Sentences with phrase «more like a television»

Despite the wide aspect ratio, adequate budget, and deservedly R - rated violence, Solomon Kane somehow feels more like television than cinema.

Like fellow TV legend J.J. Abrams on «Mission: Impossible III,» Whedon's big - screen debut, «Serenity» had its moments, but felt more like television than a movie.

He wears leather jackets and fashionable boots and styles his hair more like a television personality than a business executive.

It was more like a television show or a movie made for Netflix or something.

Book production has become ever more like television production: subordinate to trendiness, and the anxiety of executives.»

Not exact matches

For a long time now, advertisers have shared the same philosophy as television programs like The Biggest Loser and Celebrity Fit Club, which capitalize on the notion that you can love yourself if you're fat, but you'll love yourself more if you're thin.

... when researchers interviewed more than 150 people about their recent purchases, they found that money spent on activities — such as concerts and group dinners out — brought far more pleasure than material purchases like shoes, televisions, or expensive watches.

In a world that's dramatically shifted in recent years, marketers targeting millennials are exploring Twitch, which attracts 100 million visitors monthly, more than traditional outlets like broadcast television or Web sites.

Those results aren't all that surprising given all of the work Netflix has done to expand its stable of original content as the online streaming platform looks to challenge more traditional media outlets like broadcast and cable television networks.

Ben Engebreth, a programmer at CamelCamelCamel, said the company doesn't have nearly as much data on Confederate flags as it does for other, more commonly tracked Amazon products, like televisions, computers and household appliances.

The company's strategy going forward includes growing its television business — especially its children's programming, which features hits like Peppa Pig and Ben & Holly — by expanding to more territories.

That's why Facebook in particular has «become more aggressive in finding ways to capture television advertising budgets,» like with its new «Watch» video offering.

Pamela Post, head of original programming at Viacom - owned Logo, which makes content for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender viewers, praised Caitlyn Jenner as humanizing transgender people and making it more possible to air series like Becoming Us on mainstream television.

Google's YouTube is aiming for a bigger part of the $ 70 billion annual TV ad budget, as more viewers turn toward watching YouTube on television screens through devices like digital media players, Google Chromecast, and video game consoles.

Anime Strike offers advertising - free streaming of more than 1,000 anime titles, including popular series from Japanese television like Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga and Scum's Wish, as well as movies like Akira and Paprika.

We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television -; by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society.

Set - top streaming boxes are thus coming under pressure from both ends — from smaller, cheaper and more convenient USB - like dongles, and «smart» televisions with software and interfaces that are indeed smarter, as opposed to the dog's breakfast that many of them have been so far.

What happens if that physical button goes away to make more room for the screen, filling the edges of the bezel like your home television?

Icahn on Tuesday referred to Fujifilm as a «supposed «partner» whose conduct over the last year is more unbelievable than what you see on fictional TV shows like House of Cards or Billions,» referring to popular television series about Machiavellian intrigue in the corridors of political power.

In 2016, Adidas signaled a sea change when it announced it would stop advertising on television and spend more on digital advertising, micro-targeting customers based on specific likes and interests, using data collated by internet firms.

In recent months, it has struck content licensing deals with the likes of Paramount, Lionsgate and NBCUniversal and reached a multi-year extension of an agreement with Sony Pictures Television to bring even more of the company's feature films to its users.

In 1966, Baer transformed people's relationship to home television by inventing a way for them to interact with their sets, playing games like Ping - Pong, tennis, checkers, and more.

And if Sis is like her friends, she will have logged l6, 000 hours of television by the time she graduates from high school — more time than she will have spent in classes from Kindergarten through l2th grade.

In this sense they are more like books or magazines than television, and they are entitled to the same protection under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution accorded books and magazines.

Returning to our typical family, if Junior is like 40 % of his fellow fourth - graders, he is watching five hours or more of television daily.

What if worship became more genuinely participatory, less like television and more like taking part in a dance or drama, in which we together make something worshipful and offer it to God?

