Sentences with phrase «wild promise of»

It works well in New York street scenes and panoramas — such as the novel's celebrated vision of Manhattan glimpsed from the Queensborough Bridge («the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world»)-- but it makes the actors look more like mannequins than people.

It is also mentioned in the novel «The Great Gatsby,» in which narrator Nick Carraway says, «The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.»

Be wary of any organization making wild promises of immediate assistance.

So, no wild promises of magical transformation this time out — just a simple suggestion for one extra email a month to help nudge your marketing efforts in the right direction over the year ahead.

I'm wondering how long it will be before internet luring of naïve consumers by far too many shallow Realtors offering wild promises of big payoffs («List / buy with me and get more / pay less!)

Not exact matches

The failure of far - right populist Gert Wilders to win the recent Dutch election was a boost for the EU but a threat awaits in the prospect of French President Marine le Pen, a far - right anti-immigration candidate who has promised to hold a referendum on France's EU membership if elected, the same promise Cameron made.

But when Campbell toured a couple of the adventure - travel sites in this month's best - of - the - Web survey, he was wowed by packages that promise a wilder time than your typical day on the links.

Last year, Loblaw promised that all seafood sold on its shelves — canned, frozen, fresh, wild and farmed — will come from sustainable sources by the end of 2013.

His promise of stable value sits oddly against bitcoin's wild ride.

Curiously, the team notes that the Model S cars in the wild haven't been able to hit the 10.9 - second in a quarter of a mile Tesla promised, while car enthusiasts have been able to push the Model X to beat the vehicle's stated 11.7 - second quarter mile.

We have no evidence of anything living without a body, so isn't this just a wild promise?

Abraham had faith because he accepted a wild promise that went against all physical evidence and knowledge of the day.

With the promise of wild flowers and empty trails, he prodded the men to spend the afternoon's waning hours in the countryside.

Faced with crossing a busy river ahead, violent people behind and wild animals in the forest around, I prayed a short prayer, reminding the Lord of his promise to take care of me.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

Many a man is like a well - pitched ball which has started with such apparent lack of promise that the spectators already have prepared themselves to cry «Wild ball,» when suddenly it straightens itself out and crosses the center of the plate.

I know you promised we wouldn't be alone, that you would send a Helper and Advocate, full of power and truth and ready to guide, but let's face it: the fire of the Spirit is the wild kind.

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If you go into a family's living room and promise them you'll take care of their son or daughter at said university, and that teenager picks your school (to benefit your program and ultimately your wallet), that comes with a lifetime reciprocal commitment barring some wild extenuating circumstances.

The NL Wild Card Game is Wednesday night, and it has a whole lot of promise.

Your baby is: A rogue band of cells, a» huntin» and a» feudin» and rapidly dividin» while traveling the wilds of your fallopian tube, headed towards the uterine promised land.

A promising study published last autumn by ecologists Sarah Greenleaf of the University of California at Davis and Claire Kremen of the University of California at Berkeley found that the presence of wild bees increases the efficiency of sunflower pollination fivefold.

«Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical food: New research shows promise in improving crops with use of wild relatives.»

«The wild relatives of crop plants are the most promising reserves of genetic diversity,» say Eric Bishop von Wettberg, a plant biologist at the University of Vermont.

The idea of «reversal drives,» which would overwrite mutated genes with the original sequence, often arises as a promising solution to gene drives gone wild.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

«The promising thing is that we can take species of stem cells, put them in tissue culture, and more confidently believe that events we're seeing are probably happening in the wild as well,» Barry says.

Future studies, including data from larger sample sizes of wild - born and geographically well - defined individuals, and full Y - chromosome sequences from bonobos, gorillas and orangutans, promise to further our understanding of population histories, male - biased behaviours, mutation processes, and the functions of Y - chromosomal genes.

Wild Blueberries and other flavonoid - rich berries are the subject of promising health research in many different areas including:

At the same time as you should be dubious about wild promises that seem too good to be true, you have a right to expect results when you sign up for one of the free dating websites.

If the first half of season 6 is promising answers this summer while finishing the A storyline, then we are in for a fast, wild ride this season.

Some real gems on there, Wild Way, 16 Shades Of Blue and Promise and my faves on first listen.

He promised «Doctor Strange» would be «weird and wild», and so it is, at least within the context of a major Hollywood blockbuster.

Featuring an exciting blend of white knuckle speed and wild out - of - control racing tracks, FlatOut 4 promises an intense death - defying demolition derby game featuring muscle cars, race cars, trucks and even a rocket boosted ice cream van!

