Still, Reynolds' plucky performance won the heart of a nation.
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However, because I am a plucky sex writer, I continued.
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Small, plucky peoples seeking independence: Taiwan falls into the category.
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And one plucky tweeter was on hand to fulfil it.
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You see, our plucky island nation doesn't have much left.
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A group of tough and plucky paper girls investigate. Boom!
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Emus are in appearance plucky and plunging creatures, mostly torso.
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He won't be a plucky outsider charging at a windmill.
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In fact, it is plucky Julia who does the looking.
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The "P" is the plucky little ghost in this clue.
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Ten minutes later, Belgium scored again and defeated plucky Algeria.
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Do plucky young acts still get snapped up on the spot?
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The PISA results are not all happy tales of plucky reform.
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Plucky Iceland and Switzerland have managed draws against Argentina and Brazil.
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There's a plucky heroine named Katie, charmingly played by Briga Heelan.
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And the story's not likely to change for this plucky pup.
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What they do have is those plucky cars at their center.
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Some people manage to get out with plucky innovation; some never
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Wull picks up some plucky sidekicks, including Tillinghast, the profane homunculus.
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In state media he was cast as a plucky political maverick.
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The real Lister led neither a plucky nor a placid existence.
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Like many of her plucky motherless predecessors, Gertie never gives up.
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The gentle giant who lived to protect a plucky young lad?
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It was the victory of seasoned performers, rather than plucky underdogs.
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They lost their first playoff game against a plucky Magic team.
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Another plucky No. 13 seed, Vermont, kept it close with Purdue.
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In these early years, Uber often seemed like the plucky underdog.
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Clark snarls, almost, on the song featuring a plucky guitar riff.
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The plucky yellow circle with the huge mouth was a huge hit.
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Like the MacBook Air, the plucky little desktop had been ostensibly abandoned.
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Or rather, Christian Serratos, the actress who plays the plucky zombie killer.
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That's why it's so exciting to see the plucky A7II this cheap.
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The only requirements are a school ID card and a plucky attitude.
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Some people manage to get out with plucky innovation; some never will.
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My third was at The New York Sun, a plucky daily broadsheet.
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He was kind of a plucky young guy, as she describes it.
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Before long, he meets Kat, a plucky young reporter from a Chicago newspaper.
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Fiction for young people is full of spunky, plucky young women role models.
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When time comes to move nests, the plucky little insects vote by quorum.
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And it lined up six helicopters that plucky Uber users can hop into.
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Taxify has been a plucky competitor for Uber in Europe, Africa, and Australia.
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The time when plucky wannabe tech titans could do no wrong is gone.
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Image: Chinese National Space Administration/Wikimedia Farewell, Jade Rabbit, you plucky little rover.
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But they all lacked HQ's secret weapon — its plucky host, comedian Scott Rogowsky.
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He's latest evil foe that our plucky band of Avengers have to defeat.
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Meanwhile, Norwich's metaphorical canary is brave, plucky and ready to ruffle some plumage.
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But over the next six years the plucky tyke refused to give up.
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She spoke in a brisk Spanish accent, and was given to plucky exclamations.
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Every revolution needs its plucky underdog, its Karen Silkwood kicking against the pricks.
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The Kremlin runs cyber operations using the model of a plucky technology startup.
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Our plucky, red-haired narrator gets a new dog, who names himself Barkus.
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An extended trailer highlights the various ways your plucky, little waterfowl can cause trouble.
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Plucky entrepreneurs who operate beyond the grasp of venal bureaucrats should surely be celebrated.
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Markel presents Clinton as not just a plucky female underdog but practically a unicorn.
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A few plucky reformers are working to correct that: a grand and overdue idea.
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He's the real star here — and the plucky hero we've all been waiting for.
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So the competition for Prisma as the plucky little startup could hardly be greater.
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Members of the gang were plucky and eccentric, the jury heard during the trial.
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Here's a free pitch, Hollywood: You want some plucky kids in your dinosaur movie?
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If you like plucky and articulate heroines, sepia-seeped aesthetics and folklore, try this.
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In fact, I can't think of a plucky, wholesome entrepreneur in that entire universe.
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For nearly two years, I watched a plucky woman deflect the restraints of Alzheimer's.
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Even a plucky comeback isn't enough for this market watcher to back the stock.
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Of course, plucky users have been "unofficially" downloading Netflix content for a while now.
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Alan, played by Charlie Barnett, is the plucky, younger, attractive sidekick to Nadia (Lyonne).
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Yet in their third event the plucky Japanese promotion pulled off its third good card.
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Rey is plucky, obedient, old before her time; Luke is morose, willful, a typical teenager.
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So long, Philae: You were a plucky little lander, but it's time to say goodbye.
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What took its place was the despairing, nihilistic fantasy of the plucky teen committing suicide.
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What if the later seasons focus on a new set of plucky, bicycle-riding children?
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Few will complain if a gang of plucky no-hopers beats them from the spot.
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Innovation abounds in both camps, and among big tech firms as well as plucky startups.
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A pretty much gender-balanced array of soldiers, dandies, vampire artistos, explorers, and plucky prostitutes.
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In it, Bell plays Veronica, high school student by day, plucky teen detective by night.
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When plucky little Iceland secured a draw against Portugal on Tuesday evening, they made history.
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It's what makes her such a plucky heroine, and why her brashness is often overlooked.
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Then, after I met the plucky nonprofit worker who would become my wife, that changed.
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The plucky Fiat 500 is two-doors cute, and a serious bargain at $15,000 base.
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Ms. Johnson directs the picture with an assurance that matches that of her plucky protagonist.
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The word now is that the plucky bird will be more or less left alone.
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Nellie is a large-breasted, plucky daughter of a sharecropper, living during the Reconstruction era.
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The emphatic scherzo may be as close as Bruckner ever came to sounding downright plucky.
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It's a stressful role, but pundits predict that plucky little Merv is up for it.
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Plucky little Israel had fended off repeated Arab invasions, and not through the power of prayer.
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During the trial, prosecutors characterized the thieves as plucky, determined, boastful and, in some cases, eccentric.
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Now and again, a catchy country or plucky pop song from Swift really hits the spot.
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Politicians like to emphasise the importance of apprenticeships when their beneficiaries are plucky young school-leavers.
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The call belongs to the endangered California Ridgway's rail, a plucky but shy marsh-dwelling bird.
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Dominant narrative: The plucky band of bright-eyed kids versus the powerhouse that should crush them.
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In the late 1990s, a plucky purple dragon swooped onto the PlayStation and into our hearts.
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Elizabeth I was not a neurotic weakling, and Mary Stuart was not a plucky little upstart.
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The plucky Karen's extreme patience with Peter's faithless conduct and shilly-shallying ways seems beyond miraculous.
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She is plucky, for her resilience and for the sounds she can make out of words.
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Our plucky, brilliant readers also submitted their tips for keeping the romance alive in their relationships.
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Spirit was so plucky, it defied that 90-day plan and operated until March 22, 2010.
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A plucky human companion usually accompanies the Doctor, who faces a rotating cast of alien adversaries.
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Champion Stephens, the 13th seed, was bundled out in three sets by China's plucky Zhang Shuai.
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Will this Aaron Rodgers fellow be able to overcome his circumstances and deliver a plucky upset?
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Before it was dubbed Curiosity, the previously deployed plucky rover was known as the Mars Science Laboratory.
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She sent plucky heroines into the hellmouth of dating with a determined smile and slyly sharp wit.
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But Shipka's plucky, can-do take on the role is actually reminiscent of Melissa Joan Hart's Sabrina.
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The main character isn't as interesting to me as the plucky sidekick or the shady weapons dealer.
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Ampler Bikes is the plucky electric bicycle startup founded by a trio of childhood friends in Estonia.
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Played by Michelle Rodriguez, the plucky block rose through Kasparov's ranks to become his right-hand woman.
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Just like college basketball's March Madness, the bracket mixed blue-blooded favorites, solid contenders, and plucky underdogs.
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The plucky hero has lost his magical weapon, the Keyblade, to his best friend gone heel, Riku.
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With all of that going on, you'd be forgiven for forgetting about Nintendo's plucky handheld, the 3DS.
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Golden State is just too deep and too talented for the plucky Clippers to stand a chance.
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But we're taking into account all of Dahl's stylistic strengths—social commentary, plucky child leads, dark comedy, etc.
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The plucky robot is also pretty adept at recovering from a comedic banana peel-induced spill, as well.
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Netgear's new Orbi "WiFi system" was clearly influenced at least somewhat by increased competition from plucky little startups.
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Most of the coverage was about how this plucky startup was going to take on the Uber giant.
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Her actions seem unintelligible at times, her plucky asides almost perversely frivolous in the face of serious events.
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It wasn't always easy, but No. 3-seeded Michigan State got past a plucky Bucknell team, 82-78.
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Abby Hanlon's marvelous Dory Fantasmagory series, featuring the plucky heroine Dory, also known as Rascal, combines the two.
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There, he's introduced to a plucky performance coach, a yellow car named Cruz Ramirez (voiced by Cristela Alonzo).
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The show follows Izuku Midoriya, a plucky young student who is obsessed with the legendary hero All Might.
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On day one, I land in a yoga class led by a plucky instructor who called herself Hemalayaa.
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The diver in question, a plucky orange-and-white humanoid robot called OceanOne, had successfully completed its maiden voyage.
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The movie portrays the Soviets as plucky underdogs battling a lack of resources, scheming sports bureaucrats, and health problems.
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The music swerves between languages as Letissier questions her place in the universe over plucky beats and shimmering synths.
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Even the setting, with spooky fog over the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee, is offset by a gentle, plucky score.
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One need only look at the plucky heroes of shows like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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The idea of a plucky entrepreneur coming up with some amazing new idea in her garage seemed faintly ridiculous.
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The kind of story a plucky filmmaker would love twenty years from now: mild mannered booksellers become pirate librarians!
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He then fielded questions from the press, which is when one plucky journalist decided to delve into computer science.
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Japanese animated film practically teems with plucky, inventive girls, but pictures depicting emotionally credible young women are relatively rare.
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Fred VanVleet The plucky backup point guards who're both indispensable and a nuisance are probably my favorite NBA subcategory.
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Clemson is the plucky underdog whose fans drive around with little tiger tails trailing the backs of their trucks.
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The plucky Amore Opera mounts Verdi's opera in a production directed by Nathan Hull and conducted by Douglas Martin.
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Sunday Routine This February marks Amanda Kludt's 10th anniversary with the plucky food website and social media darling, Eater.
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The genial mood is aided by a plucky score, and a restrained performance from August in the lead role.
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The musical, about a plucky novice-turned-governess who fled Austria to escape the Nazis, remains a cultural touchstone.
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Founded in 2012, Nomiku became a plucky Silicon Valley darling by bringing affordable sous vide cooking to home kitchens.
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And because if I was alone on a desert island, Anne would be like a plucky, chatty, imaginary friend.
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I pictured a flock of chipper women careening around, a plucky and determined crew, wheels spinning in the sun.
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At 29 — and finally healthy — he marched his plucky young team into Houston and crushed the A.F.C. South champions.
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Putin described him as "very talented" and in Kremlin-backed media he was cast as a plucky political maverick.
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After having an affair with the main character, the plucky reporter in House of Cards is ultimately dispatched horribly.
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" Bahmani also compares Mayer's sample to Calvin Harris' work, calling it a "plucky guitar sound" instead of a "synth sound.
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How different its themes of acceptance might have come across if it had included queer students among its plucky band.
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Edgar has long assumed the role as the plucky underdog thanks to his stint as an undersized fighter at 155lbs.
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If it takes place before, we will likely see the same Spider-Man from "Homecoming," plucky and naive, but charming.
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The plucky little hat is Mario's chief weapon — he can throw it in any direction for a boomerang-like attack.
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Before him, teenage superheroes (think: characters like Robin) were plucky sidekicks (not unlike the role Holland played in Civil War).
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There are no Jedi in sight, but naturally, Amara is a plucky orphan with hidden talents and a grand destiny.
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A villain who constantly fails, especially against plucky but not particularly powerful opponents, always has the potential to become pathetic.
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Opponents pose as plucky defenders of traditional norms, and warn that schools will push homosexuality and gender confusion on children.
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Together with her husband, Alexander William Alexander, Samantha moved to southeast India to become a plucky and positive young missionary.
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No, this plucky pensioner fought off the attacker by hitting her over the head with a packet of bacon. Repeatedly.
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Britain emerged from the Second World War at once victorious and shrunken, the image of plucky heroism and imperial twilight.
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But in a twist, the plucky survivors in the fiery aftermath proved to be ferns and hardy, ground-dwelling birds.
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But as a choreographer, both for City Ballet and BalletCollective, his own plucky troupe, he likes to experiment with collaborators.
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Will it be a plucky underdog hero like Jyn Erso, a Walter White-style antihero, or another all-out Voldermort?
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Mickey Mouse is, in his own way, the face of modern capitalism, exploitation and power hidden behind a plucky smile.
