Sentences with phrase «of anything substantial»

You can easily pull off a ground - to - air combo by simply button - mashing light punch, for example, whereas in past titles as recent as MCV3, there was a lot more button combinations and decent muscle memory needed to pull of anything substantial.

, there was a lot more button combinations and decent muscle memory needed to pull of anything substantial.

In the absence of anything substantial to cling to, the movie tries to amuse with extraneous things.

It's just hard to get a little kid to eat enough of anything substantial before 7 am... and she is always up early, so waking up earlier is not the problem.

Not exact matches

The question of whether we can harness it for creating anything more substantial than amusing pictures of cats, Shirky writes, «will be answered much more decisively by the opportunities we provide for one another and by the culture of the groups we form than by any particular technology.»

Since the rights only arise once the full work or a substantial part of it are used, anything less than that — ie.

But as I see it, few are really putting anything really substantial out there, I mean here in the way of serious books, with serious backing and support that might get them into the mainstream.

Political correctness has many forms, but they are united in a shared repudiation of anything solid and substantial in public life, whether in the form of nationalism or strong affirmations of constraints that human nature places on any healthy society, constraints that get articulated by all forms of traditional morality.

Not to brag or anything but I am 35 my wife is 46 and we are retired never have to work again because of the generosity of her father who passed left us a substantial amount!!!

If Suarez could not accord an act taken as an action of change even the status of a real accident, but located it in the sphere of potential and relative being, then he surely would not have held that formed action could constitute the substantial being of anything.

Aristotle (and certainly Thomas) taught that forms, rather than «coming into» matter from outside, are actually «educed» from the inner dynamism of matter itself at a lower level of complexity, all the way down to the interchange of the «elementalqualities» (which appear almost as primal «tendencies» rather than anything substantial).

Can you think of anything I could add to this to make it more substantial or thick so it is like the brick type of cream cheese?

And it would take a lot of spinach to make a substantial meal — or even to contribute anything significant to a meal consisting of other foods.

The Irish football team has not won anything substantial in recent history; I guess they have been taking lots of selfies

He's probably just been told to 1) Tell the press what we tell you to, 2) He isn't really told anything of substantial importance His job is to coach, not choose the players.

That he was unable to change anything substantial in the tactical approach is a stark indictment of his leadership and suitability for a job at the very highest level.

I'll be posting infrequently until the Emirates Cup kicks off on August 1, although I can assure you I will be commenting on any substantial transfer news or anything else of note.

[6] Others claim that at that point in time Blair preferred short - term ideas to anything more substantial, [4] and it was another decade before the inception of Blair's major reform to welfare — the replacement of Incapacity Benefit by Employment and Support Allowance.

But interviews with Cuomo, law - enforcement officials, FBI agents, Cuomo's campaign committee, Cuomo's former law partners, and the lawyers who were present at the congressional hearing suggest that none of these leads turns into anything substantial.

There is no suggestion of anything illegal but the newspaper's Vincent Moss is noting a substantial capital gain for Mr Grayling on the flat for which the allowance is claimed plus the fact that his # 1.5 m constituency home is just 17 miles away.

«Ruth Davidson has made a good start,» said one Downing Street insider, «but to rely on the Scottish Conservatives contributing anything substantial to the Westminster party after the next election would be a triumph of hope over experience».

«Nobody had done rapid - response drilling in the ocean, nobody had drilled anything substantial under 7 kilometers of water, nobody had placed an observatory in a fault that deep, and nobody had retrieved a string of instruments from that deep,» she said.

«It makes it really difficult to determine a lot of time if there is anything substantial there that you could tell a patient, «You can take this and it can help you this much.»

The Italian actor - turned - director fails to draw anything substantial out of his stars Penelope Cruz (who he worked with on his previous film, Don't Move, another adaptation of a Mazzantini novel) and Emile Hirsch, though the unbelievably phony dialog would stumble up even the best of thesps.

Deadpool's success was followed up by Logan, which was a complete 180 of Deadpool regarding tone but was equally as violent with a more substantial storyline that was anything but humorous.

