Bang Up

The regime's brutal crackdowns on political opposition -- particularly since the 2009 presidential election and resulting protests -- have also done a bang-up job of suffocating the Iranian people. ❋ Melody Moezzi (2011)

Pyr's been doing a bang-up job in their covers for Ian McDonald's work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Director Sam Holland has done a bang-up job with his debut feature “Zebra Crossings,” a story about four disenchanted UK youths and their hardscrabble lives amongst the blunt concrete apartment buildings in which they live. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Genre veteran Christopher Lloyd also gives a bang-up performance as the Elvin wizard Tesselink. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, on a totally unrelated note, Bryan Hitch (Ultimate Fantastic Four, JLA) is doing his usual bang-up job in the art department. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, the people we really scammed ran our newspapers, who never stopped hailing the bang-up job we were doing... which made it feel OK to make more compromises. ❋ Mark Heisler (2011)

Several opponents of the bill are saying there is a silver lining — that this will allow Republicans, who did such a bang-up job when they last controlled Congress and the Presidency, to get back in power. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Guess that what you get for doing such a bang-up job on the stirringly successful Ross Hunter campaign. blog comments powered by Disqus publicola nerds ❋ Unknown (2010)

Having done such a bang-up job solving Earth's problems, the U.N. is developing a plan to deal with little green men from outer space, London's Sunday Times reports: ❋ James Taranto (2010)

But Kerger already had done a bang-up job, de-clawing the question in her opening remarks, when she noted she's "extremely proud that for the seventh consecutive year, the public has named PBS the nation's most trusted institution, according to a national annual poll conducted by GfK Roper." ❋ Lisa De Moraes (2011)

In any case, he's doing a bang-up job of diminishing his presidential prospects. ❋ Unknown (2011)