Sentences with phrase «stab at giving»

Make at least some sorry stab at giving me a straight answer.»

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The Brazilian stabbed home Artur Yusupov's cross at the far post to give the Sine - Belo - Golubye their fourth Super Cup and set up the summer... [Read more...]

The only problem is that when low risk suddenly becomes immediate, life - threateningly high risk (unexpected haemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, rapid onset eclampsia), being in hospital gives you a good stab at survival.

While no one can wave a magic wand and make someone return to their ex, we knew we could take a stab at it and came up with a strategy in our Irresistible Dating Coaching program for Steven to give it one last try.

There is darkness, and the Russos give as much terror and menace to a character being stabbed as to them having a moon literally thrown at them.

Given his oft - professed admiration for the infamous 1980 gut - muncher Cannibal Holocaust — whose Italian director, Ruggero Deodato, makes a cameo in Hostel: Part II — it was only a matter of time before Roth took a stab at reviving the cannibal subgenre.

«Twilight Saga» star Kristen Stewart takes a stab at the old fairy tale, full of femme - empowerment and sword - and - sorcery chops, while Chris Hemsworth is the titular predator and Charlize Theron the evil queen out for Snow's blood (a very different interpretation than Julia Roberts gave in the recent «Mirror Mirror»).

Among other opportunities, it gave Clooney the chance to take his first real stab at screwball comedy, a box he was eventually going to have to check if he wanted to validate the by - now - ubiquitous comparisons between him and Cary Grant.

But the movie plays fast and loose with how strong they make Thanos at any given moment — sometimes he's nigh - invincible, at others apparently susceptible to shallow stab wounds — and that goes for his henchmen as well, who have such delightful names as Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight.

So we enter Emmerich's long - gestating stab at the Shakespeare mythos, which focuses on de Vere (Rhys Ifans, giving better than he gets) in the closing days of Elizabeth I's (Vanessa Redgrave) regime.

The road trip follows the usual template: wackiness (a suspicious pill Estelle gives Brian to stay awake), lawlessness (breaking into a bird sanctuary) and stabs at redemption when they make pit stops to visit estranged offspring: Ray's gay adult son (an appealingly grounded Josh Lucas) in Salt Lake City and Brian's college - age kid in Boise, Idaho.

Refn says that he'd love to take a stab at this project, but that the only real way it could happen is if his current project, Logan's Run, is successful enough for studios to give his next project a chance.

Coppola's second - guessing of her treatment turns the end of this otherwise breathtaking pastel wonderland into a shockingly uninvolved dramatic stab at insincere integrity, and it becomes almost impossible to give into the featherbed that Coppola lays out for us.

It's been 18 months and two more viewings since I was first wowed by Andrea Arnold's sink - estate drama, and Fassbender's is the performance that reveals more at each turn: as the kindly boyfriend of the teen protagonist's neglectful mother, his delicate negotiation of the queasy divide between parental and sexual impulse gives the film its messy emotional heft, but he's responsible for some unexpected stabs of joy too.

After taking a few stabs at the right formula, the series has finally found its voice, and Ethan Hunt and company give James Bond a real run for his blockbuster money.

Given its fairly humble underpinnings the Audi A3 has a fairly decent stab at being decent to drive, but it's more about being inoffensive, classy and rounded than focusing on any real dynamism.

This particular operating system update would be able to give the Transformer Pad 300 a new lease of life, considering the tablet market is highly competitive at this point in time, not to mention Apple rumored to take a stab at the smaller display tablet range with their upcoming 7.85» iPad mini.

So, when Sega announced in 2006 that they'd tapped the crew at Gearbox Software — creators of the beloved Borderlands titles — to take a stab at the Alien universe, it gave gamers and Xeno fans alike a reason to hope.

Well, given Sega of America's overall inept attempts to market the Master System in the States, I'm not too surprised by their horrific stabs at cover art,

That, it seems, is what's happening here as they play to expand the more popular sides of the game — 22 % of Black Ops 3 Zombies players performed all the rituals in the mode's launch map — and taking a stab at the Battle Royale genre wouldn't exactly be that surprising given its current popularity.

This is something you feel Monolith Soft could have had a decent stab at tweaking, given very little of XCX has changed since its original release in Japan this April.

It's not an exhaustive résumé of the craft by any means, but if you've always fancied having a go and didn't know where to begin, then hopefully this should give you enough pointers to have a reasonable stab at it without costing you a fortune in materials.

This was HARD, but I gave a stab at it.

These are somewhat rough, a first stab at a cosine weighted across 24 hour view but they give you a closer idea of what actually occurs with Trenberth and Kiehls's numbers.

These are very rough, just a first stab at a cosine weighted across 24 hour view but they give you a closer idea of what actually occurs with Trenberth's numbers.

The Oxford student was said to have achieved the highest marks in medicine given to any student for many years but following a drug and alcohol fuelled row with her former boyfriend at Christ Church College, she stabbed him in the leg and cut his fingers with a bread knife.

We have to give credit to D - Link for being among the first manufacturers to take a stab at making a HomeKit compatible camera, but there are some pretty big limitations in the platform right now.

Right out of the gate, the House took a stab at regulatory reform, passing a measure that would give Congress more say in the rules federal agencies propose.