Sentences with phrase «reaches nadir»

Control feels slippery and skittish, and reaches its nadir when you try to make use of the game's melee combat.

Like all value investors I have come to expect that I will be early to the party and begin investing long before the valuation of a security reaches its nadir.

Silence: Martin Scorsese's downward trajectory reaches its nadir with this plodding and generally unwatchable drama, with the absurdly overlong running time (160 minutes!)

It is listless and painful, with fakey gore and dialogue that reaches nadir even for an auteur never known for his pen.

Our well - being is high in our 20s and 30s, begins to drop in our 40s, reaches its nadir in our early 50s, and then begins climbing back up in our 60s, 70s, and, if we're lucky, beyond.

When the adverse inflation - rate trend reaches its nadir, we will mark the end of this secular bear and the start of the next secular bull.

Given the vicissitudes of markets, there was no way to tell whether we'd reached the nadir and recovery was around the corner — or whether we were about to go over a cliff.

The current retraction won't reach its nadir of 10 % junk - bond defaults and virtually closed markets until 2018, Fridson predicts.

Just a few short years later, the referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union catalysed a debate in which patriotism showed its less attractive face, reaching its nadir on 16th June 2016, when Labour MP Jo Cox, a campaigner for continued EU membership, was repeatedly stabbed and shot by a man shouting «Britain first».

Russian - American relations reached a nadir as a result.

New York reached its nadir in 1975 when Coach Charley Winner, thinking his team was just a few players away from playoff contention, traded his first, fourth and sixth draft choices for three defensive linemen, two of whom now are out of football.

LSU's offensive regression reached its nadir (we think) with a 200 - yard, six - point output versus Florida in Gainesville.

Arsenal perhaps reached their nadir this season with a terrible performance at St Mary's on New Years day that saw them lose ground on their top four rivals.

It reached its nadir in Zaragoza, Spain, at the qualifying tournament for the 1992 Olympics, where the Azzurri struggled to beat a team of Albanians who played in the same ratty Chuck Taylors they used for padding around town.

Its obvious the fm has reached the nadir of his career.With him around it will be more of the same.

That solitary win, a laboured 1 - 0 FA Cup victory against League Two side Plymouth, has been surrounded by draws and defeats, with the run reaching a nadir on Saturday as Jürgen Klopp's side went down to a shock 3 - 2 defeat to relegation - threatened Swansea...

However, both his appearances and quality of play have declined over the past few years, reaching its nadir this past season where he only made six appearances for Sevilla.

Today, it stands at -53, having reached a nadir of -58 at the time of the Budget.

No more so than in the US Republican primaries, which reached a nadir when Marco Rubio mocked Donald Trump for having «small hands» and alluded to his rival wetting his pants.

In 2000 the number of reported cases reached a nadir, [just over 6,000 reported cases].

When it came to the 17 - year broods, the levels of these birds rose slowly after emergences, peaking in year 12 and then declining afterward, reaching a nadir again in emergence years.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

For the most part, however, the actor's last two decades as a performer were distinguished by a steady stream of cheap, threadbare horror films, reaching a nadir with such fare as Hillbillies in a Haunted House (1967).

By the time we got to the execrable Aliens vs Predator, we'd reached the nadir of comic book inspired nonsense that had transformed a once fascinating world and concept into a disposable fast food joint.

The Happening, starring Zooey Deschanel and Mark Wahlberg, prompted the New Republic to assert,» [A] n astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined,» though Shyamalan's career eventually reached its nadir with the infamous Last Airbender (2010) about a 12 - year - old boy who provides the last hope of restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos.

However, as Paul Peterson shows (see «Ticket to Nowhere,» p. 39), long - term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveal only small increases in mathematics and science scores after 1982, when scores for 17 - year - olds reached their nadir.

SAT scores peaked in 1964 and declined thereafter, reaching their nadir about the time Risk was unleashed.

In the early 1980s, for example, when salaries had been dropping for a decade and districts could not fill their vacancies, the average quality of teachers reached a nadir in virtually every respect.

The number of e-books to be available commercially in the iBookstore has almost reached its nadir.

This merrily continued, with the share price reaching a nadir of EUR 3.25 in Aug - 11 — amounting to almost a cumulative EUR 1.2 billion loss in market cap — actually in excess of the lawsuit total!?

The decline accelerated for the next year and a half, reaching a nadir of $.50 in December 2008.

This was a time when US arcades were reaching a nadir in terms of popularity.

The most eloquent alternative to the view that painting had reached a nadir in the 1970s was the 2006 exhibition High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 - 1975, curated by Katy Siegel with assistance from David Reed, who had conceived of the show.

«Increasingly, the road to Copenhagen resembles a suburban street on Halloween with the number of climate change freak shows and stunts reaching a nadir in recent weeks.

That development surprised few observers given the highly - politicized backdrop of the government's push to exploit the Amazon's natural resources and perceived tendency to ride roughshod over social concerns, which reached a nadir in May 2009 with the Bagua massacre.

Among many low points, this may have reached its nadir when a House member from Nebraska asked, smirkingly and out of the blue, whether nitrogen should be banned — presumably to make the point that atmospheric gases are all either harmless or outright beneficial, and hence, should not be regulated.

This year the never ending attack on «editorial» may have finally reached its nadir.

This probably reached its nadir when Jon Stewart came after him (video below) over some spectacularly unfortunate advice he gave to viewers back then.

Not exact matches

A kind of nadir was reached a few months ago when Deane Ferm roasted me in the pages of The Christian Century as an exponent of secularism and a contributor to the God - is - dead movement.

During the nadir recent crisis (2001 — 2003), prices reached record low levels (Kona at 49 US cents / lb according to the ICO indicator price, April 2001) and left many Kona producers in very difficult conditions.

Both teams were docked points, and a glorious rivalry was born — one that would rumble through much of the 1990s and 2000s, taking in Martin Keown and Ruud van Nistelrooy, Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira, before reaching a farcical nadir (or zenith, if you're that way inclined) when Cesc Fabregas allegedly lobbed a slice of pizza at Alex Ferguson.

In the recent Copeland byelection, Labour reached its electoral nadir under Corbyn, losing a seat that it had held for decades.

The nadir of rare earth trade was reached in 2010, which emphasized the disruptive effects that China «s unilateral decisions regarding rare earths can have on the US, Japanese and EU economies.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio confronts a pair of hostile police unions convinced that he is responsible for the deaths of two police officers Saturday, he is reliving a conflict familiar to past mayors rather than reaching the absolute nadir of relations between City Hall and police.

The nadir of all this was reached when Koonin wrote an editorial in The Wall Street Journal that appeared to question climate science.

Since the early 1990s the numbers of Fraser sockeye have steadily dwindled, reaching a particularly troublesome nadir in 2009 when more than 11 million sockeye were forecast to return and only 1.4 million showed up.

He defends his choice to spend no more than $ 100 for family gifts on Christmas in saying, «If you believe that our consumer addiction represents our deepest problem — the force that keeps us from reaching out to others, from building a fair society, the force that drives so much of our environmental degradation — then Christmas is the nadir.

Silent screen cowboy Buddy Roosevelt reached perhaps the nadir of his career with this film, in which he plays a deputy marshal trailing a gang of claim jumping murderers lead by pudgy Olin Francis.

by Walter Chaw Thinking that Oscar - winner Kathy Bates had reached a career nadir as a Bible - thumpin» mama in Adam Sandler's deplorable The Waterboy, colour me surprised to note that Ms. Bates actually plumbs a new depth in reprising that performance for Les Mayfield's painful American Outlaws.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.