Sentences with phrase «of a mixed blessing»

This is something of a mixed blessing for most employers, who don't always have the time it takes to sift through resumes and interview each and every potential candidate.

This is one of the mixed blessings of being an indie author — creative freedom means you get to title and cover your book how you want.

It's kind of a mixed blessing, joining a fee - based online dating site.

Unfortunately, those items have become something of a mixed blessing, even a curse at times in that series.

«It's a bit of a mixed blessing,» Towne muses of the accolade.

Masanobu Takayanagi's widescreen cinematography looks lovely in low light as well as sunshine; Max Richter's musical score is more of a mixed blessing, maintaining a mood of spare mourning throughout, to the point of monotony.

Rescheduled for a not inapt Easter release, what emerges is the definition of a mixed blessing: a film of (often literal) peaks and troughs, scattering occasional moments of grace.

The graphics are something of a mixed blessing with heavily stylised characters that move with grace and realism but unfortunately the backgrounds become quite repetitive.

This is somewhat of a mixed blessing, Amazon could laser focus on providing a great reading experience and make dramatic improvements, while the EPUB format languishes.

The acquisition has been a bit of a mixed blessing, as Apple users lost the ability to purchase content directly within the app, leading to a decrease in impulse purchases.

As powerful as the movie remains and as much as I enjoyed this new cut, I have to say that the additional footage — material that Coppola felt he had to excise 20 years ago to reach a commercial length — has turned out to be something of a mixed blessing.

One of the mixed blessings of the continuing advancement of CG effects is that they make it possible for movies that might not otherwise exist to reach the public — usually in the form of sequels and / or prequels to theatrical films that earned enough to warrant a sequel / prequel, but maybe not quite enough to warrant a blockbuster — like The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior.

But the laptop's 282 pixel - per - inch display is a bit of a mixed blessing.

This is something of a mixed blessing, but hardware keys can get in the way when you're holding a tablet in landscape mode, so perhaps their gradual disappearance is a good thing.

This little design feature is something of a mixed blessing.

While it's no secret that winning the prize is something of a mixed blessing, it's generally regarded as an accolade rather than the secret curse of Tutankhamun's tomb.