Sentences with phrase «grand scale like»

There has been some disappointment, too, of perhaps equally grand scale like when Microsoft culled the dual screened Courier tablet device notwithstanding the huge fan base the tablet enjoyed.

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The way Hirshberg sees it, partnering with a Goliath like Danone means he can do good on a grand scale.

The problem that most often resulted was that people could understand the small parts just fine, but like western science, lost sight of the whole and couldn't understand how it all was supposed to work together on the grand scale.

Despite some grand - scale action, the like of which haven't been seen since Lord of the Rings, it's tough to...

On the grandest scale, the multiverse is like a foam of interconnected pocket universes, completely symmetric with respect to time.

Other scenarios the team explored include artificial rings of space debris, revealing a civilisation that has fallen victim to a Gravity - like space junk cascade on a grand scale, or the total destruction of the planet.

«It shows on a grand scale that the replacement of foraging by farming has a huge impact on who we are and what the world was like,» says human behavioral ecologist Eric Smith of the University of Washington, Seattle.

But during the aerial «dogfight» sequences, the film is something else again: a grand - scale spectacular, the likes of which has never been duplicated, not even by more expensive efforts like Hell's Angels (1930) and The Blue Max (1965).

There are powerful moments in «Unbroken,» to be sure, but it also feels like the kind of generically grand - scale movie that five other directors could have made in exactly the same way.

And though Akira seems like an even darker story, with its dystopian techno - horror themes and grand - scale action, Waititi has proved that he knows how to dig for the humanity of movies big and small.

More importantly than anything, it cuts close to the bone, with much of the film feeling like Gilliam confronting his own mortality: «for all the film's flaws, it feels like a very personal and moving piece of work as Qohen moves towards some kind of acceptance that his time on Earth will be brief in the grand scale of things... it's not so much a film about a search for a meaning, as an embrace of meaningless, and it's fascinating in that respect.»

I read some tweets out of TIFF and while this is a large time commitment (4 hours) it looks like a grand scale experience that can not be missed.

It's also a grand - scale film that feels like a possible best picture winner.

The action scenes are staged on a grand scale, appropriate to the power of the film's god - like villain, and the visual effects are spectacular.

Just like that scale model of a Civil War battle, the outcome of The Grand Budapest Hotel is never in doubt — no matter the meticulousness of its simulacra — nor, as a consequence, do the tribulations of his tin soldiers have much emotional heft and attachment.

The Revenant, while entertaining from moment to moment, ultimately feels like film school on a much grander and more experienced scale - but with the same tendency to overindulge in technique and form, rather than substance and feel.

Kudos to a franchise like Goon for addressing grand achievement on such a «manageable» scale.

Despite the films grand scale in both its cast and vision, there are times were the backdrop does feel like a stage set.

To me it felt like a small movie that was grand it scale.

Like a scripted take on the «7 Up» series, tracking a boy (Ellar Coltrane) from the age of six to eighteen as well as his family and shot at annual intervals, this process let Linklater use the signature low - key, intimate, beautifully observed style he's honed over twenty years, but blown up to a grander scale by virtue of the film's virtually unique conceit.

Progressives were convinced that public education would be delivered more effectively and efficiently if it were done on a grand scale, like the automobile industry.

Comprehensive school reform has been identified by both Democratic and Republican administrations and Congress as a key strategy in turning around the country's lowest performing schools, but this fact does not make NAS just like any other education group in D.C. Instead, it means that after a great deal of review, comprehensive school reform emerged as one of the country's best hopes for public school improvement on a grand scale.

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This Lincoln's dimensions are on the grand side as well, and the result is more like a full - size big car than the scaled - up little car that some of the chassis hardware might suggest.

Keep turning, and the extra camber, sticky Nittos, and trick suspension pieces let the car's front - end grip the road like a rock climber scaling the Grand Tetons without a rope.

The second - generation, 2017 Jeep Compass that debuted in LA looks like a nine - tenths scale Jeep Grand Cherokee, which isn't a bad thing.

Fantastic elements seamlessly integrate with the mundane to create a world much like, if not quite like, our own... Pulp fiction, indeed, but on a grand scale — as ambitious, quirky and imaginative as only Murakami can be.»

