Sentences with phrase «like previous efforts»

Like its previous efforts, Shadow of the Colossus and Ico, it is a minimalistic narrative set in vast, ruined locations, filled with strange creatures and nefarious, nebulous forces.

Like the previous efforts, I built it with a new framework that makes it easier to convert multiple userscripts into an extension.

Like their previous efforts in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, Mugen Souls tries to hook you in with a unique Japanese humor and a grind - a-thon.

7.85 - inch display and Android 4.2.2 in this latest effort HP has quietly released another mid-range Android tablet — that's actually on sale now — that like previous efforts fails somewhat to capture our imagination.

Like the previous efforts, this one is a joyous romp, filled with humor and lots of understanding about what makes kids tick.As fans know, Jamie Lee Curtis can not...

Like their previous efforts in the Hyperdimension Neptunia series, Mugen Souls tries to hook you in with a unique Japanese humor and a grind - a-thon.

is RECOGNIZING that the mayoral control «reform» — like previous efforts to change the system's governance without clearly articulating the educational purpose of the reform or facing society's deep systemic problems of poverty and racism — still leaves the city with schools that fail to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of our students;

Cianfrance crafts the film much like his previous effort, the multi-generational crime drama «The Place Beyond the Pines», with Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling.

I really did not like his previous effort A Dangerous Method and it was his most conventional film to date.

Not exact matches

I bring this up because this absence (or call it omission, if you like) underlies the staunch opposition of many conservative Republicans to the Affordable Care Act — and to previous government efforts to provide publicly funded health care and insurance coverage to their citizens going back to the passage of Medicare in 1965.

The road to social video success is littered with the remains of previous efforts that ultimately sputtered, like Seesmic and 12Seconds.

For is not Anglican existence in a place like Montreal (where Farrow teaches) a relic of a previous poaching effort into Roman Catholic land?

This is just one of many, many reasons he is totally unfit to manage us and we have to step up on previous efforts to force him out, Huge demos, marches, anti-Wenger and anti-board, anti-Kroenke chants and banners and, better still, boycotting games consistently until Kroenke realises how much less his club investment is worth and sells up, hopefully to Usmanov who, like Abramovic, is a real fan of his club.

The Humphry has unfortunately often seemed like a one - sided competition in previous years, but thanks to the efforts of our Match Rifle Captain, Katherine Lightbown, and the hard work of our match rifle shooters, the competition is now a much fairer fight.

I earn more than my previous partners and If I am the main provider financially then It would be nice if the man balances it out by being romantic and attentive in the relationship, then income is not so much of an issue.If the man refuses to work or only works part time then the woman may feel like she puts in more effort.

He obviously dislikes previous administrations» focus on multilateral concerted effort and likes the idea of being able to take credit for a dramatic breakthrough on a problem that has long vexed US foreign policy.

Have they learned the lessons from previous efforts like the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme, where take - up was tiny?»

Like Loeb, she doesn't have a long history of involvement in state races — her previous donation in New York came in 2000, when she contributed $ 100,000 to a national effort to elect Republican state legislators.

But the latest menu of reform proposals has the same hallmarks of previous efforts — advancing unrelated issues and putting would - be critics on the defensive — that have made Cuomo's efforts seem like well - timed diversionary tactics.

The mayor took some precautions for the future: The plan for the 2018 fiscal year calls for preserving $ 1 billion in reserves from previous budgets; efforts to find savings through measures like reducing overtime and using office space more efficiently; and a hiring freeze on some administrative positions (with no estimate of how much a freeze would save).

Like the profile of Hoon and Hewitt themselves, that weaselly formulation may have sapped confidence that this move would succeed where so many previous efforts had failed.

Previous efforts to create a mono - wheel that is stable when stationary, like the Gyrover, developed by Ben Brown at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have a second wheel that spins within the first to act as a gyroscope.

Previous honorees have gone on to drive on - the - ground efforts against infectious diseases like Zika and Ebola, discover new exoplanets and observe gravitational waves, and be recognized with other high honors including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Breakthrough Prize.

Previous efforts to treat ischemia by creating new blood vessels have focused on delivering angiogenic growth factors like vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) to ischemic sites.

Black Sheep is bleatingly awful as it reteams Chris Farley and David Spade, the poor idiot's Abbott and Costello, in a comedy so desperately inept it makes their previous effort, Tommy Boy, look like a minefield of high wit.

