Sentences with phrase «with jabs»

With jabs at every political angle, a love story and plenty of cool tech, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a pageturner of the highest order.

Although dramatically flat, Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut covers its Mumblecore tracks with jabs of humor and a breeze of earthy authenticity.Set in Sacramento, California (Gerwig's hometown), the story focuses on the fraught relationship between Lady Bird (a.k.a. Christine — played by Saoirse Ronan) and her overworked mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf), whose emotions run hot or cold.

Although dramatically flat, Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut covers its Mumblecore tracks with jabs of humor and a breeze of earthy authenticity.

The crime - genre conventions coupled with jabs of spiky humor keep In Bruges far from Ingmar Bergman.

But Thor: Ragnarok, with its jabs of reportedly improvised banter, isn't really an action movie.

Jimmy Kimmel presides over the first Oscars of the #MeToo era with jabs at Weinstein and Trump.

Complete with jabs at social - media marketing, this is one of the film's few extended jokes likely to go over the collective heads of very young auds, but it's the kind of absurdly exaggerated everyday detail — complete with the repurposing of familiar gadgetry — on which Aardman's comic brand is built.

With its jabs at hipster culture and avocado toast, I found a few good laughs.

In all four of the heart - pumping routines, you'll move at a fast pace to blend punch sequences with jabs, crosses, hooks and uppercuts, as well as kicks and other footwork.

He was content with jabs.

Khabih wouldn't toy Conor with Jabs to even give him a chance.

we know he can ground and pound for at least 3 rounds (edson johnson etc) he stopped trying after 2 and was just happy with jabs.

The heat comes on strong, piercing the tongue with jabs of fire and releasing drops of sweat down the neck.

The former host joined Seacrest on the stage at the top of the show and started with a jab.

You log into Facebook and it has happened once again: Some broad political sentiment sparks a flame - war and everyone seems to want to weigh in with a jab, meme, ad hominem attack or (arguably worst of all) a wall of text that begs for you to «see more.»

First, Bennett beat Vikings guard Michael Harris with a jab step inside to get him to move inside and shorten the corner, swiping Harris» hands off when he tried to punch.

Why, he could knock you across the room with a jab.

Hibbert, likely egged on by a misunderstood reporter, though Wall was calling him soft and responded with a jab at the Wizards).

and pressure him with the jab and keep hitting him when Woodley's back is to the cage he could do well.

Whether bull rushing or going with a jab ole, Billings was going full speed all the time and every once in a while he was able to force his way into the backfield.

Don't agree with your jab towards Ozil there.

Mayweather (48 - 0, 26 KO) was simply the better fighter, controlling the majority of the fight with his jab, with his movement and his defense.

In the proverbial boxing match, 2014 Florida State appears content with jabbing and standing in the middle of the ring, killing as much of the clock as possible until the opponent lands a really good blow or six.

Cotto tried to chase Floyd down with the jab.

He could beat you inside with a jab play (step upfield challenging outside, plant your inside foot in the ground, and cross over with your outside foot to inside the offensive lineman you are trying to beat while executing a quick arm over on his inside arm), an inside rip, a hump move, a bull rush to inside rip and my favorite, the almighty spin move.

But he pressed forward and responded well to his first real challenge in years, against a really big guy with power and skill, was murder with the jab, and I thought he really hurt Jacobs several times while avoiding the big shot himself.

On the snap, Donald took two hard steps upfield and then came back inside to the A gap with a jab ole.

Cuomo spokeswoman Melissa DeRosa shot back with a jab at the mayor's trip — and at his political acumen.

The mayor released part of his returns on Twitter with a jab at President Trump, who claims he can't release his filings until an IRS audit is completed.

That emotional excitement triggers the memory - enhancing cycle all over again, making the traumatic memory even stronger, like a spinning tire deepening the muck hole it's stuck in with each jab on the accelerator.

You may also wish to relax your masseter muscles (the ones that bulge at the sides of your face when you clench) with a jab or two of Botox — especially if clenching is causing daytime headaches.

Throw your right hand in a straight line directly at the target making sure you twist your forearm in as you would do with the jab.

You're going to bring the club across the centerline as far as you possibly can and you're going to pronate the wrist, that's rotating it this way, as if you're punching forward with a jab.

In contrast to Max Holloway, Aldo fights in bursts choosing to control opponents primarily with the jab waiting for little openings to explode and throw power shots.

Floyd changes levels with the jab in an attempt to disguise any patterns in his punch selection, in each of these examples shown above Floyd doesn't follow - up on the jab, the purpose is to purely keep his opponent from getting near him.

It combines family (of sorts), child welfare (of sorts), love of animals, what constitutes parenting and what constitutes love, with a jab at religion, too.

The movie, co-written and directed by Troma graduate James Gunn, is so self - conscious of its familiar plot machinations that it calls out this MacGuffin with a jab from Quill, who says the orb gives off a «shiny suitcase, Ark of the Covenant, Maltese Falcon kind of vibe.»

Quick with a jab and quicker with an eye roll, Plaza has flexed her thespian muscles lately playing Lenny Busker on FX's standout superhero series Legion and her resume shows no signs of slowing.

I do agree with your jab at DRM being a scam (somewhat), but the fact that it doesn't support any DRM format does make it less of an ereader if you can't buy ebooks for the thing from 95 % of ebook stores — no bestsellers, no popular new releases, no major publishers or authors.

Zangief's kick lariat, Vega's single defensive flip, Blanka's hop, and T.Hawk's aerial dive can all be done with jab + short as well as the original three button commands.

However, since I had blown apart one of his favorite myths, Steve instinctively felt like he had to hit me with another jab: «You know Brian that the Earth has not warmed up since 1998.»

Following the announcement of Watch OS 4 and a slew of new Macs, Cook announced iOS 11 with a jab at the fragmented adoption of Google's latest OS update, Android 7.0.

Not exact matches

The Mars analogy is a thinly veiled jab at Elon Musk, who in addition to being obsessed with the prospect of colonizing Mars is also one of the tech world's biggest A.I. fearmongers.

Before announcing Beyoncé's «Formation» as the winner of the award, he closed out with one more jab at Lochte.

That deal has been jeopardized by the latest scorched - earth offensive on Aleppo, however, with American and Russian diplomats exchanging diplomatic jabs Sunday night and into Monday.

McGregor concluded with the sharpest jab of the night, bringing up Mayweather's literacy.

Affliction never planned to take a jab at the fight - club crowd until last year, when it partnered up with none other than Donald Trump.

During a fireside chat with Box's quick - witted CEO, Aaron Levie, Cook discussed Apple's push to sell to businesses — punctuated with jokes and jabs by Levie as if he were the new host of the Daily Show.

Fallon's rendition touched on the #MeToo movement («Come women and men who hashtag #MeToo / And believe me when I say that we believe you»), NFL players kneeling in protest of the national anthem, and Michael Wolff's controversial book «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House» — with several jabs at Trump thrown in.

#OptOutside is the name of the sticky social game and it's catching fire fast on Twitter and Facebook, keeping pace with a steady gush of media coverage surrounding the company's «shocking» jab at over-the-top Black Friday consumerism.