Sentences with phrase «sparring match»

Howard presents the fateful interview that helped secure Tricky Dick's legacy as a verbal sparring match between journalist and interviewee, turning what could have been a flat series of conversations into a genuinely tense procedural.

I have plenty of sparring matches with folks here, and I 100 % RESPECT their right to beat me up as much as I sometimes beat up others.

There's a clever bit of character building that occurs in the verbal sparring matches between M and C, too — we see M's sense of honor and order and C's inability to care about people either as individuals or collectively.

In following up on its human - beating chess computer Deep Blue, IBM says it has been refining Watson for almost two years and hopes to stage a series of sparring matches before a final showdown in 2010.

The most entertaining scenes in the film involve the bizarre comedy of Harland Williams, who twice gets into sparring matches with animals.

It's a tremendous intellectual sparring match between the two, all about religion and philosophy, yet it starts innocently enough with an enquiry about Marcus's social life.

All Access, Season 1, Episode 1: Watch Victor Ortiz have some fun as referee of a very amateur sparring match in this bonus video from ALL ACCESS: Victor Ortiz.

The two brothers are set on a collision course with one another and they don't even realize it, as Brendan grinds away at training and the ferocious Tommy grows notorious online when a video of him knocking out one of the world's best fighters in a gym sparring match goes viral.

David talks openly about tough stuff... are you honestly interested in hearing his heart or, as it sometimes seems, just wanting to engage in a quasi-spiritual sparring match?

Opening Ceremonies begin at 8:30 a.m. with sparring matches immediately following.

Gordon Brown faced MPs for his weekly Commons sparring match with Labour's poll rating slumped at a 24 - year low.

The two emerge, after wildly entertaining sparring matches, with a cold, calculated execution involving blackmail, a drug dealer (played by the late, ever - brilliant Anton Yelchin), a gun, and, unexpectedly, a lamp.

(A literal sparring match, in fact, begins the movie.)

We don't really know what he's after with Caleb, which grants a nice charge to their early moments together, especially their tentative sparring matches about their respective desires.

It's quite the amusing sparring match, but nothing they say really tops their adversarial relationship in Deadpool 2.

Another member will comment on the post in question, and that can trigger a verbal sparring match within the group.

I had more or less anticipated this might happen, so, being the subversive bastard that I am, I whipped out my PSP for a short sparring match of Street Fighter Alpha 3.

Even if you are just a committed hobbyist sparring matches in your local gym, participating in this sport can drive up your life insurance cost.

But in this ongoing sparring match, Snapchat is losing, and losing hard — it has fewer users, a more confusing interface, inferior features, and a worse ad experience.

The reality of what transpired in the months and years leading up to that fateful match in May 1997, however, was actually more evolutionary than revolutionary — a Rocky Balboa — like rise filled with intellectual sparring matches, painstaking progress and a defeat in Philadelphia that ultimately set the stage for a triumphant rematch.

Which isn't all that different from many of his own patients: Laura (Melissa George) is in love with Paul and spends her sessions trying to rouse an emotion from him; Alex (Blair Underwood) is a hyper - competitive Navy pilot who treats his session like verbal sparring matches; Sophie (Mia Wasikowska) is a teenage gymnast with deep emotional conflicts; and Amy and Jake (Embeth Davidtz, Josh Charles) are married couple who can turn ferocious in the middle of a session.

She has to play it entirely in flashback and isn't around for Hulce's sparring matches with Harry Dean Stanton, a vice cop who thinks he has seen it all.

Your training will help you increase your speed, stamina, and power stats, and the results of sparring matches will allow you to assign extra points to specific fighting attributes.

The announcement quickly turned into a sparring match between the two lawmakers on one side and a host of individuals who don't like talk of a hybrid solution on the other side.

But «Death and the Maiden» winds up as not much more than a sparring match.

Magic Moment: Atom the robot mimics Charlie's moves, making their training session a synched - up sparring match.

I just wish the game had more significant offline modes other than the gauntlet and sparring matches and that the story was handled better.

There is a wonderful episode of Siskel & Ebert & the Movies when Gene and Roger have one of their sparring matches over their reviews of Full Metal Jacket and Benji the Hunted.

The local owner of a boxing ring, Willy Grogan (Gig Young), notices Gulick's knack for knocking people out during a sparring match.

THE GIVERDirector: Phillip NoyceStarring: Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgard, Katie Holmes, Odeya Rush, Cameron Monaghan, Taylor Swift There's a great scene toward the end of The Giver where Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges get to have a bit of a verbal sparring match.

In Broken Arrow, the classic Melville - Woo themes are not so much developed as simplified into a «friendly» sparring match between the two male leads, hero Christian Slater and villain John Travolta.

But for me there is no more overwhelming meld of sound and image than the one that serves as a preface to the sparring match between Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi, in which Ziyi sits in waiting along with other women of the house, ducked out in their period attire and perfectly lit and framed.

The duo execute verbal sparring matches that ride the thin line between love and hate.

Or if you tend to dislike confrontation, your impulse might be to leave the room or to avoid a sparring match with the client.

The Zelda series has always been known for its epic boss battles, and yet the first dungeon's boss in Skyward Sword is essentially a Wiimote tutorial masquerading as a sparring match with the game's homoerotic, androgynous main baddy.

I just wish the game had more significant offline modes other than the gauntlet and sparring matches and that the story was handled better.

Everything was good for everyone until he had a sparring match with Goku, got jealous and decided to pull a Flash on everyone.

Amusingly, a montage of Nye's sparring matches with conservative media in the new film includes a snippet of Fox News in finest form.

To deal with know - it - alls, you must reach deep down inside yourself for that last little bit of patience, says Elaine Boggs, ABR ®, an associate broker with Century 21 Action Realty in Hinesville, Ga. «Don't get into a sparring match.