Sentences with phrase «of fripperies»

Matrix Powerwatch counts steps and calories and has no need of fripperies such as chargers or batteries

Additionally, Xiaomi makes more money by steering its online customers towards its app store that sells all manner of fripperies, from user interfaces to games.

Exe: Late may lack some of the fripperies of its more established rivals, but it's more than a match for them where it counts.

The body is pleasingly free of fripperies, with smooth surfacing and a clean, sweeping roofline.

I knew Jennifer of Frippery Vintage would find incredible pieces when she went globetrotting to Italy in search of treasures for her shop, but I didn't expect her to find the most jaw dropping vintage cocktail ring I've ever seen.

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and a lot of grumbling about job security and the risks of matching muscles with the weaker sex, male jockeys gradually acquiesced to such promotional frippery as the «Jack»n Jill Handicap.»

I'm under no illusion that all of the Easter pomp and frippery is for her anymore.

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Outfit Cowichan Sweater: Monticello Antique Marketplace, Portland, Oregon Peasant Top: Buffalo Exchange Skirt: Deja Vu, now known as The Frippery, Palm Springs, California Pressed Leather Wedges: Olvera Street, Los Angeles Tooled Leather Purse: Found by my dad Coral & Mother of Pearl Necklace: Ebler's Leather & Saddlery Emporium, Columbia, California Bracelet: Ortega's Trading Post, San Juan Capistrano, California Rings: Here and there...

It might have fared even better without its primary - coloured fripperies but Boom Street remains good enough to turn a blind eye to its rather untimely celebration of capitalism.

Those, meanwhile, who couldn't give a fig whether the ambitions of a bygone era of journalism are sacrificed on the altar of daytime TV frippery will nonetheless surely warm to the sight of McAdams plotting frantically while wearing little more than knickers.

November 11, 2014 • From a spoof of Kanye West's «Bound 2» (called «Hardcover Bound 2») to click - bait classic novel titles, millennials are proving that smart content and Internet frippery aren't mutually exclusive.

It's a messy casserole of Avengers promotion and crossover frippery, shoehorning in unnecessary supporting characters and dual archvillains, devolving its hero to the shallow dickweed he was at the start of the first movie just to generate some character conflict, throwing in a little slapstick martial arts so its director can have an onscreen star moment alongside a sexy A-lister...

It's all very «Concepty», but if you strip away the concept frippery you're looking at a car that is most of the way to the next generation Nissan Murano.

Did Jaguar run out of ideas for all - singing, all - moving frippery in the vein of the XF's gear selector?

A new Toyota Supra is something Toyota were planning before the world's economy jumped off a cliff in 2008, but with the world running out of money — and fripperies -LSB-...]

From the Fast & Furious Frivolous Fripperies desk comes news that Rocket League is yet again partnering with Universal as well as a pair of car manufacturers for second round of Fast & Furious DLC for the jet - assisted remote control car / football hybrid.

From the Fast & Furious Frivolous Fripperies desk comes news that Rocket League is yet again partnering with Universal as well as a pair of car...

The result is a true track special: a lean racer that's all muscle, no fat, designed to let you get into a selection of superbly - realised racing machines as quickly as possible without grind, unlocks and frippery.

A swooshy camera, lots of minor graphical frippery, a few frivolous details — all unnecessary fanciness with little relation to gameplay... all vital to making Crusader Kings II feel alive.

As they tell the main story, they increasingly retreat into tedious instances of someone getting kidnapped, Batman having to outwit 10 armed guards in a stealth sequence, and then the Batmobile having to blow up 20 tanks to secure something or other, and then some closed off instance of some gimmicky frippery usually accompanied by a gratuitous difficulty spike.

In 1985 «Private Gone Public» was reviewed in The New York Times, «Another show of work by six «gut issue» artists — all women — assembled by the art critic Ellen Lubell... (Bonnie) Lucas makes clever assemblages of baby clothes and female fripperies — laces, ribbons, glitter, fake jewelry, etc. — in not - so - demure compositions that put down accepted female roles.»

Minor though the tree might seem, both institutionally (it's generally seen as a bit of seasonal frippery on the part of the Tate) and artistically (it's often an opportunity for artists to do a bit of festive self - mockery), there's something here of a piece with the choice of Richard Wright as this year's Turner Prize winner: a shift of institutional focus, maybe.

Thick and curled and arranged in rows, the frippery - ready hooks are the perfect spot to attach bits of seaweed or kelp or whatever else they might find.

Beloved for their neon hues and completely wacko assortment of shapes and frippery, they've evolved a whole host of curious defense mechanisms to compensate for their lack of a protective shell.

Interactivity — even simple audio and video — is something that the vast majority of law sites haven't come to terms with yet, tending to regard anything more elaborate than Times New Roman as frippery or lèse majesté.

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I've spent the kids» education money on bits of Elle Macpherson frippery that sits in the drawer gathering dust.

I decreed there would be none of the traditional frippery — no frothy wedding dress, no wedding cake, no wedding cars, no bridesmaids, no sit - down meal, no wedding video.