Sentences with phrase «heft at»

The Bad Driving enthusiasts may prefer more heft at the wheel and a manual transmission option, while passenger may want a better view of stereo and navigation screens.

Driving enthusiasts may prefer more heft at the wheel and a manual transmission option, while passenger may want a better view of stereo and navigation screens.

I tend to prefer a bit more heft at the wheel, but I could appreciate how the TT Roadster's steering offered no impediment to my inputs, giving precise, quick control.

The power - steering program keeps a lot of heft at the wheel, requiring actual effort to turn it.

GMC would do well to give the Acadia that system: while the Acadia Denali isn't intolerably slow, the car needs a firm push of the accelerator pedal to move its 4850 - pound heft at a clip that many competitors would shrug off.

But while DiCaprio painfully conveys Glass» turmoil and intense resolve as he goes after the odious fur trapper John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy, in the film's best performance), there's an absence of emotional heft at points.

While regulators have forced BA to relinquish some domestic slots to Virgin, they could never replicate BMI's heft at Heathrow, leaving it scrambling for a domestic partner airline.

Not exact matches

At the heart of the problem is Twitter's size — with more than 650 million active accounts and 130,000 new ones daily it almost rivals Facebook in heft — coupled with the fact that it is so damned easy to create an account on Twitter.

Due to its lack of physical heft, the first Canadian penny proved so unpopular that by 1859 the coin was being sold at a 20 % discount to encourage consumers to circulate them, and was not minted again until 1876.

(No suit, incidentally, is better at concealing spare tires or giving scrawny guys heft.)

O Book, O Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran, Published by Everyman's Library on a dark day, I lift you from the Earth to which I recently flung you When my wrath grew too mighty for me, I lift you from the Earth, Noticing once more your annoying heft, And thanking God» though such thanks are sinful» That Kahlil Gibran died in New York in 1931 At the age of forty - eight, So that he could write no more words, So that this Book would not be yet larger than it is.

Hydroponic growers like berry giant Driscoll's have the distribution heft and marketing prowess to deluge consumer markets with fresh, organically - grown fruits and vegetables grown year - round in greenhouses and selling at affordable prices.

Accents with heft are important at Pineapple and Pearls.

Meanwhile, LSU probably doesn't need this one quite as much (beat Alabama and Texas A&M, and the Tigers will probably win the West regardless), but the «Zach Mettenberger's revenge» story line (the LSU quarterback began his career at Georgia) should still carry some heft and provide extra motivation.

There is play - making depth up front, and while Copeland mans the interior at only 260 pounds, junior Cortez Broughton (6» 2, 297) and mid-three-star freshman (6» 3, 315) could each add some heft.

Maybe if they had hung out with him at the fishing hole, or watched him heft 120 - pound bales of hay in the summer heat, they would have had a better idea of what side of the ball to put him on.

Beautiful, amazing, odd, strange, fascinating and sometimes sad objects; a whole lot of interesting people; tired bones (from walking and hefting all day) and tired eyes (from looking at so much stuff); a lot of quick decision making and haggling (neither of which are skills I excel at); and what I love most of all - an entire day of uninterrupted conversation, laughter, food, and stories with a dear friend.

Lack of the structural heft provided by larger (more expensive) cribs (At this price, not really a CON but more of a limitation);

Weight-wise, the tires on the GT give the stroller a bit of extra heft and it weighs in at nearly 39 pounds.

It is a pretty big beast to heft around, so weâ $ ™ ll probably rent a seat at our destination when we airline travel, but for staying in our car, I could not be more thrilled.

Anyone who saw Gordon speak at the Fabians on Saturday or who watches any of Tony's old conference speeches or PMQ outings knows just how exceptional they were; how they combined serious political and intellectual heft with spirit, passion and wit.

That tremendous heft «provides a clue to its origin,» Bailes noted at the time.

Such large - scale modeling and simulation requires the heft of a supercomputer, and for this effort the team used Blue Waters at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the U. of I.

At 30 meters in length, an adult blue whale weighs about 180 metric tons — almost twice the heft of the largest dinosaur known — and consumes about 3.6 metric tons of food each day.

If you thought dinosaurs were the coolest creatures to walk the earth, lock eyes with a life - size model of the largest land mammal that ever lived: Indricotherium, a relative of the rhino, which stood up to 18 feet at the shoulder and had four times the heft of an elephant.

The chambray had some heft to it, which kept the ocean breeze at bay.

Quite frankly, I was pleasantly surprised at the quality and heft of the merino wool fabric on this Halogen cardigan.

Writer - director Mark Pellington meditates on these questions at length in the somber indie «Nostalgia,» a cinematic mosaic with the thematic heft to get, say, Bruce Dern to drop by for a scene.

