Sentences with phrase «stab at presenting»

Second graphic: A classic stab at presenting LOCAL temperature records as directly relevant to GLOBAL temperature records.

It is a stab at presenting a variety of contemporary figurative styles, which are independent and interlinked at the same time, including the disappearance of the body into figurative expressions and gestures — a beautiful broken language.

On the heels of making Painted Desert, Japanese director Masato Harada took another stab at presenting America to a mass Japanese audience — this time with a largely Western cast.

Not exact matches

«I'm not exactly sure what this text means, but I'm going to take a stab at it, present some other views, and then we'll wrestle with it together.»

Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy) served in the Union army and is present at a party held by the Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Kevin Kline) the night Lincoln is shot, his Secretary of State is stabbed, and one villain fails to garner the resolve to kill the Vice President.

Nick Cassavetes has yet to hit on a filmmaking style to rival his father's legacy, but with «Yellow,» the director of «The Notebook» presents an unhinged portrait of emotional turmoil with bold stabs at expressionistic representation at every turn.

Thus does «Star Trek» make a stab at keeping up with the times, nodding at a present - day cultural reality.

There is some humor in their dynamic; Ramsay presents Joe's mama's - boy deference by having him arrive at her house while Psycho is playing on television, hinting that there's a bit of Norman Bates's mania in his devotion (he even jokes about stabbing her in the shower).

Congress took its first real stab at reforming the law in October 2011 as Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, of Iowa, and Republican Sen. Mike Enzi, of Wyoming, presented a comprehensive revision to No Child Behind.

In 1987, the United Nations Brundtland Commission took a stab at it, saying social and economic development is sustainable if it «meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.»

Not one human being on the planet would look at that complete record — or even the complete record of temperatures during the Holocene, or the Pliestocene — and stab down their finger at the present and go «Oh no!».