Sentences with phrase «mostly as a series»

Today, the web exists mostly as a series of unstructured links between pages, and this has been a powerful model, but it's really just the start.

Although the stakes are high in Ritchie's movie — election to the US Senate — the details are low - key and the political seduction of Bill McKay depicted mostly as a series of arbitrary incidents rather than major revelations.

It plays mostly as a series of conversations over coffee (two espressos in two cups), and in this way the film resembles Coffee & Cigarrettes, digressive conversations with famous movie people (Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Gael Garcia Bernal) over caffeine.

Bond transactions can be thought of mostly as a series of cash flows.

Today, the web exists mostly as a series of unstructured links between pages, and this has been a powerful model, but it's really just the start.

Not exact matches

Many expected a long, ultra-competitive, back and forth series, mostly due to the fact that the two powerhouses were seen as equals with neither side holding much of an edge over the other.

She started the series as a way for her to stay positive and focus on all the good in her life, even when things seemed mostly negative.

After having spent some years on a scholarship at the University of Oxford — mostly in private study, as most Oxford professors had at the time «given up altogether even the pretence of teaching» [1]-- his first series of lectures in Edinburgh was on rhetoric.

Stewart - Cousins's trip will include discussions on mostly state - level issues, including a series of briefings, policy discussions and work sessions on issues that overlap with the Obama administration's broader agenda — including hot - button issues in New York, such as raising the minimum wage and paid family leave, as well as gun control.

New Paltz has been engaged in an endless series of controversies over merger of town and village, which as far as I can judge serves mostly to agitate natives and produce huge photos of West and Town Supervisor Susan Zimet on the front page of the New Paltz Times.

In a press conference with Nassau and Suffolk officials at Stony Brook University Thursday, the governor announced a series of steps that will address water quality issues that have lingered for decades on Long Island, such as an enormous plume at the former Northrup Grumman site in Nassau and smaller composting facilities that have largely gone unregulated, mostly in Suffolk County, that have recently been found to have increased levels of harmful materials.

The sea level time series is rich in physical phenomena such as tides (caused mostly by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun), meteorological signals (high and low pressure), and signals from climate change.

Such features as its actual target antigen were revealed only inconsistently and through secondary sources (such as a series of Michael J Fox Foundation blog posts and a third - party review article [14]-RRB-, and only hints of their preclinical studies with the agent were disclosed (mostly [9,11]-RRB-.

Throughout my talk I hope to provide insight into the healthy influence of a whole foods, mostly plant based diet in relation to diabetes and discuss some of the research we have compiled since initiating the Food as Medicine Everyday (FAME) series.

As I storyteller, I believe I adopted the habit of two part series mostly due to «dramatics».

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is now on Blu - ray in a 25th anniversary edition, though as far as I can tell the primary function of the anniversary distinction is to make me feel old (with the secondary function of selling more copies); apart from the upgrade of the movie to high definition, it's mostly a rehash of the Vista Series DVD that came out a decade ago.

First of all, the casting for the series was brilliant - Greg Kinnear was as good a JFK as you could hope for, the perfect balance of vulnerability, presence and sleaze - and although she's received a lot of flak, mostly due to events that have nothing to do with the series - Katie Holmes, at moments, truly owns the role of Jackie Kennedy.

No recent movie about The Troubles gives the audience the emotions, the pure hatred between the two forces, with the impact of «' 71,» the credit going not only to Jack O'Connell, known to us mostly for his role as the rebellious prisoners in «Starred Up» (never mind that the dialogue was largely indecipherable), but also to director Yann Demanage for setting up realistic seeming fight scenes, a series of breathless chases, and a sense of neighborhood that Demange found not in present day Belfast but in the English town of Sheffield.

All your favorites are back in force, with a few twists, but the allure of the series always has been and always will be Hall, who manages to make a killer (who kills only people who deserve it, mostly) likable, believable, engaging and funny, as he works his job as a blood splatter expert at Miami Metro Homicide.

The «Three Stooge» - like partners in crime of Pena (Fury), T.I. (Get Hard) and Dastmalchian (Prisoners) are there mostly for comic relief, but their dumb - as - rocks characters are so cartoonish (something the supporting players in the Thor series share), one couldn't see them existing beyond that limited role.

It's an essential work, though, serving as a bridge between Peace Walker and The Phantom Pain while setting up some narrative threads that would (mostly) be resolved in the fifth and final entry of the series.

He also commented that the series has helped to diversify NISA's output which has traditionally been mostly JRPGs such as Disgaea.

Apart from the above changes the game remains mostly the same, as you control Agent 47 through a series of puzzle boards where you must navigate around guards, snipers, dogs, and more as you aim to get to the end of the level without getting caught.

Written by Sorkin, adapted from Molly Bloom's memoir as the mastermind of the world's most exclusive poker game, unsurprisingly Molly's Game is mostly a series of flashy monologues characters spit at each other like they're in a particularly classy rap battle.

This endearing and occasionally controversial series about teen suicide has an incredibly strong ensemble (don't get us started on Michele Selene Ang as the Type A Courtney Crimsen), but it's mostly a showcase for its terribly troubled protagonist Clay, played by Dylan Minnette.

