Sentences with phrase «tour de force by»

In doing so the book covers a wealth of material that is presented in a concise and disciplined manner and represents a true tour de force by the author.

That brings us to the second post, a tour de force by Victoria Pynchon at Settle It Now Negotiation Blog, who issues an impassioned plea to the profession to restore the human art of counselling to the increasingly impersonal job of a lawyer:

It's no tour de force by any means, but this motor's got more than enough punch to get the Disco up to speed and keep it there without struggling.

What a huge disappointment, then, that it is such an extraordinary revelation, a breathtaking and acutely observed meditation on the intricacies of Victorian life, complete with a tour de force by Timothy Spall as the painter JMW Turner.

In the new version, the girl who hires the marshal to capture — or better yet, kill — her father's murderer eats the scenery; a true tour de force by newcomer Hailee Steinfield.)

Dr Greg Farrelly, back by popular demand after showing off his teaching skills at London Bridge, headed up our lay - led summer meditations on the nature of the human person, and our very inspiring six autumn talks on «Love», led to the now famous (see Faith Magazine January 2015) post-Synodal tour de force by Jaqueline Stewart.

But now comes what may be the definitive tour de force by John Farrell of Claremont McKenna College.

Not exact matches

But Protestant and Orthodox thinkers have also been brought under his spell, as witness The Beauty of the Infinite by Orthodox theologian David B. Hart, a tour de force justly acclaimed as one of the most suggestive theological contributions of recent years (see the FT review, March 2004).

Dante and David Byrne are strange bedfellows to be sure, but the comparison can be supported by turning to one of Byrne's tours de force, a song — from the 1988 Talking Heads album, Naked — called «(Nothing but) Flowers.»

Yet there does seem to be some ability to recognize their legitimacy when they are propounded to those at lower levels of development, and once they have been understood and appropriated, the process can be reversed only by a tour de force.

They are considered an engineering tour de force because their only source of energy is natural gas — conveyed by a single steel umbilical cord — which is then generated into heat and power.

The findings, described in two related papers published online April 5 in Science and The Lancet, were called «a tour de force» by David Sullivan, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, who was not involved in the new research.

The 8 July cover story features a nickel - sized artificial string - ray whose swimming is guided by light and powered by heart muscle cells: a «living» robot hailed as a technical tour de force.

«What George's team has accomplished is a technological tour de force,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. «By spotting incredibly subtle but incredibly important changes in gene expression and precisely defining their position inside the cell, they have helped open the door to a new age of cellular diagnostics.»

«This work led by Professor O'Donnell is a technical tour de force, providing a wonderful resource for other biomedical researchers,» said Mike Murphy, Ph.D., programme leader, Mitochondrial Biology Unit at Cambridge University, U.K. «A particularly important aspect is the focus on platelets, which are readily available from patients» blood in diagnosis, prognosis or as a biomarker in assessing therapies.

«They're not the extreme things, but we still see the same pattern of having a lot of molecular gas,» Evans says, calling the research by Tacconi and her colleagues «an observational tour de force.»

«The Advanced LIGO detectors are a tour de force of science and technology, made possible by a truly exceptional international team of technicians, engineers, and scientists,» says David Shoemaker of MIT, the project leader for Advanced LIGO.

Vomiting is a «tour de force performance,» particularly when sparked by powerful emotions: «It's really your inner digestive tract sacrificing itself because it would like to have this energy from this food.

Whole by T. Colin Campbell is an eye - opening, paradigm - changing journey through cutting - edge thinking on nutrition, a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.

The movie's almost painstakingly quiet punctuated by the most minimal of dialogue, establishing a pace not unlike Clooney's previous tour de force «Michael Clayton» only without the sharp Tony Gilroy dialogue and original premise that made that movie so unmistakably its own thing.

The drawn - out death of Fiona's father, a royal frog voiced by John Cleese, is a minor tour de force of pathos and slapstick, and there are some angry trees that do justice to the venerable cinematic tradition of angry trees.

Engaging biopic about the rise of power of Adolf Hitler, Hitler: The Rise of Evil features a brilliant tour de force performance by actor Robert Carlyle in the lead role.

By the way she is insanely gorgeous and I haven't seen her in anything before but she gave a real tour de force.

Perfectly small rather than slight, and radiantly carried by Juliette Binoche — in a light - touch tour de force to be filed alongside her work in Kiarostami's «Certified Copy» — this turns out to be a subtler departure than it outwardly appears for Denis, most evoking her other Parisienne drifting - hearts study, «Friday Night,» in its bittersweet tone.

Banks, who's the only person to have been nominated for three different shows in drama supporting actor, is on his fifth nod, but any overdue or make - up prize sentiment will be suffocated by John Lithgow's tour de force as Winston Churchill in The Crown.

Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, 1995) Among the most impressive feats of this Ron Howard tour de force is the way that he took an incredibly well - documented true story where everyone knows the ending and made it into such an intensely dramatic nail - biter — thanks, in part, to some reportedly extensive script doctoring by an uncredited John Sayles.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Robert Rodriguez Homage to Zombie Genre Released on DVD This Robert Rodriguez tour de force was originally released in theaters paired with Quentin Tarantino Death Proof as the better half of Grindhouse, a double feature of deliberately low - grade throwbacks designed as an homage to the B - flicks from the Fifties.

Like so many films consumed with the minutiae of daily journalism, «Spotlight» is a magnificently nerdy process movie — a tour de force of filing - cabinet cinema, made with absolute assurance that we'll be held by scene after scene of people talking, taking notes, following tips, hounding sources, poring over records, filling out spreadsheets, and having one door after another slammed in their faces.

Here's a plot summary of the show: in a tour de force role, Benedict plays the titular character who struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father and the mother who tacitly condoned his behavior.

It features a tour de force performance by Paulina García, who is in literally every single scene.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hailed by critics as «mesmerizing» (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), «amazing» (Brian Truitt, USA Today) and «the best film of the year» (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic), director Denis Villeneuve's (Sicario) phenomenal tour de force ARRIVAL makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Hailed by critics as «mesmerizing» (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), «amazing» (Brian Truitt, USA Today) and «the best film of the year» (Christopher Orr, The Atlantic), director Denis Villeneuve's (Sicario) phenomenal tour de force ARRIVAL makes its home entertainment debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu - ray, DVD and On Demand February 14, 2017... [Read More]

Eastwood's film is dark and brutal, leavened by some deadpan comedy, a tour de force performance from Gene Hackman, and a sly encapsulation of the history of the Western genre, as seen through the eyes of a pulp writer played by Saul Rubinek.

Split is written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and is a tour de force performance from James McAvoy.

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a lively, sensational and dynamic film with exciting song and dance numbers and a tour de force performance by the high - pitched and energized James Cagney.

Some declared it precisely the tour de force the festival had been waiting for; others stayed behind to loudly boo the film as the lights came up, perhaps repelled by its brutal nihilism or its placement in the competition.

The ensuing sustained set piece, of a very pregnant Lawrence crawling and careering through the home that's become a stygian, hellish war zone, is a tour de force of meticulous choreography, like a series of expertly placed bombs going off one by one with horrifying precision.

Meanwhile, Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter wrote of the film, «Intense emotional currents and the jagged feelings of volatile actors are turned loose to raucous dramatic and darkly comedic effect in one of the most sustained examples of visually fluid tour de force cinema anyone's ever seen... An exemplary cast, led by Michael Keaton... fully meets the considerable demands placed upon it by director Alejandro G. Inarritu... The film's exhilarating originality, black comedy and tone that is at once empathetic and acidic will surely strike a strong chord with audiences looking for something fresh.»

Coming a bit later in the month is the series premiere of Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (who also executive produces) as the title character, «who struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father and the mother who tacitly condoned his behavior,» making for what Showtime calls a tour de force performance — you can catch the series» debut episode on Saturday, May 12 at 9 p.m. ET.

Both the Senate and Assembly bills are a tour de force of the political clout wielded by the school privatization cartel in Wisconsin.

In The great all - rounder, Simon Charlesworth discovers what makes the car so appealing to drive / For this month's Auto - biography, Matthew Bell travels to Milan to meet Corrado Lopresto — the well - known collector and view his 150 examples of Italian exotica / In Dealing with a Delage disaster, Douglas Blain tells how a major mechanical failure almost took the sole - surviving 1914 Delage Grand Prix car off the road for good, while Philip Guilfoyle explains how modern technology was used to create a brand new engine block / Doomed by its audacity and now largely forgotten, the Hotchkiss - Grégoire was a technological tour de force.

Inspired by actual 19th - century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force.

Set during the idealistic epoch before the Great War, The Children's Book is already being described as «a tour de force» «panoramic» and «a rich, sprawling chronicle» by various Canadian and British news outlets.

Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force, Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.

His fictional career, as recounted by Liew in this impressive tour de force, began in his teens with manga - influenced comics in which giant robots fought Singapore's British occupiers.

By that time, too, we have followed those characters and many others through six time - jumping sections, each a smaller - scale tour de force of its own.

The novel is publicized as a «tour de force about the dislocations wrought in our lives by accidents of fate and time,» and in this case, the accident is a terrorist bombing of a train.

This fascinating collection of 50 essays, one per state, each penned by a different writer, is a tour de force of letters and lore, affirming both the rugged individuality and the common threads that personify the American Experience.

And in the tour de force novella, «The Auroras», a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman.

A tour de force of metaphysical reality, powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy who runs away from home to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy, and an aging simpleton.