Sentences with phrase «as big a disaster»

For example, the third Men In Black film, although not as big a disaster as the critics made it out to be, should have been a lot better.

The micro-console concept proved to be just as big a disaster as the Ouya itself.

Not exact matches

Unless your finances are as sturdy as a bomb shelter and you have an emergency plan in place, one big disaster can topple everything you've built.

Every year we conduct a Data Health Check of over 400 IT decision makers in the UK and as a NetIQ partner, disaster recovery (DR) always plays a big part in it.

Kind of like «Break Glass in case of Emergency» Although I'm keeping it for some kind of natural disaster as my last bit of happiness before the world perishes, just knowing that I'll die with a big spoonful of creamy, caramel cookie dough leaves me at peace with my demise.

He can play as cb, lb and rb, but most importantly as lb.Monreal as back up lb in big games is a disaster in making...

All Arsenal fans everywhere probably breathed a big sigh of relief as Arsenal cruised to a 4 - 0 victory in the FA Cup Final on Saturday, and there was no sign of any nerves at all from the players, but Arsene Wenger admitted to a few nerves himself and that a defeat would have been a disaster for his side.

Tevez's move to Shanghai Shenhua from Boca Juniors was one of the biggest in the arms race that was the Chinese transfer window, which has since quietened down since the CFA's reforms, but his time in Shanghai has been nothing short of an unmitigated disaster and it will come as a surprise to absolutely no one when his contract is torn up and he returns to Argentina.

I went to cry in the bathroom and when I came out, professor Ann Sears waved me into office (which was next to the bathroom), gave me a big bear hug, talked to me about how the crappy lessons are just as important as the great ones, and assured me that my recital would not be a disaster.

Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.

The primary turned out to be a disaster for Cuomo, with McCall opening up a big enough lead that Cuomo withdrew one week before the primary vote, trying to salvage some political capital out of what was sure to be a lopsided defeat with what he presented as a gesture of unity.

As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more and more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and statisticians.

The effect of one very large disaster — responsible for 100 or more deaths — was twice as big.

As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and statisticians.

When explaining the importance of this work, Wehner believes that the big impact lies in assessing the impact of climate change as exemplified by the recent painful experiences of hurricanes Harvey (tied with hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record), Irma (the strongest storm on record to exist in the open Atlantic region), and Maria (regarded as the worst natural disaster on record in Dominica and Puerto Rico).

This disaster is just as devastating as the oily sheen that dominated the news after the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and I am so grateful to Wendy and XPRIZE for identifying acidification as the next big ocean priority the U.S. must address.

Just as mindless eating plays a big role when it comes to weight gain, mindless «thinking» — that negative downward spiral of thoughts that trigger self - criticism and feelings of failure, regret, or shame — can just as powerfully give you momentum toward disaster.

As I said before, mine was one big disaster that was totally nonredeemable.

Thanks to the proliferation of online dating, would - be couples are now almost as likely to meet via email or a virtual wink as they are Dating disasters: Psychologists reveal the BIGGEST mistakes guaranteed to sabotage a Plenty of couples have met online or via dating apps,

Hey, I like Turturro and all, but, as «Barton Fink» will tell you, he's not a big box office draw, and you need only look at this film's critical reception to realize that, because I'm not saying that this film was a commercial disaster, but it's become forgotten ever since it drove Refn's Jang Go Star company into bankruptcy and ostensibly drove Hubert Shelby, Jr. to death a year later.

As the brains behind CRISPR, Dr Caldwell is also being framed for the disaster, although the real villains are Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy's Claire and Brett Wyden, two big - business dynasty siblings whose similarity to a certain Ivanka and Donald Jr is, you have to assume, entirely deliberate, at least on the part of the costume department.

As for A Prayer for Rain, it was a well - intentioned but mechanical mid-budget telling of the Bhopal industrial disaster, the biggest catastrophe of its sort in history and, by extension, the crux of one of the most grotesque ever instances of globalised corporate malfeasance.

It's been an eventful past few months for Wiseau, the star, director and sole financier of the infamous 2003 big screen disaster The Room, which found an amazing new life as the focus of star and director James Franco's The Disasterdisaster The Room, which found an amazing new life as the focus of star and director James Franco's The DisasterDisaster Artist.

Long - time Roland Emmerich collaborator Dean Devlin directs Geostorm, a big budget disaster movie with so much devastation it can only be described as «Emmerich-esque».

Though Darren Aronofsky's latest film doesn't excite me as much as some of the projects he's departed over the past few years, it's encouraging to see a director of his quality being given the money required to do a big movie like this the right way, especially after the disaster of «The Fountain.»

