Sentences with phrase «interesting than the leads»

Made the huge mistake of making the supporting, even marginal, characters a heck of a lot more interesting than the leads.

The trick is to try and make your secondary characters as interesting or more interesting than your lead.

The problem, as in almost all Hollywood rom - coms, is that the supporting players end up being more interesting than the leads, and yet getting less time on screen.

Not exact matches

Twitter has often boasted about its commitment to the principles of free speech, sometimes leading to criticism from those who felt the company was more interested in tolerating all forms of speech than in trying to ensure a harassment - free experience for its users.

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

Savings will decline as retired folk tend to consume rather than build assets, potentially leading to more competing demands for capital and higher interest rates.

Exxon created a payout plan in January 2017 for Tillerson, who had led Exxon since 2006 before serving in the Trump administration, to compensate him for more than 2 million unvested shares and stock units while removing any conflicts of interest.

As behavioral psychologist Susan Weinschenk explained on her blog recently (via a great personal story, of course), by putting us in their protagonists» shoes, stories manage to engage more of the brain than straight recitations of facts or dry arguments, leading to more arousal and interest.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

China's plan involves very different strings than the postwar American checks did: no interest in promoting the rule of law, free markets, and (US - led) global standards, but a rather simple «buy from Chinese state owned corporations, accept Chinese currency, employ Chinese standards.»

I don't know exactly what's going to happen, but simple math based on the current level of interest rates leads me to believe that these risk premiums will be much wider in the future over longer time frames than they've been in the recent past.

The mortgage interest deduction is a huge distortion that leads to fewer people renting than should and hoards benefits among rich homeowners; the bill would reduce that advantage.

The «search for yield», i.e. for better return on financial investments than the declining interest rate, thus led to the series of bubbles & bursts: deregulated savings & loans (immediately), high - tech stocks (late 90's), mortgage derivatives — > house prices (2000's).

With this budget, any mortgage larger than $ 120,000 will lead to more expensive monthly payments from higher interest rates and insurance premiums.

To find out why some interest free credit cards are more popular than others, we carried out a survey on the leading 0 APR credit cards.

This could lead to select opportunities among Energy, Technology, and Financials stocks in the U.S.. However, any notable economic improvements could close the window on such opportunities, and lead to higher short - term interest rates in the U.S. sooner than is currently priced into the markets.

For example, a 1 % rise in interest rates leads to larger losses when rates are at 3 % than you would see with rates at 6 %.

This very low market volatility can lead investors to take on more risk, and in a period of still relatively low interest rates, to «reach for yield» — that is, buy riskier assets than one would otherwise, in order to achieve a desired profit or savings goal.

In the years leading up to last fall's boom of interest in crypto, Silver says that he used to be heckled at every conference he spoke at, but that now, «rather than being booed off the stage and being told that everything was a utility token, I was wrong, that I was killing innovation, and that I was this horrible person,» people are actually listening.

This nepotism can also lead to the owners being more concerned about having and retaining power than making decisions that are in the best interests of the business.

At least in part, this reflects lower - than - expected global growth and inflation, which has led to a prolonged period of very low interest rates and unconventional monetary policies in the major economies.

GFI reports that as their scientists investigate further, they have become more optimistic — because clean meat is so much more efficient than animal - based meat.102 One of their senior scientists, Dr. Liz Specht, has met with venture capital firms and other venture investors to present technology plans of specific clean meat companies and their pathways to commercialization.103 GFI further reports that, based partly on her analysis, many leading venture capital investors and firms have become much more interested in clean meat companies.

The recent rise in bond yields has convinced investors that rising inflation may lead the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates faster than previously expected.

The explosion in information, the need for increasingly specialized skills to acquire or understand that information, and the resulting emergence of a professionalized faculty more interested in their narrow research programs than the general education of students: these have led, the canonicists argue, to a dangerous «dispersal of authority,» to a «loss of integrity in the bachelor's degree» (ICC; TM).

Rather than viewing Moltmann's thought on play as developing chiefly out of a dialogue with American theology, it would be better to conclude that (1) his systematic interest in exploring the various ramifications of a theology of hope led him to investigate ecclesiology, which he found playful, and (2) his desire to counteract the seriousness of student revolutionaries, both in Germany and in America, led him into a consideration of play as an antidote.

In his account, it has been internationalist idealism among politicians rather than business and financial interests that has led to the removal of trade barriers.

, historians help us understand that the Judaism of Jesus» time was more diverse, interesting and grace - filled than the Gospels would lead us to think, and that the crucifixion can not be understood as simply the result of a religious plot against Jesus carried out by the Jewish people or their leaders.

