Sentences with phrase «compelling than it ended»

I just wish the «modern» stuff was a little more compelling than it ended up being.

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And in the end, «All these years we've been wrong» is a much more compelling pitch than «things mostly work much the way you would assume.»

Rather than feeling compelled to provide a solution to every problem, supervisors ask open - ended questions and encourage team members to offer suggestions.

But nobody has been more effective or compelling in bringing about the creation of the United Conservative Party than its chief rallier: NDP Premier Rachel Notley, whose interloping, democratically endorsed mandate can not, in the eyes of many Albertans, end soon enough.

Based on 20 years of global data and nearly 90 years of US data, the energy sector has never been cheaper on price - to - book multiples than it was at the end of 2015.1 The skeptics» response to these compelling headline valuations tends to be suspicion of book values, which indeed are likely overstated in some instances and vulnerable to further impairment.

In this way it's a game of compelling opposites; cutscenes infiltrate the great gameplay, fourth - wall hammering innovations subvert the dominance of the sweeping story, and even though the game ends the tale of Solid Snake with such bold finality, I expect nothing more than his triumphant return.

Some rooms are complex and compelling, but at the end of the adventure truly memorable puzzles will be less than expected.

Annihilation's compelling vibe grows and grows as it progresses, to be sure, while the incredibly bizarre yet completely hypnotic closing stretch ensures that the picture ends on a palpably memorable note, which undoubtedly confirms the whole thing's place as another better - than - average sci - fi effort from Garland.

In other words, Motorway is a stunt film whose stunts are less conventionally compelling than they are thoughtful, a distinguishing quality that's as much a boon to the film's overall quality as it is a liability — and unfortunately the latter ends up winning out.

The film ends with more questions than answers, but it is never less than compelling.

This is a carefully calibrated potboiler, more finely - tuned onscreen than «Gone Girl,» and compelling from beginning almost to the drawn out end.

From the visually compelling opening credits, to the action - packed ending, The Kingdom may have certain flaws in terms of its simplification of complex world events, but taken as a pure piece of entertainment, it is certainly more efficient and intellectually stimulating than most actioners of its ilk.

By the end of Knife, Daud becomes a far more compelling character than Corvo ever was; which is part of the reason the ending feels as cheap as it does.

Still, the campaign remains more than compelling enough to warrant playing through to the end.

The basic argument for interim assessments is actually quite compelling: let's fix our students» learning problems during the year, rather than waiting for high - stakes state tests to make summative judgments on us all at the end of the year, because interim assessments can be aggregated and have external referents (projection to standards, norms, scales).

The road leads to where the road ends, but what if we feel compelled to continue on, to push farther, harder, and wider to see more of the world than the road shows?

In the end, a car that threatens to be a compelling, smart luxury coupe ends up feeling somewhat less than coherent.

Lenovo Moto G4 Plus The Moto G4 Plus is not exactly a high - end smartphone, but it's a more than compelling mid-range offering.

There are many segments of the market that want a tablet with end to end encryption and customized apps that make it more compelling than the vanilla experience that Asus and Acer provides.

Though perhaps less cinematic than some of King's other works, this quietly moving and thought - provoking book, with its unexpectedly poignant ending, is a compelling tale.

The Last Empress, which opens where Empress Orchid ends, lacks the compelling rags - to - riches / love story elements of Empress Orchid and tends to read like a series of vignettes not a continuous novel - probably the result of trying to squeeze nearly half a century of turbulent history into less than 300 pages.

One article from USA Today (January 15, 2015) suggests more possibilities: «leaving their more compelling content on the site longer; creating clutter - free website designs to make it easier to find the best material; posting more quizzes; using prominent «embeds» of videos, links and tweets in stories; assigning long - form articles; creating never - ending pages that just scroll on with more content loads; showcasing photo galleries that stay on one long page rather than flipped pages.»

Building on the foundation we laid with Mortal Kombat, the team has worked hard to make sure we have more than enough compelling content to keep players entertained for hours on end.

It wasn't about rewarding players with an ending that was different than everyone else's, it was about providing them a compelling story that demonstrated exactly how to handle moral decisions without compromising what the developer set out to do.

The appetite for visual stimulation in our contemporary culture — precipitated by internet technology and globalization that has produced infinite numbers of artists of all sorts in the last decade or two, while disempowering the monopoly of the few in mainstream media by giving rise to endless writers and critics who feel an urgent need to respond to such vast production — has paid greater attention to its temporal condition than any art of the past; I would argue that in the end it's the great work of art and thoughtful writing that compels multiple viewings and readings, hence rendering both immortal.

I want something more compelling than the hockey stick» Over the course of writing the chapter he was pressured further and twoard the end he told Overpeck that they should not give into the pressure from Solomon and Mann.

«I never have, and still do not believe or say that ends justify the means or that truth should be abandoned for a good cause — and what cause is more compelling than making nuclear war and its horrors more publicly known?

«Doctors Don't Like Ratings Systems Any More Than Lawyers Main The End of Compelled Consumer Arbitration?»

The trial judge in Carter found that an absolute prohibition on assisted suicide promotes a small number of wrongful deaths of vulnerable persons by compelling people to end their lives sooner than necessary to do if they were able to receive assistance and found that an exception to the prohibition would likely to reduce the number of wrongful deaths.

Lenovo Moto G4 Plus The Moto G4 Plus is not exactly a high - end smartphone, but it's a more than compelling mid-range offering.

For example, by the end of the first day of a summer program, children with ADHD were more rejected by peers than non-ADHD participants.13 Similarly, in a play group study that involved placing children with ADHD in groups with unfamiliar non-ADHD peers, the non-ADHD participants began complaining about the behavior of their ADHD peers within minutes.12 These studies provide compelling evidence that the peer problems of children with ADHD follow them wherever they go.