Sentences with phrase «about on the grand scale»

Indeed, I really mean most of us in Western culture, and so I will be making cultural generalizations about us on a grand scale.

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I don't mean societal expectations on a grand scale, what I have been thinking about are the expectations that I have of myself.

Unwinding that culture is going to take as many solutions as it can get, and I think we're at a point where we need to talk about shutting down systems that allow this sort of thing to happen on a grand scale.

I know if more people knew about how their food is produced across the board they would be very surprised on a grand scale.

This isn't something we can afford to do on a grand scale — should he and his colleagues be wrong about when people are and aren't contagious.

This was about money and markets on the grand scale, allegedly assembling guests worth # 11bn, and bringing together a gaggle of plutocrats that would make the traditional icons of the Tory party turn in their grave.

And the total number of birds we're talking about is on a grand scale that may not have been seen before,» she said.

By looking at things on the grandest cosmic scale, we can learn about the universe at the smallest scale.

As a scientist, he thinks about ways of tinkering with the planet on a grand scale to alleviate the effects of global warming.

But Pitt is also is fantasizer on a grand scale, something that bothers his case worker who warns him about cutting the flights of fancy out of his life.

More importantly than anything, it cuts close to the bone, with much of the film feeling like Gilliam confronting his own mortality: «for all the film's flaws, it feels like a very personal and moving piece of work as Qohen moves towards some kind of acceptance that his time on Earth will be brief in the grand scale of things... it's not so much a film about a search for a meaning, as an embrace of meaningless, and it's fascinating in that respect.»

Director Sergio Leone's final outing is an epic masterpiece on a grand scale that gets just about everything right.

So - called «destruction porn» is all about carnage on a grand scale, but Doctor Strange hinged on a scene in which Strange used the aforementioned Time Stone to literally rewind the scene unfolding before him and fight Kaecilius and Dormammu as the city of Hong Kong was rebuilt around him - a powerful metaphor for a character who is a brilliant surgeon.

We are literally about to screw up our assessment system on a grand scale just because NG is too stiff - necked to engage with school leaders and teachers.

Personally, I'd rather see people go get a small business loan if they want to start on a grander scale, but that's just my opinion — I'd rather my readers just buy & talk about my books to support me rather than donating.

This is history on a grand scale — a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far - reaching consequences of noble ideas.

Flurry points to drop off in yuletide download growth — Pocketgamer.biz The Dutch want gaming startups to sprout like tulips (interview)-- Gamesbeat Casual Connect 2014 • Drie Nederlandse winnaars bij Indie Prize award show — Control Portrait of a Pretentious Game — Rappler Casual Connect 2014 • De succesfactoren van Reus, de godgame met een indieprijskaartje — Control Grand Cru: Console devs are «utterly failing» at in - app purchases — Pocketgamer.biz Game makers beware: Virtual goods purchases are about to be regulated — Gamesbeat Casual Connect 2014 • Een bedrijf opstarten doet niemand voor je, vergeet niet te relaxen en wees een ster — Control Asian companies account for nine of the top 10 game mergers and acquisitions — Gamesbeat The Godus amongst us: Molyneux talks free - to - play farces, winning without chasing whales and his top score on Flappy Bird — Pocketgamer.biz Peter Molyneux believes ripping people off with free - to - play games won't last (interview)-- Gamesbeat Size matters: How to scale your game for overnight success — Pocketgamer.biz FlowPlay helps developers like Joju Games differentiate their social - casino titles — Gamesbeat Molyneux: Free - to - play is like «smashing consumers over the head with a sledgehammer» — Pocketgamer.biz Dandelions benoemd tot beste indiegame Casual Connect — Gamer.nl Share and share like: Why developers need to care about their sharers — Pocketgamer.biz Mimimi gewinnt Indie Prize — GamesMarkt Flappy Bird was the perfect accidental guerilla marketing campaign, says Creative Mobile — Pocketgamer.biz Casual Connect Amsterdam — Freegame.cz Mech Mocha Founder Arpita Kapoor Wins Most Prominent Female Indie Award at Casual Connect Europe — Animation Xpress Casual Connect Europe 2014 — Амстердам — ITC.ua

But where Picasso's work was about suffering on a large scale (Guernica) and sex at an intimate level (just about everything else), Bourgeois's art is about personal pain and a sexuality that is less about personal intimacy and more about eroticism on a grand scale.

Reading about Sarah Sze's upcoming installation in the U.S. Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale, it is clear that transitory projects can operate on the grandest of scale.

You were thinking about time and space on such a grand scale.

German street artist (check out the Widewalls list of 10 German street and urban artists) 1010 (take a look at the 1010 Print Release: Abyss 49) has become well known for his eye catching «portal» designs that play on the eye and the mind, creating optical illusions on a grand scale (read the Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings article about one of the masters of creating optical art, Bridget Riley or check the work of Levalet in this Levalet: Bagages article that uses optical illusions in a different way) that turn the sides of flat buildings into an abyss that one could simply walk into as the layers of colour and carefully constructed shadows vanish into a dark centre that hypnotically draw you in (explore the mind blowing optical illusions of Julie Oppermann in this The Intense Afterimage article).

When you think about the fact that the majority of those are used, vintage, or pre-owned, we start to think about creative reuse on a grand scale, that may not be happening anywhere else in the world.

We should be looking at how to sell a story about access to justice, judicial independence, or the Rule of Law in a way that does not just reaffirm lawyers» self image, but actually alters awareness and behaviour on a grander scale.

The first post I wrote for SLAW was called «Of Baked Beans and the Rule of Law», and it was about how we, the legal profession, should be telling the story of access to justice in a way that alters awareness and behaviour on a grander scale.

Such bits of information about Facebook users may seem insignificant in isolation but, once harvested on a grand scale,...

The changing landscape of real estate technology is something investors should think about on a bigger, broader scale: how are new innovations, new startups, and new technologies changing how we do real estate on a grand scale?

2 Play on scale «There's something wonderfully indulgent about putting grand objects in a small space,» say the owners.