Sentences with phrase «swan song of»

October is jam - packed with exciting AAA games — Middle - earth: Shadow of War, Super Mario Odyssey, The Evil Within 2, to name a few — but if you are not looking to break the bank, and you have a PlayStation Plus subscription, the latest lineup of free games features the swan song of an iconic series.

And «Third Wave» solo Chuck Newton says that Dillon's post shows that the fat lady is ready to sing the swan song of larger firms:

A more thorough accounting of Color Field painting would probably have to start with Pollock and end with Stella, with Noland, Olitski, Rothko and Newman somewhere in between, alongside Frankenthaler and Louis (and Greenberg hovering over all of them, singing the swan song of the authoritarian critic).

The first solo show for this Israeli - born New York artist, Geraniums is also the swan song of Lower East Side pioneer Rivington Arms, which closed its doors at the end of January.

He does not rate his technical abilities very highly compared with the Old Masters, and perhaps his paintings are the swan song of figurative art, as video art, computer art and digital cameras revolutionize our youth, capturing their attention for hours which were once spent doodling or sketching or painting or playing ball.

The artist's methods of creations, his chosen themes and materials are, according to many feminist art historians and critics, some sort of a swan song of masculine themes and artistic processes coming from the Abstract Expressionism.

Whether or not this stands as the swan song of the demo disc is something that remains to be seen.

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is the swan song of this franchise on the Nintendo 3DS as the developers...

Nom Nation, to me, was the swan song of the Minis platform.

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.

During development, Awakening was prepared as the swan song of a franchise with declining sales, but pulling out all the stops not only saved the series but also made this game one of the best RPGs ever made.

If this is supposed to be the swan song of the Gamecube, then you better not miss out on this game.

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is the swan song of this franchise on the Nintendo 3DS as the developers GameFreak tweak the previous game Pokémon Sun and Moon with improved mechanics and other features to make the experience a much more enjoyable one.

As the Last Swan Song of the Arcade Era, we want to give you something special.

They're basically working through the same excruciating Swan Song of the music industry has been floundering through for a decade and a half.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: The swan song of a much - loved series is always a big event, and thanks to the PBS series based on the Wallander novels, this one has some extra frisson.

The M3 CS is the pinnacle of the F80 M3 and most likely the swan song of the series, as an all - new 3 Series generation is expected to arrive later this year to be used by BMW M as a base for the next - generation M3.

This demonstrated that there was still a demand for a specialist version of the Vantage and neatly leads us to the swan song of the most popular Aston Martin model of all time.

2013 marks the swan song of the sixth - generation Corvette, but that doesn't mean Chevrolet is stepping off the pedal anytime soon.

His latest, «Passion,» is a remake of 2010 «s «Love Games,» the swan song of French filmmaker Alain Corneau, but it feels more like De Palma remaking his own back catalog.

The original 1981 Clash of the Titans, a fantasy adventure of ancient roman gods and monsters and hapless humans caught in the squabble, was the swan song of stop motion creature grandmaster Ray Harryhausen, the last celebration of old school craft in the age of modern special effects.

Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon is the swan song of this franchise on the Nintendo 3DS as the developers...

Exquisite, angry, sad and personal, basement is a beautiful swan song of one of this generation's best.

While stylists announced the swan song of cross-body bags, denim pencil skirts continue to dominate the streets and catwalk.

In this season, Cody Zeller sings the greatest swan song of all time.

In broader terms, I can call it the swan song of modernist theology in the United States, understanding by modernist theology the church's intellectual response to the issues raised by the Enlightenment.

In terms of the Gestalt I have proposed here, I can describe that as the swan song of the Niebuhrian generation.

But this was in effect the swan song of the Q community, as it was absorbed into the gentile - Christian church, except for holdouts who returned to the baptist movement or to emergent normative Judaism, or became small Christian sects that we, on the winning side, call heresies: the Ebionites, meaning the «Poor,» or the Nazarenes, claiming Jesus of Nazara.

Mankell's latest novel, the final volume in his Kurt Wallander series, represents a landmark moment in the genre comparable to the swan songs of Ian Rankin's John Rebus (Exit Music, 2008) and John Harvey's Charlie Resnick (Cold in Hand, 2008).

Not exact matches

Aquinas sat a moment, mind withdrawn From his mouth's taste of buttered loaves, the song Without, the wish for more wood in the fire To clear the frost from stone or to admire The cool swift brilliance of all he said As a swan plumes its white and well - turned head.

I've been part of the emerging church (and I kind of still am in the truest sense of the word) but sang its swan song while secretly hoping for its resurrection.

Varieties of Civil Religion, a collection of essays published in that year by Phillip Hammond and myself, turned out to be my swan song with respect to civil religion.

But he goes on: «When these images clash — as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot — it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.»

I personally think that there will be a groundswell of christianity in the near future, but it's only it's swan song.

Simple, summery and a great little appetizer with a salty parmesan bowl of its own, these Heirloom Tomato Caprese Frico Cups make singing the swan song to summer a little easier.

Hence this would be our swan song, our last hurrah, our paean to a time of chocolate - dipped, heart - shaped, strawberry - festooned decadence.

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».

... its looking everyday towards us retaining the services of most of these players as if to tell them to prove themselves as deserving to wear the arsenal jersey or else they wont feature in wenger's final year swan song.

I can see him putting a lot of eggs in the Crimson Tide basket for his swan song.

But as a captain in his swan song year, his behaviour seems a bit inappropriate to me given the magnitude of this game.

With one last shot, the senior from Modesto High is trying to make sure that his swan song is that of a duet with his brother on the big stage.

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.

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.

Other songs in the charts that week included Black Night, by Deep Purple; Band of Gold by Freda Payne, which had previously been a number one; War, by Edwin Starr (what is it good for, absolutely nothing); Paranoid, by Black Sabbath (with Ozzy Osbourne on vocals); Voodoo Chile, by Jimi Hendrix, about to become the number one in the following week; Whole Lotta Love, by CCS (the theme tune to a TV institution for so many years, Top of the Pops), Ride A White Swan, by T Rex; and Cracklin» Rosie by Neil Diamond.

Football Italia also reports some lingering issues surrounding Totti's image rights, with the player and club supposedly going toe to toe for control of all the lucrative merchandising opportunities sure to coincide with Totti's swan song season.

With all due respect to Prof. Achebe's golden memory, among family, friends, loved ones and even the huge colony of literary offspring, across races worldwide, that swan song, by its one - sided rendition of the Biafra tragedy, created the ogre that birthed the Kanu IPOB menace.

After, all appeared quiet on the Biafra front — until 2012, when the late Chinua Achebe released his swan song, There was a Country, a long tale of one - sided victimhood and suppressed bitterness, which would appear to have triggered the present neo-Biafra ferment.

With Brown swanning around the world to a chorus of heroic folk songs about the magnitude of his genius, Tory attempts to pin blame on Labour look petty, even when many people believe them to be true.

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.

The flowers drip with nectar, announcing the palm's swan song to swarms of birds and insects.