Sentences with phrase «more at home»

However, the GT350R is more at home on a cicuit than any big, brutish muscle car has any right to be.

The A8 is more at home when leisurely cruising all 856.8 miles of its projected range on the highway rather than carving corners.

The hybrid also manages to earn a better EPA rating on the highway, but the diesel feels more at home cruising at speed.

Sadly, my brief weekend with the car did not include track time, where I suspect the McLaren's brakes are more at home, lap after lap.

While this question is probably more at home on EE.SE, the implications can be quite profound when troubleshooting automotive problems.

All of which highlights the regrettably coarse, plastic steering - wheel boss, that would look more at home in a budget supermini.

Even the high - performance M6 is, in essence, a powerful grand touring car that feels more at home on the highway than on winding roads.

Each lesson plan includes an introductory set, identified learning objectives, lesson vocabulary list, content presentation, one practice activity and one or more at home practice or projects, and an assessment.

The document said: «The government strongly welcomes the campaign's commitment to inspiring families to read more at home, giving parents the confidence to encourage children to build this daily reading habit up to reading a book a week by the end of primary school.

I realized that the kids who read more at home were better readers.

Not only will it keep your customers coming back for more, but it will also ensure that your employees feel more at home and loyal.

Technology is being used more at home and children are becoming «tech - savvy», and the rise of social media and easy access to the internet has opened up a world of opportunity for pupils across the globe.

Privett, more at home in a kayak than behind a computer, had little experience in creating such apps, but after «much research» he discovered a platform that allowed him to create the mobile application he envisaged with little proper coding required.

Indeed it is Clarkson's observation that his students tend to be more at home with the NatureMapping software than even he is.

«They collaborated more at home, and they connected with their peers whilst they were at home as well.

While they know that their Santa delivered books directly to families, teachers continue to watch for improvements in test scores that may indicate the children are reading more at home.

You mentioned that one of the featured students, Daniel, faced challenges in accommodations at Harvard College and felt more at home at the Ed School.

The flat electronic tunes and stereotypical effects match the bland visuals and it adds up to one monotonous looking and sounding adventure that would feel more at home being played in a browser window.

Only Sam Raimi's three Spider - Man movies, Christopher Nolan's two Dark Knight sequels, The Avengers, and post-Avengers outlier Iron Man 3 have grossed more at home than Guardians and they all did it with infinitely more pre-existing brand awareness.

WHY: There's no doubt that Steve Jobs» remarkable life is tailor - made for the movies, but it's not really done justice in this slight biopic by Joshua Michael Stern, which would have felt more at home on the small screen.

Her film work has slowed down somewhat — she's making 2 - 3 films a year and working much more at home, so it's nice to see she's put her Pirates of the Caribbean money to good use (unlike Johnny who you think is so indie but keeps doing big studio movie after big studio movie).

That's because Allen pursues a decidedly non-contemporary route here, employing absurd comedy devices that may have felt more at home in the 70s or early 80s.

MacFarlane stars as Albert Stark, a timid sheep farmer who would clearly be more at home in modern day New York than in the small town of Old Stump, Arizona.

Too many of the jokes come via self - referential banter that would be more at home in a Joss Whedon series, and it seems as if the movie is making fun of itself.

The cocky Garrigan is not much of a character (he might be more at home on an «extreme» reality show) but Whitaker delivers a ferocious, intoxicating performance as Amin.

Gaulthier's outlandish creations, such as a number worn by Leeloo made entirely out of white straps, feel more at home in Besson's futuristic vision than on any fashion runway in the world; they add to the sense of otherworldliness about the film.

The Man with the Golden Gun and The Spy Who Loved Me feature the prissier Roger Moore, who perhaps looks more at home than Connery when ordering a vodka martini, but less so running or shooting a gun.

Toby Jones (The Painted Veil, Mrs. Henderson Presents) as Karl Rove and Jeffrey Wright (The Invasion, Casino Royale) as Colin Powell also look much smaller than their real - life counterparts, and more mannered, seeming like they would be more at home in an «SNL» skit than in a serious film about these public figures.

With its creaky, ancient - feeling game mechanics and ultimate lack of replayability, Reloaded feels like it would be much more at home on mobile platforms at a much smaller cost than its $ 20 release price tag (iOS and Andriod versions are coming in the future).

More at home in light entertainment than serious political commentary, Sheen makes Frost appealing in spite of his flaws and most audiences would be hard pressed not to enjoy his moment of triumph.

It does, however, remain more lively, and more at home, on the page.

Best of Enemies, like most documentaries, generally feels as though it'd be more at home within a much shorter running time, and yet there's no denying that the movie provides an eye - opening look at two intensely compelling (and competitive) figures.

«If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin, then I'm so excited about that,» Ford told the LA Times.

Then, when Greengrass gets done trashing the Vegas strip with a Dodge Charger and a SWAT vehicle in an interminable chase that would be more at home in «Furious 7,» there is also a brawl of blows and choking between Bourne and his assassin that is intense and full of nose - cracking realism but handled so frenetically.

The skyline of Shanghai, a city I visited in 1985 which then looked somewhat like Omaha, Nebraska and which had an airport that would be more at home in Ouagadougou, is sensational.

Personally, I enjoyed this score much more at home on this CD listening to it while watching the film.

The ambient electronic material is chilled - out and evocative, but while this composer is perfectly adept at applying that style of scoring to a film (it usually works very well in context), it's very hard to imagine there are too many people who would like it on album as much as similar styles from other composers who are possibly more at home working that way.

But these are changes that feel more at home in a patch, not a brand new disc - based release priced similarly to the original.

«If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin, then I'm so excited about that,» he said.

Stiller appears more at home, and his character makes more sense, in his scenes with Ifans, a tall, gentle man whose diffident manner provides the perfect foil for Stiller's perpetually simmering rage.

It's a shame then that the touch controls feel like they would be more at home on the 3DS touchscreen than the multitouch functionality of the Switch display.

But Heineman, whose «Cartel Land» intrepidly plunged into vigilante groups along the U.S. - Mexico border, appears more at home on the battlefield than distant from the action.

Big - ticket characters like franchise mascot Iron Man are represented, but Infinity War often plays more like a Guardians of the Galaxy story because they're more at home with the overt science - fiction themes of the film, and Gamora (Zoe Saldana, I Kill Giants) has had a multi-movie arc directly related to Thanos.

He's much more at home creating a spectacle, and once the volcano erupts and madness ensues, Anderson does manage a few scenes that are visually impressive.

As an action flick, it isn't awful, but it is rather routine most of the time, and some of the special effects, make - up and design work look more at home in a semi-comic romp than in the dramatic setting that this film carries forth.

Xbox One owners are now the «lucky» recipients of an aging title that would look more at home in a litterbox than an Xbox.

I actually enjoyed the 3D quite more at home then in the theaters and thought it was a lot more focused.

He would seem to be much more at home as the main crony of James Bond than as anything one could remotely find in a tale about the scariness of a ring of online predators, and his plot, which would necessitate the world's most inept law enforcement to pull off (and we have that here), feels like something borne out of a trashy crime novel.

McAvoy and Fassbender, two smart, elegant heartthrobs who are usually more at home in a very different kind of literary adaptation, bring a frisson of intimacy to their scenes together.

His latest is Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a voracious sexual predator who lives in the dark cocoon of his stretch limo as it inches its way across Midtown to a barbershop that would be more at home in the bucolic small town of A History of Violence than in the metal canyons of Manhattan.