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Its lips move, its earrings dangle, its eyes shift, and out comes the voice of Amazon's plucky, helpful artificial intelligence.
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We're due for an onslaught of takes about the plucky underdog Cardinals for however long they stay in the race.
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A discombobulated Joni (a plucky Sarah Chalfie) leaves the venue and is immediately surrounded by friends and well-meaning strangers.
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She makes it seem as if all of the problems of power can be neatly resolved by one plucky individual.
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Rossini's classic, based on the Beaumarchais play, receives a staging from the plucky Amore Opera company, directed by Nathan Hull.amoreopera.
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But Mr. Landrus's plucky compositions — which seem to live on shifting ground, if any at all — play an equal role.
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They play with dolls and compose torrid stories of backstage dramas in which plucky blue-eyed heroines save the day.
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One plucky woman, having heard the postman was on the way, stood stoically with her mailbox tucked under her arm.
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Even in the face of worldwide economic woes, Softbank's plucky little robot has never had an issue holding down a job.
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Amazon's plucky little voice assistant already has a fairly broad skill set – but gaming has never really been Alexa's strong suit.
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"I started following the Flint water crisis two years ago when I was nine," the plucky Gitanjali Rao, 11, tells PEOPLE.
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Since they drew against group favourites Portugal in their opening match, Iceland have been the plucky underdogs everyone's been cheering for.
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It had all but vanished when plucky supporters restored it to life and once more put the world at its feet.
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It's plucky, happy string music that plays under scenes that might otherwise seem to depict something tricky or hard to stomach.
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But the names are the very opposite of what you want in a disruptive party: fallen Goliaths rather than plucky Davids.
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ESA attempted to land the plucky Beagle 2 probe in 003, but lost contact with the lander before it touched down.
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These stakes are made extremely obvious, as Curie gives plucky speeches to evil-faced old men who are smoking evil cigars.
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But in the pantheon of plucky Star Wars droids, BD-1 is right up there with R2-D2 and BB-8.
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It's fun watching the plucky upstarts, but it's also fun watching two powerful teams compete, especially when the attention is warranted.
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Bale, explosively quick and prodigiously talented, is critical, the player who can transform Wales from plucky triers into a genuine threat.
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Nobody's talking about Croatia as a plucky underdog anymore; it is now considered a serious contender to win the World Cup.
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Robbie is entertainingly plucky as Jane, and Christoph Waltz is appropriately snivelly as the Belgian drip of a villain Leon Rom.
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You play, again, as Sora, a plucky anime boy hero with an implacable sense of hope and love for his friends.
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The plucky Giants did put up a fight, especially on defense, which has hardly been the team's strong suit this season.
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By degrees, Sivan began to shed his plucky YouTube persona and to adopt the ultra-styled glamour of a pop star.
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It's a name that would seem to promise an upbeat story of a plucky young hero battling and vanquishing steep odds.
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Scribe, a plucky independent house that also published an unflattering portrayal of the billionaire Koch brothers, later picked up the baton.
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In "Chiquititas," for example, a group of plucky orphans are forever falling in and out of love and overcoming life's obstacles.
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Brexiteers propose instead recapturing the spirit of an earlier Elizabethan age, when plucky English buccaneers forged pathways to the New World.
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The plucky Nuggets, despite numerous injuries, have held the top spot in the West — Golden State's conference — for 44 of them.
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In the modern communications era, there would be no charming banter about aurorae between plucky telegraph operators — only silence, and dark.
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Obviously, the company had many fans during its early years when it was seen as a plucky underdog fighting powerful taxi cartels.
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One plucky upstart, however, is bringing opera out of the grotto and back into the ears and eyes of the evening adventurer.
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The plucky female heroine of Ronja would fit right in with Kiki of Kiki's Delivery Service fame or Spirited Away's Chihiro, too.
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Advantageous is a plucky, low-budget conceptual film that tackles these issues, in a dreamy, thought-provoking, and occasionally disjointed emotional tale.
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BREXITEERS dream of freedom from the European Union's shackles, imagining plucky British negotiators forging new trade deals with America, China and India.
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The other finals have included one win for plucky minnows Chelsea, and two for happy-go-lucky overachievers Manchester City, the scamps.
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When I went to see her in Washington in February, Murkowski made some of her typically plucky, but not exactly blistering, critiques.
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Every minute of his journey so far has been spent in the company of his travelling companion: a plucky hen named Monique.
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Although the plucky astronaut crew made the mission look easy, NASA knew better: This was easily the most perilous voyage in history.
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Andi Mack (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) is the plucky feminist hero dreams are made of, bright and funny and determined, ethical and creative.
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The conductor Bernard Labadie led the Orchestra of St. Luke's in his plucky and elegant version of a towering solo-keyboard work.
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Screwball comedies are typically populated by madcap socialites, irate plutocrats, plucky working girls, comic servants, idiotic lounge lizards and English-mangling foreigners.
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But it resonated because its tale of monsters and plucky outsiders channeled the heart as well as the aesthetics of its influences.
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Yang Xiuying — a plucky woman no taller than the loom — peered over her granddaughter's shoulder, inspecting the newly emerging fabric for flaws.
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Even the choice of Portman (a plucky Elise Kibler) as her imaginary friend — a gag that doesn't keep giving — feels insufficiently bold.
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Park chased and then surpassed Hye-Jin Choi, a plucky 2139-year-old amateur from South Korea, playing one pairing behind her.
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The charm is infectious, with MacLachlan's almost hypnotically appealing language assembling a series of surprises for the plucky little red-haired narrator.
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So if you look at the three major male characters, you'll see they play, in essence, plucky sidekick, supportive spouse, and temptation.
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In this, he resembles less the plucky, virile Christian future soldiers of Tom Brown's Schooldays than their villain, school bully Harry Flashman.
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Garrett Matthias took on his cancer in a unique way and the plucky 5-year-old took the same approach to his death.
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Anyone who doesn't fit the mold of the triumphant, plucky breast cancer survivor doesn't have much of a place in the pink industry.
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Congratulations to that plucky miracle baby from Tatooine, Anakin Skywalker, for no longer having the worst-executed long-expected plunge into villainy. pic.twitter.
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Little did I know that this plucky startup, born in the Arab Spring, would eventually make it through Y Combinator's Winter 2016 class.
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The Vybe Pro Percussion Massage Gun is a plucky little device that has features you won't find in models costing twice as much.
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Once you've lured them in, you have the length of your dungeon to make sure the plucky treasure seekers never make it out.
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Finn Jones has teased that dynamic already in talking about the Defenders, as well as a maturing for his (currently) plucky young character.
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We always knew Mars is a jerk that wants humans dead, but we really wish it would leave our poor plucky rovers alone.
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The plucky British-born star is among PEOPLE's 2016 World's Most Beautiful, and shares beauty advice that is, predictably, both empowering and fun.
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The Fiat 500X brings the same plucky styling of the 500 to a larger crossover platform – but it's still technically a subcompact SUV.
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Mr Cruz would dearly like Mr Kasich to quit the campaign, but the plucky Ohio governor thinks he can win a contested convention.
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Plucky nationalist myths and box office populism have a way of aligning, and Nolan has a track record of flirting with reactionary politics.
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One reason Ms Koike captured the imagination of Tokyoites was her portrayal in the media as a plucky challenger of male-dominated politics.
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Here they were, plucky little Iceland, standing up to the might of Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal and coming away from the encounter unscathed.
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Our plucky protagonist had this to say: "I have waited long enough for this—it'll be a great start to the new-year."
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Carson will benefit from a plucky super-PAC that has been on the ground in Iowa since before he even announced his bid.
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Where ladies parade in faux minks and polka-dot dresses and bright rouge, whilst gentlemen strut about in plucky caps and tweed waistcoats.
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It's the tale of a true American hero: a luckless everyman who triumphs through plucky optimism despite the obstacle placed in his way.
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You can easily hear a link between the plucky, migrating sound of this acoustic combo and the state of our imperiled natural world.
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The Toronto Blue Jays and the Baltimore Orioles are rebuilding, and the Tampa Bay Rays are plucky and dangerous, but not a superpower.
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Mooallem reconstructs the event and the days that followed, when a plucky local radio reporter kept the city going through her tireless broadcasts.
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Newspapers in the 23th century tended to take a warmhearted human-interest approach to stuck trains, emphasizing plucky heroism and triumph over nature.
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Thanks to Aaron Rodgers, and some plucky defense, Green Bay will play San Francisco next week for a shot at the Super Bowl.
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In the early years, when Uber was a plucky underdog trying to break up powerful taxi cartels, many people found this ethos charming.
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Is this a slow death spiral, signalling the sad end of Satoshi Nakamoto's dream and the motley crew of plucky cryptoheroes who defend it?
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After showcasing his possessions to a visiting bird and having no luck, our plucky hero finally resorted to his glossiest prize: the red heart.
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When Netflix, Spotify and Amazon came along, they were plucky startups that large corporations didn't think would bother them until it was too late.
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With 24m people and a coastline longer than that of the western United States, the country was feted by aid agencies and plucky investors.
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China's defense of its sweep of five titles was dashed early and its long dynasties in women's singles and doubles broken by plucky Europeans.
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Meanwhile, on the e-commerce side, Jet Black and Wayfair represent the dangers of the plucky digital startup that grew too much, too fast.
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In the early years, when Uber was a plucky underdog trying to break up powerful taxi cartels, many people found Uber's rule breaking charming.
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Both the Bush and Obama administrations included close personal friends of the plucky rebels who liberated South Sudan from the Islamist tyranny of Khartoum.
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Most of the books I read as a kid belonged to what I affectionately refer to as the "plucky girls make shit happen" genre.
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Three first-half goals put the United States in charge against a plucky team from the small Caribbean island nation of barely 100,000 people.
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These two parts of the Chinese business world are often described as separate, as if plucky private firms are battling clumsy state-owned rivals.
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Giants like Amazon, Unilever and Walmart, though they are not necessarily stifling innovation, are swiftly buying out plucky companies that start to threaten them.
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That setup might suggest that The Fits will be a crowd-pleasing sports movie in which a plucky underdog becomes an unlikely dance champion.
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The new "Lion King" tells the well-known story of the plucky cub Simba through computer-generated imagery designed to look like live action.
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When Kim Kardashian discredits the work of this plucky photoshopper, it's as if she's discrediting a fraudulent piece of artwork or a misattributed quote.
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It is undeniably plucky of North Korea, despite the challenges it faces, to have got through some preliminary heats in the nuclear-arms race.
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But in China, its drinks are already priced sky-high, and it will have to beat the plucky Luckin in product and service alone.
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He brings along Berenice, a plucky pickup (Elizabeth Debicki) who proves to be an impediment to the task Cassidy has in store for James.
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A Los Angeles victory is all but a lock, but the plucky 49ers (5-13) might make the double-digit point spread seem unwise.
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Facebook was still in its early years — a plucky, charming upstart with 500 million users, an Adidas slide-wearing CEO, and a bright future.
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Except this isn't the story of a wide-eyed dreamer longing for stardom, or a plucky intern with dreams of becoming a big shot.
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And so, for the bulk of the story, Jojo is a gangly and morose Aryan teenager rather than a plucky, curly-haired young boy.
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This adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1908 classic is followed at 9:173 in some markets by "Pollyanna" (2005), about yet another plucky orphan.
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Though the former is self-contained, plucky, and delicate where the latter is expansive and rocking, both contain a deep well of emotional resonance.
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Japanese researchers dabbed wet mucus harvested from people infected with influenza A onto the fingertips of 10 plucky volunteers and then applied hand sanitizer.
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And Lila is bad — not badass, though she is that too, not plucky or feisty or spirited, but hateful and spiteful and sometimes cruel.
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In a sneak peek of tonight's episode, we learn that the plucky doctor has enlisted one of her professors to figure out the tumor situation.
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The plucky upstart automaker headed up by Elon Musk, a dedicated visionary often compared to Ford's own founder, Henry Ford, was winning the stock market.
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" She advises taking the plunge, even when — especially when — you aren't feeling plucky: "The key is to take the step even if you feel insecure.
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Beyond the plucky work of an opponent — in this case, the Spanish veteran Marcel Granollers — a moping Murray is generally a victim of self-affliction.
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Antiques Shirley Temple Black, the plucky child star turned diplomat, remains an indelible pop culture figure, and her costumes and other possessions are in demand.
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"Hunt for the Wilderpeople" takes a troika of familiar story types — the plucky kid, the crusty geezer, the nurturing bosom — and strips them of cliché.
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The plucky underdogs from UConn went on a 24-0 run in the first half, led by 28 at halftime, and were never seriously challenged.
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Yet there was plucky underdog Japan, holding on for a stunning 14-12 victory on the first day of rugby sevens at the Rio Olympics.
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For Taxify is not just a plucky little startup taking on Uber — it's now backed by Chinese ride-hailing tech giant Didi Chuxing in China.
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Striptease, the 1996 film adaptation of Carl Hiaasen's novel about a plucky stripper battling dirty politicians and a slimy ex-husband, is not that memorable.