No, they couldn't be reporting quicker and more accurately, what with the invention of the TELEVISION, which brings every natural occurance to your family room on demand, rather than never hearing about even a 9.2 earthquake because you live in another continent like in the past.

While television stations are licensed by the FCC, cable systems receive local franchises for the right to string wires along city streets, and in this sense operate more like a telephone company than a television station.

In this sense they are more like books or magazines than television, and they are entitled to the same First Amendment protection that is accorded to books and magazines.

For more on the science of the Big Bang Theory (television show), you can check out the Big Blog Theory (which looks like it may now be defunct, but which provides instructive accounts of the science mentioned throughout the series).

Now that Ole Diz is being heard from coast to coast however (Game of the Week on 190 CBS television stations), it becomes mandatory, both as a journalistic duty and an act of simple kindness, to offer a few keys to the Dean mind — which, like those of Einstein, Freud and other original thinkers, is more easily admired than really fathomed.

I believe that we, who are in a football job, people who have been in the game, I love that they go on television, but I would like them to help people to love football even more.»

I get what you are saying.If you watch him on televison he does not look like backup quality for arsenal but hey as people here like it if you use his statistics he looks more than capable as a backup.This should tell you that statistics and reality can be different.He looks terrible on television to be honest.

The more kinds of wrestling shows out there, the better: niche programming is how you can have 1,000 channels and feel like there's barely anything on television, but it serves an important purpose, too, as there is something for everyone.

Things like televisions, major appliances, laptops, and tablets, and more all need protection.

All too often a youth sports story comes across my desk which reads more like the script for a made - for - television movie a story, which if it weren't true, I might have found hard to believe.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

To add to this the media regularly report on surveys showing how the sleepless nights of baby and toddlerdom lead to breakdowns in relationships and now television producers want a slice of the pie with new programmes, like the shockingly awful Bedtime Live, springing up and with no doubt more to come.

All television (nay, all the world) should look more like Sesame Street and, let's face it, dudes: if Big Bird can observe a breastfeeding mother in person without being scandalized and scarred for life, I'm pretty sure television audiences of all ages can handle it.

The cognitive impairments and short - term memory problems suffered by the likes of ex-Carlton midfielder Greg «Diesel» Williams and Test - level forward Ian Roberts are well - documented — both have featured prominently on national television — while, more worryingly, Pearce found that their amateur counterparts are liable to exactly the same symptoms minus the corresponding level of medical care and financial security.

Online video ads are something I think we're definitely going to see more of, particularly on sites like Hulu that broadcast shows that first air on television, and conveniently enough, Karen Jagoda «s Digital Politics Show today will focus on this very topic.

Even as television gained ground in the 1970s, we had newspapers like the Daily Times, printing and selling more than half a million copies daily.

Yet more than the transformation of the international order following the Cold War, or the role of television in the emergence of global forms of mobilization, it is this fundamentally Christian narrative that continues to provide the defenders of free expression with a template by which to understand events like the Rushdie Affair.

«Some of what I've heard coming out of Wisconsin, where they're just making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions,» Obama told a Milwaukee television reporter on Thursday, taking the unusual step of inviting a local TV station into the White House for a sit - down interview.

When it comes to Thompson, a majority of those who have seen one of his television commercials — 51 % — say the ad made them like Thompson more after they saw it.

Just 36 % of registered Democrats who have seen a television ad for Quinn say it made them like her more.

And satellites can go haywire, upsetting prosaic pursuits like watching television, or more crucially disturbing the global positioning system (GPS).

It works, Dowsett says: «It's like the television show The Apprentice: If you see someone for 6 weeks, you are a lot more convinced that they are the right fit for your company than if they turn up for an hourlong interview.»

In just a few years, more than 100 reality television shows have been striving to help contestants act like jerks, and audiences love it.

One explanation for this difference, says Cawley, is that PE and other types of physical activity are complements for boys (increased PE leads boys to be more active in structured physical activities like organized sports), but substitutes for girls (increased PE leads girls to spend more time watching television).