Sentences with phrase «upmanship from»

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.

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.

Half - heartedly acted, poorly edited and with simply nothing at all to distinguish itself from the ranks of other crime - drama thrillers revolving around technological one - upmanship, Paranoia is a kick to the stomach thinking about the wasted potential.

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).

Adapted from Ernest Cline's terrible novel, Ready Player One dials down the book's self - satisfied checklisting but, disastrously, tacks on a «gather ye rosebuds» message about how reality — without all the intellectual property worship and dork one - upmanship — is ultimately preferable to virtual reality.

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.

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.

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.

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.