Sentences with phrase «upmanship as»

Not exact matches

He also told hacks how David Cameron had announced his resignation «in a brutal act of one upmanship» the same night as his book launch.

«One - upmanship, scapegoating, yelling louder and Tweeting meaner has replaced cooperation, quiet conversation and compromise,» Molinaro said in his launch party in Tivoli, where he served as a young, rising star mayor.

As a storm cuts off power to the isolated cabin, the two men begin a jagged game of one - upmanship that will bring at least one tale to an end.

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.

Boyle engages in the same sort of teasing one - upmanship with his ma as he does with everyone else, but it's got a tender, well - worn affection to it.

Solo's cocksure swagger and Kuryakin's arrogant bullishness clash time and again, resulting in a game of one - upmanship, even as they ultimately need to rely on one another to complete their mission.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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?