Sentences with phrase «sharp performance as»

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In fact, it saw the sharpest drop since the financial crisis as weaker corporate performance sacked cash bonuses and accounting regulation hampered pension growth.

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While Miami was not as sharp as usual offensively, it made up for it with a stifling defensive performance, turning Atlanta (34 - 29) over 22 times.

Three years of brilliant performances make Jones the 100 - and 200 - meter favorite at the trials, especially with Miller — who has not looked sharp in recent European races — saying last week that she is running merely to make the team in Sacramento, with victory in Sydney as her larger goal.

It wasn't as sharp of a performance as he had against the Steelers, but I could only find five throws that I considered to be uncatchable against the Patriots that weren't throwaways.

Lacazette looked sharp, as did the other summer signing Sead Kolasinac and there were some impressive performances from the young Gunners as well.

Le Prof said after the game: «I'm impressed [with how he played] but when he is sharp physically like that and at that level of performance, he must enjoy it and of course we as a team enjoy it,» Le Prof said on Arsenal.com.

There was a world indoor record - breaking 4x800m performance as USA's Chrishuna Williams, Raevyn Rogers, Charlene Lipsey and Ajee» Wilson combined to clock 8:05.89 ahead of a NY All Stars team featuring Kendra Chambers, Lynsey Sharp, Ce'aira Brown and Cecilia Barowski (8:11.45).

We can usually defend sharp and together as a unit until a chance appears, and to slip back into this sort of performance will not cut it in CL much less the PL, we saw that again and again.

With discipline the theme of today's column, sharp bettors have been extremely selective in early betting as well, not overreacting to the week's performance.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday that the Long Island Power Authority «has to end,» as he continued his sharp criticism of the authority's performance in the wake of superstorm Sandy.

As evidenced by the Lewes MP Norman Baker's performance at yesterday's Guardian debate, too many Lib Dems» take on our great ongoing political wobble amounts to a mixed - up mess of incremental changes, flimsy novelty, and shallow anti-politics, with PR well down the list, and no sharp lines on why its time might have finally come.

Behaviorally, the mice with 110 CAG repeats showed a sharp decline in both rotarod and open field performance from around 4 weeks of age whereas the 240 CAG repeat mice displayed a 2 - 3 week delay in the onset of behavioral decline with a much slower progression of decline in both tasks as compared to 110 CAG repeat counterparts.

Increasing muscle fascicle length through eccentric training could therefore be a valuable method for improving athletic performance in movements that have peak contractions at long muscle lengths, such as the terminal swing phase of sprinting, or the ground contact phase of sharp change of direction (COD) maneuvers.

Minimising your intake could improve your health in other ways, if you're fatigued all the time, if you're mentally sluggish and not as sharp as you'd like, or if your sexual performance needs pumping up.

Indeed, with approximately 0.5 seconds available for force production during COD maneuvers with sharp turns (Sasaki et al. 2011; Dos» Santos et al. 2016), maximum force production is likely to be quite closely related to COD performance, particularly as peak force in concentric contractions is reached in as little as 125ms (Tillin et al. 2012a).

This impressively accessible take on some very difficult issues benefits from the measured but relatable performances from Lily Collins and Alex Sharp, with the latter playing a young British dancer who is also a «rexie» and who becomes the lead's confidant and maybe more, and an avuncular turn from Keanu Reeves as the youngsters» doctor.

Earning raves for its nuanced performances as well as sharp writing, You Can Count on Me garnered Ruffalo the Montreal Film Festival's Best Actor prize and talk of an Oscar nod.

Baugh gets sharp performances from a generally experienced cast, though the normally expert Lynch doesn't quite have the malevolent edge to render her dragon - lady as fearsome as she should be.

It's a beautiful performance that tells us as much with a quiet sigh as it does with a razor - sharp line of dialog.

«Boiler Room» (2000) 67 percent: Its ending is disappointingly tidy, but this film boasts just enough sharp writing and brisk pacing to make getting there worthwhile — and the performances, including Diesel as a young financial hotshot, are energetic and winning.

Her terrific performance in Amy Schumer's «Trainwreck» certainly convinced us that Swinton could play broad comedy and still remain sharp as a tack.

Streep's performance here, as a bewigged, sharp - tongued, cancer - afflicted matriarch, is a much stronger demonstration of her knack for characterization than her uncanny Margaret Thatcher impression.

It's Got: Some very sharp lines; two very different kinds of contract; standout performances from Dwayne Johnson, André Benjamin and the late Robert Pastorelli (as dyspeptic hitman Joe Loop),; John Travolta dancing with Uma Thurman (again); and a marked diffidence on issues like race and the environment.

Chastain's performance is just as sharp as you'd expect.

Flattering Bret Easton Ellis's stone - cold satire with a devilish Christian Bale performance and scalpel - sharp period detail, Mary Harron's thriller is close to peerless as a picture of»80s - era vapidity and entitlement.

Rockwell and (especially) Schneider give sharp, telegraphic performances as members of the ill - fated gang.

