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"steely" Definitions
  1. (of a person’s character or behaviour) strong, hard and unfriendly
  2. like steel in colour
"steely" Antonyms
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882 Sentences With "steely"

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He made a record with Steely Dan at some point, in the vein of Steely Dan almost.
"The Becker defendants will continue to misappropriate Steely Dan's website and otherwise inappropriately use the Steely Dan name," the lawsuit reads.
I saw there's a Steely Dan reference in the first episode and then you end with Steely Dan in the credits.
Ms. So was thinking about a bit of Steely Dan.
But Faces Places turns out to have a steely spine.
Vikander has a steely resolve and quiet calculation that has
But those in the inner circle claim to be steely.
Clinton countered with steely confidence and her own sharp elbows.
Ms. Kaplan has hung warm flesh on its steely bones.
With a trademark steely stare, the native of Belvidere, Ill.
As they walked the floor, the waitresses' expressions were steely.
" Doing that task requires a steely disposition he called "Tamitude.
They're wavy Ed Koren characters in a steely "Matrix" universe.
The steely congresswoman was nowhere to be found this week.
The sky outside her window was a flat, steely gray.
Fagen launched Steely Dan in 1972 with guitarist Walter Becker.
The steely dominatrix and the "old horn dog" (his words).
Steely Dan trumps Eminem and Radiohead Steely Dan winning Album of the Year would have made a lot more sense if it was for 1977's Aja instead of 2000's Two Against Nature.
Steely Dan was always a studio band: Mr. Becker and Mr. Fagen signed to ABC as songwriters, part of the producer Gary Katz's team, then assembled a handful of musicians to record as Steely Dan.
There's nothing triumphant about it—just steely, matter of fact silence.
These types of resolutions would seem to require a steely pragmatism.
She touches her belly, a steely look coming over her face.
The place is a hub of activity, but of steely calm.
She has her exact change out and her face is steely.
Everything about her presence is steely and lean, ready to run.
I've already talked to five or six people about Steely Dan.
As they warmed up, their smiles were replaced by steely determination.
JM: Oh, Hello is timeless because the music is Steely Dan.
The steely and sexy Roadhouse performance from "The Nine Inch Nails"?
For a time, the Brazilian public viewed her steely resolve positively.
Her image on those shows was steely, impenetrable and brutally harsh.
The only roadblock is a lack of steely blue political will.
Virginia Madsen plays the steely matriarch with the especially nice house.
Reelin in the Years: The Music of Steely Dan, rock tribute.
The Economist would have preferred Margrethe Vestager, a steely liberal Dane.
The Norris Brothers Band, performing music by Steely Dan and others.
Sansa, steely underneath her calm demeanor, doesn't give him an inch.
Brenda Blethyn stars as Vera Stanhope, a steely investigator in Northumberland.
But, Mr. Arcos said, Mr. Suazo Córdova had a steely core.
Ms. Graham delivered the phrases with sneering contempt and steely tone.
The elites have reacted with either steely reserve or fiery anger.
PEG, STEELY DAN WM: I didn't understand race as a kid.
It is fun to play someone sort of steely and ambitious.
Her Odette was lyrical and sorrowful; her Odile steely and sexy.
It requires a high tolerance for awkwardness and a steely nerve.
The women of 'Bombshell' are as steely as they are gorgeous.
Sonically, it recalls Fagen's latter-day work in Steely Dan (think Aja and Gaucho); the arrangements are a chrome cocktail of pristine jazz rock (Walter Becker, the other half of the Steely Dan brain trust, produced).
I've seen Steely Dan for 12 years and no one ever stands.
I'm curious to see if his steely composure crumples, or remains steady.
Takeshi Kovacs, our steely-jawed protagonist, is supposedly the last of them.
How could they be better than Aerosmith, Steely Dan, or ZZ Top?
Not afraid to step up the plate with your steely-eyed gaze?
Becker co-founded Steely Dan in 1972 alongside lead singer Donald Fagen.
Her gaze is steely: as proud and firm as it is guarded.
HUDSON Reelin' in the Years: The Music of Steely Dan, rock tribute.
And in 1993, Steely Dan decisively re-emerged as a touring band.
BLUE ROAN horses really do look steely blue, especially at a distance.
Ethereal, quiet, and steely, Solange Knowles's "Don't Touch My Hair" has soul.
The man in the suit fixed the driver with a steely gaze.
As Goldin spoke about P.A.I.N., she suddenly changed, grew steely and distant.
In this setting, her loose, silly charisma sharpened into a steely deadpan.
Her voice suddenly turns gray and hazy, without losing its steely core.
All are styled in steely gray with the designer's trademark tricolor stripes.
Then came that patented Summitt look: the steely eyes, the hard stare.
She was remembered both for her steely drive with a fun-loving spirit.
The 2001 Grammys were good for Steely Dan and weird for everyone else.
Did you see Dickon Tarly's (Tom Hopper) square jawline and steely blue eyes?
Let's glide over to the Thursday puzzle with some Steely Dan: Your thoughts?
Her steely, unglamorous image (a confessed penchant for skirts notwithstanding) inspires young women.
And if you're interested in another mashup, why not check out Steely Danzig?
For once, your struggles couldn't be solved with force and steely Scorpio resolve.
The people I met had steely logic and an iron grip on reality.
Jeffrey Allen "Skunk" Baxter — Guitarist for Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, and Spirit
Steely Dan used it on the cover of the album Two Against Nature.
They were older — in their 50s or so — and very steely and strong.
Both imposing and anatomically rubbery, she regards the viewer with a steely expression.
Your dad who loves Steely Dan because of their technical prowess is down.
His flamboyant conk is now steely gray, slicked back over his thinning crown.
On race days, she adopted a steely resolve that complemented her inherent aggressiveness.
During bursts of anguish and defiance her voice sometimes sounded steely and insecure.
I especially like the bottom stack with CHAIN EMAIL/TEXT ALERTS/STEELY GAZE.
PBS doesn't have to get this to Steely Dan-level fidelity (and as someone who detests Steely Dan I hope that doesn't happen), but there are a lot of ways to fix mic popping: mic placement, (unattractive) windscreens, foam socks.
Walter Becker, the co-founder of crossover jazz-rock legends Steely Dan, died Sunday.
Those women who are called sweet can be and often are steely and strong.
Hans's steely boss, a woman, aligns with conservative male opinion regarding the upcoming vote.
Moreover, he is universally considered decent and able, pragmatic and principled, affable but steely.
Mr. Simkin comes off worst: All the noodling crumples his less-than-steely bearing.
Ms Jones brings a steely determination to her character that is compelling to watch.
A lawyer for Mr. Fagen declined to comment, as did representatives for Steely Dan.
Fillon's allies point to the steely far-right leader's refusal to attend judges' hearings.
According to police, the Steely Dan rocker, 67, was arrested around 5:30 p.m.
Robots do not do it: The machines are steely and very uninterested in reproduction.
The baritone Avery Griffin sang Schumann and "Fire in the Hole" by Steely Dan.
But here, Ms. King assumes a steely serenity that feels new even for her.
As her steely, dutiful gaze breaks and tears roll down her eyes, Whose Streets?
The Kings have remained remarkably stoic, but the funeral did test that steely resolve.
The inimitable Viola Davis's suffering and steely determination seem obviously destined for awards conversations.
"Yeah, I'm here for the book party," I said to a steely-faced doorman.
He would have seen the gunman, his steely gaze familiar, barge in mid-sermon.
WM: They weren't an MTV act either, but my dad had Steely Dan records.
There is something jazz-like in the syncopated music of something like Steely Dan.
She may be soft-spoken in public, but she is also steely and determined.
But how hard she worked at that one thing, and with what steely ministration!
Ms. Braid, when in despair, allowed her gleaming sound to turn acidic and steely.
Tit-tat, clickety-clack, this way and that, his fingers go—steely, precise, menacing.
This is not an issue of steely-eyed resolve but of raw cost-benefit.
Oriol's lens suggests there's more to the man than what his steely visage implies.
He is 31, with a steely personality, a short scruffy beard and metal piercings.
By contrast, Mr. Xi, the son of a Communist veteran, is disciplined and steely.
Despite her usually steely demeanor, the first lady is friendly and down to earth.
They could assert the department is run with a steely hand on the tiller.
Its steely, 600-foot spine swoops into an infinite loop, with no clear end point.
Quintessential Timber Timbre elements are still present, though, like Kirk's crooning voice and steely accompaniment.
If you're planning to negotiate with this cat, you'd better work on your steely face.
There is a steely rationality in the willingness to combine extreme force with potential suicide.
Ronan also won my heart, but I think she'll fend off Cate Blanchett's steely gaze.
Those eyes, equal parts soft and steely, were the eyes of someone the aunties recognized.
Walter Becker, the co-founder and guitarist for Steely Dan, had died, TMZ has confirmed.
It registers low, wrapping around your eardrum like silk, but with a steely, anchoring note.
Mr Woods, meanwhile, displayed the steely resolve that made him an icon a decade ago.
"That was just the most beautiful thing I ever heard," she told me, steely-eyed.
Here's a look at the family background and career that helped form Yates' steely resolve.
Schwimmer's old Goldman headshot shows a man with a steely gaze and a straight mouth.
In its 1970s hitmaking heyday, Steely Dan rarely toured, preferring to work in the studio.
" When Forrest Gump meets his steely commanding officer, Lieutenant Dan, he does it to "Respect.
He can channel a character's wild desperation, ardor or impetuousness with steely yet easygoing assurance.
For those who would defend them, steely self-criticism may be more effective than outrage.■
It is steely and bone dry, with aromas and flavors of apples, herbs and minerals.
Echoing some of the steely language of Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, Mrs.
All of these touches make "Hermia & Helena" a peculiar film, one both steely and delicate.
But a little lower down, her tone is vibrant and articulate, with a steely core.
Or it could have been the steely look in the eyes of Lake County, Fla.
When Comey said that he could not give such a guarantee, Gowdy went steely cold.
I responded to the game's escalating challenges, especially the absurd bosses, with a steely glare.
In most roles, Ms. Nixon has a steely quality; Ms. Linney's affect is more yielding.
In Sorkin's conception of the character, he was steely but kind, gruff but fundamentally loving.
The formula of deceptively sophisticated funk and sardonic philosophizing would become Steely Dan's calling card.
Demure and ladylike in appearance, she was a steely iconoclast in print and in life.
It'll make you feel happy, like when you're listening to some prime cut Steely Dan.
It's hard to imagine anyone other than steely eyed, brooding Kit Harington as Jon Snow.
This time, there's no horror in Holden's face — just steely resolve to break a violent killer.
One minute, Dotty's eyes are clear, and her mind is as steely sharp as her tongue.
She is unassuming and soft-spoken, but there's a steely magnetism under the "kind auntie" exterior.
Becker, who played lead guitar, formed Steely Dan with Donald Fagen, its keyboardist and lead vocalist.
The women's maternal instincts are helped by the fact that they are steely and quick-witted.
But everyone says it was Jean's steely resolve that kept her children on a good path.
But beneath her gentle tone, he added, was a steely confidence in the North Vietnamese cause.
The music twists and whirls into a loud, slamming breakdown of steely drums and political samples.
"Promise me," she repeated, her eyes now steely as she leaned forward, waiting for my response.
Ms. Leonard's steely way of announcing that potential uplift, however, added an additional bit of edge.
The Romanian film Collective, from director Alexander Nanau, offers a steely case study in observational rigor.
The bass-baritone Christian Van Horn was decorous and steely as Publio, the guardian of protocol.
She liked to affect a steely, imperious persona, but she was deeply insecure and easily wounded.
With his steely resolve down the stretch, Thomas was reminiscent of Woods at the same age.
It's a steely positivity Bruder finds alarming and deeply American, and one that she encounters repeatedly.
Antonio, with all his steely plotting, is the one to go home during the next elimination.
We learn their names, and see evidence of tenderness and folly as well as steely heartlessness.
At the end of their last changeover, Zverev's face changed from boyish and playful to steely.
"Let them brush your rock 'n' roll hair," he sings in this steely song about insouciance.
I was eager to hear about her moment of doubt, since she always seemed so steely.
Second is the establishment and management of risk, where steely nerves and occasional disasters determine lifestyle.
But I insisted Walter Becker had just died, and we're putting in a Steely Dan song.
Blocboy's bellowed chatter is almost conservative by comparison: the comforting return of the steely authorial hand.
The Eagles' career was on an upward spiral, as was Fleetwood Mac, another client, and Steely Dan.
The steely attitude displayed here helped birth the hashtag "Boston Strong" in the wake of the bombings.
Like blue-eyed soul, Steely Dan, shoegaze, synth-pop, New Order, the Smiths, it's all in there.
But Hviid is steely eyed when it comes to the ambitious direction he wants to take Bragi.
During some passages, he went for steely tone and uninhibited power, especially bursts of arm-blurring octaves.
The doe-eyed college boy is starting to walk and act more like a steely eyed man.
"I've seen Steely Dan for 12 years and no one ever stands," Mulaney captioned the short video.
After the meeting a steely Mrs May said the days of ministerial dissent on Brexit were over.
He excelled at revealing the dark, broken parts concealed by the steely exteriors of the cowboy archetype.
Yes — but we'll have to wait a few weeks for our first sighting of her steely face.
They're used to solving their problems with brute force, clever tactics, and steely determination, not with rhetoric.
Steely Dan's Donald Fagen was arrested Monday evening after allegedly assaulting his wife inside their NYC home.
