Sentences with phrase «less than an adventure»

Seeing the art of American Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis is nothing less than an adventure.

Plying on the Indian road is no less than an adventure and one can never prepare enough.

Not exact matches

Adventure Life, which has 24 employees and ranks at No. 3,191 on the 2015 Inc. 5000, provides travel services around the globe, with less than 20 percent related to travel to Western Europe, including boat tours on the Rhine, Danube, and Seine.

(The article doesn't speculate as to why, but perhaps adventure - inclined women are less likely to buckle down to tasks they find intrinsically boring than their male counterparts?)

Yes, along the lines of Pale Rider, it gives us a picture of the west that is more hard - bitten and less simplistically open to heroic adventure than typically provided in the golden era of the Western, but the classic plot of the cowboy serving the cause of justice is nonetheless there.»

Creativity is nothing more, but nothing less either, than «this factor of activity:» «this factor of activity; (included in the initial situation) which is the reason for the origin of that occasion of experience» (Adventures 179).

Thankfully I brought along some trusty OXO tools to make this adventure less stressful than the last time, because cooking in someone else's kitchen is never as easy as your own.

«Wrap midweek getaways around special events and linger through less - busy weekdays to enjoy Temecula Valley resorts - hotels - and - motels» special Sunday - through - Thursday, better - than - weekend nightly room rates, outdoor adventures, seasonal restaurant menus, artisan foods, and wineries» new releases.»

The 22 - year - old isn't likely to be allowed to leave the club for anything less than around $ 35m - $ 40m, but he has had issues with form and coach Roberto Mancini this season which would suggest that there could be a temptation to start a new adventure.

Lucas and Gerrard held their ground for much of the game, with less adventure being shown by the full backs, which was maybe down to limited personnel rather than a tactical decision.

The venue was less logical for us than it was for biologists, but we nonetheless had a fascinating and amusing adventure.

Experience, he emphasizes, should be frequent and hands - on; nature documentaries can only do so much, and regular forays into local green spaces are no less important than grand Yosemite adventures: «A meaningful connection with nature is forged first and foremost through firsthand, multisensory experiences, from abundant unstructured time in the backyard to weekends in the park and occasional visits to wilderness.»

Yet neuroscientist Gregory Berns's What It's Like to be a Dog, and other adventures in animal neuroscience (Basic Books) reveals that our understanding of why dogs behave the way they do is far less intuitive than we might imagine.

Just thought I'd share a few treasures I picked up from my last bargain hunting adventure... the best part is I spend less than $ 15!

Their less of exotic explorations and stunning adventures really made a fresh appeal than the rest of the lot.

If you're willing to get of town for a bit, Mesa singles can travel to Phoenix which is less than a half hour away and has plenty of entertainment and adventure options for a memorable and exciting first date!

For less than $ 12 USD a month CLM will take you on a yearlong dating adventure.

Simply put, Blood Omen 2 sucks (no pun intended) more than it awes, and goes awry with weak puzzles and action - adventure gameplay that doesn't feel as well put - together as Raziel's lesser challenges in the «Soul Reaver» universe.

On the other side, adventure side is too simple, it is less than two hours long, and you won't find many reasons to replay it.

Or maybe it's about turning George Clooney, a less than satisfying Batman, into an action - adventure hero on the Harrison Ford payscale.

Some rooms are complex and compelling, but at the end of the adventure truly memorable puzzles will be less than expected.

Jason Bateman gives a slightly different performance than usual, one that is is less annoying and safe and more okay with thrills and adventures, as long as it means winning.

It's no more or less creative than its numerous companion pieces; it still relies heavily on random powers, invincibility, and the kind of luck (and cavalier attitudes) found in nearly every larger - than - life fantasy adventure.

The adventures of the girls have less to do with traveling in Europe than with conspicuous consumption.

The world of «Zoolander» - which features the madcap adventures of less - than - ingenious male models played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson - doesn't seem suited to a gender politics dust - up.

Sure, the short - lived adventure took me less than 13 hours to get through, but it had me interacting with 97 different Pokémon, I got to see a Pikachu wearing a lifejacket, whilst in a boat and get seasick.

THE DVDs Less cross-promoting than riding the wave, so to speak, of the release of Wolfgang Petersen's already - forgotten remake of The Poseidon Adventure for Warner Bros., Fox has reissued both The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno in sterling two - disc Special Editions.

While Depp continues to deliver his lines with deadpan skill and panache, this adventure feels a little tiresome (and less family friendly than even the previous outings).

