Sentences with phrase «showed little direction»

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Others take steps in this direction, but Soleri shows us the goal of an attractive city that can operate with very little use of fossil fuel.

You know the story of course — he asked the way to the village and the little boy pointed out the right direction, and the Cure told him «You have shown me the way to Ars and I will show you the way to Heaven».

but you get to show it off when it sits on the counter... second is to read the directions, because it does work a little differently than a regular mixer (you have to do things a certain way), not a big deal, it just seems like it was different to me.

In two years, we have shown little to no improvement against the premiere teams in the country in fact we've gone the opposite direction.

It amazed me to watch my little two and three year olds pretending to cook just like mommy and daddy do and it was cute to watch them pretend to read the directions and put the desserts together step by step as the recipe showed.

The film plays like an awkwardly edited clip show of highlights from his troubled life and career — complete with all the booze, drugs and womanizing that's become commonplace in the subgenre — jumping from scene to scene with little direction or purpose.

Some viewers may take a little time to shake off the show's occasional misses, but when the show hits, it hits with sharp and intelligent writing, versatile direction and performances that honor the insanity of it all.

Some of the direction is really impressive, the actor showing off several little tricks, which will amaze the audience.

Slate's own Dana Stevens praised the film's cast and Gerwig's direction, writing that «the little slice of universe she shows us feels deeply and lovingly observed.»

At the end of the process there is of course the Big Contest where moral victories are won, if not actual ones, and there is the eleventh - hour crisis solved by an inspirational coming together (most often demonstrated in mass desk - standing), all capped by a heartfelt coda that shows a new direction for our rumpled hero and the little moppets who had the foresight to trust him with their lives and futures.

Heading into Season 4 of Netflix's «BoJack Horseman,» it's understandable to be a little unsure about the show's direction.

Also worth mentioning but not having a significant effect on the viewing experience: the Blu - ray and new DVD's framing differs slightly from the original DVD's 1.66:1 «family - friendly widescreen» presentation, showing a little bit less height and a little bit more width, leaning ever so slightly in one direction depending on the shot.

And Domhnall Gleeson plays the odd little band's latest member, who is keen on showing their strange musical direction to the world.

There's a nifty little gauge in the center of the dash that shows which direction the vehicle is headed as well as the altitude and barometric pressure.

The Mercedes - Benz Concept A-Class is not only making its global debut during both the New York and Shanghai auto shows, the hunkered down little two - door hatchback is also tasked with pushing the German automaker's previously staid - looking family vehicle into a bold new direction.

Some dogs show a little interest and look and smell in the rabbit's direction but keep walking by, and some dogs will not even notice the rabbit.

These Orcas, who will prey on Pacific White - sided Dolphins, showed little interest but the dolphins moved quickly in the other direction.

Even though we knew it would be light on shore we were hoping to see a little more size showing with the SSW direction.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Following the mantra of show, don't tell a little too closely, you're left without any sense of direction let alone any sense of story.

Back in 2016 Nintendo unveiled a little game for the 3DS based around the Pikmin franchise, at the time we were given no name but were shown an entirely new direction for the series.

I had little confidence that the equations / parameters were the best ones to represent the atmosphere but know that by continually tweeking and tweeking, it resulted in the changes which moved my model in the right direction and finally showed what it was supposed to show, to get the result we needed to pass.

One can arbitrarily select short term (e.g., decadal) intervals to show trends in various directions, but based on the history of the past century, they have little value in evaluating the longer term trends.

Bill Gray has a favorite diagram, taken from a 1985 climate model, showing little nodules in the center with such labels as «thermal inertia» and «net energy balance» and «latent heat flux» and «subsurface heat storage» and «absorbed heat radiation» and so on, and they are emitting arrows that curve and loop in all directions, bumping into yet more jargon, like «soil moisture» and «surface roughness» and «vertical wind» and «meltwater» and «volcanoes.»

Nevertheless, clusters of little huts in line with Mitchell's vision are beginning to show their heads around the United States — though sprung from perhaps a different direction than he and the legions of tiny house followers might expect.

With a rating of B alone, perhaps we would urge you to be a little more cautious but B + + is a very good rating and shows the company is heading in the right financial direction.

It's got a much smaller screen that's designed more to show you little pieces of information rather than let you catch up on the latest series of The Grand Tour, but that might be more than enough if you just want to quickly check directions or read a news bulletin.

It just needed to be tweaked a little to show the direction she was headed as well as highlight her achievements.