The steely eyed officer was in fact out at the Rocky Horror Show with Joyce from reception.
Neva stood like a sculpture, rigorous, pure, steely, confident, yet also fragile, full of secrets, slightly surreal.
Ernst is often seen gazing in the distance, steely and remote, his face sprouting new facial hair.
Claim to fame: Baxter was a founding member of Steely Dan and later joined the Doobie Brothers.
Around this point a piano soloist (here Tomoko Mukaiyama) enters, playing fitful strands of steely high chords.
"Do It Again" from Steely Dan's 21993 debut album, "Can't Buy a Thrill," reached the Top 22000.
"Aja" became Steely Dan's first certified million-seller in the United States and its best-selling album.
At the next tournament in Miami, she demonstrated a steely nerve by beating her idol, Serena Williams.
She's a heroine whose girlish appearance and penchant for gummy sharks can't quite mask her steely resolve.
Coe's rhetoric is steely, and he has accomplished some good since becoming chief of the international federation.
Amy McGrath knows the image Mitch McConnell has: the steely, cold-but-effective master of the Senate.
Each race features up to eight teams consisting of a rider, three steely handlers and three horses.
For several years, on "American Horror Story," Murphy has reimagined Jessica Lange's doelike vulnerability as steely theatre.
Born and raised in North Carolina, Lynch still projects the steely gentility that Norling identified decades earlier.
Never mind that it was a terrific speech delivered by a steely woman speaking her fifth language.
Then, from among the steely faces, a young man stood up and announced that he would invest.
Opinion: The ugly truths 'Bombshell' exposes The women of 'Bombshell' are as steely as they are gorgeous.
Before there was Steely Dan, there were the giddy rec-room experiments of two Bard College undergraduates.
Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group, urged city officials to reconsider.
She tells them they have to have steely determination and work three times harder than they did before.
Though the issue split the ruling conservatives, her steely persuasion rallied centrists and left-wingers behind the bill.
Perhaps punters are pricing in that steely resolve, in the knowledge that statisticians will struggle to measure it.
Rivera was a linebacker, and today he remains a large, imposing man with an aura of steely authority.
She's still rotting in jail with her signature steely exterior, "losing it," technically, but only the cinderblocks know.
But your rare combination of political skill, personal probity, and steely ambition are a tough act to follow.
A reader expecting the steely workings of a brash executive mind will be surprised by Brown's inner life.
Here, Roberts plucks the Erin Brockovich chord; she is steely and immovable in the face of corporate wrongdoing.
It depends on how steely the management and board are and what the decision means for the future.
This can require a steely stomach, particularly in urban areas, where the population is outracing already overburdened facilities.
Through Warrior lineage and steely marksmanship, Curry is carrying on the tradition that Fulks elevated seven decades ago.
Was it really Buriram, the steely welterweight who waged his own life in search of the great way?
An earlier version of this obituary misstated the year the Steely Dan album "Two Against Nature" was released.
In the gently rolling sea we listed back and forth, our mast dancing against the steely gray sky.
Every cut on this Steely Dan album is incredible, so I'll just pick one at random to play.
Martin's grids are a million perfect laps, and behind that steely but quavering hand-drawn perfection is suffering.
"We are excited about these bills," Paul Steely White, director of safety policy and advocacy at Bird, said.
Initially, I'd suffer steely gazes and bewildering aggression as I left tips that were not up to par.
"This, I thought, was bloody crazy," she said, "and I lack the steely nerve you need, I'm afraid."
The breath work also had another unexpected effect: it eased my steely grip on a lifetime of heartache.
In "Salvaje," 13 male performers woke up the stage — and the audience — with sharp stomps and steely legwork.
But even better may be good German rieslings, whether moderately sweet kabinetts and spätleses or dry, steely Rheingaus.
Europe's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, adopted a steely tone, insisting that Britain must commit to preventing unfair competition.
Trained as a medical doctor, she has a reputation for being both smooth and steely in her dealings.
Tonight's highlights include a steely endorsement for Hillary, a cut for the IRS and a major tax loophole.
Onscreen, he was always slightly removed, distant, ruling the show with a steely reserve that bordered on conservatism.
Becker had recently undergone a surgical procedure that prevented him from touring with his Steely Dan bandmate, Donald Fagen.
Steely skyscrapers dominate the landscape, with scaffolding and cranes taking the place of elegant bamboo and gnarly pine trees.
It's that sense of steely ambition combined with self-denial that made Kate Middleton — the cultural icon — so terrifying.
As the occasion required, he could be steely, charming, witty or lachrymose (especially in response to his own rhetoric).
In a wide-open field, a steely-eyed Dolores gallops atop a horse, pointing a gun with impressive balance.
During Gates' testimony on Monday and Tuesday, he has avoided looking at Manafort, despite his former boss's steely glare.
Yes, the early works, steeped in 12-tone technique, are steely and radical, like the first two piano sonatas.
Some may even the Osho, the cult's leader himself with his long grey beard, colorful robes, and steely gaze.
"She is tough, steely, no-nonsense," someone who when they "commit to something, they commit to it," Conley said.
The newly augmented Eagles will perform alongside Fleetwood Mac, Earth Wind & Fire, the Doobie Brothers, Journey and Steely Dan.
And maybe, just maybe, nobody understands your all-consuming obsession with Steely Dan, the greatest band of all time.
Here is writer and performer Alice Childress, looking out of a window with a gaze both steely and wistful.
The senator has a steely discipline not only when it comes to the news media, but with life itself.
The blue P9 is subtle, as if it's the regular gray aluminum with an icy blush of steely blue.
"She has a softness, but I detected a steely core to her," a royal family friend said of Doria.
Spanier, who maintained a steely composure, also apologized to the victims, his own family and the Penn State community.
Virginia Madsen, in particular, is electric as Congresswoman Hookstraten, who conveys volumes with each look from her steely eyes.
She is thus designated Wife No. 1, and is played with maternal warmth and steely fortitude by Saycon Sengbloh.
Phil is often dismissed as the lesser Neville, seemingly less steely (and considerably less successful) than his elder sibling.
The emir's image adorns billboards draped off skyscrapers, and he is lionized in saccharine songs hailing his steely leadership.
Depending on the dramatic urgency of the moment, she would inflect a phrase with an earthy, even steely sheen.
It also hasn't hurt that Janewattananond has displayed an adept short game and a steely resolve on the greens.
Steely gray clouds and gusty winds threatened rain all afternoon, but the weather held until right before the ceremony.
This lively sparkler is a pretty copper color, with steely, lightly fruity, floral flavors, with a touch of licorice.
Senators settled into their telegenic gazes, steely but approachable, often whispering to one another as the witness held forth.
"Three hundred brunches, nothing came back," he said, his voice hardening with the steely conviction of a combat veteran.
He seized on what he regarded as his critics' hypocrisy, often employing that same wit, sarcasm and steely demeanor.
The steely, fiercely independent voters in New Hampshire hate the idea that the Iowa results could sway their vote.
In January, the first month of the 2020s, the N.H.L. was ruled by steely glares from the old guard.
Where Mr. Cummings is a steely ideologue, Mr. Johnson doesn't enjoy conflict; he wants power accompanied by endless applause.
But since it was Steely Dan's first album in 20 years, I guess the Recording Academy got overly excited.
Theron doesn't play Kelly as though she's a hero, but as though there's something admirable about her steely will.
Her vocal style, which can be steely but also malleable and even vulnerable, is ideally suited to grand opera.
She didn't, of course — and Mr. Kavakos's steely sense of purpose kept the performance from losing its overall form.
But he also lets you glimpse, right behind his steely eyes, that he knows it is all slipping away.
Steely Dan's eighth studio album Two Against Nature, was released in 2000 and won Album of the Year at the Grammys over Radiohead's Kid A. Becker was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 alongside Fagen before Steely Dan released their final album, Everything Must Go, in 2003.
In 1990 a dust-up with Congress forced him to capitulate on his steely election pledge of "No new taxes".
After that steely showdown with Andolov, Taylor puts on a flashier show to potential Axe Capital investors at Citi Field.
I'm not sure why this doesn't grab me exactly in the same way as Steely Dan or the Doobie Brothers.
It was at that debate that Fiorina delivered a steely response to Republican businessman Donald Trump's remarks about her appearance.
Walter Becker, the co-founder, guitarist and bassist of the band Steely Dan, died Sunday at the age of 67.
We expect dutiful, steely-eyed soldiers at the ready, and we do get our fill of those in this series.
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Supporters say she has steely determination, pays attention to detail and focuses on getting on with the job at hand.
Seals and Crofts's appealing "Summer Breeze" (1972) was an early hit, soon followed by Steely Dan's "Reelin' in the Years".
The morale of Iraqi troops we are with is high; there is a steely determination to see this task through.
"The weight of this moment cannot be overstated," said Paul Steely White, director of safety policy and advocacy at Bird.
Compared to sinister, treacly villains like Vee (Lorraine Toussaint) and tough, steely heroes like Red, Madison's schtick seems dangerously cheesy.
When I was really young my dad would listen to a lot of Elton John and Supertramp and Steely Dan.
Her performance is still an impressive balancing act: sweet without being cloying, innocent without being dumb, vulnerable and yet steely.
Sunday night's episode of Fear the Walking Dead was an emotional hour for everyone's favorite steely yacht captain, Victor Strand.
They've become Latino icons: A vast group of smart, prepared and determined advocates with steely determination and a righteous cause.
In earlier testimony, Safra Catz, the steely co-chief executive of Oracle, appeared more sad than incensed at Google's behavior.
In 1940, Britain turned to Winston Churchill, a flawed, aging but steely leader, to lead it through its existential crisis.
I wouldn't argue if you preferred a white, like a steely Savennières or a dry riesling from Alsace or Austria.
Her sharp, steely stories underscore, often absorbingly, the collisions of race and class, and the emotional trade-offs of attainment.
Yet there's a steely intensity to her songs, as she bides her time, waiting for the right moment to strike.
Ms. Maclean, as is her tendency, played all the characters, from blue-faced princess, to beefcake warrior, to steely Britannia.
Suryadevara alternates between youthful enthusiasm, steely management pronouncements, and expressing a broad but detailed perspective on GM's past and future.
That Ms. Garanca's voice is so plush and velvety made her Sara a poignant counterpart to Ms. Radvanovsky's steely Elisabetta.
Though slight and soft-spoken, she is known for a steely determination and has the good will of the industry.
Gossip Girl's steely robber baron Bart Bass returns from the dead in the penultimate season, a classic soap opera trope.
In "Marionette," a poignant head crowns a steely, spindly body, with typewriter components and vintage gauges replacing flesh and bone.
I've been working lately with guys that are my own age—you know Steely Dan and the Doobies and stuff.
A doctor before he was banished, his steely gaze looks ever upward, toward the lost future he believes he deserves.
We don't like that you sat back and let so many terrible things happen, like Steely Dan and climate change.
Her singing was plush and warm, with lyrical sheen in tender phrases and steely intensity when Senta's obsession takes hold.
The 1954 version is a celebration not just of Ms. Garland's talents but also the steely charm of James Mason.
Donald Fagen may be the only remaining member of Steely Dan, but he's still fighting for control of the band.
But whoever gets to that semifinal, a steely Latvian with little to lose in her improbable comeback will be waiting.
Walter Becker, co-founder of Steely Dan, who helped create hits like "Do It Again" and "Peg," died at 67.
She has ramrod posture and diction to match, cultivations that emphasize a steely conversational focus on herself and her causes.
Its steely, unblinking account of sexual degradation and psychic disintegration impressed those who were not appalled by its sexual politics.
She's steely and cunning with a presence that magnetizes, even if she is not the focal point of a scene.
Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, lauded the car-share program and had little sympathy for drivers.
Your gap year will be the furnace that will temper your steely resolve to achieve when you arrive at college.
"I'm never surprised when it comes to Albany," said Paul Steely White, director of safety policy and advocacy at Bird.
Because even in the midst of their crime-ridden, drug-addled neighborhood, Moore's people have a steely kind of faith.
Here, he is both steely and vulnerable in a role in which he has almost no physical movements to perform.
Rows of half-finished skyscrapers rose from the earth like the picked-over rib cage of a great steely beast.
Gary is 63 and has been in prison since 1976, when Gerald Ford was president and Steely Dan was cool.
West Bromwich produced a steely defensive display for a 22-22 victory at Everton, courtesy of a goal by Salomón Rondón.
I was shocked to discover in "Steely defences" (February 18th) that the OECD had temporarily become "a club of rich countries".
A steely, no-nonsense aerospace engineer, Maureen was fully prepared to leave her absent husband behind before he unceremoniously showed up.
As their horse and carriage departs, Mrs Appleyard, the school's steely headmistress, urges them to beware the dangers of the area.
Specifically, his wife, Clementine, portrayed with steely humor by Kristin Scott Thomas, and his secretary, Elizabeth Layton, played by Lily James.
She adds a swagger to her stride and a steely determination to her demeanour that are hard not to cheer for.
The SNL buddies were spotted at a Steely Dan concert just a few short weeks after his relationship with Grande ended.
Whishaw feels so small he could start floating at any moment, and he has to juggle vulnerability and intense, steely resolve.
Chuck's wife, Wendy (Maggie Siff), is a steely psychotherapist who wears sculptural sheath dresses by day and dominatrix leather by night.
Fresh-faced stars like Bradley Cooper and Mark Wahlberg gained plaudits for their turns as unapologetic, steely eyed Navy Seal survivors.
But with pluck, precision and a steely putting stroke under pressure, Stenson found the resolve missing in previous major championship finales.