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In just a few weeks, Argentina has gone from a plucky country on the long road to economic recovery to a pariah in global markets.
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Scorah's book, the bravery of which cannot be overstated, is an earnest one, fueled by a plucky humor and a can-do spirit that endears.
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Shipka has a radiantly likeble screen presence, but throughout the first season she has little to do besides be determinedly plucky and also sometimes sad.
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But if you come to her memoir, "In Pieces," expecting to meet a plucky Sally Field desperate to be liked, you will not find her.
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A rover in the wind You'll have to pardon our tone this week; we're in deep mourning over the loss of the plucky Opportunity rover.
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Turns out if you ask your Amazon Echo the same question, the plucky little machine reels the name off with absolutely no problem at all.
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Although she creates an odd family of sorts, this is definitely not a story of plucky women banding together to fix up a chilly home.
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The Dominicans, who swept the 2013 tournament, won their third in a row here, but needed 103 innings to outlast the plucky Colombians, 10-3.
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The plucky Amore Opera often seems to fill gaps in the city's season, and so it is with this production of Puccini's classic love story.
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And overall, the adults on Runaways are frankly just stronger actors than their plucky kids, most of whom took their time stepping into their characters' shoes.
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The score's most memorable moments come from its plucky synth lines, but they're all the more affecting for the way they slowly emerge from the slime.
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When 92-year-old Marie Alexander fell in her yard, the plucky little Chihuahua did what she could to summon help for the Inverness, Florida, woman.
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It all plays into a slowly Disney-esque developing back story about a plucky little construction robot trying to figure out what he was built for.
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The company's fourth smartphone in just over two years arrives as it enters a sort of crossroads between plucky hardware startup and fully mature phone manufacturer.
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While one big show is airing, another, smaller one gains momentum with audiences, critics, and the industry, because it becomes a kind of plucky also-ran.
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Listless folk guitar trickles along, sporadically joined by vaporous keyboards, sudden swells of harp and flute, plucky bass, queasy jazz chords, and various other eclectic ingredients.
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Tonight is the "American Idol Showcase" — 51 contestants pouring their plucky guts out in front of a live audience — so it should be much more exciting.
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Anchor, a plucky startup out of New York, has offered a welcome respite, bringing novice podcasters the tools to build easy podcasts out of the box.
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Plucky little mice, badgers, hedgehogs, and moles hole up in an ancient abbey while vicious rats and ferrets try to storm it and enslave its defenders.
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NASA's Curiosity rover has resumed full operations, the space agency confirmed today, after the plucky Mars resident was forced into a standby mode earlier this month.
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Amid this flurry of faux-feminist (fauxminist?) gags, Ocean's 8 runs on two core questions: Will this gang of plucky gals make off with the loot?
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That's where Hulu's plucky comedy picks up, as Jules (Kat Dennings) is faced with a sudden breakup and discovers her former besties have left her behind.
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Yet the American League seems to offer just one hope for a pennant race: the plucky and powerful Oakland Athletics, the contender no one saw coming.
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"'Captain America,' like its unapologetically corny hero, is propelled by unpretentious and plucky ingenuity," A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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But in the race to win the 2020 Democratic National Convention, it was Milwaukee — plucky, proud and a little faded, that triumphed over its sunnier competitors.
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Traveling by train, boat and sledge, rescuing a plucky Indian widow (Kirsten Foster) along the way, he treats time zones like his own personal hopscotch court.
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Minnie, the plucky heroine, runs a saloon in a mountain town during the gold rush where she teaches the adoring miners how to read and write.
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It is a well reported and researched history of the ways in which plucky economists helped rewrite policy in America and Europe and across emerging markets.
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Like a plucky Jean Arthur character in a '30s screwball comedy, Tur evolved into a seasoned campaign reporter and never let Trump get under her skin.
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The ides of March are upon us, or so thought the University of Virginia, who was stabbed in the back by the plucky team from UMBC.
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Where Guendelsberger, the plucky reporter, came at the problem up close, Fraser—an eminent labor historian—stands back to try to size the whole thing up.
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That maybe looks cute when they're plucky upstarts, but it starts to ring a little bit more hollow when ... When they can do something about it.
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These AI tools are like plucky young assistants on steroids: They're highly competent and prolific, but still need a seasoned manager to do the heavy intellectual lifting.
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It was also because 212 was when Buffy, starring plucky '12s darling Sarah Michelle Gellar, was at the height of its powers during its excellent third season.
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But that one, of the plucky goaltender who helped lead the young American hockey team to improbable Olympic glory over the heavily favored Soviets, really stands out.
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When he's not wailing in agony, Peterson is a winning host: plucky, chummy, and childlike — a natural proxy for his legion of young fans, the Coyote Pack.
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In fact, astronomers have found a totally new purpose for the plucky little space probe and its vast trove of data: searching for the elusive Planet 9.
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After my four-year stint at university, I was transformed from a plucky, young, free-thinking free spirit into a cranky, old, get-off-my-lawn conservative.
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An article about Salameh's aspirations in Edinburgh newspaper The Scotsman made several references to King Abdullah II of Jordan, in a plucky bid to get his attention.
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Come the final whistle, plucky little Iceland – with roughly nine tenths of their population inside the stadium – had secured their first ever point at the European Championships.
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But the shoddy connection kept freezing, and the plucky hero eventually disappeared into a hazy cloud of belching smoke, as the generator he was using broke down.
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How can four plucky kids (and likely Eleven, too) fight a creepy trans-dimensional thing that looks like it's the size of at least a small warehouse?
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Thanks to the three USB slots at the base of the unit, the total number of devices that be connected to this plucky power strip is fifteen.
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His plucky cousin Lyanna (Bella Ramsey) refuses to stay put in the crypt and intends to be in the thick of it no matter what Jorah says.
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This plucky 1080p projector offers the excellent color accuracy the company is known for, sharp image quality, and enough brightness to look great during outdoor movie nights.
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But, of course, there's a dance competition coming up, and if the plucky heroes place first, they'll be able to pay their bills with the prize money.
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If you come to the book "expecting to meet a plucky Sally Field desperate to be liked, you will not find her," Sean Smith writes, reviewing it.
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This now consists of seven countries: America, Australia, Bahrain, Britain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE—and plucky Albania (which can squeeze most of its sailors onto one aeroplane).
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Our winsome scamp loves all women, from scullion to lady, though his heart belongs to the plucky Sophia, who is given can-do determination by Elena Wang.
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Councilman Keith Powers, who represents Midtown, has vowed to back the West 58th Street shelter, resisting pressure from residents and developers in a plucky show of support.
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In the first episode of The Morning Show, a viral moment turns plucky small-town field reporter Bradley Jackson, played by Reese Witherspoon, into an overnight sensation.
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Its focus, Hatidze Muratova, lives in a tiny stone house in remote northern Macedonia with her octogenarian mother, a plucky dog and an irregular number of cats.
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I still remember seeing Louise Fishman's fine painting "Golem" (1981) there, and I was disappointed that the plucky street performance artist Kim Jones (aka Mudman) wasn't included.
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Infused with magic throughout, even the ocean serves as a key character, while Moana blossoms into about as brave and plucky a heroine as any Disney has produced.
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Mwenso is up to the challenge; he sings and banters like a carnival barker at a swingers' club, and he has a plucky young crew to support him.
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U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens tumbled in three sets against China's plucky Zhang Shuai, before 10th seed Coco Vandeweghe was sent packing in two by Hungary's Timea Babos.
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That the Irish had managed to work their way up the social ladder in the cities where they made their home added to their image as plucky underdogs.
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And they're both overshadowed by their plucky young protégés, who start out less cocksure and brash, so they suffer smaller falls whenever they hit a crisis of confidence.
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The phrase makes me think of a Clint Eastwood plotline in which the flinty ex-cop's heart melts after interacting with a plucky kid or a service dog.
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As much as they like to shock us, the showrunners have never given us a hard-fought episode-long battle that wasn't ultimately won by the plucky underdogs.
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And even though she did nothing for me (she's ruthlessly plucky with young Donna's platitudes), I'll admit to admiring her choice to not even bother "doing" Meryl Streep.
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MIDWEST Malik Newman scored 33 points, Udoka Azubuike stood toe-to-toe with Seton Hall's bruising Angel Delgado, and Kansas held off the plucky Pirates in Wichita, Kan.
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The film's plucky protagonist, MR (Emelie Jonsson), returns to her job with the crew — placating anxious passengers with images of Earth before fires turned the blue marble brown.
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A group of plucky conservatives kept challenging this system until, in 1994, a young Erdogan and his friend (now dismissed) won the mayoralties of Istanbul and Ankara, respectively.
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When the plucky farm girl Ann Darrow (Christiani Pitts) arrives in Manhattan intent on making it big in showbiz, it's with an explicit streak of post-liberation consciousness.
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" According to Saunders, "The dominant folk memory of British history is of 'plucky little Britain,' standing with its back to the wall in the face of overpowering odds.
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"Satanic Panic" is a familiar story, cooked up from old-horror standbys — the plucky virgin, the devilish matron — but its throwback "final girl" narrative avoids being merely regressive.
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Since entering politics in 2006, Mr. Bernier has won his father's old seat in the House of Commons four times — undermining his self-image as a plucky outsider.
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Human nature (together with the operation of time) is the true subject of all novels, even those full of ghosts, pirates, plucky orphans or rides to the guillotine.
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In addition, Alaskey could be heard as Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures and the lead character on Duck Dodgers – a performance that earned him a Daytime Emmy Award.
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He shows up in future New York and promptly runs into a plucky female hotel owner, a vengeful descendent of Adolf Hitler, and a bunch of bewildering new technology.
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Director Ceyda Torun, who lived in Istanbul until she was 11, examines life in the metropolis from the perspective of seven plucky felines with names like "Hustler" and "Psycho".
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And after a year spent cautiously posed atop the frontrunner's pedestal, Hillary Clinton became the plucky challenger, fighting against the conventional wisdom that Obama was now the certain nominee.
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Over 26 years ago, in April of 1990, Lynch shared his version of a world where homecoming queens are murdered, detectives are plucky, and nothing is what it seems.
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Most of the characters, in fact, basically serve to check off demographic boxes, such as the plucky orphaned teenager (Nickelodeon star Isabela Toner) who awkwardly stumbles into Cade's orbit.
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In this case, the man is a former marine who has retooled as a hit man, and the blonde is a plucky ingenue he meets in an acting class.
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For Mr Musk has rivals, from Blue Origin (backed by Jeff Bezos of Amazon) at one end to a plucky, pint-sized startup called Rocket Lab at the other.
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Founded in the early 1980s by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, the plucky company embraced some brash ideas — compatibility, portable personal computers — at an extraordinarily opportune time.
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The plucky original put the Italian car industry back in business after Word War II. An updated 500 came to the US after the financial crisis, reestablishing the brand.
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And while I'm bummed that rabbits are nowhere to be found on the plucky little robot's list of software upgrades, and some pet owners are getting a little love.
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It's amazing that "Miss Atomic Bomb" boasts the above-the-title talent that it does, starting with the plucky Ms. Andrews, who in the biggest role comes off best.
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This year has always had a different vibe for the Sharks, with so many having written them off that they felt like plucky underdogs instead of pressure-weary favorites.
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And just as in the first movie, the Christmas Prince's plucky little sister Emily (Honor Kneafsey) becomes Amber's partner in crime as she struggles to maintain her own identity.
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And her friends, having grown up on tales where plucky kids can play detective (or criminal) and save the day, aren't prepared for what happens when blood starts flowing.
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That's why, in the streaming series' recently-premiered third season, we're introduced to Mei Lin (Stephanie Hsu), a plucky medical student and Joel Maisel's (Michael Zegen) new love interest.
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Darko Tresnjak directs Terrence McNally's adaptation of a 1956 dramatic film and a 1997 animated one about a plucky young woman who just might be a lost Romanov heir.
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Before it was a mighty fief within Disney's Magic Kingdom, Pixar was a plucky and resourceful start-up, and those roots are often most visible in its nonfeature offerings.
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HBO, in fact -- the longtime award kingpin -- actually characterized itself as a plucky underdog, citing the sheer volume of contenders that Netflix generated as evidence of HBO's qualitative advantage.
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It's an action game in which the plucky female hero, Joule Adams, is accompanied by a gang of robots that each bring different tools to every combat encounter and puzzle.
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Portugal hosted Euro 2004, eventually reaching the final and losing to plucky little Greece, who staunchly refused to be drawn into a football match at any stage during the tournament.
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Little Red Riding Hood A plucky 20-something named Red must journey to Long Island to visit her grandmother, who recently called her to tell her she was very ill.
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But Memphis is unwise to count on free agency as a means to sustain the plucky zeal it used to cultivate; the organization is staring at a long-term conundrum.
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No injuries were reported but the videos, broadcast live online, made the plucky bull a short-lived social media star and Queens briefly became the top trending subject on Twitter.
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As a result, the reader is unable to suspend a feeling of disbelief as Moore's plucky underdogs scrap their way through various twists and setbacks while struggling toward their endgame.
