Sentences with phrase «lackluster first»

Metal Gear Survive may have had a lackluster first few days, but Konami isn't deterred.

She noted, «We're feeling very positive after what felt like a very lackluster first half of the year industrywide.

The Blue Devils also clamped down on defense after a lackluster first 15 minutes that resulted in Iona shooting 53 percent in the first half.

Since then, the unemployment rate has fallen to a 16 - year low of 4.3 % and economic growth appears to have reaccelerated following a lackluster first quarter.

The market watchers wanted to know how much of the coffee chain's lackluster first quarter results was related to bad weather.

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That's already a major barrier to people seeking treatment in the first place (as is a dearth of affordable treatment options); but it can be magnified by a conviction and incarceration, which exacerbate a vicious cycle of lackluster employment opportunities, social exclusion, and continued crime and addiction.

Investors will also be watching to see if Berkshire's lackluster railroad business, BNSF, can continue to improve its revenue growth after seeing a 3 % revenue gain in the first quarter.

Analysts have lowered iPhone X shipment projections for the first quarter of next year, citing signs of lackluster demand at the end of the holiday shopping season.

Since then, a sputtering economy and lackluster inflation have changed Wall Street's perception of when the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee will enact its first hike since taking its funds rate to zero in late 2008.

That came as a relief for some analysts, who feared Snap's first three quarters of wobbly earnings could make for another lackluster report.

Despite a lackluster Super Bowl ad, Diet Coke's new campaign and brand overhaul was good enough to power the struggling soda to its first quarterly sales gain in North America in nearly eight years.

Stocks post weekly losses in lackluster session as strong results fail to excite bulls First - quarter GDP tops forecasts but slows from previous quarterU.S.

An energized and driven Saints side made a lackluster Chelsea pay the price in the opening half as Dušan Tadic converted with ease, before Jan Bednarek marked his first league start with a stunning half volley finish in the second term.

And while losing their CF» er for possibly 6 - 8 weeks on top of these first 2 1/2 weeks isn't bad enough, the lackluster play (and no one cares they are losing close games), this team can't get out of it's own way.

After lackluster offensive performances from both Auburn and Wisconsin in the first half of the Outback Bowl, the Badgers and Tigers turned on the offense in the second half.

After a dismal first half last year, Man United actually came on strong despite a lackluster style and pace but I think they're being overvalued this year.

With Americans tuning in to watch the league for the first time on the commercial broadcasting station, last year's leading goalscorer put the visitors ahead after what was otherwise a relatively lackluster start to the David Moyes era in Manchester.

Even with that lackluster hitting, Marquette was still competitive in both sets, losing by five in the first and the minimum two points in the second.

I researched and tried numerous other tactics, and I admit that I even tried using rewards — first stickers, then M&M s — but she seemed to think these lackluster prizes weren't worth losing her sense of control.

Andrew Kennedy, who heads the board and also serves as a senior economic development aide for Governor Andrew Cuomo, defended the report against the harsh criticism of columnists and lawmakers who derided the 76 jobs created in Start - UP's first year as lackluster.

Yet when he had an opportunity to commission a full and independent investigation of the matter after the first complaint, Silver acted with the same lackluster effort that was displayed when negotiating the settlement following the harassment charges brought against Lopez.

The news, which was first reported by Capital New York, comes just over a week after Stringer announced his plans to forgo his mayoral ambitions to run for comptroller following lackluster performance in the polls.

This is your first step towards living a life where chronic disease and lackluster performance is optional.

Of course, if your profile is lacking, you can build attraction through your individual interactions with other members, but you will have more work ahead of you to make up for the bad first impression your lackluster profile makes.

Being the first true dual stick shooter is something we have not seen before and while some of the critics are complaining of its lackluster graphics and story we need to remember that this is a handheld and not the ps3.

While this at first seems lackluster, the story and the characters keep you wanting to play.

The first few years of his career following the departure from the show were somewhat lackluster, but Smits eventually landed the role of Senator Bail Organa in the second and third Star Wars prequels, a move that would permanently cement him in film history in the minds of at least one very large fanbase.In addition to his work with the Star Wars franchise, Smits also made an inevitable return to the small - screen mid-decade with a prominent role on NBC's The West Wing during the show's 2004 - 2005 season.

Terrible plot, lackluster effects, a trainwreck sense of direction, and an absolute lack of an epic scope that the first two delivered on so well makes Superman IV: The Quest for Peace not only the worst Superman film, but one of the worst comic book movies in general

The first installment was released during a time when the market was plagued with scores of hideous titles that would burn my retinas with their lackluster visuals.

The lackluster presentation, awkward control and unbelievably shallow gameplay make this the first official bottom feeder for the PS2.

Whatever shimmer of discovery Thor had in his first film has rusted to lackluster.

The film is at its best pre-interval, when director Mohit Suri stages some creepy sequences free of the burden of exposition; when he and writer Shagutta Ratique have to deliver some explanations in the second half, the decent performances by Ranaut and Hashmi are crushed under the weight of overly contrived plotting and some distractingly lackluster (if still better than the first film's) effects work.

I recall fans feeling let down by the lackluster moment when Leatherface first picks up his chainsaw in the 2003 remake; it appears that Leatherface really takes the time to crack into the psyche of the deranged killer and his family before the madness.

This was Michael Diliberti's first screenplay, so perhaps that had something to do with the apparent lackluster results.

Despite strong reviews and preternaturally ripe direction on the part of first time writer - director Jake Kasdan (who was twenty - three at the time), the film was issued to the public in the traditionally lackluster month of January, and like many of its brethren in Stiller's filmography, may have dumbfounded audiences with its meld of comedy and confrontation.

First and foremost is the low standard of in game cutscenes and the lackluster voice work.

Johnston's old - fashioned modus operandi proves effective at carrying the proceedings through its few underwhelming stretches, and it's finally clear that Captain America: The First Avenger remains a cut above its lackluster Marvel brethren for most of its running time (if only because it primarily resembles an actual movie more than it does a collection of special effects sequences).

After the lackluster performance of both «The Lone Ranger» and «Transcendence» I'm thinking Johnny Depp is wishing he didn't die in the first film.

The first film successfully avoided the lackluster plot elements whenever possible, so that we might have fun with the characters.

So far an otherwise lackluster 2018 has been dominated by Disney / Marvel's «Black Panther,» the biggest film ever released in a year's first quarter.

I liked all of these quite fine in their respective films, but the first 4 performances were so lackluster.

The wacky romance that follows is a big upgrade from the lackluster flirtation at the heart of the first movie.

Kathleen Porter - Magee, a former teacher in Catholic schools in Washington, D.C., and the founding director of curriculum and development at Achievement First, has been given the critical assignment of improving the six schools» formerly lackluster academics.

And it's not just happening in California, the first state with a charter - school association to recommend the closure of its own lackluster members after a steady trickle of research has shown that, on average, charter schools don't outperform traditional public schools.

When we tried out these seats on our drive of the 2015 Kia Sedona, the first - class experience was let down by the van's lackluster ride quality.

In April of 2011, Honda unveiled the Civic's ninth generation, but was quickly criticized for the car's lackluster interior and poor ride quality, even failing to earn a recommendation from Consumer Reports for the first time in the model's history.

First, the voice recognition technology is a little lackluster.

The hardware specs are fairly lackluster, but it is the first tablet to have Alexa built into it.

The lack of wide spread availability likely contributed to the the first generation Voyage's lackluster sales.

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