Sentences with phrase «as much fanfare»

Though it hasn't received as much fanfare as many rivals, the HTC U11 still ranks among our top Android phones of 2017, thanks to speedy performance, lightweight software and an impressive camera.

Though it didn't get as much fanfare as the Gear S2 and S3 in the last two years, the Gear Fit 2 was quietly one of the best all - around fitness trackers available since it was introduced in mid-2016.

And not long after, with almost as much fanfare, the Rolling Stones played a historic concert in Havana.

Few cult classics have garnered as much fanfare as Earthbound.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a game that is meant to be loved and savored for years to come, and I'm sure it will be looked back on with as much fanfare and admiration as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Nintendo's other hallmark titles.

As much fanfare is given to GoldenEye and Halo as kings of local multiplayer, my friends and I always loved TimeSplitters «focus on the team experience.

His counterpart Mike Trout did not arrive to quite as much fanfare, but the 20 - year old centerfielder has quickly established himself as one of this league's most exciting young players.

Cryptos come to market typically with the goal of raising money quickly, and usually with as much fanfare as possible.

Not exact matches

The first Amazon Go store opened one month ago to much fanfare, after more than 12 months of hype that only crescendoed as the company delayed the public opening by about a year.

But as with many a business venture announced in China with much fanfare, it's hardly a done deal — more of a memorandum of understanding.

Despite strong competition from other decentralized storage projects such as MaidSafe and Storj, the Filecoin ICO launched on August 10 to much fanfare.

But, «playing nice» really doesn't garner as much interest as fireworks and fanfare does, nor does it garner the best value from a trade.

King, who has been TV's version of a missing person since joiningABC amid much fanfare 14 months ago, could only hope that she would perform aspromisingly as Navratilova, who in her fourth game ever rolled a 149.

They flew under the radar for the majority of the year as much of the fanfare was given to Teams seeded # 1 - 5 entering the Playoffs..

Ill - advised practices and beliefs have become normalized without much fanfare, such as the common use of infant formula, the isolation of infants in their own rooms, the belief that responding too quickly to a fussing baby is spoiling it, the placing of infants in impersonal daycare, and so on.

As soon as she was successful, I trotted her directly to the store amid much fanfare to purchase the princess big - girl underwear I had promised — where she promptly peed all over the floor and was too traumatized to talk about underwear again for several monthAs soon as she was successful, I trotted her directly to the store amid much fanfare to purchase the princess big - girl underwear I had promised — where she promptly peed all over the floor and was too traumatized to talk about underwear again for several monthas she was successful, I trotted her directly to the store amid much fanfare to purchase the princess big - girl underwear I had promised — where she promptly peed all over the floor and was too traumatized to talk about underwear again for several months.

Just before the reception began news broke, courtesy of the rom the great Daily News Capitol Bureau Chief Ken Lovett, that there was a deal reached back home in New York to revive the 40 - year old tax credit known as 421a, which quietly expired without much fanfare a year and a half ago.

Bharara also opened an inquiry into the governor's own «commission to investigate public corruption,» which, in his vintage Cuomo panache, he launched with as much self - congratulatory fanfare as possible.

Former Nevada Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden entered the race against Sen. Harry Reid (D) last week to much fanfare from national operatives who saw her as the strongest candidate in what almost certainly would be a referendum on the Senate Majority Leader.

The state investigation into the use of overtime to increase the pensions of public employees, started with great fanfare in 2010 when then - AG Cuomo was prepare to run for governor, has been dropped without so much as a report.

Without much fanfare Tuesday, former members of the Independent Democratic Conference, known as the IDC, casually entered the room where mainline Democrats meet to discuss the day's bills.

But before he died, Mario himself made it quite clear that as much as possible, he wanted a simple local funeral, with minimal fanfare.

The program, announced with so much fanfare as the first of its kind in the country, makes families with household incomes of less than $ 125,000 eligible for free tuition.

Obama's decision - announced in June 2008 to much fanfare - proved close to decisive as his massive fundraising over the last five months of the campaign allowed him to overwhelm McCain on television in every swing state.

A year ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced with much fanfare that he was forming an investigatory panel, known as the Moreland Commission, to address reports of rampant corruption in Albany.

A weightier matter, de Blasio's request to impose a «millionaire's tax» on super-high income households, has died at the statehouse door without fanfare (or so much as a hearing or vote in the Senate) every year since he took office in 2014.

A new analysis of data from the Planck space telescope has concluded that the tiny silicate and carbonate particles spewed into interstellar space by dying stars could account for as much as 100 percent of the signal detected by the BICEP2 telescope and announced to great fanfare this spring.