In honor of the late Walter Becker of Steely Dan fame, if that isn't "pretzel logic," I don't know what is.
Outside of the deep love that you and I share for Steely Dan, how did you bring these two figures together?
Meghan McCain, one of his daughters, delivered an emotional tribute to her father that included a steely rebuke to President Trump.
Anyone who has ever watched a ballet also knows how terrifyingly capable dancers are, with their steely strength, athleticism and discipline.
But as the cast's most recognizable face, Fanning brings a steely intensity to the role when confronting her skeptical male colleagues.
But Ms. Mattila's steely prioress can't help succumbing to Blanche's touching combination of fragility and determination, as suggested by Ms. Leonard.
The man looked at me with his steely gaze, but then a softer and slightly sad expression came over his face.
ACROSTIC — Today's passage is from a memoir by a famous musician, Donald Fagen, one of two co-founders of STEELY DAN.
In all of these movies (and lots more), Ms. Sciorra is steely and luminous and game — fragile and feral and fierce.
One is a steely dark gray with tiny white specks peppered all over its body; this is the lead-back phase.
On a recent evening, the playlist included Steely Dan, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, N.W.A., Queen, the Violent Femmes and Willie Nelson.
The Deep State ferociously stabs with their steely knives, hoping to kill the beast of the president they have always hated.
The familial feel that once permeated the Capitol receded in favor of steely professionals with short memories and even shorter tempers.
Irving Azoff, the high-powered manager of Eagles, Steely Dan and other superstars, will also be inducted with the same honor.
I find this funny, since we also celebrate the stereotype of the "strong, silent" type, like cowboys or steely military leaders.
She survived by jumping out a second-floor window, an incident that helped build a kind of steely resolve and confidence.
Born in 1907 and raised in Richmond, Va., he was a Southern gentleman with a steely intelligence and a pragmatic streak.
Dressing well has become a condition of N.B.A. superstardom, be it in Russell Westbrook's kaleidoscopic fantasias or LeBron James's steely luxury.
Mr. Sharif's seemingly steely defiance of the military had raised hopes that Pakistan's most popular opposition leader had learned his lesson.
Through the window, the late-April sun was milky over the bay, which shone with a steely lightness, no whitecaps today.
There's also the steely Jackie, who insists on an elaborate public funeral procession with bagpipes and visiting witnesses to her bereavement.
Young's mother, the family matriarch Eleanor, played with steely cool by Malaysian actor Michelle Yeoh, looks dimly on the American interloper.
People don't just automatically know what their uncles know, otherwise we would all know the lyrics to every Steely Dan song.
An Appraisal When you think of Steely Dan, you probably hear Donald Fagen's brackish snarl in the front of your mind.
"This year's winning work reflects yet again a steely resolve in upholding the principles of this noble profession," Ms. Canedy said.
Yet the same cannot be said for every EDM maniac: Clear Blue Water there—unafraid to express clear, cold, steely sentiment.
" Fagen added, "I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.
Just a cursory scan across their faces is an insight into a steely culture of excellence that's been dominating American spelling contests.
The seventh seed lost the first game but showed steely resolve to down England's Rajiv Ouseph 219-193 219-221 215-16.
For UK-based drum & bass DJ, Deviation, it appears his knack for mixing up steely beats comes courtesy of his cheery mum.
Episodes earlier, in fact, her steely comportment prompts opponents to question whether "she's a person or just playing the part of one".
If you've never bitten into a bell pepper vigorously then looked into the mist with a passionate, steely gaze, let us explain.
It is astonishing how quickly everyone, from Mark to Jane, believes steely Claire has crumbled into a teary, despondent, and lazy mess.
You seem to think that you're projecting confidence, and that we'll be impressed by your steely resolve in the face of adversity.
LONDON — While Andy Murray is known for his steely determination on the tennis court, he's also no stranger to showing his emotions.
Her red-and-blue suit shines; her steely gaze says she's doing exactly what she was put on this planet to do.
The German coach, whose quiet demeanor belies a steely approach, has successfully brought order and routine to a previously chaotic set-up.
"Who needs biscuits?" a young man with steely eyes says to a group of roughly a dozen men gathered around the fire.
After Mandela was imprisoned, Madikizela-Mandela embraced her own leadership in the freedom struggle with steely determination and at great personal sacrifice.
When crises mount, they answer every call with a steely calm and then marshal resources to ensure help is on the way.
Anchored by Denzel Washington's steely presence, it's a spare, brutal vigilante exercise, with an element of righteous revenge mixed into the balance.
Take a look at the 5 moves he offered up for a steely core that'll keep you standing strong all day long.
The trick was to capture the steely gray Lake Sils, Lake Silvaplana and the rocky Piz Corvatsch mountain in the same frame.
Isabella must be both cold-blooded politician and supportive wife, and it is her steely determination that drives the play ever forward.
On March 20123, a parcel arrived at the German ministry of finance addressed to Wolfgang Schauble, the country's steely second-in-command.
"Modi and Shah work in tandem," said a BJP official who has worked closely with the steely-eyed 54-year-old Shah.
Their inaugural effort, 1989's "Express Yourself," drew inspiration from Fritz Lang's Metropolis for its deco-industrial imagery and steely dystopian undertones.
In 1993, Mr. Becker and Mr. Fagen re-emerged as Steely Dan, leading a band that would tour frequently well into 2017.
"I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band," he wrote.
"I don't have any reaction to it," said Mr. McConnell, known for steely discipline when he decides not to answer a question.
"Where it really matters, he's not in the game," said Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group.
Elsewhere on single "The Bird Song," the band ventures into a more yacht-ready territory, evoking the breezy noodling of Steely Dan.
Azoff sent Elliot Scheiner, a celebrated record producer and mixer who had worked with Steely Dan, to confirm the tapes were intact.
She admires his steely work ethic and believes, behind his facade of good cheer and mismatched socks, his discipline is nearly fanatical.
Mr. Scheiner, who has produced albums for Steely Dan, Sting and Foo Fighters, grew frustrated after listening to studio mixes in automobiles.
"We were hitting a plateau, and it needed to be reinvigorated," said Ms. Bohbot, now 32, all steely determination and dry humor.
Yet she redeemed herself in this final scene, steadily swelling her steely tone until the walls of the theater seemed to tremble.
She shares everything with her parents (Jane Curtin and Paul Reiser) and fangirls over the steely head of British intelligence (Gillian Anderson).
" In a tweet that featured a cinematic poster with a steely depiction of the president, he included the words "Sanctions Are Coming.
The thing that will dismay some tenderhearted viewers — and that may have spooked the distributor — is the film's steely refusal of hypocrisy.
That's really what makes the red and pink stand out so much this week — because it's set against so much steely shadow.
It's no wonder that this fantasy — with its cheery enchantments and portentous inky swirls, its steely grays and tight pacing — feels familiar.
The prosecution's lead counsel, a steely white-haired gentleman with a heavy Southern drawl, began taking Musk to task — very, very slowly.
New Hampshire voters are known for their steely New England independence, an eagerness to buck whatever those Midwesterners do with their votes.
That steely resolve she has so peerlessly embodied onscreen (her Oscar-nominated performance in "Phantom Thread") and onstage (her Olivier-winning Mrs.
High-end safes evoke exciting scenes from the movies, with steely safecrackers listening for clicks or drilling into dense steel with lasers.
Far from being down after the New Zealand loss, Nienaber said the mood in the squad has been one of steely determination.
On March 16, a parcel arrived at the German ministry of finance addressed to Wolfgang Schauble, the country's steely second-in-command.
Few directors have as steely a grip on mental damage as Potrykus, and Burge, a regular collaborator, is his perfectly pained muse.
While Lewandowski loyalists admired him as a steely, hard-working operative, others described him as a brutal manager who was quick to anger.
Plisetskaya, with her steely bravado, was the opposite, a deathless swan of virtuoso arm-ripplings (the critic Edwin Denby spoke of "Eel Lake").
The entertainment world is mourning the loss of Walter Becker, the Steely Dan guitarist, bassist, and cofounder who died Sunday at age 67.
She was woman who could operate a power loader with steely resolve and showed moviegoers that women in action films could command control.
Hawaii&aposs Kilauea volcano exploded a tall, steely gray column of ash into the sky Thursday, just as scientists warned eight days ago.
It took him till the eighth game of the fourth set to regain the steely mindset enjoyed by seven-times champion Roger Federer.
And that's a huge problem for McConnell, a quiet, steely operator who's allergic to bombast and who prefers twisting arms to slapping backs.
I'm never going to die, because I have my quinoa porridge and my steely resolve to show me through the door to salvation.
We meet Ruth (Alison Brie) when she's at an audition for a network drama, doing her best imitation of a steely corporate raider.
" Jeannie retweeted the video, captioning it "Gross but true," and quipping: "Our tube-fed restaurant just plays Steely Dan's 'Peg' on a loop.
Before that, it was an old tape by Memphis rap group Royal Famlee, Steely Dan's misunderstood late-period masterpiece Gaucho, and Britney Spears.
Oloroso is the great sherry frontier, and this is a wonderful example: savory, steely, deeply mineral, bone dry with a core of caramel.
If our last trip to Grandma's sidled into the slow lane while listening to Steely Dan, a very different Dan is driving now.
Sweden's economy has boomed in recent years and criticism of the Riksbank's steely focus on reaching its 2 percent target has been growing.
Her Valkyrie war cries rang with steely brilliance; her frantic pleas to her sisters to protect her from Wotan's wrath had tremulous intensity.
"Drivers are rarely held accountable for recklessly taking lives on New York City streets," said Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives.
It took a steely 8-iron from Nordqvist to little more than a foot at the final hole to salvage a half-point.
He played Prokofiev's "Sarcasms" with pummeling energy and steely sound, and then conveyed the crunchy, pulsing brutality of Bartok's "Out of Doors" suite.
Years later, the producers of "The Apprentice" carefully crafted a Trump character who was the quintessence of steely resolve and all-knowing mastery.
The Yankees rode an early outburst against Justin Verlander and six steely innings from Paxton to a 21980-27 victory in the Bronx.
But after a couple of under-pitch high notes, she found her groove and sang the role with steely sound and chilling intensity.
Solange featuring Sampha "Don't Touch My Hair" (Saint/Columbia) Quiet and steely, Solange patiently explains how a look is a statement. 6. Anderson.
During stretches of this performance, Mr. Lisiecki ripped into forceful passages, dispensing burly chords and whiplash runs with steely sound and muscular energy.
Yet there was little question this steely woman from the West was way less terrified of the next few hours than I was.
Mr. Drake played commandingly, including a piano solo depicting the consummation of this impulsive love — fitful music of hurtling chords and steely harmonies.
Ms. Sakata's deeply researched script could come off as preachy, but in Mr. de la Fuente's hands, Gordon is a sweetly steely idealist.
The synthesis of man and machine in Filonov's tractor factory painting looks superhuman, with steely-faced workers blending into a jagged mass of metal.
He wrote and recorded with Fagen again sporadically in the late 1980s before the two announced a Steely Dan reunion and tour in 1993.
Underneath that demure exterior lies a steely core, more than able to cope with the injustice and tragedy that threatens to derail Tish's life.
During college, played drums in a jazz-rock band called the Leather Canary with Donald Fagan and Walter Becker, who later formed Steely Dan.
Marvin was a badass on screen with his steely-eyed demeanor, a trait no doubt perfected during his time in the Marines during WWII.
I refrained from going outside a lot, because outside is where you are with everybody and anybody can hand you something steely and unpleasant.
But her blithe references to the eugenics-tinged theory of hereditary criminality, combined with Cotillard's steely composure, suggest a colder and more manipulative figure.
The Harlem kid appears on "Body For My Zipcode," as he drops steely vows about threatening witnesses and running contraband across New York City.
It stumbled on, often thanks to last-minute fixes by leaders who, though deeply divided, showed a steely commitment to saving the single currency.
The 23-year-old producer describes his style as a cross between industrial techno and the steely, "rolling percussive" music heard in U.K. clubs.
Luckily, these stories all feature adolescent girls who are capable of toppling their grim empires, and the steely, suit-clad adults at their helm.
The sky was gray, but not the steely stormy gray she'd loved back home, dotted with gulls and petrels wheeling out over the ocean.
In fact, he was having the time of his life at a Steely Dan concert with Mulaney, his wife Annamarie Tendler, and Nick Kroll.
"I've seen Steely Dan for 12 years and no one ever stands," Mulaney captioned a video from the concert, which he posted on Twitter.
It's the story of Graham, whom Meryl Streep appears to be playing with a tremulous veneer over a steely resolve, that drives Spielberg's film.
The flaxen titan of wellness, tending to her locks with a golden rod in hand, a steely look in her eye, is sheer perfection.
The soft verses of "County" call back to Giannascoli's falsetto past before borrowing a bassline and beat from Steely Dan for an instrumental break.
Possessed of a "sharp wit and steely backbone," the Ontario, Canada, native was not a fan of then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a Conservative.
Not just for the steely determination, but for the restraint; Senator Klobuchar maintained her dignity, won the exchange, but did not respond in kind.
This story is relayed in Whitman, Alabama by Beth Spivey, a steely-eyed woman with a sugary drawl and a shotgun in her trunk.
But Kelly was clearly overmatched by the steely Putin, who was dismissive of Kelly much of the time and seemingly bored by the conversation.
But as in "The Good House," the details of Leary's narrative are bright, capturing, for example, an older woman's self-possession and steely pride.
