Sentences with phrase «ridiculous title of»

A monarch who has never bought a work by a living artist has deigned to inflict on Paula Rego the patently ridiculous title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

The exception to the rule appears to be Lily James, who, while sporting the most ridiculous title of the year, came out of nowhere with an impressive six points.

Not exact matches

While most of them have eyebrow raising titles, on closer inspection, they're all far less ridiculous than advertised.

I knew everything there was to know about my alma mater's football program, from Don Faurot creating the Split - T (and teaching it to future Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson during World War II), to Dan Devine nearly winning a national title in 1960 (damn Kansas beating Ol' Mizzou with an ineligible player), to the big upset wins (and ridiculous upset losses) of the 1970s, to the cratering of the 1980s and the early 1990s, to the Fifth Down, to the Flea Kicker (which I had the honor of seeing in person).

You'll be well aware that Leicester had been priced at a ridiculous 5000/1 before the start of the season to actually win the title, so how does the prospect of Salah moving to United compare?

In fact, the only more ridiculous thing we can think of that's happened in the game in recent years is Leicester City winning the Premier League title in 2015/16.

That's a ridiculous stretch of losing the one game you can't afford to lose, and it meant the steadiest ship in a parity - heavy conference went 13 years between MAC title game appearances.

Every criticism of players gets interpreted as hate by the AKBs... Ridiculous... Here is the basic truth Iwobi has some good points as you identify but he is a long way from being the finished article and it is absurd that he is a regular in a team trying for top 4 let alone winning big titles..

So perhaps the Gunners can approach this big EPL game with real belief and remember that apart from the Chelsea game and the ridiculous refereeing of Mike Dean, Arsenal have not lost since the opening day and are in a good position to make a real challenge for the title.

He then went out and fired a 69 in the first round, after which the odds of his earning that fifth Masters title jumped to a ridiculous 33 - 1.

This is ridiculous as Wenger insists Giroud will be capable of helping Arsenal to win BPL title!

Wenger however couldn't assemble a plethora of competent players but with ridiculous signings like Chamakh, Squillaci, Gervinho, Santos, Park Ju Young, Sylvester etc whereas the talented ones like Nasri, Arshavin lacked the desire to fight for the title which primarily Wenger's fault.

Good win, unlike man - city match the midfielders did not work defensively therefore we gave away 2 goals, many saying that the keeper to blame which is ridiculous, which keeper actually stays on his line when an attacker breaks into the box, yes he has been having some rough games and he has lost the number one title, but to say we are to sell a keeper rated as one of the best last season is ridiculous.

Oval racing often produces super-close finishes, but the season - opening Nascar Xfinity race at Daytona (or «PowerShares QQQ 300», to give the race its proper title) went beyond merely «close» and more towards the realm of «ridiculous».

I am not saying that this phenomena will happen again sometime soon, but it proves that a Premier League title can indeed be won without spending ridiculous amounts of money.

Some of the comments made by our great manager this month have been really laughable BUT i expected nothing different as he will not sign anyone of note AS USUAL!!!!! The Yaya Sanogo signing looks even more ridiculous in the gran scheme of things BUT that's wenger for you, i also hope he has a conscience and understands that we need to win something this year and if not the league title then we must at least finish second NOT 3rd OR 4th to show some improvement anythingt other than that and he should not renew his contract.

Aguero will undoubtedly go down as one of the finest strikers to play in the Premier League thanks to his ridiculous goals record and will always be a legend in the eyes of City's fans for that goal against QPR to win the title.

Agreed, I copied it directly from the title because it's ridiculous to make a comment like that dismissing the risk when it is spelled out so clearly only six inches above (depending on your choice of electronic device)

Your title killed me, for that show has to be on of the most ridiculous things on TLC!

Rowlands Gill, UK About Blog As this blog title suggests, the chances of me (the sibling of a brain tumour victim) developing my very own brain tumour, were apparently ridiculous.

But the dumbed character and inventory systems, coupled to the ridiculous always - on connection and the breathtaking arrogance of the «you'll play how we tell you to play» attitude makes playing this title a damned shame instead of a hell of a good time.

the plot sometimes feels ridiculous because of all the twists and turns it takes throughout the entire game, but is still enjoyable and quite necessary to set the plot for future titles.

Nobody could do anything with this ridiculous conceit, but asking Mr. Keaton, one of our most volatile actors, to play Bruce Wayne / Batman is like asking him to put on an ape suit and play the title role in «King Kong.»

The title card reading «Circle of Blood» gives way to an image of three of the Libertines made up in drag, wearing ridiculous hats, that made me think Terry Gilliam could be the man for a contemporary remake of Salò, perhaps staged as a grandiose opera à la his Damnation of Faust.

