Sentences with phrase «as unevenness»

Even the nonrandom errors that worry testing critics, such as unevenness in the testing scale or the possible influence of factors outside the school's control, do not create perverse incentives because there are no strong theories about the kinds of behaviors those errors would encourage.

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We expect the Fed to raise rates just once this year — likely in December — and to proceed cautiously given the unevenness of the domestic economic recovery, as highlighted by weak retail sales data released last week, and global growth uncertainties.

The unevenness in PoP business models could smooth out soon, however, as the need for extra intermediaries diminishes due to banks regaining their appetite for clients.

While there are some unevenness in funding, it isn't nearly as large as in the US.

Lightening ingredients such as licorice, vitamin C, and niacinamide may help, as can OTC peels, which lift off the surface layers of skin, so the unevenness fades.

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Of course, reflections on laziness are as clear as they ever are when found within the conventionalism of the storytelling, which, no matter how intriguing in a lot of ways, hits trope after trope as a very»90s biographical drama, - complete with the sentimentality - even if it does so with a little more structural unevenness than usual.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

Where «Roots» and «Roots: The Next Generations» were extensive studies on, not one character, but a series of members in a bloodline that spans about a century or so, this series centers around one character, thus the unevenness that plagued this series» sisters has been thinned out tremendously, though unfortunately still not quite to the point of dissipation, because as generally comfortable as this story's flow is, Halle Berry's titular Queen Jackson character extensively faces several dynamic events and characters, yet still doesn't take the time that it should to meditate upon the full exposition and depth of this story's range, thus leaving certain key story aspects to come off as unnecessary and, of course, supplementary to focal inconsistency.

To be so meditative on characters going about their business, little is actually said by Matthews, as writer, due to very limited extensiveness, if not focal unevenness, that leave development to fail in distinguishing the characters all that much, making it harder to become invested in them.

With all of my complaints about how this film all too often discards promising plot areas to spark a sense of unevenness, hurrying, outside of that area of storytelling, is hardly a big deal, so what this series really has to worry about is, of course, bloating, because all of this unevenness, as well as repetition, could have perhaps been avoided if this saga wasn't just so blasted overblown, not necessarily to the point of falling flat as too sprawling to stick with, but decidedly to the point of feeling rather overambitious.

However, it seems his general impatience and argumentative nature was as much to blame as his substance abuse for any unevenness in the later films (this problem was apparent in the earlier films too when he was, according to Hanna Schygulla, weary of drugs).

While the subject matter is the stuff that good films are made of, and the quality of the direction and acting are worthy of admiration, where The East fails is in the contrivances involved in the farfetched plotline and the unevenness in the thriller elements (such as a scene in which the cell dresses up to the nines to infiltrate a party for pharmaceutical bigwigs that would feel more at home in a Mission Impossible movie) that undermine what could have been a chilling and realistic story of corporations run amok.

Kdy sníh konečně taje, near - exhausting excessiveness and unevenness to plotting, an uneven and already questionable style, and near - monotonous cold spells to atmospherics render the final product pretty decidedly underwhelming, but not the misfire that it could have been, because through a haunting visual style, outstanding musical style, intriguing premise, and generally stylistically sharp direction, Frantiek Vláčil's «Marketa Lazarová» stands as an adequately intriguing and occasionally engrossing, if overwrought classic in Czech and art cinema.

This attractiveness allows you to soak in the subject matter of this drama, which, as I've said time and again, is overwrought, with an exhausting amount of layers to mishandle with focal unevenness, in addition to stylistic unevenness and questionability which further thins substance, but hardly into obscurity, for their is enough intrigue to this Middle Ages adventure thriller and provocative deconstruction of humanity to hold up a lot of potential.

The ensemble does most of the film's heavy lifting, since the unevenness of the script impacts Babbit's direction as well (it's surprising to see how lackluster her direction can be at times, considering her excellent work on television over the years).

Repeat viewings have somewhat lessened this for me, but a sense of unevenness comes through as Mann's musical jukebox of R&B source music, cued up with successive indignant blows and arguments with Ali's second wife Belinda (Nona Gaye), starts to become repetitive.

Unfortunately, the overall quality ends up being about the same as well, with unevenness caused by the juxtaposition of very light slapstick humor with much darker violent undertones.

For as much as there is to admire in David Gordon Green's work, there is also the unevenness that has permeated much of his output over the years.

His earlier films, funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the kind of selfcongratulatory distrust of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his sight gags, use the same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.

As a regular viewer of the show for all its undeniable talent yet frustrating unevenness in its writing, it is especially interesting to see which of the cast's abilities translate to a stage context in front of a live audience.

In addition to the vehicle speed, lateral acceleration and longitudinal acceleration, the Mercedes system also detects use of the turn indicators and pedals as well as certain control inputs and external influences such as side winds or road unevenness, for example.

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The realisation in greyscale as well as the soft rendering of the faces that show only few wrinkles or unevenness, make the pictures appear as homogeneous entity.

He showed his dissatisfaction with the impenetrability of the picture plane — impenetrable in so far as he could not pierce it by perspective or modeling — by worrying the surfaces of his pictures, by working in a variety of materials and mixing his m and by mediums, and by returning incessantly to watercolor, where he could exploit the curl of the moisture - laden paper for the unevenness he wanted.

The unevenness of his touch is one of the pleasures of his art; you can take it as a kind of rangy awkwardness, as a curiosity about how things will turn out if he just stays alert to the wayward life of his medium.

Such unevenness at the surface is the inevitable consequence of the physical characteristics of a rough surfaced, rotating sphere illuminated by a point source of light such as a sun.

That slight step down from the direct - lit top - of - the - range model does manifest itself in some slight unevenness in illumination across the panel, so occasionally you'll find some areas of black aren't quite as black as others, as the light it casts from the sides spreads across the screen.

Evaluations of sustained treatment effects for other, more - intensive, early childhood interventions have yielded mixed results, with variation being attributed to unevenness in both program quality and evaluation rigor.10, 11 Less - intensive interventions, such as the Comprehensive Child Development Program, have reported no effect during or after the intervention.12 Intensive interventions with short - term effects seem to be more likely to demonstrate sustained benefits for children's cognitive and social development and parenting behaviors.11