Sentences with phrase «surprisingly few efforts»

Not exact matches

One might have thought the visitors would send in a few speculative efforts just for the hell of it, yet rather surprisingly they left him alone, content to see most of their attacks fizzle out harmlessly on the edge of the penalty area.

Undoubtedly one of the new century's few effective comic - book adaptations, Deadpool follows Ryan Reynolds» Wade Wilson as he's forcefully transformed into the superpowered title character by a vicious underworld figure named Ajax (Ed Skrein)- with the movie, surprisingly enough, emphasizing Wade's efforts to reunite with his former girlfriend, Morena Baccarin's Vanessa.