Sentences with phrase «squib for»

If Ehrenreich is too much of a damp squib for you, might I suggest feasting your eyes on Donald Glover's suave - as - hell Lando?

Despite a lavish budget heading for $ 200 million (# 131 million), World War Z borders on a damp squib for traditional zombie fans.

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

Not exact matches

And we really need it to be, because what was supposed to be a great season for the Gunners, following on from our Premier League title charge last season and the end of a nine year wait for a trophy, has turned into yet another damp squib, so far at least.

«On Saturday, the fans had a chance to basically make their view known that it is time for change, but it turned into a massive damp squib.

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.

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.

But Gloria De Piero, Labour's shadow minister for women, has dismissed the initiative as a damp squib.

Gloria De Piero, shadow minister for women and equalities, said: «The Tories have spent the last few days briefing that this would be the reshuffle which fixed David Cameron's «women problem» but it's turning in to a damp squib.»

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»).

Likewise, for all the talk of the showdown with Bill (when it finally arrives after far too much time), his death is a total damp squib, with far too little catharsis and making too less sense.

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.

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.

For all its contrivance and soupçon allure — it literally milks the premise for every drop — it does fall a little out of step in the third act as it trades in squibs and send - ups for a melodramatic subplFor all its contrivance and soupçon allure — it literally milks the premise for every drop — it does fall a little out of step in the third act as it trades in squibs and send - ups for a melodramatic subplfor every drop — it does fall a little out of step in the third act as it trades in squibs and send - ups for a melodramatic subplfor a melodramatic subplot.

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.

An army of squibs erase the need for cheap looking, post-production digital blood painting.

A whirlwind of circumstances, coincidences, and consequences bring Doc, Squib, Hunger, Hazel, and Mildred together in a perhaps ill - conceived plot for revenge, which nudges Leonard Pelf, a broken, angry, and desperate foster kid, squarely onto Christopher's path.

And thanks for including Funny's squib about working more in retirement than on a job.

The Vita TV has been as much of a damp squib as the Vita itself, which means you can buy it for an absolute song these days.

A sale of 140 or so contemporary works that was held in Paris this February was a bit of a damp squib, and raised barely # 300,000, half what had been hoped for, to fund the opening in April of The Dairy — a not - for - profit contemporary arts and exhibition centre in London which Cohen shares with another dealer / collector, Nicolai Frahm.

2016 Me And My Arrow, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US Tony Tasset, The Suburban Milaukee, Walker's Point, Milwaukee, US Past Tense: 50 Years of Master Drawings, Lawrence & Clark, Chicago, US 2014 Spill Paintings, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US 2013 Domestic Abstractions: 1986 — 2013, Kavi Gupta, Berlin, Germany 2012 Selected Works from the 80s and 90s, In / Situ at Expo Chicago, Chicago, US Rainbow, Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, US 2011 Tony Tasset, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US Judy, Leo Koenig, New York City, US Life During Wartime, Rochester Arts Center, Rochester, US 2010 Selected Works 1986 - 1996, Tony Tasset, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US Eye, Pritzker Park, Chicago, US 2009 Squib, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery, Leipzig, Germany 2007 Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, US 2006 Frownland, VonZweck Gallery, Chicago, US 2003 University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, US Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, US 2002 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY 2001 Judy, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY Tony Tasset: As It Is, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH 1998 Tony Tasset, Institite of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1997 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1996 Manfred Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C. Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1995 Robert Smithson / Tony Tasset: Site / Nonsite, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (catalogue) 1994 Feature, New York, NY 1993 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 Feature, New York, IL Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (catalogue) Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue) 1991 Feature, New York, NY Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1990 Feature, New York, NY 1989 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1988 Feature, Chicago, IL Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Feature, Chicago, IL 1987 Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, England (catalogue) 1986 Domesticates, Feature, Chicago, IL (catalogue) Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY

For example, the much discussed and hyped (in some quarters) new category of «dependant contractor» actually appears on the surface to be a simple re-naming of the existing category of worker and therefore is an important but none the less slightly damp squib of a development.