Sentences with phrase «of lukewarm responses»

My goal is to query next summer, after a serious rewrite following a round of lukewarm responses from querying.

All that said, people are still clamoring to see this first installment, which, with a 60 percent Fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes, has received praise for Jackson's sweeping use of his native New Zealand and knowledge of Tolkien, but more of a lukewarm response to the uneven story line and too many CGI characters.

Until now, Archos's tablets have received something of a lukewarm response.

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Qantas unsuccessfully trialed a Wi - Fi offering on some of its international fleet, but pulled the trial after a lukewarm response and unreliable service.

There hasn't been a lot of successful tech IPOs this year, and the lukewarm response Square has drawn from Wall Street shows investors may not warm up to large tech companies going public for the rest of the year.

Samsung, LG, Motorola and other tech giants have all introduced watches of their own to a somewhat lukewarm response in recent years, but the Apple Watch — given the company's unique ubiquity — holds potential for widespread adoption of the wearables category.

The development comes at a time when the cab - leasing programmes of both Ola and rival Uber have largely received a lukewarm response.

Over the last several weeks, analysts and research firms have been evaluating how Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has hit the rock bottom with the lukewarm response of its latest flagship iPhone X. Even though the world was intrigued by the design and technology of Apple's top - of - the - line handset, its sales remain sluggish.

The notion drew a lukewarm response from opposition parties, who seem reluctant to see Canada venture further into the tinderbox of eastern Europe

God, speaking in Isaiah of all the new things that are about to spring forth, gets a lukewarm response.

Maybe it takes a comedian to point out that such a lukewarm response makes jokes of us all.

If the oldline churches are lukewarm in terms of intensity of conviction, can they really be doing even relatively well when it comes to such signs of vitality as societal engagement and response to external challenge?

A year later Gibbs bounced the idea of a 24 - hour golf channel off Palmer, whose initial response, he recalls, was lukewarm.

News that Nigel Farage is to host his own nightly radio show has been met with a distinctly lukewarm response - by one of his soon - to - be highest profile colleagues.

It highlighted the amateurishness of the government response to the floods, despite the lukewarm write - ups Cameron received in some sections of the press this morning.

But the IEA's new priorities — aggressively paying down public debt, cutting taxes on the better - off, leaving the EU, relaxing planning laws to promote housebuilding, paving over the railways and tackling the «cost of living crisis» through lower excise duties — can expect a more lukewarm response from the re-installed treasury team.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) gave a lukewarm response to proposals spearheaded by health secretary Andrew Lansley in the white paper published this summer.

Hein is an interesting one to watch, given that he's calling on the state to pick up the local share of costs from damage, a move that's received a lukewarm from response so far from the governor (Cuomo has said he's doing everything he can to get federal aid, but everyone's going to have to pitch in on the effort).

Darwin was a bit anxious, as the response to Origin of Species had been lukewarm in Germany, so he invited the biologist and his «bulldog» Thomas Henry Huxley as a third wheel — if there was some kind of confrontation, he could defuse it.

This was seemingly the case with the Dardenne brothers at this year's Cannes, where their latest film, The Unknown Girl, received a considerably more lukewarm response than the likes of Two Days, One Night and The Kid with a Bike, with some suggestions that the Belgian duo had finally reached a stage of auto - pilot writing and directing and others implying that the new film was their first outright failure.

Admittedly, that convoluted approach to course - correcting a franchise worked wonders for the X-Men films when Days of Future Past did it last year, but there's no guarantee that Genisys will enjoy similar success (especially if the generally lukewarm responses to the movie's first trailer and Super Bowl preview are any indicator).

Once again due to the dissatisfaction of the tone choice, the images have been met with a lukewarm response.

A lukewarm critical response to the first episode was indifferent to any further installments, but then Sonic Generations came into focus and seemingly completed all of Sonic 4's goals.

Faithful readers may note my response to the 2016 Deadpool was a receptive but not entirely impressed lukewarm and for audiences who just couldn't catch on to the verbose nastiness of that film, there is no conversion therapy awaiting you in the sequel.

Fox Searchlight attempted to throw a curveball into the awards race by moving up the release date of its biopic Hitchcock, but when the film finally screened it was met with a rather lukewarm response overall.

What's surprising in a new survey published today by 50CAN, a reform - oriented advocacy group that supports more rigorous teacher evaluations and early education, is the relatively lukewarm response to some of the most favored ideas for improving the school system among education advocates and many elected officials.

Fast forward to 2012, it was Mercedes - Benz which seemed to be trying their luck with the launch of the B - Class, another premium hatchback which was expected to get a lukewarm response in the Indian market.

We have to hope that the Notion Ink is going to adopt this new technology into future Adams because their current crop of Pixel Qi screens has been received with a lukewarm response.

Response to it has been a little lukewarm in the comments, but there's no doubt that the Sony Xperia Tablet Z is one of the most aesthetically stunning Android tablets we've ever laid hands on — and it's water - resistant, to boot.

The market does not seem to be ready for such a hybrid tablet / notebook just yet, and the high price tag and low battery life of the Surface Pros helped lead to its lukewarm response.

However, while all of that might be good, the Windows RT platform might be a larger source of worry for Dell, given the lukewarm response the OS has generated so far.

As expected, the news was met with a muted, lukewarm response from fans, disappointed with a plethora of past video game film failures.

The critics» response has been lukewarm to say the least, to the point where I've been one of the more positive reviewers on the block.

Tbh, I'm kinda encouraged by the review, regardless of the scant detail and lukewarm response to the game.

Given that the first season of Batman: The Telltale Series had a more lukewarm response compared to the second season, it would seem like Telltale would definitely want Batman: The Enemy Within to appear on Nintendo's top - selling console.

User response has been lukewarm at best, with much controversy aimed at the game's lack of video options - a typical PC staple.

It's also important to note that those measures of lukewarm support for cap and trade were in response to a question that provided respondents with an explanation of what the policy was and how it would work.

The other difficulty is that the people who were «lukewarm» in their predictions of probable response of the climate to GHGs predate the coining of the term.

On the nasty side of the balance sheet is Bjorn Lomborg today lukewarming away like mad, the truly dreadful 60 % Arctic recovery nonsense (to which the replies are mostly way too technical, I think the response should be simple and obvious), and lots more, including the Romm - Klein infighting mentioned above.

The «lukewarm» camp is populated by many who mostly want some kind of political response to climate change, to a greater or lesser extent.

The Chevy Tahoe hybrid may have won the Green Car of the Year award, and the Chicago Police is considering a switch to the vehicle for policing duties, but the response from the general public has been lukewarm at best: «G.M. has sold [only] about 1,100 of its Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon hybrids since their introduction in January,» which is» well behind its goal of 12,000 sales a year, and a fraction of the more than 100,000 hybrids sold so far in the United States this year.»

Unfortunately, Apple ultimately decided to make changes to its production plans for the iPhone X after seeing lukewarm responses from multiple markets, especially the U.S., during the holiday season of 2017.

The ambitious startup aimed to build a better version of Android, but the software received lukewarm response because the OEMs didn't want to ditch the Google ecosystem.

In late 2009, it released the GI series of gaming headphones, which were met with a lukewarm response at best.

Since the introduction of the Plus phones, Apple has only been able to receive lukewarm response.