He's hitting the ball hard, in the batting cage, and his whole attitude is improved over this time last year.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

In 1930, King blundered badly when he made overly partisan statements in response to criticism over his handling of the economic downturn, which was hitting Canada very hard.

In the latter case we may imagine that they were impressed by the degree of deformation suffered by lead sling-bullet after hitting a hard target.

Their defensive secondary was extremely hard hitting and talented, led by safeties Jack Tatum, George Atkinson, cornerback Skip Thomas and cornerback Willie Brown.

The work favoured hard hitting trochees and spondees reminiscent of middle English over gentile latinate sounds ; a style he used throughout his career.

" The 205-pound ( 93 kg ) Potvin, a three-time winner of the Norris Trophy for best defenseman, added that part of the problem in hitting Gretzky hard was that he was " a tough guy to dislike ... what was there to hate about Gretzky?

A seat belt reduces the likelihood and severity of injury in a traffic collision by stopping the vehicle occupant from hitting hard against interior elements of the vehicle or other passengers ( the so-called second impact ), by keeping occupants positioned correctly for maximum benefit from the airbag, if the vehicle is so equipped, and by preventing occupants being ejected from the vehicle.

* When " landing ," the performer will make a point of hitting the ground hard with the feet, and bending the knees to convince the spectators that the performer's feet were higher in the air than they actually were.

A new International Monetary Fund Structural Adjustment programme was introduced which led to an increase in the GDP whilst also eroding real incomes and hitting the middle-classes hard.

As a result, the Yuan trebuchets had a hard time hitting the fortress, and the few lucky shots that did hit the wall bounced off harmlessly.

Before eating its meal, a bee-eater removes the stinger by repeatedly hitting and rubbing the insect on a hard surface.

Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round wooden, plastic or metal bat.

British racing has rules that stop the jockey using the whip too much, such as: they are not allowed to raise their whip over their shoulder so stopping them hitting the horse too hard.

Intended to be a pre-release to Behind the Curtain, the as yet unreleased first album in Norman's Second Trilogy, first mentioned in 1983, Tourniquet was described by Dougie Adam as " perhaps Larry's deepest, most articulate album ever ... even more hard hitting than ' Only Visiting This Planet ' or ' Stranded in Babylon '".

During the next two minutes Ali relentlessly kept after Frazier, the mouthguard not being replaced until the bell, hitting Frazier with hard combinations when Frazier wasn't throwing punches, and when Frazier did throw, Ali used the openings left to inflict yet more damage.

One last comeback in 1992 resulted in a dreary points loss to ex-contender Carl Williams, but it was hard hitting Hispanic prospect Alex Garcia who convinced the usually durable Ocasio to retire-he decked Ocasio several times before knocking him out in the 8th.

He also co-presented the highly successful Radio 1 comedy talk show Loose Talk with Kevin Day, and is also a founder member of the London Comedy Store's hard hitting Cutting Edge show.

In the tenth month of the siege, famine was hitting Pavia hard and Desiderius, realising that he was left on his own, opened the gates to Charles and surrendered on some Tuesday in June.

With the late-2000s recession hitting the 18-35 demographic targeted by the CP + B created ads particularly hard, the company saw its market share decline and the company move into the red.

It was a hard pressed fight by both men, each displaying terrific hitting power for all six rounds of the short bout.

The lack of a fixed heel means that it is easy to go head-first into the snow when hitting a hard patch, but if centered on the skis and facing downhill, the skier is less likely to fall.

* " 10 the hard way "-after the third ball, having a frame score of 10 resulting from hitting the 5 pin and one 3 pin and one 2 pin on opposite sides of the headpin.

Outside the liner is a hard plastic shell and beyond that is whatever the helmet is hitting, which is usually an unyielding surface, like concrete pavement.

`` Neutral Tones '' we immediately recognize as a fine poem in Hardy's most characteristic style: the plain but not quite colloquial language, the hard, particular, colorless images, the slightly odd stanza-form, the dramatic handling of the occasion, the refusal to resolve the issue -- all these we have seen in Hardy's best poems.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

Because Capra's films often carry a message about basic goodness in human nature, and show the value of unselfishness and hard work, his wholesome, feel-good themes have led some to term his style " Capra-corn.

Tiptree / Sheldon was an eclectic writer who worked in a variety of styles and subgenres, often combining the technological focus and hard-edged style of " hard " science fiction with the sociological and psychological concerns of " soft " SF, and some of the stylistic experimentation of the New Wave movement.

After the entry of Bill Evans into his sextet, Davis followed up on the modal experimentations of Milestones ( 1958 ) and 1958 Miles ( 1958 ) by basing the album entirely on modality, in contrast to his earlier work with the hard bop style of jazz.

Modern enthusiasts have created standard PC style IDE hard disk adapters for real and simulated PDP-8 computers.

Rush's music style has changed over the years, beginning with blues-inspired heavy metal on their first album, then encompassing hard rock, progressive rock, and a period with heavy use of synthesizers.

Although a hard rock style was still evident, more and more synthesizers were introduced.

Musically, Test For Echo still retained much of the hard rock / alternative style already charted on the previous record with Lifeson and Lee's playing remaining more or less unchanged ; however, a distinct modification in technique became apparent in Peart's playing from his jazz and swing training under the tutelage of jazz instructor Freddie Gruber during the interim between Counterparts and Test For Echo.

Over the first few albums their style remained essentially hard rock, with heavy influences from The Who and Led Zeppelin but also became increasingly influenced by bands of the British progressive rock movement.

Beginning in Florence, there was an attempt to revive the dramatic and musical forms of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a simple accompaniment ; a more extreme contrast with the preceding polyphonic style would be hard to find ; this was also, at least at the outset, a secular trend.

However, Lang quantified this style by saying, " It's so hard to explain what Roy's energy was like because he would fill a room with his energy and presence but not say a word.

Mendes ' dominating visual style was deliberate and composed, with a minimalist design that provided " a sparse, almost surreal feeling — a bright, crisp, hard edged, near Magritte-like take on American suburbia "; Mendes constantly directed his set dressers to empty the frame.

He is a powerful centre defensive midfielder noted for his hard tackles and aggressive style of play.

Count Basie played a relaxed propulsive swing, Bob Crosby more of a dixieland style, Benny Goodman a hard driving swing, and Duke Ellington ’ s compositions were varied and sophisticated.

This made it hard to define what falls within the definition of a true dime novel, with the division depending on format, price, or style of material for the classification.

Although scholars like Bowra have concluded that his style must have changed with his setting, such a neat distinction is actually hard to prove from the existing verses, which are an intricate blend of

Moreover, the style is hard and poor ; a far superior replica exists in a torso in the Louvre.

Clemente ’ s Athletic acquired notoriety for its aggressive style of play, personified by hard man Goikoetxea.

The band's sound is considered a blending of the alternative rock of the 1980s and 90s with the hard rock of the 1970s, though the band is known for making each of their records possess a unique musical style, despite having the " sonic blueprint " of the band, as Robert DeLeo describes.

Gorky wrote incessantly, viewing literature less as an aesthetic practice ( though he worked hard on style and form ) than as a moral and political act that could change the world.

Historically, Blue Note has principally been associated with the " hard bop " style of jazz ( mixing bebop with other forms of music including soul, blues, rhythm and blues and gospel ).

Pianist Cecil Taylor recorded a brace of albums for Blue Note, and saxophonist Sam Rivers, drummer Tony Williams, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and organist Larry Young also recorded albums which diverged from the " hard bop " style usually associated with the label.