Sentences with phrase «short of a marvel»

Splatoon 2's vibrant colour pallet may seem visually identical to its predecessor at a surface glance, but its constant 60 fps, crisp 1080p resolution (720p when undocked) is nothing short of a marvel.

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Given the strange restrictions under which their makers must work, the constructions already produced are marvels of ingenuity, although a creature so constituted is probably more plausible as a sensitive observer of sunsets than as the creative agent who, in a surprisingly short burst of intense activity, produced Process and Reality.

Your child will probably be very busy now and you will probably marvel at the amount of energy then seem to have; most children only have a short nap during the day at this stage and many go without a sleep during the day.

Space precludes a full listing here of every real - world marvel lifted straight from a work of futuristic fiction, but suffice it to say that an artificial Earth - orbiting satellite was depicted in the sci - fi short story «Brick Moon» by Edward Everett Hale in 1869.

The 200 - centimeter - long, two - tunnel design, complete with an escape hatch, is an architectural marvel compared with the short, single crawlway of the deer mouse.

Leonard Maltin mentions how some would consider these shorts as getting stale due to the lack of dialogue, but counters that claim with his own (and this reviewer's) marvels at how much can be said without words.

Adapted from a John O'Hara bodice - ripper by chronic adaptor Ernest Lehman and released during the gap between the Lehman - scripted marvels North by Northwest and West Side Story, the picture drips with the charged sexual innuendo of the former (and of Robson's Peyton Place, come to think of it) while falling short of the caustic social commentary of the latter.

Seimetz takes her time playing out the multiple twists whereby her protagonists spiral toward their respective fates, maintaining a strikingly placid mood that is nevertheless almost unbearably foreboding — a marvel of plotting and affect, considering the film's relatively short running time.

What Dreams May Come is nothing short of a visual marvel.

And Meryl Streep bears the unfair handicap that she's given us so many marvels over the years that anything short of a masterpiece seems par for the course.

As for the film itself, love it or hate it for its content, one must concede that it is nothing short of a technical marvel, and the pristine audio and visual transfer does not in any way diminish Stone's achievement on that level.

That scientists are able to pack the computing ability of an early Cray super computer into a chip smaller than a fingernail is nothing short of a technological marvel.

A marvel of packaging, the iQ was a full 20 inches shorter than a Fiat 500, and yet could fit four passengers in a pinch thanks to its staggered, 3 +1 seating layout that placed the passenger's seat a few inches forward of the driver's seat to give those in the back more room.

The 5.2 - liter «Voodoo» V8 in the new Shelby GT350 is nothing short of an engineering marvel, and notably, it represents Ford's first - ever production flat - plane crank V8.

That a heavy pseudo-SUV can carve corners and blast to 60 mph in well less than 5 seconds like the X6 M is nothing short of a technical marvel.

At first glance this might cause the reader to marvel at how far our civilization has come in so short a time, but then one is checked by the realization that the braying mob of the witch - hunt era has never gone away - it just keeps its head down waiting for times of stress and the voice of authority to give it a new name and feed the flames once again.

This is the mating season, and the best place for the diver to witness this marvel is to watch as the fish come up over the top of the reef at the beginning of their short migration southwest.

«The Durango and Silverton Railway is another highlight, because it gives a sense of what it must have been like when the railway was built, looking over the side of the carriage at the sheer drop to the river below, and marvelling at how short a time it took to build with the equipment they had at the time.

When not marveling over the throaty roars of howler monkeys or amusing antics of capuchins, you may find yourself entranced with the wonderfully curious coatimundi (or coati for short).

Named an engineering marvel by National Geographic, you'll travel from sea level to almost 8,000 feet as you wind through rugged terrain and cross deep ravines on bridges — it is nothing short of spectacular!

One of the most prodigious creatures of the insect world, the aphid is nothing short of a biological marvel.

When you arrive, you will take the short bus to the archaeological site, meet your private guide, and marvel at one of the world's most outstanding archaeological wonders.

The Chef's artistic inspirations don't have the durable quality of a painting, but are momentary marvels - limited to the short time a guest takes to appreciate his meal before eating it.

I still marvel that man can inhabit the sky in this way, and wonder about the modern consequences of technology that relocates people on disparate sides of the planet in such a (relatively speaking) short period of time.

Inside and out, the iPhone X is nothing short of a modern marvel.