It's got some kinks and never rises to anything of substantial merit, but the twisty nature of the plot is entertaining, and the great performances from the three actors help it rise above its minimalistic trappings.

Of course, 84 minutes, counting end credits, is hardly time to build on anything substantial, including characters.

While Dead Rising 4 offers a story just like the past games, it is easily the weakest aspect considering how lackluster it feels, and how it fails to provide anything substantial in term of stroytelling.

The gameplay is quite basic and unfortunately fails to deliver anything substantial in this world of fighting games such as Tekken and Dead or Alive.

Any attempt at anything more substantial than broad comedy fizzles — Darryl's romance with Janice (Tamara Taylor), a young woman who yearns for a man who is true to himself, does not generate sparks of any kind.

Blu - ray Highlight: The only extra on the disc is an EPK - style featurette titled «The Heart of «Being Flynn»» that includes interviews with various cast and crew (as well as author Nick Flynn) about making the movie, but it's much too short to be anything substantial.

Editing can't be blamed, either, as there is no indication in the commentary that anything substantial was cut out outside of the scenes featured in the supplements.

Plenty of other female critics, besides me, are flagging the problem, which includes a scarcity of substantial and complex female characters in narrative films, whether Hollywood or indie, that fail to pass the Bechdel test (at least one scene with two female characters who have names, talking to each other about anything other than a man).

Even though this musical was of another era and does not add anything substantial to the genre of musical theatre, it was a genuinely enjoyable romp though Gershwin's back catalogue.

It's rare that anything actually substantial comes out of these Q&A sessions, but the press conference for Rampage, the upcoming film adaptation of the video game, was a little bit different.

Try though the film did to give each of the characters individual ways in which they were «broken,» and give Lena some meager backstory flashbacks, none of it really amounted to anything substantial.

Unfortunately, NBA Playgrounds stands as a shining example of a game that tries so hard to live up to what came before, that it forgets to provide the player with anything substantial past its nostalgic allure.

It's all played for laughs but in reality it's plum revolting, and while Vaughn and frequent collaborator Jane Goldman's (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) try to soften things by making Eggsy ambivalent about the task at hand, if anything this only acerbates that grotesque nastiness of the situation a substantial degree.

Given the tens of thousands of fan creations for Trials Evolution that's perhaps unsurprising, but although the new tools are extremely powerful a gamepad is really not the best kind of controller for creating anything substantial.

The production of Universal Soldier, given its strange history as a franchise and the apparent idiosyncrasies of this new iteration, is well - worth exploring in detail, but, to that end, a talky commentary track from John Hyams and co-star Lundgren provides more substantial context and on - set anecdotes than anything in the stand - alone featurette.

I would have liked to see some involving puzzles or anything substantial to break up the monotony but the only parts of the campaign that do are the boss fights.

If Mr. Talton could provide two random assignment control - group studies of the attitudes of parents who have actually used a private school - choice program showing anything less than substantial improvement in satisfaction with their child's school, I offered to buy him a steak dinner.

Basically anything that fits down the spark plug hole and will be substantial enough to be removable without fear of breaking (e.g. maybe don't use dental floss).

Forced induction is largely responsible for the substantial increase in peak torque (295 lb ft versus just 143 lb ft in this Type R's predecessor), although it doesn't arrive with anything like the smooth swell of a comparable Ford or Volkswagen unit.

The video does show a few quick glimpses of the new vehicle — highlighting features like the grille, badges, and even portions of the interior, but it's hard to make out anything substantial.

We will have to wait till maybe the middle of next year to come across anything substantial on this.

Richard, I'm afraid anything you might gain from more even spacing will be given up by bucking the very substantial impetus of hundreds of years of fully - justified books.

It is difficult to earn a substantial amount through sales on the App Store simply because of the amount of Apps your competing with to gain visibility, thankfully though because of the amount of casual users who download anything that's free, utilizing iAds can bring some nice coin.

I would literally be unable to save anything substantial if I was to do that, which would keep us there / without money forever (or at least until we make a significant amount of more money) which totally seems like forever...

As well as birthday presents, wedding presents and anything else that you would spend a substantial amount of money on.