Sentences with phrase «effect on critics»

Man of Steel had a polarizing effect on critics and fans, but nothing can stop excitement around the simple concept of Batman sharing the screen with Superman.

Michael Bay has the same effect on critics as Kryptonite on Superman.

Not exact matches

Yet, this week, Netflix confirmed that it will be making a sequel to Bright, signaling that critics» reviews didn't have much effect on the popular streaming service's decision - making process.

The surprise move silenced critics of the program (at least temporarily), incensed the legions of businesses who'd come to rely on it and, perhaps most importantly, told the world that Kenney — who's only been helming the prestigious jobs portfolio since July 2013 — is a man capable of enacting changes that have a massive effect on the 1.1 million employers under his jurisdiction.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

Critics of such faiths as Christian Science and Mormonism can not but be impressed with the beneficent effect that the reality of group life has on many young people.

When all allowance has been made for these limiting factors — the chances of oral transmission, the effect of translation, the interest of teachers in making the sayings «contemporary,» and simple human fallibility — it remains that the first three gospels offer a body of sayings on the whole so consistent, so coherent, and withal so distinctive in manner, style content, that no reasonable critic should doubt, whatever reservations he may have about individual sayings, that we find reflected here the thought of a single, unique teacher.

If my little gusts and zephyrs annoy my critic, I can only point out they had the opposite effect on those who wrote rave reviews for the National Catholic Register, the New Oxford Review, and the Remnant, among a half «dozen others.

Intellectual Memoirs, 1936 — 1938 by Mary McCarthy Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 114 pages, $ 15.95 The novelist and critic Mary McCarthy, who died in 1989, was up to the time of her death working on a memoir of her life in the late 1930s, in effect a sequel to her two previous autobiographical....

Some of the critique of the electronic church pivots on this more general proposition about the alleged ill effects of television, although the critics are not always explicit in this regard.

As one critic has said of the reliance of Wheelwright's diaphor on epiphor: «The net effect of diaphor is to increase the possibility of pluri - signification by forcing the reader to create a relationship or a number of relationships, more or less cognitive, without finally insisting on a particular version» (David M. Miller, The Net of Hephaestus: A Study of Modern Criticism and Metaphysical Metaphor [The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971], p. 113).

For critics who say this number is not big enough to matter, we must look at what effects obesity can have on our children and our economy.

In the end, critics said the city's plans for the Upper West Side will barely have an impact when they start taking effect when school begins on Sept. 7.

Critics of Cuomo argue that his portrayal of the loss SALT deductibility effects on New York is greatly exaggerated.

Critics talk mostly about effects on muscles, particularly pain and weakness.

But outside the world of research, the ruling will also have effects on patients, critics argue.

Critics said the relaxation of rules was too little, too late to redress substantial negative effects of the one - child policy on the economy and society.

If we equate de facto ketogenic diets with high - protein diets (which is not always correct) then the risks proposed by critics of this type of dietary approach are essentially those of possible kidney damage due to high levels of nitrogen excretion during protein metabolism, which can cause an increase in glomerular pressure and hyperfiltration.12 There is not wide agreement between studies; however, some infer the possibility of renal damage from animal studies, 99, 100 whereas others, looking at both animal models, meta - analyses and human studies, propose that even high levels of protein in the diet do not damage renal function.101, 102 In subjects with intact renal function, higher dietary protein levels caused some functional and morphological adaptations without negative effects.103 There may actually be renal - related effects, but on blood pressure rather than morphological damage.

«Strong friendships can increase happiness and have a healthy effect on our bodies,» says Elizabeth Lombardo, PhD, a psychologist and author of Better Than Perfect: 7 Steps to Crush your Inner Critic and Create a Life You Love.

Critic Consensus: The Lazarus Effect has a talented cast and the glimmer of an interesting idea, but wastes it all on insipid characters and dull, recycled plot points.

Critics Consensus: The Lazarus Effect has a talented cast and the glimmer of an interesting idea, but wastes it all on insipid characters and dull, recycled plot points.

I'm just a critic, but I can tell you from my experience, when you lack funds for better special effects, focus on the story and the experienced cast.

