Sentences with phrase «by clever takes»

Buoyed by clever takes on undead lore and charmingly dorky puns, the film earns its emotional heft through inspired characterizations and centuries of starch - collared melancholy.

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All was good for decades, as the tradition of buying diamond engagement and wedding rings took off just after the Second World War, when newly employed GIs were told «A Diamond Is Forever» in a clever marketing campaign by South African miner De Beers.

PillPack hopes to eliminate that frustration not just with clever packaging, but by coordinating refills on behalf of its customers, offering its service for free (the average customer takes seven medications, which Parker says gives PillPack plenty of margin), shipping overnight, and making it easy to transfer prescriptions to PillPack.

Many clever marketers have taken advantage of this new space by heavily promoting auto - trader robots and signals that claim to guarantee success but actually lose traders money.

Or replace an aging injury prone mertesacker?all of these things would have been considered by any clever manager.but not the wise one.he, as per usual, wants to show us how clever he is & play square pegs in round holes & take a gamble on injuries or buy an unknown who is as cheap as chips & may or may not save him spending any money.but then he will tell you (Arsenal don't have any lol!)

And at times when he's taking risks he also takes a hugely clever risk by giving a certain defender the ball, directly before we close it down and winning it in area that puts them straight on the back foot.

These cute and clever little fasteners (invented by a Dad by the way) take the fear out of poking your baby and fingers with the pins and allow you to make your cloth diapering easier.

Previously it was used to describe the time parents spend cooing over their new babe; however, the term (redefined by clever travel agents) now takes the focus off the baby and offers expectant parents a little «us» time before the arrival of their new — crying, sleepless, pooping — bundle of joy.

A clever campaign will give young voters a sense of empowerment and motivation to take control of their own destinies by voting in June.

By taking clever advantage of the interplay between light, electrons on the surface of metals, and heat, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have for the first time created a plasmomechanical oscillator (PMO), so named because it tightly couples plasmons — the collective oscillations of electrons at the surface of a metal nanoparticle — to the mechanical vibrations of the much larger device it's embedded in.

The all - organic menu (created by Chef Scott Winegard) is both clever and comforting with pizzas like Truffled Celeriac, Maitake Mushroom, and Parsley Pesto Pizza, which mushroom lovers will go crazy for, and Farro - Fennel «Sausage» pizza, where the spiced farro takes on the texture and taste of crumbled sausage without any vague «meat substitutes.»

This is the best way to create a more premium looking wardrobe by taking up clever tactics.

We are all doom so why not take the cleverness of the premise one step further by being clever with their romance.

They've just given their sound a clever makeover, and taken the next step in their evolution as a band by doing so.

The movie does take advantage of the R rating by being as offensive as it can be, but the jokes aren't exactly as clever as they believe.

by Walter Chaw Although by the end it isn't nearly as interesting as it is clever, James Mangold's take on the slasher genre Identity is a tricky little beast that fits in peculiarly well with the recent trend of deconstructive horror films (such as The Ring and Soft for Digging).

A microscopic buddy flick complete with a crusty police captain, a megalomaniacal Mayor Phlegmming (William Shatner) bent on re-election, a sexy single cell (Brandy) who won't give our unfairly - maligned leukocyte the time of day, and a series of breathtaking circulatory car chases (along the Vena Cava Expressway) that take us on a giddy tour through all the major towns of Frank (and a few greasy fly - by - night joints like the club carbuncle), Osmosis Jones is amazingly fun and clever.

It's already been confirmed, that Wii U is indeed more powerful than the PS3 & 360, also Wii U's GPU has the ability to act and perform the same functions as a CPU, so that means the GPU can take alot of slack off of the Wii U's CPU, and that's what's going to make it possible for Wii U to keep up with the PS4 and next Xbox, it's called a Memory Intensified design, and it's a unique and very clever design of hardware by Nintendo, Wii U has a bit more power under it's hood than you think, just wait till 3rd partys start to master Wii U's hardware, I see good games on Wii U's horizon.

With this playful fable, filmmaker Meier takes a clever look at family life by placing the characters in a surreal location and then twisting things outrageously.

That detail may not come from Wright's brain, but it neatly summarizes his entire filmography, a moment that unites narrative with character insights and motivations that take a step beyond the reductive goals erected by supposedly clever genre films.

As you may know by now, the events of the new film are set into motion when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), attempting to take some of the world - saving weight from his heroic comrades, creates an army of technological peacekeeping drones controlled by the clever A.I. Ultron (voiced and performance captured with relish by James Spader).

But it was more than just a change of pace; «San Junipero» took a clever concept and let the technology take a back seat to the incredibly beautiful relationship between characters played with such great humanity by Mackenzie Davis and Gugu Mbatha - Raw.