But after nearly two decades of conflict, even the dullest moviegoer knows that flying F/A-18s is more deliveryman than steely-eyed killer.
Deschamps, who captained France's only World Cup winning side in 1998, said the march to Sunday's final has been underpinned by a steely determination.
But there's so much more to unpack in the steely intensity of their gazes, full of yearning and sadness and take me now energy.
But the precision and sting of the music, the steely blasts heaving with dissonance, display a feisty new voice eager to say something important.
As Turandot, Oksana Dyka's steely, occasionally strident soprano swamped the Calàf of Arnold Rawls, a sweetly modest understudy singing his first full Met performance.
He seems gentle, diffident but steely underneath, while there's a sparkle to her, and a healthy dash of punk spicing her earth-mother serenity.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's efforts this week to recruit European countries to back the administration's steely posture on Iran are being received coolly.
The interview suggested some softening of Mr. Putin's steely image and the prospect that his two adult daughters may be easing into public life.
There's something viscerally satisfying — thrilling, even — about watching Viola Davis's mist-shrouded eyes turn steely cold: She may weep but she will not weaken.
"That was a pretty big diss considering how well he was playing," said the Golf Channel analyst Brandel Chamblee, who admires Knox's steely determination.
Botin is a patrician but steely executive who took charge of the 215 billion euro bank after her father Emilio died suddenly in 1123.
Steely Dan devotees have a special place in their hearts for the solo work of the band's lead singer and co-mastermind, Donald Fagen.
She's just often performing steely level-headedness in ways that Charlie does not, as he's the at-times caustic director to her lead actress.
Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group, said he was concerned about the increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths.
Ayotte, at 48 one of the youngest senators, stomps through the Capitol's hallways with a steely reserve, often warding off reporters with a glare.
Her fragility, though, is deceptive, and Jane's anxiety over her boss's perceived victims must be tugged back into line with a steely self-interest.
Online, I loved the P2484 casual flight jacket in steely blue and the P267V shearling leather vest in two-tone brown, rust and chocolate.
Conor McGregor posted the very first pic of his new baby early Sunday morning -- a kid with steely eyes and a tough lookin' jaw.
Becker's girlfriend, Karen Roberta Stanley, died of an overdose on the Upper West Side shortly after Steely Dan returned to New York City in 1978.
"I know what they're saying about me," see says, steely as ever while swiping what looks like a second coat of blush on her cheeks.
Remember him skipping away after yet another dagger, arms outstretched and exultant, steely-eyed or gushing with bravado, champagne or sweat pouring off his head.
The main idea is entering a body of water despite its miserably low temperature, so we ran headfirst into the steely arms of Mama Atlantic.
So when Caitriona Balfe was offered the part of a steely publicist for a mysterious financial firm in Money Monster, she jumped at the opportunity.
The steely presence she was focusing on her troops just moments before melts away at the sight of him, and she leaps to hug him.
Mr King may not be the most charismatic of leaders, but he knows the industry backwards and has shown a steely nerve at important moments.
Earlier today, Trump tweeted a steely looking picture of himself overlaid with HBO's Game of Thrones font, declaring that "Sanctions are coming" on November 5th.
One runner—who outwardly seems a picture of steely-eyed determination—genuinely mentions the scenery as one of the reasons he's decided to take part.
Young men like Mr. Davis, 5 feet 9 inches tall and 140 pounds, hang on with a combination of arm strength, balance and steely focus.
We have two studio records, an interpretation of Steely Dan's AJA and "Hymn for a Missing Girl," a 20-minute, southern gothic-themed instrumental track.
The American mission is led by the steely Edwards (Charlotte Salt), with Denholm (Elliot Levey) and Parks (James McArdle), rounding out the three-person unit.
Rather than a well-earned victory lap, President Barack Obama showed a steely resolve as he ruthlessly dismantled Donald Trump and enthusiastically endorsed Hillary Clinton.
Abubakar has made it her mission to document the lives of the people of Maiduguri, finding both deep trauma and steely resilience along the way.
Drizin and Nirider are also involved as we learned in episode 1, but they don't have the kind of steely-eyed obsession that Zellner has.
Elizabeth Moss' Offred (or June) — who ended the last season discovering she was pregnant — can be seen giving a steely look while covered in blood.
Polachek lands somewhere between Steely Dan and Sade, rattling off the names of potent prescription medications and floating into her crystalline, newly powerful upper register.
The firebrand Shiite cleric was steely in his pursuit of justice and dignity, says his son, and had exposed human rights abuses in the kingdom.
But finally, in terraces draped with the nation's red flag, Chinese fans belted out the national anthem in chorus with the steely nerved men's pair.
That's where we diverge, because I think Mellie had to hold steely resolve and really hold it clear in her mind to make it happen.
He almost did the opposite, drawing out every moment of Straussian lyricism, glowing string sound and delicacy, though the vehement outbursts were steely and terrifying.
As Isolde went through swings of thwarted fury, yearning and despair, Ms. Stemme altered the colorings of her sound, from steely rawness to melting warmth.
With steely nerve, she led one anti-Nazi journalist through police checkpoints in Nazi-occupied Prague to safety by pretending that he was her husband.
Trump's emboldened approach to foreign policy has led to equal anxiety in European capitals, where leaders are girding with steely resolve for his July visit.
Is there a single better pairing for canned chili and nacho cheese than a pair of dead, steely eyes and some sad creative commons music?
" It contained photographs from 1958 of the steely-eyed young writer, taken for Holiday magazine, in which Capote first published "Brooklyn Heights: A Personal Memoir.
I have not been battling in these streets as hard or as long as Clay Travis has, though, so my nerves are not as steely.
But in that difficult situation, he maintained a strong will and steely demeanor that kept his performances steady despite the drama and inconsistency around him.
Throughout the work, the character of Death (sung with steely urgency by the soprano Lenneke Ruiten) is dressed as a camera-toting cable news anchor.
" And the baby boomer raised with a steely Midwestern reserve, a devotion to her Methodist faith and a fierce affinity for a "zone of privacy.
Among the many things that Woods lost in his public fall from grace a decade ago, one of the most obvious was his steely resolve.
Hillary Clinton has done a lot to counteract these implicit biases, selling herself as a steely leader who isn't afraid to make the tough calls.
But despite such steely vigilance, the presidential protective detail these disquieting days is pretty much helpless as it attempts to fend off a new menace.
WASHINGTON — President Trump is projecting a steely facade as he prepares for a critical meeting on trade this weekend with President Xi Jinping of China.
I loved the wood paneling on the wall above the couch, as well as the steely color palette of the room with pops of green.
Her voice is not an instrument for making modest statements; it's about peaks of self-affirmation, indescribable sensual pleasures, steely counterattacks and abysses of sorrow.
The 1997 version, which depicted a steely blue stadium from an aerial viewpoint, in front of a fiery orange sunset, has not been dramatically altered.
But as he so often does, the steely-eyed Serb found a way to win, defying a crowd that was shamelessly behind the underdog Austrian.
Mills's wife, Miranda July, a writer and filmmaker with the steely fragility of a Buster Keaton, once anatomized guys like Mills in a short story.
It's even deftly faithful to the original shows' looks, going blue and steely when the action centers on Jones, white and misty for Iron Fist.
I've seen the steely glare that Ms. Klobuchar, our senator from next door gives when she shares the woes Trump has brought to farm country.
The East Coast installment will bring the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Journey and others to Queens for what's sure to be a nostalgic blast.
You don't need the outsize video simulcast close-ups (by Julia Frey) of Byrne's steely eyes to see that Anna's mind is still dangerously unsettled.
Photographs from this period show Ray, then forty, as a dark-haired man with penetrating, steely-blue eyes and a taste for sharp-looking clothes.
A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally at home in our self-branding society.
Then there's her natural state, which fluctuates between steely resilience (just watch her dance) and crippling indecision (just listen to her talk about her dance).
That she manages to wear about 12 emotions on her face at once, ranging from sadness to terror to steely anger, is a true feat.
They're her records but the one that I keep listening to the most is the second Steely Dan record, that one has been on repeat.
After a long hiatus, the band reunited in the late 1990s to record its first studio album in 20 years, according to the Steely Dan website.
He's figured out that most modern indie bands sound like the once-derided Steely Dan; he sees no reason why DMB shouldn't have the same renaissance.
In one hauntingly uncomfortable image, a patient lying on a concrete floor with his legs chained around a column lifts a steely gaze to the camera.
In the Netflix movie Close, Noomi Rapace plays a steely bodyguard named Sam assigned to protect the bratty scion of an oil fortune, Zoe (Sophie Nélisse).
As you, the viewer, sprouted feelings of tenderness for Caputo, so too did Natalie Figueroa (Alysia Reiner), the admirably steely she-viper acting as interim warden.
We also know that, like Beyoncé, she keeps hot sauce in her bag — evidence, if ever there was any, of a woman with a steely constitution.
Just after the news broke that Mr. Weiner had exchanged lewd messages with women online using the pseudonym Carlos Danger, Ms. Abedin maintained a steely calm.
A very nervous Carrie Fisher bungled her first day of shooting As General Leia, Fisher projected steely calm and authoritative conviction during the rebels' darkest hour.
Once she'd adjusted the lectern's flexible microphone to suit her modest height, she began to speak in the flat yet steely accent of a proud Kansan.
Scandal's Mellie Grant — first lady, wronged wife, grieving mother, leader of the free world — can be steely, ambitious, infuriating and vulnerable, sometimes in a single speech.
"We certainly hope that much of what works around the shutdown will be permanent," says Paul Steely-White, executive director of the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.
So strap yourselves in for a chronological primer on those musical moments when hip-hop aimed its steely sights on the Leader of the Free World.
Inside WARDC's offices, Emmanuela Azu, one of the lawyers on Folake's case, wears an easy smile that belies the steely resolve required to do her job.
Dr. Banks is brilliant but never showy, with a steely resolve that seems, at least at first, to be a direct result of her family tragedy.
However, buried deep beneath the '90s piss-rock (looking at you Korn) and '70s dad-rock (I see you Steely Dan) are a few legit options.
RIP, Walter Over the holiday weekend, the music world said good-bye to Walter Becker, one of the geniuses behind the jazzy pop of Steely Dan.
The late appearance of Ms. Cloud, steely yet elfin in pale gray, adds another psychological tension; her sliding steps, both crisp and plush, are vaguely hypnotic.
Pressed at one point by a Republican to agree that a particular offense was not impeachable, Mr. Kent flashed some steely contempt for such political gamesmanship.
Though the initial rush of the title track recalls "The Boys Are Leaving Town," it sounds like a damn Steely Dan production compared to Post-Nothing.
The all-encompassing grandeur of Norma's music, which ranges from the bel-canto radiance of "Casta diva" to steely, Isolde-like blasts, evokes a matriarchal age.
"It's been a terrible year for cycling deaths and injuries," said Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group for pedestrians and cyclists.
Under pressure from William Paley to show profit at a time when network news wasn't considered indispensable, the steely Aubrey plays the role of antagonist here.
Accumulating those kinds of high-end arms, and instilling a steely approach for an unforgiving park, is the best chance of survival for the Rockies' pitchers.
IDK, but these days I'm gravitating towards a lot of easy breezy music that bears traces of Steely Dan's 70s chill with a tablespoon of funk.
With unflinching realism and steely grace, "Norte" reminds us why literature can do what journalism cannot: We inhabit the minds of people we'd prefer to forget.
Steely Dan's songwriting and recording process remained painstaking; it released only two more studio albums, "Two Against Nature" in 2000 and "Everything Must Go" in 2003.
Wilfried experiences some qualms about the implications of being a German holding Jews at gunpoint, while Brigitte gobbles pills and maintains an air of steely ruthlessness.
Ms. Manville, currently giving a steely, slow-burn, Oscar-nominated performance opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in "Phantom Thread," elicited raves for her mastery as Mary Tyrone.
In my favorite piece in the show, "Trial" (2017) human figures appear as copper-colored figurines on the wall standing on balconies painted a steely blue.
Her voice is whispery and sweetly tearful with a steely undercurrent, and it stakes out a particular persona: passionate and vulnerable but also vindictive and treacherous.
His résumé included ambitious art-rock totems, easy listening schmaltz, TV theme songs, incendiary folk-rock, Phil Spector's "wall of sound" and Steely Dan's smooth softscapes.
Vampire Miriam—played with steely, sexy cool by Catherine Deneuve in Tony Scott's tale of bio-curious bloodsuckers, The Hunger (1983)—offers her partner everlasting life.
Another painting, "Mum in Bed, 2017," solemnly conveys the outlines of his mother's face in a steely shade of blue against a background of institutional green.
Most of the day, he followed his longtime routine, blocking out any fuss from the gallery, fixing a steely stare forward and marching toward the hole.
Even steely lawyer Helen Pierce (Janet McTeer), the one person who seemed primed to survive Netflix's Ozark, doesn't make it out of the 2020 season alive.
Mr. Fagen is also suing Steely Dan's accounting and business management firm, Nigro, Karlin, Segal, Feldstein & Bolno, for accounting errors, "secretive behaviors and/or withholding information."
As the ghost of her father (indelibly played by Sean Bean) slips in and out of the frame, she turns from steely survivor to terrified child.
This one from Folk Machine is fresh and light — just 2100 percent alcohol — yet vibrant, dry and energetic, steely with gorgeous flavors of berries and peaches.
"Honestly, it's so crazy, I have no idea what I'm doing," Mr. O'Pry said, steely blue eyes flashing, and wearing a white Todd Snyder bomber jacket.
