Sentences with phrase «person than on the screen»

She seems somehow more luminous in person than on the screen, which is partly attributable to her healthy, makeup - free glow and her flaxen hair (conveniently backlit for a dreamy halo effect by the well - placed sconce illuminating our corner table), but mostly due to the manifest differences between her genuinely confident, easygoing self and the flawed, sometimes downtrodden characters she plays.

Far more delicate - seeming in person than on the screen, Ms. Swinton is dressed in a loose brown shirt that she'll pull over her legs, knees folded against her chest, several times during the course of our conversation — a charming, almost alarmingly childlike pose from an actress I most readily associate with ferocious, audacious turns in Derek Jarman's free - verse celluloid poetry and best - of - bad - movie appearances in everything from Vanilla Sky to The Beach to The Statement.

Steve Mcintyre very different in person than on screen.

Not exact matches

Adding great customization, search and curation capability positions Texture to reach beyond traditional magazine readers to a new audience of «people who almost exclusively consume their content on the screen, rather than off the page,» says Maich.

The movie business will also change and shift to something more connected, where people will want to interact a little bit — differently than with games, but they will still want to somehow be part of what's happening on the screen.

«I'll tell you one thing, in 2017 we will reach the point where people have more screen time on mobile devices than on any other kind of screen, that's really something incredible when it comes to watching their video.

As an example of the failings of Uber's background checks, the complaint cites the more than 8,000 drivers in Massachusetts who were pulled off the road after the state government decided to introduce more stringent screenings and reviewed the records of the 71,000 people who drove on Uber or Lyft.

I just received your cookbook in the mail, and it's even prettier in person than it is on my screen!

TBH if we take over 5k fans and get anything less than 1500 tickets id far rather by in the town centre all day drinking and singing and having fun with the thousands of other Clarets and locals and just watch it on a screen Understand to some people its all about watching the game and the result b...

The experience of holding an apple, smelling it, tasting it, and listening to a real person name it is much richer for your child than seeing a picture of an apple on a screen and hearing the word come out of nowhere.

The reason, they say, is that people could write equations on boards rather than see characters hunched over their screens, but I think they also thought that science is just intrinsically more interesting, and it catches your imagination more than computer programming.

Those on diets, for example, often prefer not to look at the number of calories in a tasty dessert, people at high risk for a disease avoid screening tests that could give them a definite answer, and most consumers of news choose sources that align with rather than challenge their political ideology.

We all know people who, seemingly incapable of living without the bright screen of their phone for more than a few minutes, are constantly texting and checking out what friends are up to on social media.

This explains why close - ups of an actor appear on screen for shorter periods than shots in which the person's face is smaller and is surrounded by distracting objects, according to a study by James Cutting and Kacie Armstrong of Cornell University in the US, published in Springer's journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Before 1992 most studies concluded that people read slower, less accurately and less comprehensively on screens than on paper.

However, rather than bellying up to the bar, you can place your order on a touch screen, take a seat, and have it delivered to you (although if you prefer a human interaction, you have the option of ordering from a real person).

After screening survey data on more than 46,000 people, researchers found that 8 percent had depression, but only a third were being treated for the mood disorder.

Anna (who by the way just had a baby), is working harder than any other person in the room, as revealed by all of our heart rate monitors that are displayed on a screen at the front of the studio.

These are nicely made, stylish and the color is even better in person (I got the storm color - which is more blue - grey than the periwinkle color it looks on screen).

Words on a screen are far harder to interpret than a conversation in person, so jokes, sarcasm and all manner of other things can be misconstrued.

Online daters spend 7x many hours screening profiles and e-mailing than in actual face - to - face interactions.They spend too much time conducting searches based on attributes they do not value highly, failing to connect with people for offline dates, and finding the few offline dates they do schedule to be unsatisfying.

This can sometimes help screen out the posers, the persons posting fake pictures, or those who attempt to post a profile based on what they would like to be rather than what they are not.

Frustratingly, this predatory aspect of their relationship is mostly ignored, in a sunny tale that is packed with laughs (albeit fewer than you'll find at an actual screening of «The Room,» where people throw things at the screen and shout the dialogue's quips on cue, a la «The Rocky Horror Picture Show»).

Though obvious from start to finish - it's little more than a Public Service Announcement - there are a few moments in this that are thought - provoking: how these starlets balance their «jobs» and personal relationships (Silguero's boyfriend is clearly bothered by her sleeping with so many other people), how they regard each other (none of them likes Belle Knox, the famous Duke student who turned to porn) and especially how they view the difference between «on - screen performing» and «real - life romance» (I found the scene of the one girl awkwardly trying to get a male waiter's number to be completely adorable).

In person, Saoirse Ronan is slight and delicate - looking, even more than on screen.

