Sentences with phrase «more episodic»

A pattern of out - of - control behavior, which may occur on a regular basis, or be more episodic.

Switching to terrestrial protein when rainfall becomes more episodic and groundwater depletion increases poses a daunting challenge.

Addition III of 1959, for example, reveals a more episodic picture - maker, with a sense of wholeness more risky that we had suspected, while in a tamer way, Para No. 1 explores the idea of blobby columns which jostle and prod.

What was the great panic at the end of the last generation that led to more episodic content?

I hope Telltale releases more episodic games for The Walking Dead.

Would you like to see more episodic RPG series or do you prefer the traditional RPG format?

Undoubtedly one of the longest - running modern video game franchises, IO Interactive's Hitman series recently enjoyed a comeback with the addition of four more episodic adventures for Agent 47.

According to a recent article, Take - Two released a financial statement where they indicated that among their lineup for future titles, they plan on providing more episodic content for Grand Theft Auto IV in fiscal 2009.

The Hawkeyes» exploits will feature reoccurring plot threads and characters, but Fraction will tell his story in a much more episodic manner.

««Books,» or rather written narratives, are getting more episodic and doled out over time,» she says.

As the story becomes more episodic and Charley ends up farther and farther from home, the film feels distant from its earlier, more nourishing moments.

Not to be loved by all, especially for those preferring Ruin's more episodic moments of violence, it is an enjoyable rarity, intelligently written and featuring a cast of notable young talents showcasing surprising prowess.

I have The Florida Project just outside my predicted lineup right now: Though it's been compared to Beasts of the Southern Wild, which managed multiple Oscar nominations, that film had a conventional hero's journey at its core and The Florida Project is more episodic, attitudinal, and delightfully bratty.

The editing for this particular film felt more episodic in nature than anything previous.

Splitting in too many directions as it follows Paddington's adjustment to life in prison and the efforts of his human guardians, the Browns (Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville), to clear his name, the more episodic Paddington 2 struggles to keep a balance between plot and pleasure.

As such, it lacks concrete structure and is more episodic than other installments.

Here, it comes off as a little more episodic, although flashes of Salinger being present at the liberation of Dauchau are effective.

As the story becomes more episodic, and Charley ends up further and further from home, so the film feels distant from its earlier, more nourishing scenes.

This is in contrast to the more immediate response seen in the Amazon, such as large - scale tree mortality, brought about by more episodic drought events.

If the Jacob narratives appear to be somewhat better knit than the more episodic Abraham cycle, it is nevertheless clear that neither one has the integration of the Tale of Joseph.

Not exact matches

Assuming this continues — i.e. we experience episodic spikes in volatility — investors may want to consider adding more quality stocks to their equity portfolio.

Assuming we continue to experience episodic spikes in volatility, investors may want to consider adding more high quality companies to their portfolio.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

Silver has survived episodic brushes with scandal before — covering for staffers and legislators who'd sexually harassed or abused women, the guilty plea of a close friend who'd stolen more than $ 1 million from a Jewish charity.

In one study, researchers found that, in 2011, 36 percent of college students said in the past two weeks they'd engaged in heavy episodic drinking (five or more drinks in a sitting, sometimes called «binge» drinking).

Heavy episodic drinking, or binge drinking, is defined as consuming four or more alcoholic beverages — beer, wine, wine coolers, mixed drinks and liquor — in one sitting for women.

During slow - wave sleep, the hippocampus — a region of the brain that stores recent, episodic memories about discrete events — replays its files for the neocortex, home to more permanent memories.

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«Now that we know such large changes occur, we think of hydrogen escape from Mars less as a slow and steady leak and more as an episodic flow — rising and falling with season and perhaps punctuated by strong bursts,» said Michael Chaffin, a scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder who is on the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) team.

The more doctors probed her so - called episodic memory — the sequential recollection of personal events from the past — the more upset she became.

The older kids did much better — probably because, with more developed episodic memories, they remembered the square lock and used that knowledge to project into a future in which only a square key would unlock the box.

A possible explanation for the sex dimorphism could be that men more frequently have worse drinking behavior with heavy episodic drinking or that alcohol exerts sex - dimorphic effects on glucose metabolism.

«Now that we know such large changes occur, we think of hydrogen escape from Mars less as a slow and steady leak and more as an episodic flow — rising and falling with season and perhaps punctuated by strong bursts,» said Michael Chaffin, a scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics who is on the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) team.

Those who answered yes to both questions were significantly more likely to demonstrate an impairment in episodic memory (the memory of specific event) on follow up testing eight years later than those who did not express a concern about their memory.

Future precipitation trends in both areas aren't as clear, though there are indications that rain will come in more intense, episodic bursts, leaving more time between them for trees to experience drought stress.

Episodic migraine is when symptoms occur zero to 14 days each month; symptoms of chronic migraine occur 15 days or more a month.

Because the narrative is so episodic, it's very easy to remember Volume 2 (like its predecessor) as nothing more than a collection of bits.

The Nut Job 2's episodic plot is little more than a clothesline on which to hang manic action sequences.

It's just as clear, however, that the film's incongruously languid pace stands as an almost insurmountable obstacle virtually from the get - go, as filmmakers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg have employed an episodic structure that becomes more and more problematic as the thin narrative unfolds - with the ongoing emphasis on subplots of a decidedly underwhelming nature (eg Jim's continuing efforts at resisting the advances of a sultry neighbor) compounding the movie's increasingly lackluster atmosphere.

Filmmakers John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein have infused Vacation with an almost aggressively episodic narrative that grows more and more problematic as time progresses, as the movie suffers from a hit / miss ratio that is, to an increasingly palpable extent, far more miss than hit and it does consequently become awfully difficult to work up any genuine interest in the protagonists» continuing exploits.

While there are moments of humour, the film doesn't take the characters forward from where we left them in Shrek 2, feeling more like the next instalment of an episodic TV series than a genuinely worthwhile sequel.

It's hard to tell if this tighter approach to episodic storytelling will reach a satisfying end, since Tartakovsky excels more at bringing us into the heat of the moment than exploring a bigger picture.

However, the episodic script and some rather pedestrian direction by David Veloz end up leaving you a lot more comfortable with what you're looking at than common sense would suggest you should be.

However, even though Sapienza is an improved episode over the first one, we still can't shake the feeling that the newest iteration of Hitman would benefit much more if it was offered in one complete package instead of following the episodic approach.

Cognition Ep 3 is smaller, easier and more linear than its predecessors, a point that shows the problems of episodic gaming.

The Coens, masters of the picaresque, have a tendency to wax episodic — spending too much time on individual set pieces rather than a cohesive whole — and while this movie is far more tightly structured than The Big Lebowski, it does not quite reach the brilliantly plotted heights of either Barton Fink or Fargo.

More than anything else, in fact, the look and episodic composition of the film reminded me of Wojciech Has's The Saragossa Manuscript, a Polish film based on a Polish writer's French - language novel set in Spain (that's no doubt as European as it gets).

Made in America is a somewhat special case, as many documentaries are, blending an episodic structure with the more epic scope of filmmaking.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.