Incisive, cutting and verbally dexterous, if a little overwhelming in a single sitting, Barnett's best new songs — «Pedestrian at Best,» «Depreston» and «Debbie Downer» among them — inject memorable heft into timeless rock terrain formerly explored by Polly Jean Harvey, young and angry Elvis Costello, Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain.

Pointless romantic meandering doesn't gain dramatic heft just because you pretty it up, especially when there's so much more meat behind the story at hand.

It also struggles at times to maintain a consistent framerate, which is surprising, given the supposed processing heft of the Xbox One.

The screenplay Bryan Sipe actually skips over the scene of Gabby revealing her affair to Ryan, which might at least have provided a bit of melodramatic heft to the story.

The anti-corporate subtext does give the piece a topical heft, though Verbinski and company aren't really going for any grand political statements in this purely popcorn piece other than to state that people on the side of people are good and people on the side of greed at the expense of people are evil.

1/2 * / **** Image A Sound A - Extras B starring Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Michael C. Hall screenplay by Dean Georgaris, based on the short story by Philip K. Dick directed by John Woo by Walter Chaw At the end of John Woo's latest Hollywood misstep, Ben Affleck, as brilliant «reverse engineer» Michael Jennings, hefts two bags of manure on his back and stumbles around with them for a while, effectively defusing anything cogent I could say about Paycheck.

Siegel said Marvin could move like a cat or a ballet dancer; he was so skilled at maneuvering his ivory - maned heft across the screen you almost never noticed how calculated every gesture was.

The attempts at drama do add some weight, all right — as in weighing down and slowing the proceedings, not adding psychological or emotional heft.

The film isn't always successful at justifying its heft, repeating the central father - daughter tension innumerable times before the pair finally starts to make some progress.

The imitation comes right down to the score, which at one point lifts cues from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford to give it the historical heft it so sorely desires.

There's no heft to the material — only mindless violence — and Blake Lively is absolutely dreadful, but there's some genuine tension and excitement at times, particularly during the movie's midsection.

«Games» created complex characters with psychological depth and emotional heft, and put them at risk while tackling bleak futuristic narrative themes.

Another frustration within the film is constantly missed opportunities to pack emotional punches and the film miscues moments far too often with only a scene between Bale and Saldana at a bridge encounter showcasing the emotional heft needed to do so.

In the sequence at the center of the movie's ad campaign, a savage Japanese commandant orders the emaciated hero at gunpoint to heft a weighty beam and hold it above his head.

While at this point in his bastardized career, Burton is no longer a tough act to follow, Muppets director James Bobin doesn't clear the CGI cobwebs or successfully anchor any of these new events with the emotional heft that would at least make the removal of Carroll's sense of humor, brilliant caricatures, vivid imagery, and peerless wordplay somewhat tolerable.

Less flash than Goodfellas, less heft than The Godfather, it is a modest look at low - level humps trying to get over (as typified by Al Pacino in a marvelous show of restraint and weariness as the never - was «Lefty»).

Gold's setting in British Columbia requires the odd bit of English dialogue and here, the limitations of the cast, and perhaps Arslan's direction, is noticeable — the dialogue in these sections feels strained, reactions after line readings feel a beat too slow, at times, and the performances just don't have the heft of when Arslan is directing his cast in their natural language.

Demonstrating what's at stake in leaving her community would have given her dilemma a great deal more heft.

It's been 18 months and two more viewings since I was first wowed by Andrea Arnold's sink - estate drama, and Fassbender's is the performance that reveals more at each turn: as the kindly boyfriend of the teen protagonist's neglectful mother, his delicate negotiation of the queasy divide between parental and sexual impulse gives the film its messy emotional heft, but he's responsible for some unexpected stabs of joy too.

Thanks to state laws that force districts to bargain with National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates, and the considerable political heft that the two unions bring to bear in the form of lobbying and $ TK million in campaign donations to state legislators, reform - minded districts are often outmanned and outgunned at the state level.

While districts under control of mayors such as New York City and Chicago can count on the considerable political heft of municipal chief executives (and in the case of the Big Apple, the wallet of Mayor Michael Bloomberg) to beat back traditionalists in Albany and Springfield, districts with traditional school board governance structures often have few tools at their disposal against NEA and AFT locals with waning - but - still - more considerable political influence in statehouse corridors.

On cross examination, plaintiffs» attorney Marcellus McRae tried to chip away at the heft of Fraisse's testimony by having the witness concede that the districts he led were relatively small with few schools and had student populations that were largely white, with much smaller percentages of blacks and African Americans.