Posters for the film promise a wild, drug - and - alcohol - fueled ride à la the recent Rough Night, but while there is plenty of drinking and a fair amount of drugs (just pot though, let's not go crazy), the overall effect is more akin to passing out on the couch at 9 p.m. than partying until dawn.

• Big • Toy Story • Toy Story 2 Directed by Ron Howard: Grand Theft Auto (Tricked Out Edition) Supporting Cast: King Arthur • Vantage Point • Night at the Museum • Eastern Promises • Into the Wild Written by David Koepp: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull • Ghost Town

After months of beta tests Monster Hunter World is finally out in the wild, and so far has delivered on its pre-release promises, with dozens of hours of deep and varied gameplay on offer.

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Argo † Beasts of the Southern Wild ‡ Django Unchained ‡ Les Miserables ‡ Lincoln ‡ Looper The Perks of Being a Wallflower Promised Land Silver Linings Playbook ‡

Also unexpectedly refreshing to see the promising and bold debut feature Beasts of the Southern Wild so prominently featured, even if it's unlikely such an underdog stands a chance against the Hollywood giants and industry veterans (Beasts... is also disgracefully absent from the «best original score» nomination list, but now I'm just being petty).

The first week of SIFF promises a plethora of interesting cinema, from well - known auteurs like Terence Davies and Whit Stillman, to more obscure finds from Thailand, Japan, China and the wilds of Portland, and established classics from Orson Welles and Douglas Sirk.

The promise of Mintz - Plasse's Red Mist turning supervillain, plus the addition of Jim Carrey as a hero called «Colonel Stars» are reason enough to assume that we're in for a wild ride with this sequel, and we can't wait to see just how crazy things will get.

When Ben turns up dead, Lawrence promises Gwen that he will discover the responsible party, the which he does as a werewolf savages the neighborhood, moving so quickly that even in the midst of a crowd, and even while dismembering, eviscerating, and otherwise wreaking butchery with wild abandon, it's difficult to see exactly what is responsible.

It also helped we got the likes of Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, ARMS, Splatoon 2, Super Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and of course, Bayonetta 1 & 2, as well as the promise of games to come: Kirby Star Allies, Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Mario Tennis Aces, Metroid Prime 4, Bayonetta 3 and a new Fire Emblem, Yoshi and Pokémon for Switch.

The Sessions Promised Land Broken City Side Effects Amour Take This Waltz Beasts of the Southern Wild Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Oz, The Great and Powerful Side By Side A Separation Wreck - It Ralph Compliance Admission The Silence The Prodigal Son Evil Dead Flashdance Days of Heaven Jurassic Park 3D Double Indemnity Room 237 To the Wonder The Place Beyond the Pines ParaNorman Iron Man 3 The Paperboy The Great Gatsby Bernie Star Trek Into Darkness Oblivion Now You Seen Me All Good Things End of Watch Lars and the Real Girl The Way Way Back Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil Behind the Candelabra Man of Steel Beautiful Creatures Stoker Not Fade Away Identity Thief Mama This is the End V / H / S The Heat White House Down The Exorcism of Emily Rose World War Z The Blue Umbrella Monsters University Despicable Me Modern Times The Conjuring Red Pacific Rim The Wolverine We're the Millers Fruitvale Station Lee Daniels» The Butler Seven Psychopaths Bachelorette Blue Jasmine Chronicle Like Crazy The Spectacular Now Austenland Hot Fuzz The World's End Best Worst Movie The Possession Isidious: Chapter 2 Prisoners Anna Karenina Don Jon Enough Said V / H / S / 2 The Ward Gravity Captain Phillips Nebraska Honeymoon Suite We Are What We Are Winter in the Blood Truth or Blood The Search for Simon Ghost Light They Will Outlive Us All Hot «n Bothered Casual Encounters A Better Life Mud 12 Years a Slave Much Ado About Nothing (2013) About Time Thor: The Dark World Only God Forgives Frances Ha Salinger Dallas Buyers Club JFK The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Frozen Philomena Parkland Delivery Man Prince Avalanche The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Upstream Color Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa What Maisie Knew The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) Lovelace Saving Mr. Banks The Secret Life of Walter Mitty August: Osage County The Wolf of Wall Street American Hustle

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Actress Marion Cotillard in «Two Days, One Night» = non, je ne regrette rien Felicity Jones in «The Theory of Everything» = whatevs Julianne Moore in «Still Alice» = sure Rosamund Pike in «Gone Girl» = seeing it this weekend, I promise Reese Witherspoon in «Wild» = okay

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