Sentences with phrase «phone their performances in»

More often than not he's phoning performances in, while his promotional work is even more embarrassing.

More often than not he's phoning performances in, while his promotional work...

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The majority of her statements, however, were a rehash of her recent performance in a New Hampshire candidates» forum and from a July town - hall event conducted by phone.

In response to worldwide anger at its handling of battery performance in older phones, Apple has announced that it will drastically reduce the price of replacement batterieIn response to worldwide anger at its handling of battery performance in older phones, Apple has announced that it will drastically reduce the price of replacement batteriein older phones, Apple has announced that it will drastically reduce the price of replacement batteries.

About a month after national advertising agency buyCalls contracted out a phone marketing campaign for a home - security client, it noticed a major discrepancy between the performance of its call - center vendors in North Carolina and Indiana.

In other words, just having your phone in your line of sight can be distracting, lead to reduced attention and hamper your performance during a task, especially for tasks that require more attention and concentratioIn other words, just having your phone in your line of sight can be distracting, lead to reduced attention and hamper your performance during a task, especially for tasks that require more attention and concentratioin your line of sight can be distracting, lead to reduced attention and hamper your performance during a task, especially for tasks that require more attention and concentration.

What's impressive though is that this phone hung tight with the S7 in performance and quality through every situation I threw at it.

The phone also lacks a key feature, 4x4 MIMO, that improves performance in weak signal areas.

We develop a conceptual framework that focuses on the effects of the introduction of treadmill workstations on physical activity and the performance of sedentary employees who type on a keyboard, speak on the phone, define problems and identify solutions to them and participate in meetings.

Discuss goals and performance expectations with the Co-op student Provide ongoing feedback and mentoring to the Co-op student and complete a final performance evaluation Be available for check - ins via phone or in - person site visits

Sam created high - performance semiconductor chips and related software with low power usage algorithms that dramatically improved voice and sound quality in cell phones, video phones, desktop phones, conference call phones and automotive communication systems.

Here are some tips: — follow the funds in your 401k & make changes if needed depending on performance — stop chasing the latest I - phones.

This phone call has been occurring ever since I've lived in a different city than my parents and it takes the place of the live performances of my youth.

The idea of it is nice, but the players themselves just phone in the performances most of the time.

Contrast this with Hodgson who, once the men who appointed him had gone, had absolutely no support at any level of the club, and yet has been given the totality of the blame for the frankly embarrassing performances «phoned in by a number of Liverpool players during his short, unhappy reign.

The manner of the performances and results isn't sitting well with Man Utd fan Hasan, who phoned into BBC 606 after the Chelsea defeat, as seen in the tweet below, to vent his fury.

I totall get your aim of deflecting attention from a disgrace of a performance to a radio phone in.

Thus none of this phoning in and complaining has anything to do with improving the club and its performances.

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

In the week of 22 August 2011, Wireless Generation, [154] a subsidiary of News Corporation, lost a no - bid contract with New York State to build an information system, for tracking student performance as a consequence of the News International phone hacking scandal.

In a phone interview, Dr. Rosa, 64, said she believed there was too much emphasis on standardized tests as measures of students» and schools» performance.

With video games, phones and the internet in abundance, this article in Educational Psychology examines if such leisure activity is impacting children's cognition or academic performance or whether it would be more beneficial to read.

Sruti: I started to conduct a study on driving performances because, as a 16 - year - old, I'm going to be a future driver and I wanted to know the risks that I would be putting myself in by talking on a cell phone while driving or using a Bluetooth device while driving.

To validate performance and usability of the mobile phone microscope, we tested 33 potentially Loa - infected patients in Cameroon and confirmed that automated counts correlated with manual thick smear counts (94 % specificity; 100 % sensitivity).

This information is wirelessly transmitted to the runner's mobile phone and a mobile phone application provides real - time feedback, including level of performance and suggestions to change the running pattern or to stop running in case of detecting a high risk of injury.

It would, in fact, be very surprising if they had showed any difference: the reason that driving performance is impaired when people are making phone calls and texting, hands - free or not, is that such tasks require attention.

«Driving can be boring,» says Mike Speck, an instructor at the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving in Phoenix, «so we eat, talk on the phone, fiddle with the radio.»