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Carrie Fisher, best known for her portrayal of the plucky Princess Leia in George Lucas' epic intergalactic movie series, died Tuesday, days after suffering a heart attack on a plane.
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Similarly, the decision to craft Betty (Lili Reinhart) as a watercolor Veronica Mars—searing, ungovernable anger coursing just below a sunny, plucky, perfectionist's veneer—is among the show's best surprises.
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Set in a French-animation dream of New York City, it tells the story of Leo, a plucky, kind little boy, very attached to his lovely family, and very ill.
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This plucky company has made a habit of filling the late-August lull in the city's classical calendar with interesting productions and thoughtful repertoire, and this year is no exception.
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Only Buckley invoked the imagery of plucky guerrilla resistance not against a Nazi invasion of the British Isles, but against Northern radicals bent on uprooting the Southern way of life.
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Her early online content production leaned heavily, in a thematic sense, on "plucky American discovers the wonders of Britain," and that brought her attention in that nation's most discerning papers.
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If the Apple Watch Series 5 is a plucky little Arabian showhorse, the Garmin Instinct is one of those burly Clydesdales you see in Budweiser commercials: strong, sturdy, and strapping.
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Nowadays, tales of the city's slow recovery tend to focus on plucky hipsters from Los Angeles or Brooklyn colonizing abandoned spaces, opening pickle companies or tilling little urban agriculture plots.
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The series finale had Rory well on her way to professional success, and thus left room for considerable confusion about where that plucky girl journalist had gone in the revival.
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"I'm absolutely driven to make a series of work that talks about how strong and plucky we are as a space industry," says the photographer, who goes by the pseudonym Docubyte.
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We've spent decades playing as Link, the plucky beacon of courage who's been thrust time and time again into scenarios where he has to rescue Zelda from the clutches of evil.
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Luckily, there's a cure: the post-apocalyptic TV drama The Last Ship, in which one plucky Navy destroyer fights to rescue the world after a plague wipes out millions of people.
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One person is still rocking a plucky little Vindicator, cutting it down to wafer-thin armor but kitting it out with an even greater arsenal of jump gets and sniper weapons.
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Trade-phobic leftists who cheered the plucky Walloons should remember that the next referendum or parliamentary vote might be turned against one of their own causes, such as generosity to refugees.
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Economically and politically it is struggling to make the transition, say critics; "plucky little Jordan" is acquiring some of the attributes of the authoritarian regimes that surround it in all directions.
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Just a week ago, they were braced to celebrate the plucky squad, which had ascended from minor leagues in recent years to reach the final of a major South American tournament.
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Gunn was a writer and the director of the previous two films, which have become fan favorite movies in Marvel's Cinematic Universe for its plucky humor and use of '80s music.
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To the extent that Riverdale had a plot in its first season, it was about a group of plucky teens coming together to solve the murder of one of their own.
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A fictionalized World War II allegory, Valkyria Chronicles was about a plucky group of freedom fighters defending their resource-rich homeland from an invading empire as it spread across the continent.
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When Jane walked into that lobby, plucky and determined, she did so knowing that she had the backing of a woman who believed in her and could open doors for her.
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On Saturday, that opera, "Cassandra" by the Italian Germanophile composer Vittorio Gnecchi, receives a rare performance when the plucky Teatro Grattacielo presents it in concert at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater.
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In the course of those books, we see a plucky schoolboy, torn by adolescent doubts and confusions, grow into an epic hero, kin to King Arthur, Luke Skywalker and Spider-Man.
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However, it does not appear that Hattie Stewart ever joined Gussie Freeman in the ring, whether it was bad timing or, perhaps, the fear of meeting the plucky and undefeated championess.
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"Six of one, half-dozen of the other," said Dean Masini, after the Giants dispatched the plucky Mets, 19803-0, on Madison Bumgarner's sublime pitching and Conor Gillaspie's stunning home run.
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Athens and Sparta, old allies, went to war 2,500 years ago, according to the historian Thucydides, when plucky Athens grew powerful enough to rival Sparta, then the pre-eminent Greek power.
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Plucky, penniless orphan Jane, mourning the death of her guardian, has come to an old Gothic manor house filled with mystery upon mystery: Who is the child hiding in the corners?
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In the movie, the king, played by Brynner, was portrayed as a moody, vain, ignorant and misogynistic monarch who softened up thanks to the influence of the children's plucky English governess.
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The jewel of the Irving trade return, in other words, turned out to be far less sparkly than expected, thanks to the plucky Nets posting only the league's eighth-worst record.
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In this scene, one plucky iguana was set upon by a swarm of snakes, only to miraculously wriggle free and scrabble up the surrounding rocks, serpents nipping fruitlessly at its heels.
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That, combined with a team that was actually fairly plucky before Alex Smith's season-ending injury last year, could make Washington far more formidable than it might seem at a glance.
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In this first of the series, readers get a plucky heroine, an easy-to-follow plot, a warm cast of extended family members and, at the end, a recipe for mochi.
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Today, it is unclear whom, if anyone, Rocky or the plucky Wolverines would fight: The question of whether Russia should be considered a friend or foe seems more unknowable than ever.
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Well, enter a plucky, young up 'n comer a full 14 months younger than Bernie, former vice president and man pointing at the next woman he wants to sniff, Joe Biden.
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With the I-10 freeway looming above her, Lyles calmly directed the bizarre traffic of trucks, canoes, fishing boats, and even a plucky Volkswagen Bug, that was churning through the flood waters.
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Plucky Little Iceland, as they will surely be known throughout the tournament, is a country of just 22016,000 people, but they defied the odds to reach their first major tournament this summer.
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The fact it has now risen from the app graveyard is a plucky bet by the founders there's a (second) chance to be had here — but it is just that: a chance.
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Alan "Boom Boom" Minter was the Olympian, the plucky jabbing lad from Crawley in Sussex who was, albeit very briefly, the pride of England and the undisputed middleweight champ of the world.
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Plus, it's always fun to see Josh take a turn as the dapper, old-school leading man — especially when he still gets to be the dumb, plucky jock we know and love.
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In 250, Sweden's Malmo conceded 239 goals in their two meetings with Real Madrid; Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv leaked eight goals against Chelsea; plucky BATE Barisov, from Belarus, limited Barcelona to five.
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Mets 20, Braves 223 ATLANTA — Starter Jacob deGrom and the Mets' offense each demonstrated a capacity to adapt on Sunday, showing plucky sides that contrast with their emerging reputations for being overpowering.
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It is also, in a peculiar way, a Disney movie: a story about a plucky orphan on a journey to discover her past, who must overcome a menacing evil along the way.
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And he conveys both the heart-stopping horrors of combat — one fight left 21 men dead, 24 wounded, 23 as prisoners — and the plucky, schoolboy spirit that emerged as their default setting.
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M&M have had strange bedfellows before, but this plucky comedy will remind us that nothing is stranger than getting by on a wing and prayer (to the Lord of Light Comedy).
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As the fighting approached their area, the plucky Marchesa Origo took in war orphans, hid fleeing Italian partisans and Allied paratroopers, and negotiated with the German military units that patrolled the area.
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His team, a plucky little 5th league club called Tennis Borussia Berlin, has a proud Jewish history and several Turkish players, and regularly encounters anti-Semitism and racist slurs from hostile fans.
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As a child, I read books in which a plucky heroine escaped from an arranged marriage, and I've read a reasonable amount of adult-focused fiction that addresses the subject as well.
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There he is discovered by Yi (voiced by Chloe Bennet), a plucky violin-playing tween who's saving money to embark on a journey that her late father had envisioned for his family.
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Fans of the Mets and the Phillies rarely agree on much, but one man has always brought them together: Tug McGraw, the plucky reliever who helped each franchise win its first championship.
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In emphasizing Anne's past, Walley-Beckett may be roughing up a sunny tale, but she is also insisting that a plucky 13-year-old girl is as worthy a subject as anyone.
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Uncovering a high-stakes conspiracy, even many decades later, naturally imperils the lives of the detective and the plucky octogenarian actress, who can barely climb the stairs to his walk-up apartment.
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First known to most television viewers as plucky broadcaster Rebecca Donaldson on "Full House," her character eventually married John Stamos's Jesse Katsopolis -- together forming an idyllic image of a young, happy couple.
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She's also impressively plucky, traveling, for example, to a remote Mexican vanilla plantation, where she's subject to a full-body mosquito attack (par for the course, the woman who runs it admits).
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City, the runaway Premier League leader, needed the late intervention of goalkeeper Ederson's trailing leg to keep out Luka Milivojevic's penalty kick and secure a 0-43 draw against a plucky Palace.
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San Marino are the plucky minnows, standing up to the fearsome German shark that is circling them, and media outlets in Britain and beyond are more than happy to indulge the narrative.
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You could imagine Al Qaeda or Timothy McVeigh identifying with Luke blowing up the Death Star — plucky underdogs destroying symbols of invincible power with dollar-store equipment and an audacious, suicidal plan.
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The sense of Britain as a plucky outsider that can fight its own battles and stand alone has been at the center of the Brexit debate that has been replete with wartime references.
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The movie follows Viola Hastings (Amanda Bynes), a plucky soccer-playing tomboy, whose girls' soccer team gets cut by her high school (a familiar disappointment to those of us who attended public schools).
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When we meet Louisa in Me Before You, she's a plucky, cheery, hopeful caretaker for Will Traynor, a moody, morose quadriplegic who is determined to end the pain he's carried since his accident.
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You may remember that at the end of The King of Kong, Mitchell reestablishes his supremacy over plucky local kid Steve Wiebe with a "direct capture" tape of a run scoring 21,2047,2200 points.
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Perhaps America, in banking so much on its plucky ally, should have been more clear-eyed about the cost to the Philippines of standing up to Chinese aggression in the South China Sea.
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Which makes Fleksy the plucky upstart gunning to scale an independent alternative that's not owned by big tech and is open to any third party that wants to join its mini apps party.
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After the election a plucky website named Kloop published allegations that Mr Jeyenbekov's campaign team had got hold, and made unfair use, of government data on voters to swing the closely fought election.
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Musically, it's a departure, replacing the plucky little riffs of her previous lightweight, countrypolitan blend with disco strings, tastefully subdued electronic touches, pitch-corrected vocals with the smoothness of vanilla-tinged rice pudding.
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Mexican boxing star Saul "Canelo" Alvarez simultaneously proved both his star and punching power as he put away plucky Brit Liam Smith to earn the WBO light middleweight title from his embattled foe.
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The plucky right-hander ended last season on a 33-match winning streak, claiming three ITF titles to get back into the top 23 and could prove a difficult early challenge for Williams.
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In the first big character change of his life, the kid who just wanted to make everyone laugh reportedly became noticeably less plucky as anxiety and depression began to creep into his mind.
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These bizarre, graphic visual metaphors happen at least once an episode in Food Wars, a hugely popular, fairly problematic anime about world cuisine, empty elitism, and a plucky young upstart beating the odds.
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Now, the plucky rover has upped its game again by sending home gorgeous new color postcards of its recent trip through Murray Buttes, a dramatic geological formation on the foothills of Mount Sharp.
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The case also draws in many of the characteristic elements: theft by a trusted volunteer, rifts in a scandalized community, lasting consequences, lingering suspicion and, ultimately, a plucky, stirring recovery by the league.
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Whatever outrage he committed, however flawed the elections, the other 14 members at the time of the Southern African Development Community, with the honourable exception of plucky little Botswana, looked the other way.
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That feeling only grew in the first round when he almost single-handedly dispatched the Oklahoma City Thunder, a plucky (and star-studded) underdog that some had predicted would pull off an upset.
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The group's first single of the year, "Daydream" is reminiscent of the familiar sounds we know and love to dance to, boasting plucky guitar riffs and a bass that vibrates through your body.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%Summary: In the animated comedy "Trolls," plucky Poppy (Anna Kendrick) joins morose Branch (Timberlake) on a mismatched journey to rescue their friends after the Bergens invade the Troll Village.
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The plucky little robot was the result of large investment, including the hiring of ex-Pixar and Dreamworks animators brought on board to craft a high range of emotions in the robot's eyes.
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It starts with a sleepy-looking Garner dabbing as she says "good morning" and then casually prepping her bagels while the plucky music of the Great British Bake Off plays in the background.
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Annie Annie is a plucky Depression-era orphan, but one who can sing and dance, which earns her a place in the household of robber baron Oliver Warbucks and his beautiful enabler, Grace.
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Patriots 13, Rams 3 ATLANTA — The New England Patriots' dynasty began exactly 17 years ago Sunday, when the most fruitful partnership in N.F.L. history launched its transformation from plucky upstarts to league overlords.
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Her cabinet seems to consist of a juvenile snowman named Olaf, her plucky but powerless sister Anna, and Kristoff, the charming, albeit romantically awkward lumberjack who is never without his trusty reindeer Sven.
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From the influx of American stars to the reported $40 million Netflix paid for the rights, the show is no longer a plucky underdog—and creator-writer Charlie Brooker knows he's under the spotlight.