He explained later that he was trying to keep these steely chords crisp and light, demonstrating by playing the passage on the tabletop at the cafe.
Two weeks of dramatic hearings starring steely career officials braving the conservative media storm to tell the truth have left Trump's anti-impeachment offensive in tatters.
And during the feisty passages of the pieces he played, Mr. Blechacz (pronounced BLEH-hatch) tended to go for steely-sounding climaxes and clangorous fortissimo chords.
On the one hand, the steely Republican leader is determined to act as quickly to confirm Kavanaugh as he was to delay and destroy Garland's nomination.
The best-known tune from "Gaucho," Steely Dan's last album before a long hiatus, was also the most spirited — and one of the least harmonically recherché.
On "Rosa Parks: Mercy, Music for Double Quartet," the strings and brass come together, stretching paper-thin but steely melodies across a lot of open space.
" She recalled Rihanna gushing over the steely breakup jam "Needed Me" — with its Instagrammable one-liners like "Didn't they tell you that I was a savage?
NEW YORK (AP) — Steely Dan founder Donald Fagen was charged Tuesday with assaulting his wife at their home, according to law enforcement officials and court papers.
They formed Steely Dan—named after the steam-powered dildo mentioned in William Burroughs's Naked Lunch—alongside Denny Dias, Jeff Baxter, Jim Hodder, and vocalist David Palmer.
On Tuesday, Davidson, 24, and fellow comedian John Mulaney attended a Steely Dan concert — and according to Mulaney, he had a downright magical effect on the audience.
Affleck's steely demeanor actually comes in handy in his first spin behind the wheel of the Batmobile, as the Caped Crusader spirals into obsession and extreme calisthenics.
"Involution" checks off the exhibition's "architecture" formula, while also hinting at the "bodies" ingredient in the way it writhes across the floor with its steely organic reach.
Similarly, Paige acts as if she knows she'll make for some excellent reaction GIFs, delivering a series of steely gazes in response to the bullshit around her.
Phelps sat steely-eyed under a jacket hood with headphones firmly pushed to his ears, while le Clos playfully bounced in front of him, boxing the air.
The duo later moved to California to form Steely Dan in 1972 alongside guitarists Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and Denny Dias, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer.
It's the beginning of November on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, on the precipice of winter, when the sky and the river are the same steely gray.
"She's got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital," he wrote of the Democratic candidate.
But, should you take the time to penetrate their steely exterior, you'll discover there's more to this sign than their aloof first impression would have you believe.
Instead they polished every glint of sound, every structural detail, for days upon weeks—just as Steely Dan's Fagen and Becker had done for Aja and Gaucho.
While the little bird did its best to aggravate the eagle, by digging its feet into her back, the blackbird was no match for Janice's steely calm.
The Oscar-winner's steely-eyed villain is in charge, forcing Vin Diesel's Dominic to work for her and bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner showed off her skills playing the steely and composed Sansa Stark by taking a delicate sip and saying, "That's the tea."
But users didn't like having a "hip hop" playlist that also had a Prince track, or a "hard rock" mixtape that for some reason featured Steely Dan.
Except for a mostly gray, black and white self-portrait by Alex Katz and a small, steely study by Philip Guston, figurative painting is all but absent.
Join us for the next installment of The SimuLife Diaries, where I'll be abducted by a steely resistance group dedicated to bringing down OpenMind at all costs.
As a mother, I am haunted by the image of Humayun's mom standing in steely silence next to her husband on the convention stage, draped in blue.
When Mr. Trump interrupted her, she showed flashes of the steely calm she displayed during more than eight hours of testimony to a Republican-led House panel.
Free tickets for Alabama Shakes, Weezer, Bob Dylan, Def Leppard, Snoop Dogg, Steely Dan and The Cure were briefly made available in the first batch of concerts.
"The context is very real for anyone who walks or bikes in New York City," said Paul Steely White, the executive director of the nonprofit Transportation Alternatives.
Once again, the show oscillates between past and present, filtered in part through the character of the man in black, played with steely ruthlessness by Ed Harris.
Not only did Osaka demonstrate a steely nerve in the face of daunting pressure, but she was quicker than Williams and hit the ball harder and cleaner.
You rarely see women in politics or law who flaunt college reputations as party girls; the women who make it are expected to show steely self-control.
Once there Rachel discovers two things: Nick's steely mother, Eleanor, thinks Rachel is beneath her, and Nick — and the rest of his family — is obscenely, stupefyingly wealthy.
And the lineup — Mavis Staples, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Gary Clark Jr., Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons — is stellar as well.
Victor, Axe Cap's "stone and steely assassin," discovers the perfect place to offload Saler's toxic debt … at a great cost to an unnamed someone Axe cares about.
G.R. Michael Leonhart is a trumpeter with a high-powered résumé — Steely Dan, Yoko Ono, Mark Ronson — and a heretofore-little-known knack for big-band composition.
Scherzer throttled the Dodgers for seven steely innings on Monday, and Zimmerman broke the game open with a three-run homer to center field in the fifth.
It seems more and more likely that decisions about stories, casting, and even genre may soon be left in the cold, steely hands of machines and algorithms.
With Michael Countryman as a mild, sweet More and Carolyn McCormick as a fiery, steely Alice, the fond tenderness between them is the anchor of the play.
So understanding the biology behind these steely worms could help researchers understand how toxins affect the human body, co-author James Siho Lee said in a statement.
When asked if fatherhood has affected them in any way, sole non-dad Borcherdt quips, "Did you notice the Steely Dan tones?" before offering a serious reflection.
"She's got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital," he wrote in the Telegraph in 2007.
As soon as we walked into the cafe seating area, we were met with steely-eyed glares from two burly white men sitting at one of the tables.
News Analysis MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the Republican race for president, Senator Marco Rubio's soaring oratory, firm command of policy and steely unflappability are his sword, helmet and shield.
And no matter the controversy, his was always a calm voice, backed by steely determination wrapped in a Mona Lisa smile and with a twinkle in his eye.
Although set in the '30s, Dunaway's Bonnie Parker is a liberated woman – a steely, sultry seducer as cunning as any male on the wrong side of the law.
Beneath that steely Scorpio exterior lies a thirst for adventure, exploration, and ever-broadening horizons — no wonder Jenner has worked so hard to overcome her fear of flying.
In 1999 Angela Merkel knifed Wolfgang Schäuble in a steely newspaper op-ed implicitly linking him to the corruption scandal that had consumed Helmut Kohl, his political mentor.
There's room for racing games beyond the steely seriousness of Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport or the loose open-world approach of Need for Speed and Forza Horizon.
In an exclusive preview of the special, Cher, 72, gushes over Pelosi, 78, lauding not just her historic elevation in government but her steely temperament and track record.
In Mary Queen of Scots, Mary negotiates a different binary: That of steely queen and human woman, whose need for intimacy renders her place on the throne vulnerable.
In a genre not known for being particularly kind to — or even remotely interested in — its women, Pugh is intoxicating, infusing the character with steely confidence and poise.
Robson nurtured Mourinho and – difficult as it may be to square the Englishman's benign charm with his protégé's steely Machiavellianism – had a major influence on the young coach.
Westeros and reality television collided on Monday when Game of Thrones star Lena Headey embodied her steely character to dish out a tongue-lashing on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Stef (played brilliantly by Fiona Button) is an idealistic campaign manager with a background in development, and a steely determination to make the "Congo Voice" festival a success.
In their 30 years of marriage, friends said in interviews, Lonnie was a doting wife but also a hard-nosed M.B.A. who managed Ali's affairs with steely determination.
She gets him, sponge and all, and Foy, blending the anxious with the steely, derives full value from her few big scenes, including an outburst at Mission Control.
With a steely round of 67, which left him 23 under par for the tournament, Walker became the fourth first-time major champion of the 222 golf season.
But she will need steely perseverance to pry the truth from a Police Department that is well practiced in the art of concealing misconduct, brutality and even torture.
RP: In "Self Portrait: Tale of Two Michaels" (2014), a silent Michael Brown is audience to your performance as Michael McDonald of Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers fame.
Ex Deputy Prime Minister of Denmark, a couple of teenage daughters, a woman in her '22017s or '225s, extremely friendly, very personable, but in political terms extremely steely.
"This is the first time I have ever proposed to someone in my life, don't come at me with some bullshit," he says to his steely-eyed sisters.
If Kreayshawn spiraled into obscurity in the early half of this decade, Natassia Gail Zolot has climbed out, with a jewelry business, motherhood, tattooing ambitions, and steely optimism.
Wolff's tales of disorganization, internecine warfare, and egomaniacal incompetence melt Trump's self-declared, steely image as a drain-the-swamp populist into a puddle of undisciplined, incurious, narcissism.
Steely Dan — named after a dildo in the William Burroughs novel "Naked Lunch" — dissolved after its 1980 album, "Gaucho," though Mr. Becker and Mr. Fagen stayed in contact.
Her steely good cheer is good company as she relates taut, action-packed stories about run-ins with Al Capone and Jimmy Durante with a minimum of introspection.
The second season begins on Friday, as Tara pursues new cases with her own firm and gets a steely new collaborator and antagonist (played by Maria Doyle Kennedy).
Luckily, the tapes he was concerned about, multitrack masters of Steely Dan's first releases, turned out to have been moved to UMG's Pennsylvania tape vault before the fire.
Instead, by the mid-'213s she had established herself as a first-call backing vocalist, working with B. B. King, Joe Cocker, Odetta, Steely Dan and many others.
But he also seems older than his years — hard-working and resilient, with an impressive command of profanity and a steely defiance that can back down grown men.
Halep reads the game beautifully and flows around the court with a rare grace, but her successful quest for a Grand Slam test also underscored her steely side.
Playing with Koepka, who was stalking the golf course with a steely-eyed resolve, Johnson stayed close to the lead for the first couple of hours of play.
Emma has a steely brusqueness that reads to her old neighbors as superior — and maybe it is, a little — but it's as much about self-defense as anything.
He was half of Steely Dan, a group that I thought was two old black dudes my whole life — or not my whole life, sorry, my entire adolescence.
The final two movements involve settings for soprano of Symbolist poems by Stefan Georg, which Ms. Hannigan sang with luxurious expressiveness one moment, and steely fervor the next.
It's a brutal story handled by Ms. Lupino, one of Hollywood's very few female directors, with the same steely determination and emotional sensitivity found in her strongest performances.
At the same time, she sometimes seemed surprised, in the years since, that some people considered her steely; those close to her knew that she was simply private.
Kiev Journal KIEV, Ukraine — The studio lights dim, and the anchor taps a stack of papers on her desk and directs a steely gaze toward the television cameras.
But he also found just the right punch for the percussive interjections that Mr. Zorn inserts into this not-quite-minimalist procession, keeping a quality of steely edge.
She tore into fraught phrases, one moment leaping to high notes that blazed with steely sound and power, then the next dipping down to smoky, throbbing low tones.
Among the supporting cast, Ms. Burton (with a smile of steely serenity) and Ms. Smulders seem most at home with the bandying dialogue, much of which remains priceless.
With its soft-core, island-funk guitar and three-part vocal harmony, the song's chorus is an early example of a Steely Dan quintessence: shrugging sarcasm, rendered resplendent.
"It's no wonder that this fantasy — with its cheery enchantments and portentous inky swirls, its steely grays and tight pacing — feels familiar," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
The story follows Libby Lamm (Tika Sumpter), a professor who was once the top security adviser to a steely United States vice president, Rachel Burke (Jamie Lee Curtis).
When the orchestra goes through endless manipulations of some theme, I find myself wanting a pianist to break in and take charge with a cascade of steely chords.
But Andreas Guske, a trim, steely-eyed police inspector in the refugee-heavy Bavarian town of Traunstein where the rumor circulated, didn't think his community could afford complacence.
Despite all the warmth and drowsiness, the more downcast Duster moments (take "Operations" or "Auto-Mobile" from their second album Contemporary Movement) make Spiderland sound like Steely Dan.
Steely Dan produced some of their best work in the late 1970s, with the now-classic records The Royal Scam and Aja coming out in 1976 and 1977 respectively.
At any given moment at Fort Gordon, instructors in khakis are teaching soldiers at every stage of their career—shiny new privates, steely-eyed noncoms, cherry lieutenants, surly captains.
But, Lily (Tanya Reynolds), a teen girl armed with a very specific fetish and a steely determination to get laid, runs away with every single one of her scenes.
In her portrayal of Gloria, her expressive eyes display the vulnerability of a woman who knows what she's up against, but also a steely resolve that propels her forward.
Paul Steely White, director of safety policy and advocacy for scooter startup Bird, says in an emailed statement that they hope to work with the study authors going forward.
When the subject of the Orlando tragedy comes up, her eyes grow shiny with tears; we talk about the need for "safe spaces," her voice grows steely with determination.
In July, Becker missed both of Steely Dan's performances due to an unspecified ailment during the recent Classic West and Classic East concerts in Los Angeles and New York.
Ms. Ekstrand portrays the lighter moments of Anna's steely character in a high-pitched voice and with facial reactions that suggest she is motivated by a TV laugh track.
Ford appeared "visibly traumatized" by the testimony experience, the L.A. Times noted, a stark contrast to Anita Hill's steely composure during the equally difficult 1991 Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings.
Davis and Fisher poke fun at the pretensions of young folks in their late 20s and early 30s, and they riff some on the stereotype of the steely assassin.
Mattis, whose gravelly voice and steely eloquence is right out of central casting, has become known for a series of frank quotes that underscore the brutal nature of war.
