Sentences with phrase «like quality of the series»

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This has nothing to do with the quality of the series, I just really liked Bob.

He also supported a series of criminal justice reforms that eliminated criminal penalties on quality - of - life crimes like littering, loitering and public urination.

The study, part of the Gallup - Healthways State of American Well - Being Series, assigned an «Active Living» score to cities based on factors like walkability, bike - ability, the quality of the public transit system, and availability of well - maintained parks.

A deeply resonant literary quality gives what might otherwise seem like a dubious series of coincidences a profound sense of plausibility.

Like last year's subpar «The Conjuring» spinoff «Annabelle,» this direly routine ghost story marks a huge comedown in production values and performance quality from the series» previous entries (which earned a combined $ 258 million worldwide), despite the presence of longtime Wan collaborator Leigh Whannell behind the camera and always game - faced elder scream queen Lin Shaye in front of it.

Like almost any good comedy series these days, «Lady Dynamite» (released Friday on Netflix) is filled with smart, fast digs at gender inequality, discrimination, oversized egos and the deplorable quality of Hollywood's output.

This may be true to a certain extent and many gamers (like me) actually don't mind since the quality of their staple series has always gone above and beyond.

The New Jersey Department of Education has a 3 - part video series that provides a look at what a high quality kindergarten looks like.

In PreK - 3rd: Teacher Quality Matters, the third in the Foundation's series of Policy to Action Briefs, series editor Rima Shore describes 1) Why effective teaching matters for student outcomes; 2) How schools can organize to sustain effective teaching in every classroom; and 3) What high - quality instruction looks like in PreK - 3rd clasQuality Matters, the third in the Foundation's series of Policy to Action Briefs, series editor Rima Shore describes 1) Why effective teaching matters for student outcomes; 2) How schools can organize to sustain effective teaching in every classroom; and 3) What high - quality instruction looks like in PreK - 3rd clasquality instruction looks like in PreK - 3rd classrooms.

The folks at Cadillac like to think that the STS compares with the likes of the Mercedes S - class, the Audi A8L, and the BMW 7 - series, but we believe they are deluding themselves, because while it is close in physical size, it doesn't have the presence or the interior quality of these three luxury - car standouts.

«Like all the models in the compact model series the CLA Shooting Brake also bears the quality seal of the European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF) for a scientifically tested high level of allergy - friendliness.»

Detailed rating breakdowns (including performance, comfort, value, interior, exterior design, build quality, and reliability) are available as well to provide shoppers with a comprehensive understanding of why customers like the 2019 7 Series.

Inside the 2016 BMW M4 you'll find a cabin very much like that of the standard 4 Series, done up in high - quality materials including some handsome carbon - fiber and matte silver aluminum trim.

The interior isn't as cohesive as the Land Rover's — it looks like a scaled - up 3 Series and doesn't quite fit the car correctly — but the quality of the materials is generally very good.

Those qualities should serve Cadillac well in its attempt to attract a new generation of buyers seeking an American - built alternative to slightly larger Euro rivals like the Audi A8, BMW 7 Series and Mercedes - Benz S - Class as well as the Lexus LS.

«When anyone mentions Lexus, many of the same attributes that are associated with the American Le Mans Series come to mind — words like luxury, high performance, leading - edge technology, style and quality describe both brands.

When asked about any new titles released with the hardcover quality of A Bride's Story, they said that it is a possibility if a series feels like it suits the format.

European comics were historically more diverse and often higher - quality (in terms of art and story craft) than American comics; in addition to drama, fantasy, and detective books (including classics like The Adventures of Tintin), many European comic book series are historical fictions.

I spoke with several people about indie publishing, got a good lead for where I can consign excess inventory when I change the covers on the Chained Adept series, and (best of all) found out about a distributor who would be a good fit for me at unusual outlets like gift shops, truck stops, etc. (once I figure out how to make a physical book catalogue of the right quality without paying a fortune).

I feel like I can't make too in - depth of a comment on the quality of the storyline, because the internet has informed me that this is the third in the «Mysterious» series of Atelier games (Atelier Lydie & Suelle is preceded by Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book and Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey).

Not only is each and ever Transformer fantastically voiced, but the games sound effects are of incredibly high - quality, drawing you into the game and easily on part with the likes of the Battlefield series.

Gamers once looked to series like Halo and Assassin's Creed as hallmarks of quality and stability in the gaming sphere; buggy, glitchy games were solely the purview of mid-budget or indie studios.

For most other series, a game of Sunshine's quality may have felt like a trip to paradise.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

The only redeeming quality would be the explosions, which are not bad to look at, but when compared to the hunks of burning metal in games like Ace Combat and the Battlefield series, it isn't much.

Like a number of quality of life improvements that World introduces, scoutflies eliminate some of the irritation and busy work previously associated with the series» hunts without dumbing down or oversimplifying the core elements that veterans cherish.

The Wii U is great if you like Nintendo games, but not good for much else; the PS4 has a lot of potential but needs more quality exclusives, and the Xbox One is the most expensive of the bunch without having any killer launch games (though I hear Forza & Dead Rising are both pretty good if you like those series).

