Sentences with phrase «big flashy thing»

Someone who collects less for the «look at the expensive big flashy thing I bought at The Armory» and more for the inherent artistic value of the works and for their narrative.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, I live in an urban metropolis where things are only good if they are BIGGER and FLASHIER and MULTI-WHATEVER.

Right now, this moment, whatever Joe means to himself behind his wisecracks, his dark, rugged good looks, and his flashy tailoring, he is mostly one thing — a big celebrity in a celebrity - conscious town.

Same thing with the hyper combo — you're just seeing a big, flashy action really quickly.

If big and flashy and corporately synergized isn't your thing, we've also got new releases from nascent master of the weird Simon Spurrier, creator - owned mogul Rick Remender and fan - favorite artist Bengal, a pair of pulp favorites and YA mega-star Hope Larson.

The result, U-Turn, is a derivative, trite noir that resembles better films and better stories, with Stone trying his best to distract you from that sameness by dangling lots of flashy things and big name actors in small cameos resulting in a melted banana split; very colorful with no substance whatsoever.

Perhaps the most annoying difference is that Heijningen's Thing doesn't even try to assimilate its prey with any stealth, but rather makes a big scene out of every transformation, presumably to show off its flashy CGI makeover.

So much American science fiction is parochial — not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology.

Plenty of companies are going to CES this year with big and flashy announcements of how they will «disrupt» things.

So when the smartphone world decided that selfies are the next big thing, many of these OEMs came out flashy gimmicks and features.