Sentences with phrase «other convoluted»

I think it's the other convoluted «creative» stuff that's going to bring down the regulators, and rightly so.

It began with the days of the famous four food groups, followed by the various Food Pyramid schemes, and other convoluted images that are really just different versions of the same Gov.Diet.

You can try gathering a collective via something done through an online petition with the purpose of the petition stated succinctly and precisely — that is, it is that the recipients are to do «this» not this, that and the other because then you'll have 30,000 members who want that and the other convoluting the message.

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Bill, he told me repeatedly, knew no other solution than throwing money and people at a problem, which was why Microsoft's software was so convoluted and mediocre.

Since Help Scout is a help desk, it would be foolish to claim that I'm approaching this without a slight brush of bias, but I promise you my stance comes from experience; specifically, seeing new founders suggest to other new founders why they think a convoluted system of Gmail filters is «okay for now.»

For a long time, business owners and other social - media users chalked it up to some convoluted algorithm called EdgeRank, which took into account an exhaustive list of variables including posts with pictures, links out to other websites and repetitive content.

And simply lowering that wholesale acquisition cost wouldn't assure that the savings would be passed on to consumers by insurers, drug benefit managers, and other players in the convoluted American health care industry.

International trade is currently a convoluted process where most involved can't see the whole process, instead only dealing with one other party in a complex supply chain.

only TWO frustrating convoluted tax laws, not the whole of the USA tax system and a few other countries» to keep in mind as i write software.

Even this understanding of Melville as a convoluter, however, itself needs convoluting, for he never deliberately started out to be anything other than simple.

How could we get them interested in writing, 1/66 of a book, where there would be no collaboration or knowledge of what the others would say, no particular subject matter to expound upon, could we really get them interested in such a convoluted project?

If your argument is convoluted and difficult to make, difficult for others to follow, maybe you are arguing for the wrong thing?

And while it may not directly break my leg, the bizarre culture of counterintuitive rules and convoluted, asinine procedures it has inspired looks likely to hinder the efficient performance of those who are paid to protect my leg from being broken by others.

As example, when IBM wanted to rebuild its corporate headquarters in Armonk and rid itself of unwanted properties in other places, convoluted deals were struck whereby the state (and its taxpayers) could help finance the new facility and take the old ones off IBM's hands.

The amendment (S1) that will be on the ballot on November 8, 2005, on the other hand, gets at the «balance of powers» question in a very convoluted and inadequately defined way that would make the state budget process even messier and more complicated than it currently is.

As the $ 3 billion Cassini spacecraft orbits Saturn, it is broadcasting a stream of images and other data to Earth, some 850 million miles away, that show a ring architecture even more convoluted than expected.

A particle's mass, the strength of a given force and other fundamental quantities depend on the shape, or geometry, of this convoluted space.

Unlike typical crystal structures like shells, which incorporate thousands of smaller, geometrically symmetrical crystals attached to each other, each spine on a sea urchin is a single large calcite crystal with its own convoluted shape.

Called the olfactory recess, it's a large maze of highly convoluted airways that humans and all other primates lack.

Local or more diffuse emissions in other areas, such as the eastern U.S., may be convoluted with other nearby sources.»

This may seem more convoluted than simple writing, but your article probably won't be any less comprehensible than most other scientific journal articles.

Kurt Wüthrich of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology receives the other half for developing nuclear magnetic resonance techniques that can reveal the precise shape of the highly convoluted molecular beasts.

Odds, on the other hand, are kind of (pardon the pun) odd because they tell you essentially the same thing as probabilities but in a rather funny and somewhat convoluted way.

A convoluted vaginal anatomy can prevent a penis — which in mallards and other ducks is a long, counterclockwise corkscrew - shape organ that can explosively inseminate a female in less than a third of a second (see photograph at right)-- from fully everting inside her oviduct.

To keep this simple I'm using the Learn Vest «what's my time worth calculator» (google it, you'll find it) and not going into opportunity costs (lost income because I was doing something other than working or monitoring investments), or other calculations that would convolute the discussion.

However, her mathematical formula for how to count each man (some are 1/4 men, others 1/2 men) is convoluted.

Their home at 27 rue de Fleurus was famous for being a hub of budding artistic and literary characters, and of all the couples on this list, the story of Stein and Toklas is perhaps the least convoluted / adulterous / blood - soaked: they pretty much just hung out together and loved each other.

While the convoluted story has yet to be completely confirmed, it's clear that a hack of PlentyOfFish has occurred and that it's in the best interest of all members to change their username, email, and password combinations, particularly if they are also used on other sites.

If you haven't played the other games you will be lost in this convoluted tale.

A Most Wanted Man, like such other le Carré adaptations as The Tailor of Panama and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, has been hard - wired with an impenetrable narrative that holds the viewer at arms length from start to finish, with the convoluted, confusing atmosphere compounded by a total absence of interesting or sympathetic characters.

Critic Consensus: Though this ambitious noir crime - drama captures the atmosphere of its era, it suffers from subpar performances, a convoluted story, and the inevitable comparisons to other, more successful films of its genre.

The movie (co-written by Robert Towne) is convoluted and complicated, which is exciting at first and makes you think of Chinatown, but then you realize that Towne and all the other writers probably didn't have the slightest idea where the movie was going.

The return of «Riddick» is a strange convoluted mess that mixes various other film elements and completely loses what the franchise was originally.

Wild Things» journey from Point A to Point B is so convoluted and messy, it's almost as if some sad screenwriter drew a beginning and ending out of a hat and resolved to connect them with a million other plot points from that same hat in between.

That's our convoluted way of saying that The A.V. Club looked both high and low for the best scenes of 2015, culling from a whole spectrum of films — some likely to appear on this week's best - movies - of - the - year list, others unlikely to appear on any such list, and at least one certain to get called out in our public shaming of the year's worst movies.

At times, the story can get a bit convoluted as the «who» and «why» of every situation unravels, but in the case of Seven Psychopaths it really couldn't go any other way.

Add cameos by fellow directors Chabrol and Godard and you've got a perfect example of the French New Wave.A superb atmosphere of alienation and sexual / political tension provides much beret - scratching potential for film students, though others may feel its convoluted murder mystery don't amount to a hill of beans.Cockles And Muscles by Liese Spencer, Seducing Dr Lewis by Fiona Morrow and Paris Nous AppartientLarushka Ivan - Zadeh

Adam Sandler, as played by other actors pretending to be Adam Sandler, in the convoluted and comically stunted...

Despite Thor's beloved Mjolnir getting destroyed in Thor: Ragnarok and him getting an even more powerful weapon — Stormbreaker — during Avengers: Infinity War, Mjolnir could make a convoluted return to the MCU in Avengers 4 and be wielded by none other than Steve Rogers.

Writing for Francis Coppola's long - defunct City magazine in 1975, Farber, who showed some interest in Altman on other occasions, skewered Nashville for its snobbish contempt for country music and for its white elephant trappings: «an Airport (1970) or Grand Hotel (1932) structure pretentiously convoluted so that it is an epic poem about disillusioned Americans.»

The same goes for the film's other groan / migraine - inducing running gags: The use of «Mariska Hargitay» as a mystic greeting, shortness jokes directed at long - suffering comic foil Verne Troyer, convoluted pseudo-profound wordplay, and masturbation jokes involving Tugginmypudha.

At times it works well and at other times it is a little convoluted.

But the picture suffers in comparison to films that address convoluted sociologies (people point to American Beauty, but really, this game goes all the way back to The Graduate) with fury and courage (like Todd Solondz's Palindromes and Happiness) or with surpassing originality and wit (like Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore)-- it suffers most, in other words, from believing that what it has to say is still interesting, still revelatory enough by itself.

Dead Man Down is a notch or two above how good most WWE movies look (I can't confess to having seen any others), but it still makes for an underwhelming thriller too dark, long, and convoluted to hold your attention.

It's convoluted, and Doc is the best worst detective in the Valley, not at all aided by a pretty serious pot habit, among other things.

Gripping in parts, convoluted and stagnant in others, Syriana is screenwriter Steven Gaghan's (Rules of Engagement, Havoc) attempt to provide an insider's peek into the varying forces at play in the continuing Middle Eastern oil and terrorism struggles, similar to his Oscar - winning script written for Steven Soderbergh's Traffic.

While the film was entertaining and contained lots of humorous moments, thanks primarily to John Malkovich, it felt like it was a conglomeration of bits and pieces of other movies jumbled together in a plot that was simple but yet a bit convoluted.

The movie is lacking in substance, yet it avoids getting bogged down in a convoluted mythology - something that has tripped up other video game adaptations in recent years - and should offer a perfectly enjoyable watch at home, since it's not necessarily worth a trip to the theater.

Modern thinking about software ownership is sometimes convoluted — some people believe that ownership of software is synonymous with guaranteed access to software, while others believe that ownership implies a right to a tangible archive of said software.

Unlike other Monster Hunter games, however, there is no convoluted inventory management in Stories, for which I am so, so thankful.