Sentences with word «upmanship»

The more things drag on, the more monotonous they become and, by the end, Hard Candy has devolved into a rather transparent game of one - upmanship in which Hayley and Jeff come across in almost equally repellent measure, their behaviors driven less by organic impulses than by their need to satisfy the script's elaborate series of reversals and counter-reversals.

High - profile downtown tenants liked the taste of one - upmanship of getting into the special new building before the recession, and today there's still a waiting list of major tenants wanting to jump into top - line office space.

The transmission struck us as a rather meaningless one - upmanship over Mercedes - Benz «s seven - speed, particularly since the LS seemed to use only four ratios.

The mirror is the brainchild of astronomer Roger Angel, whose boyish face masks a competitiveness that drove him to engage in one - upmanship with rival mirror makers.

Jaguar is doing the discreet thing right now in not allowing its new XF sedan range to get tangled in the - upmanship on display among its hyper - V8 Euro sedan competitors.

Some of this dialogue, especially in the scenes of pseudoscientific one - upmanship between Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, is quite funny (though a completely nonverbal moment between Hulk and Thor provides the movie's biggest laugh, which I won't spoil here).

In an interview with the Standard's Rosamund Urwin this week, the Hackney MP slipped in a bit of one - upmanship which went largely un-noticed at time:

The Challenger isn't about to be left behind in the one - upmanship game: its cabin is quite the nice place to be while putting down an eyeball - popping 707 horsepower from its supercharged Hellcat V8, the most power in the segment.

The one - upmanship goes a bit over-the-top:

One - upmanship gets old fast, but evolved, of - the - moment comedy helps make a stale story fresh.

One upmanship clearly dictates the entire marching chief band, renegade, osceola, flaming spear, rolled out garnet carpet leading to a repainted fsu - themed golf cart.

Yet they have waited so long for this kind of one - upmanship against Arsenal, t -LRB-...)

And if we started down this line of thinking, would emissions counting join low - carb diets and real estate one - upmanship as favorite topics of cocktail party bores?

The Moon: 25 years after touchdown It may have started out as political one - upmanship at the height of the Cold War, but the race to land on the Moon quickly captured the imagination of ordinary people everywhere

A vengeful game of one - upmanship turns deadly in this urban thriller about a hotshot young attorney (Ben Affleck) and a recovering alcoholic (Samuel L. Jackson) whose minor fender - bender devastates both of their lives and quickly leads to an escalating war of dirty tricks and manipulation.

Let the mud slinging and hilarity begin as these two candidates play a childish game of one - upmanship until a winner is declared.

As Annie and Helen's game of one - upmanship escalates, a potential love interest for Annie arrives in the form of state patrolman Rhodes (Chris O'Dowd), who encourages her to resume her baking career.

Unsurprisingly, the one - upmanship among arrogant gamblers and big cheeses fits effortlessly into Sorkin's universe, resulting in a wild ride with smarts to burn.

It feels much longer than its mercifully short running time to the point where I feared I'd be stuck watching the tedious one - upmanship for eternity.

As Guy and Bruno's erotic one - upmanship reaches its breaking point, they are surrounded by contorted petrified horses whose pinions look like they're angrily violating their sockets.

A vicious game of one upmanship takes place as each bride makes their best effort to get the space.

And for added plaudits Toni Erdmann winds down at a birthday party that brazenly twists into the territory of Luis Buñuel with a surrealist sting pitting Eros and civilization at one another in a parade of nudity and an avant - garde one upmanship from Toni / Winfried.

Greek with English subtitles Six men set out on the Aegean Sea aboard a yacht, and before long, male bonding and one - upmanship give way to a loosely defined yet hotly contested competition to determine which of them is «the best in general.»

Kuryakin, prone to psychotic episodes, and Solo, a suave thief too valuable to rot in jail, fall just short of buddy comedy status, but their playful one - upmanship makes this adventure more human and enjoyable than it otherwise would be.

Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell made a hell of an impression as the insouciant Mick Travis, who, along with his school chums, trumps authority at every turn, finally emerging as a violent savior in the vicious games of one - upmanship played by both students and masters.

With transmission one - upmanship all the rage, the CLS550 will also introduce Mercedes» new fuel - sipping, nine - speed 9G - Tronic automatic to America, but only in rear - wheel - drive versions.

To assist your one - upmanship efforts, it's auctioning off a white 1987 Countach with a gold - plated interior at the upcoming Villa Erba sale.

But today's horsepower one - upmanship means there are plenty of hatches and compacts with more power, from the Volkswagen GTI and Honda Civic Si to the Nissan Sentra SE - R and Dodge Neon R / T.

It's a vicious game of one - upmanship out there, and while Ford, General Motors and Ram duke it...

In the book, Aron Ralston is plagued by one - upmanship syndrome.

This is where the one - upmanship ends, as Flashback fails to match that game in every other conceivable way.

Of course, this game of technological one - upmanship didn't end there, and in 1994 Sega hit back with the Model 2 board and AM2's Daytona USA, which was ridiculously successful.

We've all become sick of the one - upmanship attempts of attention - starved digital marketers in 2013.

The one - upmanship continues with the manual mode: the G4 camera app provides everything from a histogram, to a full Kelvin white balance gamut, along with plenty of ISO stops and shutter speeds.

Insects» ingenious means of avoiding becoming lunch are examples of evolutionary one - upmanship in action.

The big players (Illumina and Life Tech technologies) have engaged in a continual game of one - upmanship over the last few years.

But when it comes to guessing what drives other parents to buy, a cynical 45 per cent believe that some enjoy the one - upmanship of buying the best present.

As the magnificent titles that Isaiah foresees are proclaimed — «Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace» — we may suddenly remember that we forgot to take the rolls out to thaw, and this means that our despised sister - in - law will have gained another weapon in her war of one - upmanship on the domestic front.

one - upmanship between Tony and Omar (F. Murray Abraham), Tony telling a little kid on the beach to watch as the mafioso's friend Manny (Steven Bauer) gets slapped by a girl, and Tony wearing Elvira's sun hat (leading to a burst of laughter from Pfeiffer).

Their games of one - upmanship with Rob Riggle capture that requisite but evasive mood that we fell for the first time.

You might have heard there's just a bit of rivalry between Australia and New Zealand — a fairly healthy spirit of antagonism and one - upmanship which permeates everything from sports to music.

«We are for sure in uncharted territory,» he says, citing a supply - driven slump resulting from new extraction technologies and geopolitical one - upmanship, coupled with fresh leadership in the federal and provincial governments.

Then an open conversation with employees could discuss why they want people to work with one another not against their peers in a game of one - upmanship.

And now this sort of perks one - upmanship may have reached its height at the company that's the natural home of the lavish benefit.

In the constant game of one - upmanship that is the cellular market, actor Paul Marcarelli, who starred in dozens of commercials for Verizon as the «Can you hear me now?»

But Trump's rationale for the additional $ 100 billion seems to be pure one - upmanship.

(One of the big stories of the upcoming session will be the one - upmanship we can expect to see between Wildrose leader Brian Jean and soon to be anointed PC leader Kenney, but I will save that for a future blog post).

To me it was all just same - old, same - old in the pop genre in general and the kind of one - upmanship you see in every video out here, where the more explicit you can be, the better.

What, is this guy in third grade, playing non-creative one - upmanship?