Sentences with phrase «become throwaway»

In video games, «immersion» has become a throwaway buzzword used by execs during E3 presentations to describe the trailers that will look nothing like the final product.

We've become a throwaway society.

Living creatures have become throwaway items to be cuddled when cute and abandoned when inconvenient.

In video games, «immersion» has become a throwaway buzzword used by execs during E3 presentations to describe the trailers that will look nothing like the final product.

«I'd hate to see this become a throwaway race, which it appears to be.»

Similarly, the basics of IT infrastructure, the printers and routers, have become throwaway commodities, designed to be replaced rather than repaired.

Not exact matches

The open - door policy has become a cliché — a throwaway comment managers make to new hires to appear approachable.

Starting in the 1980s, the throwaway diaper briefly became a target of environmental groups as they sought to cut the flow of waste to landfills.

Both candidates clearly need to flesh out their ideas if those ideas are to rise above throwaway campaign pledges and become real policy.

I'm certainly guilty of playing into our throwaway culture, and I look for moments when I can become more sensitized.

The White Wolf eventually becomes consumed with taking T'Challa down and, if that moniker has any meaning at all (it's surely not a throwaway reference), then it may mean Bucky could be switching sides again in the new MCU we get post-Avengers 4.

Her stocks have risen substantially with Date Night, however, and it is her pairing with Steve Carell that means the film becomes anything more than the throwaway comedy it continues to threaten.

between Jim, Maggie, and Don (and Lisa); the goosebump - raising way that the show used on - screen text to reveal the BP spill and the Giffords shooting; the structural flourishes of the 2010 election episode and the season finale; that great scene where Don gives a master class in covering trashy news; the way you can see Olivia Munn finding her bearings as an actress, and how that parallels her character becoming a confident on - air personality; the brashness of Jane Fonda, the patience of David Krumholtz, the deliciousness with which Emily Mortimer says the word «douchebag,» the way Jeff Daniels tosses off his throwaway lines, and the way he answered that «sorority girl»'s question the second time.

who becomes the victim of a female con - artist who lives in Florida, «the worst place in America» (one of the film's few and funny throwaway lines).

A midnight chase on an empty road transforms into something marvelous thanks to a stylish technique, and the Vegas setting becomes integral to the storyline rather than a throwaway pop detail.

A throwaway joke by Deadpool in the post-credits scene has become a legitimate candidate for the futuristic mutant.

-- Sunny Weber, Author of The Dog at the Gate: How a Throwaway Dog Becomes Special, and Beyond Flight or Fight: A Compassionate Guide for Working with Fearful Dogs.

If you're starting to become a travel / points addict, you've probably come across the phrases «hidden city ticketing» and «throwaway ticketing.»

Just becoming buried by more and more plastics and being trampled by the cows, who although are not trapped there, choose to live a life consuming harmful plastic waste of the disposable, throwaway culture that has infected Gili as much as the rest of Indonesia.

Even the side missions (which became somewhat of a low point for 2.0) are a fun way to pass time despite their repetitive, throwaway nature.

After several months of on - the - job training and work on Iliara, and after securing some contract work, it became apparent that Iliara was not a throwaway puzzle game but a deep universe that would only reach its full potential through development of a strong online community and a sensible, well - funded development schedule.

A throwaway joke about Sybil and the severed head of the Lincoln memorial going out on a date becomes a brilliant ongoing sideplot, minor characters from the first episode of season one become the linchpin of season two's overarching plot in a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan (good M. Night Shyamalan, not recent M. Night Shyamalan), and a weird running gag about mariachis singing at people's birthday parties spirals into probably the most inventive time - travel plot any videogame's ever attempted.

Clement Greenberg, in a throwaway remark, said that one day it will have to be explained how anti-Stalinism became art - for - art's sake.

It sounds like a throwaway line but if you consider the result would include tens of thousands of TREB members, it becomes a sobering message very quickly.