Sentences with phrase «somehow levels the playing»

That final bit is interesting in relation to Google's indie bookseller angle, — a very savvy PR move on their part, partnering with the likes of mega-independent Powell's and smaller retailers like WORD via the ABA's IndieCommerce platform — and the belief that this somehow levels the playing field, as if ebooks have been the issue all along, as opposed to Amazon's perfecting ecommerce while Jeff Bezos ignored the pundits who focused only on his quarterly earnings in the early years.

Somehow that levels the playing field when someone like Donna Tart, a Pulitzer prize winning author, gets nearly 10 % 1 - star reviews with really harsh remarks (The Goldfinch).

Not exact matches

But after an injury plagued 2016 where he only played seven games, he somehow took his game to an even higher level this season.

Choo is a somehow even more depressing Kemp scenario, as he isn't playing defense well, is signed for even longer (he's owed around $ 70 million through 2020), and he isn't even hitting to the levels that Kemp has managed.

Morality or an explicit reflection of the public interest do not play an significant role, outside of the fact that, in the same way that neoclassical economics postulate that maximization of aggregate welfare is always good, the Party proclaims that realizing the Chinese dream will somehow engender prosperity at the individual level.

If somehow you didn't play Tropical Freeze on the Wii U, or its predecessor Donkey Kong Country Returns on the Wii / 3DS, you'll be thrilled to know that it delivers practically everything you could possibly wish for in a side - scrolling platform title: bold visuals, sharp gameplay, varied levels, menacing bosses and a steep but fair difficulty curve.

Male nudity, as a source of both comedy and drama, is somehow simultaneously the last taboo — Westworld, for one, is now very publicly trying to level a long - uneven gender playing field in that regard — and almost literally the oldest trick in the book.

And somehow, through all these awkward displays of creativity, the social playing field levels, and you actually start to have fun, and you begin to make friends with kids you might never have even spoken to, because they're having fun, too.

levels have lots of verticality and are somehow designed to accommodate everything, from players who want to use Blink to take advantage of that verticality to those who want to stick to the ground to those who refuse the supernatural powers at the start of the game and want to play purely as a normal human with an aptitude for turning other human's into shish - kebabs.

Silent Hill was my first introduction to the horror genre, When I started playing it, I saw the intro and what I saw was nothing indicative of a horror game, or neither an action game, it looked more like a sad psychological drama game, It got me wondering what did I get myself into, then I started playing it and when I got to the alleyway part and got killed by the children zombies, I immediately turned off my Play Station, I was horrified, but somehow the game kept calling me to play, I decided to keep playing, it got to a point where I couldn't play at night, I had to turn any background music down simply because it was just too much for my 12 - year - old head, but at the same time I was having fun on a level I never imagined I could befPlay Station, I was horrified, but somehow the game kept calling me to play, I decided to keep playing, it got to a point where I couldn't play at night, I had to turn any background music down simply because it was just too much for my 12 - year - old head, but at the same time I was having fun on a level I never imagined I could befplay, I decided to keep playing, it got to a point where I couldn't play at night, I had to turn any background music down simply because it was just too much for my 12 - year - old head, but at the same time I was having fun on a level I never imagined I could befplay at night, I had to turn any background music down simply because it was just too much for my 12 - year - old head, but at the same time I was having fun on a level I never imagined I could before.

You can build your own levels and then play against friends with them, so even if somehow you managed to exhaust the roughly 30 levels (with some exclusive levels per platform) you can just start making your own!

The incredible thing about technology is that it has the effect of leveling the playing field. At one time there was this misguided notion that all attorneys that ended up working for the top law firms were somehow genetically superior to the rest of the legal world. As demonstrated by my favorite book in this last year Outliers, and this post The Outliers of the Law — the old sytem of selecting the best and brightest has no actual grounding in finding the true outliers. In this post by Jordan Furlong supports this idea that the «best and brightest» is a fallacy handed to those attorneys with the best pedigrees and economic situation rather than those most likely to be exceptional attorneys. Don't expect to see this changing any time soon.