Sentences with phrase «sparring match in»

Not exact matches

Honestly, a man of your intellectual stature and prowess in logic needs a sparring partner with whom you are more evenly matched.

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?

On the whole I sit there in silence and listen» - but he clearly relishes his weekly «sparring match» with Commons leader Chris Grayling, a man who he says «never looks very happy....

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.

On what starts off as a normal day in Aytolis, Darios is visiting and sparring with Rowan in a practise match, only Rowan loses and just as soon as it is Lianna's turn, the proverbial you know what, hits the fan.

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.

And in one of the variously skilled ways that the film folds recognisable tensions into its forever - evolving highwire act, continual mileage arises from the sparring match between Kevin (Lamorne Morris) and his partner Michelle (Kylie Bunbury), who lets slip that she once slept with a celebrity but won't reveal who.The circle widens out to include not just some notably impolite baddies who seem to be liking the game a bit too much but a hilariously weird next - door neighbour (Jesse Plemons, pictured above) who doesn't take to the notion that the game might be happening without him.

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.

What they got in those brief minutes at the end of each program was less debate than verbal sparring matches between two erudite intellectuals attacking the political philosophy and public record of the other and they were out for blood.

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.

ARMS v. 3.1.0 update is now available for download on Switch and has added the versus stage, Sparring Ring in Ranked Matches, bug fixes & balance adjustments.

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

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.

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.

Want to see him spar online against other players in matches?

However, every player within a Guild must combine their progression in order to collectively accomplish a certain figure to earn trophies such as Guild Battles for defeating members of another Guild during 10 online ranked or player matches; Guild Sparring for fighting with another member of your Guild in 50 online ranked or player matches; Boss Damage for inflicting 20,000 in total damage during boss battles; and much more besides, while players are rewarded with a Guild Mother Box for earning a trophy.

Just look at the kerfuffle that happened in the comments of this blog, upon the very mention of Andrew Bolt; and it's not surprising to me that there have been distractions during the WUWT tour — Andrew Bolt and Ove Hoegh - Guldberg have had an online sparring match going on for some time.

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.