Sentences with phrase «by dumbing things»

Anyway, the most relevant thing about those games is that OFp Red River was another case of a developer guy straight up saying he wanted to sell better like COD and appeal to that juvenile garbage's fans by dumbing things down and making it more arcadey.

Now, he added, the goal for proponents is to show that quality early - college models are scalable, and that they can help reduce achievement gaps and dropout rates not by dumbing things down, but by challenging kids and exposing them to new opportunities.

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There are lots of dumb things you could do as a startup entrepreneur — like base your company out of Bakersfield, allow yourself to be acquired by Groupon in an all - stock transition, or pitch your growing U.S. - based startup to the Samwer brothers — but nothing could be more dumb than throwing your hard - earned venture capital money at a public relations firm.

Fine dave, would you feel better if I said «Fvck you and your lazy ass selfish friends who are too lazy to get off your ass and vote, too lazy to bother to understand how the system is stacked against change, too dumb to understand it when it's explained to you, and too self - centered to realize or care that real people are affected by these things.»

The Gospels have in their way met this problem, not only by placing the kerygma on Jesus» lips, but also by presenting individual units from the tradition in such a way that the whole gospel becomes visible: At the call of Levi, we hear (Mark 2.17): «I came not to call the righteous, but sinners»; at the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.»

It's churches I don't believe are built by people... hahahaha... this is about the dumbest thing I have ever read.

Of course, that's dumbed down by a factor of a million, and there are still things every hitter can learn by studying his craft, but I'm skeptical about Stanton leveling up after talking with Bonds for five minutes.

Smart choice by Smith to clear things up and to keep him and the Chiefs out of trouble, but man, does Vontae look dumb.

His program at Holy Trinity is telling us some important things about kids and school food — namely, that food doesn't need to be «dumbed down» for kids to accept it; that kids implicitly understand when deep care is being put into the preparation of their food and they respond with equal respect; and that improving school food can change kids» attitudes about food outside the school yard gates, as was the case with the student quoted by Chef Boundas who cut back on fast food now that he's eating healthful foods at lunch and learning about nutrition and cooking in Chef Boundas's kitchen.

The court heard Nimmo had also targeted Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, with the message «The things I cud do to u (smiley face)» and called her «Dumb blond...» followed by an offensive word.

If only all of us dumb Americans had been smart enough to figure out that that pyramid thing was trying to get us to eat more whole grains these last few decades, we'd all be thin and healthy by now and heart disease and diabetes would be things of the past!

The 20 DUMBEST Things Ever Said By «Bodybuilders» By IFBB Pro Ben Pakulski creator of Hypertrophy Max

I lose confidence in myself and in my taste, I spend forever in front of the mirror, I take dumb selfies and send them to my friends, and since they can't see anything anyway because I'm terrible at selfies, it's even worse, so they stress me out by saying things like:

Undercut by dumbed - down dialogue, unconvincing characters, and a thirst for blood which borders on the Mel Gibson - side of excessive, Antoine Fuqua's latest feature seems interested in only one thing: making Gerard Butler look more of a man than... Continue reading Olympus Has Fallen

But his latest feature, «Suburbicon,» provides reason for hope: for one thing, it's based on an»80s Coen brothers screenplay (rewritten by Clooney and his long - time writing and producing partner Grant Heslov) and it's a dark James Cain «Double Indemnity» story starring Clooney's «Oceans» co-star Matt Damon as a hapless miscreant — no one plays dumb and funny better — and an adept cast of smart comedy actors, including Julianne Moore as his wife and Oscar Isaac as the suspicious insurance man hounding them.

Undercut by dumbed - down dialogue, unconvincing characters, and a thirst for blood which borders on the Mel Gibson - side of excessive, Antoine Fuqua's latest feature seems interested in only one thing: making Gerard Butler look more of a man than he already does.

In an era where teenage girls are either relegated to dumb - but - cute socialites or objects of some other teenage boy's (and sometimes older man's) desires, the character of Mattie Ross not only goes against the conventional grain by being anything but those things, but also is infused with riveting determination and conviction by Steinfeld's captivating portrayal.

It's a good thing, too — Flynn's casual performance is helped by Curtiz's ability to keep his star under constant threat from well - drawn villains (big heavy Bruce Cabot is square jawed and smug; character actor / sidekick Victor Jory is the epitome of dumb, single - minded badness) and from civilization run amok (random gunfights popping up all over; children getting dragged through the street tied to horses).

