Sentences with phrase «by choppy»

As Just Cause 3 set most of my hardware options to medium - high upon first launch, I was impressed with the graphical fidelity, but disgusted by the choppy framerate, crashes, stuttering, and overall uneven experience.

However, the uptrend was preceded by choppy, sideways price action that also resulted in losing trades.

«Right now, K - 12 education in the United States is all at sea, with islands of excellence surrounded by choppy waters where free - floating school districts flounder for lack of a unified (national) plan.

Yet both are rendered confusing by choppy cutting.

We have arrived a few weeks too soon, and aregreeted by choppy gray surf.

Not exact matches

You have to be able to withstand the choppier water by steering towards calmer waters.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 provisionally fell 0.15 percent by the close, in what was a choppy trading session.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 provisionally fell 0.15 percent by the close, in what was seen as a choppy trading session.

But the Fed has been buffeted by a global growth slowdown, financial market volatility — first over concerns about China's economy and then later Britain's decision to quit the European Union — and choppy U.S. data.

Target's stock, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, was last down by 60 cents in choppy pre-market trading.

Japan's Nikkei share average was flat in choppy trade on Friday morning as worries about slower smartphone demand hit technology shares, while financial stocks rallied helped by higher U.S. yields.

By Thursday, stocks had already started to recover, but the market was still choppy.

We have seen a significant recovery in exports since then, but the net effect of these choppy data is that the level of exports is well below where we thought it would be by now.

Overall, it's starting to look as though the rest of 2014 could be quite choppy, followed by an ugly 2015 (if the charts break down on all time frames).

However, in weak or declining markets, active managers» funds might have the potential to hold up better, perhaps by becoming more conservatively positioned when markets become choppy.

This is as compared to most of the options brokers who prefer choppy platforms so that they can scam traders by using the technical glitch in closing trades whenever they seem to be bad for the trader.

but it is a vessel of grace and guided by One who knows where we need to sail and what waters we need to navigate even if those waters are rough and choppy to the point of despair we shall be guided through, flawed vessel that we are.

I mean, this is the Heat's game plan: make the game as choppy as possible to prevent any sort run by the Sixers, because the Heat are one of those teams that do not (normally) have the ability or firepower to dig out of double - digit deficits.

It'll be choppy out there, and I don't want you to be chasing diving cripples around all morning and get battered against the ledge by the waves.»

Those failures helped to sculpt both the process by which he won and the process he is leaning on to maneuver choppy waters.

«The choppy, layered cut is used by hairdressers to make it seem as though their clients» hair is thicker than it really is, in turn helping them look younger.

After what must be the most irresponsible campaign ever by a governing party, there are choppy waters for the Tories to navigate

ELIZABETHTOWN As the state enters choppy fiscal waters, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed increasing public school aid by 3 percent this year.

One Cassini snapshot shows wavy swirls between two cloud zones, probably caused by the same stirring process that can produce choppy air in clear skies during an airplane flight.

Antarctica's strong Circumpolar Deep Current circles the entire continent, driven by strong winds called westerlies, which also create the Southern Ocean's dangerous and choppy waters.

Sonntag and his colleagues have adapted a computer model that describes the mixing of layers of seawater to take into account two kinds of changes produced by the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium: more light absorption and less choppy waves.

Perry kept her hair simple by tousling the choppy layers of her platinum pixie for added texture and movement.

Okay, we're not suggesting you magically wake up with waist - length curls, but adding a ton of voluminous waves — whether through a curling wand or by cutting short, choppy layers around the face to encourage a curl — helps to «fill out» a leaner, longer face.

Choppy Bob Layered cut causes slimming effect on Round faces, by creating an illusion of long face.

Forster's movies (Monster's Ball, Quantum of Solace, The Kite Runner) are usually choppy and rhythmless, but his regular editor Matt Chesse is joined here by Roger Barton, who worked dark magic on those wolf attacks in The Grey.

