Sentences with phrase «afterthought given»

Indeed, audio comes across as a bit of an afterthought given that the makeshift MP3 Player and Text - to - Speech functions are tucked away in the Experimental section, along with the Web browser.

The script is crafted around a list of 3D effects with little afterthought given to providing a story worth telling.

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Again, with like sarcasm, he ridicules the entire faith and vogue of idols: one cuts a tree for firewood, using it for heating and for cooking; but still a sizable piece remains, until as an afterthought it is given to a craftsman who, with a deal of labor, shapes it into a pretense of human form — and then men bow down to it and say, «Deliver me, for thou art my god!»

As an afterthought, having revealed the holy name of Yahweh, God also gives to Moses a «nickname» to use with those people who may not recognize Hebrew.

The papal entourage eventually decided to give in to the dissidents» pleas for a meeting at the last minute, as an afterthought, but the results were predictably disastrous.

Give me a quiet afterthought like Albert Pujols over a Bryce Harper any day.

Today's announcement gives the D - League, which is normally an afterthought in national sports coverage, significant attention from major media companies for at least one news cycle.

Unfortunately, for most parents, giving their kids a sound financial education is an afterthought at best.

It is clear that developers gave full attention to design, which is often an afterthought with affordable housing, said City Councilmember Mark Levine.

A spirit of giving back should be interwoven in all companies, not just an afterthought (like CSR), but a key measurement of the company's success.

Although we love how black tights give us the ability to wear all our favorite dresses through the harsh winter, they should hardly be an afterthought when putting together an outfit.

Jamie Foxx too is rather strong when he's given something to do, but oddly, even though his character is the center of the film, he's an afterthought in service of the more colorful DiCaprio and Waltz.

Torres and Blasi wrap up the movie's central conflict so rapidly and so carelessly that it feels like an afterthought — as if they're eager to give the audience its happy ending, hoping against hope that viewers won't stop to think about what that ending really means.

Crystal and Roberts are the only ones given coherent characters to play, but Roberts isn't an integral part of the would - be Hollywood satire; she seems to function mainly as an afterthought, leaving me to wonder if she had her own writer on the set.

Ultimately, the reason the villain seems more of an afterthought is because the main story thread concerning Wade Wilson's transformation to Deadpool and Ajax's involvement in it does become a jumbled mess in all the blood spattered chaos not giving a motive for the villain's action.

However, even the «Pendulum» murder is void of compelling aftermath — since Poe (and the audience) is merely given the next «clue» as if it was an afterthought not an integral part of the current scene.

Unlike Netflix, Amazon has quickly built up a reputation in terms of prestige because it gives its films actual theatrical runs, rather than treating the cinema experience as an afterthought.

Its Chinese stars are given little time to shine, save for Tian, and her storyline is cluttered with a stiff romantic subplot with William that feels more afterthought that earned.

While the production design is a bit of an afterthought, the 1.33:1 aspect ratio gives it a convincing period flavour.

These upgrades serve to prevent the stealth aspects of the gameplay from getting stale and give each mission a freedom of choice that many games promise but fail to deliver upon, including a morality system that actually impacts upon the world rather than being a perfunctory afterthought.

Music Supervisor Tanya Sweeney gives essential advice to filmmakers working on modest budgets on how not to ruin a film with shoddy aural afterthoughts.

Whether it's his fault or Crowley's I know not, but the resulting film feels conspicuously unbalanced, lingering overlong in New York before returning to the Emerald Isle almost as an afterthought that was made just to give it a third act.

Given yesterday's news of the New Compact Coupe this special edition Eos model announced by Volkswagen Australia, called the White Night, looks like a bit of an afterthought.

Samsung hasn't said anything, and given how the J1 just seems to have been created as an afterthought and given its weak hardware, there probably won't be a Lollipop update.

As an afterthought, he continued to tell me that when the person gave him back the credit card, he at first thought it was his card.

Given its placement at the very bottom of an aquarium tank, it is not surprising that substrate is often an afterthought.

This is fortunate, given that for all its work expanding and refining the Toy Box mode into something far more robust and, crucially, enjoyable, Avalanche has scaled down the single - player campaign where it almost comes across as an afterthought.

Limited functionality (albeit free until the service launches) but still disappointing as it gives the impression that the service was an afterthought.

What is important to me is that it should not be an afterthought to the core activity but should be given a chance to develop within the print possibilities.

As an afterthought, when lending is consonant with whatsoever is economically expedient and politically convenient, then consideration is given to underwriting projects that support the workings of the natural world.

But in practice we find that it often appears to center only on economic considerations, with social or ecologic benefits considered as an afterthought rather than given equal weight at the outset.

The Court characterized them (at para 51) as «insignificant concessions in light of the potential impairment of the Inuit's treaty rights» and further (at para 51) that «[n] one of these putative concessions, nor the NEB's reasons themselves, gave the Inuit any reasonable assurance that their constitutionally protected treaty rights were considered as rights, rather than as an afterthought to the assessment of environmental concerns.»

Given the thousands of new cases filed, these numbers confirm the overwhelming importance of settlement negotiations in patent cases, and would even suggest that trial decisions might almost be an afterthought for those seeking infringement damages.

Although most of those working in the health system can be open - minded and cooperative around these issues, they were not given proper consideration in advance.These priorities are often delegated as an afterthought, and the presence of systemic directions to provide guidance to health institutions and practitioners appears to be lacking.

Sony, however, has seemingly given the US market up as an afterthought when it comes to fingerprint scanners though, and once again includes no fingerprint scanning abilities on the US model of the Xperia XZ Premium.

- meme could have been predicted by giving afterthought to market participants sweetened tooth from the combined value increase of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash following the Aug 1st hardfork.

Among other things, I suggested adding some wide, white painted trim around the small windows to give them more of a presence, and to help them feel more intentional, and less like an afterthought.