Sentences with phrase «squib by»

Here's their recent results, which were treated like a damp squib by the market.

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

Today, however, his importance is scarcely a rumor even to the very literate, and the best known book about him in English is a ghastly, feeble, and imbecile squib by one of the twentieth century's most indefatigably fraudulent intellectuals, Isaiah Berlin.

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By the time the documentary aired it was received as something of a damp squib.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

Scientific American gave the Princeton professor an award in 2003 for his critiques of digital privacy.The squib we ran at the time read: «Corporations intent on monopolizing the digital economy have come to fear Edward Felten, who has fought their claims with technical analysis sharpened by a sense of the ridiculous.

Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious «Heartland Institute» we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest «assessment» of the science of climate change earlier this year in the form of what they call the «NIPCC» report (the «N» presumably standing for «not the» or «nonsense»).

Sadly, these often strong scenes of the family's interactions with one another are undone by the film's constant need to cut away and remind us of the larger plot involving the hitmen and thus sacrificing where its strength lies in order to set up and build toward its damp squib of a finale.

You can spend An Afternoon with Molly Shannon on Sunday, May 22, 4:30 pm at The Egyptian, where the onstage conversation with the actress will be followed by a screening of Other People, a comedy co-starring Jesse Plemons, Bradley Whitford, and June Squib.

The same logic governs the new attempt by Legendary Pictures / Warner Brothers to relaunch a Western version of Toho's Godzilla franchise, after the damp squib of the 1998 Roland Emmerich version.

Her unsteady countenance, flanked by makeup artists and crew members affixing a squib to the side of her head above the wig line, first seems symptomatic of her inability to grasp the character, but each time the film returns to it, the implications change with further knowledge of Christine and how Kate interprets her life and untimely demise.

Painting, Parody, and Disguise, curated by Michael Stillion, at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (2014); The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2013 — 2014); Domestic Abstractions: 1986 — 2013 at Kavi Gupta BERLIN (2013); MCA DNA: Chicago Conceptual Abstraction, 1986 — 1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2013); This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s, ICA Boston, MA and Walker Art Center, MN, curated by Helen Molesworth (2012 — 2013); Rainbow at Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City (2012); Judy at Leo Koenig, New York (2011); Life During Wartime at Rochester Art Center, Rochester (2011); Squib at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2009); Basics at Kunsthalle Bern (2002); Judy at Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL (2001); as well as solo exhibitions at Feigen Contemporary in New York (2002), Feature, New York, NY 1993, and Karsten Schubert Ltd. in London, England (1987).

Re # 79 I think you are making a good point there that last year's record hurricane season could well be followed this year by a damp squib.