Sentences with phrase «train wreck of»

I must admit I LOVE a train wreck of a display as much as I love a one - of - a-kind Christmas beauty!

«President Obama inherited a train wreck of an economy and has done much good to keep it on the rails.

The support we receive as parents, stepparents, spouses and individuals suffering through this train wreck of a custody battle has been fabulous.

Most lawyer's offices look like they're one of two things, either a photo shoot for Architectural Digest of boring offices, 2018, or a complete train wreck of paper everywhere and colossal disorganization.

This benchslap came with an order that defendants were to reimburse the plaintiffs for attorneys fees and court attorney fees incurred during this train wreck of a deposition.

The witness started the train wreck of a deposition by asking counsel «to clarify» what he meant by such obvious words as «responsibilities» and «educational background.»

Consider, the train wreck of decommissioned D.C. Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson, who spent years pursuing a frivolous $ 65 million dollar lawsuit against a mom - and - pop dry cleaning business.

Nor will it be kind to all those scientists who sat on the sidelines, who said nothing while this train wreck of an organization influenced major government decisions.

I declined to join them on the grounds that, as the previous impenetrable sentence suggests, the DC court system had made such a procedural train wreck of the case that we might as well get on with the trial the fraudulent Mann claimed to want, and be done with it.

To try to stop what could be a train wreck of a fund, 163 organizations from 39 countries signed a letter to UN climate negotiators.

When the The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity introduced their Clean Coal Carolers in 2008, we called it a» jaw - dropping train wreck of a marketing campaign.»

Jeff Elrod -(pictured above) After a disastrous train wreck of a lecture at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in 2009, I started to think differently about his abstract paintings that are part elegant monochromatic gestural works and part nostalgic elegy to early digi - art, a commentary on the tensions between the physical and the virtual in the 21st century.

Not because it's a wonderful gem everybody most play, but because it's an absolute train wreck of a disaster.

Where Playtonic's train wreck of a car crash of a house fire of a video game was rightfully savaged in the gaming press and communities, Snake Pass was praised and anointed the true next step of the 3D platformer.

Even some returning actors voicing their digital compatriots can't save the train wreck of a narrative, and it certainly doesn't help immerse you in the world when the lip syncing doesn't even match up.»

All in all Wrecked is a train wreck of a game, tarnishing the memories of SuperSonic Software's glory days of Micro Machine's and instead showing that Wrecked is yet another poor copy and paste cash in from a studio that unfortunately haven't caught up with the times.

RE 4's signature was to remove everything that made the series what it was, and set up for the train wreck of sequels that follows.

Reading the US reviews of the BlackBerry PlayBook you would have thought that the launch of the company's first tablet was a train wreck of massive proportions, a device that you shouldn't touch with a barge pole.

Everyone has a friend or sibling who is a train wreck of unreality.

Similarly, Jandy Nelson's I'll Give You the Sun (2014) has a great train wreck of first - time sex.

Is it human nature to relish watching the train wreck of a public collapse?

Growing up in the 1960s, Amelia finds her one true friend and discovers the courage to stand up to the town bullies, local bigots, and her train wreck of a family.

As a Black education reformer, I feel a tick closer to the cultural train wreck of failing schools.

Once it does, however, «Safe» never looks back, transforming into a speeding train wreck of violence where the various parties (Statham, some crooked cops and feuding Chinese and Russian gangsters) open fire on one another with such reckless abandon that it eliminates any plausibility.

A 2009 story in The Washington Post called «The Room» a «train wreck of almost incomprehensible proportions: Whole scenes are out of focus. . . .

The story follows Charley Thompson, played with incredible wise - beyond - his - years sensibility by rising star Charlie Plummer (All The Money In The World), a fifteen - year - old boy who has just moved to Portland, Oregon with his train wreck of a father (Vikings» Travis Fimmel).

FAM (multi-camera) Picked up to series STUDIO: CBS Television Studios / Kapital Entertainment TEAM: Corinne Kingsbury (w, ep), Bob Kushell (w, ep), David Rosenthal (ep), Aaron Kaplan (ep), Dana Honor (ep), Wendi Trilling (ep), Scott Ellis (d, ep) LOGLINE: A woman's dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé and his upstanding family are dashed when her younger train - wreck half - sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father.