Unlike his previous efforts, it feels a bit more like a stunt here — showing off its technical prowess rather than serving any overarching dramatic purpose.

The film didn't quite receive the glowing praise of Bujalski's previous effort, but it still looks like the rom - com worth checking out this month.

The core group of vapid, naive, yet not totally unlikeable youths are played by Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang, Claire Pfister, and newcomer Israel Broussard, who, like the men from previous Coppola efforts, delivers a very strong turn in a film filled with rock solid work.

While I will admit that I liked the idea behind the all - marionette adventure, and that I did get a few belly laughs, I came away from this one almost as disappointed as I had been for their previous effort, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut for the exact same reason.

While THE DICTATOR wasn't as good as previous efforts, his performances in the likes of...

Following the success of last year's Million Dollar Arm, which was pretty decent, and previous efforts like Cool Runnings (brilliant), Invincible (okay) and even Remember The Titans with Denzel Washington (decent), the studio presents McFarland, a film named after one of the poorest towns in California, situated just north of Los Angeles.

Their new effort - A Moon Shaped Pool, doesn't break grounds like their previous albums (e.g Kid A),

Cuaron's direction combined with the efforts of previous collaborators, editor Mark Sanger and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (who is also Terrence Malick's go - to DP), creates a visually arresting movie that doesn't look like anything else you've seen this year.

Though it definitely will not recreate the blockbuster numbers of Hancock's previous effort, it should have a much greater impact than comparable filmmaking biopics like Hitchcock and My Week with Marilyn.

That's not to say that it's on par with movies of that era, but it certainly feels like Neeson and Collet - Serra set out to make something more serious and less absurd than their previous work, and the effort mostly pays off.

Unlike his previous efforts like Hancock and the aforementioned train wreck, Battleship (Seriously!

I prefer his previous effort to this but there's quite a lot to like here too.

This is the third collaboration between Reitman and Cody (the first being the teen pregnancy Oscar winner Juno) and in many ways it feels like the spiritual sister sequel to their previous effort with Theron, Young Adult.

Director Alfonso Arau (Picking Up the Pieces, The Magnificent Ambersons) made a splash with his previous effort, 1992's Like Water for Chocolate, and he returns to the whimsical romance genre for the English language A Walk in the Clouds, mostly to lesser but still enjoyable results.

That might sound like a weird mix of creative talent, seeing how Romanek's previous feature - length efforts (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me Go) are worlds apart from the fluffy rom - coms and feel - good drama that Weitz and McKenna are known for writing.

But reviving the film is not a bad idea from a sociohistorical perspective: Humbled by the previous decade's grotesque materialism, Nineties filmmakers generally felt like they were living down the Eighties and made a concerted effort to protect their product from dating itself *, but Reality Bites, with its Hughesian affectations, at least strives to be seminal — only Cameron Crowe's Singles, the Brady Bunch movies (which star Stiller's future wife, Christine Taylor), and the excrescent Empire Records so unabashedly embrace their pre-Internet moment.

Turturro's previous directorial outings have generally done little to no business, but this looks like it has the potential to be his widest reaching effort yet.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is no exception and like Dwayne Johnson's previous rebooted effort, Baywatch (2017), this film feels lazy and by the numbers.

As opposed to Square's previous efforts, like the highly successful Final Fantasy X, Kingdom Heart does away with the battle screen and random encounters, and replaced them with a real - time combat system.

That's a significantly higher frame rate than Peter Jackson's experimental use of 48 FPS for The Hobbit trilogy, and it sounds like the reaction to this format from the first reviews of the movie is even more resistant than to that previous effort.

Carell, who also co-wrote the screenplay, makes a smash starring appearance here after giving us scene - stealing performances in previous efforts like Bruce Almighty and Anchorman.

There's no price yet for Stacking — Schafer says that aspect of the business is «above my pay grade» — but Double Fine's founder says he's «totally comfortable with what you get for the price» of a game like the company's previous downloadable effort, Costume Quest.

The story development is poor, with a leaden, nonsensical script by Hans Rodionoff, whose previous efforts include crap like The Skulls II and The Hollow.

Like Miller's previous Mad Max efforts, this film dusts up some political and environmental gripes, but he's never been so pointed about his concerns.

I really like Woody Harrelson and I thought the director's previous effort «The Skeleton Twins» was an excellent movie, but this film seemed to get pretty bad reviews overall so I didn't get all that interested in it.