Sentences with word «squib»

Things have gone steadily his way all week, with a decent Lib Dem ICM poll score of 21 % last weekend (and another due in tomorrow's Guardian poll), a solid victory on the contentious and potentially divisive tax package, and the damp squib of Charles Kennedy's speech on Tuesday.

Simply lacking any narrative hook, weâ $ ™ re forced to endure the torturous quest to find the Justin Timberlake - voiced Artie, a real damp squib of a character utterly bereft of remotely interesting dialogue.

However, the Fire Phone has been something of a damp squib in America where it launched, attracting some disappointed reviews, with many tech bloggers questioning if the device is special enough to encourage someone to move contracts and suggesting Amazon left its entry into the smartphone market too late.

But an ill - advised squib kick went awry, gifting the Dawgs a kick, and Blankenship nailed a 55 - yarder.

True, the last series to be held down under was a damp squib as a contest with England being summarily dismissed with a 5 - 0 whitewash but the odds on the same scoreline being replicated this time round are extremely slim

After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, in 1990, Dr. Chen began his work at the Bristol - Myers Squib Company as a research scientist.

The bloodshed is comically messy, with squibs exploding as if they were stored in condoms, thrown by frat boys.

The camera, usually a damp squib on most budget and mid-range phones, is actually much better than many.

So what begins as an understated yet strikingly good look at gambling addiction turns into a bit of a damp squib by the end.

His arrival represented the Hammers» biggest summer outlay and something of a damp squib at that.

AS DAMP squibs go, it was quite a spectacular one.

The bonfire of the quangos became a damp squib for David Cameron.

«June Squib was seriously so good.»

Oklahoma had a 31 - 17 lead at halftime, and the score was only that close because a botched squib kick set up Georgia for a 55 - yard field goal as the half expired.

Do all the airbag squibs on an Opel / Vauxhall Corsa C include steering angle sensor?

In its inception, section 43 (a) of the Lanham Act began as a short squib about false and misleading representations.

Whereas the earlier paintings tend towards dense and compact paint handling, these works are looser, more open, the forms dissolving and unraveling into squibs and scribbles.

Whether it is Secretary Mnuchin's absurd claims about tax cuts not favoring the rich, Secretary Ross's claim that the small squib of a deal negotiated last week with China was the greatest trade result with China in history, NEC Director Cohn's ludicrous estimate of the costs of Dodd Frank, or today's budget, the Trump administration has not yet made a significant economic pronouncement that meets a minimal standard of competence and honesty.

Now it is true that a ludicrously hyped squib of a deal is much better than a trade war.

If Horace's great Odes have an Augustan restraint that is perhaps out of joint with our post-Golden Age times, the Satires, with their gossip, vignettes, autobiographical snapshots, dialogues, fanciful squibs, and mild invectives (for all his freedom of speech, Horace is careful not to tread on the toes of the truly powerful), seem as topical as ever.

What a damp squib August has been.

And the way the planned protests at the end of last season turned out to be a damp squib proves that there are plenty of AKBs out there.

When added to the fact that they're struggling to score as well, this season is shaping up to be another damp squib after a lot of promise going in.

4 p.m.: NFL Films Festival Our four - hour marathon begins with The Placekickers, 30 minutes of slow - motion squib - kicking set to swelling orchestral arrangements.

It was a bit of damp squib against Norwich, but hopefully that was just the beginning, and with momentum, become bigger over time.

The wildest kickoff return in history began when Kevin Moen of Cal fielded a Stanford squib and ended, five laterals and a felled trombone player later, amid hysteria

It didn't matter as the ball squibbed in to the net and Spurs were 3 - 0 up.

Carroll is a damp squib without his elbows and even when he wins headers the defence get it.

Man City fan Anthony «Moggy» McGrath has plenty of reasons to celebrate after a damp - squib conclusion to a glorious title...

British business can not afford another damp squib like Merlin.

The lesson of the SDP's damp squib start is that Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system is very unforgiving for small parties.

But overall, there is a distinct damp squib feeling in Rio.

The latest damp squib reflects little credit on any of those involved.

Layering a damp - squib thriller subplot beneath what appears to be an ad campaign for the one - percent lifestyle, the returning director and screenwriter (James Foley and Niall Leonard) test the newly married couple with an inconvenient pregnancy and an unconvincing car chase.

Soon, zombie - like throngs bubble up here and again (the film is more second - tier Romero, à la The Crazies), leading to the expenditure of a few thousand overripe squibs as mysterious stranger Wray (Freddy Rodriguez, no relation) reunites with bombshell Cherry and leads humanity's last, best defense against the diseased Hun.

More thought seems to go into one headshot squib than the entire script.

What we actually get is the dampest of damp squibs thrown into a not especially flammable nest of 70s hairstyles and furniture.

Blacks occasionally crush, but the lack of DVNR makes up for it — even if the ridiculous filters used in daylight exteriors (director Fleischer describes the construction of these filters in his commentary as revolutionary water squibs dyed green) are all the more obvious as in - camera trickery.

But where The Pope is more about the threat of violence — what might have been its bloodiest scene takes place entirely out of frame — Desperate Hours places it front and center, blood squibs and all.

No doubt, there's a lot more squibs and F - bombs coming our way in the uncensored film and you don't recruit Shane Black to make your movie if you just want the same old same old, but it's tough to get a clean read on the movie's tone from the trailer.

«I was telling him some information on the gag and he looked at me and said, «What squibs are you talking about?»

CG blood always seemed blasphemous to me until Zodiac proved it can be convincing, and the rationale that Barron or his partner Eric Barba gives for it makes perfect sense: without the mess that squibs create, multiple takes of carnage are suddenly viable.

A power outage makes everything look cool and neon, like a Michael Mann film; once the killing begins, the movie devolves into a cavalcade of gruesome squibs, exit wounds, and creative kills amid the cries and pleas for mercy.