Sentences with phrase «name than performance»

The majority of them occupy the no - man's - land between $ 700 and $ 1,000, where you end up paying more for brand name than performance.

Not exact matches

One seasoned private equity lawyer savvily points out that PE is a people business and that fund performance depends less on the brand name of the fund family than on the specific people managing the fund.

Later in the day, the company is throwing an event called YouTube FanFest, a live performance in downtown Toronto featuring more than a dozen of the video platform's biggest names.

All of our named executive officers (other than Larry and Sergey) received annual cash bonuses based on performance in 2014.

The Committee also considers the CEO's evaluation of the performance of the Named Executive Officers (other than the CEO), each of whom report to him.

Considering their low correlation and superior performance (higher profit margins and return on equity) to the sputtering tech sector that have been pushing this market to new highs, and the more than 70 publicly traded names, it seems like there's something on the menu for everyone.

It is important to analyse and see how it fits into the system we have and the overall performance dynamics than just naming people and seeing a few vids on YouTube.

It was perhaps more of a nod to the quality of the Liverpool attack rather than Dunk's weak performance that he has been named our flop of the match but the star and his defensive teammates will need to improve substantially if they are to compete with some of the best attackers in world football this season.

If anyone can name more than the one good Arsenal performance for Campbell I would like to know about it.

Stoke City and West Ham picked up important wins, due largely to inspired performances from their big - name players, while Bournemouth's resolute performance against unbeaten Tottenham perhaps deserved more than a point.

According to the EA Sports Player Performance Index, Ozil runs a greater distance per 90 minutes played than a number of the Premier League's biggest names.

However things has changed since than as Germany went on to win the 2014 World Cup while Italy has lost most of their big name players but that does not mean Italy will get rolled over looking at their performances in this year's tournament.

And while Farrell does give a decent if uninspired performance, many of his lines devolve into nothing more than a reading of names («Isn't that right, Cleitus?

This repartee goes to both sides of the law, as Olivia Williams (The Last Days on Mars, Anna Karenina), in a refreshingly adroit performance as a Southern cop named Brentwood, has a lot of interplay with her partner that sounds like funnier banter than it is.

Natalie Portman has hinted at being a versatile actress, willing to go deep to access the emotional soil for a part, but never has she committed this fully and completely, giving herself over as actors sometimes do — Robert DeNiro is Raging Bull, Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Names Desire, Charlize Theron in Monster, Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose, Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy (Tootsie, Rain Man, etc.) These are those rare occasions when the actor is eclipsed by the character, the performance that then reaches something more than likable, believable; it becomes moving art.

Smiley is not the kind of character we usually affiliate with Oldman — who made his name on such larger - than - life characters as Sid Vicious, Beethoven and Sirius Black — but he gives a career - defining performance as the taciturn gentleman - spy.

It's a somewhat generic storyline that's compounded by the presence of a seriously annoying supporting character named Ngoc Lan Tran (Hong Chau, delivering one of 2017's most grating performances), with the less - than - engrossing vibe compounded by a stagnant, meandering atmosphere and aggressively overlong running time (ie much of the film's midsection consists of padded - out and entirely needless sequences).

What makes The Funeral a better than average gangster film is solid performances from underrated actors like Chris Penn and Vincent Gallo, and strong performances from its bigger names, Christopher Walken and Benicio Del Toro.

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It's astonishing to think Ruffalo missed out on an Oscar nomination that year, considering his performance is unquestionably better than several of the eventual nominees — was it category confusion or lack of name - recognition?

But naming one isn't meant as a slight on the other — there's enough love in my heart for more than just one performance!

Filling out the terrific supporting cast is a perpetually clueless and never amiss Juliette Lewis, a self - righteous and awkwardly tweened - out Abigail Breslin, a powerful beyond the pages performance via Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale doing Margo Martindale, Ewan McGregor in a complicated but not completely fulfilling role, the always delightful Sam Shepard in a small but important role, and a bumbling, insecure and totally unexpected Benedict Cumberbatch as none other than the aptly named Little Charles.

Luckily, he's matched by a superior supporting cast of actors who deliver equally assured performances here, even when the people they're playing feel less organic than machined to make a political point about tolerance and hypocrisy: To name just a few, Jesse Plemons, Rory Cochrane, Bill Camp, Ben Foster and the ubiquitous Timothée Chalamet are all on hand for some duration of the journey; Rosamund Pike, as a woman they meet named Rosalie Quaid, delivers a searing portrayal of trauma at its most physically excruciating and psychically disorienting.

The comedic half works considerably better, thanks in large part to John Turturro's self - mocking performance as an Italian - American movie star (hilariously named Barry Huggins) who pretends to speak Italian more fluently than he actually does and brags — not even humblebrags, just plain brags — about having been fired by Stanley Kubrick.