And as I seamlessly transitioned into 31 the other day without much fanfare and devoid of celebrations minus a lovely cake in the flavors I craved that finally and unexpectedly worked out, I think I've come to understand a little more: the intentions I set, the high intentions, stories in my head and visions of «glory,» the culmination of work and work and work, on whatever it is I'm working on, very rarely pan out the way I envisioned.

Fashion revelers rejoice once again as another season of The Amazon India Fashion Week commenced on 12th October with much fanfare and hullabaloo at the NSIC Grounds, Okhla in New Delhi.

And although the movie suffers from a rather anticlimactic final stretch - the narrative peaks with a fantastic crash sequence that leaves one of the protagonists badly injured - Rush ultimately stands as a satisfying biopic that gets the job done efficiently and without much fanfare (ie Howard clearly isn't looking to reinvent the wheel here, so to speak).

heads - in - the - doorway fanfare seems a little forced, and the casting of Larry David — yes, Larry David — as the ultimate dour, sexless nun, Sister Mary - Mengele, is one of those Farrelly stunts that calls so much attention to itself you're not quite sure if it's funny or just meta - funny.

Netflix films have been released with comparatively little fanfare (the Grand Jury prize winner of Sundance, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore dropped onto the platform in February and registered nary a blip, with Bong Joon - ho's Okja also not succeeding in moving the needle all that much), as they seemed content with simply putting it up on the service and setting up a few awards qualifying runs in New York and LA and leaving it at that.

I'd say too much fanfare but whilst there was undoubtedly excitement, and whilst it has inevitably made a lot of money already (not as much -LSB-...]

There may be as much pomp and circumstance here as anywhere (deservedly so, I suppose), but you still get the traditional vows, hymns (led by two choirs, an orchestra, and a fanfare ensemble), and readings of Scripture, all of which leave little room or need for commentary.

Tanks brimmed, we set off again (the Jag coming to life with a little too much theatrical fanfare) and this time I find myself staring at the F - type's two huge exhausts as we continue west, cutting across country towards Bala.

As you might have already guessed, the F - Pace is the production version of the 2014 C - X17, a concept crossover revealed with much fanfare at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show.

The world of e-readers is not exactly one that sets the pulses racing, as there is not much fanfare whenever a new model is announced or released.

It isn't just the Iconia A700 packing Tegra 3 action from Nvidia; the quad - core chip can also be found lurking inside the Acer Iconia Tab A510 that is on show in Vegas at CES as well.Afforded much less fanfare than its A700 sibling, the A510 falls a little... Read more

As The Book of the Dead begins, an Egyptian tomb, long closed and buried in the Byzantine bowels of New York's Museum of Natural History, is about to be opened to much fanfare.

The new # 89 or $ 79 (with adverts) ebook reader was announced earlier in the week to much fanfare in New York, as Amazon continues to dominate the ebook reader market.

Amazon announced Kindle Unlimited last month with much fanfare, establishing a subscription model for its offerings — pay one low fee each month, read as many books as you like.

Among the pieces sliding together are RIM's April acquisition of QNX Software Systems, from Harman International, as the PlayBook runs an operating system based on QNX technology - not the BlackBerry 6 OS that RIM launched this summer, on the BlackBerry Torch, with much fanfare.

UPDATE @ 12:38 PM Pacific: Marvel's Senior VP of Sales David Gabriel tells Publisher's Weekly, Marvel's distribution to B&N «ended almost three months ago to no fanfare or notice from the comics industry... [T] he business in the direct market is a much stronger model and try as we might, we have not been able to make the comics newsstand model work for years, I don't think anyone has.»

To much fanfare, most of it probably self - generated, Walmart issued its second round of wage increases in late February, taking the minimum hourly pay for as many as one million workers at its domestic stores up by a dollar to $ 10 an hour.

Maharajas Express was launched in 2010 amid much fanfare as a uber - luxe train in India to cater to the high - end luxury tour segment.

With much fanfare, Chase recently released the Chase Sapphire Reserve ℠ a premium travel rewards credit card, to serve as the «flagship» credit card of the Chase brand.

14th December 2013 - Marc Ecko had released Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure in 2006 to much fanfare on Xbox, PS2 and PC, the game had good gameplay and a great soundtrack as well....

So, as you might expect, I greeted news of RAAM's Shadow's announcement with much fanfare - consisting of me cheering on my seat at home, alone in my room.

It sounds strange to describe a Halo game as «under the radar,» but Halo Wars 2 launched without much fanfare in early 2017.

Classic sound effects such as the battle fanfare and the old priest's «WOLOLO» shout are still present, but the game also features a somewhat faulty preset sound mixing, as the music is extremely loud while the sound effects are set to a much lower setting.