Sentences with phrase «many wrong notes»

SAN FRANCISCO — Spotify's first quarterly report as a public held company struck the wrong note with investors, even though its music - streaming service hit the subscriber - growth target set by management just before its stock began trading.

He played the wrong note of his own free will — he was perfectly competent, the orchestra was competent, but he just decided to do it.

We should remember, however, that German Lutheran churches do not use music for the hymnbooks in the pews, so that it is possible for someone singing parts to be actually showing off his ability, as well as being in danger of singing the wrong notes.

(It turns out our class got the wrong note — our class is no peanuts and eggs — but we can have eggs in our lunches if we wash hands after lunch.

It prides itself on hitting the wrong note just at the right time.

The IMANI boss observed that the new NPP executives started off on a wrong note with the boycott decision which prevented the likes of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia from attending the forum.

At issue is not whether singers hit the right or wrong note, but how close are they to any note.

Whatever minor dissonance may be created by the occasional wrong note, it's more than made up for by gameplay that's simple, fun, and insanely addictive.

The film - which follows a trio of friends (Bradley Cooper's Phil, Ed Helms» Stu, and Zach Galifianakis» Alan) as they attempt to piece together just what transpired during a pal's drunken bachelor party (where it inevitably becomes clear that said pal has mysteriously vanished)- strikes all of the wrong notes virtually from the get - go, as screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore offer up a series of broadly - portrayed caricatures that could only exist within just such a low - rent comedy (with Galifianakis» aggressively off - the - wall turn as Alan undoubtedly the most apt example of this).

A super-smart ending saves the piece from going out on the wrong note completely and the overall piece bodes well for whatever this talented director does next.

There's a certain cogency to Apatow-esque stories of 30 - and 40 - somethings longing to retain their youth, but «Digging for Fire» hits so many wrong notes that, frankly, it's an embarrassment to the genre.

She may consider herself a coloratura soprano, but her atrocious warbling hits all of the wrong notes.

A collection of deleted scenes rounds out the platter, including an alternate opening scene, set an orphanage, that would have began the film on completely the wrong note.

Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015) Deftly and subtly acted by its ensemble cast, this gripping depiction of the Boston Globe investigative journalists who exposed the local Catholic Archdiocese's acts of child molestation and their cover - up does not hit a wrong note, with its unromanticised portrayal of the journalistic process second only to All the President's Men.

This is wacky niche comedy done correctly, and the film never hits a wrong note with its bumbling quirkiness.

Not a wrong note is hit in this film, which is remarkable being that some pretty horrible stuff is said and done.

And Fred Weller, so good in The Shape of Things, hits all the wrong notes as an obnoxious hustler.

And while Avrech's script often proves an eye - opening look at the seriously backwards Hasidic community, A Stranger Among Us suffers from an excessively deliberate pace that effective highlights the less - than - engrossing storyline - with Emily and Ariel's burgeoning romance striking all the wrong notes throughout (ie there's just no chemistry between these two disparate figures).

Coppola, who has shown a sure hand as a documentarian — she made the superb «Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse» in 1991 — has turned in a poorly acted, colossal bore of a film that strikes wrong notes from beginning to end.

James Franco hits all the right wrong notes in this hugely entertaining, true - life tale of Tommy Wiseau's 2003 «disasterpiece» film The Room.

But the biggest black mark for «Black Mass» is the over-the-top score, which ruins otherwise effective scenes and consistently hits the wrong note.

Both Streep and Grant are delightful in a film that hits more than a few wrong notes.

Messing up is more realistic as now when you hit wrong notes the sound will come right from the guitar via the remote's internal speaker instead of the TV.

So why did I feel an overwhelming sense that anything I wrote today would be awful; that any admin I'd do, I'd screw up; that if I emailed anyone, I'd strike the wrong note and risk alienating them; in short, that it was just all futile and pointless?

«I might play a wrong note, but if I play it in the right way and at the right time, it could be cool anyway.»

But, writing to Picasso, he couldn't avoid just the wrong note of class - consciousness: «I want to give you some idea of the profound impression your works have made on these simple people.»

The disagreement is aired in a recent New York Review of Books piece, «Tchaikovsky's «Wrong Note»» by Kirill Gerstein.

Thank you for the link to «Tchaikowsly's Wrong Note».

Michael Geist Secret Spending & Weak Results: Why the Ontario Government's Music Fund Strikes the Wrong Note

stop over, finish talk if you have to sorry for wrong note dr prab pray before and after your drive..

Sung the wrong note?

Not exact matches

You don't want to send the wrong «thank you» note to the wrong people.

«Brexit seems like a step in the wrong direction in terms of integration,» noted Mehdi Jaffer, head of marketing at the London - based IT services startup AlphaSights, which employs around 300 workers — a large share of whom are immigrants.

What to do instead: Start on an upbeat note, as if nothing is wrong.

«If they were buying it for the real estate investment, they made the wrong decision,» says Kelly, who notes that Intrawest's remaining developable property in Whistler had a modest book value of between $ 75 million and $ 100 million.

«This study finds money is probably a bad gift perhaps because it can't send a meaningful message about intimacy and tends to send the wrong message about status differences,» notes PsyBlog, adding «perhaps that's why it seems to be OK to give money to children, but not adults.»

But that storyline, which then gave rise to the idea that Apple had priced the $ 1,000 iPhone X too high, was wrong, UBS analyst Steven Milunovich noted.

Plus, notes Sue Marks, CEO of Pinstripe and Ochre House, a global talent acquisition and management firm, you're probably going about hiring all wrong, too.

While even his critics, who launched the #NotNolan hashtag on Twitter, note that Bushnell played a huge role in starting the video game industry, they feel the timing is wrong to honor him, given the corporate culture he encouraged and the importance of the #MeToo movement over the past year.

HSBC just published a note that sums up in five short sentences the one thing everyone is getting wrong about the European refugee migration crisis: This is going to be a great thing for Europe.

I mean, how could you go wrong this time of year with spicy chocolate and coffee notes?

Last November, Sophos notes in its report, a Mac user who happened across the wrong Web site risked getting infected by the OSX / RSPlug malware, which sought to subvert Mac network settings and to force any browser used on that Mac toward phishing and ad sites.

Titled Seven Ways Good Bosses Turn Bad, the guide notes that those micro-managing the team by second - guessing their decisions, those neglecting the workload of the team members, those who don't accept responsibility for failures, and those offering feedback the wrong way, are just a few instances of managers and bosses who can be considered «bad.»

It is interesting to note that people have heard these common sayings wrong so many times that sometimes the correct usage will sound incorrect.

Kelleher notes that when a bank exceeds $ 100 billion in assets, the economies of scale actually start to move in the wrong direction and banks become less efficient.

MacDougall explains: «In the CSA's analysis, they noted that a significant source of unvoted proxies was that the U.S. depositary would send the omnibus proxy to the issuer and, either because the omnibus proxy went to the wrong person at the issuer or the issuer did not know what to do with it, the tabulator was unable to reconcile votes from U.S. holders.»

For some reason on Jan 1, 2016 I made a note in the «Additions and Deletions» tab that they didn't increase their 2015 dividend compared to 2014, but this is just wrong.

However, we took note of comments from famed investor Jeff Gundlach; that it is wrong to believe U.S bonds are more attractive than those from Europe and Japan because of currency risk.

Many observers noted that the President had the facts of the current oil situation wrong and that there were no longer record amounts of oil in storage or loaded on ships at sea.

But as Michael noted, it's a big action in front of us, and there are a lot of things that could go wrong.