Sentences with phrase «tour de force with»

Great to be on this creative tour de force with you!

Wonderful to be on this creative tour de force with you!

Schaffner ended her tour de force with a Clyfford Still image from that 1963 ICA show — reproduced in cake!

The 12th novel from Richard Powers is magnificent and troubling, a symphonic tour de force with both human and tree characters that leave readers with a new reality.

But if you're looking for a technological tour de force with performance to match, the 2017 BMW 7 Series merits strong consideration.

Introduced in 1999, the first - generation Insight was America's first hybrid vehicle and a technological tour de force with optimized aerodynamics and a lightweight aluminum structure.

It's expected to be a high - tech tour de force with serious semi-autonomous capabilities and a lavishly appointed interior.

Disney's take on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen is, first and foremost, a technical tour de force with stunning environments and beautifully animated falling snow throughout.

This is Benedict Cumberbatch's moment: Dr. Strange is on the big screen with Avengers: Infinity War (over $ 1 billion at the box office) and soon he'll be seen in a mind - blowing acting tour de force with Patrick Melrose, a five - episode limited series on Showtime.

Overlooked: A technical tour de force with a powerful emotional core, The Handmaiden finds South Korean provocateur Park Chan - wook ascending to the rank of master filmmaker, elevating gleeful genre trash to high art through the precision of his craftsmanship.

Director Dee Rees accomplishes a breathtaking tour de force with her third fiction feature.

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.

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Block also raised further questions and accusations with regard to Sino - Forest's accounting methods and corporate structure, though admitted on the call that «we didn't really do our accounting tour de force.»

And although we don't know how this is all going to end up we do know one thing and I'd like to steal a quote from Bill Gates whenever he said block chain technology is a tour de force and we couldn't agree more with Bill Gates on that.

But I fear that with this assurance, his proposal ceases to be convincing and begins to appear as a not altogether ingenuous tour de force.

-- Aran Goyoaga, author of Small Plates & Sweet Treats and creator of the blog Cannelle et Vanille «More with Less is a tour de force in sharing indulgent food that is deliciously healthy.

«More with Less is a tour de force in sharing indulgent food that is deliciously healthy.

My childhood memories are a veritable cross-continental flavour tour de force, which is reflected in my irreverent style of cooking imbued with nutritional wisdom.

This baby crib combines modern minimal design with round spindled rails and solid New Zealand pine construction into a tour de force.

«All subsequent structures of the whole ribosome or other [large] subunits have depended on this structure» that Ban produced, «and it was a tour de force,» writes Ramakrishnan, who has never collaborated with Ban.

«It's an experimental tour de force; it's amazing work,» says theoretical physicist Helen Quinn of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif., who was not involved with the research.

«This study is a tour de force,» said Andrew Stewart, MD, the director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who is unconnected with the study.

«This is a tour de force demonstration of what is possible when one harnesses the chemistry of DNA and combines it with nanoparticles whose shapes encourage a particular crystal structure,» said Chad A. Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern.

Here is an annotated version of her story, with comments about individual elements that add up to a tour de force of science journalism.

In Beyond Biocentrism, stem cell pioneer Robert Lanza, writing with astronomer Bob Berman, presents a lucid tour de force of his thrilling but controversial theory that consciousness creates reality and the cosmos itself.

After providing an overview of the environmental and dietary influences that affect brain function in Part I, in Part II the book, Dr. Hyman takes us on a tour de force journey through the seven core systems — nutrition, hormones, immune function, digestion, detoxification, energy metabolism, and mind - body — that not only deeply answers this question, but enables effective individualized treatment as each chapter opens with a quiz to help identify where the patient is out of balance.

«Bold, brilliant, and brimming with practical ideas and tools to end depression and anxiety without drugs, A Mind of Your Own is a tour de force that will change how you approach your health and mental wellbeing.»

Of course there are still glitches and places where characters merge alarmingly with scenery, but compared with the Xbox One version of PUBG it's a technical tour de force.

This is an astonishing film in a number of ways, a tour de force that's brilliantly played and written and directed with total conviction.

