Sentences with phrase «very nadir»

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When the Chinese regime was at the nadir of its brutality, the religious left was hailing it as a bastion of social progress, if not the very kingdom of God on earth.»

During the nadir recent crisis (2001 — 2003), prices reached record low levels (Kona at 49 US cents / lb according to the ICO indicator price, April 2001) and left many Kona producers in very difficult conditions.

We can't predict the future (although if you can, please let us know what will happen to the Dinger Machine because we're very worried), and the Marlins» actions may well be the nadir of owners acting in the best interest of their wallets.

Josh is, of course, very like Woody Allen's Cliff Stern, the documentary film - maker in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) who, at the nadir of professional failure, is forced to film a tribute to his hated brother - in - law, a highly successful man at home in the same world of tuxedo dinners and speeches from which Ben Stiller's Josh feels excluded.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

predilection for dick and fart jokes is very much in evidence (though, thankfully, there's nothing here approaching the scatological nadir of Dogma's Golgothan), yet while he may have gained a fair amount of notoriety for that lowbrow brand of humor, his greatest strength has always been the rapier wit of his dialogue, whenever raunchy or not.