Sentences with phrase «something of an afterthought»

Long seen as something of an afterthought to the core business of selling products, service has become a way to stand out from the crowd by focusing on solving customers» problems in the longer term,...

Though the book's final section (told from Lempicka's point of view) feels like something of an afterthought, it is fascinating to observe the once - powerful painter, now in her 90s and obsessed with memories of Rafaela.

Indebted not only to psychoanalytic criticism but also to semiotics, with its tendency to divide complex language into binary categories, Orlando avoids one of the pitfalls characteristic of the theory - crazed 1970s and 1980s: the tendency to see theory as paramount, and the literature to which it is applied something of an afterthought.

Though Woods made no definite pronouncement about his plans (which include the Turkish Airlines Open in early November, Tiger's Hero World Challenge a month later, and his invitational on Oct. 10 - 11), his announcement of hope sent the golf world into paroxysms of euphoria — and made this week's BMW Championship something of an afterthought.

McIlroy has plunged to No. 6 in the world after a stint at the top of the world golf rankings and looks up at top dog Dustin Johnson as well as a raft of young» uns — Jordan Spieth, Hideki Matsuyama, Justin Thomas, and Jon Rahm — who have made the Ulsterman something of an afterthought.

Not quite one of the cool girls on campus and something of an afterthought at home to her emotionally repressed mother (Grey Griffin), little Taeko has invisible scars and pangs of guilt for not understanding the pain of more extreme outcasts.

Every broker I review here has at least functional smartphone and tablet apps, but in every other case the mobile experience is considered something of an afterthought.

The supremely stable online network helped the franchise to move its multiplayer from something of an afterthought to the reason that a lot of people buy the games.

The fashion for «selfies» and authentication via face recognition means that front - facing cameras, once something of an afterthought with a nod to video calls, have seen significant recent evolution.

For many jobseekers, obtaining references for job applications is almost something of an afterthought.

But Pininfarina's latest work also comes across as something of an afterthought, a stopgap that's a calculated moneymaker.

In Mass Effect 3, it was a team horde mode which felt like something of an afterthought.

Hardly surprising when you consider the crazy money Juventus paid to sign him I suppose, but it does suggest that Lucas Perez was something of an afterthought and that the prof clearly wanted an upgrade on Olivier Giroud.

Since the first public screening of Vincent Gallo's Promises Written in Water was in one of the smaller venues late at night and toward the end of the festival, it was hard not to feel that its inclusion was something of an afterthought.

That said, the centrally - mounted one - touch power window switches and oddly placed remote side - mirror control do strike us as something of an afterthought.

Although the RX has an available third row, it's something of an afterthought.

It does feel like something of an afterthought, though.

This game joined my collection as something of an afterthought.

Rise by comparison has seemed like something of an afterthought, despite its exclusive status and console bundles.

The final gallery in the Summer Exhibition, so often treated as something of an afterthought, will this year become a grand finale: a firework display of visual vitality.

Often the Paralympics are something of an afterthought, but the British population has really embraced it,» he says.

OnePlus poked a bit of fun at Apple during the unveiling of the OnePlus 5, but headphone jack jokes are getting tired, and OnePlus actually treats audio output as something of an afterthought: The box still doesn't include earbuds, though the company will sell you some for $ 20 extra.

Granted, handset audio has always been something of an afterthought, but I was holding out some faint promise of hope that HTC's influence would have rubbed off here — or maybe Apple's newfound interest in the feature.