Sentences with phrase «with grander ambitions»

A Game of Shadows is a film with grander ambitions than being just a solidly entertaining romp.

Today, Nader Al - Naji is the CEO of Basis — a hot cryptocurrency startup, with grand ambitions to replace regular money, and which recently took in a $ 133 million investment round from firms including GV (formerly Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.

Back then it looked like Amanda Staveley and PCP Partners were edging towards a deal to buy Newcastle United with grand ambitions.

In July, I shared with you my grand ambition of finishing a knit sweater for everyone it my family by Solstice.

n intersibling death match reminiscent of Sam Shepard's «True West,» the independent feature «Solitude» details the tortured, possibly incestuous relationship between Hilary (Mary Thornton), a dark, hyperactive young woman with grand ambitions, and her brother, Louis (Patrick Belton), a twitchy, bipolar idler who lives in a cramped Phoenix apartment filled with the moldering remains of recent takeout meals.

Silent Hill: Downpour is a title with grand ambitions, accompanied by technical issues and misunderstanding about what makes a Silent Hill title.

He started with grand ambitions, he has achieved most of what he hoped for, and now he asks, with Peggy Lee: Is that all there is?

Henry (Jason Clarke) and Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) are farmers with grand ambitions whose faith is tested by circumstances beyond their control, while neighbours Hap and Florence Jackson (Rob Morgan, Mary J Blige) endeavour to build a small dream of their own — despite the harsh social prejudice they face.

The United States invaded Iraq with grand ambitions to bring it democracy and thereby transform the Middle East.

Rhys works for Hyperion; he's a company man with grand ambitions that have been thrown off the rails.

The company has been making feature additions to the service that allow it to attract a more mainstream audience, and in an interview earlier this year, Dennis shared with me his grand ambitions of marrying the social web and location.

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As its costs of commodities and food skyrockets, its citizens» restive ambitions are thwarted by the limits facing all consuming nations, and its aging populace catches up with it, then China's resources will be stretched too thin to construct a Grand Empire with decisive hard and soft power.

Amazon has had success with original shows like «The Man in the High Castle» and «The Grand Tour,» and the company's aggressive spending highlights its ambition to become as much of a destination for high - quality shows as Netflix and HBO.

While your ambitions can remain grand, setting the bar too high with goals can actually be counterproductive.

In the process, he and Morgan Stanley are becoming the face of what may be Wall Street's future: highly profitable, to be sure, but with fewer of the grand ambitions or larger - than - life personalities that have always characterized the place.

With hefty debt and few assets to buy, it's hard to see Altice achieving its grand ambitions.

Living in the United States isn't really a viable option for an American rider with grand tour ambitions.

These are grand ambitions that we share with many other nations, in our region and beyond.

SkaDate's payment plans aim to be cost - efficient for those with limited means and grand ambitions.

This means, you will have a beautiful, smart, loving woman to hug and cuddle on the sofa with, while all the other lonely dream - chasers are spending thousands on trying to fulfil their grand ambition of marrying a 20 - year - old Ukrainian model.

It's against the film's religion to have us believe too deeply in its characters, and that agnosticism, combined with the plot's sense of predestination, put a noticeable crimp in its grand ambitions.

Cold Case is not only operatic, with a different bloody libretto and a different leitmotif each week, but has ambitions on the grander scale of Gesamtkunstwerk, of total Wagnerian theater - including a jukebox time machine.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

A serious journalist with grand investigative ambitions and a sharp sense of community engagement, Chubbuck sought to report on issues that affected lives (such as a zoning change that would affect residents» medical coverage).

The very first image we see announces Chazelle's grand ambitions: we see a black - and - white square frame — the old pre-1953 Academy aspect ratio of 4:3 — with the word CinemaScope framed in the center, its right and left syllables cut off, which suddenly expands to the wider aspect ratio that the word implies (in this case, 2.55:1), gaining color at the same time.

I saw this with my friend Raffi and love what he said in his review on The Film Stage: «While not without its issues across some aspects (some of the live - action scenes feel a bit stilted), one can overlook these faults in favor of the grand scope and ambition of Folman's larger oeuvre.

Shyamalan wrote himself into a corner of diminishing returns with his «thrillers with a twist ending» by the time The Village escaped in 2004, and endeavored to push his directorial ambitions in new dirctions with Lady in the Water (a fable), The Happening (apocalyptic horror), and The Last Airbender (grand - scale fantasy).

His signature domestic policy initiative would have made LBJ smile, as NCLB extended ESEA and infused it with an even grander ambition.

Despite being peppered with strong writing and moments of pathos and comedy, The Nix eventually starts to teeter under the weight of its own grand ambitions.

But meander along the Grand Canal, and palazzo after palazzo drips with painting shows of supreme quality, their sensuous colour and luminosity enhanced by the watery setting, their ambition anchored by resonance with history.

¹ Despite his grand ambitions, Valentine was initially confronted with material limitations, as polyester resins at the time could not be poured in volumes that exceeded 50 pounds.

To begin with Doig is a patriarch — he's the father of five, white, and not dead — whose grand ambitions, and interest in beauty and scale, have next to nothing to do with fashion, political or otherwise.