Sentences with phrase «just as billboards»

Deutsche Bank and the MIT folks hope that seeing these huge numbers scroll by on a giant billboard will make people more aware of what we're doing to the planet, just as billboards with the U.S. national debt try to raise awareness about another scary number.

Not exact matches

As more jobs came in, the Mirzas began hiring enough employees so that at least three translators worked on each job — including brief memos, billboards, or hefty insurance guides — to get the subtleties just right.
The decal wraps, which cost between US$ 1,600 and US$ 2,100, act as moving billboards and send the message that the trucking industry is more than just big vehicles.
«These «moving billboards,» each seen by as many as 16 million peopler per city, are sending a message every day that our industry is more than just large vehicles on the highways,» he said.
Or is it just that your ALLCAPS aren't as big as these billboards, so your declarations are more, what, humble, than theirs?
If you as athiests want a billboard, why not one that just simply says something like this:
Same for «Fear God or burn in Hell», PullthePlugOnAtheism.org billboards, «Islam Rising... Be Warned», and actually «In God We Trust», «One Nation [Under God]...» Not to mention anti-science messages by Christian groups, such as «In the begining, God created...» (with an X'd out evolution - of - man sequence picture), which is just silly.
As a non-believer though, it is nice to see this billboard just because you get so used to thinking that the 24/7 religiosity is the norm.
Just kidding, I as a Christian, don't like those Christian billboards either.
As I've said in my previous response, all of those you've mentioned (Christian schools, Book stores, churches, bibles in every hotel room, billboards) are just physical evidence how overwhelmingly believers outnumbered non-believers.
Therefore, just as athiests have the right to their billboards, I have the right to ignore them.
But what of the man who called the fateful play into Wilson's helmet, who doesn't have a lifetime of job security, who didn't just sign the enormous contract as the franchise billboard?
Just as you don't always buy goods that are being advertised on billboards the same thing should apply to players who are being hyped.
«The danger is that the kind of message that is being sent from these billboards will be taken not just by illegal immigrants but also by many people of settled ethnic minorities as being some sort of sign of open warfare.»
Just earlier this year the group placed some controversial billboards in Albany, New York, with images of overweight people grabbing their fat, and blamed dairy as the reason for their weight.
As you can see, they are slightly matching their outfits with each other just like they did in Billboard ’17 but you can also notice the individual style statement in each member's outfit!
The campaign included billboards in Times Square, and used tag lines such as «More Jews than a Chinese restaurant on Christmas», and «6,000 years of persecution just so you can go on Match.com?»
The big win came just after Frances McDormand was given the Best Actress gong for her work on Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri but moved the spotlight onto all the other female nominees as she had them all stand up.
Three Billboards is just as shocking and foul - mouthed as In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, but it's more grounded.
I shouldn't compare as they are two completely different films, but as we are in Oscar season, I just preferred Three Billboards.
That would tip the scales in the favor of that movie, just as it would if Woody Harrelson got in for Three Billboards, as he did with the SAG nominations, or Michael Stuhlbarg for Call Me By Your Name or Michael Shannon for Shape of Water.
Just as The Greatest Showman scored a Best Song Golden Globe for «This Is Me,» its companion album has hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and iTunes charts.
In the case of «Three Billboards,» it is most likely a variety of factors: The backlash started after many had already seen the film and formed their own opinions; And it's still just a guessing game as to whether hot takes impact what voters think in a statistically significant way.
Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project) holds onto his # 1 spot just as his film is about to open this week and Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) moves up from # 4 to # 2 on the strength of his film and blistering performance.
If 2017 was a banner year for fathers in film, it was just as much the year of Complicated Mothers — from Frances McDormand's justice - seeking Mildred in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MO to Holly Hunter's tart - tongued but soft - hearted Beth in The Big Sick to Mary J. Blige's stoic Florence in Mudbound.
The only reason anyone has had to doubt its dominance came when it shockingly failed to earn a nod for the Best Director Oscar, but as we saw just five years ago, «Argo» didn't even need one to take the top prize, so in terms of which film has the least number of obstacles to overcome AND everything else that a film ultimately needs to win Best Picture, it would seem that «Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri» is far and away the obvious choice.
So it just seems cruel that Mildred puts up the billboards now, because, as she tells him, «they won't be as effective after you croak.»
One dispiriting theory as to why Three Billboards has done so well with audiences, critics, and award voters is that it entertains the comforting thought that there could be hidden decency in the deplorable — be they racist cops, marching white supremacists, or just the asshole relative you argue with on Facebook.
Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri's ensemble is probably the best of the year — Frances McDormand holds nothing back as the fiery Mildred Hayes, Woody Harrelson is simply sublime throughout and Sam Rockwell does some serious heavy lifting playing with deep shades of moral gray area — but the way that the story shapes up — taking meaningful detours, all of which provide new avenues to explore the colorful collection of characters — is so wholly satisfying and so consistently sassily written (McDormand relishes every hateful lick dripping from Mildred) that I just couldn't get enough of it.
The effort began on August 28th and now, just in time for the Toronto Film Festival and Contagion's opening weekend, these billboards have grown to show off the film's title in as bold a way as ever.
When Three Billboards dropped on the festival circuit, and just as the #MeToo movement was cresting, many were quick to praise the film for having at its center a woman who wages a fierce battle against the patriarchal issues that are systemic in America.
By the time she throws a half - dozen Molotov cocktails into the police station as vengeance for her billboards being set on fire, Three Billboards hasn't just stripped Mildred of her sympathy, but her humanitbillboards being set on fire, Three Billboards hasn't just stripped Mildred of her sympathy, but her humanitBillboards hasn't just stripped Mildred of her sympathy, but her humanity as well.
Not all of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — it takes a playwright to dream up that title, and a shot of stubborn Irish blood to see it through producers» queries — is quite so blazingly righteous, just as Mildred doesn't always find herself so immovably in the right.
Just as people are driving past a billboard at 70 MPH, shoppers in a book store are walking by your book sitting on shelf at the same relevant speed.
After the Academy Awards announced the movie «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» as an Oscar contender, the real estate market saw an increase in viewership — just not the market you might expect.
as it is, i just find their billboard offensive.
Printed on aluminum, the images reflect themselves within, just as Lutker's billboards mirrored themselves, here as the box's «silver lining.»
In New Orleans, just before the two were married, Humphries and Oursler teamed up on a project called Sleepwalk (2002), an endeavor she describes as «painting and video all mixed up together and projected onto billboards or sign shapes.»
As Ice Cube says in a PST promo: «A lotta people think L.A. is just eyesore after eyesore, full of mini malls, palm trees, and billboards
The group has just launched an extensive billboard advertising campaign in Washington's Metro system, with pictures of young children who are described as «filters» for power plant pollution.
So many lawyers seem to go out there and do marketing that they are uncomfortable doing and it comes across as stiff TV ads, or gross billboards, or just lame billboards, or whatever.
Sam Glover: Today we're talking with Brad Clark about a couple of things but one of things he does is he does an excellent job of something that I talked about which is using your website as a tool and sort of beginning to help people through your website so that it's not just a marketing billboard.
For those of you who want to use the facades of buildings as giant, but illegal, billboards for your product or service, the price just went way up.
It is a kind of marketing, to be sure, but selling yourself on your blog as if it were a billboard just turns people off.
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