Sentences with phrase «with faint hopes»

It has a great noir edge to it, so I came into the game with faint hopes of a story that could hold my interest as much as the first time I watched Se7en, and while the game doesn't begin to touch David Fincher's masterpiece (despite a few nods throughout), I left feeling a whole lot more satisfied than I thought I would.

Even with faint hopes still alive — and with plenty of unanalyzed data in the can that will keep scientsits busy for years — astronomers and planetary scientists expressed their dismay through social media.

Both came with uneasiness about what would happen, but also with a faint hope that it somehow might help lessen the pain and restore some of the sparkle in their marriage.

Sirs: With the faint hope that I might be able to discourage you from choosing some such stellar athlete as Branch Rickey or Stepin Fetchit, I suggest the one athlete who currently dominates his sport as does no other: the Boston Celtics» Bill Russell.

Sorry, but at this point what you're doing is basically a salvage operation, with a faint hope that you can rescue your hardware and your investment.

«No other business is required to provide goods or services without payment, yet landlords must by law allow tenants to remain in their apartments for months with faint hope of recovering the cost,» says Vince Brescia, FRPO president and CEO.

«No other business is required to provide goods or services without payment, yet landlords must by law allow tenants to remain in their apartments for months with faint hope of recovering the cost.»

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In the back of my mind there were faint alarms going off, but I did hear them, and it caused me to think: That exactly is it that causes us to spend hours staring at a computer screen in the hopes that someone will post a supportive comment about the party we went to last Friday, or the fight we had Tuesday night with our girlfriend?

It is not strange that in a city straining every faculty toward the very faint hope of survival, such a line as Jeremiah's would be regarded not merely with distaste, but as defeatist if not downright seditious.

Still, any of that faint hope was killed by some sloppy officiating here, with Silva taking advantage of that extra half - yard he gained on the Arsenal defence.

It is obviously better to pursue the faint - and - getting - fainter possibility of three points, than to abandon hope all together (unless, as with McCarthy and Holloway, there's pressure from the fixture list).

With every new season comes the faint hope that we'll see a bit of a shake - up in the pecking order.

They face a decisive match with fifth place Liverpool on Saturday, knowing that anything other than a win will end their faint hopes of silverware.

Further, the Liverpool boss added that it's unlikely that he'll have the former Southampton man at his disposal until October, although he holds faint hope that he will return ahead of schedule given his professionalism and the speed with which he has recovered previously.

Unlucky for Arsenal but it could have been worse, although a draw is not enough to keep our faint title hopes alive with Chelsea narrowly beating Crystal Palace.

To even start with, will Arsenal beat Swansea City to keep our faint hopes alive.

Any faint hopes from the Toffees were dealt a further blow when they were reduced to 10 men with a second yellow for Gueye.

Deportivo La Coruna's faint hopes of staying in LaLiga look all but over despite continuing their improved recent form with a goalless draw at Leganes.

Although Chelsea maintained their faint hopes of catching Tottenham and securing a top - four finish with their 2 - 1 victory at Turf Moor, Morata — who has scored just one Premier League goal in 2018 — produced another toothless display alongside fellow striker Olivier Giroud.

For long - term followers of Russian football's second - tier, the Football National League (FNL), the fixture list for the opening day of the 2017/18 campaign will, for some at least, have brought a strange combination of faint hope mixed with premature resignation.

Real Madrid booked their place in the Champions League last 16 by burying Manchester City's faint hopes with a 1 - 1 draw at the Etihad Stadium.

Ozan Tufan killed off faint Czech Republic hopes with his second half goal.

He should have been dismissed as a failed buy many moons ago but here he sits earning a good wage and doing nothing with the faint glimpse of hope that one season he may actually return some of that promise.

Kaboul sparked faint hopes of a revival as he headed home from a corner with just under 20 minutes remaining, but that proved to be the sum total of the fightback.

I can hardly believe how fast the time has gone and that Tomorrow I will be returning to work — armed with a new breast pump and the faint hope that my brain will function.

In a game Swansea needed to win and hope Southampton were thrashed by Manchester City — with a 10 - goal swing in the Swans» favour — to keep alive their faint hopes of staying up, the hosts took an early lead through Andy King.

Needing to beat the Potters and hope Southampton were thrashed by Manchester City — with a 10 - goal swing in the Swans» favour — to keep alive their faint hopes of staying up, the hosts took an early lead through Andy King but Stoke fought back to win 2 - 1 thanks to goals from Ndiaye and Crouch.

The glow seemed consistent with the size and shape of the matter needed to make ngc 5907 spin the way it does, so astronomers hoped that this might be the first sign that the dark halos were made of ordinary stars and planets — albeit faint ones — rather than exotic, yet - to - be discovered particles.

With instruments sensitive enough to measure the faint glow of radiation left over from the first moment of creation, physicists hope to learn the universe's deepest, and darkest, secrets.

In hopes of capturing the faint signal, LUX has been placed under a mile - thick layer of rock, which will help shield it from cosmic rays and other radiation that might interfere with the signal.

probably depressed to begin with and who turned to online dating in the faintest hope of.

Call it the new cinema of faint hope, hand in hand with the new trend to fold the hand and succumb to the bleak embrace of the futile.

«Three Billboards» has struck a chord across the country, with people responding to its vision of American despair and its very faint but distinct message of hope.

Unless I get to tackle them one at a time with a car battery and some alligator clips... But what it does offer is: i) a (v meaningful) solution that's pretty quick & easy to implement, ii) huge flexibility from a political and a financial management perspective, iii) interest savings, and even debt principal reductions, for most if not all countries, and iv) best of all, a multi-year window to avoid default, implement deficit reductions (faint hope) and / or ideally grow into an outstanding debt burden.

Rather than pay dividends to long - suffering stockholders, they'll retain the earnings in the faint hope it'll pump up the stock price, which helps with their options.

Once you were a misanthropic metaphor for humanity, a place teeming with unremitting savagery, offering only the faintest glint of hope.

With the exception of the faint glimmer of hope from Judge Webber in Addelson v. Sanofi S.A., 2016 WL 6216124 (E.D. Mo..

The government's preferred approach, according to Schmidt, was it should be able to introduce any bill into Parliament as long as there was even a faint hope it might be passed even if it was inconsistent with the Constitution and the Charter.