Sentences with phrase «strike against critics»

But to his credit — or perhaps as a pre-emptive strike against critics — three days before his promotion, Che also delivered a pretty solid sketch tackling his relationship with the opposite sex during the Franco - hosted episode.

Not exact matches

Critics say the row is similar to that over Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands, whose death on hunger strike in 1981 caused worldwide protests against the British government.

This comes off like a preemptive strike against all those critics who might have the temerity to take aim at «Birdman,» a movie with ambitions as high - flying as its superhero but a success rate decidedly lower to the ground.

A film designed to be the fiery response to critics of his combative style is his most pandering (in the first section Solondz uses a red square to obscure a violent (but consensual) sex act, a flaccid pre-emptive strike against the MPAA) and, in the end, his most fearful and apologetic.

«The Shape of Water» has enjoyed a late surge of popularity thanks to its win with the Critics» Choice, PGA, and the DGA, but what most people who are picking it for Best Picture seemingly don't want to accept is that it has some major strikes against it that make it highly unlikely to win Best Picture.

To put these two stats into perspective, «La La Land» had the same two strikes against it last year, and while I felt certain it was going to be the one to overcome them, even a film as massively popular as it couldn't do it (and it had won Critics» Choice, PGA, and DGA as well).

The Adventures Of Pluto Nash comes to theaters with at least two strikes against it: It's been languishing in a studio vault for two years, gathering dust and bad press, and it wasn't screened for critics, which is never a good sign.

The exhibition's curators, Elisabeth Sussman and Elisabeth Sherman of the Whitney and Christine Macel of the Centre Pompidou, chose to round out the collection's context by including artists whose works are destined for the Whitney as well as the Pompidou, some of whom, Weinberg noted, have their studios in the 10th and 11th arrondissements, the areas afflicted by the worst of the carnage, where poets, dancers, critics, artists and architects were among the dead — «a strike against the heart of Paris's creative community.»

In his review of DeFeo's posthumous 2012 - 2013 retrospective — her first — at SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum, critic Peter Schjeldahl hypothesized the origins of her obsession with The Rose: «I surmise that she was hampered by, even while being nurtured on, a scene that was dominated by men... It's conceivable that her withdrawal into obsessively reworking The Rose amounted to a tacit protest — a standup strike — against the pressures of her milieu.»

We know that the University of East Anglia retained a former News of the World operative with close connections to the police as an agent to strike back against their critics.

Yet, throughout the last eight years, what has struck us is that science has become the stick with which to beat Bush, not because he really stood against science, but because his critics — not just the Democrats — lacked any real substance either.

At the Commons launch last week, Lord Low launched a pre-emptive strike against those lawyer - critics who will inevitably (and unrealistically) say that the peer missed an opportunity to make the case for reinstatement of a preLASPOarian scheme.