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Contest in sentence

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This time, she's a down-home gal and ace illustrator who wins a contest for her artwork to be used in a new children's book penned by the beloved Uncle Bumps, a modern-day Hans Christian Andersen.
I have it from an inside source the reason the series was canceled was because Eisner and Katzenberg were having a pissing contest.
Go weed the garden, watch a dog grooming contest, ANYTHING but suffer through this one.
One knows he is destined to be forever the dreamer, with some small triumphs ( a booking by a Russian for a lecture in Moscow, missed by Andre's absentmindedness, a winning of a video contest put on by SETI ).
Movie stated that competing at the shooting contest was Billy Dixon who died in 1913.
I do know that the Eurovision song contest isn't supposed to be taken seriously as a song contest otherwise the 1990s would have seen Blur , Oasis or The Verve as the UK contestants while Ireland fielded U2 with Air representing France etc .
In short this contest is not supposed to be taken seriously but come on at least pretend you're voting for the song you liked best , but alas politics comes into it .
All the countries of the former Yugoslavia voted for one another which can be seen as part of a healing process but be honest , do you think the ghosts of 278,000 dead Yugoslavs can be exorcised by a camp and cheesy song contest featuring more often than not Euro-trash ?
I attended the movie with two friends, one who is no longer able to do puzzles because of failing eyesight; the other for whom doing the Sunday New York Times puzzle has become a religious experience; we were all equally enthusiastic about the film, although we were all rooting for different people to win the contest.
The story begins with Terry(Joyce Hauser) is very upset when she does not win a Journalist contest.
Benny Perkins, the man who won a truck before and comes back to try the contest a second time, is a genuine cowboy genius.
His opinions on the contest and his philosophy of life are inspirational.
They miss people cheating in the contest, they miss Benny deciding to drop out, they even miss the most vital moment of the contest, when the first runner-up takes their hand off the truck.
Lana Turner goes back to school, but only to win a dance contest (which stipulates a college student wins) to star in a new movie starring Lee Bowman, whose wife is now pregnant and can't make the movie.
After a couple of banal showdowns follows a truly violent and merciless hunting contest that'll demand many lives!
Funniest moment in the movie...2 guys using the urinal...one says, hey, havin' some trouble there...don't worry not everyone has it all like me.....the other replies, ok, ok, you win the pissin contest, (pulls out a gun) but I win the shootin contest (shoots off one of his balls!!) CLASSIC
The sequence where the shark attacks a bunch of surfers during a big surfing contest is absolutely gut-busting.
Members of a debate team, and their adult coach, are heading for a contest in Phoenix when they have this misfortune of happening across drug-pushing thug searching for the partner he believes took off with their money and cocaine.
Told the tale of a newspaper reporter(Chapman) who has to miss a vacation(having won a "contest")with his girlfriend Angela, a scenario which, in the style it was filmed starts off very prosaic and normal until, as he narrates the entire film as a flashback, he finds her return plane had "gone off the radar" for 90 minutes, and returns, but delayed.
Sylvan Simon ain't Busby Berkeley!) but the dance contest sequence is excellent, with a special mention for TRAFFIC JAM, both for the music and for the staging.
While traveling in a van with their teacher for a contest, a group of college friends are abducted in a lonely road by the criminal Earl (Gregory Bastien), who forces them to go to the ghost town of Sunset Valley to meet his partner that was transporting drugs and money of their own.
Three likable leads (Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, and Jessica Lange) are pretty much wasted in gloppy, colorless comedy about suburban housewives--put-upon and desperate!!--scheming to rob a shopping mall of its contest booty.
Whitney Houston is fairly good as an actress, smiling and charming in her pleasanter days, and obviously her songs are very good--I hope no one will contest that she has an excellent voice (or did; does she even sing anymore?).
These fellas were ready for the Mr. Universe contest.
Instead, she enters into a film contest with her classmate Jamie.
7) The drama moment: the final scene where all of the above (yes, the principal too) come together in a dance contest that the for-some-reason-loaded dance teacher manages to get them into by paying a fortune.
This story could have brought out much emotion(Wayne's character's father being murdered and him returning as a lawyer to do in the killer) but it's pretty much kept at bay so that we're presented with a flat and typical gun-shooting contest.
One of my favourites is the character Graham Lister, played by Bob, who was Vic's nemesis, appearing on Novelty Island (a kind of talent contest) each week with another hilarious failure of an act, and addressing Vic with complete scorn as "Reeves".
The judges in the film kept talking about how the contest was "Beauty with a purpose", but i never got that was truly what the event was about.
The two main leads seem to be having a contest over who can come across the most annoying & it's a pretty tough call at the end of the day as they both obviously put a lot of effort into winning.
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