Sentences with phrase «series felt up»

Up until Goblet of Fire, the future of the series felt up in the air just enough to keep everyone on their toes: Newell's film and Prisoner of Azkaban went the extra mile to prove that they were necessary additions to the canos.

Not exact matches

To find out the researchers rounded up a group of 500 Swiss and German study subjects and presented them with a series of questions about how much they worked, how exhausted they felt, and how much guilt they experienced after indulging in some couch potato time.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

Brian Michael Bendis explained why he didn't ever feel like the comics should go in the same direction as the TV series ended up going.

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

Watching this premiere with the full knowledge of the series in mind, you can read it all as set - up for the character transformation to come, but tonally, the episode feels a bit like a bait - and - switch.

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

I am so glad I signed up for this series... I really look forward to the class each month, and I always come away feeling excited and inspired.

Portland matches up well with them and I feel like Russ can be game planned for in a series.

When Cadillac Jack Grimm bought $ 10,000 worth of chips and sat down at a green felt table in Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas two weeks ago, he had no real hope that he might stand up a couple of days later as champion of this year's World Series of Poker.

Vincent and McEachran have split up previously, following a series of arguments, but decided to get back together and we can't rule out the same thing happening again with both parties claiming they still have feelings for each other.

I'm a big fan of WWE taking time off myself (and I fall in the post Survivor Series camp), because I feel like it would lead to a better overall product as the wrestlers can take time to rest and heal up, and it gives creative time to reassess and reset story lines.

It was that we were coming off that Knicks series that was so physical, and because the Suns got up and down the court and played kind of free, we felt almost liberated.

Come playoff time, Fox's role had been so diminished that the only way he felt he could contribute was to goon it up in a series of uncharacteristic unpleasantries with Scottie Pippen.

Having just come off the back of my strongest year ever, being picked up by Renault F1 for their junior program, and not being that one driver to have not won a race in the series, I was feeling positive at the start of the season.

Even with the Cleveland Cavaliers up 2 - 0 on the Boston Celtics in this first - round playoff series, several Celtics players are still feeling...

Even with the Cleveland Cavaliers up 2 - 0 on the Boston Celtics in this first - round playoff series, several Celtics players are still feeling confident.

Regardless of what side you elect to back with your wagering dollars or if you approached the series handicap with aplomb of a seasoned veteran or bet purely on gut feel, the star studded finals sets up to be the perfect way to wrap a NBA playoffs that has largely lacked drama this entire spring.

While they likely will not be mic'd up like David Belisle, coach of the Cumberland American Little League team, I'm glad he was so we can all feel inspired during his post-loss speech to his crushed players following their elimination from the Little League World Series Monday night.

Lang, who earned his stripes on «The Bill», «Casualty» and currently juggling scripts for three series, including the hit crime drama «Unforgotten» and a forthcoming Netflix production, adds: «The rule of thumb is that a third of the character is you, a third is people you know, a third is made up, and it's that final third where true empathy can hopefully be felt.»

In this 3 week series I'm going to provide you with tips and recipes to help you to boost your energy so that you can feel more productive and have energy to keep up with your hectic lifestyle.

These nerves help us to «feel» our inner world (together they are referred to as the Enteric Nervous System or «ENS») and through a series of complex neural pathways relay the information they receive back up to the brain (the Central Nervous System or «CNS»).

And after spending all summer doing the 8 week Bikini Series by Karena and Katrina's Tone It Up, I'm feeling the guilt as I wave goodbye to my favourite itty bitty bikini.

From feelings of disappointment and discouragement to those of contentment and balance: Sandrine Bremer spoke with us about her experiences while practicing the Second Series and how they have affected the way she shows up on and off the mat.

Her weight has fluctuated throughout her life, but after a series of unfortunate events shortly after college, Emily's weight bloomed way up - 50 pounds up - and to a point where she felt extremely uncomfortable in her own skin.

