Sentences with phrase «are less than enthusiastic»

It's an idea whose time has come, though, as you might expect, carmakers are less than enthusiastic about it, arguing that its impractical and too expensive.

I know that most people are less than enthusiastic about the original trilogy, but there were a number of very cool environments and battles that would make great maps.

I have so many friends whose agents from time to time get them big solid book deals for projects they are less than enthusiastic about, and most of them are resounding flops.»

It has the potential to become yet another terrific service for consumers but many publishers and authors are less than enthusiastic about it.

Some teachers are less than enthusiastic about the plan to periodically have all classes at each grade level teach the same book at the same time, so teachers can compare notes about their effectiveness.

Gordon tends to enter stage right; he is less than enthusiastic about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's deficit spending — plan, for example.

After all, Karpelès has lately been less than enthusiastic about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, telling Fortune he's had «enough of cryptocurrency» between all his problems at Mt. Gox, and has essentially washed his hands clean of it.

The Governing Council left the benchmark interest rate unchanged at its ultra-low setting of 0.5 %, but policy makers were less than enthusiastic about the Canada's prospects.

Germany is less than enthusiastic and the European Commission's own legal advisers have said that this might require a change in EU treaties and country ratification.

Yet, the Bank of Canada is less than enthusiastic about the labour market.

I am aware that most American evangelicals have been less than enthusiastic about pacifism.

Dolan told the financial network in an interview on Monday he has heard from Langone that one wealthy donor got the «sense that the Pope is less than enthusiastic about us.»

However, the philosophical faculty was less than enthusiastic about his success and forced him to give up his lectures.

I loved it but my husband was less than enthusiastic.

It's titled «Feeding a Family of Comedians» because their reaction to hearing they would be eating kale chips was less than enthusiastic.

Sales have picked up a little over the past thirty days, as harvest reports from the Northern Hemisphere have been less than enthusiastic in regards to volume.

From an initial reaction that was less than enthusiastic from Arsenal fans on transfer deadline day, the signing of Danny Welbeck has been taken in an increasingly positive and hopeful way by Gooners and the media alike.

No, apparently it was the less than enthusiastic atmosphere at the home games, especially thos against the so - called lower teams in the league, that was the real reason why the Gunners let slip a five point lead at the top of the EPL table and are now 12 points behind unfancied Leicester City.

While our daughter was happy with her cup, our son was less than enthusiastic.

Jo was less than enthusiastic about these fact - finding trips and usually spent her time emptying the towel cabinet, as opposed to getting helpful pointers from Mommy.

Though the business and financial sectors had always been less than enthusiastic in supporting the left - wing Workers» Party (PT) administrations, Lula, who in 2002 became the first PT candidate to be elected president, was able to establish a rather positive relationship with these groups.

«All of this might explain why the response from the audience at the Conference was less than enthusiastic.»

It's also worth remembering that Ed Miliband was more ruthless in rooting out shadow ministers who were less than enthusiastic with his leadership, so Jez has precedence on his side.

Both accuse fellow Democratic gubernatorial hopeful and former North Florida congresswoman Gwen Graham, of being less than enthusiastic about gun control.

The gas industry itself has been less than enthusiastic about health studies.

Nevertheless, the reaction by some parties in the U.S. to Gore's Nobel Prize was less than enthusiastic.

Often, lab chiefs can be less than enthusiastic about their postdocs shifting focus away from the ever - important research project.

As for adding a coronagraph, the Harrison committee was less than enthusiastic because its design is «immature» and could further add to the technical risk and potential cost.

Thus, when he's whisked away to Mars only to discover another civil war taking place, he's less than enthusiastic about taking up arms to help anybody.

When I first heard that the Department of Education had created an Office of Innovation and Improvement, I was less than enthusiastic.

I hear rumblings that senior union leadership is less than enthusiastic about their rise.

Entune 3.0 with Apple CarPlay makes an appearance, but the word is out on how we feel about this new version of an infotainment system, about which we've been less than enthusiastic in the past.

But they're less than enthusiastic when it comes to purchasing them.

I'm less than enthusiastic about stock investing for essentially the same reasons I'm less than enthusiastic about casino gambling: in both cases «the «game's» rules are totally out of my control, a super-powered marketing machine successfully obscures reality and drives play and players, and the game exists solely to enrich its owners at the game's participants» expense.

After she found OFA initially to be less than enthusiastic, Dr. Wind found other funding to organize the inaugural International Elbow Working Group meeting in Davis, CA in 1989.

Bontecou started making vacuum - formed clear - plastic sculptures of outsize fish and flowers, a seemingly radical departure from her signature style, and the reception was less than enthusiastic.

In the middle of the decade she began showing regularly at the Fournier Gallery, although Mr. Fournier was less than enthusiastic about the new direction her work had taken late in the decade.

The Lord Chief Justice and the Attorney General have been less than enthusiastic about the rise of private prosecutions.

We've made no bones about being less than enthusiastic about Vizio's latest iteration of its SmartCast interface, an amalgamation of built - in Chromecast streaming and a very slim selection of on - board apps.

Smartphones can be confusing — especially to those who may be less than enthusiastic about tech.

Unfortunately, miners have been less than enthusiastic toward SegWit (BIP141), to say the least.

And if you're less than enthusiastic about the areas better suited to your client, you'll end up showing homes in those neighborhoods with a bad attitude that could infect your buyer.

Not exact matches

PC World readers rated OfficeMax better - than - average in two categories: Return Experience and Store Design, though Consumer Reports readers were less enthusiastic.

One Robertson insider asserts that Robertson Stephens was «less enthusiastic» than Goldman about the valuation.

Zers seem to be less enthusiastic about teamwork than millennials, and will be looking for jobs that allow them to pursue more than one role within a company simultaneously.

I think the issues with the movie extended beyond Twitter; the new voters I've talked to are less enthusiastic about it than the ones you've talked to (New Yorkers, you know), and it sounds like we've both heard from at least some voters who are drawing a bright line between the performances (thumbs up) and the movie (thumbs sideways).

As is the case in most fringe sects, there is a prosaic clairvoyance which foresees a less - than - enthusiastic response from the church at large.

Although the presenters indicated that they had received a less - than - enthusiastic reception in some of the places where they had spoken recently, the many positive comments I heard from my brother priests following the workshop are another encouraging sign about where liturgical practice is going in the United States at the beginning of the 2010s.

As one of the Second Vatican Council's more enthusiastic experts — as well as one of its first critical interlocutors during the years of its sometimes questionable presentation in the popular imagination — Ratzinger can scarcely be accused of having a less than astute sense of the context within which the Church has to evangelise.

I'm admittedly less enthusiastic about this sauce than I'd hoped..