FAM (multi-camera) STUDIO: CBS Television Studios / Kapital Entertainment TEAM: Corinne Kingsbury (w, ep), Bob Kushell (w, ep), David Rosenthal (ep), Aaron Kaplan (ep), Dana Honor (ep), Wendi Trilling (ep), Scott Ellis (d, ep) LOGLINE: A woman's dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé and his upstanding family are dashed when her younger train - wreck half - sister comes to live with her to escape their train wreck of a father.

Written by Kingsbury and directed by Scott Ellis, Fam is about a woman, Clem (Dobrev) whose younger half - sister, Shannon (Odessa Adlon), comes to live with her and her fiancé to escape their train wreck of a father.

Parker is a train wreck of the worst kind, as everyone seems to phoning it in.

After a train wreck of a breakup from his oversexed girlfriend (Juliette Lewis), Mitch finds himself vulnerable to the opportunistic wiles of his buddy Beanie (Vince Vaughn), the schmoozily successful proprietor of electronics retailer Speaker City.

But where Natural Born Killers is interesting, well - acted and provocative, The Doom Generation is just flat out nasty, eye - rollingly boring and SO badly acted I actually kept getting up to go to the bathroom just because peeing was more engaging a phenomenon than sitting in front of this train wreck of a movie.

Sounds like a train wreck of a story line, but this is a movie so of course they hit it off.

I think she beat Heidi for train wreck of the night.

Indeed, they might just salvage something from what looked to be a train wreck of a league campaign.

The Cowboys played last season with a train wreck of a defense, then did nothing about it.

If he leaves at the end of this year or sees his contract out and stays another year, in both cases he is going to leave a train wreck of a club behind him.

A brilliant, glorious train wreck of a match was highlighted by one of the craziest moves ever.

Like, I've intimated in the past, maybe it's harder for folks who've lived through The Glory Years ™ but as someone that come aboard during the train wreck of 2010 - 2011, I'm just glad we're not Leeds?

In the second presidential debate — a town hall discussion moderated by CNN's Candy Crowley — Obama proved that his first train wreck of a debate was nothing more than an aberration.

Why on earth would Evans want to leave the comfort of a Team that defends as it is coached and required to do - namely DEFEND any come to our train wreck of a back 3 / 4/5 /???? (Whatever the players decide).

Gon na take a bit more than missing a few meals and praying for Romney to save this train wreck of a candidacy.

This cathartic train wreck of a comment marathon has been for me, in alternating sequence, fascinating, appalling, and inspiring.

Second, «a group of qualified and mature people» to review the evidence — Brian is saying here that everyone participating in the conversation here are neither qualified (despite the many who say they are survivors of experiences just like this one, not to mention Julie herself), nor mature (this follows the party line that people here are mere internet rubberneckers taking voyeuristic pleasure in watching the train wreck of a marriage).

As a country, we can either work towards systems that other countries are doing right... Or we can follow this train wreck of contradictions straight to hell.

Not exact matches

(Ironically, though, she names Simone as one of the most important influences she's ever had, despite their personal train wreck.

The Tennessee - based manufacturer Fitzgerald Glider Kits, for instance, is in the business of buying up wrecked or otherwise not roadworthy old 18 - wheelers, rebuilding the outdated engines and other drive train components, and then installing them in brand new vehicle bodies, or «gliders,» as vehicles without powertrains are called.

Having witnessed my share of leadership train wrecks over the years, I was most impressed with the principle of «Communication IS Leadership,» which Reiff personally crafted in definition as «daily execution of practicing consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate, and yes, even courteous communication.»

Bank of America Merrill Lynch strategist Michael Contopoulos called the sector a «slow moving train wreck.»

Seeking clarity on what was already looking like a train wreck, Madam Justice Barbara Romaine nullified the firing of Concrete and appointed Ernst & Young as the receiver.