Guided by the new IQ tests (which did as much as any single thing to convince American educators that tracking was not only possible but preferable) and the rise of guidance and counseling programs (which could match young people with the curriculum track best suited to their «scientifically» determined individual profiles), America entered an era of democratic dumbing down: the equal opportunity to choose (or be chosen for) failing programs.

When your Dropout Nation editor has been brought low by that horrible viral - based disease called Influenza, it not only forces him to spend days sleeping in bed (when not coughing and other disgusting aspects of being sick), but limits him to reading a lot of really smart people writing and saying dumb things.

Among other things, I can't help but mention that if all this comes to pass, the dumbed - down Netbook phenomenon of 2009 will be so over by 2013.

I have strong suspicions that lawyers are messing things up for publishers they are trying to be ever so clever by screwing authors in the contracts, but good authors just aren't that dumb, and the pool for the traditional publishers is getting smaller and smaller.

The problem was compounded by dumb policy, things such as the Smoot - Hawley Tariff Act — a buy America keep foreign stuff out by a couple of dummies in Washington — which turned the crash into a depression.

He certainly isn't perfect by any means, he's said and has did dumb things, much like every other human being.

While EA CEO Andrew WIlson recently apologized for the mere existence of Dungeon Keeper, EA's head of mobile Frank Gibeau attempted to defend it by saying the dumbest thing ever:

In 2013 he will be participating in the Hayward Touring exhibition; The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, which is curated by Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey.

It's April, and between phone calls from my car and Skype calls from his kitchen, Leckey explains what he's putting together for A Month of Making, a May — June exhibition at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York, which itself anticipates a solo exhibition at Wiels, Brussels, this coming September, and which is a continuation, of sorts, of Leckey's remarkable curatorial project, The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, which was commissioned by the Hayward Gallery and toured the UK throughout 2013.

Curated by Turner Prize - winning artist Mark Leckey, The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things explores the theme of «techno - animism,» whereby the inanimate comes to life through technology.

An Exploration, Kunsthalle St Gallen CH; Pictures in Time, Goetz Collection, Haus der Kunst, Munich DE; Sites of Reason: A selection of Recent Acquisitions, MOMA, New York US; Video container: Museum as method, Knight exhibition series, MOCA, North Miami US; Grey Flags, Galerie Backslash, Paris FR; A Sense of Things, Zabludowicz Collection, London UK (all 2014); An - Americana, American Academy in Rome IT; The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, curated by Mark Leckey, Nottingham Contemporary UK; Test Pattern, Whitney Museum, New York US (all 2013).

She joined the Hayward Touring team as Assistant Curator in 2011; organising tours of exhibitions across the UK and leading on major collaborative projects for Hayward Touring including The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things (2013) curated by Mark Leckey and Art from Elsewhere (2014 - 15) which was supported by the Art Fund.

On a chill overcast morning (which, from experience, describes most days in the UK), I took the two - hour train from St. Pancras Station to Nottingham (a modest city perhaps best known for its link to the legend of Robin Hood) to see The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, an exhibition organized by the 2008 Turner Prize - winning artist Mark Leckey.

The June 2013 issue of Rolling Stone published some of these utterings, several made by prominent elected officials, in its funny article, «The 10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Global Warming,» just as likely to draw tears as it is to invoke laughter.

And, Pekka, the really dumb thing about this all is that it will not change our planet's climate by 2100 by one iota, even using IPCC's arguably exaggerated estimate for 2xCO2 climate sensitivity.

Why risk being seen by all who are sentient, that one is idiot for saying such an obviously dumb thing?

This sort of thing is usually employed by the person who can not pound the facts, or the law, and is too dumb to find a table on which to pound.

Another problem is that, as we see with media releases, dumbing down the science creates the risk of inadvertently making points not supported by the evidence, or having to explain things laboriously that are clear to scientists (or should be) like statistical significance.

Otherwise the Supreme Court is telling 17 million British people that the whole thing was a waste of time and that the largest number of votes ever recorded on any issue in the history of the British Isles was in fact a bad joke played by the «liberal elite» on a public judged by them to be to dumb to know their own best interests!

Well, it's just a setting in Word Options > Proofing by default, isn't this dumb, that it will not spell check things in all caps.

Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things With Money by Carl Richards Another guide that focuses on human psychology, The Behavior Gap aims to give simple advice that goes against our preconceived notions.

A great companion to Belkin's Wemo smart switch, the Wemo Mini Smart Plug lets you control things like lamps, fans, small appliances, and other dumb devices that can't be controlled by a switch on the wall.

Bridging courses and making things more culturally safe for students is so obvious, yet so unknown in the education area in general, and too often high schools keep our kids from achieving, by dumbing them down, assuming because they are aboriginal they will never get into further study.