Sentences with phrase «reality measures up to»

We'll have to wait until 2012 to see if the reality measures up to my imagination.

The eclectic polaroids of the late German artist Horst Ademeit are obsessive recordings of «cold rays» and other forms of real and imaged radiation that in the artist's complex reality measure up to the irrational recording of fear.

Not exact matches

With epic cinematography, «Amazing China» — produced by China Central Television and the state - owned China Film Group Co. Ltd. — articulates a message of how China would like to be seen as it pursues President Xi Jinping's vision of a globally resurgent nation, against a reality that doesn't always measure up.

Better to come up with policies that grapple with that reality, rather than charge ahead with unprecedented measures designed to recapture yesterday's growth.

Time after time the future reality failed to measure up to the promise.

It seems as if the world is not one body, regardless of how the sages would like to see it; if this were not so there would be no need for effort; on this interpretation, reality simply has not measured up to the ideal.

To offer him up as a striker far superior to OG is way off the mark — reality is that by every measure and metric available they are actually pretty comparablTo offer him up as a striker far superior to OG is way off the mark — reality is that by every measure and metric available they are actually pretty comparablto OG is way off the mark — reality is that by every measure and metric available they are actually pretty comparable.

As for the DREAM Act, no matter how much supporters would like to see a «clean» bill pass, at least one member of the immigrant advocacy community recognizes the reality of the situation, which is that letting the measure come up for a vote in the Senate is likely a recipe for disaster — an all - but certain repeat of the bill's 2014 failure.

Not only must public opinion catch up with reality, but key sciences must also scramble to measure, assess and address the new challenges.

«You paint a picture of what you want to see, and the reality never measures up,» Cal tells Kelly.

Every seven years since then, the filmmakers have caught up with their cast to see how reality has measured up to their childish hopes.

Often, the reality is that many pups purchased on impulse wind up in shelters or banned to a chain in the garden because they didn't measure up to the dream.

Dog parks are like many philosophical and social movements: they sound great in theory, and even look good on paper, but the reality often fails to measure up.

After all, it's clear that there are many areas where our current understanding on maths and science don't measure up to reality, planetary orbits being one, gravity seems to have anomalies, and so on.

As others have noted, the IPCC Team has gone absolutely feral about Salby's research and the most recent paper by Dr Roy Spencer, at the University of Alabama (On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth's Radiant Energy Balance), for one simple reason: both are based on empirical, undoctored satellite observations, which, depending on the measure required, now extend into the past by up to 32 years, i.e. long enough to begin evaluating real climate trends; whereas much of the Team's science in AR4 (2007) is based on primitive climate models generated from primitive and potentially unreliable land measurements and proxies, which have been «filtered» to achieve certain artificial realities (There are other more scathing descriptions of this process I won't use).

Now if he faced up to that reality, and dealt with it with some measure of accountability, that might be worth noting.