Sentences with phrase «like something of a disaster»

Even if it wasn't fatally deflated by a performance by Orlando Bloom that seems to have been sedated, it would still feel like something of a disaster — free of laughs or tears or pretty much anything that would make you want to see it again.

Not exact matches

You mention global myths of a great flood as supporting evidence, but even the article only states,» [a] lmost every culture has a legend about a great flood, and — with a little reading between the lines — many of them mention something like a comet on a collision course with Earth just before the disaster.»

When I'm listening to something that is Word, it is a matter of life and death and I take it all in like a hearty meal saving me from the brink of disaster.

The cake looks divine, I wish I had had something like that yesterday on my birthday... which turned out to be a bit of a disaster: (Might just have to make your cake for a belated bday present to myself!

In all fairness, the gloppy casserole - like dish you're left with is pretty darn tasty, but if you're expecting this disaster of a recipe to yield something resembling enchiladas, or the stated serving sizes, you better think again.

Once my late night practice disasters morphed into something I deemed presentable to the elder council of the family (i.e. anyone over 60 and known for «telling it like it is»), I got up enough nerve to inconspicuously serve it at a family gathering.

Ok now that I have mentioned some of the ways that your panna cotta can be a disaster, I feel like I have achieved something today.

It could also be one of the oldest tricks in the book: A guaranteed, for - pay disaster, built by cynicism and greed, and validated on the viewer's part only by a desperation for something like novelty and a persistent morbid curiosity.

Like the book on which it's based, a memoir by Wiseau's «The Room» co-star Greg Sestero and writer Tom Bissell, the events of «The Disaster Artist» unfold not from Tommy's point of view, but from the perspective of Greg (Dave Franco), an aspiring 19 - year - old actor who meets the 40 - something Tommy in a San Francisco theater class.

The Wave differs from something like San Andreas in its smaller scope: the disaster is more graspable, and the limited size of the human story makes it more relatable.

Much like Tim Burton's Ed Wood, The Disaster Artist takes the creation of something terrible and uses it to dissect the strangeness of the creative process (and the people involved in it).

Edwards has fashioned something resembling a Seventies - style disaster movie here, in which a handful of prestigious familiar faces are tossed into the action to convince us that we're watching a drama on something like a human level.

While it might sound like something out of a sci - fi novel, microchips have been shown to be quite helpful in cases of lost pets, particularly following storms or other natural disasters.

Like the red eared slider or the marine toad, the bullfrog will not only displace its native equivalent, it will also devastate the local populations of anything it can eat, creating something of an ecological disaster.

It sounds like a recipe for disaster, but there is something to be said about a game being more than the sum of its parts.

The intensive scaling was far too difficult to effectively port to the Genesis (not like Sega didn't try, resulting in disasters like the port of Galaxy Force II) or SNES (whose Mode 7, combined with the DSP chip, could pull off something like Super Mario Kart, but nothing this fast nor as advanced).

It's almost like we — the twenty - and early thirty - somethings — are coming of age at some weird potluck of every social issue staring us in the face: food insecurity, epic natural disasters, stock market crashes, three wars, droughts worse than the Dust Bowl, banks getting away with robbery, extreme poverty, corporate - purchased elections, rising childhood obesity, rising deficit, salmon run extinctions, flocks of birds dropping out of the sky, college debt surpassing credit card debt, you name it.

Indeed, without something like this, we will be making this type of interesting interchanges after each disaster in the world to convince ourselves of something we are convinced.

It can be next to impossible to save while you are a student and it can be even harder to find a little extra income for emergency situations, especially in the event of something serious like a fire, natural disaster or theft.

You should have records of all the things that is in your home if something like flood, fire or any other disaster takes place.

By disaster, something like a wide scale malware problem infecting millions of devices.

I keep wanting to do something like this but with construction going on (um, at a snails pace) for the basement our garage is more of a disaster zone, not ahhhh welcome and come on in.