Sentences with phrase «once bastion»

Even the Frick Collection, once the bastion of intimate sumptuous spaces, is trying to expand.

Game carts, once a bastion of the home console world, have long since faded into relative obscurity with the rise of digital media and games you can purchase and download online.

PW, once the bastion of news for the publishing industry long ago proved to be nothing more than the mouthpiece for the traditional publishers.

Once a bastion of traditional shifting, the Ferrari 458 no longer includes a manual shift box.

Once a bastion of arcade gaming, Capcom's arcade business fell 6.9 % to ¥ 8.8 billion.

Pitchfork, that once bastion of objective reporting actually gives this a 7.8, proclaiming it the best since «Inverted World».

Here is a brand that has brought suburban harshness right to the centre of the fashion conversation, grabbing the zeitgeist in what was once a bastion of the caviar - eating, chateau - living, chauffeur - driven happy fews, and having a laugh in everyone's face, of course.

The county nursing home in Kingston, with its 300 union members, was once a bastion of CSEA strength.

Horror fans have had to endure a lot in the past few years: «Resident Evil,» «Dead Space» and «Alone in the Dark,» once bastions of the genre, have become little more than action games with grotesque enemies.

Not exact matches

Indeed, were Romney to win the presidency, it is likely that the White House will once again become a bastion of the ideology of American exceptionalism, believing itself possessed of a divine mandate to «transform» the world according to American beliefs and interests.

Dickson commended the judiciary «for upholding our nation's democracy and once again acquitting itself as the bastion of our democracy.»

Georgia, once a Democratic bastion like the rest of the South, has gone heavily for Republicans over the last two decades, in both federal and state races.

It was its apparent indifference to «what really matters» that incited such rage and contempt amongst constituencies which had once been traditional bastions of support.»

Transistor is, by all outward appearances, a third - person action game with a story told primarily through narration (performed once again by Logan Cunningham) with a painterly art style reminiscent of Bastion.

Once you've gathered enough keys, you can free whoever's imprisoned inside — which, with no explanation whatsoever, could very well be The Kid from Bastion.

Once a steadfast bastion of the practical, wagons have seen a sharp decline in popularity over the last few decades, the result of an all - out assault from the tall - bodied insanity of the current SUV craze.

If there's one downside to the Passat it's that Volkswagen isn't exactly known to be a bastion of reliability, so (as with any used car) it would be a good idea to have a mechanic give any prospective example a once - over.

It does seem like the last bastion is going to be distribution — once we can do that for ourselves, I predict that more and more already - published authors will go in the indie direction.

Nearly 20 titles were named in the voting for the best Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Network game in 2011, and only three (Bastion, Outland and Stacking) appeared more than once with Bastion getting the nod by a single point over Outland.

We'll be live on Giant Bomb once again this coming Friday at 3:30 pm Pacific to bring you the latest episode of Building the Bastion, which provides an inside look at our sometimes - strange development process.

As for me, I'll be searching once again to try to find that something special in Bastion that others have found.

Once you've gotten through the story, you can decide whether you like Bastion enough to flex its New Game Plus mode, which is where it lets you loose to play with all its toys however you like.

Once that deal is over, the excellent Bastion will be getting halved in price for a week, another title you should invest in if you haven't done so.

So you may go for Widowmaker, a character who can get up high and snipe people, and then once the game starts you may find that most the game play is taking place in an area that is hard for her to cover but could be good for Bastion to just set up in a corner and cause havoc, this option to switch characters whilst in play is great for this kind of tactical play.

With due fanfare, the Museum of Modern Art will reexamine the beginnings of abstraction, at once marking the centennial of that watershed moment and inadvertently reminding us of the subsequent backlash, as «Inventing Abstraction, 1910 — 1925» will be — surprisingly — the first large - scale survey of its kind at MoMA (the very bastion of modernism) since Alfred Barr's «Cubism and Abstract Art» in 1936.

I'm increasingly getting the feeling that «self - propelling climate» nuttery is going to be the pseudo-sceptics next bastion of nonsense, once they are forced to concede the floor on ECS.

Gibson may not be the bastion of Republicanism it once was, but the layout of its lawyer profiles is still ultra-traditional in a Ben Franklin kind of way.

ACI suggests that, contrary to being the last bastion of the good - faith infringer against the greedy patent troll, laches may actually create a perverse incentive for industry juggernauts to drag smaller, poorer patentees through endless negotiations for the purpose of claiming a defense of laches once those negotiations fall apart.