Sentences with phrase «real stab at»

Congress took its first real stab at reforming the law in October 2011 as Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, of Iowa, and Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, of Wyoming, presented a comprehensive revision to No Child Behind.

Writer - director George Ratliff has helmed feature - length documentaries in the past, but Joshua is his first real stab at narrative filmmaking.

Among other opportunities, it gave Clooney the chance to take his first real stab at screwball comedy, a box he was eventually going to have to check if he wanted to validate the by - now - ubiquitous comparisons between him and Cary Grant.

GREAT sauce... my first real stab at curry and I'm pleased that this is the recipe that I used.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump's tax blueprint will closely mirror his proposals on the campaign trail last year, leading some to dismiss the still - fluid plan as more of a public relations stunt than a stab at real policymaking.

Trump's blueprint will closely mirror his proposals on the campaign trail last year, leading some to dismiss the still - fluid plan as more of a public relations stunt than a stab at real policymaking.

The Post's favorite intern, Chris Cillizza, has written another puff piece instead of taking a stab at writing about real issues!

Even Haley's stabs at arty interludes (crashing surfs, are - they - real - or - not excerpts from Lee's western movies) fall flat.

Undaunted in this first stab at real love, the 60ish Doris sets about dressing even more colorfully than usual and friending him via a fake Facebook identity in order to learn more about him — at one point deliberately attending the same concert by a band he and his friends are really into.

And at the final moment, John Powell's tense, jittery score fades into the staccato synth - stabs of Moby's «Extreme Ways» — a song that, in any non-Bourne capacity, sucks real bad.

Characters discuss the seemingly endless franchise of fictional Stab movies, based — at least at first — on the «real world» events we've been watching (They've gotten less concerned with reality, we learn from a character who bemoans the phony fifth movie's time - travel plot).

by Ian Pugh Beyond its pale stab at indie street cred and an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay (which are almost one and the same these days), Lars and the Real Girl shares with Juno an invitation to partake in a never - ending stream of laughs over its premise until it basically flips a switch and instructs you to get emotional over it — the supposed target of discussion here being nothing less than that ever - popular subject of paternalistic revulsion, mental illness.

Refn says that he'd love to take a stab at this project, but that the only real way it could happen is if his current project, Logan's Run, is successful enough for studios to give his next project a chance.

If anything, The Crucifixion is an even more egregious misfire than other head - spinning stabs at the genre because this movie is actually based on an intriguing, horific real - life case.

The movie makes eye - rolling stabs at pathos that seem to pursue real emotion but instead feel cheap and phony.

After taking a few stabs at the right formula, the series has finally found its voice, and Ethan Hunt and company give James Bond a real run for his blockbuster money.

Given its fairly humble underpinnings the Audi A3 has a fairly decent stab at being decent to drive, but it's more about being inoffensive, classy and rounded than focusing on any real dynamism.

Through troll - like behavior, even «real» authors have taken public stabs at each other while the reading consumers sit back watching the tennis match - style back and forth exchanges.

At times taking stabs at the ineffectiveness and greed of the pharmaceutical industry and making light of very real think tanks who believe in the superiority of some individuals over others, the book is a fast - paced thrill ride of pandemic proportionAt times taking stabs at the ineffectiveness and greed of the pharmaceutical industry and making light of very real think tanks who believe in the superiority of some individuals over others, the book is a fast - paced thrill ride of pandemic proportionat the ineffectiveness and greed of the pharmaceutical industry and making light of very real think tanks who believe in the superiority of some individuals over others, the book is a fast - paced thrill ride of pandemic proportions.

These are not vague shimmers, like Rothko's Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, but scarily real encounters with monsters and memories, made real in jagged black lines that stab through swirls of colour.

This is their first stab at a real flagship though, and having just reviewed the Nokia 5, I was eager to see how a high end model would hold up and whether HMD would be able to fly the flag proudly for the Nokia brand (no pun intended!).

So, although it's a brave stab at examining an important issue, the figure derived for a «postgraduate premium» doesn't represent anything that has real meaning to students or graduates.

I'm taking a stab at dissecting another high end designer room into a space for «real life.»