Once rare, such sightings elicit coos and smiles from plenty of pet-friendly riders, but perhaps just as many steely glares from passengers who are perturbed by the intrusions.
Whether this latest commitment is truly a steely reflection of alliance commitment to its collective defense mission will soon be readily apparent -- not least to a closely watching Moscow.
The record straddles the line between past and present with nods to Van Morrison and Steely Dan and hints of more recent acts such as John Mayer and Whitney.
But amidst the drama surrounding illicit money, escaped criminals, sex rings, drug selling, and crumbling friendships, I was drawn to one platinum-blonde, steely-eyed con artist: Sick Boy.
Didemus began recording steely techno under the moniker DIVA, and Greenspan dropped a few solo tracks of his own while working with artists like Friendly Fires and Jessy Lanza.
Forty men were brought to the lab and put through a stress test, where they had to give a speech in front of steely-faced scientists in white coats.
I'm never tired of talking about Steely Dan, but to people wearing battle vests or people that are inked up, it's not a thing that comes up a lot.
She gets to be steely and just a little bit broken in it, and I think that's a good place to have her live in when season three begins.
Many astronauts and test pilots adopted a "lie to fly" policy, knowing that the slightest crack in their steely demeanor might be enough for NASA to ground them forever.
Wonder Woman is supposedly an "Amazon," a people who, in this universe anyway, dwell on a vaguely Greek island where the steely older babes of Hollywood practice knife-fighting.
The fact that only nine players have survived from the EURO-2016 squad shows a steely streak, with Deschamps not hesitating to offer a chance to players with potential.
One need only compare this benevolence to the steely determination of past administrations to extrude Soviet and Russian influence from Latin America almost to the point of nuclear crisis.
Clinton's steely fortitude in this campaign has plainly inspired older women, black voters and many others who see in her perseverance a kind of mirror to their own struggles.
Perhaps it reflects a steely-eyed realization that soothing his base in a bid for reelection might be the only thing standing between him, an indictment — and possibly jailtime.
Softly photographed by Bjorn Stale Bratberg, who brings equal care to the film's pristine Andean locations, María's placid exterior hides a resolve as steely as that of any financier.
Virginia 84, Iowa State 71 | Midwest Regional CHICAGO — A typical road game in the Atlantic Coast Conference can build a steely resilience for teams that regularly travel that circuit.
Her face was set in a steely expression of self-possession and purposefulness, which gave her the appearance of a cross between a soldier and a minor Buddhist deity.
Those who reach the White House have often been among the cream of their generation, lauded for wisdom, steely dispositions and possessing the presence to redirect the political winds.
On Sunday, with a steely resolve unmatched by the veteran golfers chasing him, a daring Im held on to a late, one-stroke lead to win the Honda Classic.
Mr. Putin, a former top agent for the K.G.B., came to the news conference steely-eyed and prepared, as evidenced in the targeted grievances he aired against longtime foes.
In a three-and-a-half minute video that focused on excoriating Mr. Trump, Mr. Biden presented himself as a steely leader for a country wracked by political conflict.
Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a group that advocates for more biking, agreed that the city should focus on Citi Bikes rather than dockless bikes.
Ms. Hargadon Wehner's story, which involves trying to obtain justice based on recovered memories, has the outlines of a classic tragedy, and Ms. Hargadon Wehner is a steely heroine.
At the beginning of the film, Lesley-as-Cyril refracts her brother's gaze into a steely glare, staring down his outgoing girlfriend and sizing up his incoming one, Alma.
Confronted with the steely, appraising sideways gaze of the sitter known as "La Belle Ferronnière" (1495-99), any artist might feel compelled to wrap up the job on time.
Of his most unmistakable trademarks, it was his viper-intensity, his steely dedication and refusal to be made small by opponents, that defines him in the grandest of hues.
It's a success largely owed to King's steely work as Angela Abar, an Oklahoma detective and viewers' rock through the superhero-ish drama's many mind-bending, time-hopping twists.
That means No Hours deserves a ribbon, because I'm about as jaded on the pin game as Steely Dan is over playing Reelin' In The Years for literally years.
Ms. Bishop, who also serves as deputy leader of the right-leaning Liberal Party, has a reputation for being a steely politician who rarely breaks from party talking points.
"True History of the Kelly Gang" also features an outstanding supporting cast, including a spirited Russell Crowe as the antihero's offbeat mentor and Nicholas Hoult as a steely constable.
It's Francis Picabia's "Nu de Do" (1942–44), and seeing it in the middle of Nude is like hearing the Germs played in between Steely Dan and the Eagles.
Our coffee runs, a lunchtime trip to buy the new Steely Dan CD. (Phone books, newsroom spikes, new Steely Dan CDs — Rob could have written a charming column about how my invocation of these items dated us, one in which he would have made sure to note I was nine days older than he was.) He was extraordinarily tall — his friends called him "the taller, handsomer Hiaasen," a reference to his famous writer brother, Carl.
I'm a big Steely Dan fan so I suppose this is kind of what fans of that band listened to in the '90s but DMB is much more folk-leaning.
As Marla Mabrey, a would-be actress living under a Hughes' contract while waiting for a screen test that would never come, Collins exemplifies steely determination wrapped in Virginia sweetness.
In Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live, Shookus said that, despite the stories of an unflappable Lorne Michaels, the steely exec does laugh during auditions.
So you, as the player, take up arms as Garrick, and occasionally the more steely CIA verteran Alex, to bring the real fight to the terrorists, with the gloves off.
Bird's director of safety policy and advocacy Paul Steely White told the Verge that the company expects to launch the service in New York City in spring of next year.
The Steely Dan singer says he took out a policy with International Insurance Company of Hannover to cover his 28 solo tour dates this year in North America and Japan.
"The idea was, 'I'm gonna make these the most sophisticated pop songs I can,' and they'd have these crazy chord changes like Steely Dan or 10cc or whatever," says Greenspan.
Her father, played by a steely-eyed Woody Harrelson, deals with alcoholism and moves his wife and kids from place to place as they live hand-to-mouth in poverty.
The former is built around a steely narrative core; the latter is diffuse, a cloud of melodies, lyrics, samples, and field recordings that swirl around and loop back on themselves.
This steely temperament was again evident this week, as Mr Wang gained the upper hand in his battle against a corporate raider attempting to seize control of his listed company.
The ultimate insider is portraying herself as an outsider because she's a woman, and the candidate who is considered steely is casting herself as cozy because she's a doting granny.
Under the circumstances, they stamped his performance as a steely one as Palmer ran a twenty-footer in for an eagle 802.80 at this same green a few minutes later.
Clinton as warm and caring, as someone who understands a changing world and who can work with Republicans — and as a passionate and steely champion for the people she represents.
Such mangling of references is typical of these two, though they certainly know their Steely Dan (except when they forget), and the wit and wisdom of their idol, Alan Alda.
Then there is Millais's depiction of a steely old man seated by a young woman (likely his grand-daughter), who reads to him from a logbook and stimulates his convictions.
In 2014, I was listening to them and Steely Dan almost exclusively during what seemed to be an endless epidemic of blatantly racist violence against people of color without recourse.
Steely Dan toured regularly until well into 2017, settling in for long residencies at places like the Beacon Theater in New York City and performing entire albums from its catalog.
The archangel wafts in from the left on a cloud of smoke, wearing a tunic of lustrous magenta, spreading his wings of steely gray as he delivers the big news.
In Law, Sorrentino found an actor who can embody Pius's ferocity and self-absorption with a silken smile and steely-eyed gaze that are as welcoming as they are sinister.
He comes across as a big good ol' boy, who leans conservative, but underneath is a steely resolve to do whatever it takes to transform Willmar for the 2000st century.
The steely focus that made him so intimidating in his heyday is still there, but after the last putt drops, he is quick to smile and socialize with other players.
The lawsuit says that a recent claim made by Mr. Becker's widow, Delia Becker, for 50 percent ownership of Steely Dan breaches an agreement signed by the band in 1972.
Jessica Chastain rules the Washington-based political thriller "Miss Sloane" with such steely authority that you are hard pressed to imagine another actress playing the imperious, largely unsympathetic title character.
Miranda Lambert "Vice" (Vanner/RCA Nashville) Ms. Lambert girds this rueful anthem with steely fatalism, rooted in the belief that every mistake is yours to own, however many times. 10.
The color palette, which moves from steely grays to deep reds to pale pinks, also suggests the Britain of World War One and the period between the two great wars.
The official program came festooned with severe, steely eyed portraits, alongside pictures of Mr. Brzezinski with presidents and a reference list containing the titles and publishers of his many books.
"Our fathers would come back with the boats piled high with turr," Mr. Mouland recalled, gripping a green rope to steady himself as the boat hammered over the steely waves.
It took a little known but steely Republican senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith, to stand in the well of the Senate and call out her colleagues for their timidity.
Suge Knight gave everyone in court -- including his victim's family members -- something to remember him by ... one last steely glare as he was officially sentenced to 28 years in prison.
As a pimp named Larry Brown, Gbenga Akinnagbe offers the steely but subtle edge that have marked so many of Simon's characters who live just across the line of what's legal.
Claude Moraes, chair of the EU parliament's civil liberties, justice and home affairs (Libe) committee, issued a slightly more diplomatic reaction statement after the meeting — yet also with a steely undertone.
In the 80's, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band.
Their eyes looked away while the camera focused in on the sleeves of a steely-eyed model looking annoyed at the intrusion or raising their fists in a black power salute.
Generally when one pictures the ever iconic Anna Wintour, it's hard not to envision her blunt signature bob, a pair of large black sunnies, and a steely expression beneath said sunnies.
MIKE POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE: To the ayatollah and to the President of Iraq Rouhani and to other Iranian leaders -- understand that your current activities will be met with steely resolve.
The album's closing song, "Police Get Away Wit Murder," tackles police brutality from a steely perspective over a taut Hit-Boy production powered by fierce drums and a menacing, cascading motif.
Now, inspired by the prince and with steely determination and self-motivation, Ennis is aiming to be the first woman with a leg amputated above the knee to climb Mount Everest.
"Governor Cuomo's inaction proves he does not understand the magnitude of the crisis — or he just doesn't care," said Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group.
And that status-quo-conscious Mommy, incarnated with steely silliness by Ms. Fraser, prefigures a host of hypocritical, life-stifling society ladies whom Mr. Albee will also render again and again.
The wildly successful dog revenge fantasy franchise John Wick is coming to premium cable, and expanding the film's universe beyond the steely gaze and monotone voice of Keanu Reeves' titular character.
With the lobby six flights up, arriving in the small and discreet street entrance — painted a steely gunmetal and hung with 19th-century portraits — feels like stepping into a private club.
"There's been a creeping anger that the city isn't doing more to prevent these deaths," said Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group for pedestrians and cyclists.
To win this long overdue stare-down with China, Washington needs a totally unified and bipartisan display of strength and steely American resolve -- much like the nation showed after 9/11.
Beneath the cuddly animal politics is a working mother who's grown her business into an international brand with rising profits and a steely dedication to design that flatters women, not trends.
Finally, Dekmantel have been too good to us this week, sharing both a steely podcast from Illum Sphere and the rolling Italo tones of Shanti Celeste's set from Lente Kabinet Festival.
Walter Becker, the guitarist and songwriter who made suavely subversive pop hits out of slippery jazz harmonies and verbal enigmas in Steely Dan, his partnership with Donald Fagen, died on Sunday.
You don't endure a decade and a half of house arrest, opt not to see your dying husband in England and endure separation from your children without a steely patriotic conviction.
For Ms. Choi, 210, a grandmother with large brown eyes and a steely fortitude, getting the rest of her family to South Korea was the most important thing left in life.
Though there were times when she thundered her serve and crushed groundstrokes, there were also more than a few moments when she lacked her hallmark first-step speed and steely anticipation.
This year, we loved her in her award-winning role as the stiletto-wearing, steely divorce attorney in Marriage Story, and as Marmee March in Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women.
" Yet, while Professor Whiteley believes it would be an earthquake were Mr. Hunt to win, he notes that he is no pushover, and sees him as a "polite but steely figure.
Writing in The New York Times, Stephen Holden said she stars "with such steely authority that you are hard pressed to imagine another actress playing the imperious, largely unsympathetic title character."
From the beginning of the race, the senators from Massachusetts and Minnesota, along with Harris, have tried to project toughness, steely determination, a willingness to fight and a thirst for confrontation.
He is every person who's felt unloved by the Chinese bureaucracy, and he's infinitely more sympathetic than the steely-eyed men and women trying to control the narrative around his death.
" Michelle Sobel, Denver But if Ms. Streep is unavailable: "Sandra Bullock as Hillary Clinton, because I think she could do steely politician but also show the emotional toll of the campaign.
I imagined slaves traveling through treacherous terrain, with bleary eyes and a lingering sense of trepidation, but with a steely determination to live in a country that would affirm their humanity.
But the show's third season hopes to get a boost from across the pond from the "Bake Off" judge Paul Hollywood, who will assess these pastries with his usual steely glint.
"Taking a fast, fair and open internet away from the public would be a real mistake," a somber and steely-eyed Wheeler told reporters after the FCC's monthly meeting on Thursday.
Steely shinned and lightning handed, he took Superlek to task in Round 5 and dominated the field of battle like a latter day Roman general quelling unrest in an unruly province.
In the 1920s, steely capitalists worried that such indolent fat cats would undermine entrepreneurship while fiery radicals ridiculed their only work as picking up a ticket at the opera box office.
