Sentences with phrase «more grand scale»

And it's been that way since 1893... Only now, it's on a more grander scale.

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The combined company will have 108 properties and seven upscale brands including ILG's Hyatt, Westin and Sheraton vacation ownership brands, giving it more scale to compete with Hilton Grand Vacations Inc and Bluegreen Vacations Corp.

You would have to go back to the pyramids of ancient Egypt or the building of the Terracotta Army by China's first emperor more than 2000 years ago to find comparable examples of resource wastage on such a grand scale.

Getting to where I can recognize the grand scale of damage in nearly everyone else's life somehow makes it that much easier to bare the hurts that I have, even if all I can do is give one more person the realization «it's not just me...» that those other broken people gave me.

The earth is a mere atom on a grand scale and any event happening on earth no more effects anything else the same way a fly that flapped its wings1 billion years ago has no effect on you now.

I know if more people knew about how their food is produced across the board they would be very surprised on a grand scale.

We have a rare opportunity to address ecosystem issues on a grand scale — and to step away from that opportunity in order to address more provincial needs may be understandable but would be a singular failure.»

If that ship had slipped further off those rocks and ended up in deeper water, then maybe we would have seen more lives lost even on a grander scale than Titanic herself.

XPRIZE addresses the world's Grand Challenges by creating and managing large - scale, high - profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

But during the aerial «dogfight» sequences, the film is something else again: a grand - scale spectacular, the likes of which has never been duplicated, not even by more expensive efforts like Hell's Angels (1930) and The Blue Max (1965).

More importantly than anything, it cuts close to the bone, with much of the film feeling like Gilliam confronting his own mortality: «for all the film's flaws, it feels like a very personal and moving piece of work as Qohen moves towards some kind of acceptance that his time on Earth will be brief in the grand scale of things... it's not so much a film about a search for a meaning, as an embrace of meaningless, and it's fascinating in that respect.»

The chapters end with boss fights, which are on a grander and more complicated scale than regular battles.

While the main plot dynamics are still relatively simple — John Wick gets angry and is forced to kill an awful lot of people intent on trying to do the same to him — this time director Chad Stahelski and writer Derek Kolstad showcase all of this chaos and carnage on a much grander and more complex scale.

The opening is so commanding that some have criticised the film for not living up this grand and devastating scale but Spielberg has many more up his sleeve.

That said I'm hoping to see at least 3 or 4 more installments considering how grand in scope and scale the show was.

This trend, of course, had outliers: «Dina,» the Grand Jury Prize Winner for US Documentary, is a small - scale investigation into the life of a middle - aged neurodiverse woman more concerned with empathy than issues, while «The Nile Hilton Incident» shows how a murder mystery spirals into a political revolution that destabilizes an entire country.

This idea of using what one has to better those around is taken to a much grander scale, and it makes the film feel so much more powerful than your typical film.

The Revenant, while entertaining from moment to moment, ultimately feels like film school on a much grander and more experienced scale - but with the same tendency to overindulge in technique and form, rather than substance and feel.

Progressives were convinced that public education would be delivered more effectively and efficiently if it were done on a grand scale, like the automobile industry.

Looking towards leadership positions can help great teachers harness their passion in ways that are more effective and rewarding on a grander scale.

This Lincoln's dimensions are on the grand side as well, and the result is more like a full - size big car than the scaled - up little car that some of the chassis hardware might suggest.

With the 2018 Navigator, Lincoln puts its shoulder back into the category it created: Think Continental on a grand scale and, for Lincoln, a grand profit scale: The new Navigator starts at $ 73,250 delivered, over $ 8,500 more than the outgoing base model, and the Black Label trim 4x4 version we sampled came to $ 98,145.

The Jeep Compass is stylish, essentially a scaled down version of the Grand Cherokee,... Read More

Hotel Il Mercante di Venezia: set between the Grand Canal, the Ghetto, Venice Casino and the Local Market, it offers the guest who seeks tranquility... Read more and charm in one of the most animated zones of Venice, the sevices and comforts of a large hotel on a human scale.

Non-fans will continue to hate the series, and fans will be happy with more of what they love on a grander scale.

Even boss encounters, though grand in scale, are less than a challenge, and none require more than one attempt to defeat.

