Sentences with phrase «of falling flat»

Couples therapy has a long legacy of falling flat.

So, if anyone can create altcoins or fork the Bitcoin blockchain, what causes them to have any value instead of them falling flat and being ignored?

During the earlier part of the 1990s, Nintendo licensed a number of developers to create «educational» Mario games, all of them falling flat.

Many of the jokes here are about Vaughn and Wilson's disconnection to a continually technologically connected society, with a fair amount of them falling flat.

With all of my complaints about how this film all too often discards promising plot areas to spark a sense of unevenness, hurrying, outside of that area of storytelling, is hardly a big deal, so what this series really has to worry about is, of course, bloating, because all of this unevenness, as well as repetition, could have perhaps been avoided if this saga wasn't just so blasted overblown, not necessarily to the point of falling flat as too sprawling to stick with, but decidedly to the point of feeling rather overambitious.

I'm tired of falling flat on my face, and the rejection doesn't feel so great either.

But every event runs the risk of falling flat, deflating activists in the process — and news coverage of a failed event is just sad.

Having sat through countless pitches, I can attest that many of them fall flat — and it's not always because of the idea or product.

So if the emotion of the score isn't matching what's happening on screen, or playing against it if necessary, then it kind of falls flat.»

So in that respect, your theory kind of fall flat.

On the other side of the coin, there is an entire subplot devoted to Brad's fertility, along with a payoff involving the comparison between Brad and Dusty's testicles by a fertility doctor (Bobby Cannavale), and a whole sequence at an NBA basketball game where Brad gets drunk and makes a complete fool of himself falls flat.

The film is very schmaltzy, sappy, and emotionally manipulative, and some of it does work, but a lot of it fell flat for me.

If you look at a lot of «original» horror films these days most of them fall flat and leave something to be desired.

The double entendres now flow both ways, and most of them fall flat.

And as much as I talk about the deliberate sparseness of the jokes, some of them fall flat.

Rarely does a film of his fall flat at the box office, but it will probably divide audiences into two distinct factions: those who are willing to leave their brains behind and watch a mindless Bollywood film, and those who are disappointed that Khan did not deliver on the spectacular cinematic experience he had promised.

With that, I figured it would be kind of fun to look at each of the main titles in the franchise to see what I liked about them, and what kind of fell flat in my eyes.

However it's what's left outside of the campaign that just sort of falls flat.

Music The voice acting is great, and the sound effects are pretty cool, but the music is where the game sort of falls flat.

Not exact matches

Revenue fell short of forecasts, however, amid flat pricing compared to a year earlier.

How come one approach got hundreds of people to spread the word digitally while my younger attempts fell completely flat?

However, innovations that sound like the next million - dollar idea during a one - minute elevator pitch may fall flat when their creators get grilled by a panel of investors.

But you got ta search within you, you got ta find that inner strength and just pull that s * it out of you and get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wan na just fall flat on your face and collapse.»

If Apple's iPhone sales are starting to fall flat — something we'll learn for sure when its next earnings report is released Thursday — its challenge will be to retain that user base and further capitalize on the promise of the App Store and other digital services like Apple Pay and Apple Music.

But, if you don't take time off, more of your sales will likely fall flat.

ConAgra, which has reported flat or falling sales in four of the past six quarters, is struggling to boost growth as consumers shift from packaged products to fresh foods in search of healthier options.

The investment bank also expects to see a fall in rents amid an increase in the number of flats, mainly smaller units, being completed.

Tucked into Denver's tony Cherry Creek North shopping district since 1997, SOL (Store of Lingerie) has seen plenty of bigger businesses — including national brands — open in the area, only to fall flat.

But while Straight Outta Compton held up well in its second weekend, the trio of newcomers fell flat, and all three performed under expectations.

The best talk in the world will land flat if it's introduced at a moment when the audience isn't ready to hear it (just as, entrepreneur readers will note, even excellent, groundbreaking products fall flat if they're out of the sync with the market).

Dominion Energy shares have fallen 20 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has stayed nearly flat.

Furthermore, it is relatively easy to come up with plausible scenarios where oil prices stay flat or even fall, usually involving some combination of a slowdown in China's economy and state - owned enterprises increasing oil production to make up lost revenue through increased volumes.

Attempts to connect on a basis of something that's ultimately subjective can fall flat if they don't ring true.

«Looking at the quarterly data, the underlying trend as suggested by the three - month on three - month movement is one of growth, following a fall in quarter 1, suggesting a relatively flat first half of 2017.»

As an observer, mentor and judge, I have seen numerous pitches fall flat because the entrepreneur failed to deliver even an ounce of passion through their pitch.

The key here, of course, is a willingness to go out on a limb, make yourself feel uncomfortable, and fall flat on your face — what Barrett calls an «improvisational mindset:»

United Technologies shares have fallen 1 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index has stayed nearly flat.

It could have easily fallen flat and been a huge waste of time and money.

In 2015, while the S&P 500 was essentially flat, the widely followed Baird / STR index of 41 hotel stocks fell a grizzly - bearish 20.1 %.

Whether your small business marketing is thriving or falling flat, it's still important to perform a marketing audit of 2015 to see what's working and what's not.

Just prior to that, she replaced her head of beverages, whose rebranding of some major products had fallen flat, with Al Carey, the well - regarded head of Frito - Lay.

Its new line of smartphones fell flat, and earlier this month the company announced 4,500 job cuts and a nearly $ 1 - billion writedown on unsold inventory.

BY AND large, then, the case for Jewish control of American industry falls pretty flat.

And what about the tens of thousands of other «businesses» we don't hear about: Those that fell face - flat because they focused on building a toy on top of VC money rather than building an actual revenue - generating business?

You can describe the logical benefits of your product, compare your price to your competitors, and demonstrate expert salesmanship when pitching it to new potential clients, but if it's missing that «extra ingredient» to compel new users, even the best product on the market can fall flat.

Disappointing third - quarter results released Thursday evening confirmed that Boston Beer, the $ 2 billion owner of Sam Adams and Angry Orchard and one of the country's largest independent craft brewers, is falling flat.

However, with expectations that foreign exchange rates and asset sales will continue dampen its revenue, P&G expects net sales to fall somewhere between a decline of 1 percent and flat with the year - ago period.

The fact that bitcoin could replicate gold's behavior while other currencies fell flat or subsequently dropped is possible evidence of bitcoin's growing stability.

In the wake of this, Twitter's efforts to convince the investing community of the opportunity ahead fell flat.

Sometimes, an «ideal» piece of content will fall flat.