Sentences with phrase «kids in my audience did»

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And what does the star investor and tech industry veteran (who made his first millions when he sold his computer consulting firm Microsolutions to CompuServe in 1990, before a lot of the kids in the audience were born) think about scrappy young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs trying to compete with him?

One mom may see her kids as an extension of her, and have no shame in doing whatever she wants, with them as a passive audience.

«My new bias, which I now embrace, is that I don't eliminate the Ivies in hiring, but I intentionally prefer kids from regular backgrounds and regular students,» he told an audience at the University of Florida, as quoted by Business Insider.

To our knowledge, never before has a videogame intervention been developed with such extensive input from its target audience, and tested through rigorous scientific methods over a long stretch of time, demonstrating that kids will engage in a game with serious content and learn things that impact the way they think and potentially what they do.»

You are raising kids; you write book after book for general audience in addition to research paper after research paper for a lay audience; you love, you know, regular stuff like Bugs Bunny cartoons and Mel Brooks movies and baseball — he's a Boston Red Sox fan [but what are you gonna do?].

She, the filmmakers, and maybe even a few of the kids in the audience have seen it all before — the comic book, the film based on the comic book, the winking that certain movies based on comic books start to do after a few sequels.

Not only did it not engage the adults, its lackluster story line didn't spread much illusion or magic over the kids in the audience either.

Maybe very young kids don't care about subtext in films like this, but I'm not writing for kids and this film is pitched at a broad audience.

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

Thunderbirds owes more to films like Spy Kids and the movie version of Lost in Space than it does to the original television series, so if you like slickly - made family sci - fi schlock targeted at the youngest of the audience members, you may not mind this mostly inferior knock - off.

And sitting in the theatre beforehand, witnessing trailers for the likes of Jack and Jill, Spy Kids 4D and Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (don't worry, I'd never heard of it either), it seems that in the realm of family comedies, not insulting your audience is becoming an increasingly rare thing.

Ripe for riffing, the popular»80s parody lends itself to some hilarious dissection as the hosts try to determine whether the Garbage Pail Kids are adults or prisoners in a state home for the ugly... Lovett and the hosts wrap up with some audience participation, yet questions remain about main character Juice and what exactly he does.

Did the same pearl - sporting PTA president berate you and diminish your mothering skills in front of a massive audience of head - tilting moms at your kids» school gym?

While some would argue that seven years is more than enough time for some kids to grow up with no knowledge of the previous Fantastic Four films or media, it's worth noting that the darker content and occasionally strong language in this film really do appeal to an older audience than its predecessors.

Levy does an amazing job of letting the adults in the audience join in the same kind of wonder that the kids surely feel; the kind of wonder that is not too often found in this day and age.

Again, not to disturb the kids in the audience, we do not see the injury or even hear about the extent of damage.

The kids are allowed to pass if they don't want to answer, which takes some of the pressure off, and the audience is invited to join in later.

[They're] using all the skill they need to solve it with a real audience and finding experts in that field — because kids can do that, and they get excited about what they're learning because they're solving a real problem.

The distinction sometimes is that Mr. Handler oops, Mr. Snicket doesn't write like a writer winking conspiratorially at the kids in the audience.

Looking around at the other boys and parents in the audience and shaking her head incredulously, she added, «I don't think many of the people in this room really feel in touch with their kids, especially not their boys.

Perhaps the fact that manga has a younger audience than American comics, which has always been considered a strength, is now a weakness: older collectors have money and like to spend it (and in fact, art - house manga publishers like Vertical and Drawn & Quarterly have weathered the storm better than most), but many teenagers don't have credit cards or paypal accounts to pay for things online, and for really young kids, free - to - play is what they know.

Braben noted that this kind of thinking on the reviewer's behalf is fine if his audience matches their work, «but for a review on TV, on a website for kids and adults or in the mainstream media, it does not.

In tune with his audience, Benigno doesn't focus on schools or other kid - centric links.