Sentences with phrase «squib on»

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

Not exact matches

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

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

The players must step up and take responsibility as well, but we have gone on long successful runs before and if we can do it again, maybe this season will not turn out to be the damp squib that it was looking like.

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.

As European come - backs go, the game against Liverpool on Thursday was 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.

Those who predicted a profound shift in the ideological landscape might now look back on the 2008 elections as a damp squib.

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

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.

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»).

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

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

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.

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?

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 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.

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

This console generation has largely belonged to Sony and while on first impressions it may have felt like Microsoft's conference this year was a damp squib, the truth is that Microsoft's master plan is just now kicking into gear.

Since an assortment of the scientists Matt cites have already written the WSJ to complain of his gross misrepresentation of their work, his views on climate sensitivity seem damp as a squib in a Yorkshire coal mine, of which the Ridley estate owns several:

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.

Does the Act «reverse the chilling effect on freedom of expression of current libel law» or is it damp squib which will make defamation cases more complex?

When Siri stops working or not responding to your voice command on HomePod, the entire idea of using Apple smart speaker turns a damp squib.