Sentences with phrase «something of a rock star»

Carney is seen as something of a rock star in international financial circles.

Lewis herself has become something of a rock star among the more zealous union groups.

Something of a rock star among affordable performance cars, the Subaru WRX has a long, deep, and broad fanbase of avid admirers.

Players assume the role of Jack Joyce, an orphan with a troubled past who has returned to his hometown of Riverport after a long stint overseas at the behest of his childhood friend Paul Serene (played by Game of Thrones «Aidan Gillen), who has become something of a rock star businessman and wannabe quantum physicist working alongside Jack's brother Will.

Working across media including hand - drawn animation and opera, he has become something of a rock star and was in top form with his rendition of a sound poem first presented by the Dadaist Kurt Schwitters in 1932.

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It's sort of hard to compete with rock stars, but we've got to compete and to do something about our lack of energy.

Rock Star roars to life with a promise of something inspired and inventive whenever Wahlberg leaps onstage.

A strong beginning shows Tony Stark (Downey) as something between an evangelist and a rock star, bragging that he has «privatized peace» and refusing to turn over to the US government the secret of his «weapon.»

From Marvel's upcoming all - star blitz to the latest blockbuster featuring the Rock jumping off of something very, very tall, here's how this year's Super Bowl movie trailers stacked up.

This is no Basic Instinct or Single White Female or The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, but if you get a kick out of something like the Beyoncé versus Ali Larter film Obsessed or the J.Lo - starring Boy Next Door, then Unforgettable, helmed by first time feature director Denise Di Novi, provides a similar brand of campy ridiculousness.

The biggest draw here is Biehn himself, yesterdecade's star of James Cameron blockbusters The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss — and while there is no doubt that The Victim is something of a vanity project, there is also a strange, nostalgia - tinged melancholy to be found in the scene where young, buxom Annie (apparently no longer traumatised by her bff's very recent death) beds Biehn's Kyle every which way in a softcore - graphic manner harking straight back to Biehn's Eighties heyday (complete with rocking score).

July 1, 2011 • Rock critic Ken Tucker says that Beyonce's new album, titled 4, is something of a risk — it's not merely a collection of new songs, but a personal reassessment of the kind of pop star she wants to be.

Too often, the picture lives and dies on its ability to keep the pace fluid — but just that need for momentum suggests something amiss at the heart of the piece, a certain surface tension that would pop should the rock - star protagonist we envy ever collide against the satire of the kind of colossal moral vacuity required of his vocation.

Moss stars as Becky Something, a maniacally destructive punk rock star and leader of the seminal all - female rock band Something She, who pushes her relationships with bandmates, family and followers to the limit as she wages a years long war against sobriety, while attempting to re-engage the creativity that had once led her band to massive crossover success.

Gradually, though, one realizes that, to some extent, Ricki is putting on something of a front for the rest of her former family: trying to play the rebellious rock star that she never quite became.

While a fall production start date still gives plenty of time for Jason Schwartzman to clear up his schedule, Her Smell sees Moss play Becky Something, a maniacally destructive punk rock star who pushes her relationships with bandmates, family and followers to the limit as she wages a years - long war against sobriety while attempting to re-engage the creativity that had once led her band to massive crossover success.

Adonia wants to be a professional chef to exclusive clients and she's willing to do anything to get ahead in the tough industry, relationships be damned.When a crazy pop - rock star hires her company to cater the rest of her flagging tour, she joins a crew where each budding chef competes against each other for a spot on her cut - throat boss's exclusive first line.Adonia deals with everything from breakneck deadlines to a forced spa weekend while still cooking up to professional standards, keeping her temper in check, and fighting the building tension between her and her cute co-worker, Leah.Losing means being blacklisted from the industry, but winning could cost her something a lot more important - her self - respect.

So, if Rock star uses the same gameplay formula and continues on from the last game (which i'm assuming they will be as this is Red Dead Redemption 2 and not Red Dead Something else or just Red Dead 3), then i think they could make an interesting game about the death rattle of the western frontier.

You may not be a billionaire, you may not be a hot - shot celebrity rock star or famous politician, but you can still be a bad - ass by being a master of something.

In the style of a serial novel, The Star Islanders tells the tale of Francie Leighton, the 20 - something assistant to a Miami - based rock diva known as Queen Conch.

Conversely, the media portrays out - of - control spending as something desirable, encouraging us to live «like a rock star.»

The dreams of becoming an «astronaut», «rock star» or «jet pilot» are usually long gone, replaced with something else we discover along the way.

If you've had enough of the rat race in the crazy retail world, then come be a rock - star in an environment where you'll be given the opportunity to take ownership, branch out and experience something different.

Television and movie stars or rock stars occasionally say or do something that irritates or displeases a few of even their best fans.