Sentences with phrase «swansong in»

The Whitney Museum of American Art has mounted a Jeff Koons retrospective as the swansong in its uptown Breuer building before reopening in its new, Renzo Piano — designed space in Chelsea next spring.1 Besides his stratospheric auction prices, Koons is famous for industrially produced pop imagery such as inflatable hearts and balloon dogs, all of it turned out on a large, sometimes gigantic...

As I have explained before, Rosicky is keen to lead his country at the Euro2016 tournament and is worried that if he is not playing for his club he could miss out on his swansong in France next year.

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For Hu, it was a «legacy» visit, his swansong as the head of the world's most populous and potentially most powerful nation before stepping down as the leader of the Communist Party of China in 2012.

Ms Holgate said the decline in sales to Chinese consumers through Australian retail had come «without warning» and had prompted a «turbulent» start to what was to be her swansong year at the company.

However, it is possibly also the final swansong of two great players who have made their names in the middle of the park.

The only striker that would succeed is the lethal finisiher inside the box type like RVP in his swansong season or like an ibrahimovic (not exactly mobile, but give him one chance he will bury it) type.

And you never know, he might even think it's worth getting a few players in January to make us a credible contender for EPL glory as a fitting swansong to AW's career... maybe not eh?

Sometimes instead of claiming the ball he will make a big swansong dive and in the process knock the ball back into play or out wide.

In what was the final North London derby at the old White Hart Lane, Spurs gave their fans a memorable swansong as they dispatched rivals Arsenal with ease, winning 2 - 0 on the night.

Instead, he will have the same contract length now as Barzagli, and will almost certainly stay true to his word that the 2018 season and World Cup in Russia will be his final swansong for both club and country.

United's best passer this season - per - 90 minutes is Michael Carrick, who averages almost 70 successful passes - per - Premier League game in 2015/16 — just four years on from Hargreaves» retirement from the game following a fleeting swansong at Manchester City, where he would add just one further Premier League appearance string to his bow.

To do my part I chose to buy the Swansong Sweaterjacket (special price $ 150) which Liamolly says is inspired by the bird but I prefer to think it's inspired by little army men in Chevy Impalas triggering memories that allow vessels to take control back of their bodies.

The film bodes comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's difficult swansong Eyes Wide Shut, both in its hypnotic tone, the enigmatic way it unravels, as well as Glazer's use of New York's Upper East Side for the story's background.

Early on in the development process for this year's Logan, Hugh Jackman's swansong as everybody's favorite claw - wielding mutant, a much different version of the movie existed compared to the one audiences saw in theaters roughly two months ago.

And it rumbles on, with the plethora of negative editorial coverage aimed at Hayao Miyazaki for his swansong movie, The Wind Rises, a luxuriant and self - consciously antiquated period biopic in which its subject puffs on cigarettes for much of the movie, even (surely amusingly!)

Peter Jackson's final farewell, his swansong as it were, to Middle Earth will fall at the end of 2014 in what will be the closing chapter of the saga, The Hobbit: There And Back Again.

Think: the floundering security agent turned away from working in the highest office, only to be trapped there in a time of crisis; the plucky child barely talking to her father, soon needing his help to survive; the weary government agent approaching his last week of service, certain to have a memorable swansong; the overworked employee forced to deal with distress on her day off; the leader lambasted for being an academic, then swiftly becoming an action hero.

An intriguing story told in generic fashion, Infinity gets good value from irons and a dignified swansong from the late Richard Johnson.

The duo still have the as - yet - untitled Avengers 4 to come, but asked by Variety whether the 2019 sequel will be their Marvel swansong, McFeely revealed that they are open to working with Marvel Studios again at some point in the future.

Irish actresses Kerry Condon and Marcella Plunkett receive their first IFTA nominations this year for their supporting roles in The Runway and Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne respectively, with IFTA winning actress Eileen Walsh shortlisted for her performance in Snap.

Pierce Brosnan (The Ghost) and Liam Neeson (Chloe) are also shortlisted for their work on international projects with Martin McCann and Colm Meaney receiving nominations for their leading roles in Irish features Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne and Parked respectively.

The film grinds on through the rebels» last stand on the barricades, and chucks in several more one - take close - up solos — including poor old Éponine bravely belting out her swansong with a musket ball in her chest.

It also marks the Bizzarrini engine's swansong and you have to wonder how many manufacturers will be willing or able to make such a gloriously politically incorrect engine in the future.

The same mechanical spec was used for the swansong Competition Edition, launched in 2016 with a run of just 200, laden with extra M goodies and priced at # 100,995.

This remarkable success effectively marks the swansong for the 919 in the WEC, with Porsche pulling out of the series following the last race of the season in Bahrain on 18 November.

But in terms of pure theatre and brutish performance, the Aston Martin Vanquish S makes for a fitting swansong for what has become a British institution.

Ford's revered Mk III Focus RS hot hatch is officially ending production in Saarlouis, Germany this April, but while we in the United States will have only a thousand examples of the limited - slip - equipped Limited Edition model to console us, the UK will get one additional special - edition swansong model: the 2018 Ford Focus RS Heritage Edition.

A new rumor has been going round in the web the last few days, the talk about a Lamborghini Sesto Elemento production model to be unveiled at the upcoming IAA in Frankfurt mid-September has been muted down and now the latest info talks about some kind of super Gallardo to be unveiled as the swansong to this highly successful V10 model.

The tactic is not an original one — The delayed release of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess in 2006 for both GameCube and Wii allowed the game to serve as a swansong for the less popular older console as well as a blockbuster launch title for the Wii.

However, they've left us a brilliant game as a swansong, and it is currently rolling out in Sega Amusements Europe territories, with the team hoping for international releases to follow.

Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the Wii U's swansong and the Switch's key launch game, making it Nintendo's most important game in years.

This wasn't the first time that Sega's swansong machine had welcomed software in the second decade of the 21st century.

We'd certainly feel that it would be worth porting, concluding in our review: «With Xenoblade Chronicles widely seen as a swansong on Wii, it surpassed every expectation of what could be achieved on the console.

is how Adam Weinberg, Director of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art, wrapped up the over-excited press call for the Jeff Koons retrospective, the museum's swansong exhibition in its Upper East Side building before moving downtown to the Meatpacking district, into a Renzo Piano steel and glass building to open next spring.

Yet in the last days of pre-internet communication, a visionary English curator called Matthew Higgs brought together a generation of brilliant London artists in the great artistic swansong of snail mail.

Thanks to him this kind of poetry has been able to survive in our time» — M. ROTHKO «One feels looking at an Avery landscape or seascape that the highest human experience is being alone and at peace with the land and the sea» — B. HASKELL «One feels looking at an Avery landscape or seascape that the highest human experience is being alone and at peace with the land and the sea» — B. HASKELL Executed just two years before the artist's death in 1965, Dark Inlet is a poignant and beautiful swansong.