Sentences with phrase «much fanfare only»

Superstars like Cesc and Ibrahimovic have arrived with much fanfare only to leave the club a year or two later with a whimper.

Remember the 3 - D Fire phone it launched with much fanfare only to discontinue the next year?

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Early damage to the concept was done by a short - lived British hedge fund, Derwent Capital Markets, which announced it was launching the world's first «Twitter Fund» to much fanfare in 2011, only to shut it down a month later.

Last month Kanye West unveiled his new album «The Life of Pablo» to much fanfare and Twitter drama, but he only released it on Tidal, the streaming platform that he is a part owner of.

The first Amazon Go store opened one month ago to much fanfare, after more than 12 months of hype that only crescendoed as the company delayed the public opening by about a year.

The shirt launched at the 2011 NFL training combine to much fanfare, but a simplified consumer version — a sensor - equipped chest band — had only niche appeal.

Amazon unveiled its Fire Phone with much fanfare in June, but after only two months on the market, the company has dropped the price of the $ 199 32 - gigabyte model to 99 cents, with a two - year contract.

King, who has been TV's version of a missing person since joiningABC amid much fanfare 14 months ago, could only hope that she would perform aspromisingly as Navratilova, who in her fourth game ever rolled a 149.

The lowly Rangers made Clyde their first draft choice, gave him a $ 125,000 bonus, and then, amid much fanfare, announced that he would start his first major league game only 19 days after he graduated from high school.

Then there was HP, which released its Touchpad tablet to much fanfare in April — and then killed it only seven weeks later.

With middling scores and harsh conclusions in the can, Condition Zero looked set to limp into the wider world without much fanfare, and succeed only in giving the Half - Life - was - a-fluke crowd a slogan to replace «Whatever happened to Team Fortress 2?»

If you were only a casual viewer who caught a handful of episodes or have never caught on to the appeal of HBO's eight - season - long series «Entourage» (2004 - 2011), the film expansion probably won't garner much fanfare.

The Alfa Romeo Giulia was revealed with much fanfare recently, but only in its full - fat 510 hp, BMW M3 - chasing Quadrifoglio trim.

Just take a look at the Asus DR - 900 E-Reader, it came onto the scene with much fanfare, and then nothing for half a year, only be released with not anything but a mouse squeak..

We've seen Fujitsu come and go with a couple of 10 - inch and 11.6 - inch Windows 7 slates and one 10 - inch slider / tablet hybrid this year without much fanfare, although it obviously doesn't help that these products are only available in Japan, one of them not even to general consumers.

Yet it was Apple, who 2 years ago launched the Iphone 2G to much fanfare, only to replace the sloooow, buggy first generation device with the Iphone 3G a little less then a year later.

That small group still only drew a «line in the sand», then «argued» over as to «where it should then be moved», and then altered a «graph» to much «Public made fanfare».