Sentences with phrase «like obligatory»

Air quality driven measures, like obligatory particle matter (PM) and NOx filters and in - engine measures, do not result in higher fuel use if appropriate technologies are used, like Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR)- NOx catalyst.

This just started feeling like an obligatory series tie - in game after a while.

The stages explore some additional mechanics and very light puzzle - solving aspects not seen in the multiplayer modes, but it largely seems like obligatory, adequate padding to make Splatoon a more appealing retail package.

Gameplay segments should never feel like obligatory hoop - jumps that connect non-interactive plot points.

It offers nothing new whatsoever and feels more like an obligatory release with no real sense of purpose behind it.

Yes, seeing as Peyton tries to hammer home the fact that this disaster is really a microcosm for the central characters» crumbling family unit, there is a sense that the whole «death of the other daughter» history could have been added to more, making it feel more like an obligatory excuse for the hero to have both a dark past and a sensitive side.

On the surface, The King's Speech plays like another obligatory Oscar season melodrama rife with weighty performances, lofty prestige and convictive import.

An encounter with «Never Birds», giant skeletal birds mentioned in Barrie's text but rarely touched since, seems like an obligatory foray into visual effects.

But like the obligatory wife sequences in films like «Glory Road» and «Warrior,» these moments are boring and do not further much of the story.

Kushner also smoothly weaves the wording of the 13th Amendment into the film without making it sound like an obligatory history lesson.

Not exact matches

The company boasts all the trappings of a modern tech firm: The 54,000 - square - foot office in Montreal's up - and - coming Point - Saint - Charles neighbourhood has an indoor halfpipe for skateboarders like De Baene, the obligatory foosball tables and a full - time barista.

It seems like a trivial distinction between plans that are so similar (and similar as well to the proposals put forward by Sen. John Edwards and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson) that without the obligatory «Paid for by» ¦» at the bottom of the fact sheet you'd be hard - pressed to say which campaign issued which proposal.

The act of reproduction should only be treated as an obligatory, cold, passionless ritual... more of a job, like animal husbandry.

But on behalf of all the isolated «emergers» living day - to - day in communities like mine, I'm tempted to pull the obligatory, «Y ’ all ain't from around here, are ya?»

If the liturgy has been hurled at us like a stone — an obligatory stone — for too many years, the solution is not to transform it into an action dependent upon our participation as a prerequisite for its meaning, rather than a response to God's meaning already present.

It seemed like any fast food restaurant found in the States — a counter for ordering, a sanitized odor in the air, and the obligatory menu wall with color - saturated food photos.

Amazing really, Wenger the «ditherer» as folk like to label him snaps up an opportunistic decent player in the last 6 hours of the window and the sheep come out one after one with the obligatory «panic» label.

They are all excited and say congratulations or some obligatory remark and act like it's the greatest thing in the world.

«A social media campaign is practically obligatory for candidates today, and the key to social media is that it's interactive; it's not one - way like traditional political advertising,» said Paul R. Brewer, professor of communication and of political science and international relations and director of UD's Center for Political Communication (CPC).

While the show hits the obligatory notes — discussing the famous observatories like Hubble and Mount Wilson and classic astronomical objects like the Crab Nebula — it also offers a few extra tidbits that make it something more than a compendium of great moments in science.

AIG is correct in saying that the middle ear of Homo erectus was just like ours - not surprising, since, like us, they were obligatory bipeds.

So, like every style blogger, there's an obligatory Black Friday post that has to happen.

I get that pictures are meant to be taken on special days to capture the important life moments, like it's your birthday, graduation day, or wedding day, so of course, it's obligatory because you only have your graduation or wedding so many times.

You look all girly and twirly, like a tiny dancer... Sorry, but I thought Elton John references were obligatory in our comments!

Obligatory timefliestooquickly comment: how the eff is it June already?!? And just like that we've hit the half - year mark.

Just like there are many singles who long for their dream house with a white picket fence and the obligatory 2.4 children.

Spicing up the obligatory deck of title cards that films like these invariably require for context — there's this new country called Israel, and the Palestinians are super pissed at them, and now everyone is going to stop being polite and start getting real — Padilha frames the introductory text against a rapturous performance by the Batsheva Dance Company.

An obligatory setup for a sequel slows down the final moments, but until then, Tomb Raider feels like a perfectly paced trio of espresso shots, with a shot of adrenaline to the heart as a chaser.

This game is obligatory to anybody who likes strategy games even toda.

Hitting all the obligatory beats — big fights, explosions, gross - out gags, Stan Lee cameo — and introducing a host of new characters, Thor: Ragnarok at times feels like it's trying to pack an awful lot in to its 130 - min runtime.

