Sentence examples for resorting to shots from inspiring English sources

He did not have much training, and struggled with his nerves, resorting to shots of vodka before each meeting.

And it fits with the film's reserve that it never resorts to shots of trains plunging into tunnels – leave that to a saucy working-class lad like Hitchcock.

Shorn of a cutting edge when Ulloa was carried off after 56 minutes, Brighton resorted to shots from long range, with Andrews going the closest to testing Kirkland.

The authors, mindful of the moral weight of this accretion of information, are wise enough to maintain a restrained tone, rarely becoming judgmental or resorting to cheap shots.

The Belgian gameplan went out of the window as their midfield retreated and left the front players isolated, and Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard were resorting to hopeful shots from distance even before Robson-Kanu theted the match decisively in Wales' favour.

I began resorting to defensive slice shots.

Far too often, we've seen defensive shells created around penalty areas, and attacking teams resorting to long-range shots or hopeful crosses with nobody to meet them.

Ruffled, Spain began resorting to long range shots or high crosses delivered from the flanks as they found themselves unable to penetrate down the center.

Unfortunately Curtis doesn't do a particularly good job of filming the action, resorting to prosaic mid-shots rather too often to develop a sense of spectacle.

Both humorous and dismissive about the importance of cartooning, he was wholly committed to the subversive posture: he maintained that cartoonists did not bring down governments, while asserting that it was absolutely necessary to look askance at what they were doing, and he was prepared to root out the darker side of a theme, though without ever resorting to a cheap shot.

Of course, we all say that we want thoughtful leaders who do not resort to cheap shots and below-the-belt punches.