Sentences with phrase «squandered potential»

We've written previously about how Microsoft squandered its potential for creating games that can be played across PC, home console, tablet and phone, but the company seems to be (slowly) moving to embrace that potential.

So much squandered potential.

Russia has squandered its potential with expansionist policies aimed at rebuilding at least a part of the old Soviet territory.

As Mac's pal Banco, Kevin Corrigan wears his «ugly guy» glasses from «Walking and Talking» and reeks of squandered potential.

Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster, 2008) was a direct sequel but squandered the potential for the character established in Casino Royale with its convoluted script and poorly directed and edited action sequences.

While the idea of slick David Copperfield types using magic to pull off capers is enticing and spectacular, the first movie squandered its potential with an inane subplot about an all - seeing magic society called «The Eye,» and one of the most obnoxious film twists in recent history.

Two years later and Capcom is back with a new and more complete version of the game, allowing SF5 to finally push past being a product full of frustratingly squandered potential to arrive at something truly special.

This disposable, forgettable, and all - around disappointing film will make those familiar with its true story origin irked by the squandered potential depicted on the screen.

Summary Capsule: The squandered potential of an upper class family of geniuses gets one last chance at redemption when the deadbeat dad, the architect of their woes, attempts to win his back into the fold.

What had the potential to be a great piece of DLC, is instead an all - too brief episode of missed opportunities and squandered potential starring a great heroine who deserves far better.

I was disappointed by the film, and I thought it squandered its potential due to the fact the film's a script didn't seem fully fleshed out.

I was delighted with Battlefield 1's multiplayer, but unfortunately the single player campaign is very uneven and leaves the aftertaste of squandered potential of a great setting.

I don't think it's squandered its potential yet.

Just another sad, but unremarkable tale of a bright kid who squandered his potential and ruined his life by turning to a career in IT.

In a report commissioned by the BCA, consultants McKinsey said dairy was «a story of squandered potential», and pointed to the success of New Zealand's Dairy Industry Restructuring Act, which formed Fonterra.

Another side of growing inequality reveals shrinking opportunities and squandered potential, economic inefficiencies and twisted incentives.

Musk, who believed Sorkin was squandering the potential to create a viable consumer brand, helped spark a revolt among Zip2 managers, who threatened to quit if Sorkin was not removed.

Unfortunately for the Clippers, turnovers have cost them enough possessions to squander a potential lead.

Having discovered a potentially powerful tool, they squander its potential.

«It would be economically disastrous to squander the potential of highly talented and hard working young people.

As this year's A-level students prepare to receive their results, the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, is calling on the Government not to squander their potential by further funding cuts to education and training.

Critic Consensus: We're the Millers squanders its potential with an uneven, lazily assembled story..

The screenplay by Ryan Engle («Rampage,» «The Commuter») squanders its potential for emotional depth, making Breaking In a serviceable, but indistinct product.

After their lukewarm collaboration Your Sister's Sister, director Lynn Shelton and actress Rosemarie DeWitt reunite again for the equally unsatisfying dramedy Touchy Feely, a film that squanders the potential of an intriguing premise.

Horror isn't often a showcase for actors, but the three leads squander any potential for that here.

WHY: AMC has never been afraid to take a gamble — and in the case of «The Walking Dead» and «Breaking Bad,» they've paid off in spades — but for as great as the idea of a martial arts TV series may sound, «Into the Badlands» is a disappointing mess of half - baked ideas and unlikable characters that squanders its potential.

Rememory squanders its potential and disappoints.

Unfortunately, The Visit squanders its potential and becomes yet another run of the mill found - footage borefest.

The movie squanders a potential key sequence that would show how Kim Barker handles herself alone.

As educators across the country focus attention on designing new and better ways to gauge what students are learning, they risk distorting the meaning and practice of formative assessment and squandering its potential to enhance teaching and learning, an assessment expert is warning.

After all, adds Davidson, just about every kid you know has one, and it doesn't make sense to squander their potential by prohibiting them in school.

If we are to stop squandering the potential of so many of our young people, educators must face the fact that schools alone will never be able to adequately address the disadvantages that children from poor families and blighted neighborhoods bring with them to school.

It's not uncommon for a game that tries to implement so many different things stumbles in the process offering a product that ends up squandering its potential with undercooked ideas and poor execution.

If we wait for better opportunities to be handed to us, we squander the potential of what we can make happen together.

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We try to be virtuous enough to eke our way into the Kingdom — should there prove to be one — but our righteousness is lived so as not to squander this life's pleasure potential in case there is no Kingdom.

The man had serious GOAT potential, the squandering of which was primarily due to not taking the job seriously enough.

How can you be so athletically gifted and have a high potential to do great things, yet squander it as you can't focus because you don't know how to use a condom and thus have 6 baby mamas.

That the potential of the golden generation was dismally squandered is a painful tale of woe that we won't go into here.

Unfortunately that dream has been shattered and the potential of Ukip has been squandered by people who have demonstrated they are not fit to lead.»

«This waste of talent, this squandering of human potential, this grotesque failure to give all our fellow citizens an equal chance is a reproach to our conscience,» he added

Don't squander tourist train potential I am Bill Ford, the 92 - year - old «baby» brother of Edwin Ford, Kingston's city historian of

Regrettably, their expertise is likely to be squandered, their career options needlessly restricted, and their potential for contributing to society — and having a rewarding career — substantially reduced.

Every year 10 gigawatts of potential power are squandered as waste heat from industrial processes — enough to light 10 million homes.

Over time, this new culture could and should become the major pillar of a system that nurtures, rather than squanders, the innovative potential of China.

The «horrible bosses» also start with evil exuberance, but their potential feels squandered.

But Hard Sun contains so many contrivances and overwrought moments that the commitment of its cast and the potential of its premise are largely squandered.

Low stakes choices, inconsistent storytelling, and short episodes all culminate in a season that squanders all its potential by the finale.

You would have a hard time defining any of our leading characters here as geniuses, but the fact remains that they have potential which is being overlooked or squandered by the narrow - mindedness of the American education system.

This had potential to be good, and there's a great film to be made on this subject, but this isn't that film, and almost all of the potential is squandered.

And then CBS lapses into its old habit, as Lamb and company squander all this intriguing potential trying to solve their first of many cases.