For me neither, though I think it's rather bland having a full board gameplay with only like, at least 2 minigames (2 are obligatory because of the boss minigames in the middle and the end of the board and the rest is based on how many vs and 1 vs 2 or 1 vs 3 spaces you and your opponents land on)

While her fellow noughties Disney starlets attracted more fame with their obligatory tween pop careers and ubiquitous music videos, Hathaway has risen to one of Hollywood's most respected and marketable actresses while the likes of Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, and Raven have all fallen far off the short list of actresses given opportunities to star in theatrical films.

Apart from the obligatory chapter stops (15, in this case), there are unfortunately no supplemental bonus features, except for a small collection of trailers for films like Echelon Conspiracy and Wrong Turn at Tahoe, the latter being the latest of many straight - to - video flicks starring Cuba Gooding, Jr..

During the girls» obligatory reunion, Amanda makes a casual confession: She feels nothing about anything, and never really has — no anger, no sadness, no joy, certainly nothing like remorse over that nasty business with the family steed.

Indeed, despite obligatory punch - the - clock pictures like «Catch That Kid,» Kristen seemed more inclined to things like «Speak,» «Zathura» and «Fierce People.»

Add to that several college friends, all of them wildly successful financially and socially (in corporate - capitalist America, nothing else really matters) and the result looks a lot like the blandly named Brad Sloan (Ben Stiller), a navel - gazing, 47 - turning -55-year-old facing the obligatory mid-life crisis with bitterness, resentment, and self - loathing in writer - director Mike White's (Beatriz at Dinner, Enlightened, Year of the Dog, School of Rock) uneven comedy - drama, Brad's Status.

We've got much more piss your pants one liners and forth wall breaking tomfoolery from Wade, it's sweet sensitive and extremely emotional in parts (not since the finale of T2 have I sobbed so much), the OTT action and gore makes a hatchet fight in a Butcher shop look clean in comparison with moments to make hardcore Gore - Geeks give a huge hooray, the cringe worthy «oh no he didn't» moments are rife, there's a touching subplot about what it really means to be Family and also we are treated to an array of colorful supporting characters including an excellent turn from Josh Brolin as futuristic super soldier «Cable», a wonderful performance from upcoming young talented star Julian Dennison (hunt for the wilder people), the obligatory Hugh Jackman cameo and a mega hard Super Villain who makes his previous onscreen incarnation seem like Vinny Jones in a giant penis suit... Oh wait!

In this sequel, the director inadvertently continues that inside joke by making something that feels obligatory and cobbled together like a late franchise entry.

Also, in an age when every inane, mind - numbing blockbuster seems to have to come with the obligatory running time of at least 150 minutes, isn't it just a treat that a film like this can tell its heart - warming story in just over an hour.

That isn't as ridiculous as it should be, for the showy point guard seems like a shoo - in for a multi-million dollar deal with an NBA team as well as the equally lucrative (and now obligatory) sneaker contract.

In addition to the obligatory movie clips and footage of Bice performing and playing piano, it contains some of the deleted footage of Ferrell and Heder singing (actually, they're mostly made to look like they're lip - synching).

The subversive use of humor feels like a distinguishing touch on its own — who else would have put the obligatory interspecies hang - out scene in a high - stakes casino straight out of a 1930s screwball comedy?

Given both of Winslet's performances this year are housed in what we expect to be revealed next Thursday as failed Oscar bait that no one particularly likes, we were originally going to bank on the Academy's resistance to allowing a questionable double bid just because Winslet's presence is considered obligatory (especially after the same hustle netted Cate Blanchett a best actress nomination for fucking Elizabeth: The Golden Age last year).

There are references to «heartthrobs» like Ralph Macchio and Rob Lowe, the obligatory neon mall scene, and more than one cameo by Michael J. Fox (in magazine form).

The obligatory villain, Doom, really feels like a missed opportunity.

The love triangle is such an afterthought, and has for all four movies, that its inclusion here seems begrudging and obligatory — much like the brief appearances of characters from other films, including those played by Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Jeffrey Wright and the late, much - missed Philip Seymour Hoffman, who show up to briefly orbit Katniss, get maybe a few lines, and duck out.

The total of this training mode comes to 42 missions (43 if you count the obligatory «boss» level at the end) which initially seems like a lot, but most of the sorties can be finished in a matter of minutes.

Like the similarly terrific Zootopia, Moana refreshingly swaps the obligatory romance of so many Disney entries with an entertaining buddy movie vibe.

It's that time of the year when tech journalists like myself start to review everything that's happened over the last twelve months so we can write our obligatory «this year in tech news» stories.

The problem here is exactly what it sounds like: The regulations upsize an expansive laundry list of obligatory consultations and sketch burdensome bureaucratic processes for performing what should be a commonsense task.