Sentences with phrase «upmanship all»

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.

If real estate agents were intelligent, they would realize that they are paying a lot of money each month for duplicating what already exists just to boost their own ego or image or one - upmanship to the public.»

There's a spirit of one - upmanship that creeps into the season that pushes you to pull out the stops.

«Bosom buddy» types of relationships are marked by mutual understanding and closeness with an element of one - upmanship, much like a sibling relationship.

It's possible to spend as much on a headset as on a console, but is that really necessary for those who aren't interested in one - upmanship?

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.

The Galaxy S9 has a lot of features designed to wow, and I share some responsibility for perpetuating the incessant one - upmanship of Samsung and other phone makers.

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

Our role as lawyers should be to achieve the best result for our clients, not make a show of our one - upmanship over each other.

Hi Doc If you were aware of an alternative, you would have provided information, so I assume it is a case of one - upmanship, which of course is flattering (a bit of an ego boost is always good for downtrodden unwashed masses), but in this case evasive «sarcasm» does not bestow any credibility onto your post etc etc..

It's a case of electric infrastructure one - upmanship.

After a long period when painting was frequently dismissed as a complacent, indulgent, narcissistic medium in contrast to other modes (conceptual art, relational esthetics, etc.) that were supposed to be more faithful to the skeptical, oppositional character of historic avant - gardes, some painters have been rediscovering doubt as an aspect of their medium, reclaiming Cézanne as an ancestor and nominating as their tutelary spirit Samuel Beckett, a writer who favored paintings where he found «no trace of one - upmanship, either in excess or deficiency.

It's funny how so much verbal fire and brimstone can turn so quickly to miserly one - upmanship and tawdry painterly theatrics.

Ms. Kass — known for appropriating the styles of male artists as both homage and feminist one - upmanship — first created «OY» as a painting riffing on Edward Ruscha's 1962 Pop canvas, «OOF.»

The paintings with which he first began to make his name a decade or more earlier, alongside his contemporaries Leon Kossoff and Lucian Freud, seem intent on a kind of one - upmanship in demonstrating the sheer mass of pigment that a surface can hold; his Head of EOW — his first muse Stella West — seems to emerge Golem - like from clay and mud, the same ooze of material that clogs his Building Site, Earl's Court Road, Winter of two years earlier.

Dogged antagonists, they published their essays in combat with one another, and released their anthologies in a syncopation of one - upmanship.

In confrontations of materiality, Koons and Fischer play a Jasper Johns one - upmanship to Gemito and Serra, following an object or style through transformations of media and form.

A political and unspoken game of esthetic one - upmanship was played by artists, collectors, critics, curators and dealers competing for media attention.

The painter Jason Fox, 51, and the Pakistani - born sculptor Huma Bhabha, 54, who live in a converted firehouse in upstate New York, also see little room for one - upmanship in their marriage, a fact that Fox attributes partly to the long years they both worked in relative obscurity.

The community spirit which formed on the private forums was an important part of the experience, as Holman and other SCEE staff provided technical assistance for the aspiring developers, while they encouraged each other with jovial banter and attempts at one - upmanship.

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.

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

But I love the constant one - upmanship of forward - thinking game developers, the insane possibilities of a digitally networked mind.

We'll need to genuinely care about the cast in order to want to keep replaying the campaign, so it's very much a case of graphics serving gameplay as opposed to meaningless technical one - upmanship.

Easy Rules strips back complexities for a more accessible game of financial one - upmanship, while the standard regulations see the board split into districts, introducing stock options that allow you to rake in money for areas you might not own.

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.

Yet the urge for one - upmanship — or at least keeping - upmanship — remains a driving force in the wedding biz.

So Amazon and Barnes & Noble have gone, in an endless game of one - upmanship over the last few Kindle - and Nook - filled years.

With attitude and humor, Christopher Myers and Dion Graham narrate a magnificent game of one - upmanship on the basketball court.

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

During the past few years, Explorer and Grand Cherokee have been engaged in a game of one - upmanship.

Once you've gotten to the British Isles, you can start your game of one - upmanship over the S65 with the 2016 Bentley Flying Spur.

Honda's engine plans are the latest example of the environmental one - upmanship being played out among Japanese carmakers.

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

You can now add a new special edition Veyron to the list, with a new Bugatti that is a bit more than just a couple of special editions knocked out for one - upmanship in the Gulf — the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse.

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.

Despite the rash of new sport - utility vehicles, the segment is still ruled by two: the Ford Explorer and the Jeep Grand Cherokee.During the past few years, Explorer and Grand Cherokee have been engaged in a game of one - upmanship.

[23] Via one - upmanship, Camry exceeded the Accord's wheelbase by 150 millimeters (5.9 in) and offered larger engines.

MB has to do one - upmanship in order to stay in the competitive business of performance luxury car, by offering a phenomenon 9.17:1 ratio transmission, and barely rev the engine at 1,300 rpm at hwy cruise.

However, for the quick stuff, a good lap time has become a badge of honour, a powerful marketing tool and the ultimate one - upmanship over the closest rival.

Or that the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang, which used to go unchanged for decades, are now engaged in a yearly game of one - upmanship that involves chassis tuning as much as horsepower gains.

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.

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.

Today's luxury cars may pack powerful engines, sport - tuned suspensions, and more apps than your stubborn friend's Blackberry, but the segment has devolved into a repetitive cycle of one - upmanship that measures differences in millimeters rather than milestones.

March 18, 2015 • As exams kick off for the controversial learning standards, both students and teachers are trying to cope with the stress — and the political one - upmanship.

Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman has warned that underperforming schools can get caught in a culture of «disadvantage one - upmanship», where schools focus too much on their pupils» deprivation.

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.

There are endless «for» and «against» arguments, and voices seeking to drown others out in a game of one - upmanship.

For 17 - year - old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and grad student Oliver (Armie Hammer), it's both lust at first sight and a winding journey to each other — on bikes and in the water, through physical teasing and gentle intellectual one - upmanship in the Northern Italian countryside, summer 1983.

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.