Sentences with phrase «more like»

Bushnell, wrote Kent, «made sure that the men around him agreed with his philosophy» and «held meetings in hot tubs, drank heavily, experimented with drugs... Sometimes Atari board meetings seemed more like fraternity parties than business meetings.»

Suddenly teaching felt more like leading.

The bottles keep liquid cold for 24 hours and hot for 12, and they're priced more like a fashion accessory: from $ 25 for nine ounces to $ 45 for 25 ounces, which holds a whole bottle of wine.

That's not to say the participants enjoyed being apathetically bored... Apathetic boredom was more like depression in that participants felt flat and incapable of emotion.»

It's more like a survival guide that you'll reference throughout your career.»

So in that regard we'll be more like the NBA D - League, although there are affiliations there too.

Yes, Tarantino likes to keep us waiting, but the first act feels more like stalling than buildup.

Facebook maintains that it doesn't choose what to show people — that its algorithm simply reflects the choices that users make — but this seems more like a way to dodge responsibility than an accurate reflection of what's happening, especially when it is actively deleting news - worthy content.

The new customer engagement strategy should feel less like a marketing and sales campaign, contest, or tool, and more like a well - developed friendship founded on the basis of interdependent needs and mutual respect.

Another mistake pollsters made was to assume an electorate that looked more like the one that voted in 2004 and less like 2008, which had larger - than - usual minority and youth turnout.

In his experience dealing with large customers, net 45 days actually meant «more like net 60 or net 70,» Carroll says.

In other words, it'd make upgrading a smartphone more like upgrading a desktop PC.

In no time at all, Olsen claims, your real voice can start to sound a lot more like your voice in your head.

«It's more like something your sassy aunt would wear on a tee - shirt.»)

Why, she wonders, can't her people behave more like the fishmongers?

The Mansion's multiple private decks and panoramic views of the bay provide cozy quarters so guests can feel more like friends and family than business acquaintances.

And it sounds more like «Fortnite» than «Call of Duty.»

As the Internet has grown it has become much more like any other established marketplace.

Many of the Recaro Basic Line 3520 seats found on these airlines have thinner padding, and the bottoms seem to reach to only mid-thigh, which feels more like a hard bench than a real chair.

The entire antivirus industry was behind the curve in creating a cloud - native security platform that looked much more like Salesforce and a lot less like Sibel.

Her latest venture, Axonify, aims to improve corporate training by making it more like a game.

Given the sensitive political and economic nature of the topic, the complexity of the problem and the current tenuousness of the housing market, we imagine that Treasury's contribution will be not so much a shout, more like a polite throat - clearing.

«This should feel more like a cruise ship than a nuclear submarine.»

Now, Microsoft has decided to create a robot that acts more like a spoiled brat.

«Now, how can we get our planes to look more like ash trays?»

Our social networks are bubbles that trick us into believing everyone else thinks and acts more like us.

And the competition looks a lot more like dodge»em cars than the see - saw because: (a) they're coming at you from every direction, not in a linear or direct fashion, and (b) their approaches, offerings and multi-channel delivery systems are exploding.

Ostensibly an aggregator of news content, Toutiao has evolved into something more like a Facebook newsfeed.

While it may initially seem a duplication of what the first habit enables, instead it's more like holding up a mirror.

He wants the brand's messaging to feel less like marketing and more like a conversation.

The back will now be made of aluminum and feel more like an iPad.

Small touches like flowers, paintings, and area rugs are meant to make the office feel less like a place of work and more like a home.

I suspect many of our lives are more like that than we acknowledge, and making strong choices about direction in key moments is often what defines us.

The company has no office, behaving more like a software startup than a packaged foods business.

This requires being more like a consultant and spending time with customers to educate them on real - world applications of high - value features — on the phone, via video conference or in - person.

(Someone went as far as to tell me he wanted to send something to me, and that he already had my home address, making him seem less like a potential business connection and more like a real - time cyber-stalker.)

With a shock of gray hair, oversized glasses and a messianic zeal for the future, Bre Pettis looks more like the host of a sci - fi movie channel than chief executive officer of a small manufacturing company in a gritty Brooklyn neighborhood of bricks and brownstone.

Vendors claim that gamification can lead to a 100 to 150 percent pickup in engagement metrics including unique views, page views, community activities and time on site, according to M2 Research, and 63 percent of American adults agree that making everyday activities more like a game would make them more fun and rewarding, JW Intelligence reports.

What's left are more like ponds, or puddles, or even droplets clustered in solid rock, and the capital cost and time frame to extract oil from them have soared.

In short, you need to act more like institutional investors such as banks and pension funds.

Shrinking the technology made the ball lighter and a bit more like a traditional soccer ball.

Hard disks, by contrast, are more like 50 cents to a dollar per gigabyte, he said — considerably cheaper, but also significantly slower.

The fussy work looks more like a craft — say, needlepoint or weaving — than high - tech manufacturing, though each of the thousands of cables has its own serial number for quality control and traceability.

At times, the business can feel more like a vision than a profitable reality.

Last month, in response to a survey that revealed experts believe A.I. will surpass human skills on all tasks by 2060, Musk tweeted that he believed it would be more like 2030 to 2040.

«It was more like you did it because you found something that spoke to you and you found like - minded people and you were all weirdos, everyone were kind of outcasts.»

Many devotees of the Leafs, Raptors, Toronto FC and Marlies were overcome with flop sweats at the prospect of current president and chief operating officer Tom Anselmi geting the top job, given his five years steering TFC made the soccer club look more like a bumper car than a Cadillac.

Over the years, I went from looking like a 6 - foot 2 - inch quarterback to someone who looks more like a linebacker.

Our data is more like a set of jewels, a rich collection of information that is a goldmine for advertisers but also contains the memories, personal details, and insights of the public.

For example, if you look at a graph of the 10 - year Treasury rate from the height of its peak in 1981, at 15.41 %, to the bottom in June 2016 (during Brexit), at 1.49 %, the chart looks more like a roller - coaster ride versus a simple straight line down.