Sentences with phrase «story of a maverick»

Based on an adventure fantasy by Arthur Conan Doyle, it's the story of a maverick scientist and explorer, Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery under a bushy beard), who reports on a land that time forgot on a plateau deep within the South American jungles.

Laura Kaye's sexy bikers return with Ride Rough, the story of Maverick and his ex-flame Alexa, who turns to him for safety when she leaves her abusive fiancé.

Not exact matches

Think of Top Gun, the story of a pilot named Maverick, his hardening as a warrior and eventual victory.

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

Last summer, DeAndre Jordan became one of the biggest stories of the summer when he almost left the Los Angeles Clippers for the Dallas Mavericks.

His role this season has expanded to coverage of other teams while still attending a similar number of Mavericks games and producing a comparable amount of game stories.

Vintage films, borrowed from private collections, round out this stylized, wonderfully strange story of a true American maverick.

Throughout his Hollywood years, Burnett avoided being «typed» by tackling virtually every literary genre: if his work has any unifying theme, it's the story of the tough little maverick at odds with a big, impersonal Establishment.

Chasing Mavericks» is the inspirational true story of real life surfing legend Jay Moriarity (Played by Jonny Weston) who trains under his mentor Frosty Hesson (played by Gerard Butler) to learn to tame the mammoth waves of Mavericks surf break.

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Set in 2093, Nightflyers tells the story of a group of maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who set off on an expedition aboard the spaceship Nightflyer in hopes of making contact with a mysterious alien life at the edge of our solar system.

Another documentary that feels niche on paper is «Jodorowsky's Dune» [B +], in which debut helmer Frank Pavich tells the story of what's often described as one of the greatest films never made: the attempt of Chilean maverick Alejandro Jodorowsky to adapt Frank Herbert «s sci - fi classic «Dune» in the 1970s.

I also keep thinking back to Locke, with Tom Hardy in a car, and the stellar baseball doc The Battered Bastards of Baseball introducing us to a story I'd never heard before about the Portland Mavericks team.

Caribou Records is the story of James William Guercio's maverick recording studio tucked away in the...

And new work by Britain's top two maverick directors: Mike Leigh, whose «Naked» portrays a hapless, cruel drifter in post-Thatcher England, and Ken Loach, whose «Raining Stones» tells an equally bleak but much funnier story of an unemployed man determined to buy his daughter a confirmation dress.

Michael is the co-author of Principals as Maverick Leaders: Rethinking Democratic Schools and Learning to Lead: Ten Stories for Principals.

A page - turning debut novella in the tradition of Daniel Silva, Mark Dawson, and Robert Ludlum, The Renegade Spy is the story of a deadly and maverick female German Intelligence agent, tasked with saving the life of the German... [Read More]

If you're not familiar with Moneyball, it's the story of the Oakland Athletics and their maverick general manager, Billy Beane.

One of the biggest stories to come from the show was Maverick, a rescued Weimarener who went from CraigsList to the Garden.

Automaton isn't simply building some sort of thousand - person über battle royale, outside of Proving Grounds the bigger vision for Mavericks revolves around a shared - world MMO with players utilising RPG elements to progress through the story.

The band's story is a tale of reinvention and fortitude, seductively wrapped in the thrillingly opaque, fine art - inspired record sleeve designs of Peter Saville and facilitated by the maverick, anti-music-business approach of Factory boss Tony Wilson.

Another great addition to your bookshelf: this one by a personal hero of mine for years: S. David Freeman, the maverick who has been at the center of many of the great energy stories of the past four decades.