This leads to Colossus (again voiced by Stefan Kapicic) taking him home to Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Students (and a very clever gag about the seemingly empty school that brought the house down at the screening I attended) to recuperate.

It's based on a story by John Sayles and Richard Robinson, with Sayles writing the clever screenplay that takes some shots at America's lunatic Vietnam War and at greedy civilians and at delusional scientists who sign onto doing research for the military by selling their soul.

In inception it's cleverer than Shrek, taking the same storybooks - populated - by - ironic - Californians tack and marrying it to a better idea, yet it has neither the winning writing nor the appealing characters.

An even cleverer idea was hatched by director Stuart McDonald when he decided to turn this real life Fairy - tale into a sweet little family film with Sarah Snook, Alan Tudyk and Aussie actor Shane Jacobson playing second fiddle to the first dog to take the job.

The film takes place on a hedonistic island getaway aptly named Coconut Pete's Pleasure Island after the low - key rock star that runs it, played with clever abandonment by Bill Paxton.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

Some of the organizers behind Education Forward have some clever ideas about how to fund the online courses a student might take, for example — by offering 50 percent of funding to the provider up - front for enrollment, 25 percent for the student passing the course, and the last 25 percent upon successful passage of the state final exam — but this idea, which moves the focus to student outcomes, isn't codified explicitly in the initiative (although the notion of competency - based learning is, which might lead to such an outcomes - based funding system).

Finally, whatever intervention this Board takes, it must do so with actual evidence of the issues, concerns, and needs of Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native American educators and students rather than with the clever marketing and weak evidence provided by the charter school industry.

Another clever bit of air management: the textured «curlicue» undersides of the front side strakes, which take the air brought in from the hood vents to cool the brakes and «roll» it down the side of the car; by reducing the high - pressure area at the back of the wheel arch, the strakes decrease front lift and increase grip.

Maruti has rather taken a very clever decision by plonking the AMT unit into the best selling compact sedan in the country.

Taking the Audi Virtual Cockpit and refining the clever concept for drivers and their passengers by spreading infotainment across to the central screen is a great step in an already top - notch offering.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

Amazon is being clever: While the authors of big, long, and important books felt that they were shortchanged by a pay - by - the - borrow formula, they probably didn't expect that Amazon would take their proposal a step further.

Bruce gets the bright idea (likely instigated by clever LendingTree - like advertising) to take out a $ 25,000 consolidation loan at, say 12 %.

Tails.com is taking the pet food world by storm with their clever combination of pet nutrition and customer - centered service to provide a dog food prod...

At night the garden and pool take on a different and special persona, due to clever recessed lighting designed and provided by Light - Com under the direction of Paul Turner.

Of course this is all just a clever marketing ploy by EA to ensure that you try out both demos and hopefully end up buying both games, but considering all the effort it takes to bag these shiny items is to download two demos that I would have downloaded anyway, you can count me in.

Collect unique weapons, spells, and more during your journey to take down powerful bosses and solve clever puzzles.Be part of a vivid, dynamic story passed down from grandfather to grandchildren by influencing the course of events yourself!

The inventive in - game shots taken by talented Imgur user EYuiS do a commendable job capturing the essence of each francise, with clever use of locations, liveries, filters, game logos and camera angles.

Sonic Mania quickly became one of the most beloved entries in the venerable series by taking the hedgehog back to basics while focusing on clever...

The Slave 1 will tear through little fighters, as will the Millenium Falcon, however, clever pilots have discovered that by popping on the Falcon's shields, they can simply ram the Slave 1 out of the sky without taking any damage.

One thing that I especially enjoyed about this game was its clever ability to constantly break the fourth wall by reminding the player that this is a video game and thus everything shouldn't be taken too seriously.

There is the standard story mode which will take you between 20 to 30 hours which flies by due to clever writing and brilliant pacing of content, boss battles and the general want to see more of what this game has to offer.

Yet another very clever take on the platformer, in Fluidity your avatar is a pool of water that you must move by tilting and bouncing the world it exists in.

«Basically the ninja claptrap was created by Hyperion to stop the vault hunters from taking all the guns and treasure etc, but was too clever, he saw other claptraps being «enslaved» and «killed» — he wanted it to stop so he started a claptrap revolution.

Using neat isometric visuals, a huge Bat Cave environment and lots of clever puzzles, the game took the gameplay style popularised by classic title Knightlore and made it work for the caped crusader and his world.

Work together to get the extraction and share the loot from the mission, or turn on the team and attempt to kill everyone and take all the loot for yourself; it's a clever mechanic that though seems fun in a demo environment, could be very frustrating if you grind for hours for a new weapon only to be betrayed by a teammate and lose the items from all the hard work you've put in.

Fragger takes its own spin on the physics puzzler by challenging players to use their grenades in clever ways to bypass the defenses of their enemies.