Sentences with phrase «upmanship in»

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

But while there can certainly be a bit of scholarly one - upmanship in it, I'm not sure that's all that's going on there.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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«One - upmanship, scapegoating, yelling louder and tweeting meaner has replaced cooperation, quiet conversation and compromise,» Mr. Molinaro said in the village of Tivoli.

«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.

The one - upmanship that leads to such brutal adaptations isn't unique to the animal kingdom; we see it again and again in the arms races of our own species.

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.

Viruses and their hosts are in a eternal game of one - upmanship.

In a bit of one - upmanship, NASA's Langley Research Center in turn began developing the HL - 20, a craft that could take off and land horizontally and reach low Earth orbiIn a bit of one - upmanship, NASA's Langley Research Center in turn began developing the HL - 20, a craft that could take off and land horizontally and reach low Earth orbiin turn began developing the HL - 20, a craft that could take off and land horizontally and reach low Earth orbit.

In the US they have a nice phrase to describe a silly bit of business one - upmanship.

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

Roger's newfound good fortune comes to end end after Dr. P takes an interest in his would - be girlfriend (Jacinda Barrett's Amanda), and the two consequently embark on a campaign of one - upmanship and systematic humiliation.

The movie is based on a 2013 novel by Jason Matthews, an ex-CIA operative who reportedly brought much of his expertise to a story of two secret agents, one Russian and one American, navigating intricate surveillance missions around the world in a game of one - upmanship.

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.

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.

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are traveling companions on «The Trip» (IFC) to the finest restaurants in Britain, where they spend time in comic one - upmanship (their dueling Michael Caine impressions is worth the price of a rental).

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.

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.»

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.

The most satisfying scenes in the film involve Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin (Ashkenazi) and Defence Minister Shimon Peres (Marsan) discussing their options, driven largely by political one - upmanship.

It feels like von Trier is caught in a game of one - upmanship with himself to make the film edgy rather than logical.

It's the rare tale of Oedipal one - upmanship that feels charming, comically sharp and creepy in equal measures, helped by actors tuned in to the filmmakers» gently fucked - up frequency.

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.

His weapons are humiliation and professional one - upmanship (and guns and hatchets and booby - trapped boxes and stolen cushions); when Borden begins to respond in kind, the fallout before the last act's disquieting resolutions involves Angier's girl Olivia (Scarlett Johansson, testing my faith with a terrible accent) in addition to Borden's wife Sarah (an exceptional Rebecca Hall) and daughter Jess (Samantha Mahurin).

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.»

Men dominate the first scene of Green, in which journalist Sebastian (Lawrence Michael Levine) and his friend (Alex Ross Perry) pompously extol the virtues of Philip Roth, engaging in a game of one - upmanship to see who can concoct the most effusive praise.

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.

In the name of one - upmanship, she's carrying twins and still doing Pilates, a supermodel blonde having a super-pregnancy.

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.

Once it's established that Lillian's new friend Helen (Rose Byrne), who happens to be her fiancé's boss's wife, is angling to usurp Annie's role, we're off to the races in what turns out to be an ever - escalating game of one - upmanship.

Films like Bay's Transformers or Paul Greengrass» The Bourne Ultimatum find themselves competing in a never - ending contest of one - upmanship, a film version of the music industry's own Loudness Wars.

The two men play a game of high - stakes one - upmanship to exert influence on Richard Clarke (Michael Stuhlbarg), counterterrorism chief in the Clinton administration.

In true ensemble fashion, the actors charitably feed off each other, and none of them step on each others» toes — the apt exception being Streep, whose soul - devouring matriarch's favorite pastime is callous interruption and one - upmanship.

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.

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

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.

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.