Sentences with phrase «rather than the stars»

At MFS, we actively foster a collaborative investment process rather than a star manager system — and we have created institutional policies and practices to support collaboration.

Wenger himself has stated in the past that it is the right balance of players rather than star names that is more important to the Gunners, but does this mean that he believes it is the best way for Arsenal to win things or simply that it is the right way to go about things?

He strikes me more as being made for a bodyguard - type role right now rather than a star of his own accord.

The Brazilian said it is not enough «to play for second place and qualify for the Champions League by signing young and talented players rather than stars.»

However, with a host of star attacking midfielders and wingers linked to the club, the return of Markovic, and Roberto Firmino also comfortable leading the line, Alario might be a man for a specific role, rather than a star man who'll have to be shoehorned in.

Their tactic, in other words, is to seek out the effects of the first stars rather than the stars themselves.

If cyclical extinctions do occur, the current thinking goes, it's the solar system's trip around the galaxy, rather than another star's trip around our solar system, that causes the die - offs.

This indicates it is a cloud of gas and dust rather than a star, they say, because a star is so hot that it should be brighter at the shorter wavelength.

Other photographed objects have been too massive to be conclusively labeled planets, falling instead into the brown dwarf category (objects about eight to 80 Jupiters in size that lack sufficient mass to ignite hydrogen fusion in their cores, thereby never becoming true stars); have been found to themselves orbit brown dwarfs rather than stars; or have not been shown to be gravitationally bound to a star.

Technically the planet orbits this center of mass rather than the star per se, and so does the star.

It felt like an ensemble piece rather than a star.

The film's true appeal is in the broader ensemble feel rather than a star vehicle — I'm worried for her.

«There's a script for the next part of the story - but I would like to direct it rather than star in it,» says Sharon Stone, currently trying to record a hit single in Manhattan.

The Star Trek Beyond teaser does indeed have a decidedly «un-Star Trek - y» feel, selling the movie as more of a Fast & Furious - style sci - fi / action film that features Star Trek characters - rather than a Star Trek movie that includes more action and comedy, a la Abrams» Star Trek and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

But would it not have been more interesting if Ben Affleck had directed Batman v Superman, rather than starred in it?

While I was one of the lucky ones who waited patiently in line to see the first Star Wars on opening day in 1977, I can only be described as a series fan rather than a Star Wars geek.

Having watched the trailer a few times, I get more of a Star Wars - skinned Battlefield vibe rather than the Star Wars - fantasy - battle - simulator that many fans want to see from the Battlefront series.

He looks more like his rabbit roots rather than a star, and the game name also is called Feel (perhaps in reflection of Ristar's groping attacks).

In the past, I would have used the vegetarian dishes as sides, rather than the stars of the show, and I probably would have made fewer of them.

Not exact matches

Rather than applying the «new year, new me» mantra only at the top of the year, the star of CNBC's «The Profit» says he's not shy about setting new goals whenever he feels the time is right.

As she once told the New York Post, «I'd rather be smart than a movie star.»

One employee, who gave a two - star rating, wrote on April 3 that their advice to management was, «Remember that human capital is valuable rather than allowing great talent to leave.»

Before creating the first Stars Wars movie in the 1970's, George Lucas planned for at least six films and started at episode four, rather than episode one.

Writing in the Toronto Star, he says the fear and loathing stems from a few factors, especially CASL requiring businesses to acquire express consent from customers to communicate with them, rather than the implied consent they've been working with till now.

On Thursday, Trump confirmed that Cohen had paid $ 130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her allegations of an affair with Trump, although the president stressed that the payment was from his personal funds, rather than from the campaign's coffers.

Lega's ambition is to lead the center - right coalition rather than be a junior partner in an unstable alliance with Five Star.

The Xerox Star was priced more like a copier, an expensive office machine, rather than a personal computer.

The emphasis on investment process rather than on a star manager means that clients do not hire a particular PM when they hire the firm they hire our global research and investment platform, which is our alpha - generating engine.

The kind of people who swear that what the saw in the sky was an alien UFO, rather than something more realistic (flock of birds, planes, helicopters, falling star, kites, etc..)

These ideas come from our own childhood, whether good or bad, from the media and from seeing the experiences of our friends and relatives: pushing prams with sleeping babies along the riverside, teaching our children to walk, training them how to draw with crayons rather than eat them, answering cute questions, making star charts, walking them to school.

1'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Post-critical naivete is the ability to hear the Christmas stories once again as true stories, even though you're pretty sure that Jesus was born in Nazareth and not in Bethlehem, even as you're pretty sure that the magic star and the wise men themselves come from an exegesis of Isaiah 60, rather than reflecting historical memory.

It is clearly an analogy to indicate a large number, rather than an actual indication of an infinite number (by the way, the number of stars in the Universe must be infinite) unless Tropher believes there are an infinite number of grains of sand on Earth.....

At a time of of such extreme tension and conflict, Star Trek got away with pushing the audience toward uncomfortable topics because the setting invoked fantasy rather than reality.

In this case, we get something like e. e. cummings's famous couplet «I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing / Than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance» — or even, more memorably, Keats's complaint in «Lamia» that «cold philosophy» (Newton's optics) threatens to reduce the rainbow to «the dull catalogue of common things.»

The sun the moon and visible stars were «set into the expanse» and now these lights rather than early lights from star and galaxy formation regulate and have greatest affect.

American's would rather elect a reallity TV star than a boring qualified human.

Kensington Palace said on Tuesday that the American star would become a British citizen, and also would be focusing on her new life, rather than past charities.

They hold flavor, allow balancing of ingredients, and most of all their texture complements rather than competes with the stars of the show, which ought always to be the fillings.

Rather than set my sights on becoming a virtuoso, basketball star or CEO, I'm aiming to become a good mom... and every hour counts toward that goal.

Crispy cornmeal polenta is the health star of this salad: It may be easier for your body to absorb corn's carotenoids from milled products such as polenta, rather than from whole kernels.

Although I've incorporated avocado in desserts on Girl Cooks World several times before (here and here), I thought it was about time they were given a starring role, rather than being a background ingredient providing texture and body.

For shipping, I would suggest finishing the meringue cookies with something less fragile like a red M&M or Sixlet, rather than the piped chocolate stars.

For moms who would rather spend a week at a 5 - star hotel than among nature, go for the Chateau Marmont - scented candle.

Rather than informing consumer choice, Australia's year - old health star food rating system is failing customers, and allowing food manufacturers to give an aura of health to junk foods.

Each tiny star and constellation's name is meticulously engraved, rather than printed, across the entire glass.

Ask to take home leftovers at New York's Perla Cafe, and rather than awkwardly dropping the doggie bag on the table while you're still on dessert, they'll give you a sports figurine of, say, Atlanta Hawks star Dominique Wilkins.

But the way golf's new young stars are shining, he's more of an extra value add to the Tour rather than something that's absolutely necessary.

I would rather be wrong about him deserving an All - Star Game than be wrong about him not deserving one.