In my eyes, as a long time fan of the series, it feels like Rockstar not only listened to the fans but gave every one of us what we wanted, GTA IV's story quality mixed with San Andreas madness and GTA V was a fact.

Rarely has a console had so many high quality exclusives, including the likes of Horizon: Zero Dawn and Uncharted 4, alongside major non-exclusive series like FIFA and Grand Theft Auto.

And so World — with its dual analog control on home consoles and promised quality - of - life improvements — feels like the series» last, best chance to break out of its funk for a long, long time.

The very purpose of buying the company was to pull the rug out from under Nintendo and stop them getting all the high quality second party games they had access to in the SNES and Nintendo 64 eras, they wanted to avoid having to compete with series like Banjo Kazooie and Perfect Dark.

After an extended renovation, it reopened in April 2012 with a Jonas Burgert show, kicking off a series of blockbuster exhibitions like the museum - quality show featuring Arte Povera legend Jannis Kounellis in autumn 2012.

Her works push the boundaries of a two - dimensional medium; the irregular triangles in the «Giant Maiden» series (1972) strain against the edges of canvases painted in high relief, while the explosive colors on an intricate collage - like canvas in Do the Dance (2005) lend the painting a kinetic, almost optical quality.

Each work in Witmer's austere Winterbrook (2015 17) series of six small panels brings out a different relational quality between paint and canvas: black wash opens up the flawed pores of the canvas grain; dense, dry paint marks the presence of the wooden stretcher as in a rubbing; carefully applied, grey and white thinly glazed layers make another panel's surface appear taut and tremulous like drumskin.

Hayward's attempt to mimic grassroots, community education organisations like Patio Maravillas in Madrid, and artist - led free school initiatives like the Bruce High Quality Foundation University in New York is actually a series of pay - to - enter lectures.

In a series of works started in 2012 Thomas Ruff essentially takes an idea that was first introduced my artists like Man Ray, Laszlo Moholy - Nagy who simply placed objects of various shapes, textures and opacities onto photographic paper and captured their physical qualities through the optical traces they left on the light sensitive surface of the paper.

And yet here she ventured in a new direction, abandoning other familiar characteristics: the depth and resistance of materials like concrete; the precision and almost gestalt - like quality of her drawings; gradations of black and gray in patterns, repeated in series, faint to the point of evanescence; industrial architecture as a model.

These qualities are evident in a recent series of diorama - like units — more than a dozen will be on view — that may (helpfully) torpedo the artist's reputation as a restrained and tasteful abstract sculptor.

In the 1967 painting Syncopated Rhythm, also known as The Black Snake, many of the qualities I have noted are present: the use of simultaneous colour contrasts (now also including much greater use of black) that suggests the instantaneous, but set alongside considerations more associated with time - bound arts like dance and music; the painting itself being a continuation of a series and presented in a format that necessitates an experience of time duration.

The suggestive forms of West's Adaptives laid the groundwork for his subsequent sculptural developments: works from his Name Work (Namensbild) and Object Work (Objektbild) series illustrate his dedication to the physical qualities of modest materials like plaster and papier - mâché.

The memorial quality of this series is underscored by its title, «Moments Like This Never Last,» which Colen took from Snow, who borrowed it from the Misfits for his second solo exhibition in New York in 2005.

The problem with the historical data (besides accuracy and repeatability and quality control questions,...) is that many of the series or single measurements were done at such places like Diekirch, which introduces a strong positive bias.

It looks at what a low carbon society might look like, approaching this partly through traditional analysis (with leading academics like Prof. Tim Jackson from Surrey Universities RESOLVE group) and cases studies (with some good examples of domestic projects from Prof. Robin Roy's OU research), but also through a series of short fictional stories to try to catch some of the subjective reality and the human qualities of what life might be like in the future.

2015 was the year where Samsung introduced drastic changes to their flagship Galaxy S series, with a more premium design and build quality, albeit at the sacrifice of certain staple features like microSD.

Much like the picture quality of the best TVs, great speakers provide you an immersive experience that allows you to hear every element of each song, film, or web series, bringing the highest possible amount of studio magic into your space.

It offers functionality like Smart Burst, which lets you take a series of photos and automatically find the sharpest one, as well as HDR Plus, which allows for increased image quality and reduced blurriness.

Since the Bixby - powered speaker will compete with not only the HomePod but also established smart speakers like Amazon's Echo series and Google's Google Home, Samsung is setting its new product apart from its rivals by promising a device that's strongly focused on audio quality and efficient management of connected home appliances.

Samsung has been using OLED screens in its smartphones for years, continuously improving the quality of its displays in flagship devices like the Galaxy S and Galaxy Note series.

While Guerilla's efforts to develop detailed characters are commendable, I can't help but be disappointed that they don't rival the quality of a studio like Naughty Dog, the developer behind the Last of Us and the Uncharted series.

He covers important topics like risk assessment and ways to improve your quality of life through his series of thought - provoking sketches.