Sentences with phrase «falls flat as»

But the tone falls flat as a result.

The game falls flat as the developers try to create a cross between Clue and Final Fantasy.

Characters can also be created to try and add a bit of spice to the game, but this falls flat as well.

However, its gameplay falls flat as it fails to pull itself from Musou mediocrity.

Despite having a story that could easily make for a pretty compelling journey, Miike and co. stretch it out and allow it to meander so much that interest in the outcome soon falls flat as you wait for it to come to its long - overdue and elongated conclusion.

At the same time, the screenplay touches briefly on themes ranging from toxic sexual politics to the treatment of women in the workplace, but that social commentary falls flat as well.

Characters can also be created to try and add a bit of spice to the game, but this falls flat as well.

However, Winchester falls flat as a boring horror film that lacks in just about every facet of filmmaking.

While Buffett admits a home is a great place to create «terrific memories with more to come,» he believes it falls flat as an investment vehicle.

All those sneering gags about Ed Miliband that David Cameron had planned for this week will fall flat as the edges of the Prime Minister's authority over his own party continue to fray and his future now firmly lies in the hands of Ukip's «fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists».

With all of my complaints about how this film all too often discards promising plot areas to spark a sense of unevenness, hurrying, outside of that area of storytelling, is hardly a big deal, so what this series really has to worry about is, of course, bloating, because all of this unevenness, as well as repetition, could have perhaps been avoided if this saga wasn't just so blasted overblown, not necessarily to the point of falling flat as too sprawling to stick with, but decidedly to the point of feeling rather overambitious.

Likewise, the intermittent platforming sequences fall flat as you miss an innocuous jump because the camera angle was weird.

Certainly for me, the story fell flat as this tonal shift occurred.

I personally felt that it's main intention to bring back the golden era style of 3D platforming along with the early 2000's charm fell flat as the game felt dated upon release.

The story fell flat as well, with one rambling villain replacing another every so often in a vague quest for some kind of super-vault.

This really detracts from the game's jokes, many of which fall flat as they don't have that delivery that made them special in Undercover — instead relying on poor animations and expressions to rely the humour.

Complimenting Ride's slick menu system is a soothing soundtrack designed to evoke an air of sophistication, but attempts to mimic Polyphony's panache fall flat as soon as the pretentious narrator chimes in.

Will the Mel / Sue banter be the icing on the cake — or fall flat as a pancake?

Not exact matches

ConAgra, which has reported flat or falling sales in four of the past six quarters, is struggling to boost growth as consumers shift from packaged products to fresh foods in search of healthier options.

The best talk in the world will land flat if it's introduced at a moment when the audience isn't ready to hear it (just as, entrepreneur readers will note, even excellent, groundbreaking products fall flat if they're out of the sync with the market).

When you start thinking about EQ as some magical sixth sense and that's it, the entire concept falls flat because it's value is diminished.

«Looking at the quarterly data, the underlying trend as suggested by the three - month on three - month movement is one of growth, following a fall in quarter 1, suggesting a relatively flat first half of 2017.»

As a customer champion over at Wistia, Dave Cole understands how happiness metrics can fall flat when used incorrectly.

As an observer, mentor and judge, I have seen numerous pitches fall flat because the entrepreneur failed to deliver even an ounce of passion through their pitch.

On Friday, while the broader stock market as measured by the S&P 500 index remained largely flat, the S&P Aerospace and Defense Select Industry Index fell roughly 1.3 %.

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We think that on its own, the BankAmericard Travel Rewards ® Credit Card generally falls flat when compared to stronger competitors, such as the Barclays Arrival Plus ® World Elite Mastercard ®.

Measured on a CPI basis it fell to about 2 per cent in 2009, but that figure flatters us a bit as it was partly a result of some temporary factors.

Profits of the farm sector as a whole continued to recover from the effects of drought, while mining profits were flat in the December quarter 2003, following falls in the previous three quarters.

After enjoying a period of very strong performance, the shares of health care companies fell by more than 40 percent in value from the beginning of 1992 through the summer of 1993 (while the market was flat) as investors feared lower health care profits from proposals of broad nationalization and increased regulation.

Overall, food prices were flat in the June quarter as sharp falls in fruit and vegetable prices were balanced by price rises for most other items.

US bond yields have fallen to around 5.4 per cent, much the same as the cash rate, resulting (unusually for this stage of the economic cycle) in a flat yield curve.

Other surprises: Inflation fell and long - term bond yields were flat even as the economy improved, while cryptocurrencies posted huge returns.

That comes as former marketing titans such as Macy's, Kohl's and Target have either pulled back or kept spending flat as department store sales fall.

I started this show as background noise a few years ago, not expecting much, and here we are 4 season in, and it's still one of my favorite shows, while I don't believe this season is as good as season 2 or maybe 3 as a whole, it has its high points, a couple of things fall a little flat, but no single episode failed in my opinion.

As I don't carry enough theological weight to help my fellow believers in this debate with evidence or valuable dialog, and I was never able to cement myself in mt attempt to be an atheist, I can only say that when I tried to de-construct my belief system and embrace the scientific angle, it fell flat.

In this context of aughties - unease, older conservative assumptions of a natural alliance between more libertarian Americans and more socially conservative ones, around the supposedly shared attributes of religious Liberty, economic Liberty, and political Liberty, with the threat of Islamist terror cast as the substitute for that of Communist domination, fell flat.

And, by the way, if your comment is meant as a criticism of Christianity (or of Jesus himself), then it falls flat anyway.

If «Genesis is «true» as a long poetic metaphor» then the actual event of eating of some fruit that was forbidden did not happen and thus there was no inherrited sin and thus no need for a ransom sacrafice from some savior which means the entire bible falls flat on its face.

When I was driving home from college with my mother and very ill father, we got a flat tire as darkness fell in the mountains in Virginia.

As for flat rules on morals there aren't that many you just fall in the ones that God says are a abomination.

As a guide to morality in the modern world, it falls flat.

As always, the children of the Devil are always looking for ways to discredit God's word, but always falls flat on their face just like scientists who tries to prove that there is no God, ends up proving the existence of God in their research.

Reviewing Whiteheads book in the New Republic (April 14), Margaret Talbot retorts that such moral exhortations for commitment will simply fall flat since they fly in the face of the American ideal of marriage as an enduringly affectional relationship.

Blaming gun or video games or your personal choice of scapegoat has nothing to do with logic (as they fall flat in the face of facts) and everything to do with emotion.

I believe, on the contrary, that it is a matter of the greatest importance to make clear the true implications of the negation of sexual difference and to debate publicly what is at stake rather than falling back on principles, such as equality, that flatter those who set themselves up as their standard bearers, even though the way these principles are invoked to justify the homosexual - marriage agenda does not stand up to critical scrutiny.

I made the new version as written and while it rose beautifully on my counter, when I put it in the oven it fell flat Could I please have the original recipe so I can write it down???

Unfortunately we can't keep the cookies raised, they keep falling flat and don't look as fluffy as yours.

My first attempt was less than successful, the beautiful cookies fell flat, literally flat as pancakes but as they baked they did have the lovely smooth top and the «feet» that macarons are so famous for and they tasted amazing!

Turn pan upside down on a flat surface such as a large cutting board and tap on bottom of mold if donuts do not fall out right away.