In this corner, Mickey Rourke: winner of countless critics awards for his performance in The Wrestler, who has apparently pissed off more people than Perez Hilton, who called Perez Hilton a faggot and no one gave a shit, whose Hollywood story mirrors that of his character, who won the Golden Globe and the BAFTA and who doesn't have an Oscar to his name and may never be nominated for another one again, whose fans are fierce but respectful of the other guy's posse.

Of course, his fearlessly assured, haunting performance as an emotionally scarred teenage prostitute in Gregg Araki's «Mysterious Skin» remains his career high thus far — but with names like Christopher Nolan in his Rolodex, he's going to have more than enough chances to improve on it.

The rest of the cast of no - names contribute zombie - like performances to a story that makes Greek mythology even more dull and boring than it already is (which I didn't think was possible).

«The good news is that we have a number of states» — she named Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana and Missouri — «where the average charter school performance is actually better» than that of traditional public schools.

Little more than a year later the production version — which has since been named our Design of the Year — is sitting in my driveway, in high - performance AMG guise, no less.

Although power is more than adequate, the «S - line» badges - which normally denote a step up in performance in the Audi naming dictionary - placed on the front fender panels had me expecting a bit more forward thrust when I flattened the gas pedal.

More significant than the name, though, is Infiniti's announcement that the Q50 sets the tone in design, performance, and technology for future Infiniti products.

The short briefing we had styled the McLaren 650S as a car that has better performance than a Ferrari 458 Speciale or Porsche 911 GT3 (neither was actually named, obviously) but without the rawness and compromises in habitability, usability and ride quality.

as being a poor choice to bear the «Duster» name, the car offered very good performance and decent handling at a low cost (only about $ 2,000 more than a base Sundance), which was said to be part of the reason why Chrysler used the «Duster» name, as those were the qualities the original car offered.

While the name and the industry evolved to include an array of more than 7,000 businesses, racing and performance still deliver the iconic images that people associate with automotive accessories.

There's no hotter name in production vehicle performance right now than Dodge's SRT line.

The AMG treatment of the Geländewagen (the name from which Mercedes - Benz derived G - class) also gives it wider, lower - profile tires than its non-AMG counterpart, a faster - shifting transmission, and high - performance brakes.

While it may not boast the performance specs of a vehicle bearing the AMG Sport name, the new plug - in hybrid is capable of zipping from 0 - 60 in less than six seconds.

Kia: Though a performance prototype of its little Cinco wagon may have been less sexy than some of its competition, it had the best name: The Kia Cinco Swim.

Think of it as an updated Ferrari FF, except with a new name — a «shooting brake» style grand tourer, meant more for comfort, than performance.

«Bentayga is a name that reflects what we know our SUV will do better than any other car in the world — combine the best automotive luxury with outstanding performance to take the Bentley experience to new environments,» said Wolfgang Dürheimer, Bentley Chairman and CEO.

Kit consists of lowering suspensions with Eibach name on it, sitting 30 mm lower than standard model on 20 - inch lightweight alloys wrapped on Falken Azenis FK453 performance tires with 245/30 on front wheels and 285/30 on the rear.

What Bentley is Saying «Bentayga is a name that reflects what we know our SUV will do better than any other car in the world — combine the best automotive luxury with outstanding performance to take the Bentley experience to new environments.»

Here the all - wheel drive system seems more like a performance compromise in the name of increased safety than a proper performance upgrade.

This time it's a specific model name rather than denoting a high performance version.

When it comes to performance, the Atom in the DV8P is the same as previous iterations in name only, as the Z3740D Bay Trail chip provides much better performance than the previous generation Clover Trail and makes using the Dell a smoother experience over Windows 8 launch devices.

Matching 20,000 names and addresses in 16 minutes and 44 seconds, the T200 was slower than the Yoga 2 (9:44) and the Inspiron 11 (15:22) on our Spreadsheet Performance test.

When it comes right down to it, Android 4.1 isn't very different from Android 4.0 — it doesn't really seem like enough has changed to warrant calling it a goofy new name like Jelly Bean — but Google did a lot of behind the scenes performance enhancements that make Android 4.1 seem a lot smoother and zippier than previous versions of Android.

If you are talking about the real broad market such as the TSX, I agree that dropping the small cap names might affect performance as small caps have historically provided better returns than large caps.

Anyone who has more than two brain cells and actually READ all 29 pages of the filing, can easily see that Star Citizen is excluded in «name» only; and that since SQ42 is built from EVERYTHING that was developed for Star Citizen, everything the bank listed for SQ42, by extension, also ties up engine, tech, media etc of Star Citizen because, aside from unique music and performance art (mocap for cut scenes), there is NO SQ42 without Star Citizen.

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