Sentences with phrase «pitiful showings»

EA, of course, are one of the biggest videogame companies in the industry, if not the biggest, and yet insist on repeating their mistakes over and over again, culminating in pitiful showings like SimCity earlier this year and now Battlefield 4.

How else to explain the pitiful showing of Houston - made art in their galleries?

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Let us admit this frankly, once and for all: what most discredits faith in progress in the eyes of men today, over and above its reticences and its helplessness in meeting the cry of the «last days of the human species», is the unfortunate tendency still shown by its adepts to distort into pitiful millenarianisms all that is most valid and most noble in our now permanently awakened expectation of the future appearance of some form of «ultra-humanity».

For philistinism thinks it is in control of possibility, it thinks that when it has decoyed this prodigious elasticity into the field of probability or into the mad - house it holds it a prisoner; it carries possibility around like a prisoner in the cage of the probable, shows it off, imagines itself to be the master, does not take note that precisely thereby it has taken itself captive to be the slave of spiritlessness and to be the most pitiful of all things.

They have no value either as representations of Jesus or as an attempt to make God show through this pious and pitiful imagery.

It showed a completely pitiful understanding of what most people — as opposed to most electoral reform professionals — care about.»

I think that it should have ended with all four of them crouched in the corner of the living room, the huge ghost of crane looking down on them, then showing the outside of the house as Crane begins to laugh... ending finally with the pitiful screams of the inhabitants that know they will never leave.

The visual effects are far better than the artificial ones employed on ancient - set Starz shows but they're not quite big screen - worthy as blue screen shots forging coastlines and a pitiful overhead Havana shot show their seams.

I'm clearly not the audience for this film, but then the pitiful ticket sales showed there might not have been one.

Keeping a look because it was once successful shows a pitiful lack of imagination and courage.

Our campaign shows them the disgusting conditions in which the dogs are forced in live in their own feces, and their pitiful suffering, and it is changing hearts and minds.»

Dear Wayne: Your recital of statements supposedly made to you by the people of Burma — «we'd like people to tell our stories» — shows a pitiful acceptance of the false stories spread by the military thugs who rule that country... Your claim that «not all the hotels are in the thrall of the military dictators» is absurd; every penny you spend in Burma supports the regime.

Fuel Tiracas is basically a test of reflexes, the type of easy pick - up and play game you give to your non-gaming work colleagues and then show them how pitiful and meaningless there life is by destroying their score.

This comment alone shows how pitiful a company Sony is Pachter also said Sony asked him, «Do you know what Xbox's holiday promotion is?»

That doubt was prompted by my own observations of how much a nearby building affected my own readings and has been vindicated by recent surveys of U S recording sites showing a pitiful attention to site standards.

Last week I «fessed up and showed you the pitiful state of things in this...

Last week I «fessed up and showed you the pitiful state of things in this room.