Sentences with phrase «much more conventional»

It can also refer to someone who takes a stance that is seen as unpopular or unconventional, but is actually another way of arguing a much more conventional stance.»

But these seem to be much more conventional in their emphasis on power, status and combat.

Long ago, in a time before warring gods hack «n slashed their way to the heavens or intergalactic bounty hunters fell under the hypnotic gaze of Symphony of Night director Koji Igarashi, the Castlevania series stuck to a much more conventional platforming formula.

The BMW Concept iX3 is much more conventional than the current BMW i3 electric car, but that means it may sell in larger numbers as well.

In a nutshell: GM's Dustbuster - shaped minivans, such as the Chevrolet Lumina APV, debuted in 1990, and failed in the marketplace, to be replaced for 1997 with much more conventional products such as the Chevrolet Venture, which ran all the way through the 2005 model year.

It was a much more conventional victory than a year ago when he and Gavin won after the track became blocked in the final corner, and he got around the stuck No. 3 Corvette.

Perhaps in an effort to play that down, where the previous Ridgeline had unusual flying buttresses between the back of the cab and (odd - looking) tapering box sides, the new model looks much more conventional, right down to having a visible parting line between the box and cab.

Based on a four - seater configuration and using a front - engine layout based on the Falcon, the Mustang II was much more conventional in design and concept and closely resembled the final production variant that would appear in 1964.

Immediately obvious is the all - new front end, which loses the predecessor's bumper - mounted headlights and insectoid parking lamps in favor of a much more conventional lighting array.

Compared with the Peugeot 308's «i - Cockpit», the Leon feels much more conventional, but it's clearly laid out and feels more modern than models like the Ford Focus.

Especially as it's bigger, heavier and much more conventional than those that have gone before.

After the shockingly basic interior of the F40, the 12C is much more conventional and far more comprehensively appointed.

The C4 Aircross is a much more conventional looking, compact sport / utility vehicle that would shore up the U.S. market effort.

Instead, it has a much more conventional roofline that will be better for rear headroom and cargo capacity.

The five - door hatch i1 will be prettier, cheaper, and more practical than the current i3, swapping that car's expensive high - tech underpinnings for a much more conventional layout based on the FAAR WE front - drive architecture that will be shared with the next generation 1 Series, X1 SUV, and all future Minis.

However, the second half of «Battle of the Sexes» becomes much more conventional and straightforward.

The TV spot is a much more conventional affair featuring more action shots of the human characters while poor Godzilla gets shot in the groin by quite a lot of tanks.

The Uninvited is DreamWorks's redo of the 2003 Korean chiller A Tale of Two Sisters, and it's rather appropriate that the title was changed, for while the film hews close to some of original writer - director Kim Ji - woon's basic concepts and a few specific shots, directors the Guard Brothers (Charles and Thomas) and screenwriters Craig Rosenberg, Doug Miro, and Carlo Bernard take a very loose spin on things plot wise — namely, reconfiguring the overall story into much more conventional American genre terms.

The narrative is so condensed that there are a few minor lapses in the continuity, though the scenes in the original script that would have provided this continuity — along with a much more conventional ending — wouldn't have been improvements.

A rear wing was later added too, making the car look much more conventional than originally planned - apart from the sidepods, which extended all the way to the rear wing.

Not exact matches

Not only was this much more cost effective, but everyone at the conference knew who we were, because we chose to bypass the conventional conference protocol.

As much as his approach puts him at odds with conventional economic wisdom, Keller can also seem at odds with himself — a registered Republican who calls for more regulation of industry; a plastics maker who speaks out against U.S. reliance on fossil fuels; a nonunion employer whose wages and benefits are a model for the region.

He elaborated on this the point to BI: «If you want your kids to follow rules, then it's much more likely that, when it comes time to solve a problem, he or she looks to how it's been solved before — what are the conventional ways to doing it — as opposed to saying, «Well, how can I approach this?

While many directors start out conventional and then experiment once they have clout, Tarantino has abandoned much of the nonlinear storytelling on which he made his name (with «Reservoir Dogs» and «Pulp Fiction») for something more traditional.