Prospecting adventure Gold, starring Matthew McConaughey, took a less - than - glittering # 406,000.

Putting the «mental» in «environmental,» the not - screened - for - critics «Geostorm» is less a scare picture about ignoring climate change than a cautionary flop about trying to do too much in conjuring a perfect storm of genres: end - of - the - world porn, save - the - world triumphalism, space adventure, political thriller, family drama, and workplace romance.

Less a fully - fleshed out story, than an impressionistic sketch flick which leaves the rudiments of plot structure to the viewer's imagination, Nights and Weekends is, nonetheless, an engaging slice - of - life adventure as riveting as a train wreck.

The Tim Burton - directed adventure racked up more than $ 1 billion worldwide, making a sequel more or less inevitable, and now that sequel is almost here.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the idea of taking those faces in your phone and building a movie around them, but you'd actually have to make them into characters and give them a plot that mattered if you didn't want to wind up with this dreary and inane kiddie adventure that's less interesting than 90 minutes of watching someone else play Candy Crush Saga.

It was always going to be a difficult project to get right - a single - player adventure infused with the spirit of the world's most popular online game - but over the course of its creation the game has fallen victim to countless delays and reshuffles that saw the project tossed around no less than four different developers.

As indeed is Smaug's assault on Lake - Town, but Battle of the Five Armies only succeeds in bits and pieces, and overall feels less like a film than an enormously long episode in some vast follow - up adventure serial.

Where The Island at the Top of the World fails its audience is by making Ross and company's unlikely adventure far less interesting than it should be.

There quickly followed his indie adoption farce «Flirting with Disaster» (1996), and the more mainstream, but no less subversive, Gulf War adventure «Three Kings» (1999)-- and now Russell has turned his mind to no lesser topic than the meaning of life itself, and the result is the relentlessly off - the - wall «I ♥ Huckabees», a deep plunge into the shallow end of existence, and a film whose quirky intelligence establishes him, along with Charlie Kaufman and Paul Thomas Anderson, as one of the most inventive writers working in cinema today.

Featuring unexpected heroes, magic, laughter and adventure, this animated feature is supported by an amazing cast of voice talents including Mandy Moore (A Walk To Remember, The Princess Diaries) as Rapunzel, Zachary Levi (TV's «Chuck», «Less Than Perfect») as Flynn Rider, Brad Garrett (TV's «Everybody Loves Raymond», «Til Death») as Hook Hand Thug, Donna Murphy (Spider - Man 2, The Fountain) as Mother Gothel, and Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The City of Lost Children) as the Stabbington Brothers.

Mancini and Tilly can be found on an alternate audio track that manages to reveal even less than their Bride of Chucky yakker; mostly they recount the adventures of filming a British co-production in Romania on a tight budget.

John Logan (Star Trek: Nemesis, The Time Machine) wrote the script, and he infuses a sense of swashbuckling adventure missing from most pirate movies with a more personal purpose for the Sinbad character, but while the set - up sounds good, the execution of the idea makes the film less than appealing.

The action and excitement is elevated here making it more exciting than its predecessor (with less character development needed) but it does seem to drag at some long - winded parts, which would have easily been excised out if this whole adventure was compacted into one film.

Disney's sci - fi adventure saga with George Clooney and Britt Robertson was on pace Tuesday for debut of less than $ 3 million

Although its length is impressive, I found The Adventure Pals to have an overall lack of challenge which made it far less satisfying than it could have been.

Instead, we're forced to endure the meaningless machinations of a convoluted adventure less concerned with coherency than with atmospherics, action and special f / x.

Trevor, Franklin and Michael are a triple threat and the adventure is never less than violent and hilarious, taking in increasingly outlandish scores until it hits an epic climax.

They further argue that even if Columbus, the man was less than a moral icon, it is really the spirit of adventure, exploration, and innovation that we celebrate on Columbus day.

Less than # 10,000 will buy you the archetypal big - muscle TVR coupe, the Cerbera, a monstrously rapid machine powered by that most daring of engineering adventures, an engine designed and built in - house.

The outcome: Not only is the 2009 Chevy Suburban one of the best pre-owned SUVs for less than $ 20,000, it's also an eminently capable workhorse that is as well suited for daily driving as it is for adventure.

We saw a lot of cool things at Google I / O 2014, not the least of which was a 2D platforming adventure game called Leo's Fortune from a development house with an incredibly cool name (l337 Game Design, pronounced «leet» for those of you slightly less nerdy than me).

The rest has been a whirlwind adventure in which I've written 14 books in less than two and a half years, 12 of which are now published.