As Netflix and Amazon draw more filmmakers on a forced march to other platforms, Franco and a host of Hollywood filmmakers use The Disaster Artist to celebrate the way even a movie like The Room can bring people together, in the warm glow of the big screen.

By Pete Hammond hollywoodnews.com: What does it say about the current state of Hollywood that movies with gargantuan budgets, big stars and endless hype are, as of the turn of the new year, being rated anywhere from disappointing to disasters, while smaller films from directors not exactly known -LSB-...]

As a metaphor for retooling the mechanics of storytelling in the face of big - budget disaster, it's perfect.

Rather than going the Roland Emmerich «big tableaux of destruction» route, Pompeii reduces the disaster to a series of steeplechase set pieces, fiery debris raining into the 3 - D foreground as the characters scamper over bodies and ruins or try to outrun a ship that's been forced inland by a tidal wave.

As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning ¹ s inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.

But though no cinephile's life would be complete without a viewing of The Room — an experience one early reviewer compared to «getting stabbed in the head» — there's no need to have seen it in order to enjoy The Disaster Artist, James Franco's hilarious and big - hearted adaptation of Sestero's memoir, starring Franco himself as the eccentric maestro and his brother Dave Franco as Sestero, a Sancho Panza — style sidekick to Wiseau's grandiose Quixote.

is based on a rather unsavory series of trading cards released by Topps in the 1950s, and it takes its cues from the same sources as this summer's Independence Day — old alien invasion flicks, disaster movies, and big - budget special effects extravaganzas.

Elder Scrolls Online was in no way as big of a disaster as FFXIV was when it first launched, yet for the second time in two years we have another MMORPG that has managed to completely improve upon its initial experience to become one of the best games in the genre.

Neither does «Pompeii,» an epic without stars that staggers along as a bad version of «Spartacus» (the cable show, not even the movie) before turning into a videogame version of a disaster movie, all tiny running figures and big fiery projectiles.

The past couple of decades have seen the appearance of so many gigantic CG waves in big - budget movies that they almost qualify as stock henchmen, popping up as bonus disaster - porn footage in movies that don't actually take place in the ocean or even on a shoreline.

March 30, 2018 — As presidential candidate, Donald Trump declared the Common Core a «total disaster» while promising to be the «nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice.»

As one of the architects of Detroit's charter school system, she is partly responsible for what even charter advocates acknowledge is the biggest school reform disaster in the country.

Lewis cleverly recasts the story of one of the biggest financial disasters in American history as a heroic tale.

As it happens, 1900 brings disasters big and small, from the heartbreaking drowning of a litter of mixed coyote - canine pups to the mysterious disappearance of Callie's five - dollar gold piece.

The complete list of titles includes: War of the Whales: A True Story by Joshua Horwitz (July 1), California: A Novel by Edan Lepuki (July 8), High As Horses» Bridles by Scott Cheshire (July 8), Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty by Elizabeth Mitchell (July 2), Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival by Laurence Gonzales (July 7), The Fracking King by James Browning (July 1), Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (July 29), Landline by Rainbow Rowell (July 8), The Girls from Coronoa del Mar by Rufi Thorpe (July 8), The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills (July 15), and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (June 26).

Similar to the 2009 banking disaster that toppled Lehman and AIG — the big publishing houses will have their day as well and only the strongest will survive.

As the disaster unfolds and the SAS, armed police, and other emergency services rush to the scenes, he is tasked with preventing the biggest terrorist outrage the capital has ever known.

This will ultimately benefit the stronger communities as well, because a robust network of shelters will be better able to handle big challenges like natural disasters, large confiscation cases, and lobbying for pet - friendly laws.

The Big Animal Rescue Truck, also known as BART, is an important mode of transportation for disaster... Continue Reading

BART, Code 3 Associates» Big Animal Rescue Truck, carries animal rescue and disaster response equipment and acts as the Mobile Command Center for our Riders on the Storm.

It also means preparing for those big emergencies — such as natural disasters.

Just a few years ago, his lack of faith in Sony's big «ol Blu - ray machine became about as subtle as a kick in the junk when he referred to the system as ``... a total disaster on so many levels.»

In order to safeguard the city of New York should a serious disaster befall it an unknown amount of sleeper agents known as the Division are seeded around the Big Apple who will be activated with the intention of helping restore order.

Seeing these two titles mentioned, one might assume, «Oh, they must be great,» when in reality they're held up as two of the industry's biggest modern launch disasters, sparking a ton of well - deserved rage from the gaming community over publishers even allowing these games to be sold in the state they were released in.

In the short term, 2016 is looking like an absolute disaster for Nintendo as they are missing an entire holiday season with no big Wii U games and only Pokemon Sun and Moon on 3DS.