Sentences with phrase «more of a sideshow»

Tebow has become more of a sideshow than an NFL quarterback.

«Frankly I think this is probably — for the U.S. Attorney's office — this is more of a sideshow.»

In that sense, the Apple case is more of a sideshow than it is the main attraction.

The multiplayer action is enjoyable enough and the map design is good, but in Destiny the PvP modes feel like more of a sideshow than the main attraction.

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That's why I think digital disruption is a sideshow to what's really happening in the mattress business, and more quietly in lots of businesses: To regain control of their time, consumers are signaling a willingness to exchange far more than we ever imagined.

More of the CNN sideshow to distract from the continuing problems of their messiah, Obama.

Apart from that, the entire process is a dumb sideshow which will only result in more hemorrhaging of membership as well as professionals from «mother church».

In the mid-sixties, most of the proponents of the civil rights movement segued into the anti-Vietnam war movement, then into the more generalized counterculture, with all of its continuing sideshows of radical feminism, gay advocacy, and so forth.

The Polo Grounds were, in fact, more like a state - fair grounds, full of ridiculous sideshows and carnival - midway games that diverted attention from the Mets games themselves.

Luiz does have his qualities but being a disciplined defender is not one of them and if the Gunners go with the pace and movement up front of Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott and our new Spanish striker Lucas Perez I can see Luiz getting in such a mess that he will look even more of a clown than his cartoon lookalike «sideshow» bob from The Simpsons.

While the economy is mentioned, it isno more than a sideshow to his and the audience's main focus of ire: politicians.

As a rule, they had a bad night: BNP leader Nick Griffin actually managed to decrease his party's share of the vote in Barking, while Esther Rantzen proved little more than a sideshow in the Luton South Labour - Tory struggle.

But the two coalition parties almost see the Queen's speech as a sideshow to the chief political task of rebuilding an economy over the next year that they say was more damaged than they realised when they took office.

The outrageous stunts (such as illegally jamming the Superbowl with a guerrilla commercial and hiring strippers to bump and grind on the cars like a Vegas sideshow) are more than simply high concept gags: Zemeckis and Bob Gale squeeze the limits of bad taste out of these lemons for a deliciously tart cinematic lemonade.

Catherine Keener's character, a new client of Eva's who turns out to be Albert's gossipy ex, somewhat alleviates this issue by giving Eva a direct connection between the more expressive sideshows and her more interior hangups about growing close to someone after having been wounded before, taking a chance to vet her new man to avoid problems down the road.

One of these, known as Evermoist, is fronted with such growl and charisma by Ruby Rose, the movie tumbles into the bad trap of making the mean - girl sideshow more enticing than its main event.

«This is sort of a silly little sideshow in what should be a much larger and more important discussion» of how to fix California's most troubled schools, he said.

Torlakson and the state board consider the requirements of NCLB a sideshow to the higher priority this year to create a more relevant and useful state accountability system.

While there is more than an ego that is bruised here, the number one lesson to be learned is don't sideshow your Corvette at one of these events unless you can accept the consequences.

In the wake of this family trauma, Fontaine joined the World of Wonders, America's last traveling sideshow — but all those death - defying feats provided more healing than escape.

The Art Auction is always a fabulous time, with an open bar, light fare, DJs, sideshows, and of course the art — over 75 works from Flux artists - in - residence and friends such as Genesis P Orridge, Swoon, Cecily Brown, Richard Garet, Tod Seelie and a very, very many more.

If one addresses such questions to kim, all one gets back is obscuritanism and doggerel; one fairs little better with the WUWTites and Sky Dragon Slayers, and other proponents of their own pet theories about thermodynamics or snow or the Sun's iron heart or the zodiac whatever it is Myrrh or stephanthedenier think about, generally no more lucid or pertinent than Sideshow Bob.

Furthermore, the debate over whether there are superior metrics appears to be a sideshow to the far more important debate of whether the 2 °C limit is too high, reasonable, or too low.

Alex Trembath, a policy analyst with the Breakthrough Institute, calls the Keystone XL fight «a sideshow» that distracts from more meaningful climate solutions such as spurring new technologies to drive down the use of oil.

With no promise of censorship - free money and no native token for speculation, were permissioned blockchains nothing more than a fleeting sideshow?