Sentences with phrase «rocky ground with»

We start off on rocky ground with a ridiculous flashback of the Fang clan faking a bank robbery for lollipops — though even by our nostalgia tinged standards of the 70s, bank robbery was no joke, setting up an immediate sense of cloying inauthenticity.

It isn't that post-meltdown Sheen lacks the charisma to anchor a picture, but that Coppola, on rockier ground with his second feature after the much more aesthetically bold and thematically rich CQ, is serving two masters: his own whimsy; and his obvious desire to stage a career intervention for his friend, recasting the actor's overexposed mania as hangdog sadness — probably the last thing anyone wants to see Sheen embody.

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In order to create a robust portfolio, you need to balance that risk with defensive companies that can hold their ground when markets get rocky.

Everyone will sleep on thick foam mattresses with a thin rug between those and the rocky ground.

In the parable, the seed in one case fell upon ground having a rocky bottom, covered over with a thin layer of earth; when the seed began to take root, its downward growth was hindered by the hard stone and therefore it spent its strength in pushing its green shoot aloft as high as it could, but having no inward moisture derived from root nourishment, it withered away.

The relatively flat ground and rocky soil of the research sites within the Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest in California's Lassen National Forest, where the Cone Fire burned, may have reduced negative effects associated with ground disturbance, leading researchers to caution applying their findings to areas where soil disturbance from logging is greater.

Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.

Amanda & Jack Go Glamping World Premiere Writer / Director: Brandon Dickerson Starring: David Arquette, Amy Acker, Adan Canto, June Squibb Logline: With his mid-life marriage on rocky ground, dejected one - hit - author Jack Spencer goes glamping (glamorous camping) with his wife, Amanda, in search of a spWith his mid-life marriage on rocky ground, dejected one - hit - author Jack Spencer goes glamping (glamorous camping) with his wife, Amanda, in search of a spwith his wife, Amanda, in search of a spark.

From the rocky terrain above ground, to the massive underground facility itself, each area feels unique and ripe with areas to explore in search of not only new paths of progression, but various upgrades as well.

Much like the tale of two cities vibe told by the city's tourism board showcasing bright lights and booming business, intercut with shots of intense racism and war, his structure is on rocky ground.

As an aside, the stands used by dendrochronologists are rocky with little ground cover making them unsuitable for grazing by sheep, etc. especially relative to the nearby flats and meadows.