Sentences with phrase «squib of»

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.

Whether its eventual degradation marks the commemoration of great talent now passed away, or is merely the damp squib of an artist consigned to insignificance remains to be seen.

The tavern had disappeared in a squib of flame.

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.

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.

While this isn't quite a disaster on the level of the almost certain to be Razzie decorated Naomi Watts vehicle Diana from director Oliver Hirschbeigel, and The Counselor does have a few champions (Mahnola Dargis of The New York Times being a notable one, and Awardswatch's own Vincent Smetana being another), the general consensus has been that Sir Ridley has delivered a damp squib of a movie.

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.

Not exact matches

Of course in reality this was just «blind luck» on the squib's part.

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.

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.

The squib kick was a bit of a fluke.

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.

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.

Gostkowski didn't kick off until the final play of the first half, and that was a squib kick.

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

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

It was a bit of a damp squib in the end with two defeats in the last two games once we knew our place in the Premier League was safe, but the season as a whole was far from that with some outstanding performances, and in particular a superb home record.

He told MPs: «Despite the disappointment of the party opposite that supports irresponsible and damaging strikes, it looks like something of a damp squib.»

The Monday of conference is always a bit of damp squib, a hump to get over before the final debates and leader's speech, but there is an important debate on some secret justice proposals today in which Lib Dems must reaffirm their stance on fair justice.

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

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

How appropriate it is that this weekend's Diamond Jubilee celebrations are something of a damp squib - a very fair reflection of our attitudes to the monarchy question.

I suspect deselections will turn out to be a damp squib with a few symbolic victories but not enough to truly alter the overall shape of the Parliamentary party or more than a handful of councils.

Labour has issued a briefing note saying that David Cameron's attempt to use the reshuffle to address the shortage of women in the government is «a damp squib».

Alas, the whole thing threatens to be a bit of a damp squib.

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

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»).

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.

Daniel Freeman from Tickr said: «The dating scene can be a treacherous one — with apps promising the flame of romance but leaving you with a damp squib, to sites playing cupid that leave you cold.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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?

Attention, ye legions of muggles and squibs: a Harry Potter - themed trivia night is coming to San Francisco this summer.

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.

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.

The action isn't graceful wire - fu, but brutal firefights where people explode, gush squibs, get caught on fire, and encounter all sorts of other nastiness.

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

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.

Opening the first of two parts comprising the final chapter of the story, Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour (Bill Nighy) exclaims heavily that dark times are upon the people — muggles and squibs alike.

«Some people have accused us of a precipitous rush, others say it's a damp squib.