Word: upmanship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...petty, trivial and selfish one-upmanship her lawsuit reflects—particularly the fact that she is asking for money—turns my stomach and makes me wish she’d chosen Princeton...
Directorial one-upmanship and the censure of Friedkin’s predecessors for an overreliance on technology in action films perhaps lie behind such comments. Although moral lines become fuzzy within the film, the meta-filmic lines of combat stay fairly stable: Friedkin lives up to his goal, producing a nauseatingly violent action film without any key high-tech, high-caliber sequences...
...much sound and fury signifying nothing. Worse, it could be taken to signify that games haven't changed, that they're still the violent ghettoized preserve of teenage boys. If participants were to tone down their smoke and mirrors, turn away the aliens and cheerleaders, withdraw from the one-upmanship and TV-guest booking business and concentrate on what the E3 crowds really love, we might have a show worthy of this exciting emergent medium...
Gucci creative director TOM FORD and Gucci Group CEO DOMENICO DE SOLE are continuing their game of one-upmanship in their competition with luxury-goods rival LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and its chief, Bernard Arnault. In their effort to diversify Gucci's fashion line and acquire designers with buzz, Ford and De Sole have already raided cutting-edge London designer Alexander McQueen from LVMH. Now the pair are set to announce that Chloe's STELLA MCCARTNEY (a media-garnering celebrity favorite and Paul's daughter) is launching her own label under Gucci; red-hot fashion star Nicolas Ghesquiere will...
...perpetuating: when your adversary has spies trying to gather information, you need more spies to counter them. "It's very much the inertia of the cold war," says a former intelligence officer. On the other hand, it would be naive to believe spying is merely a game of one-upmanship. The world is still a dangerous place--as anyone within range of North Korea's missiles or Osama bin Laden's terrorists knows...