Directed in choppy and rather lazy fashion by Tom Dey (who gave us the royal guilty pleasure that is Shangai Noon and the big - time failure that is Showtime), Failure to Launch is a lot worse than just «familiar and predictable.»

The best bit comes when the Queen, played of course by Cate Blanchett, arrives on horseback on the coast to give her troops an inspirational speech while the Armada's first devilish pixels are digitally visible on the choppy horizon.

This screwball biopic isn't aided by its four editors, who create a choppy storyline where many moments and years are raced past without a chance to register.

Directed by newcomer Kay Cannon from a script by Brian Kehoe and Jim Kehoe, «Blockers» suffers from ungainly, choppy pacing.

The choppy tone was also highlighted by uneven pacing.

The subplot of Leo's family also adds a breath of fresh air by producing a layer of drama that is absent from the original, causing choppy waters of emotion to arouse the truth of what really happened after he fell into the sea.

That's when we get the endless, endless string of horrible deaths, captured by Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay's usual shaky, choppy action photography.

However, what keeps Suicide Squad on the level of being merely «passable entertainment at best» is the choppy and stuttering nature of the ill - defined plot, perhaps undone by yet another instance of nervous studio meddling, ostensibly to try to not stall momentum for their young universe of tent - pole films meant to keep them in the black for years to come.

Serving as something of a flipside to 2013's Tom Hanks - starring «Captain Phillips,» Brian Buckley's «The Pirates of Somalia,» based on a memoir by Jay Bahadur, finds itself navigating some choppy tonal waters prior to emerging as an engagingly performed take on recent world events.

Other actors stood out by embodying a role so completely that they changed the course of that character's fate, like Joe Keery in Stranger Things, or how despite the choppy mess that was The Defenders, Krysten Ritter continues to shine as the most consistent of the heroes.

Written, directed by and starring Lena Dunham, and costarring her real - life mother and sister, Tiny Furniture is a loose - limbed and pleasantly idiosyncratic independent film that takes an amusing look at romantic humiliation and twentysomething dawdling, when deep - seated ambivalence is so frequently mistaken for a lack of ambition or intelligence by adults who've forgotten the choppy waters of post-adolescence.

Bonus features consist of a choppy slate of a half dozen interviews with the cast and director Cole — a roster hamstrung by the fact that, inexplicably, Walken isn't included.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: You could say that Kathryn Bigelow's «Zero Dark Thirty» has encountered choppy waters since experimenting with a limited release at the tail end of last year (so as to be eligible for Oscar consideration).

But del Toro makes the waters a little choppy by raising what should be subplots to the level of co-equal narrative threads.

Parents may also find the waters a bit choppy due to the inclusion of mild sexual innuendo, language and some slobbery potty humor provided by Spike the dog.

It's tough to care about what's going on when you can't understand the dialogue (fast - talking British) and the flow of the screenplay is as choppy as the waters by the seashell beach where this take place.

That pragmatism has allowed her to navigate choppy education waters while continuing to build support for the law's ultimate goal of getting all students to grade level by 2013 — 14.

But it's offset by sub-par ergonomics, poor material quality, and at time a choppy ride.

While publishers in general are cautiously navigating the choppy waters of the digital shift, most are riding the strong wave of ebook sales that's putting as much profit in their coffers as Amazon's, while balancing a constricting (but by no means expiring) market for print books, along with a rats nest of pre-digital contracts, rights, and royalty scenarios.

Readers will often look past substantive issues and finish the book, but they won't pick up another book by that author, and they will leave negative comments, such as, «Some parts were confusing» (a problem with consistency), «The writing was choppy» (a problem with flow within and between paragraphs), «It wasn't well written» (a problem with awkward sentences and possibly other various issues), «I wasn't sure who was saying what» or «The dialogue wasn't that great,» and «It didn't really hold my attention» or «The story was boring» (a problem with telling instead of showing).