This next guided session from Sonima's 12 - Week Sleep Better Series will help you make the most of your bedtime hours so that you wake up feeling completely refreshed.

I wake up every morning and do the same series of five - minute stretches, drink hot water with lemon, take a shower, do a quick meditation, eat breakfast, then feel ready to brave the day.

The Last Ever After by Soman Chainani: The final book in the trilogy, I feel this book lived up to the first one in the series.

Finishing a series or getting caught up is totally an awesome feeling and accomplishment.

I tried to pinpoint exactly what made me feel like saving came easily to me and realized this: I save because over the years I've set up a series of nudges to help me succeed.

There's no substitute for experiencing the bite of winter, or feeling the crisp autumn air on your face... it just makes you want to curl up under your coziest warm blanket and binge on your new favorite series... What if you didn't have to curl up alone?

The word network lied felt by flood of break - up during the photoelectric and racist PsychiatristsPsychiatrists of series.

But despite the best efforts of the writers (including Ken Anderson of Cinderella fame), it still feels like a series of episodes, in which characters turn up, do little and then disappear for quite a while.

When you get down to it, Conquest feels more like a cousin to the series than a true follow - up.

You can't help but feel that the film suffers on account of the director's trademark aversion to taut editing and on these expansive plans to live up to the Lord of the Rings series.

Of all things, the series ends up feeling light - weight, and the seemingly constant need for Cassar to flash back or forward kills the pace and tension of proceedings stone dead.

It's pretty normal «double agent» and «dirty fighting» plot points, but the details surrounding it make it feel very fresh — essentially, the series» use of magic and wands instead of normal tools (combined, of course, with a great cast, technically precise execution, and the audience's strong emotional attachment) dress up what would otherwise be cliche.

Other than the fact that she looks great, and that the movie has an ending that I actually thought was smart, with a good wrapped - up feeling that will satisfy those who were invested in the series, there is absolutely nothing positive to say about this final chapter.

Despite the intriguing set - up, there's something unambitious and scaled - back about Star Trek Nemesis, so that most of the time it feels like a slightly suped - up episode of the «Next Generation» TV series.

The series feels like it was made for a different era — like the old guy who still shows up at the club, even when everyone knows he needs to move on — and these days, there's simply no time to stick around and wait for it to realize who and what it is.

The result was a TV special that felt every bit as dated, but also every bit as joyous, as those variety series, when the likes of Dinah Shore and Julie Andrews and Judy Garland and the Jacksons would serve up entertainment comfort food in the»60s and»70s.

However, after investing so much time and emotion into the series, I did end up feeling I deserved something better.

So far the stern - faced Lake Bell's independent - minded oceanographer is too conventional a protagonist, while the series» government cover - up thread... feels globally warmed over.

However, while these are still good games to play, the now ordinary gameplay may feel a bit stale, particularly for those who have kept up with the series» annual releases for the past decade.

Unfortunately, I don't feel this game lives up to the reputation of the past three in the series.

While the beginning of the film feels like it's setting the audience up for a somewhat boring lesson on drone warfare (I'm looking at you, Good Kill), Hood — still wiping the sting of X-Men Origins: Wolverine off with Ender's Game and now this — excellently threads the needle of tension and, before you know it, the thriller aspect of the film becomes abundantly clear as the series of events play out in semi-real time over the course of one day.

«Revenge» is shocking but not gratuitously so; surprisingly, it ends up becoming a feel - good tale of a woman enduring a series of horrific abuses and triumphantly coming into her own at the end.

I picked up the first book of The Mortal Instruments series about six years ago, which honestly feels like a l...

Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge: «Even at its best, The Last Knight feels like a series of action scenes wrapped up together in a thinly stretched narrative.

Her line readings are delightfully unexpected, and, while so many other players in long - running series dial up their characters into loud caricatures as their shows trudge on, Dunham still feels very in control of the hurricane of ambling angst that is Hannah Horvath.