Sentences with phrase «yore like»

Featuring appearances from Until Dawn's masked murderer and other unfriendly guests, plus nods to light - gun shooters of yore like shootable ammo crates that yield upgraded firepower, Rush of Blood plays like a midway attraction designed by John Carpenter.

But McCarthy truly meets her match in the form of British action star Jason Statham, who goes wonderfully bonkers as a bratty rogue agent named Ford who is incensed that a newbie like Cooper is on the case and shows his disgruntlement by constantly bragging about his manly feats of yore like a Cockney Paul Bunyan («I've swirled enough microchips to shit a f — kin» computer»).

Not exact matches

Rather than climb a single corporate ladder like the company man of yore, you're more likely to spend your career scaling a professional jungle gym, maneuvering between projects, jobs, companies, industries, and locales.

They are inhuman jobs — people in the role of machines, like assembly line workers of yore.

The fact that Facebook has a dominant market positions means it (like the daily newspaper monopolies of yore) actually could choose to serve as responsible steward of the news ecology if its executives wanted to.

Like the heretics of yore, we are so wary of sensual pleasure, we put up so many rules, rigmarole, and warning signs that we've made sex unrecognizable.

While the masses watch and shrug their shoulders and move along (like everyday Germans of yore).

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

Just like today with all the indetured workers making the Gulf states run these Dhimmis of yore artificially propped up the Islamic world.

So, pining for those «moral» days of yore is like chasing a mirage.

And finally, finally, I used whole dried spices, dry roasted them to bring out more flavor, and ground them in a mortar and pestle like the Chili Queens of yore.

The career women of Park Avenue are far better - looking than the dowagers of yore — their legs are trimmer and they carry their bosoms higher — but they are glass - faced like the buildings.

Maybe he has the steeliness that was once associated with the Arsenal of yore, of which we may direly need in times like these.A man who was a backbone of the Invincibles, I wouldnt be surprised if he became highly - sought - after - hot - management - material were he to usurp the reins after SirAW!

I feel like this is a cereal commercial of the days of yore — «We liked it!

Those in the NDC who virtually ate from the business man?s hands in the days of yore, did not only turn their back on him; like Brutus in Shakespeare?s Julius Caesar, they also wielded the dagger that was used to stab Woyome in the back.

When alerted to interesting changes on the reef, they quickly gear up and swim out, like Koblick in the lobster - tracking days of yore, to supplement that information with their own firsthand reports.

For now, much like Sputnik of yore, each of the Sprites in low - Earth orbit carries a radio transmitter that almost anyone might tune in to with relative ease, serving as a real - world demonstration of emerging spaceflight capabilities that could prove revolutionary.

Like town criers from days of yore, «they're pushing out information.»

Yes, you are like those castrated eunuchs of yore who would do nothing to a smashing beauty even if they found her in a pool of water, stark nude.

As long as yore getting a variety of healthy fats, you're good which it sounds like you are.

From the looks of it this catalogue was shot in Peru and there's a feeling of days of yore here that I like.

Above: Beth Kirby of Local Milk has a way of making everything look like it's from the days of yore, in the most gorgeous way possible.

Although a little more oversized than I'd like this dress and the catalogue shot setting take me back to happy, dog - ear times of Anthro days yore.

Like a piece from collections of yore, the Beaded Felt Pencil Skirt ($ 298) is an instant classic.

From a gameplay perspective, Transmission looks like the next action adventure game to satisfy the nostalgia of yore, while also maintaining a sense of individuality.

The land cries out for a new hero, a powerful warrior or a mystic wizard like those spoken of in the prophecies of yore.

I suspect that Death Proof will throw some of its director's admirers for a loop, though it may be the most revealing thing Tarantino has yet done — a full - throttle expression of a singular artistic temperament disguised, like so many gems of grindhouses yore, as a glittering hunk of trash.

There is an overture at the beginning of the film and then, two - thirds in, a 12 - minute intermission, like the Roadshow presentations of yore.

Like on Warner Blu - rays (and DVDs) of yore, playback of the movie starts right away.

Like most Tarantino, Death Proof is a love letter to movies of yore, and this try - hard b - grade throwback to trashy 70s movies certainly succeeds on that level.

As the only actor asked to do anything but the obvious, Jackson exudes some undeniable charisma and has a tendency, like method actors of yore, to posture a bit, retreat within and make the viewer follow him there.

Like the hardboiled detectives of yore, Too Late ultimately gets the job done — even if it's in its own off - the - books way.

When a guy is a drunken mess with no family who speak to him and only one friend — his old mob boss — a nickname like The Gravedigger tends to conjure better days of yore.

Michel Hazanavicius does a fine job directing this experiment, as it seems for all the money like the silent films of yore.

While not traditionally beautiful according to the Hollywood standards of yore, the American actress Brittany Murphy had «jolie laide» looks — big, brown eyes, a slightly disdainful mouth, a pointed chin, just - out - of - bed hair — which she used to great effect as she combined parts in ditzy comedies like Clueless and Just Married to meatier roles in the dark thrillers Girl, Interrupted and Don't Say A Word.

In the universe of Rich Moore's quarter - per - play nostalgia bath, the characters are nervous: Our 8 - bit arcade heroes of yore have been supplanted by buxom first - person shooters, while their antagonists — like the Donkey Kong — esque Wreck - It Ralph (an inspired John C. Reilly)-- attend support groups to talk through their preprogrammed bitterness.

So while it might be sold as another buttoned - up late era Cronenberg think piece, we're hoping it's going to be ruder, looser, and more like the days of yore, even if it has to be without the exploding heads and genital mutilation.

If anything, it plays like a slightly rejigged collection of the best bits from Call of Duty games of yore.

Efron once hinted at a desire to go far — to be in better movies, with richer roles, like his ancestors, the pretty men of the Hollywood of yore, Paul Newman among them.

And I think it's a (slightly) more interesting list in that it looks a little more like the AFI lists of yore in that it's partially awardsy but also kind of guilty pleasure buzz - sensitive.

Billed as a «Japan Arcade - inspired Rhythm Game,» Arcaea certainly looks like it has its roots in some of the classic arcade games of yore (particularly in terms of its music selection).

Tarantino, cinematographer Bob Richardson, and others discuss the thinking behind resurrecting 65 mm film / 70 mm projection, retrofitting cameras to work with these old lenses, utilizing the widest frame available, and treating this like the event movies of yore.

K - 12 education might benefit marginally from bits of all this but mainly would sail on like a clipper ship of yore, powered by the same winds that had always propelled it.

You hover down the highway in a kind of glissade, floating like a Detroit sled of yore but without any of the attendant wallowing, and you think of women in flowing evening dresses.

Despite the strong pull of the Quadrifoglio's bold performance, I think the base Giulia and Giulia TI models — with their 276 - hp, 295 - lb - ft, 2.0 - liter, intercooled turbo fours and hardly leisurely 5.5 - second 0 - 60 times — are fizzy like the best Alfas of yore.

The hybrid LM P1 cars may lack the aural magnitude of Le Mans racers of yore, but many of the GT - class machines still bellow like banshees.

In other words, it is human operated, just like a Camaro T - top of yore.

One wonders if so much frontal - inlet area is necessary, but these front - quarter grilles allow a central nacelle much like racing cars of yore, before ugly wings became necessary.

Its vertical - bar grille is more upright, and has a horizontal bar that helps give the car a wider look from the front, plus a badge with red, white and blue highlights, like Buicks of yore.

The XTS strives to be painfully modern, but the way in which it deviates from the division's flight plan makes it still somewhat like the Caddies of yore.