Sentences with phrase «for nondescript»

Through his descriptions for the prospective buyers and the audience, the realtor transforms what is obviously a film set for a nondescript single - bedroom apartment into a posh three - bedroom in Paris's sixteenth arrondissement.

All the trees, dirt and fauna have been turned dark gray, patches of grass are swapped for nondescript rectangles, and the water droplets that swplash onscreen are now simple white squares.

Jeffrey is in many ways a writer manqué: He makes up names for the nondescript twins at the Convergence to cut them down («They were the Stenmark twins.

With gamification, competition is no longer about posturing for some nondescript power.

Not exact matches

Working from this nondescript campus and seven others around the country, Alutiiq raked in $ 533 million in revenue in 2006, virtually all of it from the government, won under contracts set aside for small disadvantaged businesses.

Connections with others are a big reason why people pay to work in a communal space, as opposed to working from home for free or renting a nondescript office.

XINXIANG, China The bright lights of Beijing or Shanghai have never held much allure for Wu Tongxu, a 24 - year - old civil servant earning a modest salary in the nondescript city of Xinxiang in China's central Henan province.

Even the most nondescript little church structure marks its space as set apart for something sacred, and that gets noticed.

After a lot of time on a small planet orbiting a minor star at the outskirts of a nondescript spiral galaxy, out of those billions of billions of planets, had the right conditions (right energy and matter flux, etc) for biology to emerge from chemistry.

It would have never occurred to me to serve such a dish for breakfast, but there it was: a rather dark (almost black) heap of nondescript something with bits of mushrooms and onions in it, in the middle of all the other breakfast foods.

In the end, it was the nondescript flavor that rendered raw almond butter an ideal vehicle for raw cacao in this recipe.

When you next go to the market, look out for containers or sacks of these rather nondescript - looking powdery granules.

We were stepping through the nondescript door, one I'd walked through a number of times back when D.C. was my old stomping ground, when it occurred to me for the first time that we might not be welcomed with open arms.

All three of us nearly fell asleep at one point or another and we all didn't really know what we were getting into because the trailer was sort of nondescript, but with Cate Blanchett getting an Oscar nomination for it, we figured it would be movie theater worthy.

You've also given Ozil and 8 for what was just another nondescript and under par performance.

The winner of 30 Emmy Awards for his work on Super Bowls, World Series, the Olympics, and a host of other big - time sporting events, he presides over the behind - the - scenes world of golf production from his center chair in extremely close quarters inside a nondescript trailer parked far from where the golfers ply their trade.

After a nondescript debut in the Eastern League as a 21 - year - old, he only spent one more season in the minors before becoming the Reds» starting shortstop for 19 straight seasons.

To be frank, this veteran Alabama secondary should be a mismatch for a rather nondescript group of WRs, particularly with a downgraded passer behind center.

Unfortunately for Kelsey, he played at a time when Arsenal were rather a nondescript outfit and his only domestic honour was the League Championship in 1953.

Asked to look at a photograph of the location said, «I recognize that as the nondescript — I'm searching for the words — strip mall.»

Through nondescript entities that it operates in conjunction with the Research Foundation for SUNY, the NanoCollege has been aggressively acquiring real estate property from Albany to Rochester, setting up semiconductor research labs inside and convincing promising high - tech firms to locate their research and manufacturing there.

But this nondescript outpost is a magnet for scientists trying to answer some very big questions.

Dolphins on the table The center is a nondescript warehouselike building replete with mats immersed in bleach solution for disinfecting shoes every time anyone exits one area and enters another.

But I had also been wondering, what is so called post-concussion syndrome, so called PTSD syndrome, which all had one diagnosis that did not mean anything, but could there actually be a pathologic basis for such nondescript diagnoses?

(Some people say it has a distinct avocado taste, but I've found it's rather nondescript and like it for when I want to take things a bit hotter than olive or coconut oil allows.)

For this one all you need to make this look work is a straw tote, a deep tan, and a chic yet nondescript bikini your followers will ask you to tag.

And then some pants - wearing demon took over my body and I found myself reaching instead for a pair of nondescript navy corduroys.

The technical elements are perfectly executed (and Alexandre Desplat's score is also one of the best of the year), but people will remember «Argo» for the faces, starting with the solemn, driven stare of a very subdued Affleck as a man who is purposefully nondescript (as CIA Exfiltration experts would need to be).

Raimi's characters would be too nondescript for the beast, who needs satiation from stock teenage plasma, a byproduct of reductionist storytelling.

