Sentences with phrase «stick the landing as»

Like both of these, Beast can't stick its landing as it moves from concept toward conclusion: Pearce deflates his atmosphere of ambient dread with a garish bloodbath, whose metaphorical implications for Moll are troublingly linked to the allegations of sexual violence leveled at Pascal.

The narrative just doesn't stick the landing as well creating a game that should of been better.

Not exact matches

It makes sense to buy ties and dress shirts together anyway, as few combinations in men's style need to stick the matching landing quite so thoroughly.

Here in the land of disc - gaming, players are going to be stuck with broken game consoles that need to be updated with new patches, fixes and firmware every day while, as usual, the future will arrive first in Japan.

Is the stick in the water «really» crooked, as it looks in the water, or straight, as it looks on dry land?

The year before was perhaps even better, as David Moyes» Manchester United managed to stick the landing on the very rare Triple Cock - up With Pike.

Let us assume that Wenger sticks with what he's got and does not land another «opportunistic transfer» as Galen previously observed in his article.

The shot last week that will stick with me was the missile 283 yards uphill at the 5th at Innisbrook that he got to land pin - high as well.

The goal is simple — leap forward as far as possible and stick the landing without stumbling.

So you can kind of see why some supporters aren't happy with the current regime, and why Mick McCarthy has come in for some stick of late − even though he was instrumental in guiding the club back to the promised land, as well as the small matter of keeping them there for the past two years.

The dashing winger was quick to make up his mind about his international future sticking to play for the land of his birth Germany as opposed to Nigeria.

As rising fuel costs, limited funding for cruises, and a new emphasis on remote sensing keep many sea scientists stuck on dry land, Prager shows that for some ocean discoveries, you truly do have to be there.

When these bugs land on the plant, they get stuck on its sticky, hairy surface (as with the beetle pictured above) and die, coating the columbine with dead bodies.

We clung to the stories that cast us as victims, failed to open our hearts to how the other might be feeling, landed flat on the bottom of the ocean, got stuck in a downward spiral of judgment, blame, shame, and withdrawal, and never managed to get back up again.

● Quitting a job I really wanted to keep, but wasn't in a mental headspace to stick with ● Depression ● Loss of motivation that resulted in poor eating habits, workout habits and a 20 - pound weight gain ● Foreclosure ● Periodic loss of clients or trouble landing new clients ● Moving back in with my parents as a 30 - year - old ● Complete confusion and lack of direction about career and life ● And too many tiny, daily failures to even count

That means no bs and im not your sugar daddy but i can be just as good i am a god fearing man but does not mean im not warming a church bench on sundays im a mechanic by trade have worked on hotrods motorcyles and joe blows daily drivers for over 30 years and this is a plus if you drive a beater ass car lol i can always keep it running i live in a modular home and on my own land all is bought and paid for so i am not trailer park trash i have long hair and a beard brown eyes short and stocky 5» 5.5 in small lol 150 lbs soaking wet but still built like i was in my 20's not stuck on my self but im not a bad looking dude for my age i still have 6pk abs and popeyes arms lol you do not maintain my build sitting on ur ass so i feel its a great accomplishment that i am proud of.

She landed a regular role as Linda, a not - so - bright nurse's aide, on the 1998 CBS sitcom Becker, starring Ted Danson, and stuck with the series until it wrapped in 2004.

While the movie includes narration (by Charles Osgood) drawn from the book, it also allows the stars opportunity for topical pop - cultural references as well as narrative detours, as when the mayor goes in for a Who - Root Canal «Sticking» «Who» in front of everything,» he gripes, «doesn't make it hurt less») or Horton's clover lands in a field of clovers, whereupon he sets out to locate his speck - adorned lower out of the thousands stretching before him.

From the Western perspective, the feisty protagonists» predicament might seem silly, until it gradually sinks in that this treatment is business as usual in a backward land that seems to have gotten stuck in the Middle Ages.

On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....

When Miguel gets stuck in the Land of the Dead, ragamuffin skeleton Hector (Bernal) becomes his partner in crime, as well as his singing partner.

Its characters are in search of some «promised land,» be it financial success or romantic fulfillment, but as time passes, that goal appears to be stuck forever on the horizon.

Test your Animal Crossing knowledge in the Quiz Show, or pop as many balloons as you can and stick your landing on Balloon Island.

Summary: The film sticks the landing and provides a funny and sincere look at the making of The Room as well as the relationship between Wiseau and Sestero.

If «I, Tonya» is supposed to be a corrective to two decades of tabloid fascination with Harding and her role in the assault of figure skating competitor Nancy Kerrigan — as characters frequently break the fourth wall to tell us, either in faux - documentary interview sequences or in the middle of scenes — it doesn't quite stick the landing of that particular triple axel.

There are a couple jokes and gags that don't quite stick the landing, such as a bizarre Chris Cooper rap song that I think was making fun of the uncool raps squeezed into the movies of the 80s, but for the most part, «The Muppets» is completely on target.

Affleck's first two films as director, «Gone Baby Gone» and «The Town,» were promising without quite sticking the landing, but even this marks a real leap up; a thrilling, breathlessly tense picture with plenty of wit, style and feeling.

Despite some minor alterations to his origin and the emphasis on a love story — a surprisingly touching one, Deadpool stuck the superhero landing as one of the most accurate portrayals of a comic book character in film.

After so many years of build up, the risk for disappointment was high, but Infinity War sticks the landing with Thanos» character, both as a credible and truly dangerous threat to the Avengers and as a well rounded character in his own right.

