Sentences with phrase «quite as big a surprise»

So perhaps if I were more intelligent it wouldn't have been quite as big a surprise.

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And, to our surprise, these previously ignored behavioral differences across CEOs have quite a large association with firm productivity, about one - fifth as big as the impact of a firm's capital inputs (machinery, equipment, buildings, and so on).

As previously discussed, the Juno spacecraft has found that the giant planet Jupiter is full of big surprises; its interior composition and structure seem to be quite different, and its winds even more active, than originally thought.

So it's no big surprise that it fits quite well to this outfit as well.

That the «Pan's Labyrinth» director would take the top prize at Venice is no big surprise, as his new romance starring Sally Hawkins has earned near - unanimous praise since premiering on the Lido, but it's quite the honor all the same.

In the film's biggest surprise, Johnny Knoxville is actually quite entertaining (or at least not annoying) as local gun - nut Lewis, who supplies the heroes with their heavy firepower in the tradition of the greatest of all desert town defence movies — and no, I don't mean Rio Bravo, I mean Tremors!

Mind you, Joel Edgerton is hardly new to the filmmaking game so maybe the surprise isn't quite as big.

The biggest surprise was the big love for Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World (which no other awards group had screened to date) but the Golden Globes do like to be first as is always evident in their TV nominations which are generally quite favorable to new series (note the love for The Handmaid's Tale, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, and more).

Nintendo has been extremely protective of its various IPs when it comes to screen adaptations since the disastrous release of 1993's Super Mario Bros. live - action movie, so it came as quite the surprise when it was announced that the video game giant is teaming up with Illumination Entertainment to bring Mario back to the big -LSB-...]

There aren't any big surprises here for anyone accustomed to Hannah Montana, although the movie certainly takes a step away from the TV show's fictional world to depict Miley Cyrus as a down - to - earth (if not quite ordinary) teenaged girl to whom fame is still new.

And for the remaining two slots, one should probably look to two of the surprise indie hits of the year so far: Jon Favreau «s «Chef» (which has made nearly $ 20 million to date), and John Turturro «s «Fading Gigolo «-- not quite as big, but still remarkably popular with older crowds.

Given the current climate around emissions, Volkswagen's decision to make this latest GTI's engine bigger comes as quite a surprise.

That honestly doesn't come as a big surprise considering Mercedes is gearing up to introduce an A-Class Sedan to slot below the CLA in the U.S. where Audi has been selling the A3 Sedan for quite some time.

To my surprise quite a few of my friends were happy to use Hey, That's my Fish as a warmup before engaging in bigger games.

As one of the bigger surprises to come out of E3 2017, Metro Exodus has created quite a buzz throughout the subway system.

This came as a nice surprise seeing as he has quite a big connection to Shao Khan who overall seems pretty unbalanced in MK9.

The Copperhead reveal was one of the bigger surprises of san Diego Comic Con, as he is quite an obscure villain from the Batman mythos.

It certainly is a big trend as pottery barn seems to have embraced it to a T. I was actually quite surprised when I walked into their store to see the new offerings, to my eye it was quite a shift from the look presented the prior season.