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Hunter isn't as tough as he seems, McKayla not as experienced (she's a virgin, which leads to Daniel inadvertently slut-shaming her for assuming otherwise), Amy not as innocent, and Daniel not as plucky.
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There are more products based on R2-D2 that galaxies far, far away, and now that he's an oven mitt, the plucky little droid can help you get out of yet another hot mess.
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Set in 1983, the show presents a world filled with plucky kids, shadowy government experimentation and a near-silent girl known only as Eleven (Millie Brown), who harbors strange secrets and possesses extraordinary powers.
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The Kepler spacecraft came roaring back into the news last week, when scientists announced that the plucky little planet hunter had unearthed hundreds of new exoplanets in our cosmic backyard, despite being literally broken.
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Episode Eight will fit into the Empire Strikes Back slot for the franchise, the film that takes our likable, plucky heroes from the Force Awakens and plunges them into something darker and more perilous.
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Thanks to its plucky band of misfit protagonists, heartfelt plot, and carefully rendered depictions of dinosaurs, the 1988 classic animated movie "The Land Before Time" has become an integral part of many generation's childhoods.
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Most everything else here is impressive, too — Mr. Roe's direction on his own set design, Sidney Fortner's costumes — as is usual for this plucky troupe, which revives older American shows on its tiny stage.
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And the call for more stringent oversight of the industry is coming from a coalition of companies that includes Beautycounter, a plucky start-up that is pitching natural face creams as well as regulation.
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American bank executives fear that they could lose ground to plucky payment companies like Venmo, a popular choice among millennials who want to pay each other — and send emoji-filled messages to their friends.
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While fully half of this final installment is concerned with a do-or-die mission to save the world, this is emphatically not a conventional "band of plucky heroes saves the world" fantasy story.
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For those of us who regard the Olympics as the United Nations in Adidas, it is comforting to know that a small and plucky band of Gamesmen have struggled to keep that tradition alive.
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This plucky Battery Park institution transports us back to the years of Rudy Giuliani, Lauryn Hill and 77083-kilobit modems to reveal the enduring urban legacy of a decade bookended by recession and terror.
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This plucky Battery Park institution transports us back to the years of Rudy Giuliani, Lauryn Hill and 222-kilobit modems to reveal the enduring urban legacy of a decade bookended by recession and terror.
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This plucky Battery Park institution transports us back to the years of Rudy Giuliani, Lauryn Hill and 128-kilobit modems to reveal the enduring urban legacy of a decade bookended by recession and terror.
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This plucky Battery Park institution transports us back to the years of Rudy Giuliani, Lauryn Hill and 7373-kilobit modems to reveal the enduring urban legacy of a decade bookended by recession and terror.
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It's a model that's worked well for the plucky smartphone maker, and another way it's managed to buck some of the prevailing industry trends as competitors struggle to maintain sales amid a global slowdown.
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Busy Philipps got her start playing a plucky college freshman on Dawson's Creek, but in the years since, she's become better known for her unfiltered approach to celebrity and her refreshingly candid social-media presence.
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Somehow, Disney took one of the most charismatic characters in the universe and turned him into a plucky yet dull hero with an uninspired origin story, in which he's outshone by all things Lando Calrissian.
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As the white supremacists of the self-described alt-right rose and became a major political force, the escapist fantasy of the plucky teen hero who can save us all became less and less appealing.
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That Time BB-8 Visited the Robots at NASA&aposs Jet Propulsion LabNot so long ago, in our very own Milky Way galaxy, a plucky little droid named BB-8 roamed the…Read more Read
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But thanks to C.J. McCollum's emergence and Damian Lillard's chip-on-the-shoulder hero ball, the Blazers played their way back into the postseason, and became America's plucky Pacific Time Zone underdogs along the way.
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Wilderpeople starts to look like a familiar story about a crotchety old fart and a plucky young orphan who make each other's lives better, after some mismatched-buddy jousting and a series of big calamities.
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As Samsung's electronics affiliate has lost market share to plucky smartphone-makers in China, the group has moved, among other things, into biopharmaceuticals, the pet project of the conglomerate's de facto boss, Lee Jae-yong.
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The movie was a bit of a love letter to the car, and it showed off its plucky energy as Charlie Croker and sped through Italy or LA to steal a whole bunch of gold.
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Coach Kieran Keddle first approaches the project with a reluctance that makes every prickly martial arts master who's ever been approached by a plucky upstart in every martial arts movie ever look welcoming by comparison.
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Strip away the newness and novelty of the technological tactics and you find the same old machinations of military and capitalist power, which no plucky hacktivist can disrupt without risking their life, freedom and reputation.
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It's always worth hearing this plucky ensemble, which is dedicated to music written in the past decade — not least for the performance space's 10th-floor views over the Hudson, which can occupy you at intermission.
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Even during election season, when the hand of Murdoch can be seen banging ever more stridently on the political drums, you will always find at least one snap of plucky kids or an interesting dog.
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These were stories designed to foster a reassuring sense of national pride, one in which the war is stripped of horror and political complexity and turned into a patriotic tale of plucky English derring-do.
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The battle for survival in the iron ore sector, in other words, looks set to resume with the "big three" saturating a shrinking market and forcing out plucky but ultimately doomed minnows such as Atlas.
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The day cannabis became legal in Canada, media coverage included jokes about grocery stores selling out of Doritos and tales about a plucky Girl Guide [Girl Scout] selling out of cookies outside of a dispensary.
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Miguel, the movie's plucky protagonist, travels to the underworld to find out about himself and his family's history, but ends up finally understanding his grandmother and, for the first time, truly discovers who she is.
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The story is told by 12-year-old Charlie Bobo, a white boy living in South Carolina in 1858, and he is a likably plucky kid who narrates everything in full-on old-timey Southern dialect.
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We remember the lessons of its myth: Impeachment was a result of two plucky young outsiders unraveling a conspiracy and challenging power at great personal risk (another invention for the screenplay) while forging an unbreakable bond.
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The boss of a firm called Planetary Resources compared it to the Homestead Act of 1862—a law that gave up to 160 acres in the American West to any plucky settler willing to venture forth.
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Not so long ago, in our very own Milky Way galaxy, a plucky little droid named BB-8 roamed the hallowed halls of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, rubbing elbows with its robotic brethren.
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Also in this montage: dear Capheus, who goes in search of plucky reporter Zakia, who, it turns out, has a reputation at her office: She's known for having dated a woman while she was in college.
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Joy was etched all over the Argentine's face when he put away a forehand winner to finally eclipse his plucky opponent 5-7 6-4 6-403 6-7(5) 6-2 in an absorbing match.
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After work, when I will certainly want to go home instead of going to the gym, I will think about the plucky iguana's NOT FAKE fight for its life, as I always do in difficult situations.
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Jane (Katie Stevens) is a plucky 25-year-old journalist who has just been promoted to a staff writer at a glossy woman's magazine called Scarlet (a thinly veiled mash-up of Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire).
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Something sinister has happened, and while most denizens of the avenue would like to keep the secret festering under wraps, the 10-year-olds plucky Grace and frail Tilly are not going to let it be.
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Richard Branson's plucky airline, the centerpiece of his aviation and Virgin portfolio, is thought of outside the UK as a major player, a global behemoth bringing travelers all around the world via London and in style.
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Professor Bouchard said that after the "non" camp won the referendums on Quebec's separation in 1980 and 1995, English Canada had deluded itself into thinking that the challenge of a plucky, independent-minded Quebec was solved.
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The plucky, can-do miners, brought in to excavate under the reactor to stop the meltdown, stripping naked to get the job done (the series doesn't say this, but their work ended up largely for naught).
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Throughout the conflict and in his histories, Olson writes, he promoted the idea of plucky little England and its united empire maintaining the struggle "single-handed" until joined by Russia and later by the United States.
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He doesn't merely love the plucky, heroic bear — as well as Brigsby's adorable helpers, the Smiles Sisters, and his villainous foe, the Sun Snatcher; James has absorbed the show, its stories and ethos into his being.
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Any comedy that both embraces its many different viewpoints and celebrates the Olympics by accidentally setting a pyramid of toilet paper on fire is one that deserves room to keep flourishing, in all its plucky glory.
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In Washington, the Post offered a graphic account under the headline "THEODORE HURT IN GAME: President's Son Carried from the Field Unable to Stir": When he was in the play, young Roosevelt put up a plucky game.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic recovered from a mediocre start to reach the French Open quarter-finals on Wednesday with a 3-6 6-4 6-1 23-5 rain-delayed victory over plucky Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut.
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So popular was her namesake series that it gave birth to two spinoffs, Lou Grant (starring Ed Asner, who had played her gruff boss) and Rhoda (Valerie Harper) based on her plucky next neighbor and best friend.
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But the captivating battle between hot favorite and plucky home hope at the Olympic Stadium failed to register with some Rio residents, who were more concerned about a first round volleyball match between Brazil's men and France.
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The drama — "The Story of Yanxi Palace" — has attracted a huge following in China for its colorful depiction of Qing Dynasty-era politics and the tale of a brave and plucky young concubine who outsmarts her rivals.
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Purists may object to seeing their beloved heroine bullied and abused, but it can also be argued that Anne's emergence from that trauma still as plucky and precocious as ever is an example of the character's strength.
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There have been a lot of movies about old curmudgeons and plucky orphans, like Kolya, Annie, Ernest & Celestine, and Up. Did you look at any of them, either for inspiration, or to avoid walking into familiar territory?
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They told a story about Sora, the plucky hero from the first game, exploring a fragmented dreamscape built out of his own memories of the original Kingdom Hearts, guided by a mysterious organization of black-coated villains.
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What she is is viscerally — gratifyingly — real, which makes her more like the blissfully imperfect (if more comic) heroine of a feminist cri de coeur like "Eighth Grade" than the plucky, unthreatening girls that mainstream film loves.
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Until a few weeks ago, Disney's "Zootopia," about a plucky rabbit police officer fighting prejudice and a fear-mongering lamb, seemed a shoo-in for this prize, having collected a Golden Globe and a Producers Guild Award.
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Directed by John McPhail from a script by McHenry and Alan McDonald, the movie is thinly plotted, its pacing slack, its staging uninspired; Anna remains merely an idea for a plucky heroine, despite Hunt's smile and sweat.
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While some have praised the plucky scout for figuring out where the demand would probably be, the Girl Scouts organization has been wrestling with how to handle marijuana-adjacent sales as more states have legalized the drug.
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We're well accustomed to images of plucky factory workers and well-scrubbed nurses, but the contributions of middle and upper class women who constituted the bulk of the UK's female scientific community are a far more esoteric subject.
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Before taking over in Seattle in 2014, Petersen had led the Broncos for eight seasons, guiding a plucky mid-major to pair of BCS bowl wins and a perennial spot among the top 25 teams in college football.
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When older brother Hussein is asked to help a British Army officer find a water well, plucky younger brother Theeb surreptitiously tags along as the group finds themselves battling treacherous terrain in the land of Lawrence of Arabia.
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The whole gang is all here this time, the plucky love interest, the global conspiracy, the sneering bad guy whose killing ability is established just so that we can appreciate Tom Cruise's strength when he ultimately defeats him.
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Just as the company donated $1 million to the ACLU as Uber appeared to be trying to break a cab strike during the Muslim Ban fiasco, Lyft wants to position itself as the plucky underdog with a conscience.
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As a way of banging the message home, it could hardly have worked out any more perfectly for the plucky women — five British, three Australian, one American and one Dutch — who survived one of sport's most extreme challenges.
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The Netflix comedy took the frenetic blend of topical jokes, non sequiturs and inspired silliness Mr. Carlock and Ms. Fey developed for the showbiz satire "30 Rock" and transplanted it to the world of plucky New York strivers.
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"The Last Jedi" also adds a number of new characters, most of whom feel pretty disposable with the exception of Rose (Kelly Marie Tran), a plucky rebel whose vulnerability seems well calibrated to connect with the fan base.
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When plucky financial whiz Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick) discovers a multi-million-dollar error in her robotics company's books, her boss Lamar Blackburn (John Lithgow) hires Christian to find the missing money before he takes his company public.
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Using a battery of onboard sensors, this plucky little robotic mop will trundle all around your kitchen, completing overlapping passes that ensure complete coverage of the floor and deftly navigating around chair legs, tables, islands, and along walls.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Spain celebrated their second successive win at the basketball World Cup in China after a commanding performance from their Toronto Raptors center Marc Gasol gave them a 73-63 win over plucky Puerto Rico on Monday.
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Two early-gen models have already been seeded to a handful of developers, who have begun to create a wide range of different functions for the plucky little robot, including property inspection, environmental monitoring, eldercare and autism therapy.
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When you hear the word innovation, you might think of Silicon Valley: a place where inventors, engineers, and scientists — funded by deep-pocketed venture capitalists and led by plucky entrepreneurs — build new products and industries from thin air.