When editing your landing page you need to take certain factors into consideration so as to make sure that no visitor will turn their back on your services, but they would rather stick to it and find out more about what your school has to offer:

Even up against brash rivals such as the Escalade and Land Rover Range Rover, Lincoln is sticking to the «quiet luxury» philosophy that produced the recently redesigned MKX crossover and upcoming Continental sedan.

The Evoque has been a big success for Land Rover, still selling more than 100,000 a year, despite only having one real refresh in its life in 2015 as buyers continue to lap up the budget Range Rover (well, «budget» if you stick to the basic model).

The Tianmen Mountain Road (known as the Dragon Road) is a seven mile climb with 99 turns, culminating with 999 steps and a 45 degree climb to «Heaven's Gate», and Land Rover stuck Panasonic Jaguar Racing's Ho - Pin Tung behind the wheel and told him to get on with it.

Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods.

For years I really wanted a 5 ″ device, but I think phones have come so far now that it's really stuck in no - man's land as whilst they have made it look like an iPhone I really can't see myself wanting something that big in my jeans pocket even though it will technically fit.

Issue was they got stuck with too much undeveloped land at a time when it and development capital became scarce and slowed down the build out of these parcels for either cash flow generation or sale as completed parcels.

With the intense mid-morning sun beating down, I made my way up the initial ascent to the mid-point of the rock where I stopped at a landing to get a view of the grounds I just walked through, as well as the many stupas and Buddha statues that stick out among the green landscape below.

It might be buried under a layer of problems, but it's hard not to crack a smile as you land a beautiful shot over a hill or drop a stick of dynamite on your friends head before running away.

Maintaining an awesome combo can be quite tricky, flicking the stick every which way, watching your timing, and remembering to hit A just right as you land; but when you get a whooping X50 multiplier, you just feel like a sexy man beast on the inside.

The trick to getting a PERFECT grind is holding the stick JUST as you land on a rail.

Players have to hold a button in order to equip the one - shot energy weapon, aim a nearly non-existent laser pointer as it's pretty much invisible with the right stick, and hope it lands on its target as it seems to always miss.

Grinding is not as bad as you only have to hold down on the left stick as you land on a rail, but you will find yourself getting quite confused trying to execute tricks between rail grinds.

Test your Animal Crossing knowledge in the Quiz Show, or pop as many balloons as you can and stick your landing on Balloon Island.

On the landing, the left stick is used to nail a grind rail as well as kick flip off of it.

With A Brave New World the game sees some changes and some new additions, some of the new additions are new civilisations, such as Venice which basically gives the player only one city, meaning you cant develop settlers to expand your land but you are stuck with the first city you settle, this is a great way for those of you that want a challenge and it actually gives the game an entirely new spin and is a great addition.

As you approach one of the spy ships, pull back on the right analog stick to hover, or simply lower the landing gear to slow down.

The Puerto Rico - based artists have studied the ephemeral nature of collective drawing with monumental sticks of chalk at the Biennial de Lima, Peru (Chalk [Lima], 1998 — 2002); the imprints of colonial, nationalist, and military violence on the diverse populations and landscapes of Vieques, Puerto Rico (Land Mark (Foot Prints), 2001 — 2002; Land Mark, 2003; Returning a Sound, 2004; Under Discussion, 2006 and Half Mast / Full Mast, 2011); and the resonance of playing, warping and combining music from various moments in history (Clamor, 2006; Wake Up, 2007; Sediments Sentiments - Figures of Speech, 2008; Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, 2008; Raptor's Rapture, 2012; Apotomē, 2013; 3, 2013); as well as the entanglement between biophysics, semiotics and actuality (Growth, 2004; Puerto Rican Light - Cueva Vientos, 2015).

Advocates deemed the conglomeration of proxy temperature data from 7 land regions as scientific confirmation of the notorious hockey - stick - shaped temperature -LSB-...]

Designed on the foundation of regular travel insurance, it acts as your walk sticks in case on any issue on an unfamiliar land.

Just as the dynamite lands on the ice, Alex's dog runs after the stick of dynamite to retrieve and bring it back to Alex. As both men realize what's happening they shout and scream in terror as Alex's dog retrieves the dynamite and starts running back towards Alex. Both men now frantically grab their shot guns and start shooting at the dog to keep it away from them but the dog, not accustomed to being shot at, runs past the men hysterically and drops the dynamite right next to Jack's Mercedes Benzes ML 35as the dynamite lands on the ice, Alex's dog runs after the stick of dynamite to retrieve and bring it back to Alex. As both men realize what's happening they shout and scream in terror as Alex's dog retrieves the dynamite and starts running back towards Alex. Both men now frantically grab their shot guns and start shooting at the dog to keep it away from them but the dog, not accustomed to being shot at, runs past the men hysterically and drops the dynamite right next to Jack's Mercedes Benzes ML 35As both men realize what's happening they shout and scream in terror as Alex's dog retrieves the dynamite and starts running back towards Alex. Both men now frantically grab their shot guns and start shooting at the dog to keep it away from them but the dog, not accustomed to being shot at, runs past the men hysterically and drops the dynamite right next to Jack's Mercedes Benzes ML 35as Alex's dog retrieves the dynamite and starts running back towards Alex. Both men now frantically grab their shot guns and start shooting at the dog to keep it away from them but the dog, not accustomed to being shot at, runs past the men hysterically and drops the dynamite right next to Jack's Mercedes Benzes ML 350.