Whatever experiences led to his impressive knowledge of Scripture and human nature are no doubt interesting, but Thomas comes to us as one with a message infinitely more important than his own story.

The growing influence of institutional investors and commercial interests not genuine to the information sector tends to lead to an emphasis on the profitability of the commodity, rather than on its socio - cultural quality.

It is ultimately dependent upon an analysis of the self as some sort of self - enclosed independently existing entity and produces precisely the difficulty for ethics that has been erroneously attributed to Whitehead, namely that his ethics would be a private - interest theory, at best.1 But Whitehead clearly repudiates the contributing analysis of the self, which would be «no more original than a stone» (PR 159), and repudiates its consequences for ethics: «The doctrine of minds, as independent substances, leads directly not merely to private worlds of experience, but also to private worlds of morals.

It might be a community of quasi-clergy related to Christian congregations in the way in which clergy are supposed to be related to the congregations they lead, yet distinct because it is constituted by academic interests of special interest to clergy rather than constituted as a church.

Roulac says some of its newer items — such as its hazelnut spread, which is dairy free, gluten free and has 40 percent less sugar than the leading brand — are seeing a lot of interest in the market.

Therefore, if this book is to be anything more than information on interesting occurrences in the past, more than a walk through a museum of antiquities, if it is really to lead to our seeing Jesus as a part of the history in which we have our being, or in which by critical conflict we achieve being, then this book must be in the nature of a continuous dialogue with history.

Crowder, lead author and assistant professor of entomology at Washington State University, says he and Reganold became interested in the topic after reading a study several years ago that indicated that organic farming produces a lower crop yield than conventional agriculture.

This, combined with an interest in supporting local farmers, has led to many consumers seeking out produce from regional farms rather than national producers.

GFI reports that as their scientists investigate further, they have become more optimistic — because clean meat is so much more efficient than animal - based meat.102 One of their senior scientists, Dr. Liz Specht, has met with venture capital firms and other venture investors to present technology plans of specific clean meat companies and their pathways to commercialization.103 GFI further reports that, based partly on her analysis, many leading venture capital investors and firms have become much more interested in clean meat companies.

partly agree, but chelsea looked no better after the cup final than they did before, I think they had just set a lead before christmas that was unattainable and the real turning point was getting the draw against us, I think if we had beat them at home it would have made it an interesting finish.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Valencia have suffered financial problems over the past few seasons that has led to the sales of stars David Silva, Raul Albiol and David Villa and there may well be a need to sell once again to balance the books and Soldado may well be interested in a high profile move that could help assist in his pursuit of a return to the Spanish national team after more than three years out of Vicente Del Bosque's squad.

The 6» 9», 245 - pound Walker is not only in the best shape of his nine - year career but also more interested in playing with his back to the basket than the player who jacked up a league - leading 7.6 three - pointers per game over the last three seasons of his previous stint in Boston.

The young forward has already declared that he is more interested in regular football at present than sealing his move to the top level right now, and you would have to think he would refuse to join unless he was guaranteed a decent level of action, and that could lead to Benzema losing his first - team spot.

The fact that he is a tad more versatile than our other rumoured targets leads me to personally speculate the interest may be real.

Bettors may be interested to know that there have only been nine Super Bowl games with more than 58 - points scored, led by Super Bowl 29 when the San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers combined to score 75.

«I would allow the child to lead because if they are not interested in the sport, then more likely than not neither the parent nor the child will have a positive experience.

The blog I posted last week about potty training led to some interesting discussions, especially on whether or not the fact that toddlers are training later today means we are doing things better or worse than we did 100 years ago.

«The business of being born» promotes the benefits of midwife - led home birth arguing that obstetrics is a money making business engaging in practices that are business enhancing rather than being in the best interests of the health and wellbeing of women [11].

Rather than put up a long (boring) video news release, we broke out the interesting clips (soundbites and graphics) and embedded them in a page interspersed with text that leads people through the issue (automobile fuel economy standards).

StudentsFirstNY is New York's leading voice for students who depend on public education for the skills they need to succeed, but who are too often failed by a system that puts special interests, rather than the interests of children, first.

NOTE: here's an interesting thing... if # 1 is important for you as long term goal as far as «decent living for all» goal but not ideologically, libertarians would argue that their approach (less government control of economy) is MORE likely to lead to your goal than the opposite approach.

In 2012, Eisner signed off on a $ 3.5 million settlement after Bharara's office alleged that GFI Mortgage Bankers, a company that originates loans and has been led by Eisner since 1983, charged higher interest rates and fees on mortgages to minority borrowers than to whites with similar financial profiles.