Would it be better if, rather than describing what happens on - screen, I simply described the reactions of the other people in the theater?

While there are standout examples — like Darren Aronofsky's disorienting, eye - opening Requiem for a Dream, or the achingly beautiful narratives of animated animal - people addicts in BoJack Horseman — sagas like this one usually work better on the page than on the screen; the brief gloss of film can make drug use seem rather too appealing, while the idea of spending eight TV seasons with an addict seems rather unappealing.

So for most of her screen time, Gong is called on to do little more than look gorgeous, with Vivian coming off as more of an object than a flesh - and - blood person.

It is by no means an unworthy film, shedding light as it does on an issue still with us today, but it treats the people on screen more as dramatic constructs than as actual human beings with their own agency.

Though Wiseau had four - walled two Los Angeles screens to give «The Room» an Oscar - qualifying run, fewer than 200 people paid to see the movie on opening weekend.

This appears to be one of those movies where you have to kind of accept the people on screen are having more fun than you.

At some time, I can't remember when it was, they were doing screen tests for Star Wars and more people than you can count auditioned for it on film.

20th Century Fox says it used a wearable wristband on more than 100 people in test screenings for Oscar - contender The Revenant before it hit US cinemas in December.

Theoretically the most accessible film to date from the long absent Mr. Urbane of American comedy, I saw the film a couple of days after its disastrous reception as the surprise film at the London Film Festival, where more than one person I love and trust walked out on the screening.

Melissa Tamminga lives in Bellingham, Washington, and when she's not teaching English and film studies at Whatcom Community College, frequents the Pickford Film Center; writes about movies for Seattle Screen, on her website, A Journal of Film, and on Letterboxd; and listens to more film podcasts than is healthy for one person.

That caused a domino effect, where people couldn't leave theaters on time and other screenings had to be pushed back or start with a less - than - packed house.

Truth is, if you can suffer through Roos's device of insouciant half - screen captions that periodically comment on the action, critique his characters, broadly clarify his themes, and make predictions about their futures (a lot like the video for Van Halen's «Right Now») without punching the person in front of you, you're made of sterner stuff than I. They've honestly handed out Purple Hearts for less.

Due to the sheer number of people who appear throughout the town, the game struggles to form any really notable characteristics for any of them, and that'll all have to be done in the player's mind rather than on the screen.

While the device's ship date hasn't been finalized and could still change, people briefed on the matter said the new product will come with a 10 to 11 - inch touch screen — which would make it closer in size to Apple's line of MacBook laptops than its smart phone.

Many people who spend a lot of time reading appreciate e-paper displays, which are thin and light enough to hold in one hand, easier on the eyes than backlit LCD screens and viewable in bright sunlight.

With the increase of time people spend in front of computer screens looking for and processing information, it may be that today we spend more time reading than we did in generations past — it is just that what we read is on the screen rather than in the form of a book.

With the growing popularity of ebook readers like the Kindle and iPad, more and more people are reading on a screen rather than from printed books.

Just the fact alone that color illustrations look so much better on screens than they do on paper... And yet people keep making and buying illustrated books on paper, like it was 1917.

RGB LED Backlights: Using separate red, green and blue Backlight LEDs instead of just white LEDs will allow more accurate calibration, allow the image color saturation to be increased under high ambient lighting, and also accommodate people that like extra vibrant rather than accurate colors on - screen.

Size: Tablets are so useful that there is plenty of room for 7 inch, 10 inch, and even 12 + inch screens — the first for extra portability and the latter for professional and office applications... and there are lots of people that would own more than one size based on their varying needs.

prop to get the proper tablet UI, but that causes screen lag: /) instead of taking less than 5 minutes to edit the IF / ELSE series equivalents in the source to, without causing a performance hit, force the proper tablet UI — or 5 minutes on top of that to add a toggle to the settings so that people can choose their own preference («cos I hear some people actually like using a UI meant for 3 - 4 ″ phones on a device that's twice as large so that it's impossible to do quickly do everything with the thumb of the hand you're holding it with like the UI was designed for).

Most people just need a screen a little bigger than a phone; something to throw in your backpack, live on your coffee table, or be a handheld display for watching movies on flights.

I predict the latter... Tablets are so useful that there is plenty of room for 7 inch, 10 inch, and even 12 inch screens — the first for extra portability and the latter for professional and office applications... and there are lots of people that would own more than one size based on their varying needs.

In the absence of solid proof that LCDs are just as good as eInk when it comes to reading LCD lovers will just have to accept that a lot of people don't like reading on LCD screens, that they experience real eye strain when reading on LCD screens, and for them eInk is much better than LCDs.

Some people prefer to use a hard copy dictionary, especially if they're editing on the page rather than on the computer screen, so you might want to try both and see which works best for you.