As she told me this, she didn't shiver or cry, but I did, because I recognized that steely face, one born from a life of struggle and a casualization of brutality.
Maybe Jeff Buckley trying to sound like The Beach Boys of Smiley Smile, with minor genuflections to Elliott Smith, Steely Dan, Radiohead, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Morrissey, Brian Eno, and Bjork.
The FBI director, in his deadpan way, characteristically unleashed a new chain of political consequences Monday, in hours of steely testimony before a House hearing examining Russian meddling in the presidential election.
Still, Trump was everywhere: The office was wallpapered with 8-foot-high posters of the man, all steely and severe (his trademark look), each one emblazoned with a different "Trumpism": Think Big!
Her steely eyed performance as a vampire warrior whose shiny black pants never lose their perfect polish is the foundation of the franchise, the blood from which it draws its life force.
Whatever happens, he and his steely wife (Claire Foy) get on with the job in hand, with none of the rhetoric or histrionics there would be in a more conventional Hollywood biopic.
Or, maybe your Scorpio boss has seemed nearly impossible to read for the last few months — that's just their Plutonian energy working, and there are ways to break through that steely facade.
His Steely Dan partner Donald Fagen later told Billboard that Becker was "recovering from a procedure" and hopefully would be "fine very soon," but did not elaborate on Becker's surgery or prognosis.
But it's the way she approaches Zoller beforehand that feels more poignant — a flash of sympathy that dooms her, a rare and fatal moment of softness from a character of steely resolve.
Let's just say there are a lot of Karen disciples running around, you can recognize them by their swagger, their sense of joy, and their steely, don't-fuck-with-me internal will.
Enter Conducta, a young Bristol-native who's garnered a bit acclaim for layering steely garage clangs upon classic R&B top lines—resulting in party-ready dancefloor beasts with a nostalgic flair.
Her vast experience in Washington is about as formidable as we have seen in any recent campaign and her steely attitude in the face of vicious attacks should make Trump supporters worry.
Toronto R&B singer Jon Vinyl's latest video release for "Star-Crossed" is a sweet and sentimental look at that innocent love, and it will melt even the most steely of hearts.
She stands up to the ruthless breakbeat that propels "Romeo" forward; she's rock-solid within cacophonous lead single "Ch-Ching"; she gives the bruised "Crying in Public" a steely, self-aware core.
The next morning, sprung out of jail after his second DUI and back home with his high school sweetheart Lynne (played with steely determination by Amy Adams), Cheney reveals his sentimental side.
Perhaps that's why Demi Adejuyigbe's mashup of Danzig's classic "Mother" with Steely Dan's "Dirty Work" is so striking: it manages to make this little ball of black-maned rage sound almost calm.
As an executive producer on "Marvel's Hero Project," a new Disney+ docuseries about youths influencing positive change in their communities, she'd need the steely heart of a supervillain to avoid tearing up.
In the face of a No campaign that has been emotive to the point of hysterical -- graphic posters shock tourists in the capital -- the Yes campaign has taken on a steely resilience.
At nine feet long and nearly 1,000 pounds, with a steely black sheen and a price of more than $200,000, the Steinway & Sons D-274 concert grand piano seemed designed to intimidate.
She opened her locker room to television cameras and gave viewers an unfiltered look at her demanding style, her steely glare and her unapologetically withering remarks to her players and to referees.
Clinton had "389 more pledged delegates than we have, and a lot more superdelegates" — a reference to party leaders that drew boos from the audience and a steely look from Mrs. Clinton.
The truly steely player (never me, if I can help it) opts to "wear" it: Keeping his bat out of the way, he lets the ball strike his chest, shoulder or back.
Critic score: 57%Audience score: 74%Netflix description: "Two steely former Texas Rangers are tasked with tracking and killing infamous criminals Bonnie and Clyde in this crime drama based on real events."
Besides hurting Zuma, the ruling is a vindication for the soft-spoken but steely lawyer described by Mogoeng as "the embodiment of the Biblical David" fighting against the Goliath of state corruption.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump's views — on issues including immigration, encryption, antitrust regulation and free trade — as well as his overall tone and temperament have been met with steely opposition by many in tech.
The above is the opening line from the Steely Dan classic "Black Friday," which paints a dismal picture of a day that is the busiest of the year for the nation's retailers.
Although Steely Dan arrived as a full band on its 20083 debut album, "Can't Buy a Thrill," it soon recast itself as the Becker-Fagen songwriting team, backed by select session musicians.
It is the rare golf arena where Woods has blended into the scenery, perhaps because the Ryder Cup required collaboration with players he routinely bent to his will with a steely stare.
Her portrayal of Tish — a pregnant 19-year-old who's trying desperately to exonerate her love, Fonny, after he's unjustly accused of a crime — is both vulnerable and steely, determined and hurting.
A steely defence by the U.S. forced the Greeks to take a barrage of difficult perimeter shots while the champions took advantage of their athleticism at the other end of the court.
The Ohio-based company's ability to create a unique animation every day, no matter the circumstances (or the fatigue level), is a testament to a steely work ethic and a regenerative imagination.
Still, Minnie's tenacious determination came through in the steely fervor of Ms. Sampson's performance, especially in her dealings with Dick Johnson, the rootless stranger who turns out to be the bandit Ramerrez.
But he feels it must be liberated from its self-appointed guardians: people like the film's steely dance teacher who insists, implausibly, that there is nothing sensual about the gyrations he demands.
Ms. Baye, one of the great living French screen actresses, is steely and magnificent, even as it is Ms. Bry who finally captures the film's energy and the sympathy of the audience.
At the Midwest regional final that season in Iowa City, no Tennessee player better embodied her steely temperament and tenacity than Harper, then a sophomore point guard whose birth surname was Jolly.
But from her first scene, in which she reads aloud Macbeth's letter explaining the mysterious prophesies of the witches, Ms. Netrebko sang with a mesmerizing blend of steely resolve and seductive allure.
It played songs from its old repertory with Rochereau and his onetime wife, M'bilia Bel; Blandine, a Congolese singer now based in Toronto, gave Ms. Bel's material grace with a steely core.
A pair of two-day concerts set for Los Angeles and New York this summer will feature Fleetwood Mac; the Eagles; Steely Dan; the Doobie Brothers; Journey; and Earth, Wind and Fire.
The image of a steely champion dissolved in emotion was perhaps the exact match for a time that took us, cruelly and inexorably, from the first black president to… well, you remember.
Costume jewelry drapes across her collarbone; remnants of a full face of glittery makeup are evident around her eyes, which stare into the distant skyline with a steely glare worthy of Eartha Kitt.
I gave the dude a steely look and downed my glass of whiskey, then the photographer I'd brought with me turned her camera on him while I asked him why he wasn't smiling?
So it's not a shock when — after an afternoon spent wearing down Hannah's steely resolve into something softer and more malleable — Chuck finally reveals himself to be the creep she suspected all along.
But a new push to praise him as China's "core" leader, a term resonant with the formidable stature once held by Deng Xiaoping, suggests that his steely quest for dominance is not over.
Friends describe Camilla as "gentle and honest," but there is a recognition, too, of her steely side as she faced heavy criticism for her role in the demise of Charles and Diana's marriage.
Woods had never lost a 54-hole lead at a major, going a perfect 14-for-14, before Yang chased him down with a steely two-under-par 70 in the final round.
Known for her steely sideline demeanor and intense glare, Summitt recorded 1,098 career victories, the most in Division I college basketball history for a men's or women's coach, before stepping down in 2012.
Talking to him was like talking to a Steely Dan character with a moral compass: He more than witnessed pivotal moments of pop and world history, and he reminisced with smoke-toned humor.
These songs have steely, self-aware cores Polachek reunited with her teenage opera teacher while recording the album, and her training gave her voice new power and clarity you can hear throughout Moth.
In his Piano Sonata No. 1 (dedicated to the writer Thomas Mann), the music's jaunty, street-smart energy blends with pungent harmonies to create a steely tension that sometimes brings to mind Shostakovich.
Similarly, Paul Steely White, Bird's director of safety policy and advocacy, told Gizmodo in a statement that:Safety precedes everything we do at Bird, and operators and cities alike must act to improve safety.
Camouflage-clad members of the Defense Ministry's "Youth Army" stood in perfect formation, staring steely-eyed ahead as veterans of the Communist youth league, the Komsomol, delivered speeches extolling the continuity of generations.
Played with a steely sweetness that suggests cotton candy spun from picture wire, Deborah Rush's Bunny (and, yes, you may call her that) is the chairwoman of an unspecified group of unhappy people.
He certainly had steely power when called for, whether pledging to rout Ethiopian foes or crying in despair when, entombed alive as a traitor, he discovers that Aida has hidden herself with him.
ALBANY — A'ja Wilson's father named her after a Steely Dan album, coached her when she wanted to learn soccer, and taught her to throw a spiral when she developed an interest in football.
Released in 1993 and set shortly after the millennium, Kamakiriad — the second solo record by Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen — takes place in a future United States that's being ravaged by climate change.
Pierre Godé, a French lawyer whose steely negotiation skills and strategic vision made him the éminence grise of the world's largest luxury group, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has died in Nice, France.
Steely play may be in order at the redesigned Magnolia, where the tee has been moved back 40 yards, but Mickelson told reporters on Tuesday that he was taking it in his stride.
Skip ahead to 2012, when, in its fall campaign, Prada balanced the winsome youth of the actors Jamie Bell and Garrett Hedlund with the steely eyed bravado of Gary Oldman and Willem Dafoe.
Although the Cuban missile crisis had for decades been misrepresented as an example of a steely-eyed American president staring down a retreating Soviet Union, the truth was later revealed in declassified documents.
Year: 2001, at the 43rd Grammy AwardsWhat beat it: "Two Against Nature" by Steely Dan"Kid A" is one of the most innovative alt-rock albums and profound musical statements in recent memory.
"This will scar him," said the English former world number one, who was also renowned for his steely on-course focus while racking up six major titles during his Hall of Fame career.
Instead, the movie focuses on the community that the bombings intended to tear apart, and how Boston and its surrounding towns came together, imperfectly but with a steely determination, to apprehend the culprits.
The series stars Pierce Brosnan as Eli McCullough, the family's steely patriarch, who was captured by Comanches as a teenager in 1849 and later becomes a cattle rancher with a violent, vengeful streak.
Over the course of her 12-year career, we've seen her evolve from a curly-haired, acoustic guitar-strumming dreamer, to a steely woman ready to defend her "reputation" to a world of haters.
Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a nonprofit advocacy group for pedestrians and cyclists, said the City Council should wait to move forward on the legislation until the study is released.
She brings grit and steely resolve to a character that's as far from Queen Elizabeth II as humanly possible, and hints at a wide range that hopefully will get better opportunities to be showcased.
The stories of characters from "French Pictures" like Lilly White and Sweet Priscilla conjure the aftermath of acid and Vietnam protests, over a soundscape delivered by a band that conjures a deranged Steely Dan.
Her steely, superficial mother, Rosie (an excellent Jennifer Aniston, maybe you've heard of her), is the former champion and current pageant organizer, and never made her plus-size daughter feel welcome in that space.
Though Casey is a clear figure of audience identification and his seduction into the sensei's world of steely masculinity and brute confidence is understandable, the sensei always looks a little silly from the outside.
A brisk materialist who thinks that "people are small next to physics" and interprets love as no more than a "Darwinist illusion", she shares a steely detachment with the female sleuths of Nordic noir.
His Democratic rival Hillary Clinton is also maneuvering in the wake of the attacks, portraying herself as the kind of steely and calm commander-in-chief Americans traditionally turn to in times of crisis.
Confidence is coming back to the electronics giant however, as it gears up for the release of its new flagship phone next year – the Galaxy S22017 – with a "steely resilience", a source told CNBC.
His resume, his steely resolve, and his willingness to leave the comforts of the vice presidential mansion at the U.S. Naval Observatory for a harrowing trip to the Salvadoran jungles mades that abundantly clear.
For most of the film, Smurf was scary but on the sideline, and Ms. Weaver used her piercing eyes, steely one moment and unfocused the next, to suggest the depravity she was capable of.
LONDON (Reuters) - Elise Christie knows from bitter experience how fragile Olympic dreams can be in the rough, tough world of short-track speed skating but Britain's golden hope goes to Pyeongchang with steely determination.
Beneath their poised and approachable exteriors, it was also clear that the former and current first ladies share a steely determination to make headway in the fight to improve the lives of Afghan women.
While Tsai is known for her steely calm and understated manner, Freddy Lim is famous for his over-the-top stage antics as the frontman for Chthonic, one of Asia's leading black-metal bands.
The gradualism of the current overhaul has a steely edge that the banks and their lobbyists have, for the most part, not been able to resist, supporters of the new rules also point out.
He had been told by a UMG executive that one of the most powerful men in the music industry, Irving Azoff, was asking questions about the loss of Steely Dan masters in the fire.
Sorrentino's camera relishes the ridiculous, taking its time pulling back to reveal the scope of Pius's adoring masses gathered in the square or homing in on a steely glint glancing off the pope's eye.
Many Democrats wore black to convey solidarity with the #MeToo movement, sitting steely-eyed through Mr. Trump's recitation of feats and grumbling loudly as he attributed violent crimes to an "open borders" immigration policy.
Before his fingers had reached the volume knob to turn off Steely Dan, I already knew: My bookish and tightly wound father was about to tell me something I did not want to hear.