His transition to talkies was a difficult one; except for worthwhile parts in such independent productions as White Zombie (1932), Harron was largely limited to nondescript minor roles.

All the role of Tadek provides for the actor is the chance to commit to a nondescript Eastern European accent and give him a chance to shave his head and grow out a beard in order to disappear into a character (something he's done since the «In Living Color» days).

Jake Lloyd may have suffered vitriolic slings and arrows for his stilted performance as young Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, but his successor in the role, Hayden Christensen, wasn't any less nondescript a screen presence.

For April Fool's Day, web studio front - runner Netflix decides to add funny to its regular lineup by recycling a sitcom from nondescript

When her team raids a nondescript Arizona house and finds dozens of corpses sealed in the walls, however, she's invited by an alleged Department Of Defense «consultant,» Matt (Josh Brolin), to join his inter-agency operation, which seeks to destabilize the Mexican cartel responsible for the massacre.

For every sequence involving Lino's parkour skills — usually followed by a shot of Damien looking on in disbelief (Walker, playing second fiddle in terms of physicality, displays a real sense of self - deprecating humor in these moments)-- or a neat gag involving two bricks, two cars, and two perfectly timed landings, there are at least two setpieces that are rather nondescript.

Filled with such brilliant reinventions as a sequence that disinters Ub Iwerks's The Skeleton Dance and gives it a bright new anxiety, the picture is primed for what looks to be a fall season good enough to balance the nondescript pudding of the rest.

The landscape may seem nondescript, but it quickly becomes the natural backdrop for a story of two men whose mutually destructive relationship evokes mankind's most brutal tendencies.

As a director, Eubank (whose previous feature was the low - budget «Love») has a natural gift for composition and utilizes a clean, vivid color palette that amplifies the bumps and bruises that the characters endure as they fight for their freedom inside the nondescript, clinical walls of the facility where they're being held.

His visit to a massage parlor and its kinky employee (Hong Chau) exposes «Doc» to the Golden Fang — which could either be a nondescript boat or the corporate name for a vertical drug smuggling operation responsible for pummeling the West Coast with heroin.

Yes, you can actually pay for the game, upfront, with no release date set and only a nondescript piece of promotional imagery and a pre-rendered cinematic trailer to go on.

There's a little bit of pop to some of the dialogue early on («My insurance doesn't cover hormones,» Hailey's protective dad spits when he catches her trying to sneak out), but it's almost immediately too great of a hurdle and suspension of disbelief for McCoy (now 30, though younger when it was shot) and many of her costars to pass as teenagers, and the party - hearty set - up and kids - acclimating - themselves - to - the - house material that precedes the not - terribly - gory bloodletting is all nondescript filler.

It's understandable that a U.S. distributor would opt instead for the rather nondescript and bland After Love — who the hell wants to see a movie with the word «economy» in the title?

They find what they're looking for in a distressed but affordable home located in a nondescript development.

It is a sturdy, entertaining popcorn movie, and while that may be good enough for any other studio at any other time, as the maiden film voyage of S, K, and G's much - hyped zillion - dollar enterprise, it's a dismayingly nondescript piece of formula product.

On second thought, scratch off that «fan favorite» qualifier, for the ever - nondescript space occupier that is Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) also returns.

The tale of an emotionally withdrawn customer service expert / motivational speaker and the night he spends in a Cincinnati hotel trying to find any sort of human connection in a sea of nondescript sameness is notable for how small its scale is (literally, even, with realistic sets that look like painstakingly constructed shoe box dioramas).

Not only is its iconography very nondescript and its buttons unintuitive — I never would have found the 100 - level challenge mode, for instance, had I not randomly tapped what I at first thought was just a random illustration of a doorway on the single - player menu — but the English translation for the game (the game offers Japanese and English translations) seems exceptionally flawed and low - effort due to being littered with grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, making the concept of the game difficult to understand for new players as well as navigate in general.

We jump back in our cars for the short sprint to the factory and arrive outside a nondescript low - rise building.

The looks are indicative of the feel to some degree, for the gearshift, steering feel, pedal weights and soundtrack are all reminiscent of countless nondescript mid-range VW Group products.

Long known for nerdy but reliable all - wheel - drive wagons built for New England winters and Rocky Mountain highways, the car division of Fuji Heavy Industries stole the heart of exurbia with the tricked - up Legacy Outback.And this summer Subaru managed another miraculous makeover, creating the Forester minisport - utility from the chassis and engine of the solid if nondescript Impreza compact.Success has only emboldened the marketing alchemists at Subaru, who also yearn to be known as makers of high - performance vehicles that are anything but boring.