What is clear is that for many gay youth, middle school is more survival than learning — one parent of a gay teenager I spent time with Tyler Barney, a high school student in Mt Juliet, said he made the discovery that decreased performance has to do with phones lithium - ion batteries when

Over-exaggerated and rapid - fire, their performances don't register as acting in the conventional sense; instead, it just feels as though the camera — or camera phone, in this case — were following them around.

Fish - out - of - water stories can become tiresome very quickly if they're not anchored itoeither a witty script or good performances, but at the very least., most films which go down this route at least make an effort to emphasise the differences in culture, even if it's just a passing, off - hand comment about how fast people move or the fact that there's no phone signal.

Not only is Home Alone 2 irritatingly cocky over its retreading of old ground, but the performances are very phoned in.

Murphy continues his descent into oblivion with yet another phoned - in performance.

Even worse, the star doesn't even bother to phone in a performance — for most of the film, he walks with a slightly dyspeptic expression.

Jennifer Lawrence phoned in her performance and it bled through to her character.

My favorite thing about Gary Oldman is that he's done all of this without ever phoning in a performance, offering the same kind of gravitas to B - movie junk food like Criminal and thoughtful thrillers like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (which earned him his sole Oscar nomination).

You'd think Raymond would be relatively easy to spot, given his predilection for making all his phone calls from the same Redondo Beach pay phone; but lo, this particular pay phone has so many customers (in 2014) that it takes Roger an entire montage sequence (and a can of mace in the face) before he finally ferrets out his man (a nicely rumpled Tom Berenger, giving the only thing remotely close to a low - key performance here).

David Oyelowo runs into his first phoned in performance after making a career of elevating everything he is in.

While there are certainly some «phone it in» performances throughout this picture, the characters aren't quite as one - dimensional and shallow as I was previously led to believe they would be.

Brian Cox (uncredited) phones in most of his performance (I mean literally: he speaks to Mara on the phone a lot.)

While Willis continues to phone in his performance with the same on - screen persona he's been giving us for the last decade or two, the other main actors get their chances to shine, especially an always fun Helen Mirren (Monsters University, Hitchcock) and John Malkovich, who know well enough to play to the audience that they know that the movie they're in is meant to be nothing but a hammy lark.

The performances are uncompelling and phoned - in.

Also returning are Oz's girlfriend Heather (Mena Suvari, literally phoning in most of her performance as an art student summering in Europe); Kevin's ex-girlfriend Vicky (a colorless Tara Reid); Vicky's sardonic friend Jessica (the underutilized Natasha Lyonne); and flute - playing Michelle (the talented Alyson Hannigan, with more to do but no zinger this time around).

Cera delivers the one natural - seeming performance in the picture, the one that conveys legitimate exasperation for mothers who call him «puppy» and girlfriends who talk on hamburger phones and put abandoned living - room sets on his lawn as some sort of shrine (like the film itself) to fashionable quirk.

Hawkeye is easily the least essential member of the Avengers — though he did let the team crash at his place in Age Of Ultron — but that doesn't mean that Jeremy Renner phones in his performance.

I just got off the phone with Michael Caine for a piece I'll have up momentarily concerning his rather striking performance in John Crowley's «Is Anybody There?

His career becomes even brighter when you start to appreciate how he refuses to phone in performances in movies where it would have been easy to sleepwalk, like Fright Night and Winter's Tale, which is the kind of legendarily bad movie that every actor deserves to have on their resume just so they can say they were there.

Another of too many movies where De Niro seems to be phoning in his performance, and it's a sad sad thing to witness.

Helen Hunt, a real life mother, is guilty of completely phoning in most of her performance.

Almost immediately after we settle in with his quiet life, Danny receives a package containing a photograph of his old partner Hunter (Robert De Niro, in a performance of phoned - in, dull line readings) holding a newspaper.

Over the course of a couple of phone chats — one interrupted by a dead cell phone battery — one can hear the earnest joy in her voice, usually followed by that laughter, when talking about her journey from M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, her feature film debut, to the massive success of Jurassic World despite her character's penchant for running in heels from dinosaurs and, most recently, her 2017 Screen Actors Guild Award - nominated performance in an episode of Netflix's Black Mirror.