Sentences with phrase «jettisoning much»

Jettisoning much of the Christian redemption that has flavoured King's late work (not only post - but also pre-accident, curiously enough), the second half of the picture deviates drastically from the second half of the novel, cleverly replacing something that doesn't work because it's boring with something that doesn't work because it's stupid.

Obama proposed jettisoning much of the Constellation program, which Bush set up to build rockets and Apollo - like capsules to replace the space shuttle, and instead paying private companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch astronauts into orbit.

But we are dimly aware that this new mode of life we value so much has caused us to jettison much that we previously valued.

Not exact matches

In their simultaneous desire to jettison the distasteful parts of Catholicism and keep the more palatable ones, American Catholics have done something novel and truly amusing: They have created a specific catalogue of complaints that resembles nothing so much as a Catholic version of the orphan with chutzpah.

In fact, much of Christian practice already comes from pagans, so we must either own up to it or jettison it...

Wilson is the picture of poise on and off the field, his squeaky - clean image and self - imposed insulation from the noise doing much to partition him from a core of outspoken stars in Seattle's locker room (a handful of whom were jettisoned this offseason).

By jettisoning the liberal - illiberal binary and giving international intervention only its due attention, it may be possible to consider a network of fluid and multifaceted «international - local» interactions, much like Frederick Cooper has analysed colonial - subject relations during the imperial era.

(New York's EDZ program was recently jettisoned; too much waste, too few results.

Little did they know that Blair's Labour Party had already jettisoned many of Hutton's ideas for a «stakeholder economy» on the basis that they might concede too much power to the trade unions.

Jettisoning these weights tilted the capsule so it could catch air and fly across the Martian landscape much like a skydiver in a wingsuit.

It was also the first to examine how much of what they ingested was derived from human activity — food jettisoned from ships, plastic rubbish, debris from fishing nets and so on — versus what could be said to be sourced from nature.

Tilting the probe by jettisoning weights gives it much greater aerodynamic control, enabling the target landing site to be an ellipse just 20 kilometres long — one - seventh of that needed for Spirit and Opportunity.

Because vibration machine users experience a boost in their metabolism, their body is going to execute key processes on a much more efficient basis, such as breaking down nutrients and jettisoning waste.

(Much to the chagrin of a good deal of fans, screenwriter Steve Kloves and Yates opted to jettison the battle Rowling penned for the climax of Half - Blood Prince in favor of giving more prominence to the loss of Dumbledore.)

J. Michael Straczynski's original script was jettisoned in favor of an unfinished one by political thriller specialist Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play, Lions for Lambs), with «LOST» - alum script doctors Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield) and Damon Lindelof (Star Trek Into Darkness, Prometheus) brought in later to write a host of reshoots, including a new climax and ending to the film (the repeated use and imbibing of Pepsi products during these scenes would indicate the source for much of the additional reshoot budget), that pushed the release date from a winter of 2012 release to the summer of 2013.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

It's not merely that Stoller's film is long (clocking in at just over two hours), it's that so much of its time is misappropriated; plot threads with Tom's parents (David Paymer and Mimi Kennedy) and Violet's mother (Jacki Weaver) could be jettisoned entirely, with that time freed up to examine in greater interesting detail Tom's emotional waywardness.

Before looking up the novel's Wikipedia page I was softer on Under The Skin, but seeing how much information was jettisoned for little purpose I find myself sort of irritated.

Working with Disney was apparently a long - held dream for Bradbury, though he probably didn't much enjoy the tortured post-production on the movie as director Jack Clayton's vision for the film was radically altered by the studio, including the jettisoning of Georges Delerue's rich score.

Not much of a mystery, as the title gives up the supernatural goods, which takes whatever mystery the screenplay tries to employ and jettisons it in favor of tepid horror movie formula.

Appropriateness, however, has pretty much been jettisoned by the filmmakers, who have opted instead for the good - fun - found - in - bad - taste tradition of «The Hangover.»

Rather, Duncan's much - touted «loose - tight» proposal entails jettisoning NCLB's overdone remedy cascade for most schools in return for a more prescriptive federal role in «turning around» schools that score in the bottom five percent on tested achievement.

The budgetary impact of jettisoning state accountability structures and replacing existing standards and testing could be significant — likely much more than RTTT funding provides.

My wife was hospitalized in late August, and until she came home last Wednesday, I have been juggling essential tasks like mad and jettisoning whatever was absolutely unnecessary for the time being.1 She's much better, thank you, and I am very happy to have her home.

Jettison their current approach to retirement benefits in which teachers accrue relatively meager benefits through much of their careers, and then abruptly become eligible for much more as they near retirement age.

With new prototype regulations arriving next year, there wasn't much buzz in the prototype classes other than Mazda's decision to jettison the uncompetitive diesel that hamstrung its cars for the past two seasons in favor of a conventional gasoline - powered engine.

It gave the car a breezy feeling, but if price is a concern, it could be jettisoned without taking too much away from the Camry's driving enjoyment.

Both painters pursued an art of distillation, exploring just how much could be jettisoned from the art of painting without altogether relinquishing its particulars.

To oversimplify Agee's compelling contention, much of early 20th - century American art history was jettisoned either because it either didn't make a good story for the press, a cohesive argument for historians, or a particularly flattering narrative for those artists who came afterward.

One could say too much extra heat at the earth surface will greatly excite the hurricane safety valve (maybe too much, too often) but not enough heat will be jettisoned to the troposhere and will remain to melt glaciers, warm air currents, disrupt preciptation patterns and, in general, muck up the system

All told, those responsible jettisoned $ 143,000 worth of bitcoin, leaving a much larger amount of damage in their wake.