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I know that these puzzles can be hard to crack, but we are a plucky band and we will help one another wrestle hitherto-unknown word beasts to the ground, tame them and make them do our bidding.
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"A Duel Between Friends" declared France's Journal du Dimanche newspaper on Sunday, with a cartoon on the front page taken from the comic book "Asterix in Belgium", when the plucky Gauls encounter a rival tribe from across the border.
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Fans and critics considered Holland's joyous, plucky Spider-Man one of the best things about Civil War, and unless there's been an irrational change of heart behind the scenes at Marvel, Homecoming won't stray far from that winsome formula.
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Set 2,000 years ago in the South Pacific, the film follows the exploits of plucky teen Moana (voiced by Auli'i Cravalho), who tracks down fallen demigod Maui (Johnson) in order to go on a quest and save her people.
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The scandal-plagued ride-hail company announced Thursday a new program allowing parents to add teenagers to a "family profile," thus allowing plucky youngsters aged 13 to 17 the ability to hail a car all by their grownup selves.
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The question is can Slack continue to play David to these corporate behemoths or will patience, bushels of cash on hand and a long view allow these traditional tech companies to eventually catch up and pass the plucky newbie.
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Adventuring has never been more popular: Grylls, Cracknell, Fogle, Mears, and others curiously echo the plucky public-school Victorian heroes of G.A. Henty's "books for boys"—yet their popularity is largely from the comfort of the living-room sofa.
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Perhaps that's because the FX show set up a chess-like battle between the plucky humans and slavering Strigoi, while AMC's juggernaut has lurched about exploring man's inhumanity in a lawless world, turning its zombies into a shadowy afterthought.
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Our plucky patriot hadn't planned on braving the dark corridors of Berlin's techno mecca, but ended up talking to a pair of English tourists in a bar, who convinced him that Berghain was "the" nightlife spot worth knowing about.
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Diana and Steve are assisted in their mission by a quartet of misfit sidekicks: a Scottish sharpshooter (Ewen Bremner); a Native American scout (Eugene Brave Rock); a Middle Eastern fixer (Said Taghmaoui) and a plucky British suffragist (Lucy Davis).
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The scene served as a reminder that while the boisterous Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, plucky Team Israel and some scintillating games have garnered much of the attention, the Gutty Little Americans may yet have a voice in this tournament.
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We knew then that in spite of what the mighty Chinese government wanted—the elision of all things Dalai Lama and Tibetan— a short, plucky Italian American director from the Bronx gave them the finger and realized his vision.
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Barks is a pleasure to listen to, but the score sometimes transmits a lethargy that undermines her plucky get-go — and while Mitchell's choreography is fine, it can't quite elevate the music to deliver the exuberance of the story he's telling.
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Soon enough, plucky witch Tina (Katherine Waterston) takes him to the Magical Congress to answer for his lax attitude toward keeping magic under wraps, most notably by neglecting to wipe the memory of affable non-wizard baker Jacob (Dan Fogler).
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In the interim, movies like Akeelah and the Bee (2006) and Freedom Writers (2007) have carried on the legacy, but it's been a few years since we had a rousing film about a plucky group of students galvanized by their instructor.
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Captain Eden Hazard and fellow midfielder Kevin de Bruyne have proven capable of match-winning performances at club level, but failed to make any mark on the plucky Welsh, reduced to anonymity at times in the quarter-final in Lille.
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The word "Pop" in blue and white, 3-D font hovers atop a burst of red and seems only a centrally situated backdrop to the negative cloud-shaped relief that hosts the ironically plucky cursive "américa" overlaid in the foreground.
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The plucky little robot has flipper arms, a pair of wheels for feet and a body chock full of various sensors to help it perform a factotum of different jobs, from security guard to nursing home companion to educational assistant.
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Which means that the company's Echo and Dot smart speakers — which use Amazon Music as a default streaming service — don't yet offer profanity-free versions of the music that, say, a plucky 7-year-old might ask it to play.
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Political uncertainties around trade, high tech espionage risks and data privacy are translating into "opportunities" for the independent platform player — and helping to put wind in Jolla's sails long after the plucky Sailfish team quit their day jobs for startup life.
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But the plucky Finns kept paddling, jettisoning their early pursuit of consumer hardware (Pienimäki describes attempting to openly compete with Google in the consumer smartphone space as essentially "suicidal" at this point) to narrow their focus to a b218b licensing play.
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There are so many rule-following, annoyingly-perfect, bossy older sisters in classic children's literature, and — precisely because the reader is supposed to root against them in favor of the plucky, rule-breaking younger sister — I want to defend them all.
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The credit for that largely goes to composer Michael Giacchino's better-than-it-needs-to-be score—a freaky symphony of staccato woodwinds, plucky strings, and ominous thumping kettle drums—and Andy Serkis, who brings Caesar to life once again.
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In Mona Mansour's "The Way West", produced by the Labyrinth Theatre Company at the Bank Street Theatre, Deirdre O'Connell is magical as an ageing mother who spins yarns about plucky pioneers to distract herself from the problems of her own life.
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Collins rushed for 185 yards and three touchdowns on 23 carries while earning Most Valuable Player honors as the Razorbacks won the 103th Liberty Bowl, pulling away from plucky Kansas State in the fourth quarter for a 45-23 decision.
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If you balance the ledger of franchise suffering, of course, you might argue that the A's don't quite fit the role of the plucky underdogs of the AL West that many have embraced for them over the past couple of weeks.
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High-gloss movies like How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days, 13 Going on 30, and The Devil Wears Prada spotlighted the aspirations and inevitably salacious lives of stumbling writers who were plucky and determined and sometimes even ruthless.
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The plucky little robot is the result of a team of new hires from studios like Pixar and Dreamworks, effectively looking to build a real-life version of Wall-E, right down to composers tasked with writing his very own soundtrack.
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When the drama "Plenty" was first produced in New York at The Public Theater in 1982, its British playwright David Hare had been active for over a decade but was known, if at all, in America as a plucky newcomer.
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England's best player is a man named Harry Kane, and let's be honest, if you're reading a guide on how to get into the World Cup, you probably already have an affinity for plucky British heroes named Harry, you nerd.
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In the 16 years since it was published, "Coraline," a tale of a plucky girl who falls into a parallel universe and battles forces from the dark side, has developed a passionate fan base, selling more than a million copies.
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There was Kate Nash—the Brit School Grad (noted alum: Adele, King Krule) making plucky pop songs in the Myspace-era, sing-speaking about relationships in her Harrow accent, her outspokeness in music and song earning her comparisons to Lily Allen.
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Still the plucky protagonist familiar from "Nervous Conditions," she applies for job after job in Harare, all the while attempting to disguise her increasingly desperate poverty and conserve the soles of her Lady Di pumps, along with her dignity and optimism.
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And Williams began a courtship with Cambage to bring her back to the W.N.B.A. Her return this season transformed the Wings' roster from an overachieving, plucky playoff team in 24 into a squad that could contend for the title this year.
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Based on the 1908 novel "Anne of Green Gables," the television adaptation "Anne with an E" centers around plucky young Anne Shirley (Amybeth McNulty) and her adventures growing up on a farm on Prince Edward Island in the late 1800s.
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Fear-mongering covers of Time, Newsweek and other publications form the opening salvo of "Millennium: Lower Manhattan in the 43s," a portal to those days of decline and revival now on view at the plucky Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City.
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With the usual plucky let's-put-on-a-show attitude, he sets out to recruit the locals to revive the theater scene once again, only to find that things are a little more complicated than they initially seemed (read: slumbering Lovecraftian demon).
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"The UK as a nation still identifies itself on as the plucky defender that survived World War II ... against a continental Europe that had been brought under a Nazi yoke," Robin Niblett, director of Chatham House, said on CNN International on Tuesday.
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Still, a plucky Swiss startup has been working on a third way with their Wrio keyboard app — just launched on iOS and Android (as a paid download) after a successful crowdfunder last year, followed by a beta test with some 800 testers.
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But it's still unethical that Jervis woos Jerusha without disclosing his identity and at least a little disconcerting that this protofeminist tale ends with its plucky heroine rewarded with marriage to the man who has manipulated her for the past five years.
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Anyone who grew up reading or watching Anne of Green Gables will be happy to spend time with her guardian Marilla Cuthbert in Sarah McCoy's novel Marilla of Green Gables — a new perspective of the stoic character as a plucky young teen.
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A famous child star at age 4, Marie's made a mark on nearly every aspect of the entertainment industry, including Vaudeville, radio, film, Broadway, and television, whose fans best know her as plucky comedy writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show.
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The games aesthetic was clearly borrowed from Mario, and now that everyone's plucky plumber has finally officially come to mobile gaming, it's easy to see how Nintendo's one-handed, constantly moving side scroller might have take its own inspiration from the title.
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When the attack takes a lethal turn, Dameron must resort to even riskier acts of rebellion with help from Finn (John Boyega) and plucky newcomer Rose (Kelly Marie Tran), who embark on a mission to disable a major source of the Order's firepower.
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However, this might not be the end of the plucky space probe: its fuel reserves have yet to be exhausted, and in April, a research team from the University of California, Los Angeles proposed a new mission to an undisclosed third asteroid.
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Darting through Olivia and Antonio's star-crossed tale, the supporting players prove a plucky, engaging lot, adding to the story's energy and resonance — none more so than Antonio's obstinate sister, Filomena, who emerges from the book's shadows to become its moral compass.
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Time Traveling Bong — directed by Aniello — looks just like one of these coming-of-age movies, but instead of two plucky teens, the protagonists are two dirtbags who never had one of those Disney-esque epiphanies about their potential in their teens.
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Because, since smartphones turned into all-screen devices — making it almost impossible to tell one touch-sensitive slab from another — plucky Android device makers are trying to find a way to put more screen on the slab so you can see more.
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RT, as it is now known, acts as a gathering point for fringe voices ignored by what they call the "mainstream media" — as if a station funded by a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council somehow could be a plucky outlier.
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They include, by time line, a prophetic owl and the plucky daughter of a village elder (a prehistoric Arya Stark), a pack of Shiba Inus and an undead celebrity (a skeleton with sunglasses intact), and a meerkat-like race of futurist ranchers.
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It solidifies her position as a power player in the industry who can single-handedly set norms, and it simultaneously continues the narrative of Swift as a plucky underdog artist, fighting for her fellow musicians against the corporate greed of record labels.
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The frozen faces of Communist leaders got a breath of fresh air in Mr. Liu's photography: A Beijing resident in 2008 lined the facade of her house with the portraits of lionized figures, in plucky defiance of demolitions planned before the Summer Olympics.
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If you'd like to acquaint your children with a young heroine who is brave, high-spirited and definitely not a pampered princess, you can always rely on Anne Shirley, the plucky 11-year-old Canadian orphan in Lucy Maud Montgomery's series of novels.
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The screenwriter Melissa Mathison took the loose ideas Spielberg gave her about loneliness, fear, imagination and extraterrestrials and delivered an emotionally powerful story, starring Henry Thomas as a plucky kid who develops a bond with the weird monster he finds in his backyard.
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BUT EVEN AMID this backdrop of plucky inventiveness and rational reuse, this armature of sustainable skills, was there not only an impulse toward betterment but a small whiff of dystopia — a prep school prepping for a world that is increasingly out of whack?
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Grey Gardens as an idea — of the tenderness between monster mothers and thwarted daughters; of atmospheric decay and upper-class fetishism; of plucky élan and gorgeous optimism — has waxed and waned over the years, gaining or leaking fuel as the times decried.
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This week offers a matchup of teams thriving with backup quarterbacks, a Friends of Sean McVay Bowl, a chance for Green Bay or Dallas to rebound from last week's losses and a Sunday night showdown between the undefeated Chiefs and the plucky Colts.
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That message emerged forcefully in her most successful novel, "The Railway Children," about a family of plucky kids who undertake noble-hearted (if not always strictly legal, or safe) acts to help their mother and community after their father is unjustly imprisoned.
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The conduit for this coming together is Bashir Ahmed, a plucky Kashmiri clothing salesman who ingratiates himself with mother and daughter during Shalini's childhood, only to disappear from their life years later after a disastrous party her father throws in his honor.
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At this point, it may not surprise you to learn that Midge — a plucky brunette heroine with a penchant for talking especially fast — comes from the mind of Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls and some of TV's brassiest broads.
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The bootstrap narrative of a plucky poor person escaping poverty through hard work and perseverance has a lot of purchase in the US, and when Americans imagine someone "escaping poverty," it's usually through a story like that, not by getting a check.
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Farage is a plucky, downtrodden privately-educated former stockbroker, who bravely stood up against the elite; who, according to a former schoolteacher, used to sing Hitler-youth songs in school; and, who formed a pact with Holocaust-deniers in the European Parliament to get funding.
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That said, Their Finest is a lovely and stirring film, the kind of movie that reminds the audience that bravery comes in many forms — sometimes in ordinary people with rickety fishing boats, and sometimes in poor and plucky writers with a knack for writing screenplays.
