Sentences with phrase «something of an amateur»

The film follows something of an amateur detective route, a-la Citizen Kane, with a young man tasked with delivering a letter: an endeavor that leads to a better understanding of his subject by way of conversations and interviews.

I'm also something of an amateur retro collector.

Dove's vision certainly had something of the amateur's wide - eyed wonder, but that doesn't make him a crank or make his art marginal.

Not exact matches

The fact that the body washed ashore has fueled speculation that the murder was the work of amateurs imitating something from the movies rather than professional assassins, and some have even suggested that the remains never sank at all, perhaps due to air bubbles in the concrete.

I am the first to admit that I'm an amateur in the field of barbecue, but I know when I taste something good.

«There was something about him that told me to take a chance and get him when we did,» says Gillick, who selected Ainge in the 15th round of the 1977 amateur draft, even though Ainge had already committed himself to college basketball.

Sterling already confirm in the first league, he is a certitude, we don't need another Walcott to keep 4 - 5 years and not confirm.I don't understand that part of fans who want that team to play with no name young players, but to win trophies.This is a young and a player who will play sure in the first 11, not who come to get some chances and play a match he, another Gnabry, another Welington, etc.Let's have a great first 11, and on the bunch young players, to can win something, not just play the game for fun, we have a profesional club, not an amateur one.

Former Scotland and Glasgow Rangers keeper Peter McCloy was something of a keen golfer and represented Scotland at amateur level.

All things within this archive are free and must have something to do with the world of Free images of real nextdoor amateur girls: photos stolen from private online albums, selfpics, mirror pics, cell phone pics, webcam screenshots, drunk

A group of amateur thieves stumble across something very strange and unexpected in this horrific fairy tale from the directors of INSIDE.

Released: September 29 Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas, Carel Struycken Director: Mike Flanagan (Hush) Why it's great: Like 128 Hours for BDSM amateurs, this adaptation of Stephen King's psychological novella gifts Gugino — long overlooked by Hollywood and underappreciated by her directors — the role of a lifetime, as Jessie, a woman handcuffed to a bed by her recently deceased husband who struggles to break free before starvation, dehydration or something worse sets in.

Instead of building during the first 12 years of schooling toward expertise in an advanced topic like calculus that hardly ever comes up in our lives, Perkins says students can instead become «expert amateurs» in something like statistics — a rigorous topic that is also used in daily life.

Take a look at Etsy, at local craft fairs, and at open mics if you want to find passionate amateurs doing something out of love.

The SRT - tuned Caliber has the unsophisticated feel of something amateurs created under a tree with hand tools.

I really appreciate that rank amateurs and seasoned veterans alike can get something useful out of MRLS.

It's not supposed to be a place for well honed years of experince professionals to «hang out and make a life beating amateurs and acting like they won Sebring or something» in the words of one GTS team owner from st Petersburg.

If you're looking for something even more affordable, the plethora of makes and models found in our used vehicle lineup will appeal to first - time amateurs and long - time enthusiasts alike.

Since we're prevented from being able to distribute stuff for free on Amazon and Barnes and Noble (well ok, indirectly we can through the latter via Smashwords as long as it is a complete something), I don't know of a good way to pursue this other than from one's own site or some of those amateur fiction sites like Fictionpress or Wattpad.

Kevin is a small - time tech hound, amateur photographer, and a general know - at - least - something of all things geeky hailing from New York.

Professional traders are always thinking something along the lines of, «What are the amateurs doing?»

Save your time and do something else that you actually enjoy, instead of wasting your time and money playing amateur individual investor.

No seriously, these are mostly «amateurs» submitting photos to the contest, and even the worst of the lot makes the best travel photos of ours look like something our 11 - year - old cousin posted on Instagram using their 3GS.

When I chose the name «Amateur Traveler» for the podcast that I create each week I had in mind the word «Amateur» in its most classic definition which means to do something for the love of doing it rather than for pay.

Something that an amateur who brags about his supposed «understanding of smart business» like you ironically doesn't understand at all.

Just last week, Epic also announced it was opening up the engine to amateur developers for the second iteration of the «Make Something Unreal» competition.

The amateurs of the industry give us the pistol, shotgun, chaingun, rocket launcher progression, but Titanfall wants to give us something new.

He can put a day in — kind of nine to five — and he said, something like, that waiting for inspiration was for amateurs.

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One of the things about the amateur is that, even though something may not be new to science (like this particular bird they're studying), it's new to them.

That class is now the stuff of legend for the students who took it, and that reminds us that the term «amateur» literally means one who does something out of the sheer love of it.

Wonderfully off - hand and slovenly in a way that brings to mind doilies and contorted cigar cleaners as much as amateur pottery, the piece owes something to the imposing clusters of vases and pitchers for which Mr. Lord was first known but has its own raucous D.I.Y. energy, and an air of inclusiveness that this show, ambitious as it is, might have taken a little more to heart.

Something Happened (2007) exemplifies the touchstones of the video aesthetic of Berlin - based artist Keren Cytter (a solo exhibition opens at Oakville Galleries April 14): domestic interiors, amateur actors recognizably «acting,» elaborately scripted dialogue, signifiers of banal rituals coupled with those of Hollywood melodrama.

When Steig engages in this kind of behavior with a mere amateur and an engineer to boot and endangers our ability to get something done about climate change I have to think «what were you thinking eric?»

Curry might say something about the» 76 - ’78 warm phase, but either climate sensitivity is no more her expertise than many amateur bloggers or she is intentionally muddying the waters with a long screed about Balmaseda reanalysis and attacking the strawman of «hiatus = missing heat».

This comment provides another good example of why we don't go by the views of amateurs who think they know something but who haven't studied the relevant science.

I am an amateur at this and in doing research on this I discovered a post by an expert which goes into greater detail with greater understanding than I, and as I tell law students, «don't recreate the wheel, if the experts have done something, see what they had to say», so if you want to read more about this I recommend going to Jeffrey Rosenthal's «Margins of Error in Opinion Polls».

That's critical for watching amateur content from your friends, who might take five selfies or an endless sequence of concert videos before showing something funny.

Whether by professional storytellers or amateurs with something to say, The Moth is first and foremost an organization that puts on shows where its stories are told lives by people of varied backgrounds.

There's a quote — something along the lines of the difference between professionals and amateurs is that professionals regularly do what they don't want to do.»

Remember, any time you do something outside of your core competency, you end up paying top dollar for amateur results.