Sentences with phrase «something of a slump»

While 12 goals from 17 combined Champions League and La Liga games would represent peak career form for most mere mortal world - class forwards, it was something of a slump for Ronaldo, having set sky - high standards for himself since his # 80million move to the Spanish capital in 2009.

It's no secret that the housing market has been in something of a slump over the last few years.

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But both Twitter and GoPro have something else in common: They're in the midst of a stock price slump that caused both CEOs to recently lose their status as paper billionaires.

During my afternoon slump, where I particularly craved something sweet, I simply made a cup of hot chocolate with my cacao powder, hot milk or dairy substitute (I think rice milk tastes best) and little bit of sweetener and seemed to feel satisfied.

I just hope that something snaps Alexis out of his current slump as soon as possible.

Leeds will be without Berardi, Cooper and Saiz through suspension, all three have seen red in recent weeks and it's a lack of discipline that has contributed to their slump, something Heckingbottom will need to address sooner rather than later.

I know what follows is very experimental and could cost us but I think we've got to try something to get out of our present slump.

I guess the salient point of the preview is that winning something could be the remedy to our slump in form.

Even the visualization of looking forward to something is enough to pull me out of my slump.

I hit the same sort of slump at my heaviest weight — I thought I felt OK in my own skin, but after seeing some unflattering vacation photos, I knew something had to change.

In a week that could have become something of a post-Emmys slump, sky blue jumpsuits and metallic minidresses pleasantly mingled with structural midi gowns and satin slip dresses.

VIOLENCE / GORE 8 - A man loads a gun and takes another person to a van when something heavy loudly breaks the windshield of the van, leaving large cracks in the glass and causing the van to run straight into a trailer and the man slumps over the wheel; he awakens (we see blood on his forehead and face and he has a large shard of glass stuck in his bloody abdomen) and a hooded man gets into the passenger seat, turns loud music on the radio, takes out an awl, and the slumped man screams and laughs as the hooded man stabs him in the throat, killing him (we see dripping blood on the victim's throat and the hooded man's hands and awl).

The Brothers Bloom in 2008 was something of a sophomore slump, but Looper knocks it out of the park.

The wunderkind's latest, «The Brothers Bloom,» could be something special, but given the ambition, it also has all the makings of a sophomore slump.

In an attempt to rebel against the typecasting, the late 1980s became something of a career slump for him.

Rather, the idea is that by creating a mix of stocks and bonds that will limit the downside to something you can tolerate, you'll be able to ride out a market slump and be positioned to capitalize on the eventual recovery.

Just came across this at a time where I fee like I'm in as bit of a slump... the initial energy and drive after just launching my own blog has lagged a bit and I needed something like this to help get refocused again — thank you!

Indeed, the smartwatch industry seems to be doing something akin to floundering these days, suggesting that this may not be enough to pull Fitbit out of the slump its found itself in.