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SpaceX may not be interested in actually designing and making a real Hyperloop — it's hard to tell how serious anyone is about the idea — but it is happy to promote plucky young engineers who'd like to try their hand at this interesting engineering problem.
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More Stereolab-ish is Imitation Electric Piano, Johns' band with British guitarist Andrew Blake, which at first explored cosmic, jazzy post-rock, only to evolve into a plucky avant-pop group on 2006's Blow It Up, Burn It Down, Kick It 'Till It Bleeds.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The sustained success of Andy Murray looked to have consigned the concept of the plucky British loser to the Wimbledon history books but Cameron Norrie rolled back the years on Monday as he could hardly have been happier after a first-day thrashing.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 83%Summary: "The Rainmaker" is a drama centered around a plucky law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon) who takes on a legal battle with an insurance company on behalf of a young woman (Claire Danes) whose son is battling cancer.
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But because Mir managed to lackadaisically extricate itself out of every scrape it got into like some spacefaring Bugs Bunny, it's now remembered as a plucky trailblazer that always beat the odds rather than the "death trap" some considered it to be at the time.
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Beijing is trying to rein in the unruly side of its corporate giants — plucky, privately run companies that burst onto the global scene just a few years ago, scooping up billions of dollars' worth of hotels, properties, companies and even high-profile soccer teams.
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In the summer of 1940, after her debacle at Vassar, Vivian moves to New York to live with her aunt, a predictably plucky lesbian who runs a down-at-the-heels theater troupe, and the Old New York signifiers come at us thick and fast.
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Did I want the plotline in which the woman who has survived her own hard life — abusive mother, abusive husband, enduring poverty — also emerges with a "likable" personality: a plucky spirit, a determined work ethic and a graceful, self-effacing relationship to her own suffering?
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The Home is an oasis plopped in the midst of the dusty Texas plains, and Kibler's account of its inhabitants, their doomed histories and the lifeboat into which they are all crammed is a rich saga of plucky women pulled back from the brink.
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" Ms. Moore's career never again reached the heights of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," but she stayed busy branching out into musicals and additional, short-lived series, and playing against plucky type in TV movies and films like "Ordinary People" and "Flirting With Disaster.
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It was only two months ago when the authorities in the state of Saxony failed to catch a dangerous suspect who was preparing bombs in his apartment and arrested him only after three plucky Syrians caught the man, who then committed suicide in custody.
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He grew up in Cardiff, the capital of Wales; went to a Welsh-speaking school; and still frets over every rugby game with England as if it were 1282 all over again and his plucky little nation was fighting subjugation by the English crown.
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It seems we are about to be plunged into a cultural mash-up of "The Thousand and One Nights" and any number of young adult novels with plucky female protagonists, but when Nahri walks through Cairo's spooky cemetery things take a speculative turn. Puff!
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We're supposed to support Trump's presidency not because he'd be a good president, but because our plucky all-American fireman hero thinks God told him Trump was meant to be president, and thus Trump's victory "proves" that God is at work in the world.
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As Gilda Wabbit, he channels the plucky gals who come to the big city to make it in showbiz: Nomi Malone in Showgirls, Violet Sanford in Coyote Ugly, Mariah's Billy Frank in Glitter, all wrapped up in an Ellen Green in Little Shop of Horrors aesthetic.
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Humans tend to have emotional relationships with the calendar, according to researcher John Sharp, MD; anyone who, for example, thinks about a loved one on the anniversary of her death or inevitably feels a plucky back-to-school pull come September knows this to be true.
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How you react to Sara is likely to mirror your feelings about Fisher, the celebrated author revered as the founder of gastronomic belles lettres, whose beauty, independence and bravery have inspired generations of plucky, introspective, preternaturally perceptive writers — or writers who wish to be all those things.
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The gloom hanging around the series was there for a reason; it was as if intended to diminish Sarah Jessica Parker's plucky brightness, a planned dourness that would, once and for all, mark a permanent split between the actress and her former HBO alter-ego, Carrie Bradshaw.
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Or maybe there was nothing there but love: here was a sensitive, agile songwriter who could rock out with the blunt force of Johnny Thunders—both a literate soul and a true punk, a humble collaborator and a plucky front man, a pussycat and a tomcat.
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The film is a treacly rom com about a plucky but unpopular teenage girl named Lara Jean Song Covey (Lana Condor) who, through a series of farcical happenings straight out of Molière, ends up in a fake relationship with the king of the cafeteria: Peter Kavinsky.
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By the time I arrived in Brussels, editors wanted only reports about faceless Eurocrats dictating the shape of the cucumbers that could be sold in Britain, or plots to impose a European superstate, or British prime ministers fighting plucky rear-guard actions against a hostile Continent.
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But they were mere jabs compared with the roundhouse punch Williams took in New York last September when — with the true Grand Slam in reach — she was stunned in the semifinals of the United States Open by Roberta Vinci, a plucky Italian veteran with a throwback game.
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The lovable and plucky Veronica (Kristen Bell) dove into detective work after the murder of her best friend; in an especially timely subplot, her pursuit of justice is also partly driven by her desire to find the man who drugged and raped her at a party.
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Nowitzki still has his moments as a shooter (and screener) in Year 20, and the plucky J. J. Barea has been more efficient than ever at age 33, but Smith has to get a lot more serious about defense to become the impact player Dallas envisions.
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One of this year's semifinalists, Ajax Amsterdam, a pedigreed team from a respected league, was considered a plucky underdog in the Champions League; in a competition increasingly dominated by rich clubs from big leagues, Ajax, by comparison, was neither very rich nor its league very big.
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The team, under his guidance, has engineered a perfect start to this tournament, first knocking off Germany, the defending champion, and on Saturday night dispatching a plucky South Korea team, one looking to salvage some worth from its own stay in Russia, by a 2-1 score.
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Elegiac, informative and disquieting, it artfully moves between Naomi's painstaking search, which triggers scattershot memories of her own disappearance, and the survival tactics of plucky Madison, who, in coping with her brutal captivity, has reimagined herself as "the snow girl," a character from a fairy tale.
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Originally a play at the Flea Theater, this production has blossomed into a three-part, nine-episode epic at the PIT that follows Kapow-i GoGo on a decade-long adventure from plucky teenage upstart to mature fighter who must take down the evil Ultra Corporation.
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To a certain extent, that's true — there's even a running subplot about a troubled woman who lives next door with a plucky kid Joe becomes protective of, a mirror image of season 1 — but as the twists pile up, the reflection comes across as intentional and effective.
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SAN FRANCISCO — During an early scene in John Adams's new opera, "Girls of the Golden West," the story's plucky heroine, based on a real woman known as Dame Shirley, describes some Native Americans she encountered en route to a California mining encampment during the Gold Rush.
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Somehow, it seems like we've always had the people of Westeros in our lives, and looking back at characters in season 1 of Game of Thrones, we can at least be certain that it's been a long, long time since we first met some of these plucky, young whippersnappers.
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If wealth divide is the political message of the day, and you have a book about a plucky young, attractive woman who is poor and she's fighting against a big corporation, I guarantee you there's not going to be any revelation that she's misguided, that the corporation is good.
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The latest LEGO Movie 2 trailer starts off so bleak as Wyldstyle waxes broodingly over a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic landscape, only to be interrupted by the ever-plucky Emmet, which opens the door for the rest of the exceedingly delightful LEGO Movie vibe to wash over everything.
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Over the past couple of days, the internet has been captivated by a truly remarkable story: A plucky 15-year-old Quebec kid, using only his imagination, star charts, and some fancy satellite imagery, had found a lost Mayan city somewhere deep below the canopy of the Belize jungle.
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Plucky and precocious, young Diana learns the ways of the Amazons—muscular, humorless women in leather gladiator/cheerleader skirts, brass headbands, and eyebrows plucked into angles of gravitas, who spend their days practicing archery, swordplay, equestrian stunt-riding, and leggy, tanned-glute-revealing, anti-gravity Caipoera air-spins.
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And there are stories about women who manage to break the rules and do traditionally masculine things, but do so in such a plucky and appealing and attractive way that they get to be held up as special exceptions to the rules the rest of us must follow.
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It involved some serious help from Hoyer, including a turnover on downs in the final minute where a fourth-down attempt was thrown well short of first-down distance, but the Dolphins looked positive plucky and have the best record in the A.F.C. East over the last two weeks.
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After chowing down on what I assume is the plucky entrepreneur's traditional breakfast of a Burger King sausage and egg croissant sandwich, I arrived at the Metro Convention Center at 10 AM, a slightly hungover and greasy vessel ready to be filled with the ancient wisdom of the markets.
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The daily schedule is posted on a blackboard by the open-air dining room: two-a-day surfs; lectures about surfboard mechanics, wave forecasting, etiquette and duck-diving; stretching classes by Andreina Poletti, an impossibly fit and plucky sports conditioning coach from the capital city of San José.
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A person of limited self-awareness — she seemed to think readers would find her right-wing exploits plucky and cute — Baron became Reed's communications director because she saw it as a steppingstone to her dream job, White House press secretary, a position she envisioned in mostly sartorial terms.
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Part of what changed was a funeral director in Los Angeles named Caitlin Doughty, who dressed like a lost member of the Addams Family and posted a series of plucky YouTube videos called "Ask a Mortician" that spoke frankly about corpses and decomposition and routinely topped 20113,000 views.
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JAMES R. OESTREICH AT 27 SECONDS The reconstituted New York City Opera just opened its second full season with a production of Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West," an undervalued masterpiece about a plucky young woman whose saloon becomes a substitute home for lonely miners during the California Gold Rush.
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After showing up at the San Francisco home of her only remaining relative — Rosalie Mackintosh, a tough-as-nails madam (Jennifer Van Dyck) — she befriends the help: Mickey, a gay piano player (Kendal Sparks); Emmy Lou, a plucky prostitute (Nancy Anderson); and Louis, an upstanding bookkeeper (Christopher Borg).
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Using this baffling, audacious, associative method also for the plucky painting "Hester Leisler (statue 1)" (2017), Williams (again) utilizes unintended fluid-spill marks (this time painted a perky urine yellow) that he discovered investigating Hester Leisler's personal historical setting (a history that remained opaque to my investigative probe).
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Yet they're still worth checking out, if only to witness each singer's evolving sense of self: Perry seems to waver over whether she's an empowered, independent woman or a plucky underdog, while Swift is stepping into the role of a put-upon victim who can't take it anymore.
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It's stocked with all that a Christmas romance might require: plucky orphans on whom one can demonstrate one's purity of heart, charming cobblestone squares in which to have a good-natured snowball fight, and snow-capped mountains through which one might take a horseback ride fraught with sexual tension.
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The power of plucky erotic fantasies and sexual innuendos, Fernandez's leitmotif, often supersedes respectful social significance, so one aspect of Fernandez's inventive art is forever going to be libertine, even when tempered by our understanding that the dominance of the straight western male posture is no longer unquestioned in art.
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Published last week, the book encourages would-be memoirists of both sexes to fearlessly confess their darkest secrets and deepest flaws, offering prompts on how to do so, while weaving in writing from her own students and her own plucky observations ("Jesus and I have had quite a stormy relationship").
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Critic score: 98%Synopsis: Plucky 11-year-old Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is led by the five emotions living in her head — Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), and Disgust (Mindy Kaling) — as they try to help her navigate moving to a new house and school.
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The Waco Tribune was worst of all, all but trying to sell the Disney-style movie rights to a plucky, inspirational season: After enduring one of the most difficult seasons imaginable, Baylor could have easily mailed it in for the Cactus Bowl and ended the season with its seventh straight loss.
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The video and song both bounce back and forth between the idea that Perry is a fierce and empowered woman who doesn't need anyone so fuck you, sheep, and the idea that she's a hapless-but-plucky underdog who maybe doesn't always succeed but who sure does try her best anyway.
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Published last week, the book encourages would-be memoirists of both sexes to fearlessly confess their darkest secrets and deepest flaws, offering prompts on how to do so, while weaving in writing from her own students and her own plucky observations ("Jesus and I have had quite a stormy relationship").
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The British author M.R. Carey's captivating and often comical dystopian 2014 novel, "The Girl With All the Gifts," depicts a future in which the Cordyceps has infected most of humanity, leaving a handful of plucky but flawed characters to fight their way through a landscape peopled (fungaled?) with flesh-eating zombies called hungries.
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The signs that something supernatural is afoot again in Hawkins emerge slowly: magnets lose power, rats act strangely, unexplained blackouts occur, and extremely plucky nerd Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) intercepts a coded message with the high-power radio he created to communicate with a science camp girlfriend who may or may not exist.
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Box has always been known as the irritant in the content management industry, that plucky cloud upstart ready to take on the staid and conservative on-prem competition, but after more than a decade in the business, a public company for 18 months, perhaps the company felt it was time to disrupt itself.
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Last night, the Warriors looked tired when they gave up a 17-point lead in the second half to lose to the Minnesota Timberwolves, a plucky group of youngsters who seem poised to be the next Oklahoma City Thunder (they'll probably end up, as they always do, as the next Minnesota Timberwolves).