There have been an ridiculous number of great moves in this year's program, many of which, it seems, revolve around the theme of crime (or at least have the word «crime» in the title).

Here is Tony Scott's remake of the 1974 film of the same name, except that one had words instead of numbers in the title, and I must say that Mr. Scott had a tough job to update this movie without making it completely ridiculous.

It's kind of ridiculous how fast New Leaf sold compared to other 3DS titles, just look at the animated graph above.

The process of climbing off the bed and receiving confirmation of your save takes a full five seconds, which is ridiculous in the first place but entirely baffling for a portable title.

My first impressions were that I though it frankly ridiculous for this kind of game to be on the PlayStation 4 sitting alongside titles such as Unchartered 4 and The Witcher 3.

In the book (full title: The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside «The Room,» the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made), Sestero recounts Wiseau's ridiculous antics during production, of which there are way too many to list, so let's just pick the best one.

This movie is ridden with plot holes, it has an unacceptable amount of logic issues, Mystique's costume is distractingly fake and silly looking, Anna Paquin gets a title card yet is in five seconds of the movie, multiple story beats are repeated and the narrative puts into question everything that's happened in previous «X-Men» films, but, if you can get past the fact that the «Days of Future Past» narrative is downright ridiculous, you can still enjoy some of the mindless, summer fun — and Quicksilver's sequences, because that's high quality cinema right there.

** NOTE: the ridiculous movie title is the resulting settlement brought on by Warner Bros who was concerned that a title of «The Butler» would cause confusion and conflict with their own 1916 short film of that title.

You can watch James go to the cage in a ridiculous get up to the theme of POD's «Boom «(which is where the movie gets the title from, ironic because the actual song «Here Comes the Boom» by Nelly is entirely different).

The picture is characterized by an astonishing amount of dead air, Franco's ridiculous zooms and hideous framing choices, and a bevy of subplots — each more deadening than the last — that only take time away from Lee's surprisingly respectful treatment of the title character.

Age of Apocalypse # 14 (Marvel) Jeff: It's rather sad that this title had to end with this ridiculous cros...

Overdrive Book Nerds — Overdrive Analysts read a ridiculous amount of books on a regular basis, to the point that they often joke that their official title should be Professional Book Nerds.

by Dan Santat (Little, Brown, April 12) Don't let the innocuous title fool you, as there's also a T - Rex on the cover of Caldecott Medalist Santat's road trip picture book, so we're expecting more than a few wonderfully ridiculous surprises.

The way books are sold on a consignment model, for example, wherein the book retailer can return any unsold item for a full refund — with the high price of the break - out successful hardback print title subsidizing the wasteful and ridiculous model.

His books» British titles, he says, were better, but in the US he suffered a series of publisher - imposed plays on the character's name for many years — «ridiculous compromises,» he calls those titles in an explanatory note on his Amazon author page.

Also, these so - called enhanced e-books are a very small, minute even, percentage of the titles coming out that to use them as a justification for what happened is ridiculous.

Rowlands Gill, UK About Blog As this blog title suggests, the chances of me (the sibling of a brain tumour victim) developing my very own brain tumour, were apparently ridiculous.

It is quite absurd but quite clear none of these people had an issue with such a ridiculous remark when it was leveled at a PS3 title.

The original Theatrhythm Final Fantasy, despite its ridiculous title, was one of the best early offerings on the 3DS.

As a game built on adrenaline, a pretty solid and appropriate soundtrack, and an absolutely ridiculous implementation of physics, Crazy Taxi was probably the title I spent the most hours with on my Dreamcast in the day.

Even Vlambeer, the master of bite - sized 2D arcade titles like Luftrausers and Ridiculous Fishing, wouldn't release its popular commercial debut, Super Crate Box, until two days after Super Meat Boy arrived on XBLA.

The DLC features the ability to switch the characters costumes to a vast array of characters from other Capcom titles and looks almost as ridiculous as Sunset Overdrive.

Early previews of the game lambasted the title for its excessive use of Quick Time Events and unfortunately, those concerns were well - founded because the final product is one riddled with some of the most downright useless and ridiculous QTE sequences we have ever witnessed.

Psyonix's ridiculous blend of playing association football in mini arenas with remote - controlled cars took off like no one could have predicted in 2015, but the developer had attempted it all before in 2008's PlayStation 3 title Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket - Powered Battle - Cars.

In honor of the latest addition to the Metal Gear series, here are our favorite titles in Konami's long - running, often - ridiculous stealth - action franchise, ranked from worst to best.

Were this a Sonic title from a few years ago I'd end by renewing the call for a proper 2D game, but Mania has already scratched that itch, and for all the sore spots, there is something about modern Sonic's combination of ridiculous speed and cinematic impact that seems worthy of further investigation.