Sentences with phrase «upmanship played»
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.
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What, is this guy in third grade, playing non-creative one - upmanship?
He also accused Martins of playing «petty political insider games» involving «countless hours of legal one - upmanship» to get petitions thrown out on technical grounds.
When the parties squabble over the election of a speaker, it looks like they exist to merely play a game of one - upmanship.
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.
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.
Hank Driskill: We'd then play creative one - upmanship and ask, «Can we do better?»
Honda's engine plans are the latest example of the environmental one - upmanship being played out among Japanese carmakers.
A political and unspoken game of esthetic one - upmanship was played by artists, collectors, critics, curators and dealers competing for media attention.
In confrontations of materiality, Koons and Fischer play a Jasper Johns one - upmanship to Gemito and Serra, following an object or style through transformations of media and form.