These fish, which grow more rapidly than conventional salmon and thus get to market much faster, have been a source of heavy regulatory and consumer debate.

The Fitbit Ionic manages to fit — no pun intended — a GPS sensor, a heart rate sensor, a «multi-day battery» rated at more than four days, a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip for contactless payments, enough storage for music (plus Pandora support and Bluetooth headphone support), and water resistance into a device that's not much thicker than conventional wristwear.

Jeffrey Pfeffer proclaims in this new book that «much of the oft - repeated conventional wisdom about leadership is based more on hope than reality, on wishes rather than data, on beliefs instead of science.»

They tend to be much more expensive than conventional medicines and are some of the most lucrative pharma products in the world.

In a zero - interest rate world (Figure 7), these provide yields that are much higher than those found in more conventional investments like U.S. Treasury bonds or money market accounts.

At a more complex but profound level, robo - advisors and other fintech companies are providing much of the technology to help major financial institutions transform their conventional advice businesses.

Besides, the lease terms in a business centre are much more flexible than in conventional premises: if necessary, you can expand or reduce your office space or move to another location at a moment's notice.

GFI estimates that cultured meat could become cost - competitive with conventional meat in about a decade.42 The Open Philanthropy Project (Open Phil) reports that one of two scientists they spoke with who work on tissue engineering gave a similar estimate — though Open Phil themselves remain much more pessimistic about the timeline for the widespread commercial availability of cultured meat.43 We are not certain whether it is realistic to expect cultured meat to become cost - competitive with conventional meat within a decade.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

But even in the more conventional worlds of quantum mechanics and relativity, let alone cosmology and string theory, what we think of as «the simple logic of cause and effect» goes pretty much right out the window.

Although it has become part of the conventional wisdom in much of contemporary anti-colonialist literature, both Eastern and Western, it is an oversimplification to dismiss the missions as nothing more than a cloak for white imperialism.

This makes the recording, storing and transmission of information much easier, faster, and more reliable than is the case with more conventional analogue technologies.

They have made too much of it in that they have assumed that if it differs from the conventional pattern of heterosexuality it must be wrong, more particularly if it includes approximations to or actual engagement in coition.

All this produces a much more interactive theory of evolution than the conventional «chance and necessity.»

Or to put it more strongly, what could still be said when to that believer much if not all such conventional talk seemed ill - founded, often highly self - centered, and lacking any serious religious value?

There are big conventional dairy farms, smaller organic dairy farms, organic CSAs, a winery, an alpaca farm and much more, all within a half hour drive of my place.

Stevia's sweetness is much more concentrated than other sweeteners, and since sweetness also varies between brands, there's no standard way to convert conventional recipes into stevia recipes.

The second time I made it more of a conventional tart crust with thin edges and it was much better - not so heavy.

Please remember that gluten - free bread dough is stickier and much more fragile than its conventional counterparts, so don't add too little water in an effort to create dough that can be rolled, for example, without benefit of plastic wrap.

[3] The dough is rolled with a conventional rolling pin (and much more flour) until it is thin and does not stick to the surface.

Dr Gavin Stewart, a Lecturer in Evidence Synthesis and the meta - analysis expert in the Newcastle team, added: «The much larger evidence base available in this synthesis allowed us to use more appropriate statistical methods to draw more definitive conclusions regarding the differences between organic and conventional crops»

«This product offers so much more than the conventional basic introduction training — allowing customers to really push the boundaries of their machine and line performance.

Cakes will bake much more evenly than in conventional ovens.

He thinks the perception that organic is much more expensive than conventional is stopping retailers from stocking it; however, he says now with the availability of Absolute Organic, it's not such a valid excuse, and as awareness grows about their range, the perception should change over time.

They manually weed with chip hoes, and teams of weeders walk through the farm much more frequently than on a conventional farm just to stay on top of the weeds.

While much of conventional farming is doing more harm than good to the climate, wheat may be an important crop for reduc...