The phrase
"swan song" refers to a final performance, effort or appearance.
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Early on, Redford hoped to persuade Paul Newman to co-star, as a sort of ambling
swan song for Butch and Sundance.
It can be read as the last great
swan song of the Apple II and, indeed, of the entire era of 8 - bit computer gaming, at least in North America.
Egyptian legends Essam Al Hadari, Ahmed Hassan and Mohamed Aboutrika will not get
swan songs in the finals.
A
fitting swan song for Japanese gaming's finest protagonist, balancing drama with bonkers fun.
Plus, I would love to own a piece from Raf Simons's gorgeous
swan song at Dior.»
Atlus showcases more of Etrian Odyssey's
swan song on the Nintendo 3DS with a new batch of screenshots showing characters and more.
Phong Bui (Rail): The first time we met was at your studio in Beijing in February 2008 we were co-curating Spectacle, which would have been Alanna's
swan song from MoMA PS1.
Halo Wars released all the way back in 2009 for the Xbox 360, was a
final swan song for veteran strategy developer Ensemble Studios (the studio responsible for all those happy Age of Empires memories we all have).
Andre Schurrle looks to be nearing his Stamford Bridge
swan song with the Chelsea forward completely left out of the Blues FA Cup squad to face Bradford City.
If the ZR1 rumors are true and that the ZR1 is a one
year swan song before the mid-engine is released, we are seeing a lot of development dollars going into a car offered for only one year.
Exquisite, angry, sad and personal, basement is a
beautiful swan song of one of this generation's best.
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«Phantom Thread» — Paul Thomas Anderson's cold and elegantly visualized art house study of obsession constitutes an
ideal swan song for Daniel Day - Lewis» acting career, as he has claimed.
The bruised dignity of the working classes is captured with mighty rapture in Tsai Ming - Liang's alleged
feature swan song, Stray Dogs.
And if the rumors about it being his
directorial swan song are true, Curtis can take comfort in knowing that he went out on top, because this is not only his most mature and personal work to date, but it's also one of his finest.
Films like Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, and Lady Bird have been mainstays on the awards circuit so far, but one of the movies we haven't seen make much of a splash for voting bodies is Logan, 2017's
superhero swan song for Wolverine.
The Mazda RX - 8 is set to run off into the sunset in a year's time, but for one of Mazda's most popular models, the inevitable end only means being given a proper
swan song before officially saying goodbye.
We've got one from a comedy series, two from miniseries and two from drama series — this last pair including the biggest longshot, Michael McKean, whose «Better Call Saul»
swan song just might get more attention from the HFPA than from the Television Academy.
I was just perusing
Swan Song by R. McCammon, but Pocket Books has this 25 year old release priced at $ 14 for the eBook.
Grand Theft Auto 5 will be the
ultimate swan song for some gamers, and promises to be a strong contender for game of the year, or even possibly best game of the whole generation of consoles.
this is going to be mertesacker's
swan song season and its an opportunity to make history, already we have 4x lethal strikers and an extremely gifted complement of young guns not to mention a «tank».
«Calder: Hypermobility» is a bewitching and somewhat
unexpected swan song for Jay Sanders, the Whitney's curator of performance, who was recently named the new director of Artists Space.
If Jackman and Stewart are serious about this being their mutual
X-Men swan song, they could not have crafted a more heartfelt valedictory.
Charles Laughton's brilliant introduction (and
also swan song) as a film director, which is a terrible loss for all of us.
This is still a true gem of entertainment in its own right, and not giving it even a glimpse means depriving yourself of the
true swan song of the last console generation.
Nex Machina is a tour de force in raw gameplay and a
sweet swan song to the Housemarque we know and love.
Naruto Shippuden's
graceful swan song There is a prevailing opinion among some fans of fighting games that only the most competitive ones,...
Studio Ghibli's
extended swan song gets a familiar new verse with the English - language dub of 1991's Only Yesterday.
Atlus» upcoming Etrian Odyssey X intends to be a everything - and - the - kitchen -
sink swan song for the decade - long series of DS and 3DS games, tossing in elements from every mainline entry and remake into a simmering stew of dungeon crawling goodness.
HANDS - ON: After years of development, Square Enix has finally released Dragon Quest X, their massively multiplayer
online swan song for the Wii...
SR70: Clay Fighter 20 years ago, this was one of the most polarizing games of my youth... SR69: Treasure Hunter G Squaresoft goes out with a BANG in its Super
Nintendo swan song SR68: Doom Groundbreaking.
Toronto - based Drinkbox Studios - developed PlayStation
Vita swan song Severed, has finally made its way to iOS.
by Walter Chaw Hayao Miyazaki's
alleged swan song The Wind Rises is mature, romantic, grand storytelling that just happens to be something like a romanticized biography of Jiro Horikoshi, the aeronautical engineer behind the design of the Mitsubishi A5M, which led, ultimately, to the Zero.
As the
Last Swan Song of the Arcade Era, we want to give you something special.
Max Factory will be producing a Zelda: Skyward Sword figure of the Link featured in the 2011
Wii swan song.
Ted Thompson isn't a big - splash guy; he's made it clear he's building ateam for the next five years, not just for a
Favre swan song in 2006.
Mack Brown will remember the Alamo as his
bowl swan song and Texas is a huge underdog to Oregon on the Alamo Bowl odds menu.
It will be interesting, however, to see the financial details of this deal, both in terms of his salary (which has been reported to be as low as one or two million) and the marketing / merchandising rights for this
unprecedented swan song.
Only 11 appearances in the 2015 - 16 season for Caceres in what was definitely his
Juventus swan song.
This was not a thanks - for - the - memories, look - at - my -
record swan song, but one focused forward on the problems of New York State.
These
stellar swan songs are brilliant occurrences, but they quickly fade into oblivion — typically in just a few months time.
Chapter 3: Balefully waits in Melbourne for her luggage to appear, only to watch the carousel rotate and play the
mournful swan song of lost baggage.