Sentences with phrase «swan songs in»

Those cars and a few others had their swan songs in 1989.

With more limited screen time than they're used to and even more limited elbow room, the actors and characters (in what at least some knew would be their swan songs in these costumes) snap off one - liners and sharp remarks with an extra edge of sarcastic disdain.

Egyptian legends Essam Al Hadari, Ahmed Hassan and Mohamed Aboutrika will not get swan songs in the finals.

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.

For his swan song in an Orioles uniform, the Orioles are moving Machado back to shortstop, the position he played when drafted and in the minor leagues.

It looks like his league contributions will be practically non-existent between now and his seemingly inevitable departure in January, so the League Cup is the best he's going to get as far as a swan song in red and white is concerned.

He also co-wrote The Force Awakens, which stands as Harrison Ford's swan song in the role.

Making the rounds of the Web - fed platforms is this piece from and starring Fred Armisen — late of «Saturday Night Live» and still of «Portlandia» — as Ian Rubbish, the 1970s bottle - blond British punk rocker he introduced in an April edition of «SNL» and brought back for his swan song in May, with an indie - history supergroup that featured Steve Jones, Kim Gordon, J. Mascios, Aimee Mann and Michael Penn..

Today we conclude that talk, with the writer setting the stage for his oversized mutant swan song in «Uncanny X-Men» # 600, now slated for October and featuring guest artists galore.

As my swan song in the Obama Administration, I led the development of the President's Memorandum on Climate Change and National Security.

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Aquinas sat a moment, mind withdrawn From his mouth's taste of buttered loaves, the song Without, the wish for more wood in the fire To clear the frost from stone or to admire The cool swift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.

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.

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

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 EnlightenmenIn 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 Enlightenmenin the United States, understanding by modernist theology the church's intellectual response to the issues raised by the Enlightenment.

I was asked to write this paper chiefly, I think, because, after participating in the Workgroup's 1982 Christian Theology, I called it a swan song.

Liverpool are also believed to have enquired about a possible swan - song return to Anfield for Gerrard in the winter as the MLS takes a mid-season break.

... 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.

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

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.

Turning up in his last season with 30 goals in his shop - window swan - song season didn't win us anything either apart from UCL qualification.

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.

Only 11 appearances in the 2015 - 16 season for Caceres in what was definitely his Juventus swan song.

It was in its post-mortem, by Prof. Chinua Achebe, in his swan song, There Was A Country.

President Obama delivered his swan song on Wednesday night to the DNC at the Wells Fargo Center and was joined by Hillary Clinton on stage in a surprise cameo appearance.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, in a swan - song speech to a corporate audience in Manhattan, trumpeted the balanced budget that his administration has left for its successor.

«When [NIH Director] Francis Collins asked me to co-chair the workforce study in 2010,» Tilghman recalls, «I said, «Francis, this is my swan song.

These stellar swan songs are brilliant occurrences, but they quickly fade into oblivion — typically in just a few months time.

In what appears to be retiring Heartland director Joe Bast's swan song, things are not going as planned.

The swan - song of this single is the transcendent imagery in the mood and the landscape created by the instrumentation.

Another studio that couldn't score with critics or moviegoers in 2013, Open Road managed only one positively reviewed film: Steven Soderbergh's swan song Side Effects.

His films include: Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock (1999), Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002), Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006), Starting Out: The Making of Jerzy Skolimowski's Deep End (2011), Aldrich Over Munich: The Making of Twilight's Last Gleaming (2012), Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora (2014), Last of the Independents: Don Siegel and the Making of Charley Varrick (2015), Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany (2015) and The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited (2015).

Framing the film around the definition of «Altmanesque,» Altman goes through the filmmaker's work one at a time in chronological order, starting with his work on television up to his swan song A Prairie Home Companion.

Next Wednesday afternoon, as part of its Stage on Screen series, the Avon Theatre Film Center, in Stamford, Connecticut, presents one of cinema's most intimate explorations of theatrical craft, Louis Malle's 1994 swan song Vanya on 42nd Street.

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Rather than draw out their long goodbyes in a single sitting, as Peter Jackson's Hobbits did in his too - long Lord of the Rings finale, Team Harry's swan song will unfold in two parts, a decision dismissed in some quarters as purely a marketing strategy.

Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan is an amusement spent well and I so love these games where you're not in a constant mortal danger.

The first two chapters of Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan are absolutely some of the best I have played in Artifex Mundi games.

Everyone thought Carell had it in the bag for the character's swan song «Goodbye Michael,» but he lost to The Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons for the second year in a row.

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His swan song, Parade, sorely underrated by the small number of critics who've actually seen it, was a clean break from Hulot, and as such, feels more free than anything else Tati ever made — it's a difficult film for people who may be expecting another lighthearted, whimsical comedy, instead of an experimental film that uses a circus performance as its foundation, but in its own way, it's the ultimate Tati, an undiluted expression of what he loved to do and to see, and what hats to put on.

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.

Far beneath the thick, thick muddy, CGI - ed to death veneer of Gods of Eygpt, there's evidence that filmmaker Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) was looking to get back to this lost era, which effectively ended in 1981 with Harryhausen's feature swan song, Clash of the Titans.

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.

Beginning with the good, here's Edward G. Robinson tapping his mortality (he succumbed to cancer less than two weeks after production wrapped), finding in his celluloid swan song a depth of despair he rarely touched in his career proper.