Sentences with phrase «often hit and miss»

Most teachers believe in doing this, but how to do it is often hit and miss.

The way these games are designed are often hit and miss.

Shooting film is a bit of a guilty pleasure, the results are often hit and miss but with just one chance to get it right it makes the outcome even more magical.

Not exact matches

Brick - and - mortar stores are still hit and miss, and often have lotteries for shoppers hoping to get a Switch.

It's either you hit or miss and most often; there's no second chance.

So far, it has been a little hit and miss... the hits scoring big points, and the misses still tasting okay, but often a bit too sweet and lacking in the performance category.

I learned to do much of my own cooking, often through hit and miss, since there was very little in the stores 18 years ago, and even the recipes at the time were not great... so glad to have sites like yours.

Tom Brady has been getting hit a lot more often over the last several weeks and has been a different quarterback with many of his weapons missing.

In today's expansion - diluted market it is often possible to regard the major league catcher as a sort of convenience, somebody to stop the ball from hitting the umpire when the batter misses it and to get the ball back to the mound.

But Xhaka offers nothing defensively (often worse than nothing), and his passing is hit and miss all the time.

However, despite a hit - or - miss record in conference play, the Hoosiers are back in the NCAA Tournament and could pose challenges for opponents early and often.

In general, F1 autobiographies tend to be a bit hit and miss - sadly more often than not falling on the «miss» side - but «How To Build A Car» is an emphatic hit.

The defence did have an off day but each of the back four have proven themselves this season, the attack has brought the goals more often than not but the key department of the team which is the midfield engine room has been hit and miss.

All too often, even hits hard enough to cause an athlete to display signs of concussion that can be observed by sideline personnel, or which cause the athlete to experience symptoms of concussion, go undetected, either because the signs are too subtle to be seen or are simply missed by sideline personnel or because the athlete fails to report them (a 2010 study [7] of Canadian junior hockey players, for example, found that, for every concussion self - reported by the players or identified by the coaches or on - the - bench medical personnel, physician observers in the stands picked up seven)- a persistent problem that, given the «warrior» mentality and culture of contact and collision sports, is not going to go away any time soon, if ever.

Sleep time is hit and miss in the first few months of a baby's life and most often for me between feedings I am concerned about my baby and if he / she is breathing.

While pharmaceutical treatment options are prescribed for fibromyalgia syndrome, it is still such a complex and often mysterious disease, that doctors often treat the disease in a «hit or miss» fashion.

We'll be hitting key topics, like nutrients often missing on a GFD, and also touching on the latest research and controversies on a gluten - free diet, such as arsenic, how a GFD affects athletes, the impact on weight, cardiovascular health, and much more!

Estate sales were more of a hit and miss and took a bit of work because they can be all over the place and often you have to get there on the very first day or the good stuff will be taken.

She is often panned for her hit - or - miss looks but this one, reminiscent of Michelle Williams» revered 2006 Oscars look, is perfect and Dunst has never looked better.

Christmas songs can often be be hit and miss.

The arms - length, sluggish vibe is eventually alleviated by a final third that, quite unexpectedly, boasts a number of admittedly electrifying sequences (eg Barry's duel with a long - standing rival), which finally does cement Barry Lyndon's place as a maddeningly hit - and - miss drama that's all - too - often far more miss than it is hit.

It's predictable to a fault, often generic, and the voice acting is hit - or - miss.

This comedy clearly comes from Rock's heart and means well, but it misses its targets as often as it hits them and varies in quality enough to slightly disappoint overall.

Colin Hanks (Fargo, Season 1) shows up as Nixon aide Egil Krogh, and holds his own, but too much of what follows is hit or miss, often marred by unnecessary exposition.

The gags hit more often than they miss, although even the ones that do work sometimes feel underplayed, like the awkward first date between Jimmy and Katie (Jenna Fischer), the little sister of rival brother / sister skating pair Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg (Will Arnett and Amy Poehler).

On the whole, it's rather hit and miss, but it did make me laugh quite a few times, most often courtesy of Corddry's foul - mouthed, abusive, out of control asshole character.

and the director of Animal House is an irreverent sketch comedy that misses as often as it hits, but probably makes for a pretty good midnight movie.

Despite all that, and the inherent hit - and - miss quality of sketch comedy, Robot Chicken is often funny and rarely less than amusing.

In popular cinema the hit man, or assassin, is often a noble character when he is the protagonist (and it is usually a he) who may consort with shady organisations and murder people for a living, but he is mainly killing bad guys that nobody will miss.

A neat twist on the standard rom - com finale aside, there is little here that you won't have seen before, and the jokes are quite often «hit and miss», but Mazer's film has more than enough going for it to keep audiences onside.

Jim Jarmusch can often be a bit hit or miss with me, as he definitely has a few tics that he hammers home from time to time, and his homespun style can often grate.

The film's score, by Philip Glass, is hit and miss — as often emotionally leading an audience by the nose as genuinely enhancing the film, a characteristic far too many Glass scores embody.

Carrey is still a marvel, and Oedekerk often quite inventive, but in the end, the film feels much more like a series of 5 - minute «Ace Ventura in Africa» skits than as a unified project, leaving the momentum hit and miss throughout for most viewers.

Initial missteps get resolved with a little vaping (as they often do), and the film rolls along on a mixed bag of hit - or - miss jokes.

So users reviews often are a bit of a hit and miss as indication if you don't know how they were driving before.

Humans aren't perfect, which is why we often miss problems and don't hit the brakes fast enough to avoid an accident.

Some bits worked better than others and humour that pokes fun at the comic industry can be a bit hit and miss depending on your levels of inner geekness regarding comics that often date back to before some of the readership was born.

It was horrendously slow at times and was often hit or miss on just what exactly it was doing but it had things people liked and used all the time.

The highlighting is also really hit or miss, and trying to switch voices often doesn't do anything.

Web - page loading and scrolling were hit and miss; at times, the Prime was slighter faster than a dual - core tablet, but more often than not, it struck me as roughly comparable.

Actually spotting a trending market is what separates the best Binary Options traders from all others and whilst it can often be hit or miss when it comes to most traders making a winning trade by knowing what to look out for and being prepared to take some time and effort doing your research and keeping your finger on the pulse of the trading environments then you too can pick up the necessary skills to become a profitable Binary Options trader!

You had just hit on my obsession and over-analyzing so much so that more often than not I just missed th trade.

Nailing guys can be annoyingly hit and miss and bullets often seem to hit, but even the lock - on system is heavily flawed because it doesn't let you cycle between targets and has a nasty habit of locking you on to completely the wrong criminal, usually one that's in a different room to the one you plan on bursting into.

Keep in mind that even in slower games such as Halo 3, it's often hard to tell what shots «hit» and what shots «miss», because of the time it takes data to get from one Xbox to another.

In fact, when it does amp up the challenge it could feel a bit unfair — there's one scene later on in the game where you have no cover and have to take on an onslaught of enemies, which could be a bit hit - and - miss given the often awkward shooting mechanics.

There is always lag, it is why you can often fire shells in Mario Kart and have them go right through other racers, or hit then even if it cleanly misses them.

The online multiplayer can be hit - and - miss when it comes to finding other players to race, often it has resulted in us leaving the online and trying again later.

Often the games that are released with a new HD graphics coating are basically the same and the games that are released with new graphics can be a hit or a miss based on whether the developer remained faithful to the original game or not.

This can be even more hit - and - miss than the duels as it isn't often clear which direction you should be leaning.

Also, the hit detection through us for a loop as too often it felt like we were swinging and missing, when actually we were doing damage.