Sentences with phrase «as a vanity project»

Many people are sceptical about its feasibility, and some (like Bill Gates) are openly contemptuous of it as a vanity project for high - IQ nerds.

Think of Cristiano Ronaldo, who developed his leaping, twisting, bellowing footplant just as his vanity project biopic went into production.

At the time, the de Blasio administration dismissed it as a vanity project, and asserted that there was a greater need to focus on the subway running more efficiently than improvements like installing countdown clocks and USB ports.

As vanity projects go, this earnest telling of an extraordinary teacher and her second chance pupils isn't «Battlefield Earth» - bad, but it's close.

Every Quentin Tarantino film comes across as a vanity project, which is both good and bad.

Maleficent is the summer's first real surprise — a project that looked like a cash grab built on a well - known brand name, as well as a vanity project for Jolie.

Somewhat understandable — I've huge respect for his business acumen — but even smart business people end up involved in media as a vanity project, 9 times out of 10.

INM was a vanity project for many years, and may well end up as another vanity project again.

It won't stop Microsoft producing a few handsets every year as a vanity project, but for everyone else it's the end of the line.

Not exact matches

As London mayor, there were the vanity projects - the «dangleway to nowhere» cablecar, the thankfully never - built Boris airport island - but when the capital needed its mayor during the 2011 riots, he took three days to return from his holiday.

If I still had a vote in my home town I would be weary of hearing about the northern powerhouse, so beloved of the Tories while the south - west is ignored, and sick to death at having, as a taxpayer, to subsidise their HS2 vanity project while transport links beyond Exeter are pitiful.

She represents Killingbeck & Seacroft Ward and cited the Labour administration's, «waste of money on vanity projects while making cuts to local services» as well as a lack of democracy within the Labour Group.

Speaking at the NASUWT annual conference in Cardiff Bay, Huw Lewis said «ideology has been put before standards» with millions wasted on «vanity projects such as free schools».

Mr Hunt expressed regret for dismissing the policy as a «vanity project for yummy mummies».

Salon.com described the film as «the opposite of a celebrity vanity project.»

Indeed, this is the 51 - year - old Crowe's first time as a movie director, but he's hardly a novice actor stepping behind the camera for some sort of vanity project.

The premium TV world is a magnet for vanity projects, but few are as pointless — or unnecessary — as this one....

As much as all of this seems like a vanity project — which, make no mistake, it most certainly is — it's also a refreshing, unfiltered, and unusual perspective for a show that seeks to tackle issues with more gravity than Kim Kardashian's Instagram controversieAs much as all of this seems like a vanity project — which, make no mistake, it most certainly is — it's also a refreshing, unfiltered, and unusual perspective for a show that seeks to tackle issues with more gravity than Kim Kardashian's Instagram controversieas all of this seems like a vanity project — which, make no mistake, it most certainly is — it's also a refreshing, unfiltered, and unusual perspective for a show that seeks to tackle issues with more gravity than Kim Kardashian's Instagram controversies.

That it was a remake (of Lina Wertmüller's squirm - inducing Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August) was strike one; that it starred Madonna, a lousy film actress considered box - office poison, strike two; that Ritchie is married to Madonna, marking Swept Away as the kind of vanity project that power couples make to spend more time together than their private life allows, strike three.

Seemingly a light, comic take on «Shame,» the idea of casting yourself as a sex addict opposite Scarlett Johansson might seem like a vanity project, but there's plenty of other promising talent involved, including Julianne Moore, Rob Brown and, of all people, Tony Danza.

Some people are ready to dismiss «By the Sea» as an old - school vanity project, but I think that's missing the point.

Well, the sixty - something martial arts megastar has found yet another frenetic farce to strut his stuff as he stars and co-produces in the vintage actioner Railroad Tigers, a vanity project that enlists his son Jaycee to his side.

For John Turturro, who has a distinctive face, to star as a gigolo for wealthy women, might seem like a stretch — a vanity project, if you will.

When they're vanity projects built on such hoary devices as talking to off - stage characters or writing letters and reading them aloud, they can make theater feel like a dried - up old fossil.

In other words, the 1974 original starring James Caan isn't exactly holy ground, but there's not much to improve on either, which makes this Mark Wahlberg vanity project feel every bit as irrelevant as the story it's trying to tell.

She and husband Brad Pitt star as the unhappy pair and while most will be quick to prejudge and deem this a vanity project the movie while not perfect is much deeper than its superficial exterior.

As I understand it, The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp as Tonto has been a Depp vanity project for like five or six years noAs I understand it, The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp as Tonto has been a Depp vanity project for like five or six years noas Tonto has been a Depp vanity project for like five or six years now.

It will be very interesting to see how these two films turn out, and whether or not Dano and / or Elba can establish themselves as viable directors and not just vanity - project dabblers.

But that theory doesn't exactly fly in this case, as Watts's career has never been one bound to vanity, nor to the types of projects that would scoff at a grand actress who's simply not 30 anymore.

Some of these connections are ephemeral, while others have clear, direct links to their starting points — such as 2008's The Human Contract, a morbidly fascinating vanity project from writer / director / co-star Jada Pinkett Smith.

Would his adaptation of The Disaster Artist — an almost criminally amusing account of how The Room came to be, co-written by one of the film's actual stars — treat the genesis of history's best bad movie as nothing but another vanity project?

Take heed of this as a warning, this film is a vanity project, but a funny bit of indulgence.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (pictured right) also tweeted today: «This government continues to waste money on its vanity project free school programme as class sizes rise for infants.»

The government says free schools will drive up standards and give parents more choice of good schools by putting more power in head teachers» hands, while some critics see them as an experimental «vanity project» which has led to schools being built where they are not needed.

Labour say it's not a change in policy, but it is a change of heart for the new shadow education secretary, who as the newly elected MP for Stoke - on - Trent in 2010, described free schools as a «vanity project for yummy mummies».

B.J. Novak is most often recognized for his role as Ryan, the Dundler Mifflin temp, but his first collection, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, is anything but a vanity project.

Also, if you're willing to fork over thousands of dollars to get your book in print, would prefer not to do any legwork yourself, and don't care if you ever break even on the project, then subsidy / vanity is the way to go for you as well.

Waiting for my minute alone with the infinity of Kusama's installation, I overheard an outspoken journalist denouncing The Broad as «the largest vanity project of our lifetime,» a sentiment that, given the rise of private museums and foundations established by prominent art collectors in recent memory, is not an unusual one to hold.

While I suspect some of his former partners will see the book as nothing more than a vanity project and an attempt by Bacal to distance himself from the firm's demise, I think that would be simply sour grapes on their part.

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Originally I was going to paint the vanity cabinet blue, but in my typical change my mind 30 million times fashion, for now I'm going to leave it as is since I painted the upper walls blue and I'm not really in the mood for a cabinet painting project.

I love that you can update a bathroom with as little as new cabinet hardware, a new faucet, new paint or even expand your project to include new tile or a brand new vanity (they have some cute ones online that I was really tempted by!).