The difference is that the Rat Pack's gin-sodden original was plodding, preening, and almost unwatchable, while Soderbergh's remake is an irresistible, effervescent champagne-cocktail of a heist-movie.
Whether toting guns as Alex Drake or preening about as Lady Agnes in Upstairs Downstairs, Hawes always carries herself with a steely presence.
For Mrs Merkel now depends on either red or green to form a new government.In this section A new match for black Still a puppet master Budgetary blues Nasty fight ahead Preening Not so Calvinist any more Waiting for Angela ReprintsThis need shows what a paradoxical victory she won on September 22nd.
True, national leaders too often pin their failures on "Brussels" while preening any successes as their own.
France's Nicolas Sarkozy, as holder of the EU presidency, may be preening himself over the new ceasefire deal he struck with Russia's Dmitry Medvedev on September 8th, but in truth the war with Georgia has shown up the EU's vacillation.
Central government will shave a total of €1.5 billion off its spending.In this section A new match for black Still a puppet master Budgetary blues Nasty fight ahead Preening Not so Calvinist any more Waiting for Angela ReprintsMr Moscovici and Bernard Cazeneuve, his budget minister, call this effort a "turning point", unprecedented under the Fifth Republic.
The British government has long been quietly preening itself for its apparent success in ensuring the affordability of state pensions, in marked contrast with the United Kingdom's more profligate neighbours.
When the dust settles on the impeachment debate in Washington, many of those preening themselves in New Orleans last week may find they are being treated by the congressional party, once again, as provincial know-nothings.
THE capture of a Congolese warlord, Laurent Nkunda, surprised almost everyone, not least the preening man himself.
Since then, logos in PdL offices have been changed back to Forza Italia (Go, Italy), the name of the movement he established in 1994 that brought him his first political success.In this section A new match for black Still a puppet master Budgetary blues Nasty fight ahead Preening Not so Calvinist any more Waiting for Angela ReprintsThe name change is part of preparations for an election.
Many American conservatives find it preening or annoying.
