Sentences with phrase «fad for»

Social media isn't a fad for the business world — it's here to stay.

Seen as the latest fad for startup fundraising, over 201 ICOs have collectively raised over $ 3 billion in funding just this year, according to the tracking service Coinschedule.

Currently in terms of long term retention and revenue per user, Animal Crossing feels like it is a long way behind its contemporaries and as a result is in danger of a «pop and drop» where it's a huge fad for a few months before trailing off into obscurity a little later.

With just the one musical style that can get a bit old, I expect Superzoom to become a solid arrow in creators» quivers, and it will surely be a fad for a few days.

(And don't get me going on «ar - tic»...) And then there's the latest fad for sentences with the structure «x can't help but y,» when anyone who pays attention to language would know that «help» and «but» do the same work, and what you want is either «x can't but y» — which only English novelists say, granted — and «x can't help y - ing».

Doug Brackmann: So, you may have been diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, you know, that really hasn't come into fad for, you know, until the last 15, 20 years.

The fad for recladding tower blocks in London and the rest of the country looks increasingly like a hysterical response to international obligations for action over climate change.

Germaine Richier and Tsuyoshi Maekawa (through April 12) These side - by - side exhibitions form an interesting debate about the current, often rewarding fad for perpetual resurrection that has made ours the time of «no artist left behind.»

«I think it was the fad for deconstructive strategies in art criticism and theory — the challenges to the canon, the introduction of a whole new group of critical models,» she says.

The body of work on show at the M + Pavilion riffs off the fad for charity pop singles aimed at raising awareness of and somehow curing the world's social and economic ills.

Not that the fad for album - cover imagery necessarily means engaging emotions, as «expressionism» would seem to require.

The millennium has come and gone, along with the art boom and at least some of the pop - culture fad for zombies.

Off on her first ever adventure in 2013 - thanks to the time dilation granted by the current fad for origin stories and reboots - she was shipwrecked, beat up, brutalised and left without any real tombs to raid or endangered creatures to massacre.

You're basing a whole theme park land on a popular movie that was a fad for a couple of months 7 years ago.

i hate the new fad for procedural generated levels, its an excuse for lack of design.

This is presently a hot topic among breeders, specifically a fad for something unique and different.

«The fad for Egyptian cats very quickly spread through the ancient Greek and Roman world, and even much further afield, since cats were found in Viking ports established on the Baltic Sea between 500 and 800 CE.»

This is not simply a fad for exaggeration, but in keeping with the job this canine was bred for.

Are genres that have a small but loyal following being ignored because of some late great fad for 2 - 3 years in the name of the almighty dollar?

I heard about this sickening fad for the first time last night when I saw a story on WISN, a Milwaukee TV station.

Mercedes started the fad for the four - door coupe with the original CLS nearly a decade ago, since when most car makers have picked -LSB-...]

There is a fad for Glacier «Vitamin Water.»

Although the fad for cauliflower rice may be waning (or is it?)

Nose strips were big in the»90s, but this beauty trend wasn't just a fly - by fad for K - Beauty buffs.

The 1920s saw the widespread adoption of loser cute garments, lightweight fabrics, tiered layers, cloche hats, dark lipstick, and a fad for ethnically inspired pieces (e.g., styles that channelled Egypt, ancient Greece, and the Orient).

Question:... this new FAD for HEALTH is not for everyone.

Although it may be a passing fad for some, a gluten - free diet is powerful medicine for most.

Try out the fad for yourself with this Grilled Summer Cobb Salad featuring charred romaine and other summer produce.

Gluten - free has been a health fad for many years now and I can see why.

It may be a fad for some celebrities but for real people who experience discomfort and disease, it will be a way of life.

Ever resisted a fad for a long time because you didn't like it or it seemed frivolous only to try it later and discover that you had been missing out the whole time?

-- subsisted mainly on beetle grubs found under the bark of dead or injured trees and succumbed in part to a post — Civil War fad for ladies» feathered hats.

The fad for video games may be ruining the eyesight of Japanese children, a survey by the education ministry suggests.

Manhattan Sen. Jose Serrano started a fad for bow ties in the state Legislature this session.

It's not just breast - feeding on demand, but the fad for doulas and natural childbirth and our horror of epidurals and formula.

Essential oils seem like the latest fad for «treating» everything and can supposedly ease achy joints, elevate your mood, increase your energy, support your immune system, and even help those who have trouble paying attention and sustaining focus.

I think the problem of rompers is that they've come back as a fad for grown women, on whom they are undeniably sexy: http://blog.gettyimages.com/2009/05/26/romper-room/#.T4RaaKsQsac.

I hoped in the beginning that this would be just a fad for these owners, and then Chelsea will go back to being the club that they really are, same with city.

Funnily enough I mentioned the other day about Mourinho playing an inverted full back to help counter the fad for inverted wingers cutting in so the FB is able to duel with the stronger foot.

Although similar lifestyle choices have been around for some time, what may have started out as a fad for some has now become a core aspect of their lives.

It certainly may be true that a wheat free diet is just a fad for a larger part of the population, but for some of us it is very important.

And I also understand the frustration of seeing those who are not well versed in gluten free sticking a GF tag on a recipe to capitalize on what they see as a growing fad (note — GF is not a fad for the many like my husband who must be GF the rest of their lives, but I'm not going to get into that today).

It's part of a fad for those people.

Writers such as Cardinal Newman and Edward Holloway have protested this irrational fad for divorcing reason from the basic psychological dynamic of affirmative human experience.

I think they've realised that this isn't a fad for me, that my faith is now part of my identity.

But they hadn't bought in to the latest fad for micromanaging church member's lives.

«This is about learning and ensuring with our dealer partners that we're building a business model that's sustainable for the longer term and not something that's going to be a fad for this year.»

Not exact matches

However, it also could be the beginning of the end for the fad.

In a world dominated by celebrity fad diets that range from the absurd, like Reese Witherspoon's alleged «baby - food diet,» to the absurdly unaffordable, such as Gwyneth Paltrow's $ 200 «moon dust» - infused breakfast smoothie, calories can seem like the most scientific option for improving your health.

Today, neither the mantra of «calorie is king» nor the allure of fad diets appears to have won out in the global battle for our waistlines.