of The Fifth Assassin and The Book of Lies «Breznican has accomplished that rare feat of unflinchingly exposing the high school experience in all of its hilarity, vengeance, and terror.

What's pulled me so deeply into the book is the language, which pulls off the rare feat of being vivid and poetic but still compulsively readable.

The Transformer Prime manages to pull off the rare feat of combining power and style: It's sleek and sexy, yet also jam - packed with robust functionality.

Why Edmunds Recommends the 2017 Audi A8: Although luxury flagship sedans aren't necessarily built with cornering performance in mind, the Audi A8 manages the rare feat of feeling smaller than it is.

Todd Haynes» Carol is achieving that rare feat of achieving a wide critical accord.

Lawrence is one of many bright spots in this film, which achieved the rare feat of getting Oscar nominations in all four acting categories.

The oft - undervalued actor imbues grace and courage in an uncompromising character and achieves the rare feat of making vile and disgusting behavior simply a part of a complicated three - dimensional character, rather than allowing it to define him wholly.

A modern classic, the Pixar animation «Toy Story» achieved the rare feat of being equally entertaining for adults as it was for kids.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

Fading Gigolo (Grade: B --RRB- garnered advance word not only for the rare feat of getting Woody Allen to act in a film he didn't direct, but for casting him as a pimp.

A perfect squat is a symphony of muscular coordination throughout the entire body, achieving the rare feat of simultaneously building muscle and burning fat thanks to its high metabolic demand (read: it burns a lot of calories because it works a lot of muscles).

They were also beaten quite emphatically on their last visit to The Brittania, a 3 - 0 defeat back in February and although Rovers are on the verge of a rare feat of back - to - back away victories in the league, we fully expect Stoke to spoil the party.

It wasn't all rosy for Messi though as he was savagely elbowed early in the game which left him bloodied and playing with a gauze the entire first half, accomplishing a rare feat of scoring while holding a gauze.

Jabrill Peppers will pull off the rare feat of working out with two groups at the NFL Combine (LBs and...

Not exact matches

Omada Health has accomplished a rare feat in the crowded world of digital health hopefuls: it's backed up lofty claims with actual results, helping the company score federal government reimbursements for its high - tech diabetes prevention program.

That's not a feat most of our favourite brands these days have managed, with a few rare, equally iconic exceptions.

Though its valuation remains undisclosed, there's a good chance the social media firm is worth north of $ 1 billion now, an exceptionally rare feat for any tech company (let alone a Canadian one).

At 6:30 a.m. local time, he made it to the top of the earth's tallest peak, without the use of supplemental oxygen, a rare feat.

That's an even rarer feat for a generic drug maker such as Mylan, which makes most of its revenue not on brand - name drugs, but on cheaper, equivalent versions of other companies» branded medications.

Beginning in the spring of 1918, a flu virus that in a rare feat had evolved to be both highly contagious and extremely lethal swept the planet.

Such feats have become increasingly rare in the post-free agency era of the NFL.

Consider that it's somewhat rare for the Rangers to get 14 hits or more in a game — it's a feat they accomplish in about five percent of their games.

The perfect college basketball season is one of the rarest feats in sports.

By making something that should be both individual and optional into something generic and compulsory, the FA and the PL have performed the miraculous feat of shafting the thing in both directions: it's completely meaningless most of the time, except on the rare occasions when it's cosmically overblown.

That's one feat beyond the talents of even this rare bird.

It's a rare feat when a baby wash product achieves bubble bath capabilities without employing a collection of chemicals to do so.

Tim and Victoria Lasita of Ohio conceived both sets of triplets without using fertility treatments — a rare feat.

Third, the Constitutional Committee organized a national election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a rare feat.

He had a competent opponent, a community organizer named Paul Newell, who got the endorsement of all three of the city's daily papers — a rare feat.

He loved the feeling of weightlessness and learned to fly like a bird from one side of the space station to the other without touching down — a rare feat.

In the 1960s, scientists demonstrated the phenomenon in a rare isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron (3He) at temperatures 1,000 times lower, a feat that won the 1996 physics Nobel.

«It's just a feat outside the realm of what mining companies are willing to do today,» David Abraham, a senior fellow New America and rare metals expert, told Earther.

Hof's mastery of both cold therapy and breathing techniques has led to these rare feats, and he has even successfully taught his methods to others who were able to replica his success.

Other than being a genuinely nice guy who was not completely selfish, an admittedly rare feat in this film, there is nothing too out of the ordinary that we see Jeremy do for her.

To out - Piven Piven himself is a rare feat on its own, but Bateman — sprawled on his cot reading The Koran for Dummies, backing up Team Fleury by cracking wise and searching the internet, and running perpetually afoul of guards and terrorists alike — is the model of a modern major U.S. foreign relations specialist.

That in itself is a most grueling feat as Winter Soldier was one of those rare superhero films that transcends the genre with its welcoming 70s political tones.

Spall, who played the very different part of the restaurant owner in Life Is Sweet, magisterially conveys a sense of goodness, and Jean - Baptiste in a much less showy part pulls off a rare feat in a Mike Leigh film: she escapes the writer - director's usual caricatural scorn for the middle class.

Gore Verbinski's film achieves one of those rare feats, ranking among the scarce few Hollywood remakes that surpasses the foreign born original, Japan's unique paranormal nightmare Ringu.

Director Jonathan Levine's 50/50 is one of those rare movies that pulls off a feat of narrative tightrope walking, in this case a comedy - drama about a young man with cancer that manages to be thought - provoking and insightful without being melodramatic, and funny and irreverent rather than woefully inappropriate or safe.

But here the director has attained the rare distinction of yielding a feature - length film which, from start to finish, is absolutely and unequivocally devoid of interest; that Salles was able to do so with Kerouac's landmark novel is a truly astonishing feat of mundanity.

In this capacity, 10 Cloverfield Lane is that improbably rare cinematic experience that pulls off that phenomenal feat of having its cake and eating it too — that is equally smart and thrilling, satisfying our bloodlust and higher processing speeds both.

In doing so, the jury bestowed Haneke with the rare distinction of receiving the prize for his second film in succession, after Das weiße Band (The White Ribbon) ruled over Cannes in 2009 — a feat only previously achieved by Bille August (bizarrely enough).

The ability to look and feel the part of a luxury SUV while also having the off road toughness of a utility vehicle is a rare feat, but one the 2014 Mercedes - Benz G - Class accomplishes with ease.

«From the beginning of the published book, there has been a special place for any release that passes the rare milestone of one million copies,» says Matt Baugher, senior vice president and publisher at Thomas Nelson, Inc. «Even today, few accomplish that feat each year.