Sentences with phrase «as engrossing»

«We wanted to emulate the cinema experience in homes and knew it had to be as engrossing as the cinema.

Our collection of work includes a brand new body of never - before seen artwork from Mr Brainwash, as well as the engrossing photography of David Yarrow.

«Pretty / Dirty» is the rare retrospective that also acts as an engrossing biography, skillfully revealing the key shifts in Minter's career, the points where the green artist transformed into skilled provocateur, the path that made her a star.

His pictures reveal his subjects» innermost fears and aspirations, their perceptions and illusions about themselves, with a frankness that makes the portraits as engrossing as they are disturbing.

If it's done right, these books can be every bit as engrossing as a museum presentation — and these days, in a global art world where none of us can catch every show, they offer an essential guide to cities and institutions abroad.

Visually, the game is a knockout, already proving to be one of the best looking games on the console, and the gameplay is as engrossing as ever.

Automata nails every discipline it attempts and manages to be as engrossing as it is unorthodox.

As engrossing and immersive as What Remains of Edith Finch is, after you finish your five to six hour playthrough, there's really nothing left to do.

By dropping players into a massive open - world, leaving them to fend for themselves and kill one another, PlayerUnknown's BattleGround creates something that's as engrossing as it is brutal and unforgiving.

With Telltale having so much success with episodic adventure games based on massive movie or TV licences, Life is Strange could have escaped your notice, even though it features every bit as engrossing a story as The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones games.

The experience is just as engrossing with the deep story - telling and abundant content.

If WoW wasn't as engrossing as it is and didn't take up as much time as it did, I would be spending that $ 13 / month on other, probably more expensive games.

Uncharted 4's gunplay is refined and reliable, the writing as engrossing as the series has seen, and the cinematographic delivery utterly beguiling, as Drake chases down the myth of a pirate Shangri - la.

Why you should play: The original Hotel Dusk is a wonderful little visual novel, and it makes sense that a sequel would be just as engrossing.

While I don't find it as engrossing as Fallout 3 and New Vegas, I find myself doing a lot of silly things that entertain me and make me laugh.

To upgrade the Tactic Tweaker's options and potency, you just need to level up, and killing stuff to get better at killing stuff is nearly as engrossing as upgrading Evermore.

I wasn't a big fan of this at first, but the longer I played the more accustomed to it I was, and soon I was overthinking every little thing about each battle, which was as engrossing as it was fun.

The multiplayer is really quite fun to play but it's not quite as engrossing as the gameplay in The Last of Us Remastered, but I feel like it could get there with the proper content updates.

However, its story wasn't quite as engrossing as the original, and ultimately brings the average score of the collection down slightly.

and Geek Reply even wants the developers to reach the stars: «If Trüberbrook «s gameplay and story is half as engrossing as its art style, the game just might be a contender for game of the year when it releases in 2018.»

there's alot to do in fallout 3 plenty of side quests that are just as engrossing and reward filled as the main quest line.

Now firstly, Remedy knows how to tell stories and as far as engrossing tales with a character - centric narrative and suspenseful, often emotional developments goes, Quantum Break is probably their best work yet.

The book is as engrossing as it is useful.

Blending science and history with hearty advice, these books are often as engrossing as they are educational.

Reading a King novel as engrossing as this is a little like backing in a car with parking assist: after a while, you just take your hands off the wheel and the pages practically turn themselves.»

«As engrossing as it is well - rounded, this is a particularly stimulating collection of travel experiences through New Zealand, with author Dick Parsons aptly shepherding armchair travelers through a wealth of rich landscapes, and exotic wildlife, while thoroughly detailing its intricate history from antiquity to modern day.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Kingsolver is equally as engrossing in this memoir as she is in her fiction.

Bellweather Rhapsody is as engrossing as it is intelligent.

Considering Singer founder and head honcho Rob Dickinson's fanatical attention to detail and feverish push toward perfection, the Track 1 is — no surprise — as engrossing as his four - wheeled projects.