Lou Diamond Phillips delivers a sharp, macho performance as a fellow killer.

Papa Meyerowitz is played with savvy understanding by Dustin Hoffman, who gives a performance that's as kind of sweet as it is sharp and devastating.

Following his performance in Denis Villeneuve's acclaimed drug cartel thriller Sicario, British actor Daniel Kaluuya (who sharp - eyed viewers will remember as a one time Harry Enfield / Paul Whitehouse regular) delivers another eye - catching performance as black photographer Chris, who is nervous about his upcoming meet and greet with white girlfriend Rose's (Allison Williams) parents.

The performances range from terrible - on - purpose (Fiennes, Close, and Jason Isaacs, whose first line as Pucci's father --»... You let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top - tier school» — hastily but explicitly lampoons the genre's default father - son conflict, thus throwing The Chumscrubber's true target of ridicule (movies about the middle - class rather than the middle - class itself) into sharp relief) to oblivious (Camilla Belle).

Paul Schrader gets a sharp performance from Ethan Hawke as he traps him in cassock and a 4:3 frame.

Cregger's bland yet personable turn as the central character is certainly in sharp contrast to Moore's aggressively zany performance, with the actor's incessantly over-the-top work hitting the viewer like nails on a chalkboard and ensuring that the film becomes more and more of a chore to sit through as it progresses.

More impressive, though, is the trio of supporting performances from the women in Raymond's life: Anna Friel as the citric - sharp Jean, who puts up with too much for too long; Tamsin Egerton as leggily stunning and intelligent model - cum - columnist Fiona Richmond, who puts up with even more for not so long; and Imogen Poots, hiding in the shadow of her own fringe as Debbie, who, the film asserts, was spoiled by her father in the truest way possible — thus finding, amid all the daft interior design and humorous erotica, the story's tragic heart.

With sharp - as - a-blade editing, Steven Rogers's whip smart script and superb performances (including Margot Robbie as Harding), the film leaves you wondering what might have been if this powerful competitor had been given half a chance.

Carell and Fishburne are solid in tightly reserved performances, leaving Cranston to let fly as the sharp - tongued Sal, who's ready to lay down verbal barrages against Col. Willits» authority or Mueller's Christian faith or anything else that annoys him.

Even though this comedy has a tendency to dip into cartoonish silliness, it's anchored by a razor - sharp performance by Wiig as a woman forced to confront everything she hates about herself.

The festival favorite boasts a riveting turn from lead Frances McDormand, a deliciously sharp screenplay from director Martin McDonagh, and a tour - de-force performance from Sam Rockwell as a self - loathing corrupt cop.

With razor - sharp performances, a brutally witty script by Bruce Wagner and snaky direction from David Cronenberg, the film is perhaps too knowing as it explores a group of fiercely ambitious people who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Seven Psychopaths might not be quite on the same level as In Bruges, but it offers comparable fun with colorful writing, a sharp plot, strong performances, appealing flavor, technical sheen, and plenty of humor.

It has a script that is sharp as hell, great performances, and direction that leads the entire circus with a deft command.

The other key players here are Kirsten Dunst (who starred in Coppola's «Marie Antoinette» and «The Virgin Suicides»), piercingly good as the naive young woman to whom McBurney pledges his love, and Kidman, whose scalpel - sharp performance seems to conceal tantalizing multitudes.

Featuring sharp performances from its cast (both human and metal) and some outstanding special effects, «Real Steel» is best described as «Rocky» meets «The Iron Giant.»

O'Connell delivers another «intense and committed performance,» but it's just as impressive a showcase for Demange, who combines gritty docudrama camerawork, razor - sharp editing and a curious kind of impressionism, brilliantly executing a very strong script from Gregory Burke that doesn't «skirt its issues... instead it explodes them to reveal a deeper, wider truth.»

Fisher's infamous razor - sharp wit and brash personality certainly shone through her every performance as Leia.

Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene's razor - sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker's dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.

It is impossible to watch the new film by writer / director Nicole Holofcener (Lovely and Amazing, Friends with Money) without experiencing, anew, sharp pains of regret at the premature passing of James Gandolfini He is so perfect in his role as a lonely and awkward divorcé, and such a lovely match for the equally wonderful Julia Louis - Dreyfus — herself lonely and divorced here — that one can but wish he had had more time to deliver many more such performances.

«While LMS packages are great and serve a real purpose for tracking compliance and other baseline metrics, there have been some sharp criticisms that as the workforce has become increasingly mobile, there has a shortcoming in tracking real - world performance and results.

By exploiting the sharp performance cutoffs that determine tenure status as well as the longitudinal nature of available data before and after the legislated changes in tenure policy, this dissertation seeks to quantify the effects of tenure reforms on performance and retention outcomes for teachers in Tennessee.

But more importantly, we are seeing the emergence of new and better tools for assessing student performance, as Anya Kamenetz, author of a forthcoming book on the history and future of assessment, and a sharp critic of high - stakes testing, recently observed: