Sentences with phrase «style than performance»

This coupe is more about style than performance, which makes the A5 version the stronger proposition than the S5.

Not exact matches

If you ever felt like you had to sacrifice your personal style once you changed into your gym clothes, you're in luck because the recent athleisure movement is making it easier than ever to combine style and performance.

The beermaker's financial performance has earned Brito high marks from Wall Street — the stock is up more than 150 % over the past four years, compared with the S&P's 68 % gain — but it is Brito's management style that has earned him a place on Fortune's 2013 Executive Dream Team.

we have had a lot of them... we have a lot of them today but not so gifted (aside ozil)... we need fighters... i like lacazette because he is complete and put a fight always... and thats why sometimes i yhink ramsey have much more to give to us than ozil... atleast ozil stay putting performances like the last game and thats not just because of eanting a new contract, on a walcott style (pls free us of that bs, btw)

Bellarine needs to be more concerned of his performance on the pitch rather than his stupid hair styles.

Arsenal might be winning games again but let's face it their performances have hardly been inspiring.Far and away their best performance so far was a defensive hard earned 0 - 0 away draw to Chelsea.Its a long long time since Arsenal.played a style of football which was fast moving, free - flowing and with consistently positive end result.The media still seam to tar them with that same brush but truth be known the likes of both Manchester clubs, Liverpool and Spurs are far more entertaining to watch these days than Arsenal's tippy - tappy sideways brand of play Hopefully they will be able to build momentum in the coming weeks and inspire confidence prior to the Citeh and Spuds games... otherwise this Season will unfortunately develop into even more farce than Wenger, Gazidas and Kronke managed to orchestrate last year and the Emirates will empty out even more noticeably!!

It will take more than the first pre-season friendly of the summer against Wigan Athletic to draw any real conclusions about Mourinho's tactics or his plans but one stark difference from United's performance at the DW Stadium and their style of play last season under Van Gaal was the behaviour of their full - backs.

Dakine is one of the few brands that can be worn by skiers and snowboarders without being accused of cross-dressing, and somehow, every one of their jackets matches performance with style better than the last.

Award - winning actress Frances McDormand (Fargo) delivers a stunningly powerful performance in this darkly comic drama that has been hailed as one of the Think you know Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson better than anyone else?

Once the fear has passed, just in time for nap, visual and musical style are sometimes played in an immersive fashion by highlights in a directorial performance by Nicolas Winding Refn that bring some life to the film, though not as much as John Turturro's inspired lead performance, which does about as much as anything in bring the final product to the brink of decency, which is ultimately defied by the serious underdevelopment, overambition, monotonously unfocused dragging and near - punishingly dull atmospheric dryness that back a questionable drawn non-plot concept, and drive «Fear X» into mediocrity, in spite of highlights than can't quite obscure the many shortcomings.

Good story well told with good performances, a message, humor, and perhaps in Tarantino style more than a bit too much blood.

June 16, 2015 • Aziz Ansari's Modern Romance is a good example of an audiobook that finds new ways to play with format and style in a way that builds a separate performance rather than just reading aloud.

I will say that he comes closer in Order than he did in Goblet, but still there's such an edge of camp in Ralph Fiennes» exuberant performance that I keep expecting Voldy to bust out some Isadora Duncan - style dance moves to watch him twirling about, flailing his arms and making all sorts of funny faces.

Steve Jablonsky's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is next, and it's interesting how much punchier and more impressive this performance sounds than the original soundtrack recording, which is marred by the typically dire technique used to record and mix Zimmer - style soundtracks.

Redford's minimalist, non-histrionic style is more difficult to describe than the baroque performances of, say, Pacino or Nicholson.

Even more damagingly than the distracting style choices are the performances, which feel wooden or exaggerated, as if there's a style that Tully is going for in the acting as well but not quite reaching.

Lively as Farahani's performance is, Laura doesn't really add up to much more than a very strong visual style — or a monochrome - themed variant on that irksome archetype (since the term seems these days to be in semi-retirement, I promise this is the last time I'll ever use it) the Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

Though the film sometimes feels overly crafted, and perhaps Vigas allows style to dictate more than it should, there is no denying the lead performances.

The luminous performance of Aiysha Hart and Khan's slick style make the film more than just an action flick with a message.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

From the appearance of the credit «written and directed by Brian De Palma» overlaid on the sleek outer casing of an Apple MacBook Pro to a shot of a car driving into and destroying a parking - lot Coca - Cola machine, there's a through line of anticorporate humor that juxtaposes the ideas of «art» and «product» — never more so than in an amazing, extended split - screen scene in which footage of a ballet performance competes for our attention with a knowingly clichéd, Halloween - style slasher - on - the - loose set piece.

Anchored by a quartet of terrific performances and shot with a grainy, handheld style that give it a documentary feel, it's the latest in a niche of true crime horror titles that are more brutal and nightmare inducing than the latest monster of the week film.

Reinventing his style while revisiting familiar themes, he takes the viewer deeper than ever before, and elicits performances of soulful melancholy from Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung.

Directed by Denzel himself, as he did with his previous Antwone Fisher, Washington proves his own style to mimic that of Tolson himself — he is able to elicit just the right performances from his actors while his content is manufactured to win people over much more so than to be a work of true art.

