Sentences with phrase «less auspicious»

Less auspicious is the debut of News, at least in its iPhone implementation.

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

His international career, however, was less auspicious.

Instead, I'll make a cheap joke about how it sure looks like Rick Warren was present at McKinley's inauguration as well as Obama's (compare this photo with this one) and note a less auspicious historical resonance that has nothing to do with church history but will be irresistible to you history nuts.

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The volatility of recent weeks would seem to make it a less - than - auspicious time for the Fed to consider raising interest rates, at least from a global perspective.

It's an auspicious start for the fifth live - action «Trek» series, with less moralizing, less preaching and more action than past incarnations.

... a less - than - auspicious debut for a filmmaker who has gone onto bigger and better things (ie there was nowhere but up for Levine, really).

I don't subscribe to the notion that a piece of art shows its entire hand within its first ten minutes; there are plenty of quality movies with less than auspicious beginnings.

For Dell (Justin Long) and Kimberly (Emmy Rossum), a meeting in line for comet - watching at an LA cemetery (yes, really) might just turn out to be fate as we experience the relationship's less - than - auspicious beginning, middle and possible end — although you'll end up with a migraine if you try and piece any of this timeline together thanks to parallel universes, jarring time - travel sequences and a distinct lack of logical structure offered by Comet.

This is the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood (daughter of Clint), and while it is certainly less - than - auspicious, the fact that she somehow manages to occasionally make some of the kooky family dynamics work beyond some campy Lifetime movie is at least a sign of promise for things that might come.

The teacher evaluation issue got off to a less than auspicious start when the educator effectiveness report envisioned in the 2011 teacher tenure reform was first slated to be finished April 30, 2012, nine months after Snyder signed the bill into law.

Yet the navigation got off to a less than auspicious start when it failed to recognise the very first postcode I tapped into it.

After a less than auspicious start, the pair quietly builds a relationship while riding the bus to school every day, wordlessly sharing comics and eventually music on the commute.