Sentences with phrase «sparse when»

So... this is why the Husband calls it a Charlie Brown tree, because it seems really sparse when you extend all the branches like you're supposed to.

Also, Nintendo has been very sparse when it comes to details about the console (no detailed specs, no price point, no confirmed release titles), and stated clearly that they wouldn't provide any of this until nearly next year.

The podcast world is sadly sparse when it comes to manga - centric content, but the staff of Shonen Jump have taken it upon themselves to fill that void with their new Shonen Jump podcast!

With an MSRP starting at $ 18,840, the compact Honda Civic sedan will trick you into thinking it's a larger car than it is, with plenty of room inside, good handling and a comfortable ride, though entry - level models are quite sparse when it comes to features.

Don't leave too sparse when you write a profile, and don't make your profile look like a novel as well.

But this will take time, which had been sparse when orbits were coming every week.

First my hair was lustrous and thick while I was pregnant, then it started looking a little sparse when my daughter was an infant.

Not exact matches

Best of all, they included a few links to the company (at a time when the company's inbound links were sparse).

Gabriel and Dorothy Fackre have recently conducted an extensive survey on «The State of Theology in Churches,» and in their Newsletter No. 30, dated Advent, 1991, they report: «The vast majority of respondents judged the state of theology in the churches to be «abysmal,» «dismal,» «confused,» «mushy,» «sparse,» «inarticulate,» «deplorable»...» [4] Such surveys, especially when they are conducted by working theologians, are of course susceptible to the charge of professional bias.

In fact, just as water tastes so much sweeter when it is sparse, so the truth just might have more of an impact upon your mind.

Examining the successful use of Scripture on the part of Bill Clinton and George Bush, and the unsuccessful use by Joe Lieberman and John Kerry ¯ not to mention Howard Dean's absurd excursion into the New Testament book of Job ¯ Berlinerblau demonstrates that biblical citations are most effective in American political rhetoric when they are (1) sparse, (2) positive, (3) vague, (4) shallow, and (5) veiled.

When time is sparse, especially during the weekday evenings, this pressure comes in pretty useful to say the least.

I think about eating mushrooms in cooler weather when the selection of vegetables is a bit sparse.

In winter I'll also add fruit juice too when fresh fruit is sparse, like pome or cranberry.

When the Kansas City Chiefs hosted the Los Angeles Raiders on Dec. 12, a sparse crowd of only 26,307 turned out, leaving 51,790 empty seats — 41,054 of them unsold.

The Nigerian striker was seen as third choice in attack at the start of the season, but all through the campaign despite his sparse minutes he has proven himself just as reliable as Sergio Aguero when it comes to scoring big goals in crucial moments.

(A good time to do this is when the refrigerator is getting sparse before a grocery run.)

Kids love toys, they are good for them and their imaginations and it's a better life if you can embrace the good of toys, because there will come a time when your play room will be sparse once again.

Having a healthy understanding of your outflow will let you better keep to your standard of living when money is sparse.

His analysis showed that the LGM — when annual temperatures in northernmost Asia and northwestern North America were some 12 degrees Celsius lower than today — likely reduced the northern populations of mammoths as grasslands froze over and food became sparse.

When areas of the ocean are low in iron, the plankton population usually remains sparse.

When Native Americans began domesticating teosinte, its ears were two or three inches long, holding a sparse five to 12 kernels each.

In the early 1990s, when Nir Barzilai, now the director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, decided to study aging, he did so in part because the competition was so sparse.

Last year was a record one for dust production in the United States, when sparse and badly timed desert rains produced the lowest vegetation cover on record and 5 to 20 times as much dust as usual from the Colorado Plateau into the mountains.

At first, when observations of the comet were sparse and its orbit wasn't well defined, they suggested that the cosmic iceball even had a small chance of striking Mars.

Previous studies have identified neurons that only fire up when an animal points its head in a certain direction — some for east, others for south, for example — but reports of neurons that respond to changes in an animal's speed are sparse and largely anecdotal, says Jeffrey Taube, a neuroscientist at Dartmouth College who was not involved in the work.