Less a spoof of vampire flicks than a fish - out - of - water romantic comedy about a Victorian nobleman trying to negotiate the dating scene of Studio 54 - era Manhattan, this enjoyably silly film is no one's idea of great cinema, but writer Robert Kaufman's concept of a vampire being the standard bearer for old - style morality and romance is an inherently funny conceit helped immensely by a straight - faced lead performance by Hamilton.

With bulletproof performances of Cliff Robertson (Charly) and Geneviève Bujold (Anne of the Thousand Days), De Palma told a highly cinematic, Hitchcockian mystery with style, class and more than enough unique quality for the film to be able to stand solidly on its own feet, regardless of the similarities it shares with Vertigo, an inspiration that both De Palma and his screenwriter Paul Schrader acknowledged from the very get - go.

Instead, done in the Duplass Brothers» style, the dramedy is predictable enough yet graced by such warm, believable performances from all four (actually five) principal actors that make the whole project more than watchable.

Also tucked in the recommendations are such bold ideas as serious acceptance of alternative pathways and «residency» - style preparation; insistence on real standards for entering prep programs and getting certified; the demand that prep programs respond to K — 12 education's actual supply - demand numbers rather than enrolling as many people as possible (thus probably killing the proverbial ed - school «cash cow» within universities); and tracking the performance of those emerging from various prep programs and institutions — and actually closing those that don't produce successful professionals.

A hallmark of the Broad - style leadership is closing existing schools rather than attempting to improve them, increasing class size, opening charter schools, imposing high - stakes test - based accountability systems on teachers and students, and implementing of pay for performance schemes.

That's a mouthful of vowels, to be sure, but what it represents is a twin - turbocharged, all - wheel - drive, Italian - styled performance machine that has run the German Nurburgring racetrack's famed Nordschleife circuit faster than any other SUV on the planet (so far).

The star of the Los Angeles show, perhaps along with Jaguar's I - Pace, Alfa's performance SUV offers more than a hint of an Italian Porsche Macan in its styling — but that is no bad thing.

It was a stark reminder that, in spite of the Demon's realistic styling and performance — near - anathema in the world of concept cars — Dodge's chunky little roadster is nothing more than a well - executed pipe dream.

The GT - R is more striking than ever, taking rear styling inspiration from the top - performance 2016 Nismo version and mashing it together with Nissan's new styling direction up front, including a larger grille and a redesigned hood and front bumper.

The chassis feels better than everything except the 5 - series, performance is class competitive, and the interior and exterior styling are distinctive.

Like the Javelin, the AMX was styled under the direction of AMC's legendary design vice president Richard «Dick» Teague, and during its three - year run — a little more than 19,000 were built — the AMX quickly gained a reputation as a competent performance machine.

I recognize the demand for high - riding SUVs, vehicular style statements, and performance cars, but I can not bring myself to believe that there are more than a dozen people who want all three at once.

The Mini is as much about style than it is about ultimate performance or practicality, and in those terms the Audi TT Roadster is probably its closest rival.

Buyers expect more style, technology, and performance than ever before, and the Q7 faces increasingly stiff competition from Germany, Japan, and even Sweden, whence the new Volvo XC90 has emerged as a tough contender in the packed segment.

You'd need to be sold on the Citroen's styling and image to choose it over more driver - orientated choices from Mini and Ford, given its pricing - # 18,880 is a fair chunk more than you'd pay for a Fiesta ST (# 17,250) or even a MINI Cooper S (# 18,655), both cars that offer more if driving and performance take precedence over style.

Despite the excellence of the 2013 model (and who couldn't love the underhood or in - car shots) for me the 2008 - 2010 Viper Coupe is the perfect marriage of aggression and beauty of styling and performance, with more than enough power for most mortals.

Less than gorgeous looks might not a dealbreaker for some cars, but for a luxury performance coupe, style is not optional.

The short briefing we had styled the McLaren 650S as a car that has better performance than a Ferrari 458 Speciale or Porsche 911 GT3 (neither was actually named, obviously) but without the rawness and compromises in habitability, usability and ride quality.

BMW wrapped all these in a fresh, confident package with big brakes, aggressive styling (including a shorter hood and crisper overhangs that ensure the driver sits closer to the center of the car than in previous BMW roadsters), and a low roofline to signal the two - door's performance credentials.

But it reminds us that it's harder to build a great small car than a great big car, because performance, refinement and style still matter even when the package is small and the price is cheap.

One with striking styling — it's probably a little easier on the eye today than it was at launch — and ample performance: the Roadster hits 62mph in 3.8 sec and goes on to 206mph.

The higher bodywork with the Alfa Romeo styling isn't awkward at all, instead providing some better proportions of glass to sheet metal than the sedan, creating an aggressive, pumped - up look that (on the top - trim Quadrifoglio model, at least) promises dynamite performance.

Its 2.5 - litre turbocharged «five» is said to develop more than 400bhp, the rear suspension is an F1 - style pushrod set - up and there's also a high - performance braking system.

This year's 2015 Dodge Journey model line offers some re-vamped exterior styling, new equipment and a more powerful performance than ever before.

But the RLX Sport Hybrid SH - AWD wasn't conceived for auto crosses or road courses, and other than the bland exterior styling — I'm beginning to wonder if anyone really prefers the jewel - eye headlight look, never mind their exceptional light - casting performance (more important than styling, sure).

The wagon and coupe models were dropped and this new Toyota was better than ever before with enhanced style, performance and safety!