Boat story time was my favorite part of the game along with just taking in the immersive visual backdrops, imo its more like an interconnected hub world where everything looks and feel much grander in scale then it really is and its done very well in that aspect GOW is essentially to different games at the same time, a great storytelling quiet time with rich lore on the one side and brutal precise hard hitting combat on the other, mixed up with perfect pacing and a couple of epic cliffhangers at the endd

This showed a grander vision in scale that was more detailed.

Total War Saga was pitched from the start as a more concise take on historical strategy, moving from a grand scale to a more focused take on...

The bottom line is that Ardennes Assault finally brings the feeling of grand strategy and broader tactical thinking to bear on a game that has been renowned for tactical gameplay on a smaller, more individual scale.

Granted, Zelda U would only be one more game, but at least one of much grander scale and appeal than the aformentioned.

Granted the aiming and shooting isn't the best, but the grand scale makes it a blast regardless; which is more than can be said for the bosses found on - foot, as they tend to lack the «big bad» feel and blend in with the reams of minions coming your way.

Though it recycled a huge percentage of OoT «s visual assets in the name of saving development time, Majora's Mask managed to flip the heroic, grand scale of its predecessor on its head and put the character models to use in a scarier, more urgent and, in my opinion, more memorable context that still feels unique not only to the Zelda series, but to all of gaming.

With more powerful technology at game developers» disposal, space can be conveyed on a much grander scale, with space stations, nebulae and asteroid belts all brought to life in stunning detail.

The story is told on a grand scale through Scenario Mode, with Arcade Mode featuring more personal character interactions between fighters.

The result is a project of perilous scope, in pursuit of which the studio struggled to be at once broader in the spread of its historical roots yet also more intimate in its characterization of people like Elizabeth; grander in the scale of its mythical city, yet sharper in that city's fine details.

Though one of them paints images and the other does not, one might well feel that they have much more in common than either one does with a painter who prefers to work on a grand scale and with reference to important public issues.

Meanwhile Letha Wilson creates her own ruined landscapes as a geologic map of America, on a more intimate scale, after photographing grander ones.

But where Picasso's work was about suffering on a large scale (Guernica) and sex at an intimate level (just about everything else), Bourgeois's art is about personal pain and a sexuality that is less about personal intimacy and more about eroticism on a grand scale.

More seriously still, despite progressive Alzheimer's disease, Willem de Kooning continued to work on a grand scale.

So I veered towards the Rothko and Newman side of the NY school, and with a touch of Mondrian thrown in, my work became much more about simplicity, solidity, scale and proportion than the grand gesture.

But more objectively the big Ace of Diamonds III [1986 — 96] is a great work in its simplicity of form, grand scale, and elegant movement achieved by simple means.

While the scale and size of Stella's works have become grander, the process has become more spontaneous.

At first he identified more closely with the non-gestural artists in this school, Rothko, Newman and Ad Reinhardt, all of whom insisted on grand scale and the elimination of figurative references.

But, the memory of a great Guggenheim retrospective now 25 years ago («Mario Merz», 1993)-- where his art consumed the building like plants do a jungle, his grand igloos and sweeping neon Fibonacci numbers vying for attention with lizards and even a motorbike — remind me that, now more than ever, we need to see the scale of life in art and belief worth fighting that comprise Merz's vision.

On a grander scale, there has been a massacre in the long - suffering town of Baga, on Lake Chad's shore, although initial reports of more than 2,000 slaughtered by hundreds of Boko Haram militants are being challenged by the Nigerian military, which says the toll is more like 150.

And more specifically, the Cornell tower takes Passive House to a new, grand scale, and it brings it to one of the world's densest cities, a context that for an increasingly urban world population, will be more and more relevant in the coming years.

It appears from paleo - science that there is more to it than that, the clouds that they generate as a control mechanism on the earth's temperature, this is yet another feedback mechanism for survival of all life on the planet and has been working for aeons of time, right back to the earliest life here... the planet was made more hospitable to life by life itself, geo - engineering on grand scale by the tiniest of plants in the sea... which outstrips the cleverest of plans by humans to geo - engineer and more relevantly does no harm to the planet...

Even more troubling, the sheer scale of the tragedy seemed to demand a grander conspiracy than the incongruous politics of a single troubled man.