In a paper published in PLOS Computational Biology in May, computational neuroscientists in the United Kingdom and Australia found that when neural networks using an algorithm for sparse coding called Products of Experts, invented by Hinton in 2002, are exposed to the same abnormal visual data as live cats (for example, the cats and neural networks both see only striped images), their neurons develop almost exactly the same abnormalities.

When the geese arrive in the Arctic to breed, they forage on the sparse tundra vegetation and their droppings fertilize an ecosystem that does not usually receive many nutrients.

When Hayashi injected a mutant gene for PAK into mouse embryos and later killed the adult mice and dissected and examined their brains, she discovered that the animals» dendritic spines — branched stalks that receive input from neighboring neurons — were short, fat, and sparse.

There are also some interesting open questions related to how quickly we can perform the dimensionality reduction, especially when faced with high - dimensional vectors that are sparse, i.e. have many coordinates equal to zero.

Within the limits of the sparse data we have, Mars has cooled over the 30 year baseline (but I'd not trust that much) and the main reason is more big storms back when.

«Brow powders look great if there is hair to fill in between, when the brows are starting to grow in and hair can look sparse,» Sarnelle explains.

A range of glycemic index (GI) values have been reported for potatoes, and data are sparse regarding the impact of potato consumption on the postprandial glycemic response, especially when potatoes are consumed with other foods.

It is not definitive, since the literature is so sparse, and it necessarily differs for women who are overweight versus normal weight (and who have different genetic makeups), but when it comes to hormones, women of reproductive age may do well to err on the side of caution with fasting.

However, regardless of what some of the research has suggested, you should be very cautious when experimenting with castor oil since the science is sparse at best, and there are several known reports of unpleasant side effects experienced by some users.

Mine were always sparse on the ends, even more so after I allowed a friend's mother to pluck them down to nothing when I was 18, and they never fully grew back.

When pressure is applied to the brush head, the inner layers of bristles help to blend the formula, while the more sparse outer layers gently reach into the inner curves and creases.

Since having kids, my rodeo days have been sparse, so when asked by the Houston Chronicle to contribute for a feature on rodeo attire I was all in!

But when you review their About Me page and it's incomplete or their answers are sparse, generic, or too general, excitement soon turns into disappointment.

Cadets regularly get as little as four hours sleep a night, are often cut off from all contact for days on end, and when allowed their phones may only be able to text or phone during the few sparse hours when they should really be sleeping.

For all the cinematic dreck currently peddling disorienting editing as «action,» no one in good conscience could deride Tarantino for his indulgence in split screens or extreme close ups or smash zooms or any other mode of cinematic gimmickry, when it affords us hauntingly sparse centerpieces such as The Bride's live burial, an aural choir of oppressive dirt, panting whimpers, and futile struggling set to the visual accompaniment of pitch black confinement that stretches on well past any spectator's comfort level.

Hayden Christensen has proven that he has acting chops when George Lucas isn't present, and here he does what he can with a fairly sparse screenplay.

It doesn't trumpet at you every second; it's sparse and only comes up when needed.

Beyond that, details are sparse because the movie is three years away; they just wanted to set a deadline for when it has to be out in theaters (before the buzz dies off).

The script is sparse, the only character backstory we get is at night, when the hunter and the hunted rest for a few minutes, long enough to flesh out their reasons for being there in the desert.

Mark Lewis Jones gets its sparse measure as Stanley, a taciturn local who takes in a couple (Annes Elwy, Dyfan Dwyfor) when their car crashes near his house.

The details we have on the movie are still pretty sparse, but the good news is we know when we'll get to see it since the release date was announced this week at CinemaCon.

And considering Wrath is at its worst when Worthington's Perseus isn't having his face rammed through a stone pillar or something, this newfound humour, however sparse, softens the blow.

I felt she was a woman who had a sense of herself and was sparse with language — but when she spoke, it was crystal - clear.

These workarounds are supporting the flipped learning movement off campus and even when digital equity is sparse or non-existent.