Sentences with phrase «wrests what»

THE BLU - RAY DISC Warner brings The Song Remains the Same to Blu - ray in a 1.85:1, 1080p presentation that wrests what pizzazz it can from decidedly temperamental elements.

To be fair to Mr. Levis, none of the foregoing necessarily prevents him from shaking up TBAC and wresting what value there is to be had from the company for the stockholders.

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It's not glamourous, rewarding or even very interesting, but that's a lot of what living abroad is — looking stupid, trying to look less stupid, terrible loneliness, fleeting successes, and insights that seemed difficult to wrest.

What we are doing is to wrest this from the grasp of those who know not its proper use.

The human difference is this: If the Messiah has not yet appeared, then the world is still profane, and our task is to wrest him forth, to go and fetch him, so to speak — to do what is necessary to bring him on.

We are called on to clarify what God in the historical labor for holiness and justice wrests from us as sound teaching.

It was learnt that the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, is also pitching tent with the faction in what members described as a renewed effort to wrest the structure from the 2015 governorship candidate of the party, Olorogun O'tega Emerhor.

Democrat Adam Haber Thursday launched his campaign for the seat held by state Sen. Jack Martins (R - Mineola), setting up what is expected to be one of the most closely watched races in the state this year as Democrats attempt to wrest control of the State Senate from Republicans.

«I listened to Tulip Siddiq's interview earlier and I thought what a dignified interview it was, of someone who is having to wrest with the problem that she has and many of us have where there's a national decision made in a national referendum but her constituency very strongly voted against that.»

We tune in to be reminded of what CSI, House, and the rest will never remind us: how easily and thoroughly any humdrum human existence can be transformed if you wrest your attention from the tawdry Technicolor scenery of life and train it instead upon the murk and gloom and the shadows that surround us.

Not even the best efforts of the always - excellent Guy Pearce can save what is in essence a pathetic cutting - room attempt to wrest the movie back from the abyss of a director suffering a nervous breakdown with eighteen days to go in the shooting schedule and a governing philosophy that believes Orlando Jones would make a good HAL - 9000.

Her life's work is described by New York Times art critic John Canaday (Terence Stamp) as kitsch, allowing «Big Eyes» to wrest with that ol' conflict between what is popular but tacky and what is true art and elitist.

It even wrests an explanation from the universal loam as to what Walker was put on this earth for: to be upstaged by eight dogs, someone named Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, and miles of white.

Will the Devil be able to wrest the Bible away before Eli reaches what's left of the Bay Area?

WHAT IT»S ABOUT With Lucious (Terrence Howard) in jail, Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) holds a «Free Lucious» concert, which is just a big ploy to get the big money interested in her gambit to wrest Empire away from him.

But what made Levy's ascension so highly symbolic was its unique combination of all the elements of urban school drama: a mayor whose desire to wrest control from the city's elected school board was long voiced; a city fed up with failure on a grand scale and in the long term; a competition between city hall and school leadership to pass the blame; and the realization, finally, that a system the size of a Fortune 500 company might be better led by someone with the skills of a Fortune 500 executive.

But all we get here is the most blithe and moronic kind of «let's put on a show» magical thinking, in which ripping up the union contract and wresting control of the school from the bureaucrats becomes an end in itself, and what happens later is shrouded in the mists of an imaginary libertarian paradise.

When we make policy in terms of who among us wrests the power to impose a narrow version of the «right» answer, what we get is a new round of arguing and resistance — not the constructive change students need.

A construction in 2009 extended Central Park to the roof of the Met, but could it return to nature what arts institutions had wrested away?

The explicit images and words — the former wrested back from the male gaze, the latter a testament to what no internet - using woman can escape — provoke viewers to confront them on their own terms, with guidance from one of the most dauntless feminist voices making artwork today.

Instead, the new forms become markers wrested from provisional materials, such as paper scraps and driftwood, that point to the impossibility of replacing what is missing.

What follows here, then, is a sprint through some of the artistic and curatorial highlights and low points, in search of commonalities, contradictions, and the ultimate conclusions to be drawn from three very different iterations of more or less the same idea: wresting art from the thrall of the market and restoring it to a conscientious existence.

The method wasn't very different from Pollock's own «drip» technique - he, too, had poured paint onto raw canvas - but what made it so radical in Frankenthaler's hands was that she managed to wrest from it a dazzling sense of color and light.

I'm left with the knowledge that we're heading toward disaster, possibly sooner than we want to think, yet I have no good idea what policies to get behind in the unlikely event that some new force wrests power from the vested interests working so hard to promote and exploit the disaster.

When teens do manage to wrest praise from adults, it is often for what they don't do — for toeing the line — rather than for the positive things they can do.

So after wresting with my own mind over the options and what to do right there in the aisle at Costco, I decided DONE was going to be good enough this time.