Sentences with phrase «far cries from traditional»

Its cozy layout and bright colors are a far cry from traditional mattress stores that showcase endless rows of mattresses lined up in one massive, open room.

Though a far cry from traditional recipes, the mass - produced products are what many Chinese would identify as cheese.

The last time I made this it turned out FANTASTIC even if it is a far cry from traditional creamed spinach.

A far cry from the traditional Metroid history of finding key items and utilizing them in every situation, because you're on a dangerous planet and you have to use every tool in your arsenal to survive.

The game was made by Square Enix, but it's a far cry from their traditional fare of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest.

In huge, glowing letters and installed at the former church's altarpiece, the word «guilty» carries a particularly potent resonance — although Holmqvist's guilt is a far cry from the traditional Catholic variety.

Not quite salmon, not quite rose and a far cry from traditional Barbie pink — millennial pink can best be described as a soft, subtle pink with some gray tones and a slight hint of peach.

Not exact matches

Rodale Inc. is among the companies that provide community gardens in their roundup of wellness services — a far cry from the more traditional programs, like free health exams and discounted gym memberships.

Before you blast my last post for being stuck in the traditional methods of delivery of the salvation method, I would encourage you to listen one of the songs that I wrote, produced and recorded in my home studio; a far cry from your typical traditional style.

Shah's journey into politics is a far cry from the PPE - at - Oxford template of the traditional upper - middle - class career politician.

Evangelista told the paper she was «a far cry from what people expect of a traditional Tory wife and mother».

All three are a far cry from more traditional depictions of supportive mothers like Sandra Bullock's in «The Blind Side,» Patricia Arquette's in «Boyhood» or Brie Larson's in «Room.»

These models are a far cry from the large, European saloons and coupes produced by the marque before its 1961 bankruptcy, so a smooth coupe concept will likely use the firm's traditional image as inspiration.

Like more and more publishers, Amazon Publishing is taking a gamble on authors who've already enjoyed self - publishing success, a far cry from only a handful of years ago when a history of self - publishing pretty much sealed an author's fate as far as traditional publishers and literary agents were concerned.

First, there's the perennial «Tau Are Too Anime» debate which always crops up, and while you can not deny that the Tau were designed with at least some Asian influence, their vehicles and armor are a far cry from anything an anime fan would remark as traditional mecha design.

Within Tate Britain the works of the shortlisted artists created a quiet, contemplative, dare I say quite traditional, show — a far cry from contentious conceptual installations that dominated past exhibitions.

In recent years there has been a prolific amount of activity in the art publishing world, with fairs such as Offprint in Paris, specialist bookshops, organisations such as Printed Matter who established the successful New York Art Book Fair, and particularly a rise in young publishers, innovating on small budgets and producing exciting and original small - run publications, often a far - cry from the traditional models seen before in art publishing.

Yet, Shepherd's «dieties» — Alice Coltrane (musician, wife of legendary John Coltrane), Sun Ra (American jazz musician), Frantz Fanon (revolutionary author from Martinique who was immensely influential in the field of post-colonial studies), and Octavia Butler (American science fiction author)-- are a far cry from the (Caucasian) sitters generally encountered in such traditional portraiture: Christ, Virgin Mary, and various saints, for instance.

Rendered in a style that synthesises post-Cubist Picasso, Pop Art and traditional African sculpture and design, the figures in these paintings reflect the tension arising from interracial contact and the psychological substructure of racism in everyday life, a far cry from the utopian aspirations of the civil rights movement happening at the time.