Both Calvin Palmer (played by Ice Cube), the struggling small businessman in "Barbershop," and Devon Miles (Mr. Cannon), the young musician in "Drumline," must contend with their share of adversity, including the threat of poverty.
So when Annapolis played an efficient first half in Wednesday's Class 4A-3A East Region championship game, taking a two-goal lead late in the first half, the Falcons had some unfamiliar adversity to contend with.
For the majority of his time in charge, Pressley was generally viewed by fans as a popular, engagingly frank character, who motivated his team well in adversity, but had to contend with the distracting backdrop of the club's off-field woes.
And "The Imitation Game" also must contend with another 2014 movie about a British genius overcoming adversity -- the Stephen Hawking biopic "The Theory of Everything".
And "The Imitation Game" also must contend with another 2014 movie about a British genius overcoming adversity -- the Stephen Hawking biopic "The Theory of Everything". Reviews for both of these films have been fine -- "Imitation" sits at 68 on the review aggregator site Metacritic, while "Theory" rests at 72 -- suggesting that neither will win many critics prizes.
The pair must contend with extraterrestrial law enforcement and a nosy earth-bound social worker, and their triumph over these adversities involves the usual Disney blend of comic anarchy, musical numbers and heart-tugging sentimentality.
The pair must contend with extraterrestrial law enforcement and a nosy earth-bound social worker, and their triumph over these adversities involves the usual Disney blend of comic anarchy, musical numbers (this time with an Elvis theme) and heart-tugging sentimentality.
There were greater things to contend with.
Neo-leftists contend with free-market capitalists.
"You have to contend with it.
Then, there were fiefdoms to contend with.
