Sentences with phrase «more than a novelty»

Handmade, this watch is much more than a novelty gift for fans of cold brews.

As The Economist noted in a recent feature, it may become no more than a novelty or a historical curiosity.

With hybrid vehicles, solar panels and rooftop gardens becoming more than novelties, the green revolution is going strong, and Green Spaces is at its forefront.

For years, electric lawn mowers were little more than a novelty.

In reality, The Grey Album comes off as little more than a novelty.

Solar - powered cars have been little more than a novelty to date, experimental vehicles resembling photovoltaic - laden surfboards designed mostly for racing across deserts.

«Both 2 - D and 3 - D are equally effective at eliciting emotional responses, which also may mean that the expense involved in producing 3 - D films is not creating much more than novelty.

Similarly, it's funny seeing Hugo Weaving dressed up as the rough and tough Nurse Noakes, but it's nothing more than a novelty.

But his frank, understated performance as Williams offers far more than novelty appeal.

The Virtual Cockpit is much more than a novelty in the TT Roadster, showing real innovation in how we interact with navigation and other onboard systems.

The cookbook is more than a novelty item for fans only, it is filled with recipes to turn to in a pinch or when entertaining.

Get the SmartQ U7 for its projector — it's more than a novelty — but know that you're otherwise paying a premium for last year's hardware.

With eReader sales expected to taper of in 2014 and 2015, these additions could save the gadgets from being more than a novelty item.

Bottom Line: The J.P. Morgan Reserve Card is no more than a novelty.

«It's more than a novelty than anything,» said Telfser.

For most users, the feature may be no more than a novelty, but it can be fun to use.

Purr Yoga More than a novelty, yoga with cats is about joy, mixing energy, and making it easier to light the fire of compassion.

Most of all though, being able to take the game anywhere soon proves itself as much more than a novelty.

Teaming up and fighting with characters from other titles in the series is a nice touch but it's nothing more than a novelty.

Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg thinks that the Wii is little more than a novelty console, suitable for parties and nothing else.

Its lineup, which incorporates the likes of Super Mario RPG, Final Fantasy III (VI), Super Metroid, and Super Mario World, makes the SNES Classic rather more than a novelty or collector's merchandise to maintain on a shelf.

Myself and other gamers I know are still to be convinced on the power of 3 - D as more than a novelty.

More than novelties, they are quiet, apparently modest products of a kind of inwardness, of detachment and fixatedness rarely seen in Turner Prize exhibitions.»

But on second thought, placing pools in such places, with their amorphous shape, sprawling scale, empty feel and mind - numbing visual pollution, could amount to little more than novelty — a well - intentioned one, but a potentially unappealing one.

And the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has seen electric cars become a dominant force after being little more than a novelty just a few years ago.

Amazon Go will be open to the public starting this week, but whether anyone will find it to be anything more than a novelty is yet to be seen.

A video - based doorbell may seem like little more than a novelty, but once you use one, you appreciate its worth.

But to be more than a novelty, at some point Windows Mixed Reality will have to get a killer experience.

Not exact matches

The classic pinkish novelty blob — let's call it a sliquid; it's not really a solid and not really a liquid — has amused millions of kids and adults the world over for more than six decades.

Apparently fear and surprise are more viral than sadness and trust — the researchers argue that «novelty and... emotional reactions» were responsible for the broader appeal of untrue stories.

Seattle's Pronto launched in March amid bike - share systems» ascent from urban novelty to legitimate transportation technology, one that last year served up 28 million U.S. rides in more than 50 cities.

The novelty of using social networking to fight Bay Street generated more than just a mention.

Taylor's Facebook page, which now counts more than 166,000 «likes» — in addition to the novelty of her age — garnered the attention of local news outlets and eventually major national programs including the Today show.

This year's tournament was again held at The Ritz - Carlton Golf Club, Orlando, Grande Lakes where a more than full field of 152 golfers enjoyed a unique on - course experience that included foot golf, golf ball cannon and speed play novelty holes, food trucks and on - course entertainment by trick shot specialist Brett Cleverdon followed by a celebration lunch.

Needless to say, as we have seen previously, the capacity for novelty is minimal, even negligible, in many actualities, thus, presumably, their responses are more in accord with the divine call than those of more complex creatures; the greater the degree of complexity, the greater the capacity to misuse freedom and refuse or diverge from God's call.

By itself, however, natural selection provides for no evolutionary advance, for it introduces no novelty, and hence no possibility of anything more than that which already has been.

Change, to keep the church alive in the 21st century (in the UK at least where churchgoing is about as normal as ferret juggling) needs to be far, far more radical than that, and based on an assessment of what real people's real needs are, rather than a thirst for novelty.

There is in fact nothing more to be said about the novelty of these uniquely occurring occasions than that each occasion is novel, that it happens only once and is unrepeatable in relation to all other occasions to which, as such, it can stand in a real relation of connectedness.

But, in the case of race and physical deformity, another part stems from something more fundamental than novelty.

Vast numbers of people think that the fact of a relatively settled order of nature, along with the scientific interpretation of change and the description of the inner dynamics of human personality (and much else as well), has ruled out once and for all genuine novelty and made change nothing more than the reshuffling of bits of matter - in - motion.

This promissory and storied character of reality allows it to unfold in such a way that novelty and surprise can continually come into view and thus render the universe and history both more complex and more intelligible than we could ourselves imagine on the basis of previous patterns of occurrence.

His concern is not with evolutionist theories or cosmology, but with an initial formulation of his micro-ontology of actual occasions, intended to provide a coherent account of the experience of novelty and creativity as more than endless permutations of the previously - given.

Now although Hall considers this a «process» view of creativity, its emphasis upon the individual as «its own source of order and novelty» is more extreme than that in Whitehead's philosophy.

The «flattening» problem that Bloom worried about was too nervous about a brutish end of history than an infinity of beastly novelties, but we've put so much effort into sanding off the sharp edges of our beastliness that it's no surprise collective naughtiness seems at the same time to be getting safer and more dangerous.

And this radical novelty is more than the occupation of a new region in the extensive continuum.

We appreciate the human brain more than we do a lump of clay because the brain integrates into an intense unity an incredible complexity, nuance, richness and novelty.

These occasions must be characterized by much more novelty and much less continuity than the molecular occasions.

As a result of developments in modern science we are much more aware than our theological predecessors were of the extent to which novelty continually pours into the world process.

In this paradigm the passage of nature is something more than simply the production of novelty, of things happening that have not happened before.

There may be flashes of free thought, but more often than not the novelty derived thereby is not coordinated with the background order.