Sentences with phrase «swansong of»

And then we have an amazing coup, Pollock's barnstorming swansong of 1952, Blue Poles.

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.

It will be the swansong of the Wii U, and the first major outing for the eagerly anticipated NX.

The Renaultsport Megane 275 Trophy - R was the swansong of the Megane Phase III coupe.

How on earth Ed kept a straight face on hearing this startlingly complacent, Chamberlain letter waving delusion and swansong of profound idiocy is utterly beyond the keyboard of this humble Uncut scribbler.

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

Not exact matches

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.

This encyclical should be read primarily neither as Benedict XVI's swansong, nor as Pope Francis's manifesto, nor even as some sort of show of unity between the two.

And of course most fans believed that this coming season was likely to be Wenger's swansong as he enters the last year of his current contract.

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.

I wondered about the derivation of the word swansong.

Hopefully at the least Joey will stay out of trouble and enjoy his Premier League swansong.

From now, time can only tell whether it has been the gateway to a whole new vista of politics for Miliband and the keys to No. 10; an attempt to convince his party that he would be still the best option after a narrow defeat; or some kind of a swansong.

For its swansong, Venus Express will perform aerobraking, a way to reduce the speed of a spacecraft and so reduce its altitude.

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.

Its a pity steel studios is gone now, as this was their swansong and a nice mix between several of their old titles.

It makes for a great series swansong on PS3 (or, at least, I assume F1 will make the generational leap next year), and is just about the pinnacle of visual presentation for a racer on these tired old gaming boxes we're still keeping around.

Roger Swanson's swansong is full of cruelty, pain, despair and rancour, making «Roger Dodger» a sophisticated comedy as black as bile.

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!)

Don't go into it expecting a gloriously sweeping career swansong, and don't go into it expecting anything like Elmer Bernstein — listen to other scores from Antoine Fuqua movies and expect a slightly (but only slightly) more expansive version of that, with James Horner mannerisms injected from time to time.

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.

If so, it's an excellent swansong - a movie that takes the hallmarks of a great career and elevates them to new heights.

Coming off the back of the hit Wolverine swansong Logan, Deadline is reporting that director James Mangold will reunite with 20th Century Fox for his next project, an adaptation of Don Winslow's upcoming crime novel The Force.

It looks like there's been a change of composer on 20th Century Fox's upcoming Wolverine movie Logan, with director James Mangold revealing on Twitter (via Film Music Reporter) that Marco Beltrami (3:10 to Yuma, The Wolverine) is now scoring Hugh Jackman's X-Men swansong.

Check out his unashamedly moist recollection of Bizarre Creation's last swansong.

More a footnote to a revered career than an epic swansong, the late Alain Resnais final film takes him back to the works of Alan Ayckbourn for a third stab at adapting that most English of playwrights.

Not even a second viewing could convince me that Anton Corbijn's adaptation of John Le Carré's 2008 spy thriller — Hoffman's «superb swansong» — is actually any good.

Joan Bergin — The Tudors (World 2000 Entertainment) Consolata Boyle — Tamara Drewe (Ruby Films) Joan O'Cleary — Swansong — Story of Occi Byrne (Zanzibar Films) Susan Scott — Cup Cake (Wee Buns)

Martin McCann — Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne (Zanzibar Films) Colm Meaney — Parked (Ripple World Pictures Limited) Cillian Murphy — Perrier's Bounty (Parallel Films) Liam Neeson - Chloe (Element Pictures Distribution)

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.

The features nominated for Best Film at IFTA 2011 are; Juanita Wilson's Bosnian - set drama As If I Am Not There; dark Irish comedies Perrier's Bounty and Sensation; Conor McDermottroe's gritty tale Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne; and Ian Power's uplifting drama The Runway.

Kerry Condon — The Runway (Fastnet Films) Marcella Plunkett — Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne (Zanzibar Films) Saoirse Ronan — The Way Back (Exclusive Films) Eileen Walsh — Snap (Samson Films)

Will Collins — My Brothers (Rubicon Films) Conor McDermottroe — Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne (Zanzibar Films) Mark O'Rowe — Perrier's Bounty (Parallel Film) Juanita Wilson — As If I Am Not There (Octagon Films)

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.

Jill Brennan — Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne (Zanita Films) Caroline McCurdy — Na Cloigne (ROSG) Tom McInerney, Dee Corcoran — The Tudors (World 2000 Entertainment) Louise Myler — Parked (Ripple World Pictures Limited)

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.

SV stands for Super Veloce and Lamborghini has never undersold the meaning of the letters when applying them to the swansong edition of an already potent car.

Our moles reckoned it would be a new version of the Continental GT Speed, effectively a souped - up GT Speed with around 700bhp, as a swansong for the current Continental GT.

And if you want to experience the ultimate expression of what an M3 can do, you'll be willing to pay the premium asked for its CS swansong.

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.

Our spies recently caught what looked like a new 911 Speedster prototype undergoing testing, which is rumored to make its public debut at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed as a swansong to the current 911.

Further they undergird the recent passage of Financial Reform Bill or whatever it's called; how about Chris Dodd's swansong.

The titles set to make up the world's biggest fighting game gathering, July's Las Vegas - held EVO 2016, also the biggest stop on the Capcom Pro Tour, have been announced — and there is no sign of Ultra Street Fighter IV, IV's fourth and swansong iteration.

First Gran Turismo 6 was revealed as something of a swansong for the currently generation.