The conflicting forces battling for influence over Jen's soul is Crouching Tiger's main concern, and without an actress as gifted and captivating as Zhang in the pivotal role, it's difficult to imagine the story being quite as engrossing involving as it is.

Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki has, as expected, infused Porco Rosso with an almost excessively relaxed atmosphere that's reflected in its various attributes, and it's clear that the movie is, as a result, rarely as engrossing or compelling as one might've hoped - although, to be fair, the film picks up considerably once it progresses through its uneventful, middling first act.

However, it never finds its footing as far as engrossing cinema goes.

What remains to be seen, however, is whether «Hitchcock» can be as engrossing as the movies that made him one of cinema's most respected filmmakers.

On the opposite side of the coin, there is a subplot with psychic characters that isn't nearly as engrossing as the succubus business.

But I found Insidious nearly as engrossing and agreeably upsetting as the Paranormal movies.

Not as engrossing or emotionally draining as most of its ilk, Autumn in New York succeeds due to some stylish symbolism and a few key moments of insight rather than in trying to illicit tears.

The Two Towers doesn't feel as engrossing as its predecessor, but that's almost inevitable given its spot as the middle chapter of a trilogy.

And although it picks up again with an extremely entertaining final stretch, Premium Rush is, in the final analysis, a forgettable little thriller that never quite becomes as engrossing or captivating as one might've hoped.

The film is, consequently, not nearly as engrossing as one might've expected, and primarily moves at a pace that can most accurately be referred to as deliberate.

Perhaps the physical effort did ultimately prove too much as 72 hours later Arsenal scored twice late on to win a London derby as engrossing as the final 5 - 3 scoreline suggested.

I prefer a more primitive conception of heaven, a heaven that is concrete, peopled, concatenated, hierarchical and symphonic; as lush as the pure land of the celestial Buddha Amitabha, as visceral as the Islamic garden of the houris, as engrossing to an academic like me as the rabbinic vision of heaven as a Talmudic house of study, and as immediate as the paradise that Christ promised to the good thief dying at his side.

As engrossing as the reader may find other chapters, the most interesting chapter is entitled «Religion and Sex.»

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You feel like you can peel off a Netflix movie or a high - res photo as though it were a high - quality brochure, and it's an engrossing way to work.

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

If you do not live in some out - of - the - way place in the world, if you live in a populous city, and you direct your attention outwards, sympathetically engrossing yourself in the people and in what is going on, do you remember each time you throw yourself in this way into the world around you, that in this relation, you relate yourself to yourself as an individual with eternal responsibility?

The deal making is engrossing (especially as the politicians lubricate conflicts with other people's money).

As the crowd of 80,000 roars for the Sooners on Saturday, the Oklahoma students at the library — all four of them — find schoolwork more engrossing

As recounted in Craig Ryan's engrossing new biography of Piantanida, Magnificent Failure, the 33 - year - old New Jersey exotic - pet dealer was a benign hustler who as a teenage hoops hotshot had once outscored Wilt Chamberlain in a YMCA tournament and in 1957 had made the first ascent of the north face of Devil Mountain in VenezuelAs recounted in Craig Ryan's engrossing new biography of Piantanida, Magnificent Failure, the 33 - year - old New Jersey exotic - pet dealer was a benign hustler who as a teenage hoops hotshot had once outscored Wilt Chamberlain in a YMCA tournament and in 1957 had made the first ascent of the north face of Devil Mountain in Venezuelas a teenage hoops hotshot had once outscored Wilt Chamberlain in a YMCA tournament and in 1957 had made the first ascent of the north face of Devil Mountain in Venezuela.

Both these Premier League heavyweights have been in scintillating form since the beginning of this calendar year, but the Gunners, who won all 6 of their games in March and have a fully fit squad to choose from, start as favorites for today's engrossing encounter.

America the Vulnerable by Joel Brenner A public service announcement of the most urgent sort, this engrossing book reveals how our lack of cyber savvy, both as individuals and as a nation, is exposing us to extraordinary risks, including viruses that could destroy the power grid, simple hacks that have harvested millions of credit card numbers from retailers, and security breaches that are hemorrhaging classified intelligence through the Net.