Fittingly, Magee adapts the skills he learned on past creature crews to make his first turn in the director's chair a tour de force, with creature design and practical effects that rival the best of the big budget movies going today.

Suffice it to say, Riggan makes it back to stage via the front entrance — gasps heard all around the audience — finishing his lines, completing a tour de force moment in a film filled with them.

She did not disappoint: The entertainment industry's greatest tour de force delivered with a heart - wrenching, honest, eloquent and radical battle cry that declared «Your time is up» to all those who abuse their power.

But Jeff's story merely begins with the bombing, and via a tour de force performance from Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger tackles the fallout from Jeff's injury and the personal toll that being acclaimed as a citywide «hero» takes on him, his family, and his on - again / off - again girlfriend.

Gary Oldman's tour de force as Winston Churchill in «Darkest Hour» and James McAvoy's startling depiction of a man with dozens of personalities in «Split» tied in the Best Actor category.

With a more modern rewrite from Travis Fine, who also directs, the film transcends its emotionally manipulative, with Cumming's tour de force performance as its pulsing heWith a more modern rewrite from Travis Fine, who also directs, the film transcends its emotionally manipulative, with Cumming's tour de force performance as its pulsing hewith Cumming's tour de force performance as its pulsing heart.

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.

More like a 91 - minute thrill - ride than an astronaut adventure movie, this tour de force throws us out into space without a safety line then thrills us with a series of near misses that take our...

The final scenes are a tour de force in which the bonfire - strewn streets fill with merrymakers and the exploding fireworks look as dangerous as a war, an apt metaphor for the everyday violence in the characters» lives.

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.

With About Elly, the familiar elements of his filmmaking coalesced into a tour de force mystery thriller that, despite the formally impeccable, universally acclaimed A Separation, remains the filmmaker's best film.

Under the Skin is a disorienting, captivating tour de force, a ravishing nightmare of a film that grows richer with every viewing.

Otherwise, this is rather a tour de force for the ladies, with Leia, Rey, Rose, Dern's Admiral Holdo, and even a cameo from Lupita Nyong» o's Maz Kanata all vital to the proceedings.

All the performances are flawless, but Hoffman's portrait of an ageing man trying to make peace with his family (and himself) is a finely tuned tour de force.

Best Actress: Annette Bening — Kids Are All Right — stern, intelligent yet moving and likeable — it takes a real pro to accomplish that with such style and verve Nicole Kidman — Rabbit Hole — heartbreaking but resilient — a perfect balance between broken and fixed — it is so joyful to watch a character so succinctly communicated Lesley Manville — Another Year — heartbreaking with closeup after closeup of vulnerability and grasping hope — truly a fragile and pulsating performance Julianne Moore — Kids Are All Right — courageous and oh so human — sexy and vulnerable in an earthy way — her struggles with herself are the heart of the movie and she carries it magnificently and warmly Natalie Portman — Black Swan — the tour de force this year — the crazy, emotionally volatile core of a crazy, emotionally volatile film — some wonder if it might be «easer» to play such big emotions but the incredibly thin wire she has to traverse in such an extreme environment is daunting and she makes it work and gives us believability and solicits true sympathy in the middle of a fright fest — a truly accomplished achievement

A rousing historical tour de force, Selma is an accomplishment of art and nonfiction coming to head; the product of historical accuracy colliding with a massively stirring lead performance from David Oyelowo and confident, assured direction from Ava DuVernay.

Since Hollywood, and the industry, really really really doesn't like movies with strong female leads in them, and that there are barely enough of them to go around at all, it seems plausible that Streep's tour de force could blow out any potential competition.

A Cold War spy satire with an amazing cast that sometimes reminds you of an Ealing film, Our Man in Havana is a tour de force for Alec Guinness.

Franco's Tommy Wiseau is an oblivious creature who bangs out the script to his mystifying tour de force in a furiously hokey typewriter montage; without any internal conflicts, motivations, or backstory to speak of, his ambitions are simplified into his relationship with Sestero, a character whose two modes are «wide - eyed» and «peeved.»

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.