Sentences with phrase «found mainstream success»

This struck a chord with me as the coming year promises to be a new beginning for our community which came together in 1999 as the Open EBook Forum (OEBF) to develop open standards for digital books, reinvented itself in 2005 with a broader remit when it became the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and then found mainstream success with the development of the key EPUB standard.

Provided the Koreans are indeed eyeing a stateside release, since such dirt - cheap gizmos have found mainstream success mostly in so - called emerging markets of late.

Founded in 1995, the party found mainstream success when Ross Perot obtained eight percent of the popular vote in the 1996 presidential election and Jesse Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1998.

Lilly has gone on to find mainstream success outside of YouTube, in acting and as a New York Times bestselling author.

Absurdist comic Zach Galifianakis toiled around in supporting roles in mostly forgettable comedies (including Heartbreakers, Bubble Boy, and Out Cold) and one forgettable TV series (Tru Calling on Fox) before finally finding mainstream success in 2009's breakout comedy hit The Hangover.

Anthony Ryan and Michael J. Sullivan both began as self - published authors before finding mainstream success

And with more and more Indie books finding mainstream success (think Lisa Genova's Still Alice, currently # 9 on The New York Times bestseller list), the change has already begun.

Not exact matches

Single in the»90s, Jill Crosby tried online dating on mainstream sites but found little success.

As eHarmony pulls away from it's Christian focus towards the mainstream, perhaps Dr Leman will find success in maintaining it's focus on Christian singles matching.

While you will certainly find some seniors on mainstream dating sites, you're going to have a lot more success and a lot more options on senior dedicated sites.

In the 2000s, Stevens found new success on the other side of the camera, as a prolific producer of both independent and mainstream Hollywood films, even winning the Oscar for Best Documentary for his 2009 film about the slaughtering of dolphins, The Cove.

Less mainstream properties also found critical and commercial success this year; here's to you, Nier: Automata, Horizon Zero Dawn and Cuphead.

Of all the fighting games Street Fighter is the one most suited to find that mainstream success, too.

She appeared in the erotic romance 9 1/2 Weeks before finding more mainstream success playing reporter Vicki Vale in the first Batman movie.

The Tickells are apparently willing to beat the drum until people listen, and this movie, with its attention - span - friendly cutting and narration by Jason Bateman, seems poised to find more mainstream success.

Gosling then found massive mainstream success in the 2004 romance «The Notebook» alongside Rachel McAdams.

Starting out in cult comedies like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore before finding giant mainstream success with The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy.

Cardellini's talent has outstripped her opportunities for years now, though in mainstream successes («ER,» «Brokeback Mountain,» a recurring role on «Mad Men,» those shrill «Scooby - Doo» movies) and in work found in the margins (the very fine 2011 drama «Return,» where she played a military veteran back from Iraq) her unerring instincts in all kinds of material have served her well.

With 2015's The Lobster, Greek weirdo auteur Yorgos Lanthimos achieved a surprising level of mainstream success in the States, given his film was about a dystopian alternate reality where people are turned into animals if they fail to find a mate in 45 days.

Where we have strong charter schools which have found a way to serve many of the children we have failed in our mainstream system, shame on us if we don't embrace these proven providers and give them the chance to scale up their success.

As most educators have found, placing students with disabilities in mainstream math classes is not enough to ensure their success.

But if the Viziv - 7 concept, previewing the model to be named Ascent (and built off a new modular platform, instead of the Toyota Highlander, as originally planned), is any hint, it will be too tall and too conventional for an automaker that found success by avoiding the mainstream and by selling SUVs to American consumers who don't like SUVs.

As indie authors continue to find success writing and publishing (and selling) their works, mainstream publishers are playing catch - up with the boundaries of what readers want... and apparently, what they want is a few more sh ** s to give.

Tilted as much to the independent leaning author as the author seeking a more mainstream road to success, CareerFest seeks to help all authors find the best and most viable routes to success.

There's Joanna Penn, who scaled back her day job to four days a week, gave up television, and... Listen to any mainstream self - publishing podcast, and you'll find the success -LSB-...]

Several self - published authors have found success with e-book publishing alone and even when they were picked up by one of the mainstream publishers, continued to hold onto their e-book rights.

I have also found that my breeding females especially, stay in much better physical condition and have better reproductive success when they are fed a mainstream name brand kibble with carbohydrates that is balanced and contains added fish oil.

One of the company's biggest successes is the reincarnation of PvE survival game Fortnite as a battle royale title, which has found mainstream popularity and picked up over 40m players across 6 different platforms.

Riot Games has found great success taking complete control over its events with sector leader League Of Legends, so whose to say whether the same model can't be replicated across a broader network encompassing more titles and a focus on mainstream media.

It is hard to accurately describe a Persona title without letting someone play it, but the success that Persona 5 had this year is more than justified, and I couldn't be happier that the series has finally found the praise and mainstream success it deserves in the West.

Even if there is genius to be found in what has been developed so far — and surely several candidates come to mind (some across multiple generations like Shigeru Miyamoto, Dave Jones, Keiji Inafune, or Hideo Kojima, others isolated to momentary shifts like Warren Robinett, David Crane, or Fukio Mitsuji)-- its success was measured and affected in large part by children and mainstream America, not the judgment of other experts in the field.

Games that wouldn't necessarily find success in the mainstream market, but have flourished underground as indies.

Many expected the platform to break into the mainstream, mainly off the success of PlayStation VR, but the market's still finding its feet as the technology improves and the hardware becomes more affordable.

Termed an outsider artist, a vernacular artist, and a folk artist, among other labels, Dial, who was African American, was one of just a few self - taught artists who, over the past century, began making art well beyond the borders of the predominantly urban, white mainstream art world but who would eventually find a form of success within it.

However scientists look at these events, the success of climate - change skeptic McIntyre hints at why the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and other mainstream, peer - reviewed global climate studies have failed to persuade Congress and the Bush Administration that action is needed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.