Sentences with phrase «of awkward transitions»

The entire third act is a complete narrative mess, full of awkward transitions and bad pacing as Lee attempts to tie everything into one grand unifying theory of spiritual fulfillment.

Jonathan Stewart and Sean Porter both had a bit of an awkward transition to the team's new 4 - 3 scheme.

As I dive straight from a left to a right swoop there's no sense of the greater mass creating any moments of awkward transition; they really have made this work.

And it's kind of an awkward transition.

Not exact matches

This unfortunately dismisses the central lesson to be drawn from the awkward transition that resulted from my 2009 decision to stress - test our methods against Depression - era data, not to mention the fact that concerns similar to my present ones were rather stunningly vindicated over the completion of prior market cycles.

I have no question that these conditions will emerge over the completion of the current market cycle, and - despite the truncated bullish shift and awkward transition that followed my 2009 stress - testing decision - there is not a single market cycle in 30 years as a professional investor where those same conditions did not provoke me to adopt a constructive outlook.

Criticize me for the awkward transition that followed, for relying too heavily on the historical implications of «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes, and for not realizing - until it was too late to help us in this particular cycle - that the recklessness of QE required us to wait until market internals explicitly deteriorated before adopting a hard - negative market outlook.

The statement that began with the word «Unless» in the first paragraph is enormously important — because that distinction captures the primary lesson of our own awkward transition from 2009 to mid-2014 in our methods of estimating market return / risk profiles (see A Most Important Distinction, and A Better Lesson than This Time is Different).

I suppose I'm still a little terrified of public speaking, but I've since learned you can survive an awkward silence, a bungled transition, a not - so - funny joke without the people rising up and calling you a fraud.

But after yet another awkward transition that calls into question a lot of the last three years, Kiffin's next exit is back to being hard to predict.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

In yoga, we think of transitions as subtle movements to get to the next pose but overlook the beauty in those stumbles, wobbles, and awkward pivots.

My first video: My first step towards transitioning into a mostly vegan lifestyle I started being vegan literally today and I'm already fucking terrified Still, I decided to start documenting a video diary about my transition to keep me on track and to somehow join the vegan community since all of my friends at where I live are devoted meat - eaters... Forever alone as always, check my awkward first video out if you want to support a lonely vegan - newbie

It's that awkward time of year where all the stores are transitioning to fall but it's still hot as heck outside.

The answer is that she, gloriously versatile as she is, was moved to this wonderfully awkward in - between stage of the year as a transition piece between winter and spring lines.

Last week I talked about transition pieces for those awkward temperatures, and today's outfit is another prime example of that!

Transitioning can be an emotionally trying and awkward situation for those going through it and to publish a cover basically mocking one man's journey is the height of insensitivity.

The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.

Though the incoming freshman can expect some abuse — sometimes accompanied by genuine hostility, courtesy of Parker Posey as a queen - bee type and a hilariously belligerent Ben Affleck as a two - year senior — the only troubled characters in Dazed And Confused are the heads of each class: Randall «Pink» Floyd (Jason London), the good - natured quarterback who doesn't want to be pigeonholed as a jock and told not to run with the wrong crowd, and Mitch Kramer (Wiley Wiggins), in many ways his heir apparent, an 8th - grade star pitcher whose awkward transition comes with extra pressure (and extra beatings).

It was unlike anything on television and audiences eagerly followed his evolution as a typical awkward teenager who remembered every moment of his transition from childhood with excruciating detail and remarkable hindsight.

This is director Garth Davis» debut feature, and his lack of experience sometimes shows in the occasionally awkward scene transitions, overuse of sentimental music where none is required and (intentionally?)

Frances is caught in the beginning of the movie in an awkward transition between a soon - to - be-ex-boyfriend's small loft and, well, the next....

Its always an awkward transition when a movie goes from fart jokes to re-examining some of the characters values.

Last year saw long - time festival director Sandra Hebron make way for Clare Stewart, the former head of the Sydney Film Festival, and the result was a slightly awkward transition, with the 2012 fest proving to be a rather weak selection given the films that were available.

Because the singing almost never stops, there are no awkward moments of transition.

Lusi couples her explanation of the SDE's awkward transition to its new role with her research on the contentious political context of the 1990s, thus casting state legislators, the state board of education, and the state constituency as co-stars in this educational production.

However, I think it's also to blame for some awkward hesitation I experienced in stop - and - go traffic; my theory being that the gas - electric transition of the engine doesn't always mesh with the clutch - actuated shifts when creeping at very low speeds.

And yet, not quite one year to the day it was announced, Godin is shutting The Domino Project down, offering the awkward explanation that «it was a project, not a lifelong commitment to being a publisher of books,» instead of, perhaps, admitting that publishing is harder than it looks if you want to swim at the deep end of the trade pool in the middle of a dramatic transition, as he obliquely acknowledges in many of his noteworthy takeaways, especially this one:

Note, the lack of content development causes awkward transitions between ideas and undercuts the college research paper writer's credibility.

As I've emphasized nearly every week since mid-2014 (when we completed the awkward transition from our pre-2009 methods to our present methods of classifying market return / risk profiles — see A Better Lesson Than «This Time is Different» and Voting Machine, Weighing Machine for the full narrative), the central lesson of market cycles across history, and even the most recent full cycle since 2007, is that the behavior of market internals is central to distinguishing an overvalued market that collapses from an overvalued market that continues to advance.

Whether it's a localisation issue or just the game's style, cutscenes also feel overly long and dialogue not natural enough in flow — awkward pauses, silences and irritatingly slow scene transitions (all of which are not skippable) bring down what otherwise are, for the most part, interesting developments in the main storyline of protecting NLA.

Also, the frequent transitions between cinematics from the film and gameplay are often awkward and ruin the flow of the narrative.

The blood on Quiet's face is sparse and dried, before an awkward collarbone transition takes the eye down... to the breasts covered in rich, liquidy blood, lit and layered in such a way to create the impression of a huge areola.

Born in 1966, London, UK based artist paints the transition from childhood to adulthood, mapping a path of loss, awkward self - awareness and developing sexuality.

Although some transitions are awkward, particularly from the crescendo of the Fisher Collection galleries to the variations in the Campaign for Art galleries, the art is not.

I once used the title «Puberty on the Scale of a Planet» to convey how the human species seems to be going through the same awkward transition we all experience as individuals in moving from often - reckless teen ebullience to the more measured life strategies of adulthood.

Apple's transition from the iPad 2 to the iPad 3 was an awkward one, quadrupling of pixels in the Retina display meant a thicker screen and a larger battery, which resulted in a much bulkier iPad.

Ideally, the timing of your home sale and home purchase would work out perfectly, but in practice many people rent between home purchases to «bridge» this awkward transition.