Sentences with phrase «much name dropping»

With of course much name dropping and detours including Hacksaw Ridge, JK Rowling, Annette Bening, Viola Davis, Weiner, Janelle Monae, and Michael Shannon.

Not exact matches

After 47 years known as Wal - Mart Stores, the world's largest company said on Wednesday that it is dropping «Stores» from its name in a nod to how much important e-commerce is to the business as it continues to compete with Amazon.com (amzn).

When CVS wanted to make clear to Wall Street and Main Street it was pivoting its business much more toward to the health industry in 2014, it went as far as changing its name to CVS Health from CVS Caremark, and to drop tobacco products, a $ 2 billion a year revenue generator, from its stores.

It sounds much cooler at certain parties to name drop specific shares than to discuss the low fees you're being charged by your index fund.

If Ozil wasn't such a big name then it would be easier to drop him and the player I would want in that 3 man CM you listed wouldn't be Iwobi but M - Niles, Iwobi forgets his def duties a bit too much recently for the trust given to a CM.

Maybe even drop to the championship, all in the name of proving how much we hate one who won 3 FA cups in last 4 years.

but still not producing in a much weaker league)-RRB- But the names you constantly drop are quite simply downgrades on a lot of the players we currently have in the squad production wise.

This week, the State Senate passed Ian's law, a bill named for 37 - year - old Ian Pearl, who was dropped by his insurance company because his health problems cost too much.

He presided over a drop in the Tory vote in 2015 (down to 31.7 %) however does have some name recognition in the constituency now, albeit not much.

Now, I'm about to be obnoxious and name drop here... but a few years ago I became friends with both of his sisters and they know how much I fan girl, so they text me little behind the scenes pics and snip - its from things and it's like my favorite thing EVER.

However, a deleted scene has surfaced online which features a much less subtle reference, with Aaron name - dropping Miles as he speaks to -LSB-...]

Though Edward Snowden's name is dropped, there is not much attention to surveillance or spying, and the uses and abuses of connectivity as a tool of corporate and state power are barely explored.

Depicting a much more subtle alien invasion than the city - destroying carnage seen in the likes of Independence Day, it sees the aptly named Body Snatchers drop plant pods all across the fictional small town of Mill Valley, California.

Unfortunately aside from name - dropping — not much else worthy of noting is divulged in this somewhat drab, thinly scripted doc, that's mainly stuffed with talking heads.

Hoffman replacing Wes Bentley's perfectly curated beard (there's also something about someone naming Plutarch replacing someone named Seneca that I can't quite put my finger on) is certainly a step in the right direction, but the film benefits just as much from the rule change to the Games, as it allows them to drop some established actors into the arena alongside the young ones.

It's too smart for its own good, presenting a superhero origin story without allowing any of its characters to ever once even whisper the word (a lot like «The Walking Dead» making everyone look like assholes by avoiding the term «zombie») and spending too much time letting its teen titans drop names like Schopenhauer before making it clear that the character who most embraces the philosopher's theories of aesthetics and self - abnegation ultimately takes up the mantle of one of Schopenhauer's offshoots, Nietzsche.

Oh, and so much for the idea of allowing the winners give their extended thanks backstage in an effort to cut down on the name - dropping.

The name change from SLK to SLC came to fruition because Mercedes wanted to closer align the two - seater convertible with its small - executive saloon, primarily because the new drop - top shares much of its technology with the C - class.

Between a growing selection of apps and unlimited access to movies and music for Prime members, it makes sense that Amazon would drop the Kindle name from its line of Fire tablets, but the company is still very much focused on value.

Ashton Kutcher is getting paid three times as much as me» would help big - name stars like Portman or Lawrence, but for us regular folk, because dropping names could make you seem petty in an office environment.

I've read that page before but they spend so much time name dropping (we've worked on X / we work with Y) that it twitches my spidey sense.

One was a study showing companies that changed their name had a significant drop in support / share price; this was relevant for VO, as our then - supporters were pretty much all vegan — and very pro-» vegan» — and very against the change.

The idea of dropping the original name was because it sounded too much like a crossbreed.

The Seattle American Express Centurion Studio is dropping the studio name as the much anticipated expansion opened early on March 22, 2017.

We pretty much know Super Smash Bros. is on its way to the system, Reggie Fils - Aime has name - dropped it multiple times, and what about Pikmin 4?

The famous name dropping doesn't add much spice to Silas» revenge story and their gameplay implementation is even less memorable.

Digression is a common literary technique favored by authors like David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, but outside of the last two entries in the Saints Row franchise (a series Chung name - dropped as keeping a surrealist streak alive in games), it's not something we see much of in either the AAA or indie - gaming space.

It has been a while so I don't mind if you drop the localisation name subject much.

It's not perfect by any means (Loading times are a little much, some Frame drops in intense battles) but for me it is, especially now when games are so focused on Hollywood movie story telling, saturated with FPSs, and disappointing hype (* cough * No Mans Sky, Destiny * cough * to name a few) I just want a game that is fun to play, and Recore is just that.

The game is obviously «influenced» by Wii Sports so much, Microsoft just decided to drop the Wii from the name, and just add Kinect to the beginning of it... clever, eh?

With more than one hundred full - color illustrations and a pull - out poster, the book brings much - deserved attention to one of the most name - dropped duos in contemporary art.

So Canada will once again drop off the radars, Stephen Harper will be polite and much more careful about what he says in public, a certain chief of staff named Guy will be looking for a new job, and we will probably continue with a minority government under Prime Minister Harper for another two years while Iggy sharpens his knives as Leader of the Opposition.

We're glad Honor dropped the official name for this: multi-terminal media play sounds much less exciting — and this is pretty exciting.

You want a particular job and need as much influence / name drops you can gather to support your cause.

(Why the much better original name, Atlantic Yards, was dropped in 2014 is puzzling.)