The 1963 Haunting is still remembered fondly (mostly by critics) for its atmosphere and the performances of its two female leads, but, low - key as director Wise might have been, he, too, was not above a certain amount of excess, relying on distorting camera lenses and the cranking up of volume on music and special effects.

Great cast, creepy score and some horrifying special effects that still hold up well - not sure why the critics were hating on this in 1982.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — In the blazing noon sun of Labor Day, on a panel discussion in Elks Park, the veteran critic Stanley Kauffmann put his finger on the kinds of films that the Telluride Film Festival does not exist to support: movies made of special effects and technology.

«Slumdog Millionaire» which had the same effect on many critics, including myself, aged very poorly and looking back, not necessarily the best film of the year.

It offers a one - page write - up about the movie's creation and disappearance, critics» quotes, a complete credits list, quotes with corresponding frame grabs, storyboards and effects information, and even a page on each of the bonus shorts included.

In a Rotten Tomatoes era which has a Svengali effect on the box office, Fifty Shades movies are critic - proof, and film reviewers aren't any more forgiving slamming this James Foley - directed title with a 13 % Rotten score, the second lowest of the three (Fifty Shades of Grey earned a 25 % Rotten and Fifty Shades Darker logged a 10 % Rotten score).

In his reading, if academics tend to withhold evaluation, critics withhold causal arguments and focus on the particular effects that give a particular film its qualities.

Many argue that critics have no effect on films» box office performance, but the opposite would certainly appear to be true for Allen.

And it surely did not quiet the critics, who continued to complain that children are too young to be penalized for reading struggles, that retention has a potentially negative effect on children's love of learning, and that the stigma attached to being held back while the rest of your classmates move on is not worth it.

Members who write for children came together to critics the «detrimental effects» of the current trend in education policy, as they feel the increasingly restrictive rules and focus on testing will have a negative impact on children's writing ability.

Thus, critics argue that VAMs can not «isolate» an individual teacher's effect on student test scores.

While some critics have charged that changing to a four - day school week may have negative effects on student achievement, researchers at Colorado State University have completed a study indicating that the switch to a four - day schedule has «no effect» on achievement as measured by the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Drawing on earlier criticism of the organization society and its alienating effects, social critic Paul Goodman, already famous for his subversive Growing Up Absurd (1960), condemned the school system in toto with a slim volume called Compulsory Mis - education and the Community of Scholars (1962).

Nevertheless, critics continue to question the NBPTS's method and focus for measuring quality teaching and to call instead for what they believe should be simple and direct measures of effects on student achievement.

Critics are expected to speak out in the partyroom on Tuesday, demanding more information about the effects of the schools package on the Catholic sector.

WILL president and general counsel Rick Esenberg told reporters on a conference call Tuesday that the study was intended to look at the effects of Act 10 about five years after it enacted in 2011 and to test claims by critics of Act 10.

Calculating the fiscal impact of these programs would seem straightforward on the surface, but critics and supporters of educational choice strongly disagree about such programs» fiscal effects on taxpayers, state budgets and schools.

Harris discusses the controversies surrounding VAMs, as argued by both VAM proponents and critics, and he contends in the end that «[i] t is difficult to weigh these pros and cons... because we have so little evidence on the [formative] effects of using value - added measures on teaching and learning.»

Other concerns are similarly borne of ambiguity and disingenuousness: What critics rightly intuit is that the Common Core very well could have profound, pernicious effects on classrooms in several ways.

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

Critics are expected to speak out in the partyroom on Tuesday, demanding more information about the effects of the package on the Catholic sector.

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Fully redesigned with a modern graphic style and special effects, Ghost Blade HD quite literally looks to be the definitive version, as many critics originally complained about the audio and graphical limitations of the final product on Sega's swan song system.

Then just a few short days ago, Mass Effect 2 was released and was met with unbelievable reviews from critics and currently holds a 96/100 score on Metacritic.

These are powerful and moving experiences that are being erased in the minds of gamers every time a critic picks on Mass Effect for example, without remembering that Mass Effect was the story of sacrifice for the betterment of others.

There are, of course, still doubts about Mass Effect: Andromeda that will need to be quelled once more critics go hands - on with the title.