Sentences with phrase «in less hand»

We found that the wider pump handle was much easier to use than our other pick, and resulted in less hand fatigue after a while.

Loosely adapted from the Jules Bass novel «Headhunters,» «Monte Carlo» could've gone horribly wrong in lesser hands.

In lesser hands, Abyss may have collapsed under the weight of its self - seriousness.

It can sound like a trite idea, and in lesser hands, it probably would be.

The actors, including the charismatic William Petersen and the exquisite Marg Helgenberger, lend credibility to the portrayals that might be indistinct in lesser hands.

In lesser hands, the show would be suffocating, a dramatic black hole from which no light could escape.

In lesser hands, the sheer number of collaborations on I Remember could have spelled trouble, but AlunaGeorge are no ordinary band.

In lesser hands, such a prolonged emotional break from the action might not have worked, but under Webb's direction it provides one of the high points of any Spider - Man film.

And the ending which takes things to a level of mad, religious grandeur — in lesser hands likely to drown in cheap theatricality — feels truly immense.

In lesser hands, all this could easily have been a genuine misfire.

Still, Pipe Dream is - more often than not - an engaging little comedy that undoubtedly stands as a testament to Donovan's ample talent and charisma (it goes without saying that, in lesser hands, his character surely would've come off as a sleazy scumbag).

In lesser hands, Ray might simply be a comedic buffoon, but Allen knows how to work it from all angles.

In lesser hands this character could have been glib or off - putting.

In lesser hands the deck would feel stacked, but Guy Hibbert's screenplay is thoughtful, piercing and laced with dark - comic absurdities.

In lesser hands, heightening and raising the stakes can go awry, or just nowhere very funny.

In lesser hands this would run the risk of getting stale quickly.

In lesser hands, Elizabeth could've easily become a caricature.

Kate Hudson brings a surprising sympathy to the woman who, in lesser hands, could have felt one dimensional.

In lesser hands, this anthology would turn into another hopeless parallel to 1989's New York Stories.

In lesser hands, his new picture would've come across as a gimmicky, sentimental, conventional and superficial mess.

In lesser hands, this could have turned into a sub-Father Ted - style knockabout comedy with a dark undertone.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) returns to the artistic - cultural NYC world explored in Baumbach's last two NYC dramedies, What is remarkable in this script is how much sympathy Baumbach generates for his characters, who in lesser hands would be one - dimensional brutes.

With British documentary maker James Marsh's often wild mix of genuine footage and re-creations, in lesser hands his movies could easily slip into something approaching an episode of Cops.

What's even more astounding is thinking about how this was the first time that Fincher had used digital — up until this point his films were all shot with celluloid — at a time when the format still looked, in lesser hands, crunchy and flat.

«The Devil Wears Prada» and «One Chance» director David Frankel gives each actor in the cast multiple opportunities to deliver effective work, rising above a script that, in lesser hands, could have been both corny and overly commercial.

In lesser hands, the character might've been overly done, as many of Bay's comedic characters are.

In lesser hands, an animated adaptation of the events leading - up to the birth of Jesus, with all that this story means to so many people, could've been a disaster.

Were this material in lesser hands, I could well imagine a scene where Solomon is alone, playing some beautiful piece of music as way to escape his plight, if only for a moment.

In lesser hands, the far - ranging dissertations might have seemed like authorial preening, but with Alameddine, in part because of Aaliyah's rich voice and in part because of the sheer brilliance of her words, the reader is charmed into complete acceptance.

In lesser hands, the three separate narrative strands that make up Urquhart's novel would have come off as three separate and disjointed novellas rather than a unified whole.

In lesser hands, the story told in Mary Gaitskill's The Mare would be sentimental or even clichéd.

There's a major cut scene about halfway through game that could have been a disaster in lesser hands but I was literally doubled over with laughter throughout the entire sequence.

In lesser hands, this string of puzzle chambers might have descended into increasingly complex tedium, but Valve know that the best games are only ever as long as they need to be.

In lesser hands, the art design might have overwhelmed everything, leaving the levels to feel like an overly cluttered and repetitive mess.

In lesser hands, it could have been maudlin.

However, if an individual prefers to work in a less hands - on environment, dental assistants are also needed to handle the business - support functions of a dental office.

Not exact matches

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

Canada's history of protectionism, on the other hand (in addition to restrictions on trade between provinces), has resulted in markets that are generally less competitive than those in the large U.S. market and real wages that do not track productivity growth as closely:

On one hand, marijuana sales boosted by consumer enthusiasm and holiday spirit are great for distributors of cannabis, who are already swimming in profits, but come at the expense of general employers who may notice their workforce is inexplicably missing in mass or notably less productive on April 20.

But less than a month later, Sessions wrote to congressional leaders criticizing the federal government's hands - off approach to medical marijuana, and citing a Colorado case in which a medical marijuana licensee shipped pot out of state.

The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

The decreases in individual tax rates, on the other hand, are smaller and less certain, with rates set to revert back to current levels by 2026.

«The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought.»

On the other hand, someone who considers themselves in a variety of lights — as a mother, sister, doctor, surfer, crossword - puzzle wiz, etc. — has less emotional dependence on any single one of these identity «baskets.»

It ditches the page - turning bezels and auto - adjusting backlight of the Voyage, and it's not as nice in the hand, but its screen is just as sharp, it has access to the same big digital marketplace, and it costs significantly less.

In the days immediately following the election of President Trump, Republicans appeared to more or less have the upper hand, and the fate of the ACA looked sealed.

Today, some organizations are using biometric technologies to keep outsiders out, but others are finding the technology — especially the less - expensive fingertip and hand scanners — far more useful for in - house security purposes.

The Upper Hand: The Palm TX has just about everything you might need in a Palm - powered PDA, all for less than $ 300.

Less - than - stellar leaders become consumed by the entrancement of the new thing and are hypnotized into dropping, aborting, or prematurely birthing what they're currently working on in order to get their hands on that shiny new project — all, of course, accompanied by an intellectually robust post-rationalization.»

«If currency in a bank is worth less than currency in your hands or in a mattress, that could produce something in the way of behavior that nobody has ever anticipated.»