And the film counts as a major, important victory for representation — not just as a rare, series - launching vehicle for a black superhero, but also as a mega-budget Hollywood tentpole starring mostly black actors, one that's explicitly about black (and African) identity.

It remains, however, mostly earthbound, never attaining the lofty goals it aspires to, and yet never seeming as dull as the first in the series.

In fact, the only real story in story mode is in the prerendered movies between chapters, and while they're bordering on well made (the modeling and art style are high quality, but apparently the motion - capture budget was used only for the game itself, as the animation is done by hand and sometimes isn't that good), they are mostly just a series of scenes that show the next boss character preparing to try to destroy the heroes.

As a sidenote, HBO does fumble in the marketing of the film with the trailers focusing mostly on the latter half of the series, giving up the juiciest pieces of the story.

Overall, this is for Animal Crossing fans (like me) only as the questions mostly pertain to identifying objects from the series by selecting its name or finishing a sequence.

Some fans praised the movie as a mostly - faithful take on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons» seminal comic book series, while others criticised the filmmaker's take on the material.

That's also when the film goes from great to greater, as the mostly small - scale back - and - forth between Gerwig and Kirke expands to a dizzying series of interactions between nearly a dozen characters over the course of one afternoon.

Co-written and directed by David Greenwalt, who would later do mostly television work for teen series such as «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «Angel», this is a smart and energetic film that, despite some of one of the more contrived premises you're ever likely to see, manages to succeed by keeping the story constantly moving and changing, and actually do it with some wit.

Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Blythe Danner, Robert Wagner, Carrie - Anne Moss, Jonathan Groff What you missed out on: Nowadays, you'd be hard pressed to find a network that would take a pass on anything with Ryan Murphy's name attached to it, but in his pre - «Glee» days, Murphy was mostly still viewed as «that weird «Nip / Tuck» guy,» and this series — about a married man with two sons who has to tell his family that he's a transsexual — probably didn't do much for that particular reputation.

Elstree 1976 is somewhat misleadingly titled, as it is less about the making of Star Wars than about what that experience has meant in the lives of actors who played mostly small parts in the series.

As mainstream sexploitation goes this series is mostly inadequate, serving up more lifestyle porn than actual sex, let alone anything that any decent pervert would consider outré.

From there, the movie is a series of encounters: between Nathan and Caleb, alternating between Nathan's desire to break from his intense isolation and hang out as bros and their mutual experiment; the mostly (looking back, possibly entirely) wordless interactions between Nathan and his creation, Ava; and, most prominently, between Caleb and Ava.

Mostly, Lego Dimensions plays much the same as any other Lego game in the TT Games series.

For the uninitiated, The Evil Within is a survival horror game developed by Tango Gameworks and published by Bethesda, the latter of which I still refer to as the House of Doom, partly because of the series of shooters, but mostly because it sounds cool.

He has the type of voice that screams «authority figure» and as such, he has mostly played cops and lawyers in his past series (almost always just for one episode), although he has worked in some criminal roles, as well.

Shot mostly in the Utah desert, The Car follows sheriff's deputy Wade Parent (James Brolin) as he investigates a series of mysterious hit - and - run killings involving bicyclists, a hitchhiker, and a mean - looking, black Lincoln Continental.

Allegiant, the third and penultimate entry in the series, mostly abandons the dystopian landscape of the ruined Chicago, as well as the social caste system, of the previous movies.

Adapting mostly from the first of 11 novels in Burroughs» Barsoom series that was written over three decades, Stanton (who co-wrote the script with Pixar co-worker Mark Andrews, with revisions by novelist Michael Chabon) does try to make Carter as adventurous as Burroughs» books were, while also attempting to include allegorical complexity.

As Bradley Thomas, a bald - headed ex-con who gets sent to jail after a series of semi-tragic criminal mishaps, Vaughn fills the frame with his body, occasionally contorting his limbs for comedy but mostly thrusting them at his enemies in the movie's patiently filmed, incredibly graphic action set - pieces.

If This Is Us were a series specifically focused on Kate, her emotional needs and desire to have other people notice her for who she is could flower; as it stands, those story beats are mostly hit by having her hang out with Toby.

As the simple dungeon layouts and low difficulty level suggest, the game is mostly aimed towards a younger, less experienced audience, but veterans of the Final Fantasy series shouldn't be put off by this, as the well - implemented fan service more than makes up for iAs the simple dungeon layouts and low difficulty level suggest, the game is mostly aimed towards a younger, less experienced audience, but veterans of the Final Fantasy series shouldn't be put off by this, as the well - implemented fan service more than makes up for ias the well - implemented fan service more than makes up for it.

Powerful character dynamics and friendships abound in the series as well, which might be shocking for series mostly geared toward kids.

Writer / director Joss Whedon — who, before he became the anchor of the Marvel ship, was mostly known as the successful television showrunner of series such as «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «Angel» — starts the story in medias res, as our heroes are closing in on the latest Hydra hideout.

For a mostly untested actor with a steady diet of bit parts in television series and a role as himself in the movie «Hot Guys with Guns,» Johnson does surprisingly well.

There are plenty of sight gags, and the usual mirth and mayhem, although they are mild in humor value, as the Ice Age series has run mostly on charm and affability, rather than on catchy zingers and genuine wit.