It's a turn based strategy game on a grand scale, like RISK except you can build cities and research new technology, or, in this case, spells in order to dominate the world.

We don't have any clue, but it certainly seems like a grand - scale project.

He was annoyed that the first Mario Galaxy had a story of any kind, so hearing things like that I don't have much confidence in his ability to know what's best on a grander scale anymore.

Looks like Tomb Raider is going to be much grander in scale than the last game.

Ultimately this is like on - disk DLC on a much grander scale.

Boat story time was my favorite part of the game along with just taking in the immersive visual backdrops, imo its more like an interconnected hub world where everything looks and feel much grander in scale then it really is and its done very well in that aspect GOW is essentially to different games at the same time, a great storytelling quiet time with rich lore on the one side and brutal precise hard hitting combat on the other, mixed up with perfect pacing and a couple of epic cliffhangers at the endd

They don't make a massive difference, but they do at least make it feel like you're partaking in a grand battle, albeit on a miniature scale.

Games like Hyper Light Drifter — just check out their description: «Hyper Light Drifter is a 2D Action RPG in the vein of the best 8 - bit and 16 - bit classics, with modernized mechanics and designs on a much grander scale.»

The environment is fully destructible, and luckily that lends to the feeling of impending doom and invasion, but things never feel like they are ever on a grand scale.

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The trailer for Grow Up looks like Grow Home on a grander scale, but how different that scale will feel for players remains to be seen.

Thankfully, Super Mario Galaxy captured the whimsy, grand scale, and magnificence that fans had been craving, evoking the same magic of classics like Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario 64 with its constellation of themed planets and challenging, cosmic Stars to collect.

While being grand in scale the game also packs a deep and lengthy story that can be driven exactly how you'd like it to be.

The result is a project of perilous scope, in pursuit of which the studio struggled to be at once broader in the spread of its historical roots yet also more intimate in its characterization of people like Elizabeth; grander in the scale of its mythical city, yet sharper in that city's fine details.

The legendary game maker does a lot of things better than their competition but large - scale universes like the ones found in Grand Theft Auto, Elder Scrolls, etc hasn't been one of them.

The range is fantastic, and I think indicative of contemporary trends within the medium: angular figures and aggressively colorful compositions in a New Objectivity vein from very young, non-German artists including Anna Navasardian (Armenian but New York - based, showing with Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich) and Pawel Sliwinski (Polish, showing with Beers Contemporary, London); representational works in thick, gestural impasto, both in Kim Dorland's grand, en plein air style (Angell Gallery, Toronto), and in Bobby Mathieson's intimately scaled portraiture (Lyons Wier Gallery, New York); and abstraction both super-reductive (like Clare Grill, showing with FRED.GIAMPIETRO, New Haven) and cosmically colorful (Jennifer Lefort, showing with Patrick Mikhail Contemporary, Ottawa); plus every conceivable style in between.

Or had it denied the art object its purity, on a grand scale at that, like installations later still?

Approaching the grand scale historically reserved for landscape paintings, photographs like Andreas Gurksy's F1 Pit Stop III, Thomas Demand's Grotto, and Jeff Wall's In Front of a Nightclub, immerse the viewer in an expansive environment - physically placing the viewer within the space of the photograph.

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Rather like their predecessors, too, they share a grand scale and an obsessive technique.

Rauschenberg's style derived from his ability to marry Schwitters's magpie sensibility with a sense of scale, and of the grand gesture, that he'd learned from the Abstract Expressionist painters whose work he had gotten to know after arriving in New York in 1949: artists like Jack Tworkov (a fervent early supporter), Franz Kline, and, of course, Willem de Kooning, whose own art would become raw material for Rauschenberg's famous Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953).

I was therefore surprised to find myself backing off from Shadow on Frankfort Barren, the largest of Welliver's paintings in the show — although by no means his grandest scale: he liked to work on canvases 10 feet wide.

Like his contemporary Andreas Gursky, Struth's work is often printed to a monumental scale, encouraging comparisons to history painting and other grand forms.