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All I can deduce from what I've seen is Eddie Murphy refusing to sell his club to the local Lunar mob (who also has some grandiose plan to takeover the Moon or whatever), and as a result, he and company are chased around for about 2 hours (I assume 2 hours).
Even more so, it would solidify the grandiose plan of physically linking Japan with Germany, a plan not likely to be effectuated.
At different times in his illustrious career, John Boorman has announced that his intention to make film versions of both The Lord Of The Rings, and Wagners "Ring" cycle.Like Scorsese's plans to do film biographies of Gershwin and Robert Johnson, or Coppola's plans to make versions of Faust and Pinocchio, these grandiose projects have come to nothing.
Nothing overblown and grandiose like "The Godfather" but a tight story that never bogs down, filled with real characters that stand out from the screen.
Yet another grandiose insult to the Native American people.
Betty Field at maybe her best performance at movies pictures; John Wayne at his first film in color after the grandiose The Stagecoach; Harry Carey in the Priest; Beulah Bondi at one of her characteristic works playing an embittered woman; the very used by master John Ford, War Bond.
Tex Avery's 'Page Miss Glory' is one of the most beautiful cartoons ever made, a parody of the live action musical of the same name, incorporating art-deco experimentation into a lush, grandiose musical extravaganza.
Wyatt Earp the film is the grandiose and much more realistic-seeming film.
By contrast, their greatest failures have come from funding grandiose projects that benefit the current elite, but do not properly balance environmental, social, and development priorities.
In Britain, Johnson stands for, well, Johnson, but his fellow Brexiteers are less interested in the Islamic threat than in a grandiose version of English nationalism.
Many grandiose Gaullist economic projects – from the Concorde supersonic airplane to a national computer industry – failed.
So, what is China’s rationale for pursuing this grandiose vision – one that so many countries, especially in the developing world, have embraced?
Trump has added some themes from the Republicans’ traditional anti-government agenda, but with his own grandiose twists.
Without adequate governance, oil revenues will be wasted on grandiose projects, corruption, or rearmament.
As grandiose as that claim may seem, the fact is that crossing the straits to Cuba signals a new, more open, and far more productive approach to relations with all of Latin America.
In a country where rail passengers cannot even expect a clean toilet, let alone an on-time arrival, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken of introducing bullet trains – the latest in a string of irrationally grandiose aspirations.
Good People, Bad JudgmentsNEW YORK – Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s wartime fascist leader whose name has become synonymous with collaboration with evil, lived with his wife in a rather grandiose villa outside of Oslo.
The terrorism, proxy wars, arms shipments, nuclear ambitions, and grandiose delusions emerging from Iran are part of an age-old struggle with which the Saudis have had enough.
But, without a degree of prudence based upon comprehension of the context, visions turn from grand to grandiose and undercut the values that they seek to promote.
While he has announced grandiose plans to increase the future supply of land for development, and has hiked the stamp duty twice, the market has figured out that he does not understand that he needs to manage expectations by removing obstacles in the current development pipeline.
Strongmen tend to self-destruct, owing to colossal mistakes that doom their grandiose ambitions.
Fortuyn, on a more modest Dutch scale, and Berlusconi, on a more grandiose Italian stage, had similar tastes.
When we cannot be sure how to improve the world, prudence becomes an important virtue, and grandiose visions can pose grave dangers.
Or, it is said, perhaps Putin plans to use next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi as a grandiose setting for a marriage proposal – and perhaps a wedding – to whoever comes next, possibly Kabaeva.
It has been a victim of its own grandiose dreams about its role in the world and place among Islamic nations, and often of intense emotionalism and an absence of calm, dispassionate logic.
By contrast, in China, the heads of national companies are well known for maintaining grandiose lifestyles.
Modi’s government has also revealed a fine talent for announcing grandiose schemes and failing to finance them.
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But, if the AIIB is to achieve its ambitious goals, which include a modern recreation of the ancient Silk Road trade route to Europe, China will have to overcome more than its neighbors’ reluctance; it will also have to contend with its citizens’ growing impatience with grandiose visions.
Wrong economic decisions, such as in the 1970’s, when Robert McNamara pushed grandiose, but environmentally devastating, infrastructure projects, have haunted the Bank for decades.
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