Sentences with phrase «upmanship makes»

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.

Not exact matches

On the Article, yeah I think you are right and that it's a case of Levy trying ever so hard to make it look like one - upmanship.

«When it isn't made clear how you should go about conducting your work or how rewards, like promotions, are given out, it can lead to undermining and one - upmanship,» says Johnson.

One - upmanship gets old fast, but evolved, of - the - moment comedy helps make a stale story fresh.

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

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

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.

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.

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.