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The idea of plucky little Schiaparelli gearing up to message its creators that it had pulled off its landing while, in actual fact, it was about to smash into the surface, explode, and leave a 49-by-131 foot burnt hole as a gravesite, is an especially excruciating new chapter of that saga.
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Which is no problem: Castle Hangnail's stranger characters, like the minotaur cook who hates the letter Q and the good-humored bat queen, would probably be better handled in CGI, but the 12-year-old protagonist is the kind of plucky, good-hearted Disney heroine who'll work just as well in either medium.
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Few will cry to see him go (though Giannis appears to be one, which isn't a great look for Bucks management), and an even smaller segment of NBA observers had enough confidence in Kidd to believe he was right to lead Milwaukee's young core towards anything more than a plucky playoff appearance.
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There are television news reports about 12 vast obelisks floating silently over different countries around the globe, but rather than showing us the reports, "Arrival" shows us the face of a linguistics professor, Dr Louise Banks (a typically plucky yet vulnerable Amy Adams) as she watches these reports in her university lecture theatre.
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With the compact, plucky LifeTek FX1 Windproof Travel Umbrella, you can bring along your personal rain shelter everywhere you go, even when rain is only a slight possibility, because at just 11.5 inches when collapsed and 15 ounces in weight, this umbrella will tuck into just about any backpack, handbag, or briefcase.
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Amore Opera (through Sunday) This plucky opera company, heir to the now defunct Amato Opera, unveils a "Downtown Donizetti Festival" that includes fully staged performances of the composer's best-loved romantic comedy, "L'elisir d'amore" ("Elixir of Love"), as well as the long-neglected historical drama "Poliuto" about a third-century Christian martyr.
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First with her debut EP—In Defense Of My Muse (out on Cascine) and in recent months dropping the likes of "If Only Chords"—a hypnotic, slow-dive kind of R&B-pop, and "Plucky" which, just like its title suggests, picks up the sass with finger clicks and her sleek vocal syncopation.
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But the commercial anxieties of the industry—along with an almost plucky, can-do globalism that has a Belgian designer, Raf Simons, holding New York breathless and a wave of Eastern European youngsters jolting Paris with new vitality—mean designers are eager to experiment with the runway show format and production schedules.
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Pullman has written 35 books, mostly for children and young adults, but Lyra stands foremost among his protagonists, a plucky scamp of mysterious origins who lives among Oxford academics and is accompanied through life, like almost everyone in the universe of "His Dark Materials," by her dæmon, a shape-shifting animal self.
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What Apollo Kagwa goes through in "The Changeling" is, deliberately, a version of the scary adventures that a plucky little girl named Ida has for herself in Maurice Sendak's great 1981 picture book "Outside Over There," a copy of which the hero finds in a mysterious box left by his absent father.
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Olsen is discussed when Snyder reveals that a character who appears for all of a few minutes in Batman v Superman — before being identified as a CIA plant and shot in the head — is meant to be the DC cinematic universe's version of the plucky photographer who's Superman's best pal in the classic comics.
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Destroying a fairytale in a manner we only thought possible of Tim Burton, Welbz got his hi-top fade on the end of a Mesut Özil freekick and put plucky little Arsenal ahead in injury time, having been behind against big bad Leicester City until Danny Simpson's sending off on 54 minutes turned the game.
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Despite not always plain sailing, the Rosetta mission has already provided a wealth of observations for cometary scientists to work with in an attempt to understand more about how our Solar System was formed, and we can expect to see the plucky orbiter's legacy sealed in science papers to come over the next years.
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I keep following these health instructions and getting nowhere.) If I had to gain some weight, I'd have some mango tango smoothies though, boy would I. I always thought ODWALLA was a plucky little eco-company, and they certainly present themselves that way (and apparently have planted 730,73 trees since 2007, that's pretty great).
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A new name may have been added to the list of plucky but noncompetitive winter sportsmen — a ledger that includes Eddie the Eagle (Michael Edwards) and the 1988 Jamaican Olympic bobsled team — after Adrian Solano wobbled his way onto and then around the course this week at the Nordic world ski championships in Lahti, Finland.
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The book is dedicated "to the Parkland generation: you know what to do," and the implication is that if there is no plucky, ambitious, and frighteningly capable teenage girl within the book who can stand against Trump — well, then it will be up to one of the kids reading the book to play that part.
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The singers look charming and sing wonderfully: the soprano Ailyn Pérez, in plush voice as Alice; the rich-toned mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, a knowing Meg Page; the impressive contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, a plucky Mistress Quickly; and the exquisite soprano Golda Schultz, endearing as Nannetta, Alice's daughter, who pines for young Fenton.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 64%Synopsis: In the animated movie "Robots," ambitious robot Rodney Copperbottom (voiced by Ewan McGregor) travels to Robot City to live out his dream of becoming an inventor, but first he must face off with a corporate tyrant Phineas T. Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) with the help of plucky executive Cappy (Berry).
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Ranging from plucky, doo-woppy, anti-love ballads ("Rather Not") to synth-heavy post-punk ("Time Is Up") to the fervent, battle-ready rock of "I Decide," Hit Reset boasts a smorgasbord of sonic textures that makes you want to riot one second and dance the next, all the while glimpsing, unflinchingly, into Hanna's vulnerabilities.
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Oliver Stone's shaky-cam, characters-talking-over-each-other sports fable was a little too dissonant and disjointed in 1999, when we still wanted sports tales to have us at hello, but time has only seasoned this cynical story of a struggling football franchise and the plucky new (blond) co-owner who's determined to turn it around.
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As once-plucky start-ups like WeWork grow — the company's work force has swelled to 1,500 from 300 a year ago — they are taking a page from the playbook of big corporations, which are increasingly using arbitration to thwart employees from bringing any meaningful legal challenge in court, an investigation by The New York Times found last fall.
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And though Trump announced on Twitter that he felt "vindicated" after Comey's testimony, the president—of all people—should know by now: A single tweet won't stop the trolling, let alone by plucky ad creatives looking to make a new dent in their market, as other companies manage to fall flat on their faces attempting to take a stand.
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White, an environmentalist and science writer, provides a guided tour of the plucky subculture of Maine lobstermen, embedding with three Stonington-based lobster captains: Frank Gotwals, his stepson Jason McDonald and Julie Eaton, one of the still-rare female skippers, as they tend their traps, hang out at home, attend local events and otherwise go about their days.
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The surface of that story plays as a plucky attempt to lighten a heavy load: Black is a child of divorce who is thrown for a loop by her father's early death from cancer, endures a series of mysterious illnesses in adulthood, and eventually loses her house, all of her possessions and her live-in boyfriend.
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A decade in which Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich won the Champions League in every year but two, when every major domestic league apart from England's became a procession to the title, and when Ajax, a club with a history to rival any other, could reach the final four of Europe's most prestigious competition as a "plucky" outsider.
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Only two months ago his establishment, the Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville in Crissier, near Lausanne, was designated the best restaurant in the world in La Liste, rankings commissioned by the French Foreign Ministry — an honor that only added luster to the glory of French chefs (he was born in France) in the face of competition from plucky foreign rivals.
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Opera (Android) and Opera Mini (Android, iOS)Opera app size: 71.0MB (Android), n/a (iOS)Opera Mini app size: 21.3MB (Android), 40.6MB (iOS)Opera is the plucky, innovative underdog for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and just about every other platform out there, though for now it seems its engineering resources are focused on Android rather than iOS as far as mobile goes.
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But the 2014 web series, penned by Canadian writer Jordan Hall, placed a considerably gentler Carmilla, now about 330 years old, in a modern-day dorm room on a highly unusual college campus, where supernatural occurrences were the norm and no one blinked an eye when female students randomly went missing — no one, that is, except Carmilla's plucky roommate Laura.
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At 2:54 of the second overtime, Pageau, who scored just 12 goals in the regular season, rifled a shot past Lundqvist's glove side for his fourth goal of the game, sending the boisterous crowd at Canadian Tire Centre into a frenzy and giving the plucky Senators a 21-250 victory on Saturday and the first two games of their series.
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In the midafternoon, when Fred was at his most alert, I would sit and watch him: his asplike face, his determined, plucky trudge, which made his head bounce a little with every step, his piggy nostrils, each the size and shape of a watermelon seed, the faint, coin-size indentations on the side of his head where his ears lay.
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In a luminous performance, Agyness Deyn plays the novel's heroine, a plucky farm girl whose life is a series of losses, beginning with her mother's suicide and continuing with her husband's death in World War I. Proceeding at a stately pace, the film's pastoral tone is interrupted by violent shocks that are all the more brutal for taking place in such an idyllic setting. (filmlinc.org.)
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"We have to find a youth to mold and that person will be the life I touch," she says, which introduces a plucky youngster who becomes Harriet's de facto sidekick and her "intern" at a local radio station where Harriet becomes a DJ. The film also stars Seyfried's fiancé, Thomas Sadoski, whom we get brief glimpses of in the trailer as Harriet's boss at the radio station.
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Fidgeting in a stiff wooden auditorium seat while plucky 10-year-olds sing "Over the Rainbow" off-key might not seem like crashing, but it—along with the several other free events I attended unannounced—was one of the best ways to feel alive in a New York and a world where we increasingly confine ourselves to the same bars, same neighborhoods, and same bubbles.
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On Tuesday, the day after the exciting first game of the Stanley Cup finals — a 6-4 victory for the plucky Las Vegas Golden Knights over the veteran Washington Capitals, led by the Russian star Alex Ovechkin — the news came from Ukraine that a Russian journalist who had fled Moscow last year after receiving death threats had been shot in the back and killed while returning home with groceries.
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Just ask Angela Bassett, who turned down the role in "Monster's Ball" that won Halle Berry her best-actress statuette; or Julia Roberts, who spurned the plucky character in "The Blind Side" that cemented Sandra Bullock's place on the A-list; or John Travolta, who has admitted that it was a bad idea to turn up his nose at the lead in "Forrest Gump," which won Tom Hanks his second Oscar.
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The prequel series — which sees J.K. Rowling adapting her own slight Harry Potter spinoff book, with direction from David Yates, who helmed the final three Harry Potter films — began with last year's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a lackluster backstory centered on Eddie Redmayne's Newt Scamander, a plucky hero who gets entangled in larger political forces when he comes to America to repatriate one of the titular magical creatures.
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And with the series' original young lovers Will (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) sidelined — by an immortal curse, no less — come two dewy new substitutes: Henry (The Giver star Brenton Thwaites) as the really ridiculously good-looking fruit of Will and Elizabeth's union, and Carina (Kaya Scodelario of the Maze Runner films), as the kind of plucky, headstrong proto-feminist whose proud familiarity with geometry and astronomy promptly gets her labeled as a witch.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is seizing on a bombshell report about his massive business losses to cast himself as a plucky underdog and a comeback artist whose business savvy saved him from the poorhouse and has him on the cusp of becoming president.
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If you'd asked me then for odds on all three events, this is what I'd have given: Glastonbury odds-on to be a huge success, with thousands of muddy music lovers collectively achieving orgasm as Adele hit the high notes; the Brexiters against the odds to win the referendum and plunge Britain into political turmoil and possible economic meltdown; and England to lose against the plucky horn-heads from the land of the midnight sun.
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And it has taken in many encouraging stories and trends along the way: Britain's world-beating universities; its chilled-out knack for integrating newcomers; its temperamental economic openness (Brexit honouring this rule in the breach); its noble role (despite short-sighted and damaging cuts) as a supplier of international security; its relatively creative and dynamic mass media; its often plucky and defiant pro-Europeans; its overwhelmingly decent, public-spirited and uncrooked politicians; its halting progress towards a more modern politics and a post-imperial identityandeconomy.
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The very form of her work, while consistently inventive within its traditional frame, trades on a kind of nostalgia, and that nostalgia often correlates with the novels' content; it seems no coincidence that Cusk's recent " Kudos " is set explicitly in the Europe of the Brexit era—fearful, ugly, divided—while Atkinson's books often hark back to the days of the Second World War and the Blitz, when plucky England came together as one, and triumphed in a European conflict that ended six years before Atkinson was born.
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Unabashedly novelistic, Café Society tells the story of a young Jewish man's professional successes and romantic disappointments in both Los Angeles and New York during the years just before World War II. Allen's career-long concerns—the existential and romantic quandaries of Jews in a Goyish world and the plucky travails of strivers who learn to be careful what they wish for—find an elegant recapitulation in the director's first digital feature, with Jesse Eisenberg perfectly rendering the neurotic, self-effacing cadences of Allen's trademark style of speech in the film's lead role.
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We soon grasp that Independence Day: Resurgence is set not in the recognizable present, but in a world where the events of the first movie lead to a technological renaissance in which we established moon bases, spaceships, and laser guns improvised from the invaders' leavings, resulting in an extended 90s wherein we prospered instead of crashing, unified rather than dissected, and where, in fine Emmerichian tradition, the rest of the world is treated as a collection of less-fortunate Americas (witness DeObia Oparei as a plucky African warlord in a beret who fights the aliens with twin machetes).
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