Ms. Manville — a paradigm of steely indirection in her brilliant Oscar-nominated performance in last year's "Phantom Thread" — is in fully aggressive attack mode as Mary, and she sets the pace for the others.
In its 1970s heyday, Steely Dan avoided playing live at all; now it keeps a steady schedule of 60 or 70 shows a year, including an annual run at the Beacon in New York.
I'll always be proud of those Met Gala pics- not just because I felt beautiful, surrounded by art and magic, hugging my best friend tightly, but because they're evidence that women contain steely multitudes.
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Will win/should win: Regina King King already has a Golden Globe for her steely portrayal of the concerned mother in "If Beale Street Could Talk," standing out amid a strong ensemble.
Now in stable condition in the ICU of Houston Methodist Hospital as he's being being treated for pneumonia, Bush's friends are convinced that the 92-year-old's steely constitution will once again pull him through.
Those scenes stand in stark contrast to the steely figure she presents post-assassination, one preoccupied by the optics of her husband's funeral to the chagrin of President Johnson (John Carroll Lynch) and his advisors.
Experts said the launch, which came after five failed tests including one earlier on Wednesday, marked progress in North Korea's weapons programme, and underlined Kim's steely determination as well as his patience with scientists involved.
It featured New York hip-hop greats (DJ Premier, Jay-Z) among the South's increasingly in-demand stars (Lil Wayne, Jeezy, T-Pain), plus samples from varied icons like Daft Punk, Steely Dan, and Can.
But since my migratory patterns are keyed to the reporting I do during the election cycle, I associate Iowa with steely skies, skeletonized trees, humans bundled up like Michelin men and campaigning like it's 1999.
She's got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital; and as I snap out of my trance I slap my forehead in astonishment.
All the gravity afforded a royal saga is in the designs, including tech and architecture â€" jagged but fleet flying machines and glittering, steely spires â€" and it all fits the mood of majestic mystery.
After knocking back the poisoned wine Jaime offers her (+20 Olenna, +25 Jaime), she delivers the only parting shot befitting the Queen of Thorns: a steely eyed brag about murdering Joffrey back in season 4.
Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a pedestrian and cyclist group, called the improvements "piecemeal," arguing that the city should move faster on street redesigns and devote more officers to target reckless drivers.
The road to Timbuktu Author and journalist Nicholas Jubber paints a remarkable picture of steely determination and true grit in new book "The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Across the Sahara in the Shadow of Jihad".
We have seen how she can keep her steely demeanor even in the midst of an onslaught of televised attacks from opponents and that she knows how to get under the skin of an adversary.
Right now, he's intimating that he'll testify under oath and that he (may) release recordings of his exchange with Comey—both things that make it look like he's as steely in his resolve as Comey.
Any pro on the Tour will say that the physical differences among players — distance off the tee, striking the ball consistently, hitting greens in regulation — are not nearly as critical as steely, steady mental makeup.
But her experience, temperament, knowledge and steely, steady resolve, puts her heads and shoulders above Trump who has proven to be temperamentally, dangerously unfit, uniquely unqualified and wholly unprepared to be our Commander in Chief.
By summoning remarkable poise and steely resolve in the highest-stakes moment of her career, the big-serving Pliskova became the first Czech woman to reach the U.S. Open final since Helena Sukova in 222.
And then, to top it off, He looks into the camera, making a connection with anyone who is watching, speaking to the world with one steely look: You think I can't do it to you?
On the strength of a his knack for melody (and few steely collaborations with some of the greatest working Spanish-language rappers and singers), his joyously ominous take on trap sounds has become wildly popular.
An obituary on Monday about the guitarist and songwriter Walter Becker, who founded the band Steely Dan with Donald Fagen, referred incorrectly to the band China Crisis, whose album "Flaunt the Imperfection" Mr. Becker produced.
Scott Hull, who mastered Kamakiriad as well as Steely Dan's Grammy-winning Two Against Nature and Fagen's most recent solo album, 2012's Sunken Condos, recalls their discussions having little to do with the narrative.
For the first time since Walter Becker's passing in 2017, Donald Fagen and Steely Dan will be performing several of the band's most beloved albums in their entirety during their semiregular residency at the Beacon.
Spurs won by 2-0 at White Hart Lane, but Chelsea's steely display ensured the destiny of the title remains in its hands with four matches left: against Middlesbrough, West Bromwich Albion, Watford and Sunderland.
While Mr. Bloomberg sought to project a steely calm on Thursday during a swing through Utah, he and his team have been left to explain away a comedown that exposed some of his gravest liabilities.
Clinton's confidence in her position in the race, since her steely performances in all three debates, has stemmed more from her opponent's gaping deficiencies than from any soaring popularity she has engendered on her own.
He claims he can go down rabbit holes with the things he is passionate about: He loves tabletop board games like The Settlers of Catan and Pandemic; he really likes indie rock and Steely Dan.
As Tracey, the resident brainiac of a struggling software firm, Ms. Munn is not only a potential romantic partner for the chief technical officer (Jason Bateman), but she's also the steely mind steadying the madness.
"   The way to counter such a multi-layered propaganda ploy is not with a John Foster Dulles-esque snub, but with a steely smile and firm handshake, telling Pyongyang's propagandists, "I've heard much about you.
Mr. Becker, who died on Sunday at 211, founded Steely Dan — which was more of a protean studio project than a band with any set personnel — with Mr. Fagen, his perennial musical partner, in 260.
Steely Dan's second album, "Countdown to Ecstasy," finds a couple of New York kids growing tired of the ego worship and iridescent temptations of Los Angeles, where they had moved to work for Mr. Katz.
In the second chapter of Steely Dan's life, Mr. Becker stepped comfortably into the role of lead guitarist (he still recorded the bass parts too); this track ends with a minute of his terse soloing.
That leaves us with Mathieu Plainfossé's rich cinematography, and sometimes it's enough: His windblown plains and steely skies, throbbing sunsets and soaring derricks have a resonance and nobility that McNeely's sorry struggles will never possess.
But judging by the cool, steely eyed hunger exhibited in the trailer, Debbie and her fellow women masterminds are taking down this cultural institution just because they can, just to prove they're smarter than the organizers.
The BJP is counting on Irani's fame to dent Gandhi's winning margin -- a role that fits her image as a steely but dutiful daughter of India, which stems from the well-known soap character she played.
Here's a sampling: After he sweeps away our garlic-soaked crumbs, Hector declares that he is a huge fan of Steely Dan (the band, not William S. Burrough's prop that, er, electrifies the masterful Naked Lunch).
Kathleen is relentlessly animated and quick-witted, with thick tangerine hair, steely eyes, and an endearing personal idiolect that suggests both an autodidactic reading in philosophy and economics and the gusty crudity of the merchant marine.
Over the years, Hell's Teutonic powerhouse became the imprint for anyone out there making steely acidic electro and techno, with the likes of Der Zyklus, Princess Superstar, and Tiga zipping in and out of the roster.
For his part, the comedian Patton Oswalt—who was married to McNamara when she died and helped finish her book—suggested the writer's steely focus on the killer was part of what led to DeAngelo's arrest.
Mayer Hawthorne, "The Valley" As a huge Steely Dan fan, it's a pleasure to hear Mayer Hawthorne use his near-unparalleled skill as a revivalist to recreate the feel of that band's louche '70s jazz-rock.
In a twist of irony, she is played by Agata Kulesza, who starred as the steely Jewish aunt and former Stalinist prosecutor in "Ida"; her latest role has all the grit but none of the glamour.
He described his work as "emo music for gangbangers," a designation nebulous enough that anything Greedo created—from mauve and pink pop, to steely gangster rap, to what-the-fuck sound experiments—could fit the bill.
"It's called 'Unafraid and Unashamed,' " Mr. Raven, 45, said, displaying a giant print of his masterwork: Mr. Trump with steely blue eyes, a soaring eagle, a map of the United States and an undulating American flag.
Back then she presented herself as a steely and even hawkish Democrat who held some views — opposing gay marriage, supporting free trade, and championing the rights of gun owners — that she has shifted since her defeat.
Teddy has Efron's steely good looks and mind-boggling physique — he's so toned that if you squeezed his pecs, his biceps would probably fly out and flex à la Johnny Bravo — but he's also deeply unhappy.
Steely Dan's musical surfaces were sleek and understated, smooth enough to almost be mistaken for easy-listening pop, and polished through countless takes that earned Mr. Becker and Mr. Fagen a daunting reputation as studio perfectionists.
But during intense confrontations with Elektra, Ms. van den Heever cut loose with steely outbursts that showed inner strength you don't normally detect in the this character, making her seem, however fleetingly, like Elektra's soul mate.
McDonald, who got his big break as a backup singer on Steely Dan's "Katy Lied," suggests that Bruner is pulling off something similar to what Walter Becker and Donald Fagen accomplished with their band decades ago.
OBITUARIES An obituary on Monday about the guitarist and songwriter Walter Becker, who founded the band Steely Dan with Donald Fagen, referred incorrectly to the band China Crisis, whose album "Flaunt the Imperfection" Mr. Becker produced.
Yet contrary to their stereotype as idealistic and apathetic, and with the steely pessimism of seasoned political operatives, younger voters expressed a cleareyed understanding that their efforts to lobby their relatives would not necessarily be successful.
"Even in the midst of their crime-ridden, drug-addled neighborhood, Moore's people have a steely kind of faith," our colleague Elisabeth Egan writes in Group Text, a new monthly column suggesting picks for book groups.
Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group, recalled that cyclists were often treated as second-class citizens and had to fight for what little space they could claim on the streets.
Holding reins one-handed, hearing the sharp splat of a smacked ball, seeing the pony's nostrils flaring as I charged forward with steely intent — surely, I felt, I was only several lessons away from going pro.
She was bulletproof from the moment she decried "the fictional narrative" that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 US election and showed her authority in a way that was somehow steely and disarming at the same time.
Now that he has effectively secured the GOP nomination, Trump should embrace what this author calls the "Iron Quadrilateral," which consists of four major, and mutually reinforcing, geopolitical imperatives that should be pursued with steely determination.
But Konta is playing inspiring tennis lately, reaching milestones not touched by British women in decades, and all around her people are starting to believe that she has what it takes to follow Murray's steely lead.
My introduction to Fisher was the same as most people's: staring up at a screen in wide-eyed admiration and wonder as her steely Princess Leia took Star Wars by storm and sheer force of will.
And then there is Irving Azoff, the bombastic super-manager of the Eagles, Steely Dan, Van Halen, Christina Aguilera and other stars, who made his reputation in the 1970s by securing top-dollar deals for his clients.
The earliest Hosono records of the time have a warm, full-studio feeling that sounds more indebted to the sleazy yacht-rock of Steely Dan or the Doobie Brothers than anything that would later come from YMO.
Anastasia displays a distinctly not-steely resolve in Darker by agreeing to go to dinner with her ex ("Because I'm...hungry") and ends up sliding off her panties under the table (Did they even get food??). CLASSIC.
Though the men are worried about what people will think of them — a band of 13 men, traveling with one woman — Mary is steely and determined and devoted to their work, undaunted by their disapproval of her.
Her constant trolling, which involved maintaining a steely resolve in the face of his own slimy provocations, won her the debates and settled the most fundamental question of the election: Who has the temperament to be president?
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi impressed Mr. McConnell with her steely resolve during years of house arrest, which kept her from visiting her dying husband, and her refusal to leave for countries offering refuge, the senator said.
Libby Lamm is a former top national security advisor who, while working with Rachel Burke, a ruthless, steely-willed political veteran, signed off on a controversial military action that was supposed to end the war on terror.
However, when the presence of Soviet missiles on Cuban soil threatened the world with a nuclear conflagration a year-and-a-half later, JFK's steely resolve made Nikita Khrushchev blink and withdraw the missiles, enraging Fidel Castro.
Her songs, which she described as East African retro-pop, looked toward the sparseness of Arabic music, accompanying her voice — gentle at first, then revealing a steely core — with oud, percussion, electric bass and a backup singer.
Then it turns to the road-trip imagery of "American Surfaces" and the steely precision of "Uncommon Places" — landmarks in photographic history that scandalized an establishment convinced the camera could find beauty solely in black-and-white.
The trainee, who took the lead on the appointment, had an absolutely perfect mixture of youthful sweetness and a steely determination to prove that she was ready for whatever this job was going to throw at her.
So, I'm still listening to women and the albums they've made, and so I was sort of torn about whether to interrupt what I was pleasurably doing to listen to some Steely Dan, and I did that.
In remarks in Brussels, Europe's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, adopted a steely tone, insisting that Britain must commit to preventing unfair competition if it wants access to the market of 450 million Europeans without tariffs and quotas.
It's thrilling to occasionally hear Headey bust out the steely I'm-in-charge-so-piss-off voice that she perfected on Thrones, but those occasional moments of recognition don't break the spell that Age of Resistance weaves.
"On the U.S. side, the tradition has been steely resolve and preparation," said Dennis C. Blair, a retired admiral and head of the United States Pacific Command who went on to serve as director of national intelligence.
If it all sounds a little like "The Godfather" -- the privileged son destined for better things reluctantly drawn into the family business, but oddly suited to it with his steely, cool-headed nerve -- rest assured, it is.
Dismissed as a "kid," Jordan brings steely resolve to the role -- having to convince his client that he's up to the task -- with Stevenson's track record in the years since this early case adding an additional wallop.
MARGRETHE VESTAGER, the steely Dane who forged her global reputation by waging war on Silicon Valley tech firms and corporate tax dodgers, was offered a rare second term as the European Commission's competition tsar earlier this month.

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