Sentences with phrase «smarter than the audience»

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Her audience grew swiftly — a combination of Weiss» appeal and the fact that she produced genuinely compelling content that was often far more revealing and smart and personal than your average beauty coverage.

Ticks along like a freshly wound - up clock, smart and precise, keeping its audience just breathless enough not to notice that more than two hours have passed.

It's a smart approach that rewards the audience's intelligence, rather than overwhelming them with conventional exposition, and keeps viewers leaning forward in their seats, searching for clues as to what the Shimmer represents.

Yet it is never less than methodical in its smarts as it winks at the audience, plants a tongue in its cheek, and demands to be taken seriously as well as licentiously.

Ending with Leonard Cohen's «Everybody Knows,» War Dogs congratulates the audience for being smart after a couple of hours of The Hangover misadventure with stakes no higher than whether or not David will win back the wife he doesn't deserve and walk away with enough money to never have to be a massage therapist again.

«Astro Boy» is yet another animated comedy in which the hero, who is about the same age as his target audience, is smarter, braver and stronger than the adults in his world.

But when it comes to exposition, Lodbell's characters turn into cheap mouthpieces for plot convenience; used to define for us exactly what the characters are thinking, describing the choices they make rather than trusting the audience to be smart enough to figure it out for themselves.

For that part of the moviegoing audience that might be over age 25 — or even, say, 50 — it just doesn't get much better than having a quartet like Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen together in one smart, funny, warm and wonderful movie.

It's the screenwriter declaring to the moviegoing public that he or she is smarter than they are, which motivates the audience to prove them wrong.

Proyas, in the requisite HBO behind - the - scenes glorified press release, called I, Robot a documentary of the future; I call it an astonishingly bloated misfire with glints of gold here and there (a new generation of robots are called «Nestors» — apparently named by someone early on in the screenwriting process after the peacemaker between Agamemnon and Achilles during the Trojan War), buried beneath all the simpering, condescending idiot - rhetoric of Akiva Goldsman, who, if he leaves a smart reference in a script, makes double - sure to explain it in small words for an audience he presumes is several times stupider than he is.

Rachael is the type of character specifically written to elicit cries of «bitch» and «whore» from an audience fully convinced they're smarter and better - adjusted than anyone on screen.

Rather than requiring users to remember everything, smart digital learning providers are creating performance support resources that their audiences use in a moment of need.

Atul Gawande: Excellence Is Recognizing Details, Failures Harvard Magazine, October 25, 2012» «What I found over time, trying to follow and emulate people that were focused on achieving something more than competence, is that they weren't smarter than anybody else, they weren't geniuses,» Gawande told an audience at the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Askwith Forum on Wednesday.»

«While just over 15 % of the population have at least one e-reader in their household, it is also possible to read eBooks on one's tablet, smart phone or laptop, making them accessible to a much broader audience than one might think.

If it's signaling right for their target audience, then they'd be doing something smarter than I generally give them credit for.

It isn't innovative in a traditional sense, but it smacks companies like Ubisoft in the face and screams at them that massive world can be packed with worthwhile stories rather than filler content, that huge games can be launched with relatively few problems, that dark and mature doesn't just mean bloody and shocking, that the audience deserve smart writing and that consumers can be treated with respect instead of ramming pre-order bonuses and other crap down their throat.

The Smart Museum collects works of art — more than 15,000 and counting — to support academic and artistic study, inspire new ideas, and provide a setting for reflection and conversation by our diverse audiences.

«I was more excited about the relationship of my work to viewers and audiences than I was thinking about my career, which probably wasn't the smartest move on my part,» laughs Thomas.

The Oakland, Calif. - based company is launching targeting that allows brands to zero in on audio ads served within the Pandora connected - home app, which is built into more than 2,000 devices such as Echo Sonos» smart speakers and LG devices... Advertisers can overlay Pandora's 2,000 audience segments on audio ads that run specifically on a voice - enabled devices.

Anyone in the home can listen or give a voice command which means the Amazon Echo has a wider audience reach than a single user, unlike a smart phone.

There are recruiters (I'm not one), career coaches (I'm not one), resume writers (I'm not one), career space watchers (I'm not really one, as they focus more on a career expert audience and are smarter than I am), career counselors (I don't work for a gov» t institution anymore), etc..