Sentences with phrase «upmanship for»

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

(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).

Unlike other sports, basketball is basically a schedule of one - upmanship, hypercompetitive personalities set against each other for our amusement.

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.

The 1972 World Chess Championship between American challenger Bobby Fischer and the USSR's defending champion Boris Spassky would for several weeks turn a chessboard in Reykjavik into a battlefield of Cold War one - upmanship.»

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.

The general view at this year's Toronto Film Festival is that a lot of ambitious new flickers are engaged in a game of one - upmanship in violence and may have outstripped even the audience appetite for mayhem.

One couple in the movie (Campbell Scott and Kyra Sedgwick) seem to be more or less right for one another, but they play a dangerous game of one - upmanship, based on pride.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.»

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..

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.

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.

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?

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.»