Sentences with phrase «as a novelty act»

A generation of young fans knows Tyson as a novelty act and boxing as a niche sport.

His primary opponent, Rep. Kendrick Meek, has dismissed Greene's candidacy as a novelty act and accused him of profiting off the many foreclosures dragging down Florida's housing market.

She views him as «The Source» of Earth's pain, while he tries to laugh her off as a novelty act.

Right now, Google is offering a feature called AR stickers, which let you insert animated objects onto your phones display, but this strikes me as a novelty act at best.

Not exact matches

The enhancement of the divine life in its consequent aspect has opened up new possibilities of relationship with the creation and has also provided new material through which God may act upon creative potentiality, thus bringing to pass that emergence of novelty which is so genuine an element in our experience and (as our observation informs us) of the world at large.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

By briefly profiling each, the filmmakers ensure we care about them all; they are not treated as some sort of novelty act for the sake of the camera, and this is what makes the film a standout

Also, enthusiasm may act as a «motivational embellishment», increasing a student's interest by the variety, novelty, and surprise of the enthusiastic teacher's presentation of the material.

It may be a bit of a novelty act a little too often, but when it is actually working as a genuine game, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures provides some good (if not raunchy) fun.

Moorman was tagged as the «topless cellist» but far beyond being a novelty act, she was an artist of wit and anarchic invention, and the inventor of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York, an anti-Art Basel if ever there was one.