Sentences with phrase «only high concept»

, action star Liam Neeson and director Jaume Collet - Serra have crafted their most satisfying work to date by sticking to a tried - and - true crime movie template, and allowing a talented cast and tight production values to be the only high concept they need.

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The Rinspeed car is only a concept, but it's packed with almost every tech feature imaginable as the auto industry works to makes cars more high - tech and connected than ever before.

Compounding the problem, investors tend to believe not only that their home country a safer place to invest, but also that it will produce higher returns, defying the basic financial concept that risk and expected return are related.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

HubSpot, for example, might not (depending on our analytics, of course) want to choose «inbound marketing» as a topic for a blog bundle; not only is it far too broad to be helpful, but perhaps leads that download content about inbound marketing as a general concept don't close at a very high rate.

These concepts certainly underwent development and elaboration in the course of Israel's literary history, and beyond any doubt the meaning and significance of these given qualities of faith and hope came to full realization in Israel only as her history moved from high promise to frustration and finally to the rebirth of hope.

At the historically African - American college in the south they discovered higher religious participation but lower diversity, with only a nod to the concept of pluralism.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

As the only mammal seemingly capable of having these higher thoughts, man's grasped with the concept of «something being greater than himself» forever, it appears.

Not only is it separate from nature, but it is also a higher form of existence insofar as it corresponds to its concept, that is, it is able to realize its essence, something nature is in principle incapable of doing.

Paul clearly states that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities in high places; He is suppose to be setting a principal and he is in fact destroying the thing that God stand for, serving the flesh and the creation more than the creator who is blessed forever; Man will always have a battle between flesh and spirit; he is more flesh than spirit ever in his dress muscles and tight shirts; which has no place in the spirit;» dealing with matters of the holy ghost «he can speck it but he can «t live it; which is the trouble with a lot of modern day Christians; do as i say not as i do... old fashion parents had the same concept, its not just Eddie he got caught, he was just falling weak to the flesh and his own desires; only thing is, he is responsible for the souls of those under his leadership; He must answer and atone to God for those actions, you think for a moment we are being hard on him; God has a way of letting us know when we are wrong that lets us know we need to change.

So much in Christianity had me seeing these kinds of things only in the light of demons and evil and satan, that when I started reading and understanding more (when I was in junior high school) and comprehending the concept of the birth - life - death - rebirth cycles, and how there needs to be death and decay for their to be birth and growth... it really made a huge impression on how I saw the world.

Hanging on to this concept would thus include recourse to such ultimate microcosmic event - units, so that in the end even the higher totalities could only be conceived as «societies» of such «entities.»

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

as humans advanced and became more knowledgible of natural events, we had to find a new task for «god» to control and the only area left open for a «god» was the concept that our consience would exsist beyond this life, aka a soul to explain why we needed a god... as time progresses humans will eventually shed the need for a higher power and step into the light of own responcibility, not governed obedience.

If not, I can only assume those people truly hellbent on having a homebirth anyway, with unqualified providers (especially if there is a high risk involved), have no concept of statistics and / or risk assessment.

Due to different regional temperature responses from the tropics to high latitudes, as well as between hemispheres, commonly used concepts such as «mid-Holocene thermal optimum», «altithermal», etc. are not globally relevant and should only be applied in a well - articulated regional context.

«Everyone agrees that our concept of accountability and transparency has not only created a safer dating environment, but has also created a pool of high - quality users.»

«Because Dexter is such a high - concept show - he's the serial killer who only kills bad people!

The highest - of - concepts plot is simple: Four high school virgins vow to lose their virginity by the end of school, and the prom is only three weeks away.

However, underneath the high - concept themes of the film, Rumor Has It remains a routine romantic comedy with serious moments thrown in, and will likely only please viewers considered to be regulars of the genre.

Surrogates aims low with the high - concept material, such that those who are only expecting some decent action and a few nifty concepts might consider it a decent guilty pleasure akin to the fondness they feel regarding a trashy but occasionally clever B - movie.

In the case of Focus, from the writing / direction team of John Requa and Glenn Ficcara, names associated with the high - concept hustle caper included Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and Kristen Stewart so one would imagine that the originators were only too happy to have Will Smith's star power come on board but I doubt that they're too happy now.

The concept of a microcosm of society to demonstrate social unrest between classes is a well - worn idea — High - Rise may find a very close cousin in last year's Snowpiercer — but this is one of the more direct and slickly executed interpretations of the theme, only treading on the brink of science - fiction.

Like Liar Liar, it was a high - concept project that would have been perfect for a TV movie, if only it wasn't a vehicle intended to let loose Carrey the $ 20 - million - plus - per - film comedian.

Drew Goddard's (and Joss Whedon's, you won't be able to forget) unfortunate giant middle finger The Cabin in the Woods takes a shit - eating high - concept only to do nothing interesting with it for about 80 of its 100 minutes.

We can only assume that the material was good enough to entice the usually picky Carell and Knightley into the fold, and the premise is intriguingly high concept.

The latest in the trend of board games movies, Ouija is something that one might call «high - concept» only in irony - because like Battleship before it, this film proves to be anything but.

This is a high - fashion spook - house of a movie that does the laughable pretension and lurid half - baked concept of «Only God Forgives» one better (or one worse, depending on how you look at it).

I can only speak for myself, and for readers who generally agree with me by stating that Saw just doesn't have the creative oomph to deliver on the ambitiousness generated by the high concept premise.

1987's «Overboard» is not a classic, unimpeachable cinematic exercise, but it was a touchstone for the VCR and cable era, so many people grew up on it, only to slowly discover that its foundational high concept is awkward at best.

Invest in high - quality assessments that contain fewer multiple choice items and more constructed responses that require students to not only know, but be able to apply, key concepts to unique situations.

In a multiple - regression analysis, fractions and whole - number division were the only two early math concepts that had a significant correlation with students» overall mathematics achievement in high school in both countries.2

Only six months ago, Audi was secretly planning to throw a wrench in the works of a new Mercedes - Benz S - Class by showing off a rivaling high - tech four - seat A9 coupe concept at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show.

Produced from forged aluminum to make them lighter and stiffer, they not only help to deliver the concept - car look of the C - X17 but also contribute to the high levels of on - road dynamics and traction of the F - PACE.

The concept is not only high tech but it also makes it easier to control audio and climate controls.

Interest in the Z06x track car is very high but according to Fitzpatrick, the concept exists only as a test bed to showcase the racing accessories available from GM Performance Parts, as well as Pratt and Miller and Pfadt Race Engineering.

The concept car also used next - generation Matrix Laser lights at both ends which not only stretch the high - beam illumination out to 600m but project information on to the road itself.

It builds on the strengths of existing vehicle concepts and fulfills the high expectations of customers looking for a vehicle catering not only for business but also for sports, leisure and family time.

A number of authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales from readers who would have otherwise paid full price.

Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive.

In a state that has a marked migrant and immigrant student population, there are those who worry that this revolutionary concept could only serve to broaden the already vast chasm between the schools that serve the higher socioeconomic classes and those that don't, an educational wall built between the haves and the have - nots.

Part peer - review site, part social media tool, the key to the success of the concept may be that Penguin has enlisted the help of some well - known and respected literary agents who are lending not only their expertise to the site, but their credibility as high - profile leaders in the publishing industry as well.

Written by Rick Eid based on a screenplay by the late Crichton, Genes, from WBTV and CrichtonSun LLC, is described as a high - concept medical soap about a brilliant doctor who saves his dying patient's life using a miraculous gene therapy — infused with his own DNA — only to realize the side effects have turned her into a dangerous sociopath.

The only way a bid / ask spread would become a real cost is if the fictitious concept of exiting EVERY trade at peak high for longs or peak low for shorts were possible.

I have used deep value concept in India... but only for quality companies (high ROIC, ROE, dividend paying, but lower growth etc).

I was startled to find the other day that on 30th Street, which in the 1930's and later was the home to many of the city's furriers, over 800 at one time, and now there are only ghosts and gargoyles of furriers (two stand watch on a building on 29th Street; one strokes a mink and a mink nibbles the other's finger)-- startled to find that there is a high - end, high - concept fashion store which is far above my head and price point, and over the heads and price points of most of the citizens of Murray Hill.

Food was always fresh, service was always exceptionally high and the locals not only understand that the tourists bring them money but they embrace the visitors and embody the concept.

Some of this weak reception can be blamed on the fact that the game doesn't have an easily marketable high concept; it's abstract and simple and only interesting when you play it or see it played.

Some of the blame for this weak reception is that the game doesn't have an easily marketable high concept; it's abstract and simple and only interesting when you play it or see it played.